Creativity Conversations

This Creativity Conversation features a conversation on co-directing between Lydia Fort & Marguerite Hannah, co-directors for the spring 2023 Theater Emory production of Our Town (multilingual) by Thornton Wilder with translated passages by Nilo Cruz and Jeff Augustin. Additional passages translated to Mandarin by Yiyi Gu (Daisy), Yuyao Wang, Dorothy Shi.Performances: February 16 - February 26, 2023Understudy Performances: February 17, 22, & 25, 2023Pay-What-You-Will: February 22, 2023

The Creativity Conversations podcast is back from its hiatus. The introduction to this episode was recorded in the spring of 2021.Amos P. Kennedy Jr. and Randall K. Burkett sit down in the Rose Library at Emory University for a lively conversation about Kennedy and his work. Kennedy, who left a corporate job more than 20 years ago to pursue his artistic passions full-time, uses an old-fashioned letterpress printer to make colorful chipboard posters with social, political, racial, and inspirational messages. Kennedy also makes beautiful hand-made books. The Rose Library holds a collection of his work. The audio for this conversation comes from a video recording of the event in March 2016. Watch the full video. This conversation is introduced by host/Emory Arts employee Maggie Beker and artist, then Emory Student, and Conversations with Eggs: Virtual Arts Zine editor James Reich. Beker and Reich introduce the podcast and discuss how Reich approaches his own creativity. View Reich's own work: https://jameshastur.com/This program is part of the Rosemary M. Magee Creativity Conversation endowed series.

Season 4, Spring Semester 2021Filmed October 2, 2012. Atlanta-based novelist and playwright Pearl Cleage joins writer Alice Walker for a conversation that focuses on their creative influences, the writers they read, and how they've been inspired by each other's work. The conversation, hosted by Rosemary Magee, is moderated by University of Georgia journalism professor and author Valerie Boyd. Watch the original conversation:This conversation is introduced by host/Emory Arts employee Maggie Beker and artist, Emory Student, and Conversations with Eggs: Virtual Arts Zine editor Lennox Elrod. Beker and Elrod introduce the podcast and discuss how Elrod approaches creating as meditation and his podcast The Phoenix Radio. Listen to the podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3hsWTq7Co7CL6p2tkPUlgC?si=ckAJlOxZTOuE-21c_siEvQThis program is part of the Rosemary M. Magee Creativity Conversation endowed series.

Season 4, Spring Semester 2021On October 25, 2010, Margaret Atwood participated in a Creativity Conversation with students during her three-day visit as the presenter of the 2010 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature. The conversation was moderated by Rosemary Magee, then Vice President and Secretary of Emory University. Watch the conversation here.This conversation is introduced by host/Emory Arts employee Maggie Beker and Emory Arts intern Rizky Etika. Beker and Etika introduce the podcast and discuss Etika's passion and plans for art history. This program is part of the Rosemary M. Magee Creativity Conversation endowed series.

Season 4, Spring Semester 2021In 2010, Robert Spano and Rosemary Magee (then Vice President and Secretary) delved into Spano's musical background and metaphysical musings on music's power in our lives. Maestro Spano, music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, is also the Emory University Distinguished Artist in Residence for a three-year term from spring 2010 through spring 2012. Watch the original conversation. This conversation is introduced by host/Emory Arts employee Maggie Beker and Emory College student Anna Mola. Beker and Mola introduce the podcast and discuss the process behind Mola's current triptych paintings and how Covid-19 impacted its theme.This program is part of the Rosemary M. Magee Creativity Conversation endowed series.

Season 3, Fall Semester 2020In February 2015, as part of Theater Emory’s Global Voices program, Michael Evenden, a professor of theater studies, holds a Creativity Conversation with playwrights Diane Glancy and Jack Dalton. Watch the original conversation.We want to acknowledge that some years after this conversation, Dalton was sentenced to 2 years in prison for attempting to engage in sexual abuse with a minor. We do not condone these actions. We are approaching this podcast episode with the focus on creativity and creativity in conversation with other artists.This conversation is introduced by host/Arts at Emory employee Maggie Beker and Emory College student Nestor Lomeli. Beker and Lomeli introduce the podcast and discuss Lomeli's experiences as a 1st generation college attendee and the importance of telling untold stories.This program is part of the Rosemary M. Magee Creativity Conversation endowed series.

Season 3, Fall Semester 2020On Apr. 18, 2018, Sue Schroeder Artistic Director of CORE Dance and guest artist/teacher Daria Halprin engaged in a conversation and participatory workshop introducing the Tamalpa Life/Art Process®. Influenced and inspired by the humanist and post-modern movements of the 1950’s, the Life/Art Process® was originated and developed by Anna and Daria Halprin. Watch the original conversation.This conversation is introduced by host/Arts at Emory employee Maggie Beker and Emory College student Leah Behm. Beker and Behm introduce the podcast and discuss Behm's own dance philosophies and approaching creativity during the Covid-19 lockdowns.This program is part of the Rosemary M. Magee Creativity Conversation endowed series.

