doubleXposure Podcast

When Covid-19 forced the arts sector to shutdown in March, 2020, the financial impact was devastating. More than 18 months into the pandemic, with cases on the upswing, most presenters are wondering when--and if--things will ever stabilize.

Meanwhile, many arts organizations have used the forced closure to rethink their missions, and in the wake of the racial justice uprising, who gets to make artistic decisions.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Executive Director Ellen Walker and Michael Greer, President and CEO of Seattle-based Arts Fund, talk to hosts Vivian Phillips and Marcie Sillman.

Seattle-based artist Barbara Earl Thomas has been working for more than four decades, but five years ago she decided it was time to boost her profile. This year Thomas has two museum shows, plus a commission for Yale University's Grace Hopper College, and she shows no signs of slowing down. 

Chris Daigre has been dancing and teaching dance for more than 30 years. When he was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease two years ago, Daigre didn't stop dancing--he expanded his program to other people with Parkinson's. As the administrator of Dance for PD (Parkinson's Disease) at Seattle Theatre Group, Shawn Roberts has seen dance benefit other people with the neurological disorder. Roberts and Daigre share their experiences.

Hosts Vivian Phillips and Marcie Sillman talk with Trish Millines Dziko, founder and director of the Technology Access Foundation, and Tina LaPadula, education manager for Seattle's Office of Arts and Culture, about the role art plays in a comprehensive 21st century education.

Co-hosts Vivian Phillips and Marcie Sillman talk with writer Charles Johnson and his daughter, curator and poet Elisheba Johnson, about the connections between art and community, and the social responsibility an artist bears.

DoubleXposure hosts Vivian Phillips and Marcie Sillman talk with father/daughter duo Charles and Elisheba Johnson. Charles Johnson is a Macarthur Award-winning writer, educator and cartoonist, author of "Middle Passage" and the recent short story collection "Nighthawks." Elisheba Johnson is co-founder of the Seattle community/cultural hub Wa Na Wari.