In this episode of Art in Conversation, Emma Lee Toyoda talks “soft punk,” their own take on Seattle’s DIY ethos. Finding strength in sensitivity, Toyoda talks about their music and their experience as a non-binary artist on the Seattle scene.
Read MoreWe spoke with electronic sound artist Michele Mercure in advance of her performance at Interference Fest, taking place in Austin from September 5-8, 2019. Mercure shared insight into her instrumentation, how her music-making process has changed, the advantage of contemporary equipment, and how limiting yourself can, paradoxically, expand your sonic horizons.
Read MoreCatherine Chen is a poet and performer living in New York. A recipient of fellowships from Poets House, Lambda Literary, and Sundress Academy for the Arts, their work has been published in Slate, The Rumpus, Asian American Writers' Workshop, Apogee, and Nat. Brut, among others. They are the author of the forthcoming chapbook Manifesto, or: Hysteria (Big Lucks).
Read MoreKay Ulanday Barrett was featured in "9 Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Writers You Should Know" in Vogue in 2018 and was twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry. They are the 2018 Lambda Literary Review Writer-in-Residence for Poetry and 2018 guest faculty for the Poetry Foundation. Our editor Nia KB spoke with Barrett about their work in their eclectic apartment in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Read MoreNamwali Serpell is a Zambian writer and literary scholar living in San Francisco. We met at Serpell’s co-working space, The Ruby, in San Francisco, and sat outside on the patio on a gloriously sunny afternoon in early May to discuss unintentional feminism, sci-fi dreams, the crisis of irony, and blood, hair, and tears.
Read MoreQueens-based artist Mickey Aloiso’s photography project From Europe, With Love captures Aloisio’s experience traveling through queer communities in some of Europe’s largest cities. From Europe, With Love consists of classically conceptualized yet bizarre images that subvert our conventions of beauty, sexuality, and Instagram photos. We spoke with Aloisio about his experience putting together this (NSFW) photo series.
Read MoreMark Renner is a visual artist and musician based in Fort Worth, Texas. Having grown up in the rural countryside outside Baltimore, his work is infused with the stillness and solitude of rural living and countless hours spent quietly observing. His music was rediscovered after the Brooklyn-based label RVNG reissued his early material in the collection Few Traces. We spoke with Renner about his life and work, his friendship with the late Stuart Adamson, and his forthcoming album, Seaworthy Vessels Are In Short Supply.
Read MoreIn this episode of Art in Conversation, sculptor Coco Spadoni talks about how their own relationship with pottery began, why their work focuses on stories of the body, and how they teach others to get comfortable with clay.
Read MoreIn this episode of Art in Conversation, sculptor Coco Spadoni talks about how their own relationship with pottery began, why their work focuses on stories of the body, and how they teach others to get comfortable with clay.
Read MoreAndrew Ordonez is an artist living and working in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a current resident of The Drugstore, a communal and collaborative studio space for artists located in Kansas City’s historic Katz Drugstore. Among many themes, his work explores geographical time capsules, artifacts, and urban debris within the context of history, heritage, and queer culture. He primarily works in photo media, painting, sculpture and décollage. We caught up with Ordonez after the Young Latinx Artists 23 exhibition at Austin’s Mexic-Arte Museum, where his work was on display, to talk about migration, fragility, and symbolism in his recent work.
Read MoreAngel Alviar-Langley, who also goes by Moonyeka, has always been drawn to dance. In this episode of “Art in Conversation,” fields talked to Moonyeka about joining the popping community in Seattle, storytelling through movement, and the gender dynamics at play within the dance form.
Read MoreTaji Senior is a journalist, writer and performer. She has produced two solo works, AMENDMENT and ‘A’ (What the Black Girl Found While Searching for God). Her credits include TWENTYEIGHT, Doper than Dope, Comedy of Errors and the We Are film series (B.B. Araya), which is currently streaming on the Issa Rae Productions digital content site. Senior is currently earning an MFA in acting from UCLA.
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