Today, our hosts are sitting down with arts writer and cultural storyteller Sala Elise Patterson! The trio discusses the dynamic breadth of Sala’s practice, from experimental documentary projects and her work as a trustee of The Phillips Collection, to her path writing for outlets such as The Atlantic, Kinfolk, Harvard Design Magazine, Vogue, British Journal of Photography and The New York Times. Covering topics such as Black visibility in art, reimagining the “artist’s muse,” and the politics of architectural design, this is an urgent and beautifully honest conversation about writing - and so much more.

Mentions:

The Wadsworth Atheneum;

William Kentridge;

Phala O. Phala;

Nhlanhla Mahlangu;

André Breton;

Claude Levi Strauss;

Wifredo Lam;

Amié Césaire;

Frantz Fanon;

The Nardal Sisters;

Frida Kahlo;

Sala Elise Patterson;

Adrienne Fidelin;

The Phillips Collection;

Elizabeth Bishop;

Protect: Coastlines, Guns and Women in the Low Country, https://www.twolanefilms.com/protect;

Adrienne Fidelin;

Man Ray;

Saidiya Hartman;

Lee Miller;

Dora Maar;

Paul Éluard.