art Work

Real Talk/KipTalk is a serial live talk show about the state of contemporary performance in New York City. Risa, Geoffrey Jackson Scott, Sheetal Prajapti, Lucy Sexton, George Sanchez, and Amy Khoshbin talk about artists, activists, administrators, and when (and if) they collide in this not-so-unique point of our history.', '7. Real Talk/Kip Talk with Geoffrey Jackson Scott, Sheetal Prajapti, Lucy Sexton, George Sanchez, and Amy Khoshbin

Associate Producers: Risa Shoup and Denise Shu Mei
Audio Engineer: Timothy McAleer

In the 5th episode of art Work, we look back at PS122xLoisaida's Long Table discussion on Cultural Equity back in November 2016. Associate Producer Denise plays stage manager and runs some clips from the discussion as special guest Maura Cuffie and Risa Shoup dig deeper into the undercurrents and current currents stemming from that evening. What are we really talking about when we talk about "cultural equity"? Also, dear leaders in organizations, some things for you to think about as you move forward in this work. Get a recap of the evening in tweets here. You can connect with Risa at @The_Risa (twitter) and @risar (instagram) and Denise at @publiclydee.

Maura Cuffie is one of three co-founders of the collective The Free Breakfast Program (FBP)—a platform for artful interactions and new ways of being inspired by the work of the Black Panther Party. Most recently FBP has exhibited with the No Longer Empty Curatorial Lab, NYU’s Department of Art and Politics, and the Painted Bride Art Center. Recent projects include A Lot More Beautiful, Ernest Cole Cultural Exchange, and Breakfast for Dinner concerning the topics reclaiming space, identity politics, artful protest, and more. She comes out of Drexel University with a degree in sociology focusing on the sociology of images and identity politics. By day she works as the Program Manager at EmcArts.

Associate Producers: Risa Shoup and Denise Shu Mei
Audio Engineer: Timothy McAleer

art Work is a monthly, roundtable-format podcast that celebrates the work (see: labor, skill, thoughtfulness) of artists and cultural workers in New York City, with a particular focus on performance as well as community engagement. Hosted by FABnyc’s Executive Director Risa Shoup, each episode features 2 to 3 guests from the arts and culture sector reflecting upon a weekly theme. With this podcast, we want to celebrate contemporary performance and art bring to the table arts and cultural leaders from the Lower East Side and beyond, and elevate the performance lens as a powerful way of navigating the world have a means of expression to talk about difficult issues and political discourse as it manifests in the contemporary art realm debunk the myth that the creation and production of art and culture functions only as a form of entertainment and does not consist of “real work” We’re also excited to feature a range of LES-based / LES-grown musicians who will be graciously providing some sweet tunes to bring us into and out of each episode.

Associate Producers: Risa Shoup and Denise Shu Mei

Audio Engineer: Timothy McAleer

In the 3rd episode of art Work, we gather round with Geoffrey Jackson Scott, Betty Yu, and Megan Marshall to talk about generosity! Generous labor? Laborious generosity? We talk Thank You emails, listening, compensation... and so much more! We have our first segment of "+1/-1", a lightning round segment where our guests get to literally '+1' or '-1' a statement (caveats a plenty). Pizza Rat, anyone?

Betty Yu is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, educator and activist. She is a co-founder of the Chinatown Art Brigade, a cultural collective telling stories of Chinatown tenants fighting gentrification through public projections. Her documentary “Resilience” about her garment worker mother fighting against sweatshop conditions, screened at national and international film festivals including the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival. Yu’s multi-media installation, “The Garment Worker” was featured at Tribeca Film Institute’s Interactive. She co-created "Monument to Anti-Displacement Organizing" in the Agitprop! show at Brooklyn Museum. Betty was a 2012 Public Artist-in-Resident with the Laundromat Project and is a 2015 Cultural Agent with the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC) a people-powered social justice and art network. Ms. Yu is currently on the Board of Directors of Working Films, Deep Dish TV and Third World Newsreel, progressive media and film organizations.\r\n\r\nBetty received the 2016 SOAPBOX Artist Award from the Laundromat Project. She holds a BFA from NYU\'s TSOA and a MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College. Betty is a 2016 A Blade of Grass Fellow for Socially Engaged Art for her project with Chinatown Art Brigade. Ms. Yu\'s organizing recognitions include being the recipient of the Union Square Award for grassroots activism and a semi-finalist of the National Brick “Do Something” Award for community leadership in Chinatown.
Website: www.bettyyu.net
Twitter: @bettyyu21, @CtownArtBrigade
Chinatown Art Brigade: www.chinatownartbrigade.org

Geoffrey Jackson Scott is a Brooklyn-based creative producer, independent curator, engagement strategist, and cultural organizer. He is Co-Founder and Creative Director of the communications and engagement strategy firm Peoplmovr. Geoffrey is also often seen at the Public Theater and Museum of Moving Image, as part of his work with Peoplmovr.
Instagram / Twitter; @peoplmovr

Megan Marshall serves as the Director of Internal Operations at New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW). Prior to NYTW, Ms. Marshall served as the Controller at New York City Opera (NYCO) under George Steel and was on the team to through NYCO’s bankruptcy. Previously, she served as Payroll Manager for The Public Theater. Ms. Marshall has also worked in various capacities for Vineyard Arts Project on Martha’s Vineyard, Theatre for One with Tony-Award-Winning Set Designer Christine Jones, artist Soibhan Cronin who works/performs in San Francisco, Santa Fe, and New York, Brooklyn Academy of Music, P.S.122, and O&M Press Company. She received her MA in Performing Arts Administration from New York University and her BA in Theater Management from College of Santa Fe in New Mexico.
Twitter: @meganemarshall
NYTW: www.nytw.org

Many thanks to Megan for coordinating space.
Associate Producers: Risa Shoup and Denise Shu Mei
Audio Engineer: Timothy McAleer

Gan Golan is a NY Times bestselling author, artist and activist. His books include the hit satire “Goodnight Bush” and critically-acclaimed “The Adventures of Unemployed Man.” His work combines grassroots community organizing with high-profile, media-genic public spectacles that shift popular narratives and mobilize communities. A fan of pop-culture, he has created original video games projected onto the side of buildings to challenge corporate power, and invented a fake sports team, the corporate "Tax Dodgers" to address economic inequality, who were installed in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Recently, he helped design the largest climate mobilization in history, The People’s Climate March. As an artist he has created visual works for Erykah Badu, Henry Rollins, Willie Nelson and Neil De Grasse Tyson. He is a co-founder of the The Movement Netlab, a Think & Do tank, which studies and supports decentralized mass social movements.

Raquel de Anda is an independent curator and cultural producer based in Brooklyn, NY. De Anda began her career as Associate Curator at Galería de la Raza, a contemporary Latino arts organization in San Francisco, CA. Born and raised on the U.S. Mexico border, her work focuses on themes of separation, inclusion and the intersections of migrant rights with climate change and other movements for racial and economic justice. She is a firm believer in the power of art and culture to transform society. De Anda holds an MS from Parsons School of Design, with a focus on integrating cultural equity in the field of arts and culture. Recent exhibitions include The Ripple Effect: Currents of Socially Engaged Art (Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.), Art in Odd Places intervention festival (NYC), and overseeing creative production for the historic People’s Climate March (NYC), with hundreds of artists and 400,000 people participating.