In the Atelier

In the Atelier

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In the Atelier episodes

  • Atelier Visit: Harriet Scott Chessman
    ATELIER VISIT WITH HARRIET SCOTT CHESSMAN: Atelier Visits take you into the creative workspaces of artists we admire. We're asking writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers to bring you right inside their respective ateliers and share a bit about their process, their creative preoccupations, whatever is on their minds lately. It's an opportunity to spend a little while with various brilliant people who are busy doing good imaginative, artistic work. They'll speak to us directly about what life and creativity is like for them. Harriet Scott Chessman has published two novels with Atelier26 Books: The Beauty of Ordinary Things and Someone Not Really Her Mother. Her latest novel is The Lost Sketchbook of Edgar Degas. She wrote the libretto for the opera My Lai. Mentioned in this episode: A room of one's own; woodland vistas; spareness and light; Ikea desks; poetry; haiku; breath; writing librettos; opera; My Lai; The Tempest; justice; the writer's connection to -- and contribution to -- the world. Music: "Ballerina" by Yehezkel Raz;  "Ever I Wander" by Jameson Nathan Jones; "Afternoon Mist" by Yehezkel Raz (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) This episode reprised from the ITA archives.
    14 min
  • What Would Leonard Cohen Do?
    WHAT WOULD LEONARD COHEN DO? : If you’re a hardworking creative soul striving to continue doing the work of the expressive imagination, striving to honor an authentic vision that resists the forces of market optimization, you could do a lot worse than immerse yourself in Leonard Cohen’s corpus and give this question your consideration: What would Leonard do? Mentioned in this episode: Leonard Cohen; Cohen's "Hallelujah"; Songs of Leonard Cohen; Cohen's 1963 debut novel The Favorite Game; CBC Television; Cohen's novel Beautiful Losers; Cohen's performance style; Bob Dylan; Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat"; Zen; Mount Baldy; Leonard Cohen world tour; skipping at age 78; Cohen's album You Want It Darker; Cohen's album Thanks for the Dance; Feist; Beck; Damien Rice. This episode reprised from the ITA archives.
    20 min
  • Loon Checkers

    LOON CHECKERS, from THOREAU'S LEAVES -- An October day in a boat on Walden, and "a pretty game, played on the smooth surface of the pond, a man against a loon." (From Walden, "Brute Neighbors") Loon sounds by Andrew Spencer, XC 189383 (accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/189383); and Todd Wilson, XC103421 (accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/103421). Music: "Love You" by Yehezkel Raz; "Revelations" by Tristan Barton (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist)

    Hear more from Thoreau's Leaves at anchor.fm/thoreausleaves

    9 min
  • Why Stories Matter

    WHY STORIES MATTER: Thoughts about the questions our most enduring stories ask and the effects these stories achieve.  

    Mentioned in this episode: Wendell Berry; Northern California; Mount Diablo; The Green Age of Asher Witherow; John Steinbeck; Steinbeck's East of Eden; Salinas, California; regionalism; cynical critics; Nobel Prize; Book of Genesis; Barry Lopez; mythology; Wallace Stegner; Stegner's "The Sense of Place"; Carl Jung; Harold Bloom; Bloom's "Anxiety of Influence." Music: "Unplanned Run" by Stanley Gurvich; "Fall" by ANBR; "King of Mandol" by Swirling Ship (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist)

    This episode reprised from the ITA archives.

    12 min
  • What Resists Us Helps Us

    WHAT RESISTS US HELPS US: Imposed limitation can galvanize the imagination. So here's to "salutary antagonisms!" 

    Mentioned in this episode: Ethan Canin; Canin's "Emperor of the Air"; Canin's short story, "Accountant"; Annie Proulx; John Dewey; Dewey's "Art As Experience" (1934); Katherine Anne Porter; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Wallace Stegner's "Crossing to Safety" 

    Music: "Puddles" by Stanley Gurvitch; "Continent" by ANBR; "Sparkle" by Maya Isac; "Vuelta al Sol" by Tomas Novoa; "Befun" by Befun (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist)

    This episode reprised from the ITA archives.

