Podcasts about Mana Contemporary

Our guest is Jamie Gannon, an artist, designer, and photographer who has spent over 30 years in Chicago exploring the intersection of architecture, memory, and creative practice.In this episode, Jamie speaks with host Christian Solorzano about his unique approach to documenting buildings through what he calls "defamiliarization" - taking familiar structures and making them unexpected again. He shares insights about his journey from Tennessee to Chicago, his evolution from commercial graphic design to fine art, and his meticulous process of photographing, deconstructing, and reconstructing architectural forms.Jamie discusses his recent move to a new studio at MANA Contemporary, his "Sibling Revelry" exhibition in Nashville, and his Type Force installation. We explore how his background in printmaking influences his current work with surfaces and materials, his morning ritual of walking through Wicker Park, and why he chooses hands-on creation in an increasingly digital world.The conversation delves into Jamie's philosophy of preserving architectural history, his approach to craft and detail, and how he balances commercial design work at Surprise Media with his artistic practice. Jamie reflects on the role of intuition versus strategy in creative work, the importance of surface in art-making, and his upcoming plans for art fairs throughout the Midwest.Music by the band Eighties Slang.

Fanny Allié was born in Montpellier, South of France. She received her Master's Degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (The National School of Photography) in Arles, France in 2005 and moved to New York City. Princeton University, Equity Gallery, Hyatt Centric (Philadelphia), DOT Art, A.I.R Gallery, New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Fresh Window, Chashama and St Eustache Church (Paris, France), Hudson Yards Alliance have organized solo exhibitions and public installations of her work. Tappan Gallery, Owen James Gallery, NYU/Gallatin Gallery, Dorsky Gallery, Freight + Volume, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Dekalb Gallery/Pratt Institute, UConn University, Mana Contemporary, Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts, The Bronx Museum, Teachers College Columbia University among others have featured her work in group exhibitions. Fanny is the recipient of various fellowships and residencies including AIM (Bronx Museum), BRIC Lab Fellowship, Emergency Grant (Foundation for Contemporary Arts), A.I.R. Fellowship Program, Robert Blackburn Printmaking SIP Fellowship, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, Yaddo Residency, Dieu Donné Workspace Residency, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship (Craft/Sculpture), MacDowell Fellowship, Puffin Foundation Grant, Wildacres Residency and National Arts Club Artist Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Time Out, ARTnews, NY Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, Hyperallergic, Le Monde Diplomatique, Blouin Art Info, DNA Info, Marie Claire Italy, AM New York among others. Her neon light sculpture “The Glowing Homeless” and sound installation will be exhibited at the Church of St. Eustache in Paris from December 18th 2024 until May 31st 2025. In 2025, Kaliner Gallery in New York City and Giovanni Bonelli Gallery (Milan, Italy) will present her work in solo exhibitions. Fanny lives in Brooklyn and works from her studio at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in Manhattan, NY. Exhibits discussed are KALINER and Giovanni Bonelli. A Longing, March 6 - April 12, 2025, Installation view at Kaliner Gallery, 42 Allen St, NYC Ladder Leg, 2024, found fabric, collagraph print and acrylic paint, 32.5in x 50in The Night the Wind Learned to Dance, April 24 - May 25, 2025, Installation view at Giovanni Bonelli Gallery, Milan, Italy Shelved, 2025, found fabric and collagraph prints, 59in x 38.5in Circles, 2024, found fabric and collagraph prints, 55.5in x 55.5in

Ep.220 Jake Troyli (b.1990, Boston, MA) received his BFA from Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN (2013), where he played Division 1 basketball, his MFA from the University of South Florida, Tampa(2019), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME (2019).Solo exhibitions include moniquemeloche. Chicago, IL (2024/2022); Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL (2018); and ArtsXchange, St. Petersburg, FL. (2018). Troyli's work has been featured in group exhibitions at Perrotin Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Galerie Droste, Düsseldorf, DE (2024);Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (2023-24); Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY(2023); Galerie Droste, Paris, FR (2021); The Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL(2021); Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL (2019); San Francisco Art Institute, CA (2018). Troyli's work will be included in the group exhibition Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, curated by Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Seph Rodney, and Katy Siegel, at SF MoMA, which travels to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Pérez Art Museum Miami and will be accompanied by a scholarly publication. He will have his first solo museum exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, in 2026. His work is in the permanent collections of the Tampa Art Museum, Tampa, FL; the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; and Pierce and Hill Harper Arts Foundation, Detroit, MI. He is the recipient of the Provincetown Fine Arts Fellowship (2019 2020) and the Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Grant, Largo, FL (2017). Troyli was a 2023 Visual Artist recipient of the Academy of Fine Arts x International City of Arts program in Paris, France. He is resident at Project for Empty Space in Newark, NJ. Photo courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery. Photographer Raphael Lugassy Artist - https://www.jaketroyli.com/ moniquemeloche - https://www.moniquemeloche.com/artists/48-jake-troyli/biography/ Perrotin https://leaflet.perrotin.com/view/898/light-of-winter Galerie Droste https://www.galeriedroste.com/exhibitions/92-reading-the-language-of-images-jammie-holmes-andrew-schoultz-jake-troyli/overview/ Newcity https://art.newcity.com/2024/10/15/a-bloodline-through-the-histories-a-review-of-peter-and-jake-fagundo-at-m-leblanc/ NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/arts/sfmoma-exhibit-sports-art.html ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/for-freedoms-activates-art-installations-democratic-national-convention-chicago-1234714497/ WBEZ | NPR https://www.wbez.org/arts/2024/07/22/jake-troyli-artist-chicago-mural-dnc-democratic-national-convention-art Cité internationale des arts https://www.citedesartsparis.net/en/jake-troyli Chicago Sun Times https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2024/07/26/chicago-murals-jake-troyli-dnc-democratic-national-convention-skyart-east-garfield-park Chicago Gallery News https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2024/8/anticipating-a-season-of-art-five-to-talk-to-jake-troyli White House Magazine https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/slow-clap-at-monique-meloche/5358It's Nice That https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/jake-troyli-art-170222 Chicago Reader https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/jake-troyli-contains-multitudes/ Mana Contemporary https://www.manacontemporary.com/jake-troyli/ Kavi Gupta https://kavigupta.com/artworks/10328-jake-troyli-portrait-of-the-artist-with-hors-doeuvre-2020/ The Province Town Independenthttps://provincetownindependent.org/arts-minds/2020/03/12/show-and-tell-with-jake-troyli/ The TRiiBE https://thetriibe.com/2022/04/painter-jake-troyli-invites-us-into-the-spectacle-of-black-skin-at-expo-chicago/

Enjoy this powerful conversation with Courtney Minor as she shares her fascinating story, unique and inspiring travels, and how she discovered her creative voice. Courtney explores alternate worlds with her art using collage elements photographs, paint, and found objects. Whether with abstract figures, graffiti-style motifs, or a combination of both, she turns her creative visions into original artworks, fine art prints, and home & personal goods. Her work is rooted in her emotions, psychology/mental health, memories, travels, and love of science fiction. Her style is primarily contemporary abstract with street art & surrealism elements. She opened the Courtney Minor Design Studio at Mana Contemporary and is open for private studio tours. Courtney Minor's work can be viewed & purchased on her website https://thecmdstudio.com/collections or at her partner galleries: Singulart Gallery in Paris, Saatchi Art online, 33 Contemporary in Chicago, and Kente Royal Gallery in Harlem, NYC. This episode is filled with inspiration to travel, to create, and to share your voice!Courtney's LinksWebsite: https://thecmdstudio.com/collectionsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/heyitscourtneyminorOur Podcast is proudly sponsored by Jet Creative and UrbanStems! Jet Creative is a women-owned marketing firm committed to community and empowerment. If you are looking to build a website or start a podcast--visit JetCreative.com/Podcast to kickstart your journey. UrbanStems is your go-to source for fresh gorgeous bouquets flowers and gifts delivered coast-to-coast! USE: BLOOMBIG20 to save 20%!Subscribe to this podcast and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @rebloom.podcast

This week Elliot Bowers sat down with Dave & Johnny Disco to discuss Elliot's new exhibition “Displacement” at Purple Window Gallery, at Mana Contemporary in Chicago.

Amanda VanValkenburg is a multimedia artist based in Chicago, Illinois. They received their MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, where they investigated the intersection of art and technology. They primarily work with digital media to investigate digitally mediated interactions between memory, projection, contemporary anxiety, and the relationship between technology and the environment. Currently, their work is focused on using technology to process video to examine the anatomy of a visual scene and flesh out echoes of memory and the membranes of virtual and physical spaces.  Their work has been exhibited and screened internationally and nationally, including at the CICA Museum in Korea, the Hong Kong Art Centre, Currents New Media Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art and the Gene Siskel Theater in Chicago, VastLabs Experimental Festival in Los Angeles and Chicago, Trumbullplex Detroit, Elmhurst Museum, Mana Contemporary, Woman Made Gallery, 6018 North Gallery, Nightingale Cinema, Links Hall, Filmfront, and the Chicago Digital Media Festival. and they have  completed residencies with the Ditrapano Foundation for the Arts, Ragdale, High Concept Labs, and Ox-Bow School of the Arts. They currently teach at Northern Illinois University as an Assistant Professor of Time Arts and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as an instructor in ACE and ECP programs. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/experimentalfilmpodcast/support

