Art Uncovered

Poppy DeltaDawn is an artist and professor of weaving at the University of Kansas. 

In this episode Kimberly and Poppy talk about the history of the loom and capitalism’s effect on the weaver. They also wove (pun intended) similarities between the act of weaving and transness. Lastly, Poppy shared her plans to raise sheep on land that is operated by her university.

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Hanna Washburn is a Beacon-based artist who hand sews sculptures out of recycled textiles. 

In this episode Kimberly and Hanna talk about Hanna’s dedicated studio practice and her explorations of ideas related to the home and the human body. 

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wei is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with sound, media and movement to talk about topics of queerness, foreignness and otherness. wei received an MFA in printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in new media at the Academy of Art University in San Fransisco. They have participated in numerous artist residencies such as NARS foundation, Anderson Ranch Art Center and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. 

Over the course of the conversation Kimberly and wei talk about wei’s work with sound, their background in design and art theories related to otherness

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Lauren Whearty is a Philly-based painter, educator and curator who currently teaches at The University of the Arts and Tyler School of Art & Architecture in Philadelphia. In this episode Kimberly and Lauren talk about Lauren’s studio and domestic-inspired paintings, her navigation through the art world and her experience as co-director of Ortega y Gasset gallery in NYC.

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Emily DiCarlo is a Toronto-based artist whose sound, video and performance-based work explores the subjective nature of time and it’s relationship to labor, rest and the demands of late capitalism. In this episode, Kimberly and Emily talk about Emily's visits to universal time labs (yes they are a thing!) and the importance of (and challenges of) rest.

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Sara J. Winston is a New York-based artist whose photographic self-portraiture practice works to capture her experience of living multiple sclerosis. In this episode Kimberly and Sara talk about Sara’s experience with MS, her relationship with the camera, notions of home and her process of publishing books.

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Allison DeBritz is an artist and educator whose work intimately considers the gendered paradigms of domestic spaces and relationships through an interdisciplinary feminist lens. In this episode Kimberly and Allison talk about Allison’s work with found images, photography and collage, her media’s relationship to conversations surrounding women’s reproductive rights and her involvement in post-school crit clubs.

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Franky Frances Cannon is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator, who is the Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow at Kenyon College. In this episode, Kimberly and Franky talk about Franky’s merging of art and writing, her visual book review of Like a Little Dog: Andy Warhol’s Queer Ecologies by Anthony Grudin and her graphic book Walter Benjamin Reimagined, which was published by MIT Press.

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Alison Kuo is an Asian American artist who pursues intersectional relationships across communities through artistic engagement. She is also the co-founder of Sisters in Self-Defense, a group that unites asian American women of all ages and teaches them self defense skills. In this episode we talk about Alison’s current solo exhibition You Pick the Moon, which is up at Field Projects in New York City until April 20, her work with Sisters in self defense and the transformation of her artistic practice due to her community engagement in New York City’s chinatown. 

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This week Kimberly spoke with Harlan Crichton, a Maine-based artist who works with photographic processes. In this episode, Kimberly and Harlan talk about Harlan’s transition from traditional photography to abstract photography and other topics such as storytelling and science fiction.

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