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EP019 - Susan Te Kahurangi King - Part 2

Outsider Art Podcast - May 16, 2022 22:58 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In this episode the OAP takes a shallow dive into a deep pond - Susan Te Kahurangi King's archive - and comes up with treasure. Cover Image - Susan Te Kahurangi King, Untitled (detail), 29.5 x 21 cm, Graphite and marker, March 2012 - Image used with permission, © The Susan Te Kahurangi King Tru...

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EP018 - Susan Te Kahurangi King - Part 1

Outsider Art Podcast - January 16, 2022 20:28 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
“Looking at her works demands shifting levels of attention, as we scan them to register the pattern, then again to excavate embedded images." Robert Leonard on Susan Te Kahurangi King - Vault Magazine - Issue 33 (February to April 2021) Cover Image - Untitled, 20 x 13 cm, crayon on paper, c. 1...

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EP017 - Henry Darger - Part 3

Outsider Art Podcast - November 03, 2021 02:07 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
“I actually just find the paintings extraordinarily beautiful - I think they can live for me that simply.” Brooke Davis Anderson on Henry Darger Cover image - Henry Darger - Untitled (Overall Flowers - Recto) - detail - n.d. Reading List Henry J. Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal. John M...

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EP016 - Henry Darger - Part 2

Outsider Art Podcast - October 12, 2021 02:09 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
"Rather than condescendingly and misguidedly treating Darger only as a case study, we can look into his work for what it may tell us about both the powerful allure of mass-mediated narrative and imagery and the possibility (or impossibility) of escaping the labyrinthine and often terrifying hist...

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EP015 - Henry Darger - Part 1

Outsider Art Podcast - August 13, 2021 23:02 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In his external life Darger was a pitiable figure, reclusive, impoverished, orphaned at 16, often regarded as crazy, suffering almost constant pain in his later years and working menial jobs his entire life. However in the internal world of his writings and art he was both a hero and anti-hero, ...

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EP014 - Carlo Zinelli

Outsider Art Podcast - June 11, 2021 09:23 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
“As though this were the moment he had always been waiting for, Carlo immediately set out on his extraordinary journey, filling large sheets of paper one after the other, with total concentration, occasionally declaiming words in his sonorous voice and a language all his own." Michael Noble ('...

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EP013 - Minnie Evans

Outsider Art Podcast - May 07, 2021 00:39 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
" I paint a memorandum of my dream" - Minnie Evans Cover image - Minnie Evans. My very first. 1935 Reading List Minnie Evans:Artist. Charles Muir Lovell (editor) and Erwin Hester (editor). ISBN 978-0963675903 Aspects of Minnie Evans. Nathan Kernan. On Paper, Vol.1, No. 6 (July - August 1997)...

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EP012 - Nek Chand - Part 2

Outsider Art Podcast - March 31, 2021 03:56 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
"Curiously, the Garden seems simultaneously made and not made for the visitor, and I felt as though I had happened across a great secret—despite the fact that on that day, like any other at the Garden, thousands of other paying visitors are also enmeshed in the same “secret.” Tracy Ann Buck Bonf...

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EP011 - Nek Chand - Part 1

Outsider Art Podcast - March 09, 2021 00:39 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
“(Nek) Chand’s private vision engaged India’s collective spirit. Here, what has been called “outsider” art proves more culturally affirmative than the aesthetic of high modernism officially endorsed and imposed as the architectural vision for the region.” (Groundwaters: A Century of Art by Sel...

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EP010 - Madge Gill

Outsider Art Podcast - February 01, 2021 20:26 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
There is something unique and fascinating about the work of the self-taught visionary Madge Gill - the nameless women that feature in almost all of her drawn and painted works provide a haunting gaze challenging the viewer to both look more closely but, so intensely do they stare, it’s hard not ...

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EP009 - Bill Traylor

Outsider Art Podcast - December 19, 2020 22:24 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Born into slavery in the American South in 1853, emancipated in 1865 and living into his 90's Bill Traylor's life spanned a tumultuous time in US history. He had lived for over 8 decades before he began creating the art for which he has become known and his extant works come from a period betwee...

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EP008 - Judith Scott

Outsider Art Podcast - November 23, 2020 23:51 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Judith Scott was born on May 1st 1943 and passed away, in the arms of her twin sister Joyce, in March 2005 aged 62 years old. Not unlike Adolf Wolfli and Martin Ramirez, Scott lived a life that was broken into distinct parts, but unlike Wolfli and Ramirez it was her freedom from institutionalisa...

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EP007 - Martín Ramírez - Part 3

Outsider Art Podcast - October 27, 2020 00:34 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
The artwork of Martín Ramírez is singularly distinctive. Once seen, never forgotten and always recognisable, his drawings play many of the same notes time and again, rearranged and reimagined but always clearly in his hand... Martín Ramírez on Artsy - https://www.artsy.net/artist/martin-ramirez...

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EP006 - Martín Ramírez - Part 2

Outsider Art Podcast - October 07, 2020 07:46 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Last time on the Outsider Art Podcast we left Martín Ramírez in 1948, having met Tarmo Pasto, the main actor in his discovery narrative. Pasto would go on to play one of the major roles in the last part of Ramírez’s life as an artist and be the primary source of his story and guardian and promot...