Today's episode features world famous visual artist Zoë Buckman (b. 1985 Hackney, East London): a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, and photography, exploring themes of Feminism, mortality, and equality. We talk about her origins and the line she tows between soft and hard both as an artist and advocate. Zoë is an intersectional feminist and we talk about what that means as a Jewish woman in 2024. More about Zoë: Notable solo shows have included BLOODWORK at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery London, Nomi at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, No Bleach Thick Enough, at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, Heavy Rag at Fort Gansevoort Gallery New York, Let Her Rave at Gavlak Gallery Los Angeles, Imprison Her Soft Hand at Project for Empty Space, Newark; Every Curve at PAPILLION ART, Los Angeles; and Present Life at Garis & Hahn Gallery, New York. Group shows include those at SF Moma, The Broad Museum, The Museum of Art & Design, NYC, The Parish Art Museum, The Baltimore Museum of Art, MOCA Virginia, The Camden Arts Centre, London, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Children's Museum of the Arts, The Shirley Fitterman Center NY, MASSIMODECARLO Gallery Hong Kong, Mother Gallery, Beacon NY, Paul Kasmin Gallery NY, Goodman Gallery South Africa, Jack Shainman Gallery NY, Monique Meloche Chicago, NYU Florence Italy, Grunwald Art Gallery, Indiana University, and the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA and The National Museum of African-American History & Culture, Washington, DC Buckman studied at the International Center of Photography (ICP), was awarded an Art Matters Grant in 2017, The Art Change Maker Award 2019 at The New Jersey Visual Arts Center, and The Art and Social Impact Award 2020 at Baxter St NYC, and completed a residency at Mana Contemporary in 2017. Public works include MENDED: a Times Square Midnight Momenta, a mural, We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident, in collaboration with Natalie Frank at the Ford Foundation Gallery of New York & Live Arts in NYC, and various billboard projects with For Freedoms. In February 2018 Buckman unveiled her first Public Sculpture presented by Art Production Fund on Sunset Blv, Los Angeles, a large scale outdoor version of her neon sculpture Champ, which has been up for several years. Buckman's work is included in the permanent collections of The National Portrait Gallery, London, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, The Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, The Chrysler Museum Virginia, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. More @zoebuckman on Instagram and at ZoeBuckman.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode with visual artist, Dan Perkins, we dive into a discussion around the evolution of his painting practice.  He shares about how over the recent years, through all the turmoil of global events, he started to turn more inward.  This shift impacted his paintings, moving them away from being solely focused on formal concerns, to being more interested in the psychological landscape.  We discussed the power of meditative practice and how art making, along with art viewing, can offer glimpses into a different state of consciousness.  --------------------------------- Dan Perkins lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA from American University. His paintings channel architectural motifs that connote space: crossing through a threshold, gazing through a window, passing from one plane to another. However the spaces depicted sit in an ethereal haze, where color and form are primary. Scale, time and space are all negotiable, up to the viewer to frame and understand. He has shown at Deanna Evans Projects, Sperone Westwater, Kutlesa Gallery, Hashimoto Contemporary, Launch F18, Mana Contemporary, and elsewhere. His work is held in the collections of Capital One, Fidelity Investments, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Katzen Museum of American University, as well as in many private collections. His work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, Booooooom, Wired Italia, Art of Choice, Archive 00, Two Coats of Paint, Artsy, ArtMaze Mag, and the Washington Post. https://www.kutlesagallery.com/exhibitions/23-fresh-nature/https://www.deannaevansprojects.com/dan-perkinshttp://www.danperkinsart.com/https://www.instagram.com/danperkinsart/ See More from Martin Benson *To stay up on releases and content surrounding the show check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠my instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *To contribute to the creation of this show, along with access to other exclusive content, consider joining ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠my Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Credits: Big Thanks to Matthew Blankenship of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Sometimes Island ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for the podcast theme music! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/martin-l-benson/support

In this episode Katie and I discuss her explorations with sacred geometry and her desire to strike a harmonious balance between organic and geometric forms. We discussed our shared interest in Yoga and Meditation and how those spiritual practices inform creative process. Katie and I also dive deep into a discussion about impermanence and the powerful lessons that come from that. ----------------- Originally from Bradenton, Florida, Katie Niewodowski has lived in Jersey City since 2006 where she makes and teaches art and owns a personalized portrait company: Petitraits. Katie is also a yogi and yoga instructor - a spiritual practice that she integrates into her art. Katie is currently a professor of Visual Arts at RISD, Montclair State University, Seton Hall University, and Hudson County Community College. She received her BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2002 and her MFA from Montclair State University in 2005. Her work is a meditation on the phenomenon of life and the creative structures that perpetuate it. She explores the interconnectedness of life that exists in our universe such as patterns in nature, the body, and mathematics such as the Golden Ratio, fractals, and sacred geometry. Her paintings, drawings, and sculptures examine the visual representations of this macro and microcosmic field and seek to understand the systems that connect it. Katie has had two recent solo exhibits in Jersey City: ‘Circling the Sphere' in 2022 and ‘The Sacred and the Sublime' in 2023. Her work has been exhibited in New York at such galleries as Littlejohn Contemporary, Lyons Wier, PPOW, and the Islip Museum. In NJ her art has been shown at Mana Contemporary, The Montclair Art Museum, Long Beach Island Foundation, Drawing Rooms, The Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Dineen Hull Gallery, and The Segal Gallery among others. In Florida her work has been exhibited at The Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, The Selby Gallery, and many other galleries in the Tampa Bay area. Art fairs include SCOPE Miami, AAF-NYC. Internationally, SCOPE London and an inclusion in the 2017 exhibit ‘‘A Glimpse of the Concealed – body, intuition, art” by Paul Vandenbroeck at The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Follow her work on Instagram:   https://www.instagram.com/katieniewo/ Websites: http://www.katieniewo.comhttp://www.petitraits.com See More from Martin Benson *To stay up on releases and content surrounding the show check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠my instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *To contribute to the creation of this show, along with access to other exclusive content, consider joining ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠my Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Credits: Big Thanks to Matthew Blankenship of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Sometimes Island ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for the podcast theme music! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/martin-l-benson/support

Kristen Sanders (b. 1989, California) lives and works in St. Paul, MN. She received a BA from the University of California Davis, and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Solo and two person exhibitions include Dreamsong, Minneapolis, MN, St. Cloud State University, St Cloud, MN, Kathryn Brennan Gallery, New York, NY, Step Sister, New York, NY, Sadie Halie Projects, Minneapolis, MN, and Sediment Arts, Richmond, VA. Group exhibitions include Good Mother, Los Angeles, Night Club, Minneapolis, MN, Hair & Nails, Minneapolis, MN, O'Flaherty's, New York, NY, Monti 8, Latina, Italy, Moosey Art, London, UK, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, The Quarter Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Left Field, Los Osos, CA, H.G. Inn, Chicago, IL, White Columns, New York, NY, and Patrick Parrish Gallery, NY. Residencies include The Maple Terrace, Brooklyn, Lacuna Gallery, Minneapolis, David Wurtzel Travel Scholarship, Florence, Italy, and Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. Sanders has received press in BOMB Magazine, ARTNews, and New American Paintings. She currently teaches at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Morning Tide, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 32 inches In the Negative Spaces, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 40 inches Abyssal Plane, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 27 x 20 inches

Today on Bad at Sports, live from inside EXPO Chicago, we try to get to the bottom of what the Monira Foundation is up to and what exactly it has to do with MANA Contemporary? So, we catch up with Anne Muntges, Director of Residencies and Grants Development. Then we are joined by the CEO of Apollo, Michael Miller and Chicago artist Sarah Raskey, and we look into the future of digital art delivery and what it would mean to have access to the world's greatest collections from your home. Efficiency   EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/ Monira Foundation – https://monirafoundation.org/ MANA Contemporary – https://www.manacontemporary.com/ Anne Muntges – https://www.annemuntges.com/ Apollo – https://apollo.art/ Michael Miller - https://modernluxuryinteriors.com/apollo-digital-art-platform Sarah Raskey – https://www.sarahraskey.com/  

Ep.151 features Layo Bright. Mining personal archives and collective experiences, her sculptural practice interrogates how materials shape perception, culture, and politics. Bright's work explores specific themes of migration, inheritance, legacy and identity through hybrid portraits, textiles, and mixed media that call on natural forms and ancestral memory. Employing a range of materials such as glass, clay, wood and textiles, these forms mirror fragile yet complex relationships with the personal, natural, and built environment. Bright's work with plastic, checkered bags—often linked to migrants around the world—combines the material with crushed glass to critically address the inevitability of migration and loss in our current global climate. In fusing these and other materials, Bright's practice carefully considers the legacy of suppressed histories within inequitable class structures.  Bright (b.1991, Lagos, Nigeria) received her LL. B (Hons.) from Babcock University (2014), was called to the Nigerian Bar Association (2015) and received her MFA in Fine Art (Hons.) from the Parsons School of Design (2018). Bright has exhibited work both internationally and nationally. Solo and group exhibitions include: Rockhaven, moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL (2022); Undercurrents, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN (2022); Bode Projects, Berlin, Germany (2022); Phillips, New York, NY (2021); Welancora Gallery, New York, NY (2021); Mike Adenuga Centre, Lagos, Nigeria (2021); Anthony Gallery, Chicago, IL (2021); Parts & Labor, New York, NY (2020); Meyerhoff Gallery at MICA, Baltimore, MD (2020); Untitled AWCA, Lagos, Nigeria (2019); Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL (2019); and Smack Mellon, New York, NY (2019), among others. In fall of 2023 Bright's work will be included in A Two Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA. She is the recipient of honors and awards including the UrbanGlass Winter Scholarship Award (2021/2020), the International Sculpture Center's 2018 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award (2018), and the Beyoncé Formation Finalist Scholarship (2017). Previous residencies include Tyler School of Glass, Philadelphia, PA; Art Cake Residency in Brooklyn, NY; NXTHVN Fellowship in New Haven, CT; Triangle, Brooklyn, NY; Flux Factory, Queens, NY; The Studios at Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA; Tritryagain Studio Residency, Brooklyn, NY; International Studio Center Sculpture Residency at Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton Township, NJ. Bright lives and works in New York, NY. Photo credit: Daniel Greer Artist https://layobright.com/ moniquemeloche https://www.moniquemeloche.com/ Welancora Gallery https://www.welancoragallery.com/artists/38-layo-bright/works/ Superposition Gallery http://superpositiongallery.com/layo-bright Museum of Glass https://www.museumofglass.org/a-two-way-mirror ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/market/art-basel-hong-kong-2023-best-booths-1234661821/ ArtReview https://artreview.com/discover-arcuals-pioneering-blockchain-technology/ Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-best-booths-art-basel-miami-beach-2022 okayafrica https://www.okayafrica.com/layo-bright-interview/ Bode Gallery https://bode.gallery/artists/109-layo-bright/overview/

Episode 4 interviews Laura Weyl on motherhood, photography, feminism, and all the juicy stuff! Laura Weyl aka Metagasm is a New York City based filmmaker, photographer, and multi-media artist. Her art explores sexuality, the urban landscape, and analog image manipulations to create visceral, poetic visual worlds. She been exhibited in galleries and event spaces including Art Basel Miami/ HG Contemporary, Mana Contemporary, Karst Gallery, Untitled Space, Franklin Street Works, Superchief Gallery NYC, and Domicile Gallery LA. She has large scale public murals in London and has served as Director of Visual Identity for The Box NYC and London since 2016. Laura studied Media Arts at Wellesley college.

