What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
Visual artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase (2019) spoke to us about their art-making routine and the artists, early experiences, and aspects of Philadelphia culture that most influence their work.
Visual artist Lisa Marie Patzer (2019) spoke to us about how her practice and interests have evolved during the pandemic, the most useful piece of artistic advice she ever received, and her favorite “brain candy” for relaxing.
Mimi Lien discusses the challenges and opportunities presented by an inverted process.
Sonia Sanchez Discusses Her Creative Life & Legacy with Major Jackson
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa Executive Director and Chief Curator Koyo Kouoh theorizes that these social shifts inform new methods of artmaking and presentation, allowing and even necessitating that artists “draw from different registers,” and explains how a transdisciplinary practice can emerge from such an approach.
Liberian vocalist, composer, and dancer Zaye Tete (2018) spoke to us about her artistic development in Liberia, music’s transformative power, and her fondness for Paul Simon.
Theater artist Alex Torra (2018) spoke to us about his concentration on physical theater and why language sometimes feels “limiting,” as well as his in-progress work rooted in his Cuban American familial history.
Choreographer Leah Stein (2018) spoke to us about the origins of her site-specific choreography, her present-day process, and the “inexhaustible” qualities of Philadelphia.
Composer and guitarist Nels Cline explains the distinction between when virtuosity is an “aesthetic obstacle” to music and when it “changes the way you think about sound.”
Quentin Morris talks about the early moments that shaped his career, starting with trips to the Philadelphia Museum of Art with his father, and how Philadelphia has transformed in his time as an artist.