How are audience expectations and public participation changing?
In-depth artistic development and creative collaborations that expand an organization’s capacity are vital elements of the projects we fund at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Visual Artist Jeanne van Heeswijk on Collective Authorship
Francis Kéré on why every architecture project is “a product of collaboration.”
Composer Vijay Iyer and librettist Mike Ladd on creating "multi-voiced" performance projects that draw on veterans' personal narratives.
Thomas Lax, curator of performance at MoMA, addresses the reality that many museum visitors "lead with their iPads and smartphones."
"What is an author?" It is a question the composer George Lewis asks, via Foucault, in his keynote essay for our Questions of Practice series on co-authorship in artistic practice.
As an increasing number of Philadelphia-area organizations and artists seek funding for projects that involve collaboration and multiple authors, our culture at large has become increasingly participatory.
Song ErRui, the daughter of artists Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, talks about her contribution to her parents' exhibition, "The Way of Chopsticks," her life as a young artist, and artistic collaboration.
Performance Senior Specialist Jeff Arnal looks to Philadelphia experimental trio Many Arms as he explores how musical groups form collective sounds.
Blacksberg, a trombonist, composer, and 2012 Pew Fellow and Gutkin, a historical musicologist, sought to "sonify" the everyday environment of an office space and conducted various musical experiments.