Latest Curators Podcast Episodes
Art Affairs 075 - Junko Mizuno
Art Affairs - May 22, 2023 08:15 - 1 hourWe discuss her early career creating comics in Japan, how she transitioned to focus on her fine art career, creating paintings for gallery shows in the U.S., an exciting new tarot-themed series she's going to be starting on this year, and a whole lot more! Also mentioned in this episode: Merry ...
Art Affairs 074 - Martin Wittfooth
Art Affairs - May 01, 2023 08:15 - 1 hourOn this episode of Art Affairs, i talk with artist Martin Wittfooth. We discuss his experience growing up in Finland, the allegorical nature of his work and the stories he's interested in telling, the evolution of his work in the last year and the huge shift in theme his latest show introduced,...
Episode 140: Dayna Patterson
Keep the Channel Open - April 28, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsDayna Patterson is a poet, photographer, and textile artist based in the Pacific Northwest. The poems in her latest collection, O Lady, Speak Again, use the voices of the women characters from Shakespeare’s plays to talk about patriarchy, motherhood, sexuality, religion, heritage. In our convers...
Art Affairs 073 - Alvaro Naddeo
Art Affairs - April 10, 2023 08:15 - 1 hourOn this episode of Art Affairs, i talk with artist Alvaro Naddeo. We discuss his experience growing up in Brazil with father who worked as a professional illustrator, his 25+ years of experience working in commercial advertising and how he re-discovered his love of making art, what he has comin...
Bearing Witness: Galicia Jewish Museum
Bearing Witness: The Impact of Memorialization - April 06, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOne of the first locations Dr. Stephanie Arel visited when she began research for her book Bearing Witness: The Wounds of Mass Trauma at Memorial Museums was the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, Poland. She went there to understand how they were memorializing the Holocaust and the impact this wo...
Episode 139: Joshua Burton
Keep the Channel Open - March 29, 2023 04:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsJoshua Burton is a poet and educator based in Houston, TX. The poems in Joshua’s debut collection, Grace Engine, ask what grace means in a hostile world of lynchings, mental illness, self-hate, and suicide. These poems offer no solace, yet nevertheless reach toward beauty and peace. In our conve...
Art Affairs 072 - Giorgiko
Art Affairs - March 20, 2023 08:15 - 1 hourOn this episode of Art Affairs, i talk with artist duo Giorgiko. We discuss how Darren and Trisha transitioned from working independently to creating art together, the rich world of childlike characters they've been building over the years, their new solo show curated by Thinkspace at Woaw Gall...
Bearing Witness: Les Anneaux de la Mémoire
Bearing Witness: The Impact of Memorialization - March 03, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn 1992, Les Anneaux de la Mémoire (The Shackles of Memory) was an exhibition which was focused on the city of Nantes, France and its role and complicity as a trading port along the route of enslaved people in the 18th century. The exhibition was such a success that it became an association in N...
Art Affairs 071 - Nicomi Nix Turner
Art Affairs - February 27, 2023 09:15 - 1 hourOn this episode of Art Affairs, i talk with artist Nicomi Nix Turner. We discuss the early part of her career working on Emily the Strange, the incredible use of symbolism in her art, her recent period of creative exploration and experimentation, and a whole lot more! Also mentioned in this ep...
Episode 138: KTCO Book Club - The Cruel Prince (with Mel Thomas)
Keep the Channel Open - February 22, 2023 08:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsFor our latest KTCO Book Club episode, media critic Mel Thomas joins us for a conversation about Holly Black’s YA fantasy novel The Cruel Prince. In our conversation, we discuss the ways that craft in YA fiction is often dismissed or overlooked by both critics and readers, the dynamics of abuse ...
Art Affairs 070 - Drew Merritt
Art Affairs - February 06, 2023 09:15 - 1 hourOn this episode of Art Affairs, i talk with artist Drew Merritt. We discuss his upbringing in rural New Mexico and how he first got excited about graffiti, how he transitioned from painting commissioned works to developing his own personal studio practice, what he has coming up in 2023, and a w...
Bearing Witness: The Whitney Plantation
Bearing Witness: The Impact of Memorialization - February 03, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe memorialization and commemoration of the lives taken and lineage affected by the Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery in America is a fairly new field. On December 7th, 2014, the Whitney Plantation opened as a memorial ground and a museum in Wallace, Louisiana. It was the firs...
Episode 137: Gabrielle Bates
Keep the Channel Open - January 25, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsGabrielle Bates is a poet based in Seattle, WA. Throughout Gabrielle’s debut collection, Judas Goat, there is a feeling of quiet, that the poems are almost being whispered to you. And yet it is not a soft or comforting quiet that these poems bring, but rather one that often contains a sense of m...
Art Affairs 069 - Matthew Grabelsky
Art Affairs - January 16, 2023 09:15 - 1 hourOn this episode of Art Affairs, i talk with artist Matthew Grabelsky. We discuss the super diverse education he's received (including his degree in Astrophysics!), what significance the animal heads of his characters have to him, his new solo show with Thinkspace, and a whole lot more! Come rid...
Bearing Witness: Equal Justice Initiative
Bearing Witness: The Impact of Memorialization - January 05, 2023 20:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, we speak with Tera DuVernay, the Deputy Director of Museum and Memorial Operations at the Equal Justice Initiative. Tera is also known for her work as a Researcher for several films including the academy award winning film 13th about mass criminalization in America. She has work...
