103: Defying Tradition & Turning Loneliness into a Prolific Practice with Carmen Mardonez

09/20/21 • 63 min

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In a two-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles, California, there is an artist/mother embroidering pillows and sheets – mixing colors of threads to make new colors and working around all the nail holes currently in the wall to pin up new work and critique it from across the room. This inspiring woman is Carmen Mardonez. Carmen [...]

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102: Art as Life, Not a Job – Panel at Elsewhere Studios with Laura Deutch, Cara Judea Alhadeff & Carolina Porras

In this panel discussion I sat down with Carolina Porras, Director of Elsewhere Studios, Laura Deutch, a summer resident at Elsewhere Studios, and Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff, in Paonia, Colorado, where I was also living for several days this summer at the Elsewhere Studios residency with my own family. All three rely on a tight [...]

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104: Finding Power & Freedom in Authenticity – with curator Anna McKeown and artists Anna Wallace and Kathryn Rodrigues

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During a year of uncertainty and fear, these three artists I interviewed found catharsis and validation – all thanks to a curated show by Anna McKeown at Stay Home Gallery. Anna is part of a curatorial program at Stay Home Gallery which has given 8 selected curators the chance to curate an exhibition in 2021 [...]