Resident Dramaturg Gina Pisasale sat down with the artists behind 20/20 Vision for a virtual edition of Scoop, delving into the creative team's process, inspirations, and much more.

This project was commissioned in solidarity with those protesting systemic racism, anti-Black violence, and nationwide inaction regarding police brutality. In recent months, People’s Light has reached out to a number of Black artists with whom we have relationships to ask how our people and resources can help elevate Black perspectives and art at this time. From these conversations emerged a series of digital commissions that range widely in form and content — from video to poetry to oral histories — but share a creative impulse that emerges from and speaks to this historic moment of activism and reckoning.

As a predominantly white institution, People’s Light has long benefited from and perpetuated the racist systems and structures that contribute to the violence, discrimination, and marginalization towards Black people that persist today. This series of commissions is one immediately tangible way we can support Black artists and use our public platforms to amplify Black voices, but true change must run deeper and be rigorously ongoing. We are currently crafting an in-depth Anti-Racism action plan that both reflects on our past and looks to the future.  

We hope you will watch, listen, and amplify. Black Lives Matter.

Making a Homeplace: Stories From the Historically Black Neighborhood of Swarthmore by Jeannine Osayande

Brotha George by Robyn Hood