Dan Perkins lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA from American University. His paintings channel architectural motifs that connote space: crossing through a threshold, gazing through a window, passing from one plane to another. However the spaces depicted sit in an ethereal haze, where color and form are primary. Scale, time and space are all negotiable, up to the viewer to frame and understand. He has shown at Deanna Evans Projects, Sperone Westwater, Hashimoto Contemporary, Launch F18, Mana Contemporary, and elsewhere. His work is held in the collections of Capital One, Fidelity Investments, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Katzen Museum of American University, as well as in many private collections. His work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, Booooooom, Wired Italia, Art of Choice, Archive 00, Two Coats of Paint, Artsy, ArtMaze Mag, and the Washington Post. Lunar Archway, 2022, oil on panel, 50'' x 40'' Pearl, 2022, oil on panel, 36'' x 30'' Red Star, 2022, oil on panel, 36'' x 30''

Gloria Pacis is a painter dividing her time between New York City and Hoboken, where she has her studio. She received her BFA from the University of Washington in 1976. She credits her years working as a set designer and scene artist for the dramatic, character-based elements of her paintings. She has participated in exhibitions at public institutions and universities, including Wing Luke Museum, Mana Contemporary, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Monroe Arts Centre, Seattle University, Act Theatreand Seattle Center Art Museum, where her work was chosen to showcase International Women's Day. She has designed sets for many leading theatres, including notable productions of A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, The Doctors Dilemma, Hedda Gabler, and Salome."I just feel there is already a connection, something I have to come to, but that I'm trying to search it out or see what's already there. I feel that we are truly connected as a world. And I'm just trying to make people aware of an existing connection we already have, to send that message out there. And I like to do it in the form of...I guess you'd call it a mundane image, where it's not really about bells and whistles, but it's about something in it makes you want to look, and you want to know why. And it's because you've been there before, regardless of whether you are a dancer or that particular guy in the subway, you know you've been in his head in that mood that he's experiencing."IG @gloriapaciswww.artofgloriapacis.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

"I just feel there is already a connection, something I have to come to, but that I'm trying to search it out or see what's already there. I feel that we are truly connected as a world. And I'm just trying to make people aware of an existing connection we already have, to send that message out there. And I like to do it in the form of...I guess you'd call it a mundane image, where it's not really about bells and whistles, but it's about something in it makes you want to look, and you want to know why. And it's because you've been there before, regardless of whether you are a dancer or that particular guy in the subway, you know you've been in his head in that mood that he's experiencing."Gloria Pacis is a painter dividing her time between New York City and Hoboken, where she has her studio. She received her BFA from the University of Washington in 1976. She credits her years working as a set designer and scene artist for the dramatic, character-based elements of her paintings. She has participated in exhibitions at public institutions and universities, including Wing Luke Museum, Mana Contemporary, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Monroe Arts Centre, Seattle University, Act Theatreand Seattle Center Art Museum, where her work was chosen to showcase International Women's Day. She has designed sets for many leading theatres, including notable productions of A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, The Doctors Dilemma, Hedda Gabler, and Salome.IG @gloriapaciswww.artofgloriapacis.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcastImage: The Dancers, Acrylic on canvas, Gloria Pacis

"I've always been fascinated by the interaction of people and why they say and do the things they do. And I could see how theater impacted my work because actually, I have a broad brush when I paint, mainly. And it gets kind of fuzzy as you get close, but as you go further, you see things. That's the discipline of the theater. You're painting up close, but for an image that can be seen from a distance, from the last chair in the theater. So that's kind of my thing.I've got to say, I'm particularly interested in murder mysteries myself. Because murder mysteries, more than any other story, they answer the question: why did this guy do this? And that's what I like, to answer the questions of why people act the way they do it. Now you can find that regardless of what the theatrical production is about. I tend to like classic stuff, but I can't imagine a more fascinating topic than people and what moves them. What makes them act the way they do? I just can't think of anything more interesting. And the goal of my work in particular is to make people just stop enough to look at it and then be reminded of themselves a little bit in what they're looking at, regardless of what they look like compared to the image. And that's it. Sometimes I'm just sitting at a coffee shop, watching people and trying to invent stories. It's just a fascination for me."Gloria Pacis is a painter dividing her time between New York City and Hoboken, where she has her studio. She received her BFA from the University of Washington in 1976. She credits her years working as a set designer and scene artist for the dramatic, character-based elements of her paintings. She has participated in exhibitions at public institutions and universities, including Wing Luke Museum, Mana Contemporary, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Monroe Arts Centre, Seattle University, Act Theatreand Seattle Center Art Museum, where her work was chosen to showcase International Women's Day. She has designed sets for many leading theatres, including notable productions of A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, The Doctors Dilemma, Hedda Gabler, and Salome.IG @gloriapaciswww.artofgloriapacis.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcastImage: Men, Acrylic on Canvas, Gloria Pacis

Gloria Pacis is a painter dividing her time between New York City and Hoboken, where she has her studio. She received her BFA from the University of Washington in 1976. She credits her years working as a set designer and scene artist for the dramatic, character-based elements of her paintings. She has participated in exhibitions at public institutions and universities, including Wing Luke Museum, Mana Contemporary, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Monroe Arts Centre, Seattle University, Act Theatreand Seattle Center Art Museum, where her work was chosen to showcase International Women's Day. She has designed sets for many leading theatres, including notable productions of A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, The Doctors Dilemma, Hedda Gabler, and Salome."I've always been fascinated by the interaction of people and why they say and do the things they do. And I could see how theater impacted my work because actually, I have a broad brush when I paint, mainly. And it gets kind of fuzzy as you get close, but as you go further, you see things. That's the discipline of the theater. You're painting up close, but for an image that can be seen from a distance, from the last chair in the theater. So that's kind of my thing.I've got to say, I'm particularly interested in murder mysteries myself. Because murder mysteries, more than any other story, they answer the question: why did this guy do this? And that's what I like, to answer the questions of why people act the way they do it. Now you can find that regardless of what the theatrical production is about. I tend to like classic stuff, but I can't imagine a more fascinating topic than people and what moves them. What makes them act the way they do? I just can't think of anything more interesting. And the goal of my work in particular is to make people just stop enough to look at it and then be reminded of themselves a little bit in what they're looking at, regardless of what they look like compared to the image. And that's it. Sometimes I'm just sitting at a coffee shop, watching people and trying to invent stories. It's just a fascination for me."IG @gloriapaciswww.artofgloriapacis.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

"Sometimes I'll paint images of people watching a parade go by, but nobody takes the pictures of the crowd watching. And just to focus the attention on: this is what you're missing. I like to do stuff like that. And it's just to draw attention to an aspect of humanity that I'm just trying to make people pay attention to, that's all. Like sometimes walking through Times Square, you see all the razzle-dazzle, and then every once in a while you see a dilapidated little section of Times Square. And I'm going: look at that. That's a good...nobody's noticing that. I don't know what it is, my fascination for just zeroing in on stuff that nobody will look at, but I just like that, you know. I'd like to say that another artist I like is Rothko. And my opinion about him is that I just can't help but get sucked into his pictures. I just stare there for the longest time. Everybody has moved on, and I'm sucked in. I want to achieve something to stick people in that place. Just keep them still for a second."Gloria Pacis is a painter dividing her time between New York City and Hoboken, where she has her studio. She received her BFA from the University of Washington in 1976. She credits her years working as a set designer and scene artist for the dramatic, character-based elements of her paintings. She has participated in exhibitions at public institutions and universities, including Wing Luke Museum, Mana Contemporary, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Monroe Arts Centre, Seattle University, Act Theatreand Seattle Center Art Museum, where her work was chosen to showcase International Women's Day. She has designed sets for many leading theatres, including notable productions of A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, The Doctors Dilemma, Hedda Gabler, and Salome.IG @gloriapaciswww.artofgloriapacis.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

Gloria Pacis is a painter dividing her time between New York City and Hoboken, where she has her studio. She received her BFA from the University of Washington in 1976. She credits her years working as a set designer and scene artist for the dramatic, character-based elements of her paintings. She has participated in exhibitions at public institutions and universities, including Wing Luke Museum, Mana Contemporary, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Monroe Arts Centre, Seattle University, Act Theatreand Seattle Center Art Museum, where her work was chosen to showcase International Women's Day. She has designed sets for many leading theatres, including notable productions of A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, The Doctors Dilemma, Hedda Gabler, and Salome."Sometimes I'll paint images of people watching a parade go by, but nobody takes the pictures of the crowd watching. And just to focus the attention on: this is what you're missing. I like to do stuff like that. And it's just to draw attention to an aspect of humanity that I'm just trying to make people pay attention to, that's all. Like sometimes walking through Times Square, you see all the razzle-dazzle, and then every once in a while you see a dilapidated little section of Times Square. And I'm going: look at that. That's a good...nobody's noticing that. I don't know what it is, my fascination for just zeroing in on stuff that nobody will look at, but I just like that, you know. I'd like to say that another artist I like is Rothko. And my opinion about him is that I just can't help but get sucked into his pictures. I just stare there for the longest time. Everybody has moved on, and I'm sucked in. I want to achieve something to stick people in that place. Just keep them still for a second."IG @gloriapaciswww.artofgloriapacis.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

Gloria Pacis is a painter dividing her time between New York City and Hoboken, where she has her studio. She received her BFA from the University of Washington in 1976. She credits her years working as a set designer and scene artist for the dramatic, character-based elements of her paintings. She has participated in exhibitions at public institutions and universities, including Wing Luke Museum, Mana Contemporary, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Monroe Arts Centre, Seattle University, Act Theatreand Seattle Center Art Museum, where her work was chosen to showcase International Women's Day. She has designed sets for many leading theatres, including notable productions of A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, The Doctors Dilemma, Hedda Gabler, and Salome.“And I try to make my figures not so gender-specific necessarily. Sometimes you can guess, but the image on the left was actually a man. You can't tell really. And the right one was a woman, but the idea that they could be the same person is...I'm just very fascinated also by the whole idea of what gender is because in my head I'm kind of masculine. I don't comport myself as transgender or anything, but I think I operate in the world like a male in a lot of respects. And I just want to bring that out that I think a lot of people do this. They're not, they might look female, act male in a certain way, under a certain spectrum. It's a very fascinating age we live in. It's as if we're just being made aware of all these things that were already there. That we are on the spectrum of things, on the spectrum of female, on the spectrum of male. And then we look a certain way outwardly that's all that is. I think I'm basically, heterosexual female is what I still do, but I know when I'm just by myself, I don't even think of myself as a pronoun. I just think, Hey, this is…I am me in the world doing me things.”IG @gloriapaciswww.artofgloriapacis.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

“And I try to make my figures not so gender-specific necessarily. Sometimes you can guess, but the image on the left was actually a man. You can't tell really. And the right one was a woman, but the idea that they could be the same person is...I'm just very fascinated also by the whole idea of what gender is because in my head I'm kind of masculine. I don't comport myself as transgender or anything, but I think I operate in the world like a male in a lot of respects. And I just want to bring that out that I think a lot of people do this. They're not, they might look female, act male in a certain way, under a certain spectrum. It's a very fascinating age we live in. It's as if we're just being made aware of all these things that were already there. That we are on the spectrum of things, on the spectrum of female, on the spectrum of male. And then we look a certain way outwardly that's all that is. I think I'm basically, heterosexual female is what I still do, but I know when I'm just by myself, I don't even think of myself as a pronoun. I just think, Hey, this is…I am me in the world doing me things.”Gloria Pacis is a painter dividing her time between New York City and Hoboken, where she has her studio. She received her BFA from the University of Washington in 1976. She credits her years working as a set designer and scene artist for the dramatic, character-based elements of her paintings. She has participated in exhibitions at public institutions and universities, including Wing Luke Museum, Mana Contemporary, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Monroe Arts Centre, Seattle University, Act Theatreand Seattle Center Art Museum, where her work was chosen to showcase International Women's Day. She has designed sets for many leading theatres, including notable productions of A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, The Doctors Dilemma, Hedda Gabler, and Salome.IG @gloriapaciswww.artofgloriapacis.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

