What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
We spoke to Brenda Dixon Gottschild (2017) whose 50-year career as a writer and cultural scholar surveys the presence and influence of the black dancing body in America, in what she calls “choreography for the page”—an “embodied, subjunctive approach to research writing.”
We spoke to poet M. Nzadi Keita (2017), whose work weaves intricate narratives with historical research and vivid imagery in both lyric and prose forms.
Pew Fellows and media artists Michael Kuetemeyer and Anula Shetty on creating community-engaged work, the best advice they ever received, and more.
We spoke to documentary filmmaker David Felix Sutcliffe (2017), who creates intimate, character-driven stories rooted in racial justice and advocacy.
We spoke to choreographer and performer Nichole Canuso (2017), whose work spans genres and experiments with the participation of audience bodies, personal narratives, and what she describes as “the kinesthetic intellect.”
Ann Hamilton on “consuming” versus “having” an experience.
Major Jackson reads two sections from Urban Renewal, the opening suite of poems in his book Leaving Saturn (2002), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, award-winning poet, playwright, professor, and Pew Fellow Sonia Sanchez (1993) visited the Center for a conversation with her former student and Pew Fellow Major Jackson (1995), as well as a poetry reading of 10 Haikus for Max Roach.
Nora Chipaumire on how advocacy and the principles of law figure into her artistic practice.
In conjunction with the Center’s celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts in 2017, we spoke to electronic musician and DJ King Britt (2007) whose work explores the musical possibilities that arise at the intersection of club, experimental, and electronic music.