{"id":5525,"date":"2025-10-17T09:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/5525\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:24:06","slug":"moki-cherry-gets-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/5525\/","title":{"rendered":"Moki Cherry gets the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The work on view is primarily textile art, including many banners Moki made for the performances she and Don Cherry performed together. Called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/28\/arts\/music\/don-cherry-moki-cherry.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cOrganic Music,\u201d<\/a> the couple tried to break down barriers between the audience and the artist and make collaborative musical experiences that incorporated children and family life.<\/p>\n<p>The banners were used as theatrical adornments to foster audience interaction. Many depict Hindu figures. Don and Moki incorporated Indian musical styles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/resources-for-educators\/classroom-resources\/media-and-interactives\/media\/international\/rhythm-and-raga\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">such as ragas<\/a>, into their collaborations. On \u201cBrown Rice,\u201d an album for which Moki designed the sleeve art, she can be heard performing the stringed tanpura.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey developed these extraordinary spaces that were like audio-visual happenings,\u201d said curator Mark Christman. \u201cThey supported a communal creative expression across languages, across borders, across communities and ages and abilities and ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The work on view is primarily textile art, including many banners Moki made for the performances she and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2727,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-5525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-museum","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}