Season 3, Episode 3, Fall Semester 2020On Sept. 27, 2010, Ann Weiss discussed Holocaust photos brought to Auschwitz, their meaning and their echo, with Jason Francisco, then Associate Professor of Visual Arts, an artist and photographer. Dr. Weiss is founder and director of the educational non-profit foundation Eyes from the Ashes, author, filmmaker and curator. Speaking from the 'inside' of the experience as a child of survivors, Weiss shares reflections about these photos, and what it means to preserve visual memory. Watch the original conversation. This conversation is introduced by host/Arts at Emory employee Maggie Beker and Emory College student Hayden Hubner. Beker and Hubner introduce the podcast and discuss Hubner's own photography style and upcoming photographic documentation project dealing with Free Stores across America.This program is part of the Rosemary M. Magee Creativity Conversation endowed series.

Fall semester 2020 brings season 3 of the Creativity Conversations podcast.This podcast episode features the April 2011 conversation between Professor of Composition John Anthony Lennon and then Vice President and Secretary of Emory University Rosemary Magee. They discuss the artistic process of composition in preparation for the world premiere of John Anthony Lennon's new symphony "Eternal Gates" on April 15-16, 2011. Watch the original conversation.This conversation is introduced by host/Arts at Emory employee Maggie Beker and Emory College student Andrew Johnson. Beker and Johnson introduce the podcast and discuss the intersection between Johnson's business and music classes.This program is part of the Rosemary M. Magee Creativity Conversation endowed series.

Fall semester 2020 brings season 3 of the Creativity Conversations podcast.This podcast episode features excerpts the Feb. 2019 conversation between woodcut artist Tom Hück and Michael C. Carlos Museum Curator of Works on Paper Andi McKenzie. Watch the video of the original conversation.Best known for his large-scale woodcuts, Hück's brash sociopolitical commentary draws from great satirists like Hogarth, Daumier, and R. Crumb. His technique, however, is inspired by the famed German woodcut artists of the Northern Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer and Martin Schongauer, among others. Hück and McKenzie discuss these influences and Huck's creative enterprise, Evil Prints, where he creates his own work and trains the next generation of remarkable printmakers.This conversation is introduced by host/Arts at Emory employee Maggie Beker and Emory College student Joel Hines. Beker and Hines introduce the podcast, discuss Hines' own creative works, and enjoy exploring a medium foreign to them both - woodcutting.This program is part of the Rosemary M. Magee Creativity Conversation endowed series.

Kevin Young and creative writing faculty member Heather Christle in conversation about creativity. Young will also read some short poems from his work during the discussion. More about Kevin Young: https://kevinyoungpoetry.com/ Watch the original video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPpBFq4zEO0&list=PLCAC61A4AB786C00E&index=3&t=0s More about Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversations: http://creativity.emory.edu/events/creativity-conversations/index.html Follow us! Facebook Instagram

Altebeb is a musician, dancer and choreographer whose impressive career includes performances in major international venues. She is a three-time recipient of the Israeli Ministry of Culture Excellence Award. In2019, Dafi Altabeb sat down to talk with Emory dance professor Lori Teague. Read more about Dafi Dance Group: www.dafidancegroup.com Watch the original video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6RafQf26RI&list=PLCAC61A4AB786C00E&index=2&t=0s   Follow us! Facebook Instagram

Danté Brown is a New York artist and Artistic Director of Warehouse Dance, a collaborative group that generates compelling thematic environments within a process of physical and theoretical inquiry. While Brown was in residence with the Emory Dance program in 2016, he sat down to talk about creativity with Blake Beckham, a choreographer, producer and dance educator in Atlanta. Brown began his dance training at Wesleyan University, which led him to The Ohio State University to receive his MFA in choreography and performance. As a performer, Danté has worked with artists such as Esther Baker-Tarpaga, Christal Brown, David Dorfman, Kendra Portier, and Noa Zuk, among others. As an educator, Danté has had the opportunity to teach a range of classes at Bates College, Dancewave, Dance New Amsterdam, East Village Dance Project, Gibney Dance Center, Mark Morris Dance Center, Peridance Capezio Center, and The Ohio State University. This podcast episode is introduced by Laura Briggs (Emory dance and chemistry alum/Arts at Emory intern) and Maggie Beker (Creativity Conversations host and producer). Watch the original video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz4wiWzqqww&list=PLCAC61A4AB786C00E&index=23&t=0s   Follow us! Facebook Instagram

Pianist and composer Donald Sosin discusses the art of performing live accompaniment for the great works of the silent film era with Matthew Bernstein, chair of Emory's Film & Media Studies department. This podcast features excerpts of that talk. Sosin is one of the premier silent film accompanists in the world. He has performed at major international film festivals, as well as at institutions in the U.S., including the Harvard Film Archive, the Museum of the Moving Image and the Museum of Modern Art, where he served as the resident silent film accompanist in the late 1970s and where he continues to play. He has composed scores for over a thousand silent films. Watch the original video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJrlALJIva0&list=PLCAC61A4AB786C00E&index=33&t=18s   Follow us! Facebook Instagram

