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The Artist Who Never Stopped Asking Questions
Sample Interviewee — Visual Artist
Six decades into a studio practice, she still begins each canvas the same way: by admitting she does not know what it will become.
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38 minVisual Arts
The Artist Who Never Stopped Asking Questions
Sample Interviewee — Visual Artist
Six decades into a studio practice, she still begins each canvas the same way: by admitting she does not know what it will become.
Discipline: Visual Arts
31 minMusic
Listening for What Isn't There
Sample Interviewee — Conductor
Forty years on the podium taught him that the hardest thing to conduct is silence — and that an orchestra hears everything you do not say.
Discipline: Music
27 minDance
The Body Remembers First
Sample Interviewee — Choreographer
She builds work from the floor up, and she does not write anything down until the dancers have already found it.
Discipline: Dance
34 minTheater
A Room Full of Strangers
Sample Interviewee — Theater Director
He has directed in storefronts, gymnasiums, and one converted grain elevator. The room, he insists, is always part of the play.
Discipline: TheaterSupport
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