Podcasts about social practice art

On this episode of The Truth In This Art, I'm excited to share my conversation with Philippa Pham Hughes, a social sculptor, educator, speaker, and writer who designs spaces for honest conversations across political, social, and cultural differences. We explore Philippa's work and her approach to fostering meaningful connections, drawing from the arts and humanities to create these spaces.   We explore Philippa's journey into this work, from her early interest in art and her initial career as a lawyer to her eventual focus on creating experiences that foster connection. Philippa shares her insights on the importance of authentic conversation, the challenges of balancing connection with the influence of technology and social media, and her belief in the power of envisioning a better future to bridge divides. This conversation is an insightful look into the motivations and inspirations behind her work and the ongoing effort to repair the social fabric through dialogue and connection.   If you're interested in social practice art, the power of conversation, or creating more connected communities, this episode is a must-listen. Tune in and discover the engaging work of Philippa Pham Hughes. Host: Rob LeeMusic: Original music by Daniel Alexis Music with additional music from Chipzard and TeTresSeis. Production:Produced by Rob Lee & Daniel AlexisEdited by Daniel AlexisShow Notes courtesy of Rob Lee and TransistorPhotos:Rob Lee photos by Vicente Martin for The Truth In This Art and Contrarian Aquarian Media.Guest photos courtesy of the guest, unless otherwise noted.Support the podcast The Truth In This Art Podcast Fractured Atlas (Fundraising): https://www.fracturedatlas.orgThe Truth In This Art Podcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetruthinthisart.bsky.socialThe Truth In This Art Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/truthinthisart/?hl=enThe Truth In This Art Podcast Website: https://www.thetruthinthisart.com/The Truth In This Art Podcast Shop: Merch from Redbubble ★ Support this podcast ★

Tilke Elkins is an artist, writer, and curator focused on site-specific painting and social practice art. She speaks with Oregon Grapevine host, Barbara Dellenback, about wild pigments, foraging for materials, the relationship of art to the earth, and healthy environmental practices.

Today we welcome poet Kevin McKelvey who joins us to share his ecological, biological, and geological poetry. McKelvey is a place-based poet, writer, designer, and social practice artist. He teaches at the University of Indianapolis and directs the MA in Social Practice Art. His first book, Dream Wilderness Poems, is a poetic trail guide for the Deam Wilderness Area near Bloomington that represents years of exploration in the Hoosier National Forest. Other poems are collected in Indiana Nocturnes, a collaboration on Indiana's urban and rural divide with another native Hoosier, Curtis L. Crisler. McKelvey has been a writer-in-residence in the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon and at Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior. This inspired him to bring this model to Indiana, working with local land trusts to create annual, centuries-long creative and scientific reflections on natural areas, including NICHES Land Trust and ACRES Land Trust. His work in novels, essays, social practice, and placemaking continues to explore the intersections of art, writing, ecology, gardening, food, and farming. McKelvey attended DePauw University in Greencastle and completed his MFA in Poetry and Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

This episode is dedicated to Bay Area artist Gary Hackett, who died suddenly. He was a good friend of Alison OK Frost, and this episode was postponed out of respect for her. We are grateful for Hackett’s presence in the Bay Area: an artist precariously housed and studiously generous with his time and care. It’s a little less colourful now, with him gone. We go with realist painter and arts educator Alison OK Frost to the Mosswood Park homeless encampment in Oakland, California. Frost is interested in humanity and creativity; she paints from photographs taken of homeless encampment citizen architecture (tents, tarps, wheelchairs, trees, mannequins, and other artefacts of ingenuity). It’s a hot day and Jozefien is feeling really woozy.* We help Frost deliver socks and bottles of water to camp residents, make friends with an artist named Rose, and find out why Frost wants her daughter and her students to learn more about the “two Bay Areas.” *Jozefien is pregnant with her daughter, Rosie. She doesn’t know it yet! Alison OK Frost's website: http://www.alisonokfrost.com Alison OK Frost on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alisonok East Oakland Burrito Roll on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/east_oakland_burrito_roll What is Social Practice Art? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_practice_(art) Beautiful Online Thing: the 'Flower Bae' exhibition at General Hardware Contemporary For a visual tour and transcript of this interview, visit the ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL WEBSITE: https://artcrushinternational.com/alison-ok-frost.html ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artcrush_international

Andrea Giaier was raised in a typical Midwestern town just outside of Detroit, Michigan. From an early age, she developed a deep connection to nature, which later blossomed into a profound admiration, respect, and concern for the environment and the collective future of those who inhabit the earth. Andrea currently lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, and has taught and created in Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Honduras, Sri Lanka, and Guatemala over the past 15 years. As an artist and an educator, Andrea focuses on collaborative, performative, and Social Practice Art, which allows people from diverse backgrounds to find their visual voice, empower themselves and create positive change through meaningful art. Andrea received a Bachelor of Fine Art at Montana State, a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Washington, and a Master of Arts in Teaching from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. The book mentioned in the interview is The Jealous Curator’s Book. The street sounds mentioned are here - https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/lockdown-sounds.m4a   Natural ink study, 2020 Sound and Ink study, 2020

In episode 178, I chat with artist Christine Wong Yap who recently had her work displayed at the Color Factory exhibit in NYC.  She grew up watching her parents do a lot of DIY projects which inspired her to try new things.  Christine talks about what art means to her, how the connections she's made have helped her work be seen, how she blends positive psychology with art, how artists can learn how to be their own best advocate and more by taking a listen to this episode.

