In this deeply personal and introspective episode of the AART Podcast, host Chris Stafford sits down with celebrated glass and scent artist Goldie Poblador, whose work occupies a rare and evocative space between material, memory, ecology, and ritual. Known for her multi-sensory installations that merge blown glass, fragrance, feminine narratives, and environmental storytelling, Poblador invites us into the places—both emotional and physical—that have shaped her artistic voice. Together, Chris and Goldie explore how scent becomes a vessel for history, identity, and collective healing; how glass serves as both a metaphor for fragility and transformation; and how her Filipino heritage influences the depth of her artistic inquiry. She shares her creative origins, the spiritual and ecological themes embedded in her process, and the intimate human stories behind her most compelling works. Listeners will be transported into Goldie’s atmospheric world, where smell, memory, culture, and form fuse into experiences that awaken the senses and expand our understanding of art’s emotional power. Whether you are a seasoned art lover, a creative soul, or simply someone drawn to compelling personal journeys, this episode offers a rare look into a practice where the invisible becomes tangible, and the past is preserved through scent and flame. Tune in to discover:
- How scent and memory inform artistic storytelling
- The cultural and ecological roots of Goldie’s practice
- The symbolism of glass as a medium of transformation
- What environmentalism means to the multi-sensory artist
- The intimate emotional landscape behind her installations
A captivating conversation about embodiment, identity, and the power of sensory experience, Goldie Poblador’s story reminds us that healing can take many forms—and that art is sometimes meant to be breathed in.
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Filipina artist Goldie Poblador who works in scent and glass interactive instillation art. Goldie specializes in glass flameworking combined with performance, video, installation, and scent embodying themes of feminism, the environment, and decolonization as it relates to the body. Goldie was born in Manila, The Philippines in 1987. Her parents; Napoleon Poblador, a lawyer and painter and Gizela Poblador, a home-maker who had earlier studied dentistry. Goldie is the eldest of four children; she has three younger brothers. She was, she says, an imaginative child who enjoyed creating worlds and performing. Her parents exposed her to art and music; she visited art shows, galleries and museums, learned the piano, and performed in a drama club. By the age of 18 Goldie was performing in a Punk band; something she likes to recreate today for fun. But it was her fascination with glass and painting that would steer her through college. She graduated from the University of The Philippines in 2009 with a BFA in Studio Art and later with an MFA Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design. Between colleges Goldie was introduced to the Scuola Abate Zanetti in Murano, Italy. She also worked as an artist and attended the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, co-founded by the renown glass sculptor Dale Chihuly. Goldie has been exhibited internationally at such institutions as the Yangon Secretariat Building Knockdown Center, Cemeti Art House, Singapore Art Museum, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Fine Art Museum of Hanoi and The Cultural Center of the Philippines. She is currently working on a show for the Art Fair in The Philippines in 2025. Goldie will be a featured artist in the
Sensorium, Stories of Glass and Fragrance; an exhibition that will explore the millennia-long relationships between glass, perfumery, and the storage of scent, at the Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) from September 7, 2024 - February 1, 2025. Goldie is married to Joseph Sousa and the couple live in New York City.
https://goldiepoblador.com/Information
Instagram: @_goldieland
https://www.instagram.com/_goldieland
Goldie’s favorite female artists:
Janine Antoni
Agnes Arellano
Joan Jonas
Camille Claudel
Kiki Smith
Host: Chris Stafford
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