    13 min
  • Watch Out for Wisdom
    WATCH OUT FOR WISDOM: In matters of art, wisdom is rarely conventional.
    Mentioned in this episode: Anthony Minghella; American movies; screenplays; three-act structure; Hollywood; formulas; plot; revision; Agnes Jaoui; Ingmar Bergman; Nicole Holofcener; Noah Baumbach; Wim Wenders; Minghella's "The English Patient"; Henry James; B.S.-detector; self-reliance; New York Times; William T. Vollman; movie deal.
    Music: "SnowJah" by Peter Spacey; "Homemade Apple Pie" by Jamie Bathgate; "Likes" by Swirling Ship
    (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) This episode reprised from the ITA archives.
    11 min
  • Atelier Visit: Writer Kristen Millares Young
    ATELIER VISIT: WRITER KRISTEN MILLARES YOUNG Atelier Visits take you into the creative workspaces of artists we admire. We're asking writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers to bring you right inside their respective ateliers and share a bit about their process, their creative preoccupations, whatever is on their minds lately. It's an opportunity to spend a little while with various brilliant people who are busy doing good imaginative, artistic work. They'll speak to us directly about what life and creativity is like for them. 
    Kristen Millares Young's debut novel, Subduction (Red Hen Press) was named a Finalist for two International Latino Book Awards in 2020. Her writing appears in The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Review, Joyland Magazine, Psychology Today, Hobart, Crosscut, Moss, and elsewhere. Kristen was the researcher for the New York Times team that produced "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek," which won a Pulitzer and a Peabody. Visit KristenMYoung.com. 
    Mentioned in this episode: writing while standing; showing your work; taking your time; Makah Tribe; Luis Alberto Urrea; emotion and rigor; Frida Kahlo; Joan Didion; Literary Hub; mica and peeling rock; Sappho; ecstasy; mother goddess worshipping cults; Elissa Washuta; Washuta's "White Magic"; Tin House Books; Melissa Febos; Febos's "Girlhood"; Hugo House. 
    Music: "Walkman Snail Shoes" by Peter Spacey; "Blue Moon Cafe" by Stefano Mastronardi; "Where I Find Rest" by Sun Wash; "Bloody You" by Racoon Racoon;  "Clouds" by Stanley Gurvich. (Music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist.)
    17 min
  • Atelier Special: In Ludwig's Room
    ATELIER SPECIAL: IN LUDWIG'S ROOM -- Atelier Specials feature original creative content including essays, fiction, and excerpts. Today: In honor of the 250th birth-year of Ludwig Van Beethoven, M. Allen Cunningham's account of a visit to Beethoven's rooms in Vienna, a mere two centuries after the composer steps out. Mentioned in this episode: Vienna; University of Vienna; the Ringstrasse; Vienna ramparts; the Votivkirche; Beethoven's 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th symphonies; Beethoven's Rasumowsky Quartets; Beethoven's opera "Fidelio"; office workers; dreamers; ghosts; work and time; what we give our attention to.
    Music: Beethoven! (and "Hands of Time" by Narrow Skies, used courtesy of the artist through a licensing agreement with Artlist).
    11 min
  • John Ruskin on Freedom and Imperfection
    JOHN RUSKIN ON FREEDOM & IMPERFECTION: Throughout the whole second half of the nineteenth century "to read [John] Ruskin was accepted as proof of the possession of a soul" (as art historian Kenneth Clark put it). And Ruskin's "The Stones of Venice" is a work of huge compassion, intelligence, and beauty that still has a great deal to say to artists. "No good work whatever can be perfect," says Ruskin, "for no great [person] ever stops working till [they have] reached [their] point of failure ... To banish imperfection is to destroy expression." Mentioned in this episode: John Ruskin; Ruskin's The Stones of Venice; Kenneth Clark; Industrial Revolution; Victorian England; Arts & Crafts Movement; Mahatma Ghandi; the European Gothic Age; Joseph Campbell; social reform; the digital age.
    Music: "Drifting" by Lake Union; "Autumn Wind" by Yehezkel Raz; "Best Summer Ever" by When Mountains Move (All songs used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist.)
    16 min
  • Atelier Visit: Writer Bess Winter
    ATELIER VISIT WITH WRITER BESS WINTER: Atelier Visits take you into the creative workspaces of artists we admire. We're asking writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers to bring you right inside their respective ateliers and share a bit about their process, their creative preoccupations, whatever is on their minds lately. It's an opportunity to spend a little while with various brilliant people who are busy doing good imaginative, artistic work. They'll speak to us directly about what life and creativity is like for them.
    Bess Winter's debut short story collection, Machines of Another Era, is coming from Gold Wake Press in January 2021. Her work appears in American Short Fiction, Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Ecotone, W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction International, and elsewhere, and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and the American Short[er] Fiction Prize. An Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, she’s Editor-in-Chief of Bluestem Magazine. Visit BessWinter.com.
    Mentioned in this episode: Urbana, IL; Roger Ebert; David Foster Wallace; Stanley Elkin; William Gass; old dolls; ghosts.
    Music: "Deep Brown Eyes" and "Grace" by Raccoon Racoon (Music used courtesy of the artist through a licensing agreement with Artlist.)
    9 min

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In the Atelier is a creativity podcast for writers & artists that explores the life of the imagination. Each installment brings you real talk on subjects like the highs & lows of making art,…