Director and Creator Nell Bang-Jensen talks about her play “The Caregivers,” created in collaboration with Philadelphia-area home health aides, hospice workers and family caregivers, several who performed in the play. Part fantasy, part reenacted stories based on the caregivers' experiences, the social practice performance piece recently ran at Philly's Pig Iron Theater Company where it sold out all shows. Nell tells us what was fun and what was challenging about creating the piece, why it was important for her to pay the caregivers who performed in the show and how the audience responded. Her current focus: finding the next artistic home for “The Caregivers” now that the run has ended. This episode is a follow-up to an earlier conversation with Nell; if you missed it, tune in here: https://bit.ly/2DMlRqK. Learn more about “The Caregivers” - https://nellbangjensen.com Watch the play's post-show Q&A: https://bit.ly/2HPN9dA Music: “Astrisx” by Blue Dot Sessions | CC BY NC | Free Music Archive

OVERVIEW Oxford-based Nigerian artist and academic Wilfred Ukpong discusses the conceptual framework which underpins his multidisciplinary oeuvre of sculpture, films, performances and artworks. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Dr. Blaze, alias of Wilfred Ukpong Dr. Blaze is a Nigerian-born multidisciplinary social practice artist and researcher who lives and works in Oxford, Paris and Lagos. The former engineering student turned artist obtained his MFA with magna cum laude from Ecole Supérieure d’Art Lorient, France. Ukpong is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Oxford Brookes University where he is undertaking practice-led enquiries in the framework of Social Practice Art and Experimental Fine Art. Augusta Wicht Augusta Wicht is an art business professional and artist who manages David Krut Projects Cape Town. She is interested in the influence and role of art in the post-contemporary context. BACKGROUND Further information available at http://bit.ly/2vZVQzE While art is being made to communicate an intended meaning or "art for art's sake", post-doctoral researcher Dr. Wilfred Ukpong investigates the meaning of a third world, or third definition of materiality. This definition understands material in its context. What function does it perform? What impact does it have in the greater context in which it exists? In Africa it is important to review these ideas as we are under the global spotlight in light of the recent Africa in Venice Forum and opening of the monumental Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. Dr. Wilfred Ukpong has worked in the rural Niger Delta for 7 years testing, workshopping and researching his proposed new form of materiality. Working on a dystopian Afro-futurist film set along the Niger Delta for seven years, Ukpong, trains and funds people from the rural community to work on his film and become artists in their own right. His stars in futurist gear are fishermen in another day, his set builders are ordinary people. The sense of creation and achievement has been an empowering presence in the area devastated by pollution and conflict.

Terrorists use spectacular moments of death and destruction to create division and fracture communities. But can public art create equally spectacular moments of beauty and love, that can heal division and unite communities? This episode focuses on three “social practice art” projects, which linked people together as participants of a common experience and created a collective reconsideration of an urban environment by ‘invading’ the public space. In Kabul, 130 youth volunteers handed out 10,000 pink helium filled balloons on an ordinary Monday morning. In Johannesburg, the decaying empty buildings of the central business district were made to ‘cry’ hot pink paint from their broken windows. In Nairobi and the coastal Kenyan town of Likoni, people painted each other’s house of worship bright yellow, as an act of love. To see photos of the projects, see: http://www.welltoldstory.com/how-spectacular-public-art-can-heal-division-and-unite-communities/ Featuring: Nabila Alibhai, from our Well Made Strategy consulting team Produced by: Stephanie Boy

In this episode, we have Ed Harris of Omerta, and previously Piston Head, On A Dead Machine, and Surrender The Fall. He’s been in the music biz for over 17 years and Omerta is his foray into independence with no labels just artists that share the same passion about the music they create. OMERTA Community LIFT is pleased to announce the launch of a pilot residency program in Social Practice Art. Social practice art is a form of artwork that focuses on collaboration and outreach to individuals, communities, and institutions. The success of the artwork is based on the relationship built between the community, it’s members, and the artwork. The value of the artwork created resides, not only in the finished product, but in the experiences the participants have during the process and the creation of a stronger community.     The Residency Period is from June through August and the deadline to apply is April 30th 2017.Selected artists will be notified by May 21st and must be ready to start residency program by June 5th. To apply interested applicants should contact Leni Stoeva at Leni@communitylift.org and specific instructions will be emailed to them. To find out more about the Soulsville Residency Program in Social Practice Art visit www.communitylift.org or on facebook.

GYST Radio guest is Alexandra Shabtai, founder of SPArt, a new funding initiative that supports Los Angeles-based Social Practice Art projects. SPArt provides financial resources to artists who intend to create social change through socially engaged art.