Gloria Pacis is a painter dividing her time between New York City and Hoboken, where she has her studio. She received her BFA from the University of Washington in 1976. She credits her years working as a set designer and scene artist for the dramatic, character-based elements of her paintings. She has participated in exhibitions at public institutions and universities, including Wing Luke Museum, Mana Contemporary, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Monroe Arts Centre, Seattle University, Act Theatreand Seattle Center Art Museum, where her work was chosen to showcase International Women's Day. She has designed sets for many leading theatres, including notable productions of A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, The Doctors Dilemma, Hedda Gabler, and Salome."It's because I consider life a dance, really. A dance. Some dancers are clunky, and some dancers are graceful, but it's a dance, a compromise, a puzzle, kind of, and it just has a lot of elements that I can draw comparisons with life. You know, the dance of the planets. There are so many dances all the time, all around us. And do you know what they're all saying? Yes, no, maybe...but that's what we're in. And we're trying to figure out why are we here? Why do I have to do this dancing? And what's animating me? I just like the way there are a lot of analogies between life and dance, between the way people interact. You know, people who are not dancers. I just like that. Lines can be drawn between regular life and dancing. But also the advantage that this art has over dance is it freezes the moment. A moment you miss because time goes by and the dancer has got to keep moving, but you miss something unless somebody freezes it."IG @gloriapaciswww.artofgloriapacis.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

"It's because I consider life a dance, really. A dance. Some dancers are clunky, and some dancers are graceful, but it's a dance, a compromise, a puzzle, kind of, and it just has a lot of elements that I can draw comparisons with life. You know, the dance of the planets. There are so many dances all the time, all around us. And do you know what they're all saying? Yes, no, maybe...but that's what we're in. And we're trying to figure out why are we here? Why do I have to do this dancing? And what's animating me? I just like the way there are a lot of analogies between life and dance, between the way people interact. You know, people who are not dancers. I just like that. Lines can be drawn between regular life and dancing. But also the advantage that this art has over dance is it freezes the moment. A moment you miss because time goes by and the dancer has got to keep moving, but you miss something unless somebody freezes it."Gloria Pacis is a painter dividing her time between New York City and Hoboken, where she has her studio. She received her BFA from the University of Washington in 1976. She credits her years working as a set designer and scene artist for the dramatic, character-based elements of her paintings. She has participated in exhibitions at public institutions and universities, including Wing Luke Museum, Mana Contemporary, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Monroe Arts Centre, Seattle University, Act Theatreand Seattle Center Art Museum, where her work was chosen to showcase International Women's Day. She has designed sets for many leading theatres, including notable productions of A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, The Doctors Dilemma, Hedda Gabler, and Salome.IG @gloriapaciswww.artofgloriapacis.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

"I just feel there is already a connection, something I have to come to, but that I'm trying to search it out or see what's already there. I feel that we are truly connected as a world. And I'm just trying to make people aware of an existing connection we already have, to send that message out there. And I like to do it in the form of...I guess you'd call it a mundane image, where it's not really about bells and whistles, but it's about something in it makes you want to look, and you want to know why. And it's because you've been there before, regardless of whether you are a dancer or that particular guy in the subway, you know you've been in his head in that mood that he's experiencing."Gloria Pacis is a painter dividing her time between New York City and Hoboken, where she has her studio. She received her BFA from the University of Washington in 1976. She credits her years working as a set designer and scene artist for the dramatic, character-based elements of her paintings. She has participated in exhibitions at public institutions and universities, including Wing Luke Museum, Mana Contemporary, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Monroe Arts Centre, Seattle University, Act Theatreand Seattle Center Art Museum, where her work was chosen to showcase International Women's Day. She has designed sets for many leading theatres, including notable productions of A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, The Doctors Dilemma, Hedda Gabler, and Salome.IG @gloriapaciswww.artofgloriapacis.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcastImage: The Dancers, Acrylic on canvas, Gloria Pacis

Over the last two decades I've coordinated, participated, and volunteered at over 100,000* art and craft festivals, fairs, markets, and tabling events. Having just come back from a weekend at the mdwfair (artist run art fair at Mana Contemporary in Chicago, IL) it got me thinking about the role of fairs in fest in my -- and your businesses. Why do a fair at all? What is the best fit for your creative practice/business? How do you do one well? What can success at a fair look like? *completely made up number, it's just what it feels like. Get the Shownotes & Free Market Worksheet at: Episode 11 Show Notes Podcast Archive at: http://www.craftleftovers.com/podcast Visit Craft Leftovers.com for show notes, pattern links, and the whole Craft Leftovers Podcast series.  Like, subscribe, and leave a review to support the Craft Leftovers podcast project. 

Ep.126 features Shuli Sadé. Her cross-disciplinary artwork blends theory and practice with a focus on memory, space, and urbanism. work creates maps of urban memory, reflecting the DNA of a city. Sadé mixes mediums including photography, videography, augmented reality, site-specific installations, sculpture, and drawing. Sadé received the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, (2014), and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1991) among other grants. She has taught and lectured at the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture, Parsons School of Design, Columbia University, Barnard College, and Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Her work is represented by Galleria Ethra, Mexico City. She lives in NYC and works at her studio at Mana Contemporary, NJ. She had collaborated with neural scientists at the Neurobiology of Cognition Laboratory, New York University, and with architects and designers across the US. Sadé's recent site-specific murals artworks are permanently installed in several locations in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Boston, North Carolina, New Jersey, and others. Currently, she won a competition to create a mural for City Hall in Huntsville, Alabama. Her recent exhibitions include Bird's Eye View, an AR Public Art Installation sponsored by Battery Park City, NYC, 2022, Upstream Downstream, an AR Public Art Installation sponsored by Riverside Park, NYC, Fluid Formations at Gensler DC, (2019), Wild Heterotopias, AR installation at the High Line Nine Galleries and along the High Line, (2019), Solid Red, Galleria Ethra, Mexico City, (2018) Day Dreams, AR installation at Montefiore Medical Center, the Bronx, NY (2017). Artist https://www.shulisade.com/ Mana Contemporary https://www.manacontemporary.com/editorial/the-art-of-shuli-sade/ https://www.manacontemporary.com/artists/shuli-sade Galeria Ethra http://galeriaethra.com/ Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/727467/shuli-sade-augmented-reality-reveals-birds-battery-park-city-waterfront/ Time Out https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/an-interactive-art-installation-is-virtually-transforming-battery-park-city-into-a-bird-paradise-042222 Riverside Park NYC https://riversideparknyc.org/meet-the-regrowth-artists-shuli-sade/ New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/arts/augmented-reality-exhibitions.html Fenton Lab https://capitel.humanitas.edu.mx/la-joya-de-singapur-2/ https://www.fentonlab.com/the-space Bird's Eye View https://calendar.aiany.org/2022/09/23/installation-tour-birds-eye-view-ar-with-shuli-sad%C3%A9/ Montefiore https://montefiorefineartprogram.squarespace.com/shuli-sade AICF https://aicf.org/artist/shuli-sade/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/shulisade Downtown NY https://downtownny.com/event/public-art-opening-shuli-sade-birds-eye-view/ CODAworx https://www.codaworx.com/projects/evolving-formations/

On this episode Whitney & Dennissa share their experience being a part of the MDW Fair at Mana Contemporary. They represented The Martin and themselves as individual artists by performing a durational relational performance titled ADVICE / ENCOURAGEMENT. They chat about the performance, galleries and experiences they loved, and the ups and downs of the weekend overall. PEOPLE + PLACES + PROJECTS MENTIONED MdW Fair Block Club WBEZ Mana Contemporary SpaCore Jude Gallery LOCUS Night Club Inga Books Mayfield The Collective Mending Sessions Chuquimarca Frank Vega Latitude Wormfarm Institute CV Peterson The Franklin Outdoor Chicago Art Department Marylu E. Herrera Galina Shevchenko Alonso Galue SHOUTOUTS The Bear Lauren Ike Queens & Queers - Dennissa's episode! FOLLOW US Whitney LaMora Dennissa Young DttCS Instagram The Martin

This week, Elise talks with Devyn Briggs & Katie Hovencamp about their work in the community and how it ties to their personal art practices.Katie Hovencamp received her BFA from Arizona State University in 2009 and her MFA from the Pennsylvania State University in 2014. Hovencamp has exhibited her work in numerous exhibitions within the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her work has been reviewed in Sculpture Magazine, Chicago Reader, and several online and print publications. She was the recipient of the Outstanding Student Achievement Award for Contemporary Sculpture in 2014 and the University Graduate Fellowship at the Pennsylvania State University in 2012. Hovencamp has participated in residency programs at Vermont Studio Center, Serde Interdisciplinary artist group in Latvia, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland. In 2016, she was awarded an artist residency with International Sculpture Center at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ. She has taught at various institutions such as the Edna Vihel Center for the Arts, Totts Gap Art Institute, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Area Community College, Keystone College, and Northampton Community College.Devyn Briggs grew up in Bethlehem, PA and studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. She studied drawing, painting, sculpture, fiber arts, and ceramics and earned a BFA with a major in Ceramics in 2013. She then earned a masters degree in the Business of Art and Design, studying creative entrepreneurship before opening a studio at the Banana Factory in Bethlehem, PA. In addition to making art, Devyn is an educator and arts activist dedicated to fostering equity and inclusion within the Lehigh Valley arts community. She has worked in numerous areas of the arts world including fine art collection management, creative start-ups, community and public art, and non-profit management. She currently works at Northampton Community College as a Career Readiness Specialist, empowering students to start successful careers, and as an adjunct instructor in the art department. She previously served on CACLV's Color Outside the Lines Quality of Life Committee and as an advisory board member of the Guild of Creative Citizens, a non-profit dedicated to arts equity in the Lehigh Valley. She is an active member of the Juneteenth Lehigh Valley Steering Committee and African American Business Leaders Council Events Committee. You can follow Katie on Instagram @katiehovencamp or visit her website at www.katiehovencamp.com.You can Follow Devyn on Instagram @devynlenor or by visiting her website at www.devynlenorbriggs.com.

Welcome to the next episode of NorCal and Shill today's guest is Jeff Frost. You can find him on Twitter @Jeff_Frost. His website is frostjeff.com and his Instagram is @frostjeff.Jeff uses time and sound as his two primary mediums often expressed through a number of sub mediums, including painting photography, video and installation. Frost's work has been shown at Mana Contemporary, his own Desert X installation, California Museum of Photography, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster (MOAH), Museum of Sonoma County, the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Center for European Nuclear Research (CERN), in Los Angeles International Airport, among many others.  He has won numerous awards at international film festivals, including Clarmont-Ferrand, international film festival, and ECU, the European independent film festival. He was both a producer and subject of the 2017 docu-series fire chasers. That same year, he contributed to the national geographic series One Strange Rock.In 2015, he was commissioned to create art for U2's acclaimed international tour Innocence+Experience. He has been featured in numerous publications and TV interviews, such as the New York Times, Art Forum, Art Net, National Ggeographic, PBS News Hour, Time Magazine, and American Photo. His work has been described as "celestial light paintings" by co-founder of Google earth, Chikai Ohazama.  You can find his work on SuperRare and Foundation.Links:Twitter Jeff FrostInstagramhttps://www.frostjeff.com/SuperRareFoundationVimeo Jeff Frost "Circle of Abstract Ritual"

Sam Cannon is an artist and director based in NYC & LA. Occupying a space at the cross-section of photography, video, experiential and performance, Cannon has produced projection installations, live performances, large-scale prints, and sculptures. She's mounted exhibitions at Art Basel Miami Beach, Mana Contemporary and SPRING/BREAK Art Fair, and has been named one of The Impression Magazine's “50 Female Creatives Representing the Next Generation of Talent" (which, in fact, she very much is!). On today's episode, Sam and I talk about how she first got into video, what it looks like to balance acting as both director and subject in her work, her perspective on screens and how her art often occupies them, and the inspiration behind her 2021 performance, 'Thinking about Getting into 3D.' Sam is a true visionary. Enjoy the listen! MORE SAM: Sam's Instagram: instagram.com/samcannon/ Sam's Website: sam-cannon.com Thinking About Getting Into 3D: instagram.com/thinkingaboutgettinginto3D/ MORE CREATIVE JUICY: Michelle's Instagram: instagram.com/mich_wainwright/ Visit CreativeJuicyPodcast.com for show notes, transcripts and more. Say hello to Michelle: creativejuicypodcast@gmail.com

Full Episode link hereThis week we caught up with artist and Wyzendale collaborator Hope Wang in her studio at Mana Contemporary. Hope takes us through her involvement with Chicago Textile Week and their initiatives that happened this year in 2021. This year Hope also was part of the Praxis Fiber Workshop Digital Weaving Artist-In-Residence Program in Cleveland, OH. Have a listen on her insights and a peek at her work. Also check out the links below for more information and pieces available!

