More Devotedly

Kai Talim wants to talk about curiosity. Douglas Detrick and this pianist turned podcaster and entrepreneur had a thoughtful conversation about how following our curiosity can lead to new directions in our lives.  

In the time COVID-19, Leila Haile and Joaquin Lopez, Portland, Oregon's newest Creative Laureates, are focused on healing, especially for […]

William Seiji Marsh was inspired by a moment of personal realization to launch a new business during the pandemic. Douglas Detrick and Marsh talk about goal setting in music, and how it can relieve anxiety and improve outcomes when done with a more honest mindset.

"Why do I continue to devote myself to music?" was a starting point for violist, ethnomusicologist, author and educator Tanya Kalmanovitch to launch her newsletter The Rest. Hear her talk with Douglas Detrick about how capitalism and music interact, how she talks about money with her conservatory students, and how we can stop setting ourselves up for failure in our personal musical practice.

Patrick Walsh talks about "re-enfranchising" incarcerated audiences in Oregon by directing theater for performances in Oregon prisons. He is the Executive Artistic Director of Northwest Classical Theater Cooperative, who presented their latest production, Antigone, via video during the pandemic.

Glass, light and steel artist Jen Fuller and Douglas Detrick talk about how glass can inspire adaptability, collaboration, and surprise.

Melting down the broken bits of Volume IV and forging a new narrative about a willful yet adaptive material. An introduction to the theme, the music, and the guests of Volume V, inspired by glass.

Sarah Tiedemann, is Artistic Director of Third Angle New Music and a flute and piccolo player with the Oregon Ballet Theatre Orchestra. We talked about how she and other artists are getting through the pandemic; what non-Portlanders should know about our hometown; and how predominantly white arts organizations can help tell the stories of marginalized communities in an ethical way.

Joni Renee Whitworth, who uses they/them pronouns, is a poet and the executive director of Future Prairie, “a queer creative studio and non-profit artist collective.” We talked about how their organization has changed course during the pandemic, what the value of a nonprofit dedicated to marginalized artists is, and how an arts organizer finds space and time for their own work as they support the work of others.

Directors and the Poet Laureate of the United States about the repatriation of the Yale Union building in Portland, Oregon to her organization, about her role as Poet Laureate in a toxic time in American politics, and how she found her voice through poetry and music.

Amidst the struggles of the pandemic and racial justice protests in Portland, Onry has taken the opportunity to clarify his priorities, taking his creative future in his own hands. Onry is a singer, dancer, actor, and pianist based in Portland, Oregon. He's one of very few Black professional classical singers here. When the pandemic hit, Onry went outside to find places to sing, to keep his voice strong, and that led to some experiences that inspired his new project, a documentary and studio recording project called Livin' in the Light. You can see a beautiful music video that's part of the project at moredevotedly.com, as well as a link to a fundraiser that's still in progress. We talk about how the experiences he's had during this time showed Onry that it was time to step into his own light, and to show how others can do the same in their own way.

Subashini Ganesan is a dancer and choreographer, the founder and Executive Director of New Expressive Works, and Portland, Oregon's Creative Laureate since 2018. We talked about her role as Creative Laureate, the process of distributing this aid money from the Oregon State Legislature, and about the social justice movement taking place in Portland right now.

Andre Middleton is Executive Director of Friends of Noise, a nonprofit seeking to foster healing and growth for the creative […]

The Oregon state legislature recently made a huge investment in the Oregon arts community—$50 Million dollars from the federal CARES […]

A sound-rich essay with original music about how building with stone is like building a society where all Americans have the opportunity to create resilient communities.

In this short story by Megan Savage, The Seamstress asks her fiance The Wolfboy for a big favor, and has to accept the consequences that result. As people all over the world are forced to make choices with profound consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Seamstress Loves The Wolfboy is a opportunity to consider the choices we make for love. This is the first audio fiction episode from More Devotedly podcast. Narration by Rosalie Purvis, music, sound design, and production by Douglas Detrick, illustration by Lettie Jane Rennekamp.

Margaret Bullock's new book "New Deal Art in the Northwest: The WPA and Beyond" is the first comprehensive study of this chapter of United States political and arts history. She and Douglas Detrick talked about how the programs worked and what they produced, how they affected communities, and how our community's response to the COVID-19 crisis will be similar, and how it could be different.

As medical personnel and other essential workers continue on despite the risks to their health, families with kids are staying home, like my family has been doing for four weeks now. On this episode, I share my family's experiences and some audio I created with my kids on this lighthearted episode of More Devotedly.

Sam and Lisa Adams, of the band Sama Dams, were about to embark on a five-week tour in Europe as the coronavirus outbreak took hold there and here at home in the United States. Meara McLoughlin, Executive Director of Music Portland, collected data on lost income from nearly one thousand musicians that helped to quantify the economic damage the outbreak was doing to musicians in Oregon helped to shape the response of Oregon's congressional delegation. Hear their responses to this tragedy, and what they're doing to help their communities move forward.

Wrapping up Volume II, our mini-season centered on climate change. Douglas Detrick writes about what he's learned about how artists can effectively address climate change in their work, and how it matters to all of us as we struggle with this global crisis.

Douglas Detrick talks with Craig Santos Perez about climate change from his perspective as a Pacific Islander and the stories that continue to inspire him to work for a more sustainable future for all of us.

EM Lewis and Douglas Detrick discuss Lewis's play Magellanica, where a team of scientists studying the hole in the ozone layer at a research station in Antarctica confront environmental crisis, geopolitical conflict, and interpersonal struggle.

Stephanie McCollough and I talked about climate change through the lens of our own emotional experiences with this global crisis.

A brief epilogue to talk about what I learned through the process of producing Volume I, and also to talk about what’s coming up in Volume II and beyond.

Hear what Anna Fritz and Paul Susi learned after performing "An Iliad" in prisons across Oregon.

Kunu Bearchum, (Northern Cheyenne/Ho Chunk nation) talks about how he found a way to express his experience as an indigenous person in the United States by applying the ethic of the warrior to his artistic practice.

Joe Kye is a violinist-looper and vocalist whose music is motivated by a deep desire to be a steward of culture.

Introducing More Devotedly and the ideas behind it.