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Mariam Ghani, installation view of The Garden of Forked Tongues, acrylic goauche, 100′ x 30′, Queens Museum of Art, 2016. Photo by Hai Zhang, courtesy of the artist.

Questions of Practice: Artist Mariam Ghani on Collaboration in Socially Engaged Art

Multimedia artist Mariam Ghani discusses the importance of community collaborations for artists seeking to effect social change.

taisha paggett, counts orchestrate, a meadow (or weekly practice with breath), 2016, Institute of Contemporary Art. Photo by Ryan Collerd.

Questions of Practice: Choreographer and Dancer taisha paggett on the Relationship Between Art and Politics

Choreographer and dancer taisha paggett talked with us about her artistic practice and the ways in which her art grapples with public life and what she describes as the “political landscape of being.”

Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies, 2017. Photo by Jeff Fusco, courtesy of Association for Public Art.

Artist Cai Guo-Qiang on Public Art and Ephemerality

Artist Cai Guo-Qiang describes how he considers the idea of ephemerality in the context of his temporary public art projects.

Philadelphia Assembled, 2017, exterior view. Photo by Joseph Hu, courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Questions of Practice: Visual Artist Jeanne van Heeswijk on the City as Subject

Visual artist Jeanne van Heeswijk on creating work within and for an urban environment.

Surgical Clinic and Health Center, Léo, Burkina Faso, 2014, designed by Francis Kéré. Photograph courtesy of Kéré Architecture.

Questions of Practice: Francis Kéré on Creating Architecture that “Serves Humanity”

Francis Kéré on why the purpose of architecture is to “serve humanity.

Radio Silence, by Michael Rakowitz and Mural Arts Philadelphia. Photo by Steve Weinik, courtesy of Mural Arts Philadelphia.

Questions of Practice: Artist Michael Rakowitz on Threading Disparate Sources into a Cohesive Whole

Michael Rakowitz describes the process behind creating a performance and radio project involving American veterans and the Iraqi refugee community.

Urban Space Jockeys by Amber Art & Design. Photo by Paul Gargagliano of Hazel Photo, Courtesy of Daniel Tucker.

Grantee Spotlight: Q&A with Curator Daniel Tucker

Daniel Tucker's Center-funded exhibition and event series Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements explores historical and contemporary questions of equity, justice, and race relations.

Questions of Practice: Multi-media Artist Mariam Ghani on the Tensions between Private and Public Narratives

Mariam Ghani reflects on shifting narratives that exist “in counterpoint to each other.

Walking with Trane, Urban Bush Women. Photo by Gennia Cui.

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar on Art and Social Justice

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, founding director of Urban Bush Women, on why "wanting profound social change and being an artist [are] not contradictory or binary places."

Will Steacy and Layla Perea photographed each other in November, 2015, for the Philly Block Project. Steacy is one of the collaborating artists for the Philly Block Project and Perea is a South Kensington resident. Photo by Jordan Baumgarten/Philly Block Project, 2015.

Questions of Practice: Artist Hank Willis Thomas on Photography and Framing

Artist Hank Willis Thomas discusses seeing the world "through a photographic mindset."

Social & Civic Practice