Fellows Friday: Q&A with Thomas Devaney
We spoke to Thomas Devaney, the author of one nonfiction book, Letters to Ernesto Neto (Germ Folio, 2004), and four poetry collections, including the recently released Calamity Jane (Furniture Press, 2014).
What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
We spoke to Thomas Devaney, the author of one nonfiction book, Letters to Ernesto Neto (Germ Folio, 2004), and four poetry collections, including the recently released Calamity Jane (Furniture Press, 2014).
Nonfiction writer and 2005 Pew Fellow Jay Kirk, "creative documentarian" of An Experiment in Five Acts, presents a manifesto based on the events of the Act III session.
We spoke to Mary Lattimore, a classically trained harpist who incorporates experimental techniques and technologies into her music, thereby extending the conventions of her instrument.
The Museum of Modern Art's Associate Curator of Media and Performance, Thomas Lax, takes up the question "Should we be dancing in museums?"
Brent Wahl transforms everyday materials and detritus into mesmerizing compositions, and his work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Philadelphia’s Vox Populi, as well as in group shows at London’s Tate Modern, Philadelphia’s Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Print Center in Philadelphia.
We speak to 2011 Pew Fellow and prolific poet CAConrad, well known for poetry collections such as A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon and The Book of Frank.
Experimental theater artist Romeo Castellucci speaks with Philadelphia Museum of Art curator Carlos Basualdo about his training, art history, performance art, and the use of the image in theater.
Osby is an award-winning contemporary jazz musician, a 2012 Pew Fellow, and the recipient of such honors as a Doris Duke Composition Fellowship and the Chamber Music America Composers Award.
A 2013 Leeway Transformation Award winner, Lori Waselchuk’s photographs have appeared in magazines and newspapers such as Time, LIFE, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.
Since receiving his Pew Fellowship, Kevin Varrone has developed Box Score: An Autobiography, an app for iPad and iPhone that features work from his bookEephus—a collection of prose poems about baseball—paired with collages.