Moishe Mana is a billionaire businessman and real estate developer. Originally from Israel, Mana emigrated to the US in 1983, where he founded his first business, Moishe's Moving Systems. He started further businesses including GRM Document Management, the country's third largest document storage business, Milk Studios, a media and entertainment conglomerate, and Mana Contemporary, an art center. He was one of the founders of some of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, The Meat Packing District in New York and Wynwood in Miami.

Full Episode Link Here21 WK 38 - For our first podcast outside of the Mart in Chicago, we hop over to the Mana Contemporary and catch up with Owner and Fashion Designer of Production Mode, Jamie Hayes. Jamie talks us through her pivots when the pandemic started, from her mask production to Designing for other brands. We cannot talk about textiles and fashion without mentioning her trips to NYC. Jamie also speaks on her music side and some establishments in Chicago. You can find more of her work in the links below: https://www.productionmodechicago.com/

I had the amazing opportunity to chat with New York-based artist Clarity Haynes, known for her work with the Breast Portrait Project, a social practice project started in LGBTQ and feminist communities which feature a series of torso paintings.    Clarity Haynes is a queer feminist New York-based artist and writer whose painting practice centers on the body, queer feminist resistance, and the archive. Her work has been widely exhibited, including at Denny Dimin Gallery in New York, presented by New Discretions; the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University; and Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ.    Clarity has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Corporation of Yaddo. Her work has been reviewed in ArtForum, the New York Times, Hyperallergic, and the New Yorker. She has also written about art for BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic and ArtNews.     LINKS:  https://clarityhaynes.com/home.html https://www.instagram.com/alesbiangaze/ https://twitter.com/clarityhaynes     Artists Mentioned:  https://www.suzanneschireson.com/ http://www.kccrowmaddux.com/ https://lizcollins.com/ https://calebyono.com/home.html     I Like Your Work Links: 2022 Grow Summit: https://www.tjwalshcoaching.com/growsummit Exhibitions Studio Visit Artists I Like Your Work Podcast Instagram Submit Work Observations on Applying to Juried Shows Studio Planner

Welcome welcome to Episode 22! Shamona is in the house! Shamona Stokes is a New Jersey-born artist who works out of her studio at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City. You can find her work at shamonastokes.com. You can find her on Instagram @shamstoked. Not only is her work a playful expression of creative rebirth, she donates partial proceeds of her work to numerous charities and created The Antennae Grant for Women in the Arts in partnership with the Jersey City Arts Council. Follow us on Instagram @theselfconsciousnesspodcast In this episode we refer to: Energetic Bliss, our Jikiden Reiki Shihan, Sharon Bykerk-Lonergan Music Intro: Soul Mates by Jazzinuf & Etymology Records Music Outro: Lo-fi Love Affair (Oliver Nelson Remix) [feat. Nia Brock & Keite Young] by Ishi & Oliver Nelson --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/selfconsciousnesspodcast/message

Welcome welcome to Episode 22! Shamona is in the house! Shamona Stokes is a New Jersey-born artist who works out of her studio at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City. You can find her work at shamonastokes.com. You can find her on Instagram @shamstoked. Not only is her work a playful expression of creative rebirth, she donates partial proceeds of her work to numerous charities and created The Antennae Grant for Women in the Arts in partnership with the Jersey City Arts Council. Follow us on Instagram @theselfconsciousnesspodcast In this episode we refer to: Energetic Bliss, our Jikiden Reiki Shihan, Sharon Bykerk-Lonergan Music Intro: Soul Mates by Jazzinuf & Etymology Records Music Outro: Lo-fi Love Affair (Oliver Nelson Remix) [feat. Nia Brock & Keite Young] by Ishi & Oliver Nelson --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/selfconsciousnesspodcast/message

In this episode, Natalya and Marie are joined by Michael Henry, Dale Kronkright, and Pita Judy Lopez about their collaborative work with the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and Foundation and how they have leveraged institutional resources and mandates to support local community needs. This episode also explores the overlap and integration of traditional knowledge into modern conservation practice and the capacity for technical conservation practice to have impact beyond institutional boundaries. Related links: Mana Contemporary panel discussion on intersectional environmentalism - Thursday 6 May 2021, 6.00EDT https://www.manacontemporary.com/event/intersectional-environmentalism-in-heritage-conservation/ Discovering the Challenges Facing the Preservation of O'Keeffe's Historic Home and Studio in Abiquiu, New Mexico - presentation by Dale Kronkrirght https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L--QuHB0fAM&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=GeorgiaO%27KeeffeMuseum Interview with Pita Lopez https://www.newmexico.org/nmmagazine/articles/post/pita-lopez/ Acequia irrigation in New Mexico https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/acequias Scattergood Design's page on the Abiquiú O'Keeffe House project- The multi-disciplinary team is led by Pamela W. Hawkes FAIA of Scattergood Design and Michael C. Henry PE AIA of Watson & Henry Associates, and core teams members include: Peter Aaslestad, Aaslestad Preservation Consulting, photogrammetry and three-dimensional imagery; Anthony Crosby, adobe conservation; Michael Schuller and Dave Woodham, Atkinson-Noland & Associates, structural engineers; and Dorothy Krotzer, Building Conservation Associates, finishes conservation. https://scattergooddesign.com/project/georgia-okeeffe-house-and-studio/ To share feedback on this content, please reach out to Natalya and Marie at: ECPN.AIC.digitalplatforms@gmail.com

In this episode, Steve and Catherine have the distinct pleasure and honor to interview Luis Sahagun, an amazing artist who is tremendously candid in sharing how he discovered that his artmaking gave him, an undocumented at-risk youth from south of Chicago, a voice. He speaks on how he discovered that he is a creative, how he's received support for being an artist and how sometimes he recieved messages that weren't so supportive. He also shared about his earliest memories of his creative process, leaving a more lucrative design career, and how he learned that exploring and researching the images that came out of his creative process truly helped him process trauma and loss. You will learn on the tough decisions and sacrifices Luis has made to create his art and he speaks on how he teaches children that they too have a voices. Luis has been featured in New American Paintings (Issue #111), and his work was showcased at the International Exposition of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. He has also held residencies at Arquetopia Oaxaca, Roswell New Mexico, Chicago Artist Coalition, Mana Contemporary in Miami, Michigan State University in East Lansing and the Chicago Cultural Center which featured his one-person show, BOTH EAGLE AND SERPENT. Cate White when talking about his show, THE MOUNTAINS WHISPERED AND THE CANYON SANG, says that Luis Sahagun has one of these voices that carries far and wide. His realness allows him to connect with any social group—from the hood to the hills and whatever’s in between. NOTE: This episode has a few adult wordsLuis Sahagun - Website Both Eagle and Serpent - Chicago Cultural CenterChicago Gallery News article about BOTH EAGLE AND SERPENT

Orange Li, who grew up in Taipei and now lives in the United States, is currently creating in her studio at the MANA Contemporary in Jersey City. Her childhood was not always particularly smooth and happy. The memories of her childhood influenced her desire to seek self-identity in society as she grew up. At the age of 27, she decided to leave Taiwan and live in the United States to start a journey to find her most genuine self. Being in a different country, she felt a strong sense of isolation and loneliness, and the hardship of having to struggle in life. Even so, she accepts all the difficulties gladly. These mixed and intense emotions led Orange Li to look directly at the duality of life, including the Yin and Yang, good and evil, life and death, dreams and reality. These have become the themes that continue to emerge in her creations. On the other hand, she has also experienced a huge culture shock, which became an opportunity to expand her visual vocabulary by absorbing different cultures. Her works not only integrate Chinese and Western elements, but also interweave the philosophy, psychology and mythology of the East and the West. Orange’s artwork is a hybrid of culture, a fusion of spirit and science, thus bringing the diversity of life in to create the most avant-garde visual and sensory impact, while trying to eliminate the boundaries between them and move towards Oneness. @li.orange https://www.orangeliart.com As a child, Johnnie Grinder had ventured through the giant labyrinth of tunnels that lay out underneath his city of San Diego; he explored them endlessly and discovered that many of the city’s neighborhoods were connected by side tunnels, which could be accessed through the manhole covers. Later, Grinder headed to U.C. Berkeley to study English literature and anthropology while continuing to fill his sketchbooks and journals. He pursued his MFA in the prestigious animation workshop at UCLA. After spending nearly every waking moment working on his dream worlds, the artist eventually stepped back and began applying his artwork to the canvas and to murals. He painted murals in Prague, Czech Republic, Taipei, Taiwan, and Siem Reap, Cambodia. This led to the completion of Grinder’s first book, The Tunnels of the Mind, and opened him up to the international art scene where he has been commissioned by collectors throughout Asia, Europe, and the U.S. @johnniegrinder https://steam33.squarespace.com #黎橘 #orangeli #johnniegrinder tipntellpodcast@gmail.com Host & Cover Art: Cydney Williams @cydneywilliamsstudio Music: Ian Eckstein @ian_eckstein Producer: Kara Yennaco @karayennaco Producer: Sommer Rusinski @thesomsom Sound Editor: Abigail DeCarlo @abigaildecarlo Social Media: Russell Mcquaid @shook.it.up Closed Captioning: Orange Li Listen on Breaker, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radiopublic, Spotify, Copy RSS, Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, & IGTV Recorded in New Jersey on August 13, 2020 Tip N' Tell™ Cydney Williams Studio LLC

