Everyday Ways from Works Progress on Vimeo. After meeting Mankwe Ndosi for the first time, we knew that our process for creating this video would be different than the others in the series. Not only is Mankwe the first musician we’ve featured, she’s also a deep thinker, a community organizer (with Hope Community) and [...]
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.” [...]
Bog Walk from Works Progress on Vimeo. Artist Christine Baeumler wants us to get our feet wet. When we approached her about creating a short video for McKnight’s State of the Artist project about her and her recent work, she suggested we take a walk together. On one of the hottest days of the summer [...]
