What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
We speak with 2012 Pew Fellow Bhob Rainey, a soprano saxophonist and composer, one half of improvisational duo nmperign, and leader of the BSC, an eight-member ensemble that uses both acoustic and electronic instruments.
Lee is the publisher at Corollary Press and author of the poetry collections Underground National, That Gorgeous Feeling, and Solar Maximum.
Dove encourages artists to dance in unusual places. Why? Out of necessity, he says.
At the time of Occupy Wall Street, the Center commissioned this essay by Moore, one of the instigators of *The Real Estate Show*, a 1980 exhibition in New York's Lower East Side on gentrification and property ownership.
Raphael Xavier, 2013 Pew Fellow
Karen M'Closkey and Keith VanDerSys are 2013 Pew Fellows, founding partners of PEG office of landscape + architecture, and PennDesign faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.
The following case study chronicles Fatebook, a 2009 production by New Paradise Laboratories.
While in Philadelphia to perform August: Osage County in April 2010, Academy Award-winning actress Estelle Parsons met with local theater professionals at the Center to talk about acting.
We asked Oliver, a choreographer and dance professor, "Should we dance in museums?"
We talk to Sherlock, a 2013 Pew Fellow and Philadelphia's newly designated poet laureate, about his dream collaboration with Yoko Ono and what made him want to become a poet.