The Topic Was Air from Works Progress on Vimeo. As artists who often work across disciplines, we’re excited by efforts to get beyond silo thinking. Thankfully, there seem to be more and more of these silo-busting projects out there! An awareness is building both in and outside the arts community about the possibilities of collaboration [...]
One of the fortunate by-products of making documentaries in collaboration with artists is getting to know more about their works in progress. Some of those works have made their way into the videos we’ve created over the past year, so we thought we’d share a quick update about where those artists and their projects are [...]
Skewing the Lens from Works Progress on Vimeo. “It’s hard sometimes to think outside your own very complicated, very personal, very busy, life-is-overwhelming lens, but when you go to the theater, what I want is… that moment where all of the sudden your world explodes from that lens into this huge connection to the world.” [...]
Poetry in Motion from Works Progress on Vimeo. How can poets collaborate with other artists and communities to bring poetry into the world in new ways? Dobby Gibson is a poet, but he doesn’t wear the title on his sleeve. In our initial conversations with him about the State of the Artist Documentary Project, Dobby [...]
Over the past two months we’ve been busy working with a handful of artists to develop the remaining videos for our State of the Artist Documentary Project. For those who are new to this blog, our previous State of the Artist film projects are about past McKnight fellows Bill Cottman (click here to watch Old [...]
