The Curatorial Blonde

The Curatorial Blonde

By Caira MoreiraArtsVisual Arts
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The Curatorial Blonde episodes

  • In Conversation with Lisa DeAbreu
    This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Ep. 47 features Artist, Lisa DeAbreu. Lisa is driven by her feelings of rootlessness being American-born and Caribbean-raised, exploring different mediums and familiar artifacts to piece together fragments of her family's collective past. In an attempt to repair familial traumas, she reflects on how we build memory and that innate human desire for connection. 
    Listen now on all major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and view visuals on YouTube.
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    52 min
  • In Conversation with Luke Agada
    This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Ep. 48 features Artist, Luke Agada. Luke Agada is a Nigerian artist living and working in Chicago. His practice examines themes of globalization, migration, and cultural dislocation within the framework of a postcolonial world, as he reflects on the African diaspora and its impact on neo-cultural evolution. He obtained an MFA in Painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023. In recent years, Agada has participated in shows in Lagos, New York, Chicago, Beijing, Accra, Berlin, and Casablanca. His work has been featured in several publications including The Pinch Journal publication at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, Nigeria Art archives, Juxtapoz, Newcity, and Whitewall.
    Listen now on all major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.
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    45 min
  • In Conversation with Christian K. Lee

    This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Ep. 46 features Photographer, Christian K. Lee. His experience as a documentarian drives his desire to utilize Art as an investigative tool. Christian’s goal is to create imagery that reflects the world in which he currently lives.


    Listen now on all major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and view visuals on YouTube.


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    #arttalks

    #artistpodcast

    #BIPOCartist

    #contemporaryart

    #chicago

    44 min
  • In conversation with Rugiyatou Ylva Jallow

    This week's guest on The Curatorial Blonde is Rugiyatou Ylva Jallow (b. 1990, Stockholm, Sweden) is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. Rugi and Caira sit down to discuss the representation of mixed race and Black women in artistic spaces, the experience of growing up mixed race in Sweden, and the costal art hubs of America.

    1 hr 2 min
  • In Conversation with Christina Nicola

    This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Caira sits down with painter Christina Nicola, an expressionist figure painter whose paintings capture the elasticity of the black feminine identity and originated the phrase "afroromantic". Caira and Christina talk about the New York and Miami art scene, what being an artist means, and what Back female bodies in our communities.


    You can follow Christina Nicola @ https://www.instagram.com/christina.nicola/?hl=en

    42 min
  • In conversation with Seema Rao

    In this multiple part installment of The Curatorial Blonde, Caira sits down with Seema Rao, of Artlust (237k followers, 16.4 million likes) TikTok and season museum professional to get extremely transparent about the art world. Touching on compensation, what the art world does not want you to talk about, and the best parts of the major, Seema and Caira truly peel the layers off the core of the fine art industry. 


    Seema Rao tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@artlust?lang=en

    1 hr 2 min
  • In Conversation with Isadora Capraro

    This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Caira sits down with Argentinean artist Isadora Capraro.

    Isadora Capraro is a Southampton, New York-based figurative painter.
    The boundaries between both abstraction and intention are experimented with in Isadora's paintings, creating an optical illusion in which the observer can discover human attributes, living things, and symbols veiled within the colors and surfaces. Her use of exquisite color palettes allows the visitor to experience that sensation of peacefulness and tranquility when seeing her work.

    37 min
  • In conversation with Traci Johnson

    Traci Johnson, an artist who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, joins Caira this week on The Curatorial Blonde. Johnson is an expert in sculpture, installations, and textile design explores mental health, experience, and the joy of color. 


    Follow here: https://www.instagram.com/kailuaa/

    41 min
  • Akshita Gandhi: The impact of covid on an artist and the importance of representation

    Caira sits down with Artist Akshita Gandhi, a Mumbai-based photographer, and multimedia artist. Gandhi examines the concepts of home and belonging while addressing colonialism, as well as the social and aesthetic effects of India's conflicting capitalist system. Her pictures, which primarily focus on metropolitan landscapes and places, emphasize architectural details through repetition and distortion, creating paintings-like interpretations of escape.

    53 min

About The Curatorial Blonde

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Arts Administrator, and Contemporary Arts Journalist, Caira is The Curatorial Blonde. This podcast offers insight into the fine arts world with intimate conversations from artists to curators, to everyone in between. The Curatorial Blonde gives listeners new food for thought and a deeper look into the art world.