A new body of art work by Maggie Golightly Haslam is explored in this episode. The artist, whose works are featured in the current exhibition at the Center Gallery in New York City, embodies the 21st century zero-waste ethos and turns it into a process of art making. How can materials be recycled, upcycled, and reenvisioned, she asks. Her inventive and beautiful poured watercolor works are created with materials that have been harvested and salvaged from leftover media of earlier series of works, thereby linking them into a new sort of visual art lineage. Larger ethical questions emerge: What is art for? Why make it? How do the materials direct what the art wants to be?

Music for the episode is "Bearing Us Up" by Robert Strobel, a winner of the Center's Art for Uncertain Times project.

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