Paul Laster is a writer, editor, independent curator, artist, and lecturer. He is a New York desk editor at ArtAsiaPacific and a contributing editor at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art. He was the founding editor of Artkrush and Artspace; started The Daily Beast's art section; and was previously art editor of Flavorpill and Russell Simmons OneWorld Magazine. He is a frequent contributor to Art & Object, Time Out New York, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Galerie, Sculpture, Architectural Digest, Surface, Garage, New York Observer, Cultured, ArtPulse, Upstate Diary, Conceptual Fine Arts, and has written for Art in America, Artnet, Interview, Paper, Flash Art, Newsweek, Modern Painters, Bomb Magazine, Flatt Magazine, ArtInfo, Avenue, Tema Celeste, amNew York, 99 Percent, Two Coats of Paint and On-Verge. A former Adjunct Curator at New York’s P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1), Laster has organized exhibitions for galleries and nonprofit institutions since 1985. His curatorial projects from the past five years include Santero: Sculptural Works by Jorge A Valdes (2015) at Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn; Adam Frezza & Terri Chaio: Paper Islands (2015) at Humanities Gallery, LIU Brooklyn; A Weekend in the Country (2015) at Magnan Metz Gallery, New York; Maker, Maker (2017) at Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York; Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim (2019) at Outsider Art Fair, Paris; Relishing the Raw: Contemporary Artists Collecting Outsider Art (2020) at Outsider Art Fair, New York; Five Artists, Five Mediums, Five Days – A Curated Selection for One Thing (2020) at Intersect Aspen; An Alternative Canon: Art Dealers Collecting Outsider Art (2020) at Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York; Now's the Time: Eight African Painters (2020) at Scope Immersive; and The Desire for Transparency: Contemporary Artists Working with Glass (2020) at Intersect Chicago. An exhibiting artist, Paul Laster has had 17 solo exhibitions in the United States and Europe, and participated in numerous group shows worldwide. His works are in many public and private collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Art Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art. As a lecturer and visiting critic, Laster has spoken on art and curatorial practices and the use of the Internet and social media for building careers at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Sandberg Institute, New York University, New York’s School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, California Institute of the Arts, Otis Art Institute, University of California in Riverside and Santa Barbara, Florida Atlantic University, Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Brooklyn Museum, National Academy Museum, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Cyan Museum of Art, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Art Omi, Expo Chicago, the Armory Show, Art Chicago, Marc Straus Gallery, New York Academy of Art, Tyler School of Art, Residency Unlimited, Soho Beach House, Rizzoli Bookstore, Wave Hill, ESKFF at Mana Contemporary, Outsider Art Fair, Trestle Art Space, Pioneer Works, Intersect Aspen, Scope Art Fair and Intersect Chicago. Relatedly, Laster worked in Publications (1977-88) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and was Publications Manager (1995-98) at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York. LINKS to writing online: https://www.artandobject.com/authors/paul-laster https://whitehotmagazine.com/contributors/paul-laster/750 https://www.galeriemagazine.com/author/paul-laster/ https://muckrack.com/paul-laster --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Paul Weiner (he/him) joins to discuss his process of creating abstract art, how the themes and iconography of our current moment are showing up in his work, and about how online culture can fuel some of our most intense rhetoric and deepen trenches. We also do a post-mortem analysis of the 2020 election cycle and think forward to what will happen in 2021 and beyond. Paul Weiner is a 27-year-old artist who makes abstract paintings imbued with political and social meaning. Many of Weiner's violently obscured and distressed artworks grapple with the contemporary identity and history of the United States. He also makes sculptures, prints, and drawings that contain a library of political and cultural symbols. Aside from abstraction, his work is best known for addressing the American flag and the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, which occurred in his hometown. Weiner's recent text drawings address the COVID-19 pandemic, American activism's relationship to power, and social media's role in contemporary culture. Weiner's recent solo exhibitions include venues such as Krupic Kersting Gallery in Cologne, Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art in Houston, Carthage College in Kenosha, Long Road Projects in Jacksonville, and TWFINEART in Brisbane. His work was included in group exhibitions at Pablo's Birthday in New York, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art in Georgia, Museo Jumex in Mexico City, se! rum in Denmark, Delphian Gallery in London, Arvada Center in Colorado, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein in Germany, Re: Art in Brooklyn, Marquee Projects in Bellport, New York, and Mana Contemporary in Chicago among many others. He recently completed a commission of multiple paintings for Kehinde Wiley at the Black Rock Senegal residency. Follow Paul on Instagram: @poweiner Check out Paul's Website. ...and… Trumpy Bear

Episode Thirty-Six features Francks Francois Deceus. He was born in Cap-Haitian, Haiti 1966. He currently resides and maintains a studio in Brooklyn, NY. Deceus received a B.A. in Sociology from Long Island University, NY in 1992 and studied Printmaking at Atlantis Arts Atelier, Gentily, France in 2007. His solo exhibitions include the Pounder-Kone Art Space, Los Angeles; Tilford Art Group, Los Angeles, CA. Group exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum, NY; Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts (MOCADA), Brooklyn, NY; The National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis TN; Hampton University, Hampton, VA; Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ; Prizm Art Fair Miami FL; Fridman Art Gallery, NY, NY; Gallery M, NY, NY. The works of Deceus have entered numerous public collections, including Xavier University, New Orleans, LA and the Schomburg Center, New York Public Library, NY. His work has been featured in publications such as Artillery Magazine, the International Revue of African-American Art, and The Village Voice. www.deceusart.com https://mocada.org/2020/04/28/digital-gallery-francks-deceus/ https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/FRANCKS-DECEUS-(1966----)-Pilgrimage-14?saleno=2535&lotNo=181&refNo=767372 https://www.instyle.com/lifestyle/girls-in-the-window-recreated?utm_source=emailshare&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share-longform&utm_content=20200809

Playwright Sabrina Mahfouz, sitting in for Michael Rosen, talks about the provocative language of protest slogans with artist Zoe Buckman and writer Siana Bangura. Image copyright : Greg Morrison Sabrina Mahfouz is a writer and performer, raised in London and Cairo. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) and resident writer at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Her most recent theatre show was A History of Water in the Middle East (Royal Court) and her most recent publications as editor include Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making it Happen (Saqi) and Poems From a Green and Blue Planet (Hachette Children's). Siana Bangura: sianabangura.com @Sianaarrgh Siana Bangura is a writer, producer, performer and community organiser hailing from South East London, now living, working, and creating between London and the West Midlands. Siana is the founder and former editor of Black British Feminist platform, No Fly on the WALL; she is the author of poetry collection, ‘Elephant’; and the producer of ‘1500 & Counting’, a documentary film investigating deaths in custody and police brutality in the UK. Siana works and campaigns on issues of race, class, and gender and their intersections and is currently working on projects focusing on climate change, the arms trade, and state violence. Her recent works include the short film 'Denim' and the play, 'Layila!'. Across her vast portfolio of work, Siana’s mission is to help move marginalised voices from the margins, to the centre. Zoe Buckman: zoebuckman.com Zoë Buckman (b. 1985 Hackney, East London) is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, and photography, exploring themes of Feminism, mortality, and equality. Notable solo shows have included No Bleach Thick Enough, at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, Heavy Rag at Fort Gansevoort Gallery New York, Let Her Rave at Gavlak Gallery Los Angeles, Imprison Her Soft Hand at Project for Empty Space, Newark; Every Curve at PAPILLION ART, Los Angeles; and Present Life at Garis & Hahn Gallery, New York. Group shows include those at The Museum of Art and Design NYC, MOCA Virginia, The Camden Arts Centre, London, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Children’s Museum of the Arts, Paul Kasmin Gallery NY, Goodman Gallery South Africa, Jack Shainman Gallery NY, Monique Meloche Chicago, NYU Florence Italy, Grunwald Art Gallery, Indiana University, and the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA and The National Museum of African-American History & Culture, Washington, DC Buckman studied at the International Center of Photography (ICP), was awarded an Art Matters Grant in 2017, The Art Change Maker Award 2019 at The New Jersey Visual Arts Center, and The Art and Social Impact Award 2020 at Baxter St NYC, and completed a residency at Mana Contemporary in 2017. Public works include a mural, We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident, in collaboration with Natalie Frank at the Ford Foundation Live Gallery of New York Live Arts in NYC. In February 2018 Buckman unveiled her first Public Sculpture presented by Art Production Fund on Sunset Blv, Los Angeles, a large scale outdoor version of her neon sculpture Champ, which has been up for three years. Buckman lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Z Behl, b. 1985, is a New York based filmmaker and visual artist. Z’s work in sculpture, performance, and installation has received awards from NYFA, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She has exhibited at ArteBA, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, and CAC New Orleans. Z has been artist-in-residence at Mana Contemporary, Pioneer Works, and MOCA Tucson. Her last solo show at Kai Matsumiya Gallery was covered by the Wall Street Journal, Artnet, and INTERVIEW Magazine. Her debut film, Geppetto, which she wrote, directed and starred in, has received support from Kodak, IFP and the Venice Biennale. A graduate of Wesleyan University (2007), Z is a founding member of the filmmaking collective Court 13. She worked as an artist on Benh Zeitlin’s “Beasts of the Southern Wild” and “Egg.” Z has acted in films by Ray Tintori (Jettison Your Loved Ones), Kentucker Audley (Open Five 2) and Cary Fukunaga’s "Go Forth America." She has Production Designed Music Videos for MGMT and Chairlift (Time to Pretend, Electric Feel, Evident Utensil). www.zbehl.com @zbehl Tip N' Tell tipntellpodcast@gmail.com Host & Cover Art: Cydney Williams @cydneywilliamsstudio Sound & Music: Ian Eckstein @ian_eckstein Listen on Breaker, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radiopublic, Spotify, Copy RSS, Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, & IGTV Recorded at Mana Contemporary, 888 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306 (pre covid-19 pandemic, 2019) Tip N' Tell™ Cydney Williams Studio LLC

Sold Magazine's "Stay at Home" Series with Gary Lichtenstein. Big Ronnie is going one-on-one with street artists from around the world, while we are all staying safe at home. They talk about new opportunities with Urban Pathways, learning from each artist he collaborates with, Mana Contemporary as a home away from home, threads of inspirations to hold onto, and one of our favorite humans; Dave Navarro. Recorded on 5.27.20 Special Guest: Gary Lichtenstein.

