Information that came through last week on the NEA list-serv
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PODCAST
NEA Jazz Master Richard Davis believes when playing that “with the passion that you are trying to get out of the instrument you are really making love to the instrument. And the instrument responds by accepting the sound you’re producing and in a sense it’s making love to you.” This week we present part one of Jo Reed’s chat with the master bassist.
ART WORKS
Painting Through the Pain: “We’re not expecting any of them to go into the arts. It would be nice, but it’s not the goal.” That quote’s from Andrea Gates-Ingle who along with her now-husband Stephen Ingle created Project Aim–one of this year’s National Arts and Humanities Youth Program (NAHYP) honorees–to help young oncology patients actively engage with the arts.
NEA Arts: Decoding Music’s Resonance: In this excerpt from the new issue of NEA Arts, we meet Parag Chordia who not only makes music thanks to his arts training, but also is figuring out why we like music so much thanks to his training in the sciences.
Love is Enough for Joy at Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy: In this piece we meet another NAHYP honoree–the Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. We spoke with founder Kwayera Archer Cunningham about how Ifetayo’s young people use the arts to help them own their identities and their voices.
Caught Between the Photographer and the Sitter: A new exhibit of photographic portraits at the Phillips Collection asks, “Is portraiture a reflection of the sitter’s truth? Or that of the artist? Or a type of collaboration, something negotiated between them?” What do you think?
Notable Quotable: NEA Jazz Master Jamey Aebersold: Jamey Aebersold thinks if you can hold a conversation, you can improvise. Well, we may be paraphrasing a bit…
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