Podcast appearances and mentions of Carol R Brown

Hello! We are wrapping up our first season with a conversation between us three co-founders here at Other Border Wall Project and Podcast - Tereneh Idia, Leah Patgorski, and Jennifer Nagle Myers. We are sharing our thoughts on the many creative pivots we had to do in 2020 and what it all felt like, as well as more in depth conversation about what our own creative practices look like. Join us! And here's a deeper look into who we are individually and what we do.... Tereneh Idia...works on issues of social justice especially in environment, design, arts and culture as designer and writer. She launched IdiaDega, a global eco-design collaboration of Indigenous women artisans in 2014 and became a journalist in 2018. The IdiaDega eco-design collaboration has presented work in Amsterdam, Paris, New York City, Nairobi, Copenhagen and Pittsburgh, including exhibitions at August Wilson African American Cultural Center, The Frick Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse and the Carnegie Museum of Art. Tereneh was Pittsburgh Style Week’s Designer of the Year for 2019, an inductee into the Taylor Allderdice High School Hall of Fame inductee and awarded the Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award for Emerging Artist. As a writer, Tereneh began publishing regularly in 2018 and her work has appeared in Pittsburgh City Paper, Pittsburgh PublicSource, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - among others, she is a multiple award-winning writer: Winner of the Golden Quill 2019 and 2020 for best columnist in daily paper and nominated again in 2021; The Robert L Vann Pittsburgh Black Media Federation Award; and the Billy Manes Award in 2020. https://www.idiadega.com/ Leah Patgorski...is a Pittsburgh-based artist who was born in Virginia Beach, VA. She earned a degree in Architecture at the University of Virginia followed by an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her studio practice includes sculptures, partitions, and painting-like objects made of textiles. Her work process moves back and forth between rule-following and improv, color experiments and found hues, and it reflects on intangibles like growth, loss, intimacy, shadows, and the history behind materials. Leah enjoys collaboration with other artists and designers in order to realize large-scale projects. She is part of a collective known as Other Border Wall that is focused on creative resistance to harmful border practices. She has also been exhibiting her individual work with many venues over the years including the Strohl Arts Center in Chautauqua, NY; Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, PA; and ADDS DONNA in Chicago, IL. https://leahpatgorski.com/ Jennifer Nagle Myers...is an artist and collaborator based in Southeastern VA after living almost ten years in Pittsburgh. She is mostly interested in the crossover between sculpture and drawing and how that can express the connection and continued desecration of our human imprint on earth. Working outdoors and/or with natural materials as much as possible allows her to establish and maintain a working reciprocal relationship with the earth. She received her BA from Hampshire College and MFA in Intermedia/Drawing from the University of Iowa. Her work has been shown at the Carnegie Museum of Art,The Sculpture Center, The International Print Center, The Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, and MUDAC in Lausanne, Switzerland, and original performance works have premiered at The New Hazlett Theater, The Festival for New Music, and the Kelly Strayhorn Theater. She continues to collaborate with artists and visionaries in other fields especially with her most VIP muses, the dancers. www.jennifernaglemyers.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/otherborderwall/message

Today on CitySpeaks, the podcast from Pittsburgh City Theatre, Director of New Play Development, Clare Drobot, interviews renowned set designer Tony Ferrieri.    Ferrieri has worked for nearly 40 years with City Theatre. He is recipient of the Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award for Established Artist, New Works Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, “Designer of the Year” by Pittsburgh City Paper and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the “Frankel Award,” “Fred Kelly Award for Outstanding Achievement,” and the “Harry Schwalb Excellence in the Arts Award.” His recent designs include: One Night in Miami, The Roommate, Pipeline, Citizens Market, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit, and Feeding the Dragon. A Pittsburgh native, Ferrieri has lived in the South Hills for more than six decades.    Get tickets for City Theatre shows here: https://citytheatrecompany.org/categories/2019-2020-season/ Listen to episodes of CitySpeaks here: https://postindustrial.com/cityspeaks/    

On this episode, I had the pleasure of talking with Tereneh Idia, a designer and writer currently based in Pittsburgh, PA. Tereneh attended Drexel University before moving around Washington D.C., Baltimore, and New York City. Tereneh describes these places as once having coffee shops that just sold coffee and donuts, where you could go to a Dominican Chinese restaurant and probably not find a piece of kale anywhere. After much traveling, Tereneh received her Masters in Fashion Design at Kenyatta University in Kenya. She is a 2016 Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Emerging Artist, which is awarded by The Heinz Endowment and The Pittsburgh Foundation. Tereneh and I had a wonderfully long and meandering conversation and we get into a few podcasts, Tereneh’s thoughts on fashion, and the never-ending story of white supremacy. I thoroughly enjoyed relistening to my conversation with Tereneh as I edited the audio, and I hope you enjoy listening to it just as much as I did! Links Mentioned: Tereneh’s Website Idia Dega Twitter Tereneh’s Twitter Tereneh's Instagram Pittsburgh City Paper Tereneh’s Recent Article on Public Source Don’t @ Me with Justin Simien Tea with Queen and J Latinos Who Lunch - Oscars So Brown bell hooks Sister Rosetta Tharp Bessie Smith Oneida Indian Nation Olorgesailie Maasai Eons Fashion Antique Hito Steyerl Rachel Rose Follow Seeing Color: Seeing Color Website Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Facebook Twitter Instagram

On this episode, I visit Sarika Goulatia in her studio, which was filled up to the ceiling with materials for her sculptures. Born in India, Sarika often works with large objects that are labor intensive to construct. Originally specializing in textiles, Sarika slowly shifted over to the art world and eventually got a Fine Arts degree at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she continues to live and work. She has exhibited in spaces such as the Mattress Factory and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. More recently, Sarika received the Carol R. Brown Emerging Artist Award and a Creative Development Grant, both given out by the Pittsburgh and Heinz Foundation. Sarika and I end up talking for quite a long time, with topics ranging from being a minority, Westernizing one’s self, and who gets the privilege to be called an international artist. Links Mentioned: Sarika's Website Sarika's Instagram Follow Seeing Color: Seeing Color Website Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Facebook Twitter Instagram