Our current Artist in Residence, Annette Isham, takes over the podcast! Annette is an artist and professor living in Denver, Colorado. She creates captivating mirrored, animated and layered videos within landscapes where she explores identity but more specifically, how a woman of mixed race can appropriate the masculine myth of the American West. Annette invited her friend Nori Pao to discuss the intersectionality of ideas and concepts in their creative practices. Nori is a ceramicist and also works in several other mediums such as photography, drawing and digital fabrication, her works explores themes of time, memory and identity, she like Annette uses landscape and location in a very interesting way to reference the self. Together they talk about embracing obstacles, getting into the flow state, breaking the rules, working with limitations and collaborating with materials vs controlling them. Born in the Dominican Rep and growing up in Colorado, Annette received her M.F.A. from The American University in Washington, DC and currently teaches 4D and Animation at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design.

To learn more about Annette visit: annettewashburneisham.com/home.html

To learn more about Nori visit: noripao.com/