Program: Culture and Art

Voices August 26, 2020

Q&A: Racial Justice and Restitution

During a moment of reckoning with the legacies of racism, the African Foundation for Development is working to return objects to Africa that were looted during the eras of colonialism and imperialism.

Voices September 26, 2019 Patrick Gaspard

Embracing the Arts in an Era of Disruption

At a time when many of the rules we once took for granted no longer apply, how can we respond with boldness, fearlessness, and creativity? Culture and art are part of the answer.

Voices March 5, 2019

Q&A: Fearless Theater in Kosovo

With their latest production, an ambitious theater troupe is challenging homophobia, facing down death threats, and changing minds.

Voices September 13, 2018 Yukiko Yamagata & Siobhan Riordan

Announcing Moving Walls 25: Another Way Home

Moving Walls 25: Another Way Home is an exhibition and fellowship honoring artists, journalists, and creative technologists who use documentary practice to explore the topic of migration.

Voices April 26, 2018

How the Market Photo Workshop Has Invested in South African Photographers

Market Photo Workshop’s Lekgetho Makola, artist Lebohang Kganye, and Africa Is a Country’s Sean Jacobs discuss the role of photography in shaping memory and contemporary culture in South Africa.

Voices October 23, 2017 Rashida Bumbray

The Theater Challenging One of the World’s Most Repressive Governments

The Belarus Free Theatre has long been a monument to democracy and human rights—and the target of one of the world’s worst dictatorships. Cofounder Natalia Kaliada explains why, despite the persecution, the show goes on.

Voices February 21, 2017 David Mansfield

A Flourishing in the Deserts of Afghanistan. But for How Long?

A photo exhibition looks at the human stories driving a tenuous environmental revolution in Afghanistan.

Voices October 27, 2016 Yukiko Yamagata

A Photo Exhibit Explores Life in the “Urban Now”

The collaboration between a photographer and an anthropologist takes viewers inside Congo’s urban spaces.

Voices April 21, 2015 Siobhan Riordan

Five Photographers Present Journeys Toward Freedom, Safety, and Self-Determination

From the creative act of authorship to the formidable journey to escape slavery, the stories highlighted in the next installment of the Moving Walls photography series explore people in pursuit of new worlds.

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