What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
Director Michał Zadara and actress Barbara Wysocka on creating an innovative adaptation of Fryderyk Chopin's two piano concertos performed without a piano.
We spoke to visual artist Lauren Mabry (2015), whose work blurs the boundaries between ceramics, abstract painting, and sculpture.
We spoke to filmmaker and director David Scott Kessler (2015) whose work combines film, installation, writing, performance, and drawing to suggest what he describes as “a world beyond reality.”
Pew Fellow Bhob Rainey discusses his approach to improvisation.
We spoke to visual artist Caroline Lathan-Stiefel (2015), whose large-scale, immersive sculptural installations play with weight and mass, creating pattern, color, and light from everyday materials.
John Collins, founder and artistic director of the ensemble theater company Elevator Repair Service, discusses the discovery process his ensemble engages in at the outset of a new theater piece.
Musician and Pew Fellow Chris Madak on artistic motivation, the notion of "perfection," and more.
We spoke to poet Yolanda Wisher (2015), who merges the personal and the political, writing for both artistic and community-oriented pursuits.
Pew Fellow Bhob Rainey talks about the relationship between noise and music.
Susan Lankin-Watts talks about her family's rich musical legacy, the importance of her audience's support, and more.