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Creative Process

What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?

Artists improvise to a Wesley Hymn performed by Ellen Gerdes and Dave Burrell during Germaine Ingram's Where Heaven’s Dew Divides, a project that grew out of her Discovery Grant. Photo Nathea Lee.

Embodying History: Conversation and Reflections

Bissell, the Center's Performance director, and Adair, director of Exhibitions & Public Interpretation, discuss the origins and learnings of a Center interdisciplinary research project between dancers and historians that explored alternative ways of interpreting historic sites. Participants in the project reflect on its outcomes and implications.