Walk Around Philadelphia
Walk Around Philadelphia is an invitation to discover the city by exploring its edges… Philadelphia is large and contains multitudes. Along the city’s edge, one finds highways & waterways, ruined factories decaying & new housing being developed, a historic mansion alongside prisons. There’s shipyards, scrapyards, graveyards and farmyards. Amidst beautiful parks are piles of storage…
House Concerts
Gather together with neighbors to share in music and community. I’ve been hosting house concerts for over a decade in my home in West Philadelphia. Over that time, I’ve welcomed dozens of bands and hundreds of guests. Performers have included, a 6-piece country band, a tango quintet, a Balkan a-cappella quartet, a Celtic trio, a…
The Image of Yoga
The Image of Yoga is a project to remind the world that yoga is a practice that is accessible to everyone—every age, shape, size and ethnicity. WHAT DOES YOGA LOOK LIKE? First, we’ve got to acknowledge that you can’t actually photograph yoga itself… The fancy gymnastics that much of our culture identifies with yoga is simply…
Paths of Understanding
Paths of Understanding is about the many ways that we have to understand our relationship to the world around us, and about the many ways in which we can come to better understand each other. I was raised in a particular religious tradition, and then drifted away from it during the course of high school. For…
How Philly Moves
How Philly Moves is a multi-faceted public art experience that uses dance to celebrate diversity and cultivate inclusivity. The most visible manifestations of How Philly Moves is the 85,000 sq ft mural at PHL International Airport, which was recognized as one of the nation’s best public art projects by Americans for the Arts in their 2012 Public Art…
A Fierce Kind of Love
The Institute on Disabilities at Temple University invited me to collaborate on Fierce Kind of Love. The project tells the untold story of Pennsylvania’s Intellectual Disability Rights Movement, and celebrates the struggle, activism and fierce love that fuels the desire for dignity. A Fierce Kind of Love was a year-long exploration of the stories – large…
Open for Interpretation
Open for Interpretation is an artist residency hosted by the National Museum of American Jewish History. Rather than create just one project for it, I brought every element of my practice to it. I was invited in as “Creative-thinker-in-residence” by the National Museum of American Jewish History as part of their Open for Interpretation program. Every year,…