In November of 2018, Sara Juli came to Emory to perform her critically acclaimed, touring solo piece "Tense Vagina: An Actual Diagnosis." While at Emory, she participated in this Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation about her process and the entrepreneurial aspect of being a solo artist. Juli has been creating and performing innovative work since 2000. This podcast features excerpts of that talk. Watch the original video recording: https://youtu.be/hHDjaqw_-nI   Follow us! Facebook Instagram

In October 2018, Argentine tango musicians Sonia Possetti and Damián Bolotin visited Emory as artists in residence. During their visit, they sat down to talk about composition with student composers. This podcast features excerpts of that talk. Watch the original recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrBw-ozCmpo&list=PLCAC61A4AB786C00E&index=7&t=0s Follow us! Facebook Instagram

This Creativity Conversation podcast audio is pulled and edited down from the live 2011 Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation ("Notes on History, Music and Literature") features poet, novelist and playwright Pearl Cleage and Vice President and Secretary of the University Rosemary Magee '82PhD. As in the other Creativity Conversations held over the last four years with influential thinkers, the talk ranges widely across poetry, fiction, music and history, including insights on the creative process and the power of the imagination. This conversation was held as part of the Atlanta Music Festival (Sept. 21-24) and took place on Sept. 22nd in the Jones Room of Emory's Woodruff Library. Sponsored by Creativity: Art and Innovation, and Emory College's Center for Creativity & Arts. Watch the original recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exh1Q8IMVI8 Follow us! Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/artsatemory) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/emoryarts/)

This Creativity Conversation podcast audio is pulled and edited down from the live 2011 Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation with John Grade. John Grade, a Seattle-based environmental artist, shares his insights and experiences related to public art with Julia Kjelgaard, chair of the Visual Arts Department. Grade's public sculptural art project -- in combination with Emory University's commitment to sustainability and strengths in science, health, social research, and public health -- highlights important conversations between science and art and brings environmental awareness to students, the greater Atlanta community, and the Southeastern region. Watch the original recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPzwhhECWt0&list=PLCAC61A4AB786C00E&index=38&t=2s Follow us! Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/artsatemory) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/emoryarts/)  

This Creativity Conversation podcast audio is pulled and edited down from the live 2013 Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation with Philip Glass. Award-winning composer Philip Glass discusses creativity and composition with the then conductor of the Emory University Symphony Orchestra and professor of Music, Dr. Richard Prior. Glass has written music for opera, experimental theater and Academy Award-winning films. His collaborations with rock, pop and music artists date back to the 1960s. Watch the original video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfktCBFOnlU&list=PLCAC61A4AB786C00E&index=28&t=0s Follow us! Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/artsatemory) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/emoryarts/)

This Creativity Conversation podcast audio is pulled and edited down from the live 2016 Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation: The Political Body with Anat Grigorio and Hillel Kogan. Emory senior dance lecturer Greg Catellier moderates a conversation about the process of creating political art in a world of strident discourse between Israeli choreographer Anat Grigorio, Israeli choreographer Hillel Kogan, and 7 Stages artistic director Heidi Howard. This Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation was sponsored in part by the EXPOSED festival with collaborators from Core Dance, 7 Stages Theatre, Emory University Dance Program/Candler Concert Series, Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University and Kennesaw State University’s Departments of Theatre and Performance Studies and Dance. Watch the original video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp9d4-uRHl4&list=PLCAC61A4AB786C00E&index=17&t=0s Follow us! Facebook Instagram

This Creativity Conversation podcast audio is pulled and edited down from the live Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation "Ultimately Human: Ross Rossin and Ambassador Andrew Young." It was an intimate conversation between Ross Rossin, a world-renowned portrait artist and Ambassador Young, a revered civil rights leader and statesman. Rossin displayed numerous extraordinary portraits onstage while he and Ambassador Young used them to reflect on questions of identity, how it informs our view about others, the creative process, artistic meaning, and the beauty in diversity. The program also featured poet and spoken word performer Tavares Stephens and cellist/filmmaker Okorie Johnson. This Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation is part of the Schwartz Foundation Artist-in-Residence Program and was made possible with the sponsorship of the Emory’s Center for Ethics, the Emory Integrity Project, and the Ethics and the Arts Program. Turner Classic Movies is the exclusive corporate sponsor of this event and is a corporate partner of the Ethics and the Arts Program at Emory’s Center for Ethics. Watch the original video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P_e7yyWZZs&list=PLCAC61A4AB786C00E&index=12&t=65s  

Welcome to Emory University's Creativity Conversation podcast. For over 10 years, renowned thinkers and creators have met on Emory’s campus to discuss their philosophies and crafts through an endowed speaker series called Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversations. Some notable past participants include Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, and President Jimmy Carter. Originally, these live conversations were filmed and added to the Emory University Creativity Conversation youtube playlist. On this podcast, we will provide edited down versions of the Creativity Conversations introduced by current, artistically accomplished Emory University students. Facebook Instagram Creativity Conversations youtube playlist