Rashad Wright, Poet Laureate of Jersey City, NJ @write_raw @rashadwrightpoetry https://www.amazon.com/Romeos-Whiskey-Rashad-Wright/dp/1732455759 Luke Ivy Price, Sculptor & Painter @lukeivyprice https://www.kismithgallery.com/eros Lauren Bergman, Figurative Narrative Artist @i.m.lauren www.laurenbergman.net Cydney Williams, Artist @cydneywilliamsstudio www.cydneywilliams.com Tip N' Tell tipntellpodcast@gmail.com Host & Cover Art: Cydney Williams @cydneywilliamsstudio Sound & Music: Ian Eckstein @ian_eckstein Listen on Breaker, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radiopublic, Spotify, Copy RSS, Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, & IGTV Recorded at Mana Contemporary, 888 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306 (pre covid-19 pandemic, 2019) Learn more about each artist in episodes 1-3 Tip N' Tell™ Cydney Williams Studio LLC

Lauren Bergman, a painter working in Jersey City, NJ. As a figurative narrative artist Lauren Bergman creates stories in paint that reside at the juncture of myth and social realism. Through her personal language of symbols, the paintings explore both female identity and comment on our shifting political and cultural landscape. Beginning as a high school student, Lauren Bergman was involved in art classes at the Corcoran School of Art. Her talents and mature narratives quickly landed her gallery exhibitions in Washington, D.C. at Capricorn Gallery, exhibiting among renowned American realists, including Burton Silverman and Sondra Freckelton. Bergman’s work has been featured in publications ranging from The New York Times to Juxtapoz Magazine. She has had three solo exhibitions at the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York, which represented her for a decade. Other solo and two-person exhibitions include the Makor Gallery and Tria Gallery in New York and the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles. Her many group shows include Plus One Gallery in London, Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, and Jonathan Levine Gallery and Claire Oliver Fine Art in New York. Bergman grew up in the Washington metro area, where she studied at the Corcoran School of Art. She earned her bachelor’s degree in fine arts and education from the Univeristy of Massachusets at Amherst, graduating summa cum laude, and her master’s degree at Smith College before relocating to Manhattan to study painting and design at FIT and The Art Students League. Bergman now lives in a converted pickled herring factory in the West Village and has a studio at Mana Contemporary. www.laurenbergman.net @i.m.lauren Tip N' Tell tipntellpodcast@gmail.com Host & Cover Art: Cydney Williams @cydneywilliamsstudio Sound & Music: Ian Eckstein @ian_eckstein Listen on Breaker, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radiopublic, Spotify, Copy RSS, Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, & IGTV Recorded at Mana Contemporary, 888 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306 (pre covid-19 pandemic, 2019) Tip N' Tell™ Cydney Williams Studio LLC

Luke Ivy Price, Sculptor & Painter In the summer of 2015, Luke left his jobs at a sawmill and cotton mill, and relocated to New York City to pursue a self-guided “MFA” in contemporary art. He has completed numerous unofficial independent work/studies in the industry: installing exhibitions, delivering works to major institutions and collections, assisting other artists with writing and fabrication, organizing events, consulting, and more. Luke is currently participating in an artist residency preparing works for his first professional solo show. His works are expressionistic figurative abstractions that create erotic narratives. “I want to create images and objects that are the sublime emotional partners to the contemporary intellectual discussion surrounding sexual politics.” A showing of his sculptures and paintings is slated for fall 2020 at the Ki Smith Gallery. https://www.kismithgallery.com/eros @lukeivyprice Tip N' Tell tipntellpodcast@gmail.com Host & Cover Art: Cydney Williams @cydneywilliamsstudio Sound & Music: Ian Eckstein @ian_eckstein Listen on Breaker, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radiopublic, Spotify, Copy RSS, Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, & IGTV Recorded at Mana Contemporary, 888 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306 (pre covid-19 pandemic, 2019) Tip N' Tell™ Cydney Williams Studio LLC

Rashad Wright is the Poet Laureate of Jersey City and the first person to hold this title since 2004. Receiving a BA in Creative Writing from New Jersey City University, he is the only person to be titled the “Grandslam Champion of Jersey City Slam” twice. Rashad has also competed in the 2015 National Poetry Slam in Oakland, California, then again in the 2017 National Poetry Slam in Denver, Colorado. Since 2016, he has coached Jersey City Slam. Also at the 2017 Individual World Poetry Slam in Spokane, Washington, Rashad won 25th in the country. At the 2018 Individual Poetry Slam in San Diego, California, Rashad placed 20th in the country Rashad’s work expands into memoir, fiction, short story, performance art, and music. His work has been published in several online magazines and journals. Please see the link below to his published debut manuscript of Romeo’s Whiskey. https://www.amazon.com/Romeos-Whiskey-Rashad-Wright/dp/1732455759 @write_raw @rashadwrightpoetry Tip N' Tell tipntellpodcast@gmail.com Host & Cover Art: Cydney Williams @cydneywilliamsstudio Sound & Music: Ian Eckstein @ian_eckstein Listen on Breaker, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radiopublic, Spotify, Copy RSS, Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, & IGTV Recorded at Mana Contemporary, 888 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306 (pre covid-19 pandemic, 2019) Tip N' Tell™ Cydney Williams Studio LLC

Rebecca Morgan received a BA from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and her MFA from Pratt Institute, NY. Her work has been covered in The New York Times, Time Out New York, Hyperallergic, ARTnews, Whitehot Magazine, Beautiful Decay, Artslant, Juxtapoz Magazine, The Huffington Post, Paper Magazine, Hyperallergic, and Berlin's Lodown Magazine. She is the recipient of residencies at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, The Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts Residency, a Vermont Studio Center full fellowship, and the George Rickey Residency at Yaddo, among others. Rebecca has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad, with recent exhibitions at BravinLee Projects New York, NY; Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY; Oakland University Art Gallery, Beacon, NY; Western Exhibitions, IL; Mana Contemporary, NJ; Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, NY; The Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; The Hole, NY; MRS Gallery, NY; Marinaro Gallery, NY; Hashimoto Contemporary, CA; Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, NY; Fisher Parrish Gallery, NY; Woskob Family Gallery at Penn State, PA; Knoll Galerie, Austria; Richard Heller Gallery, CA; Children’s Museum of Art, NY; and SPRING/BREAK art fair, NY. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Frederix Canvas, the New York Studio School and Golden Artist Colors.

Sarah Rothberg chats with Gabe about her creative process working as a VR and AR artist, her journey from the world of poetry to interactive media art, how she incorporates memory into her immersive environments, and debates the use of "users" vs. "participants."Check out her latest show opening at bitforms gallery, 131 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002. On view February 06 - March 15, 2020.-About Sarah Rothberg-Sarah Rothberg is an interactive media artist who captures the interplay between technology, systems, and the personal, creating meaning through unique and idiosyncratic experiences that encourage new ways of thinking, understanding, and communicating.Sarah's work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Sotheby's S2 gallery, MUTEK festival, Miami Art Week, and bitforms gallery. She teaches new media at NYU's Interactive Media Arts and Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch.Sarah is a current member at NEW INC’s Experiments in Arts and Technology track (in partnership with Rhizome.org, funded by Bell Labs) Sarah is a adjunct faculty and a "Human-in-Residence" at NYU working on artistic applications of AR, avatar research, and VR as a tool for performance.In the past, she has been an artist-in-residence at Mana Contemporary, Harvestworks, and LMCC with her collective More&More Unlimited, and was an Engadget Alternate Reality Prize awardee. Currently, she is a featured artist in Apple’s [AR]T initiative, for which she co-created an augmented reality art lab that runs at Apple stores around the world.Learn more about Sarah at https://sarahrothberg.com/Follow Sarah @rothbergrothberg

Laura Marsh is a textile artist with a social practice whose work involves installations, weavings, flags, text and other tactile pieces. We discuss her process, the participatory nature of her work, play and fun as a means of accessibility, creating safe spaces, slow reflection, imagining positive futures for ourselves, generosity, hospitality and more.This conversation is one of four interviews, recorded with Orchid.fm, profiling Mana Contemporary artists at 777 Mall during Miami Art Week 2019.

Richard Vergez is a Cuban-American visual and sound artist with a background in graphic design and audio/visual collaboration. We discuss his Art Week installation Weeping Willow, hand-made collage work and sonic compositions. A few themes emerge in the conversation: the value of choice over skill in art, absurdity, nostalgia, the influence of Dada and Fluxus on his work, the importance of creating space in the work (and for ourselves), cutting through excess and more.This conversation is one of four interviews, recorded with Orchid.fm, profiling Mana Contemporary artists at 777 Mall during Miami Art Week 2019.

Jenna Balfe is a performance artist, musician and activist whose work promotes healing connections between self, other and environment. We discuss her current work, softening the lines of our experiences, the importance of movement, tenderness & compassion, remembering our connection to nature and each other, play & imagination and more.This conversation is one of four interviews, recorded with Orchid.fm, profiling Mana Contemporary artists at 777 Mall during Miami Art Week 2019.

Fereshteh Toosi is an artist of Iranian and Azeri ancestry whose work involves embodied experiences, encounter, exchange, and sensory inquiry. We discuss her body of work, including her current project Water Radio: Liquid Intelligence and latest initiative and O, Miami collaboration Reading Camp. Themes that emerge in our discussion include deep listening, the importance of “tuning into” our environments, shared experiences, modes of communication with nature that are beyond the language of words, wonder, imagination and more.This conversation is one of four interviews, recorded with Orchid.fm, profiling Mana Contemporary artists at 777 Mall during Miami Art Week 2019.

Ani Liu uses scientific processes to create art pieces that delve into the diverse aspects of humanity and our ever-evolving culture. These fringe art experiments have taken the form of biologically-modified plants, mind controlled sperm, a "forced" happiness lab (using science to induce positive feelings), and much, much more. Through all these art explorations, Ani questions, in this technologically mediated age, what does it mean to be human?-About Ani Liu-Ani Liu is a research-based artist working at the intersection of art & science. Her work examines the reciprocal relationships between science, technology and their influence on human subjectivity, culture, and identity.Ani's work has been presented internationally, and featured on National Geographic, VICE, Mashable, Gizmodo, TED, Core77, PCMag, FOX and WIRED. Her work has been shown at Ars Electronica, the Queens Museum Biennial, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Asian Art Museum, MIT Museum, MIT Media Lab, Mana Contemporary, Harvard University, and Shenzhen Design Society. She is the winner of the Princeton Arts Fellowship (2019-2021), the S&R Washington Prize (2018), the YouFab Global Creative Awards (1st place, 2018), the Biological Art & Design Award (2017). She is currently teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and is on critique panels at Harvard, Dartmouth, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, NYU, UNC Charlotte, Pratt, Parsons. At MIT, she is on the committee of Art Scholars. Ani has a B.A. from Dartmouth College, a Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Master of Science from MIT Media Lab.Ani continually seeks to discover the unexpected, through playful experimentation, intuition, and speculative storytelling. Her studio is based in New York City. Learn more about Ani at studio@ani-liu.comFollow here @ani.liu.studio

Emilia Olsen was born in South Africa and now she is based out of Brooklyn, New York. She got her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington, DC. She’s had solo shows at Arts & Leisure and Doppelganger Studio both in NY and at Anaba Project in Maryland. She’s had group shows at the Spring Break Art Show, Smoke the Moon in LA, Patrick Parrish in NYC, Juxtapoz Projects at Mana Contemporary, the Independant Art Book Fair, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, Elephant Gallery in Nashville amongst many others. Her work has been covered in Two Coats of Paint, Art Maze, Hyperallergic, the Nashville Scene, Art F City and more. She has work up in a new group show that just opened SPF32 which is open on weekends for view between 2-6pm through July 6th at the old William Ulmer Brewery, 81 Beaver st. in Brooklyn curated by Madeleine Mermall.

