How can you use creativity to fight the systems that are literally built to stop you from being creative?  How can you make your process as radical as the art you make?

Maddy Clifford, aka MADLines, walks us her music, the importance of political education for artists, and how she uses her creative practice to break the spells of systemic oppression.

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Links and resources mentioned in this episode:

Creative Wildfire Artist Cohort

MADlines on TikTok

MADlines on Instagram

Buy her music on Bandcamp!

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What does it look like when you report to your co-workers, instead of someone up top?  

We hear from cooperative owner and artist Daniel Park, as he talks through the peaks and valleys of cooperative art-making and business ownership – and how your business can be as radical as the art you create.

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Links and resources mentioned in this episode:

Obvious Agency

U.S. Federation of Worker Coops (USFWC)

Guilded Freelancer’s Co-op

Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC)

Democracy at Work Institute

Creatives Rebuild New York Guaranteed Income / Artist Employment Programs

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Guaranteed Income Pilot Program 

Don’t Start a Non-Profit Part 1 with Adrienne Mackey of Swim Pony

“The Talk”


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