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EP005 - Martín Ramírez - Part 1

Outsider Art Podcast - September 24, 2020 22:18 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
First things first – let’s get some of the myths about Martín Ramírez straight – he wasn’t mute, at the time of his committal he was very likely not severely mentally ill, and the Freudian interpretation of a sexualised meaning to his many drawings of trains and tunnels is highly likely to be er...

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004 - Adolf Wolfli - Part 3

Outsider Art Podcast - September 16, 2020 08:29 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
“The victor (Wolfli), at one with the sacrifice, here in full grandeur; never has the front of the coin contrasted so strongly with the reverse: on the one side, ithyphallic, pursuing some poor little girl, on the other side, cheerful, though always locked in, sleeves rolled up, plug of tobacco ...

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003 - Adolf Wolfli - Part 2

Outsider Art Podcast - September 10, 2020 00:01 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In 1916 as part of the second of his narrative works, the Geographic and Algebraic Books, Wolfli assigned himself a new name (which required some explanation), “St. Adolf the I, Great-King of Grenoble-St. Adolf King, Giant-City in Savojen; last named with an additional calculation-supplement of...

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002 - Adolf Wolfli - Part 1

Outsider Art Podcast - September 02, 2020 01:05 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
When Adolf Wolfli passed away on November 6th, 1930 he was working on what would become his final uncompleted work - Funeral March. He left behind 45 large self-bound books, and 16 exercise books of over 25,000 pages in total which included 1,600 drawings and 1,600 collages as well as approximat...

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Adolf Wolfli - Part 1

Outsider Art Podcast - September 02, 2020 01:05 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
When Adolf Wolfli passed away on November 6th, 1930 he was working on what would become his final uncompleted work - Funeral March. He left behind 45 large self-bound books, and 16 exercise books of over 25,000 pages in total which included 1,600 drawings and 1,600 collages as well as approximat...

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Outsider Art Podcast - The Journey Begins

Outsider Art Podcast - August 25, 2020 00:45 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Episode 001 - Outsider Art - The Journey Begins An introduction to the Outsider Art Podcast in which I introduce myself, tell you what the podcast series is going to be about and get tangled up in the existential quagmire that is Outsider Art. In short summary the Outsider Art Podcast will be...

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001 - Outsider Art Podcast - The Journey Begins

Outsider Art Podcast - August 25, 2020 00:45 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
An introduction to the Outsider Art Podcast in which I introduce myself, tell you what the podcast series is going to be about and get tangled up in the existential quagmire that is Outsider Art. In short summary the Outsider Art Podcast will be an episodic series looking at the Art, Artists, H...

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2019 Top 50 Women In Technology & CXO: Reema Poddar

Change Wave - May 18, 2020 08:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
Reema Poddar is a highly successful executive with 26 years of experience in the software Industry. Poddar is a respected thought leader in Technology and authority on Digital and Organizational Transformation. Her successes include accelerating Digital & Organizational transformations enhancing...

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#100DaysOfCode Motivation Podcast – Trailer

Change Wave - April 02, 2020 23:00 - 44 seconds ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
Here's a sneak peek into the #100DaysOfCode with Treehouse challenge launching April 6th! Subscribe to the podcast today to start receiving motivational and empowering messages from software engineers, engineering leadership, Treehouse staff, Influencers, tech executives, and more – to support y...

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Pillar Technologies: Matthew Joyal

Change Wave - March 20, 2020 08:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
Matthew Joyal is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Pillar Technologies, a risk management platform for construction site developers and general contractors to monitor for destructive environmental conditions through the deployment of on-site sensor for real-time notifications. Matt ...

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Liberty Mutual Insurance: Monica Caldas

Change Wave - March 16, 2020 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
Monica Caldas is the Chief Information Officer for Liberty’s Global Retail Markets (GRM). In this role, Monica is driving the digital transformation within GRM’s global IT organization by delivering innovative solutions for customers and employees. Monica brings IT industry expertise from both t...

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Cotiviti: Nicole Neumarker

Change Wave - March 12, 2020 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
Nicole Neumarker is currently working as Vice President of R&D for Cotiviti, a leading solutions and analytics company that leverages unparalleled clinical and financial datasets to deliver deep insight into the performance of the healthcare system. At Cotiviti she is responsible for delivering ...

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FabFitFun: Will Feng

Change Wave - March 05, 2020 09:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
My name is William Feng (or Will). I am a proud father of a four-year-old son Zachary. I’m also an Organizational Psychologist, Coach, and currently the Director of Learning & Organizational Development at FabFitFun. I lead my team to develop amazing people and a culture that best supported our ...

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Sentry: Saloni Dudziak

Change Wave - February 26, 2020 09:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
Saloni has almost two decades of experience working with early- and mid-stage, high growth startups, building and running key foundational teams from the ground up. As the Vice President of People at Sentry, she is passionate about organizational design & strategy, transformation and change mana...

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GoDaddy: Monica Bailey

Change Wave - February 25, 2020 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
As head of GoDaddy’s people and culture, Monica is responsible for talent and performance management, total rewards, learning and development, hiring, inclusion and partnership with our people and leaders worldwide. Since joining GoDaddy in 2013, Monica has implemented several initiatives includ...

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Coupa Software: Donna Wilczek

Change Wave - February 21, 2020 09:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
Donna is an energetic software executive passionate about making customers successful. She is an executive sponsor of the Coupa Executive Advisory Board and an inventor with multiple software patents. Donna started at Coupa in 2011 and leads product strategy and innovation; identifying innovat...

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