Builders, Shapers & Independents: A Residency With Daniel Tucker
- Penn Press
- Center for Experimental Ethnography, Penn Press
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Artist Residency Grant
The University of Pennsylvania Press will host a residency by artist and community arts oral historian Daniel Tucker to develop a series of roundtable interviews focused on artists and arts administrators in Philadelphia ages sixty and older. This series will build on Tucker’s previous work with Never the Same and Town Hall Talks and invite interviewees into three distinct but overlapping categories Builders, Shapers & Independents. As part of the residency, Tucker will develop a plan for these group interviews to be conducted and then translated into publication form through Penn Press. This book will allow the oral history and contextualization to be documented and archived in a readily accessible form for future artists, art historians, and community organizers. The line of inquiry will include locally formative events (policies, actions, foundational moments) that shaped the relationships and practices of those who are gathered with the hope that this will result in a timeline of catalytic events in Philadelphia’s recent art history. This project will begin in Fall of 2025 and it will continue through spring 2026 when Tucker will be teaching a course as a Fellow with the Center for Experimental Ethnography.