How can history and traditions be reimagined for today’s audiences?
Two Center-supported exhibitions—one on an experimental Mexican photographer and another on a group of mid-20th Century Japanese filmmakers and multimedia artists—have been produced through extensive international collaboration, research trips, and interviews with artists and their collaborators and family members.
Dr. Linda Earle spoke with filmmaker and visual artist Cauleen Smith about how archives inform her work.
The Center invited nationally recognized educator, administrator, funder, and curator Linda Earle, to act as the Center’s 2021 Visiting Scholar, exploring how Black archives can serve as a framework for a multivalent exploration of Black cultural production. In this essay, Earle considers her time in this role.
Our online conversation series Archiving Black Culture: Ethics and Practices of Change brought together archivists, scholars, and curators to explore the work being done to restore Black cultural presence, expand content, and reimagine access.
David Gordon reads from The Sentient Archive.
Allegra Kent Reads "My Discovery of Dance" from The Sentient Archive.
Curator Kelsey Halliday Johnson and media scholar Amy Beste consider why women artists have often only received serious recognition later in their lives and careers.
Actor Dulé Hill describes why the simple act of “being” can be an “act of quiet revolution.
Pew Fellows Hellmut Gottschild and Tania Isaac sat down for an extended conversation about Gottschild’s artistic history and practice.
Pew Fellows and poets Sonia Sanchez and Major Jackson visited the Center for an extended conversation, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts.