Ian Andrew Askew is a Maryland-raised artist working in music, theater and performance. Their research is concerned with historical absurdities, manufactured scarcities and contrary negritudes. Recent projects include SLAMDANCE (Performing Garage, The Kitchen), Until Other Times (JACK), and Sorry John Henry the song has no end (developed in residency at Hubbard Hall, Baryshnikov Arts Center and Wake Forest University). As a sound artist, Askew has created scores for live performance and sculpture works by Christopher Myers, Kaneza Schaal, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Joie Lee, James Gibbel and Kamal Nassif. They were a co-sound designer and performer in KLII (Walker Art Center, REDCAT, Chelsea Factory). As an associate stage director for opera, they have presented work with Lincoln Center, American Repertory Theater, the Metropolitan Museum, Detroit Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, LA Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera and Carolina Performing Arts.

David Snider oversees all of PEM’s learning and community engagement efforts, including public programming, internships and fellowships, community partnerships and educational programming from preschool to postgraduate studies. His focus is to develop an array of inclusive offerings that engage visitors of all ages and backgrounds and to cultivate partnerships with schools, universities, museum volunteers and community organizations at the local, national and international levels. He holds an M.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and earned his bachelor’s in English Literature and Russian Language from Dickinson College, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.