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The Harpweaver

Maeve Gilchrist

An acclaimed harpist and member of the Silkroad Ensemble, Maeve Gilchrist presents selections from her latest release, “The Harpweaver,” featuring the Grammy-nominated Aizuri Quartet. Drawing inspiration from “The Ballad of the Harpweaver” by 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, the suite of music weaves a rich textural soundscape that illuminates her roots as a traditional folk musician through the prism of luscious string parts. The album evokes a sense of nostalgia, the
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Fragments: Silkroad Returns

Maeve Gilchrist, Kevork Mourad, Edward Perez, Kaoru Watanabe, Shane Shanahan, Wu Tong, and Mark Freeman

Pairs of Silkroad artists collaborated over the course of a month from a distance – sometimes across continents - to create brand new works. Yet another avenue for Silkroad to build bridges across traditions, these brief works are both a reflection of life in the time of a global pandemic and a celebration of creativity that brings us together. Join the artists in a lively conversation as they share high quality video of their creations
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Artist Kevork Mourad Demonstrates His Monotype Printing Technique

Kevork Mourad

Known for his signature style of spontaneous drawing and printmaking techniques, Syrian artist Kevork Mourad was invited by Arts Transcending Borders and the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross to create the site-specific installation "Memory Gates" during a ten-day residency in Spring 2021. The work, imagined as a series of doors and passageways that visitors can pass through, explores themes of cultural plurality and collective memory. Visit
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"Kevork Mourad: Memory Gates"- Artist'sTalk

Kevork Mourad and Meredith Fluke

Using his signature style of spontaneous drawing and printmaking techniques, Kevork Mourad built Memory Gates, an immersive installation, on site in the Cantor Art Gallery in February 2021. The work, imagined as a series of doors and passageways that visitors can pass through, explores themes of cultural plurality and collective memory.

Artist Kevork Mourad gives a talk live on YouTube from the gallery in conjunction with the opening of his site-specific installation work "Memory Gates".
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The Migration of Memory: The Art of Kevork Mourad

Kevork Mourad, Osvaldo Golijov, Meredith Fluke, and Mark Freeman

In his extraordinary practice, Syrian artist Kevork Mourad creates and projects drawings live in concert alongside musicians, such as members of the Silkroad Ensemble. His work explores a wide range of issues, including personal and cultural memory, the ways in which memory is inscribed in architectural spaces, the plight of refugees and survivors of genocide, and, perhaps most importantly, the possibility of our finding one another amid the cultural and political differences that so often
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Open Studio with Kevork Mourad

Kevork Mourad and Cristi Rinklin

Take a tour of acclaimed Syrian-Armenian visual artist Kevork Mourad’s Brooklyn studio and discover his current projects, with a window into his process, signature techniques he employs in drawing, printmaking and animation, and his intricate, multi-layered works.

Mourad employs his technique of live drawing and animation in concert with musicians – developing a collaboration in which art and music harmonize with one another. Collaborators include Yo-Yo Ma, Kim Kashkashian, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Brooklyn
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Black Spring: Music and Activism with Samora Pinderhughes

Samora Pinderhughes and Bonnie Johnson

In the midst of the pandemic and BLM protests, Samora Pinderhughes--a biracial musician and activist--released his timely new EP "Black Spring." The project is inspired by the revolutionary energy of 1960s songwriters, and looks to reflect the questions and anger that people are feeling during these times of uncertainty and chaos. The title describes an energy of uprising: a time for action, a time for flourishing and moving forward with revolutionary spirit. Pinderhughes is a
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Martha Redbone & Aaron Whitby

Martha Redbone, Aaron Whitby, and Yonca Karakilic

One of today’s most vital voices in American roots music, Martha Redbone and her artistic & life partner Aaron Whitby return to ATB following an unforgettable appearance with BoneHill: The Concert in 2018. Be among the first to hear songs from a new work-in-progress Redbone and Whitby are creating as part of the Artistic Instigators series at the New York Theater Workshop. This song cycle is a reflection on our lives under the pandemic, Black
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