ASH HAGERSTRAND is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work explores their experience of navigating medical spaces as a femme person with disabilities. In this episode Kimberly and Ash talk about Ash’s relationship to online wellness communities and their work in sculpture and digital art.

Ash is also the founder of Chronically Online, an online gallery focusing on the work of disabled people.

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MURIEL HASBUN is a Washington DC-based artist whose work explores issues of cultural identity, migration and memory.

In this episode Kimberly and Muriel talk about El Salvador’s 12-year civil war, the significance of her mother’s art gallery during wartime and her interest in photography’s ability to capture subjective experiences.

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Genevieve Cohn is a Boston-based artist who has had solo exhibitions at Hashimoto Contemporary Gallery in New York City and Jack Bell Gallery in London.

Her feminist paintings explore women, community and rituals. In this episode Kimberly and Genevieve talk about Genevieve’s studio practice, her interest in literature and her process of building female communities. 

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NATESSA AMIN is a Philly-based artist who recently had a solo exhibition at the Cue Foundation in New York. She is also the winner of the Fleisher Wind Challenge.

In this episode Kimberly and Natessa talk about Natessa’s participation in a unique residency in the woods and her exploration of the connections between her family, migration, Eastern traditions and the act of painting.  

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LYDIA KERN was a recent resident at Yaddo and a recipient of the Diane Gabriel Visual Artist Award. 

In this episode Kimberly and Lydia talk about Lydia's integration of her experiences of grief and her appreciation for collective human experience. They also talk about Lydia's love for art and language and her studio rituals associated with the preparation of found objects.

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Amy Ritter is a New York-based artist who recently received a NYFA grant to continue her investigation into forgotten and marginalized mobile home communities across the United States. 

In this episode Kimberly and Amy talk about Amy’s experience of growing up in a mobile home, her close relationship with her conservative father and her desire to listen to the struggles of low-income Americans and to understand their political motivations.   

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Michael Ambron is a New York-based artist and paint maker whose work is rooted in the visual phenomena of daily experience.

In the episode Kimberly and Michael talk about Michael's interest in meditation, his visual exploration of his experience with sleep paralysis and his paint-making business Paint Makers Notes. 

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Juan Carlos Escobedo is a San Antonio-based artist whose work explores his identity as a queer, brown, Mexican-American, raised in a low-socioeconomic community along the US/Mexico border. 

In this episode Kimberly and Juan talk about the culture shock Juan experienced moving from the south to the north east, his experience with residual glass and race shame and his quote unquote high end fashion label of garments made largely out of cardboard.    

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Zach clark is an artist, educator and founder of National Monument Press, a publishing house focused on small edition artist books, zines and printed matter completed largely through collaboration with other artists. 

In this episode, Zach and Kimberly talk about about Zach’s process of printing and distributing artists books, the aesthetic of risograph prints and his current project of printing 12 photo books in collaboration with other artists.

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Sam Dienst is a tapestry weaver and sculptor currently living and working in Detroit.

In this episode Sam and Kimberly talk about Sam’s path to becoming a weaver, her journey through graduate school and the tools and techniques she uses to build her style and  sustain her practice. 

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