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About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts March 7, 2012 by Paulette Beete Leyya Tawil’s Dance Elixir. Photo by Liz Payne “[Artists are] contributing to everyone by trying to push a healthier, more hopeful humanity forward. I feel like that’s our responsibility.” — Leyya Tawil Although Detroit native Leyya Tawil has always danced, she was actually on track to be an engineer […] Continue reading Art Talk with Leyya Tawil of Dance Elixir By Art Works, 329 contributed posts
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About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts February 7, 2012 by Paulette Beete Gregory Pardlo. Photo by Thomas Sayers Ellis. “We tend to underestimate the psychic costs of writing lyric poetry. It’s already a dangerous effort that requires considerable amounts of character and self-awareness.” — Gregory Pardlo Gregory Pardlo, recipient of a 2006 NEA Literature Fellowship for a Translation Project, is the […] Continue reading Art Talk with poet and translator Gregory Pardlo By Art Works, 329 contributed posts
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About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts February 6, 2012 by Paulette Beete Theaster Gates. Photo by Lloyd DeGrane, University of Chicago Magazine “Artists have to live passionately and deeply, share what they want, do what they can.” — Theaster Gates As you’ll learn in the interview below, for Theaster Gates, there is no clear division between canvas and community, between artwork […] Continue reading Art Talk with Theaster Gates By Art Works, 329 contributed posts
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About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts February 1, 2012 by Paulette Beete Kara Walker. Photo © Chuck Close. “I think there are many open-ended questions that artists can pose and we can ask communities to feel empowered enough to reply, respond, rebel, and feel amazed by the relentless spiraling of thought and image and action that is the artist’s profession.” — […] Continue reading Art Talk with Kara Walker By Art Works, 329 contributed posts
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About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts January 31, 2012 by Paulette Beete Kim Roberts. Photo by Dan Vera. “I think place exerts a powerful influence over what we write, how we write it, and how we see ourselves.” — Kim Roberts Poet, editor, historian—Washington, DC writer Kim Roberts wears many hats with aplomb. Roberts’ reputation is international: her work has appeared […] Continue reading Art Talk with Kim Roberts By Art Works, 329 contributed posts
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About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts January 18, 2012 by Paulette Beete Beate Minkovski. Photo by Jennifer Bisbing “I was a rebel before Woman Made Gallery was born, and I am a rebel because of it.” — Beate Minkovski Chicago artist Beate Minkovski never meant to start an art gallery. She and fellow artist Kelly Hensen were just looking for a […] Continue reading Art Talk with Beate Minkovski of Woman Made Gallery By Art Works, 329 contributed posts
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About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts December 12, 2011 by Paulette Beete Benjamin Percy and his sister and fellow writer Jennifer Percy. Photo by William J. Adams “The writer’s life is spent alone—at the desk—the missives we write equivalent to notes in a bottle tossed into a midnight sea.” — Benjamin Percy Not only does writing apparently run in the blood […] Continue reading Art Talk with NEA Lit Fellows Benjamin Percy and Jennifer Percy By Art Works, 329 contributed posts
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About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts November 1, 2011 Translation by Xi Chuan and Katie Schulze Xi Chuan during his visit to the U.S. for the Push Open the Window book tour. Photo by Katie Schulze “Thought is like flying, though flying gives you vertigo,/ which is why I don’t always want to be in thought.” — Xi Chuan, from “Exercises […] Continue reading Art Talk with Chinese poet Xi Chuan By Art Works, 329 contributed posts
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About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts October 12, 2011 Zhou Zan. Photo by Katie Schulze “though shaped like banners, the women/never indulge in dancing in the wind — from “Wings” by Zhou Zan Zhou Zan, a native of China’s Jiangsu Province, is a poet, translator, and scholar. She edits the journal Wings, which is devoted to women’s poetry, and has also […] Continue reading Art Talk with Chinese poet Zhou Zan By Art Works, 329 contributed posts
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About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts September 14, 2011 by Paulette Beete Linda Pastan. Photo by Oliver Pastan In her poem “Traveling Light” award-winning poet Linda Pastan writes, “our lives have minds/of their own.” And it is these minds that Pastan illuminates in her deceptively quiet poems in which we are revealed by what we take notice of, by which objects […] Continue reading Art Talk with Linda Pastan | |