I studied painting with Tony Smith at Hunter College but started out studying biochemistry and physics. I really thought of these fields as philosophy: as an illumination of limits and the backdrop for a discussion of humanity's striving to overcome them. This is not meant to describe an interest in myth, be it social or political, but rather an involvement in the elements of thought and the operations that give rise to the structure of understanding. I have exhibited nationally and internationally, and have had many solo exhibitions: Nicholas Davies Gallery, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Hal Bromm Gallery, Minus Space Gallery, University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences, and others in NY and abroad.  A recent exhibition at the J.P.Najar Foundation in Dubai resulted in the purchase of a large work. Likewise a painting shown at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in NYC resulted in a purchase award. Some group exhibitions have been in the Leubsdorf Art Gallery/ Hunter College, Sydney Non Objective/ Australia, Stavanger Kunstmuseum/ Norway, Non- Objectif Sud/ France, American Drawing in the Louisana Museum in Denmark, Stadtishe Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Germany, the MIT List Center in Boston. This year there have been drawings in ‘Flat Out” at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City and “Strange Attractors” at Seton Hall’s Walsh Gallery in NJ. I have received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts (CAPS). The work has been written about in Art Forum, Art in America, The NYTimes, The Brooklyn Rail, ArtSlant and others.Yve Alain Bois has written the catalog essay, “Atoms”, for the exhibition “Linda Francis, Drawings” at Wm Patterson University in 1996. The two books I mentioned during our interview were : “ The Book of Disquiet” by Fernando Pessoa, and My Struggle” by Karl Ove Knausguaard. Neutron Star, 2009, Oil on Wood panel, 72”x72" “We Can Build You”, 2013, oil on wood, 40”x90”. "Homage to Messier”, 1991, 40”x32”, Chalk and eraser on paper.

We join Helice Wen at her SF studio and talk with her about coming from Shenzhen China, studying as an illustrator at the Academy of Art, discussing the possible narrative in her work, expressing drama, sumi ink, and more. We discuss her paintings “Woven” and “Cake(May All Your Wishes Come True)”, sharing more of yourself in the stories you tell about your art, muralling, and Sergio’s Question Corner! Helice shares her “art circus” David Choe Money idea. See her new painting at the "Femme" Group Exhibition at Mana Contemporary March 2019. "Woven" "Cake (May All Your Wishes Come True)" www.helicewen.com "Femme" group show at Mana Contemporary  

In now the third episode of the "Radio Juxtapoz" podcast, editor Evan Pricco and Fifth Wall TV's Doug Gillen get to chat with Muzae Sesay, the great painter based in Oakland, California who has also been featured in the Winter 2019 issue. On the podcast we discuss the idea of home, living in California and Sesay's newest work featured at Pt.2 Gallery in the Juxtapoz Clubhouse. Recorded live at Mana Contemporary, Miami.

In the second episode of the "Radio Juxtapoz" podcast, editor Evan Pricco and Fifth Wall TV's Doug Gillen sit down with legendary street artist and designer Shepard Fairey, who in 2019 will celebrate the 30th anniversary of his Obey Giant project. As Juxtapoz prepared to open the Clubhouse in Downtown Miami, where Shepard's Subliminal Projects will transform a former storefront into an art gallery and tee shirt printing studio, he made time for us to discuss his career, the impact of Juxtapoz and how he sees Obey 30 years in. Recorded live at Mana Contemporary, Miami.

For our Culture Cast at Mana Contemporary we spoke with artist Nick Gilmore (@gilmoreworks), collector Dainy Tapia (@art.seen.365) and artist duo Poncili Creacion (@poncilicreacion) at Mana Contemporary (@manacontemporary). Culture Cast is a collaboration between Laura Marsh, curator at Art and Culture Center Hollywood and BABA Collective. Check out our Culture Cast exhibit with Tamara Despujols at 777 International Mall. NEXT: Culture Cast at UNTITLED art fair, Dec 8, 6pm—6:30pm https://untitledartfairs.com/miami-beach/podcast/live

Ani Liu is an research-based artist working at the intersection of art & science. Her work examines the reciprocal relationships between science, technology and their influence on human subjectivity, culture, and identity. Ani's work has been presented internationally, and featured on National Geographic, VICE, Mashable, Gizmodo, TED, Core77, PCMag, FOX and WIRED. Her work has been shown at Ars Electronica, the Queens Museum Biennial, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Asian Art Museum, MIT Museum, MIT Media Lab, Mana Contemporary, Harvard University, and Shenzhen Design Society.

Into the Woods with Ryan Canvas Hello! Welcome back to Dream a Little Dream, our space to talk about art, life and everything in between. Ryan Canvas is a funny person to speak to and very creative. He is currently doing a residency program at Mana Contemporary. I met Ryan when he submitted his work to the Montclair show that I put on with the Nocturnal Pop Art Collective. If you see his work you will appreciate the colors and the movement within the landscapes. His sculptures and the work he is doing with his residency is a sculptured version of a dream sequence of paintings of his about some animals attempting to make it through the dark part of the woods. You can see this work on October 14th at the Mana Contemporary Cultural Center. There is an event that is happening THIS weekend in Jersey City at Mana Contemporary so come out and check it out – I believe there will be wine- at least in Ryan’s Studio. You can find it on the map at 888 Newark Avenue Jersey City NJ. Show up early and snag yourself a parking space so you can see this amazing installation. I believe it starts at 1pm and goes until 10pm. From the sounds of it I think it will be a rather unique party! You can see more of Ryan’s work here on his website https://www.ryancanvas.com/. You can also follow him on Instagram @ryancanvas. The last quote from him on this recording, which struck me as a kind of fortune or future perception: “I guess that is something to look forward to as you gain more and more exposure, is insight coming in like that” Thank you so much for listening and taking the time to support my podcast. I am grateful for each and every listener and would love to hear from you. Please like, share and comment on this recording to let me know what you are thinking, if you want to join the conversation or know someone who you think would have something to add to this topic. Thank you again for listening and I look forward to your comments and likes! In the meantime, keep following your dreams!

The spot where still photography, video, animation, and drawing on your shoes meet is where you can find Sam Cannon and Matthias Brown. They may not always be together at that spot, but they’re sure to be within shouting distance. On today’s episode of the  B&H Photography Podcast, we discuss the role that still photography plays in their work and how they see the distinctions between still and moving images, as well as between old and new technologies. Matthias Brown is also TraceLoops, an “animation experiment centered around hand-drawn, physical animations that experiments with the creation and perception of movement.” He specializes in stop-motion, black-and-white animation and his work has been commissioned by Converse, MTV, Purina, Warby Parker, and others, and his fine art work has been displayed at the Tate Modern. Sam Cannon is an artist and director who works between still photography and video and focuses on the “manipulation of time, space, and the female form.” Whichever format the final image takes—still, video, GIF—her work asks us to explore the “never-ending” moment. She has produced commercial assignments for Nike, Samsung, and H&M, editorial and fashion pieces, and her fine art work has been exhibited extensively, including at MANA Contemporary, in Jersey City.  True multi-disciplinarians, Cannon and Brown are comfortable with a variety of techniques and art forms; we discuss rotoscopes and oscilloscopes, After Effects and Dragonframe, projection pieces and soap sculptures. We also talk briefly on camera gear, self-portraiture, William Kentridge and, once and for all, we resolve the pronunciation of GIF. Join us for this fun conversation. Guests: Sam Cannon and Matthias Brown Photograph © Matthias Brown  

We made it, we made it to "Episode One Hundred" of the New York Said podcast. If you think that is something to sneeze at then my best advice is for you try it. It's not easy but it is very fulfilling. Today's guest on the show is Shantell Martin. How cool is that? Very. We had the opportunity to stop by Shantell's studio at Mana Contemporary to talk about working with Puma, Kendrick Lamar, Tiffany & Co., living in Japan, making her way to New York, starting over, collaborations, finding the signature in her work, style, perseverance, and being nice. Show Notes: https://www.newyorksaid.com/shantell-martin/

On the eve of the first major exhibition of NEW INC's artists' collaboration with Bell Labs researchers, Marcus Weldon, President of Bell Labs and CTO of Nokia, gives us a sneak peek at what to expect, and how you can view and participate. "Only Human," featuring works and performances by Sougwen Chung, Lisa Park and HAMMERSTEP, opens April 29 at 1PM, kicking off the Spring Open Season at Mana Contemporary arts center in Jersey City, New Jersey. It's Bell Labs' first public-facing event of its kind since the historic "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering" in 1966. The exhibit also includes two galleries full of audio-visual documents from that seminal event. On Saturday May 12, Mana will host a very special symposium entitled "Experiments in Art & Technology—Then & Now." To reserve your free tickets and get more information, go to: http://manacontemporary.com/onlyhuman Future Human is a presentation of Nokia Bell Labs, produced by audiation.fm.

Andria Morales and Rafael Vargas Bernard are artists-in-residence at the historic 777 Mall in Downtown Miami as part of Focus on Puerto Rico, an initiative by Clocktower Productions, Mana Contemporary and MECA International Art Fair. We spoke with Andria and Rafael at the end of their three-month residency which concluded in December, during Art Basel Miami Beach.Andria is a NY-based artist who works with a variety of media, taking a more humorous approach to personal and cultural narratives to explore different aspects of identity. Her sculptures focus on objects that express individuality and her work at 777 explores wearable and portable audio inspired by urban life.Rafael Vargas Bernard is a Puerto Rican-born artist who uses sound, programming, performance, video, painting and drawing to create work that explores functional and nonfunctional systems, such as power structures, as well as societal relationships to these infrastructures. His work at 777 is a response to Hurricane Maria and involves interactive pieces using readily accessible and found materials. Among many things, we discussed their experience at the residency, privacy, community, group dynamics, the unique generosity of their peers and what makes a good learning environment.

Episode date, March 9th, 2017: I speak with Ronna Lebo and Boni Joi -- two of the founders of Black Square Editions. Since 1999, the New York-based imprint has published translations of little-known books from around the world, written by well-known poets and fiction writers, while also handling the work of both emerging and established authors. Black Square is part of the nonprofit, Off The Park Press, which also includes the new imprint, AntiSentiMental Society Press, which is dedicated to publishing work that combines visual art and poetry. Its first published title is Theia Mania, a book of poems by Dallas Athent, illustrated by Maria Pavlovska, and book design by Eve Siegel. The book will have its launch event, featuring live readings by Athent, Anthony Haden-Guest, Chris Campanioni, and Prospero Vega on Sunday April 30th at 3PM at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City. Black Square Editions: blackquareeditions.org Theia Mania - The Last Book Launch on Earth: https://www.facebook.com/events/1874045392884898/ Nomadic Press: nomadicpress.org #talkingpaper #interview #radiofreebrooklyn #poetry #writing #blacksquareeditions #nomadicpress

Notes on Doing's NODcast Episode 040 where Jenna interviews Jason Jaworski. Jason is a photographer, writer, and artist, who has been living a nomadic existence since he was 17. His deeply personal photos, photobooks, exhibitions, and performances have been published, featured, shelved, and shown around the world - the International Center for Photography, MOCA Los Angeles, MoMA PS1, VICE Magazine, Juxtapoz, Bookdummypress, Mana Contemporary, and Opening Ceremony to name a few. Listen to what Jason had to say about meeting the ninja turtles, dropping out of school, living homeless underneath a bridge in Paris, sneaking into Fukushima, chatting with David Foster Wallace, making rain in the Sahara, enduring winter, finding 'something,' and thinking of you. Notes on Doing is a series of conversations with people who love what they do.  notesondoing.com   

NYC Arts Radio covers stories about what is it to BE a visual artist.  This episode highlights an incredible story of collaboration between the well-known New York City based visual artist Ray Smith and the artists and co-founders of MANA Contemporary, Yigal Ozeri and Eugene Lemay.