Season 2 Ep 4: Jessi Stegall and Ilya Vidrin In this final episode of season two of Works in Progress, movement-based researchers Ilya Vidrin and Jessi Stegall join ArtLab Director Bree Edwards to discuss their dance-based collaborations at the ArtLab. Both are dancers and educators with graduate degrees from Harvard specializing in neuroscience and ethics. Ilya…
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Ep 2: Samora Pinderhughes: artist-in-residence, composer and pianist/vocalist
Season 2 Ep 2: Samora Pinderhughes The music in the introduction and conclusion of this episode comes from the concert on April 30, 2024, at at Harvard University, led by artist and composer Samora Pinderhughes and The Healing Project. It includes Dani Murcia, Nia Drummond, and Jebreal Jackson on vocals, Elliott Skinner on guitar and vocals, and…
Ep 3: Frank Waln, artist-in-residence, musician and educator
Season 2 Ep 3: Frank Waln, artist-in-residence, musician and educator This content contains references to U.S. Indian Boarding Schools. Native-led, healing-informed support resources for survivors and their families are available from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition at https://boardingschoolhealing.org/self-care-resources. In this episode, artist-in-residence, Lakota musician, public speaker, and educator Frank Waln joins ArtLab director…
Ep 1: Joseph Zeal Henry, 2024 Loeb/ArtLab Fellow
Season 2 Ep 1: Joseph Zeal Henry, 2024 Loeb/ArtLab Fellow Joseph Zeal Henry (2024 Loeb/ArtLab Fellow) is a designer, urbanist, and curator whose practice advocates for a more equitable built environment through policy and cultural production. Joseph co-founded the social enterprise platform Sound Advice alongside Pooja Agrawal to explore new forms of spatial practice through music. Joseph is…
Ep 5: The Alan Burroughs Collection with Matt Saunders and Jennifer Roberts
Ep 5: The Alan Burroughs Collection with Matt Saunders and Jennifer Roberts In today’s case study, we discuss what “artistic research” means to Harvard professors and students, catching a glimpse into how artists and scholars engage with a specific set of images in the Alan Burroughs special collection at the Harvard Art Museums. We are…
Ep 4: Ayodele Casel and Torya Beard
Ep 4: Ayodele Casel and Torya Beard In this episode, Bree is joined in the studio by Ayodele Casel, award-winning tap dancer, actor, and choreographer of the current Broadway revival of Funny Girl, and her collaborator and partner, Director Torya Beard. Ayodele and Torya were first at the ArtLab in 2019 and have been advisors to its…
Ep 3: Claire Chase and Li Harris
Artist Jordan Weber joins us in the ArtLab studio to discuss race, identity, design of the built environment and art-making in historically white spaces. Employing slick black obsidian stone and chrome rims, Weber’s sculpture entitled Perennial Philosophies was recently installed outside the ArtLab….
Ep 2: Merritt Moore
Artist Jordan Weber joins us in the ArtLab studio to discuss race, identity, design of the built environment and art-making in historically white spaces. Employing slick black obsidian stone and chrome rims, Weber’s sculpture entitled Perennial Philosophies was recently installed outside the ArtLab….
Ep 1: Jordan Weber, artist, and John Peterson, Curator of the Loeb Fellowship
Artist Jordan Weber joins us in the ArtLab studio to discuss race, identity, design of the built environment and art-making in historically white spaces. Employing slick black obsidian stone and chrome rims, Weber’s sculpture entitled Perennial Philosophies was recently installed outside the ArtLab….