Land Art Pod: Conversations with Creatives

Land Art Pod: Conversations with Creatives

By Morgan Kulas, Elizabeth Gleave, & Land Art CollectiveArts
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Land Art Pod: Conversations with Creatives episodes

  • CAL FLYN ON WRITING THE MYSTERY OF WILDERNESS
    Cal Flyn is a bestselling author, writer and journalist from the Scottish Highlands. This conversation moves through her relationship to landscape, the discipline of paying close attention, and what it means to listen to a landscape. Cal and Morgan talk about sensory notetaking, letting go of control, and why getting words on the page can matter more than getting them right.
    Dive into:
    • Writing a place ~ choosing what to emphasise and what to leave out • Sensory and emotional notetaking as a foundation for landscape writing • Building a writing routine that works with your natural rhythms
    • How to handle critique in ways that strengthen rather than silence your voice • Accepting the agency of the nonhuman world as a creative and philosophical practice
    • Why publishing imperfect work builds more resilience than waiting for it to be ready
    Follow her on Instagram or visit her website to connect https://www.calflyn.com!
    33 min
  • KATIE GROVE ON WEAVING WILD BASKETS
    Katie Grove is a basket weaver and educator based in New York's Hudson Valley, whose practice is rooted in foraging, seasonal plant knowledge and the slow work of making by hand. This conversation moves through her relationship to landscape, the emotional life of creative wounds and what baskets hold beyond their contents. Katie and Morgan talk about reciprocity with land, teaching from a place of care and why what children watch adults do can matter more than what they are told.
    Dive into:
    • Home as deep connection with land rather than location ~ mountains, rivers and the desert Southwest
    • Baskets as containers for intention, community and meaning
    • How early creative wounds shape adult makers ~ meeting students where they are
    • The intimacy of foraging and following plants through the seasons
    • Motherhood and the long game ~ patience, balance and what gets passed on without words
    • Community as a container for transformation ~ the slow work of re-learning belonging
    Photo of Katie Grove in her studio is by Costa Boutsikaris
    Visit Katie's website at https://www.katiegrovestudios.com
    50 min
  • KATIE GROVE ON WEAVING WILD BASKETS
    Katie Grove is an artist, educator, and author whose passion is to inspire both viewers of her art and students in her classes to build a relationship with the plants growing around them. She teaches basketry from her studio in the Rondout Valley of New York State and enjoys a robust studio practice that merges traditional basketry techniques with sculpture. Katie holds a BFA in Printmaking from SUNY New Paltz and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the NOMAD program at University of Hartford. Her book, Weaving Wild Baskets will be released in April 2026.
    Photo of Katie Grove in her studio is by Costa Boutsikaris
    Visit Katie's website at https://www.katiegrovestudios.com
    51 min
  • ROUZBEH RASHIDI ON A MACHINERY OF DREAMS
    Rouzbeh Rashidi is an Iranian-Irish experimental filmmaker and founder of the Experimental Film Society. This conversation moves through his experience of exile and displacement, his resistance to the capitalist urge for relentless productivity and his understanding of cinema. Rouzbeh and Morgan talk about embracing liminality, making art from mistakes and wounds and why the act of creation is itself an act of resistance.
    Dive into:
    • Approaching cinema as process over product
    • Why slowness and deep engagement matter more than prolific output • Embracing liminality ~ neither here nor there ~ as generative creative ground • Making work from mistakes, limits and wounds
    • Building radical, non-hierarchical communities as the ground for creative practice
    • How the act of creation itself becomes an act of resistance in dark times
    Visit Rouzbeh on Instagram or at https://rouzbehrashidi.com & https://experimentalfilmsociety.com
    1 hr 45 min
  • TEAL GARDNER ON INHABITING EARTH WITH WONDER
    “My life is lived in shapes and embedded in systems that can blend with or deny relations with more than human worlds. My work processes my place as a nexus of sedimentary involutions: human-historical and geologic-scale are handled equally, and given teeth, as the living skin of earth bites back.” -Teal Gardner
    Teal Gardner (b. 1984, Albuquerque, NM) is an interdisciplinary artist, living and working in Boise, ID.
    Her work uses historical and present day development as sites for inquiry into interrelationships among human and more-than-human beings.
    Her ongoing project, The Ecogeoglyphic Observatory, is in its fourth year.
    Teal has received support from the Boise Arts and History Department, the City of Boise Arts and History Department, The Idaho Commission on the Arts, A Blade of Grass, MING Studios, The Alexa Rose Foundation, The Common Well, The Union for Contemporary Art and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She is currently a Frontier Fellow with Epicenter, located in Green River, UT.
    She holds a BA from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and a Masters Degree in Fine Art from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque’s Confluence MFA program.
    https://tealsgardner.cargo.site
    50 min
  • NAHLA TABBAA ON THE ALCHEMY OF FOOD, PLACE, & BEAUTY
    Nahla Tabbaa is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans food, botany, ritual and plant-based making. This conversation moves through her relationship to home as something constructed rather than inherited, her familial roots spanning Syria, Jordan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, the kitchen as an alchemical space, and what it means to create beauty as an act of resistance. Nahla and Morgan talk about somatic healing, micro interventions and how critical thinking anchors creative work in the real world.
    Dive into:
    • The kitchen ~ unlearning recipes and rediscovering the agency of ingredients
    • Why creating beauty through food, decoration and ornamentation is an act of resistance
    • How micro-interventions ~ small, meaningful gestures ~ accumulate into impactful change
    • Constructing a sense of home internally and through chosen communities • Using critical thinking to ensure your work responds to real contexts
    Visit Nahla on Instagram or at https://nahlatabbaa.com
    52 min
  • ELIZABETH GLEAVE ON WEAVING CREATIVE IMAGINATIONS
    Elizabeth is a creative strategist, educator and co-founder of Land Art Collective. This conversation moves through the roots of the collective ~ how it grew from a personal need for creative community ~ and into the practical work of helping artists share their practice with intention. Morgan and Elizabeth talk about place as anchor, creativity as a survival strategy and what it means to tend your creative source.
    Dive into:
    • Why what we most need ourselves is often what we're most able to offer others
    • How to approach sharing your work strategically without losing authenticity
    • The role of place ~ a river, a path, a landscape ~ as anchor for creative practice
    • Treating digital platforms as spaces for genuine connection rather than performance
    • How community sustains creative practice over the long term
    Visit Elizabeth on Instagram or at https://www.elizabethgleavestudios.com
    Our Membership Programme = www.landartagency.com/members
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    Shine Online = www.landartagency.com/shineonline
    The Language of the Land = www.landartagency.com/landlanguage
    The Creative Earth Directory = www.landartagency.com/creativedirectory
    Or begin at the Land Art Home Page = www.landartagency.com
    56 min

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Land Art Pod: Conversations with Creatives connects and engages with creatives who embody regenerative ways of making and living. Through these conversations, we strengthen our collective capacity to…