Episode 136: Abby Minor
Keep the Channel Open - December 14, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsAbby Minor is a writer based in central Pennsylvania. In her debut book of poems, As I Said: A Dissent, Abby combines the historical narrative of Ann Lohman—a 19th-century abortion provider in New York City—with personal and family history, creating a collection of poems that challenge the typic...
Bearing Witness: Armenian Genocide Museum Institute Foundation
Bearing Witness: The Impact of Memorialization - December 02, 2022 03:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFor the last hundred years, politicians, civilians, and academics have attempted to deny the Armenian Genocide. Currently, efforts exist to annihilate both a period of history and its people. In this episode, we are joined by Regina Galustyan of the Armenian Genocide Museum Institute Foundation ...
Episode 135: Molly Spencer
Keep the Channel Open - November 16, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsMolly Spencer is a poet based in Michigan. The poems in her collections In the House and Hinge engage with chronic illness, divorce, domesticity, motherhood, and the ways that our lives don’t always work out the way we expected them to. In our conversation, we talked about dissolution, the uses ...
Bearing Witness: Galerija 11/07/95 in Sarajevo
Bearing Witness: The Impact of Memorialization - November 04, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt is once again a bustling, modern European city, but in 1995, Sarajevo was ravaged by Serbian forces during the Bosnian War of the 1990's. For four years, the Serbian military surrounded the city playing target practice with its citizens. In this episode, we speak with Nejra Mulaomerovic whose...
Episode 134: Luther Hughes
Keep the Channel Open - October 26, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsLuther Hughes is a poet based in Seattle, WA. The poems in Luther’s debut collection, A Shiver in the Leaves, are tender, erotic, vulnerable, erudite, at times dark, and at times ecstatic. In our conversation, we talked about power dynamics in sexual encounters, different forms of love, and writ...
Art Affairs 067 - Brandi Milne
Art Affairs - October 25, 2022 08:15 - 1 hourOn this episode of Art Affairs, i talk with artist Brandi Milne. We discuss her early life growing up in Anaheim, the presence of some really heavy themes under the lighthearted whimsical surface of her work, her new solo show at Corey Helford Gallery, and a whole lot more! Also mentioned in t...
Bearing Witness: Remembering for others in Cambodia
Bearing Witness: The Impact of Memorialization - October 06, 2022 18:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis episode introduces listeners to Sopheaktra Tim and Chamroeun Lak. Both are memory workers in Cambodia, a country where most older adults experienced the violence of the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot and his regime ravished Cambodia from 1975-1979. These workers discuss their efforts at remembering t...
Episode 133: André Ramos-Woodard
Keep the Channel Open - October 05, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsAndré Ramos-Woodard is a photographic artist originally from Texas and Tennessee. In their series BLACK SNAFU, André combines photographs celebrating Blackness with appropriated illustrations from racist cartoons as a way of confronting the history and present reality of American racism. In our ...
Art Affairs 066 - Brian M. Viveros
Art Affairs - October 03, 2022 08:15 - 1 hourOn this episode of Art Affairs, i talk with artist Brian M. Viveros. We discuss how he first had his creative awakening and transitioned into a fine art career, the army of powerful, heroic women that populate his DirtyLand, his upcoming solo show at Thinkspace, and a whole lot more! Also ment...
Bearing Witness: National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Bearing Witness: The Impact of Memorialization - September 11, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode we speak with Lisa Conte, head conservator at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and Alexandra Drakakis, a former curator who worked there for 13 years, to discuss the impact of the memorial and museum on the survivor community and on their own lives. This episode is br...
Art Affairs 065 - Syd Bee
Art Affairs - September 05, 2022 08:15 - 1 hourOn this episode of Art Affairs, i talk with artist Syd Bee. We discuss balancing her art practice with her day job work painting statues, the dreamy themes present throughout her portfolio, her use of hand-built miniature sets for reference, and a whole lot more! Also mentioned in this episode...
Episode 132: Amanda Marchand
Keep the Channel Open - August 31, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsAmanda Marchand is a Canadian, New York-based photographer. Amanda’s Lumen Notebook series is a body of elegant and strikingly beautiful images that nevertheless layer deep meaning within their seemingly simple compositions. In our conversation, Amanda and I talked about her process in creating ...
Art Affairs 064 - Teagan White
Art Affairs - August 15, 2022 08:15 - 1 hourOn this episode of Art Affairs, i talk with artist Teagan White. We discuss how they transitioned from commercial advertising into a more fulfilling career in fine art and illustration, their increased focus on the disharmony between humans and the natural world and the damage our species has d...
Art Affairs 063 - Cryptik
Art Affairs - July 25, 2022 08:15 - 1 hourOn this episode of Art Affairs, i talk with, street artist, Cryptik. We discuss how he transitioned from graphic design to street art and his own artistic practice, his strong desire to convey a sense of peace and serenity through his work, the inspiration for the incredible letter forms he cre...
Art Affairs 062 - Alessandra Maria
Art Affairs - July 04, 2022 08:15 - 1 hourOn this episode of Art Affairs, i talk with, artist, Alessandra Maria. We discuss her unique use of charcoal and gold leaf, the way that she develops her compositions in terms of patterns instead of light, her upcoming solo show at Galerie Fledermaus, and a whole lot more! Also mentioned in th...