Season 2: Episode 3: Sara Nishikawa :|: wiggle and take a chance
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12/20/23 • 123 min
This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Sara Nishikawa.
Sara is based in Detroit, Michigan. Her sculptural practice coexists with a profession in nonprofit administration. Her approach to studio practice is one of desired balance, but also recognizing the peaks and valleys of creativity and life. As part of her creative practice, she hosts one-day baking residencies, known as Mostly Butter. Throughout our conversation, Sara comes back to the importance of your community of support as a lifeline to keeping creativity alive.
Please enjoy this episode with Sara Nishikawa.
To learn more about Sara’s work follow her on Instagram @supersarebear and @mostlybutter and her website www.saranishikawa.com
Podcast: www.theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com Instagram: @theartistinmeisdeadpodcast
Host Information: www.rhondawillers.com Instagram: @r_willers
Studio Mix #15 :|: Sara Nishikawa
Pork Soda by Glass Animals
DLZ by TV on the radio
Maps by Yeah Yeah yeahs
Your Dog by Soccer Mommy
Intro by The XX
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7oC95RgS8f6epQTv4EBvyl
Sara Nishikawa’s Biography:
Born and raised in Honolulu, HI, Sara Nishikawa is an artist and arts worker based in Detroit, MI. She is currently the artist-in-residence at Greenwich House Pottery in New York and has exhibited her work at Simone DeSousa Gallery and Spaysky Fine Art Gallery LLC. She runs Mostly Butter, an artist residency where she and an artist bake something they’ve always wanted to bake. She holds a BA in Psychology from Loyola Marymount University, MA in Visual Arts from CSUN, and an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Arts. She has a small dog named Angus and a cat named Kitty.
Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com
This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Sara Nishikawa.
Sara is based in Detroit, Michigan. Her sculptural practice coexists with a profession in nonprofit administration. Her approach to studio practice is one of desired balance, but also recognizing the peaks and valleys of creativity and life. As part of her creative practice, she hosts one-day baking residencies, known as Mostly Butter. Throughout our conversation, Sara comes back to the importance of your community of support as a lifeline to keeping creativity alive.
Please enjoy this episode with Sara Nishikawa.
To learn more about Sara’s work follow her on Instagram @supersarebear and @mostlybutter and her website www.saranishikawa.com
Podcast: www.theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com Instagram: @theartistinmeisdeadpodcast
Host Information: www.rhondawillers.com Instagram: @r_willers
Studio Mix #15 :|: Sara Nishikawa
Pork Soda by Glass Animals
DLZ by TV on the radio
Maps by Yeah Yeah yeahs
Your Dog by Soccer Mommy
Intro by The XX
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7oC95RgS8f6epQTv4EBvyl
Sara Nishikawa’s Biography:
Born and raised in Honolulu, HI, Sara Nishikawa is an artist and arts worker based in Detroit, MI. She is currently the artist-in-residence at Greenwich House Pottery in New York and has exhibited her work at Simone DeSousa Gallery and Spaysky Fine Art Gallery LLC. She runs Mostly Butter, an artist residency where she and an artist bake something they’ve always wanted to bake. She holds a BA in Psychology from Loyola Marymount University, MA in Visual Arts from CSUN, and an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Arts. She has a small dog named Angus and a cat named Kitty.
Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com
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Season 2: Episode 2: Carmen Radley :|: creative river streams and reclaiming the forgotten
This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Carmen Radley
I met Carmen through the online writing community and newsletter, The Isolation Journals, where she serves as the managing editor and host of the monthly writing hour called The Hatch. In this conversation you’ll hear how Carmen became a co-collaborator with the founder, author Suleika Jaouad, and how The Isolation Journals has evolved in so many beautiful ways.
Carmen is based in Austin, Texas, and her family has been rooted in Texas since the early 1900s. Before coming to her present role and work, Carmen was a k-12 educator, hospital ship journalist, and professional biography writer. As we talked, she shared that her current personal project is focusing on reclaiming her hometown of Sour Lake, Texas, as a forgotten place. She is writing this book with no promise that it will be published, but this allows her to explore and evolve it before the pressures of the market come on it. Carmen’s love of literature and her poetics are so evident in this conversation - I can’t wait for you to experience it!
Please enjoy this episode with Carmen Radley.
To learn more about Carmen’s work follow her on Instagram via @theisolationjournals and check out the community at TheIsolationJournals.com and on substack: https://theisolationjournals.substack.com
Studio Mix #14 :|: Carmen Radley
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
The Promise by Sturgill Simpson (When in Rome cover)
16, Maybe Less by Calexico, Iron & Wine
Texas Sun by Khruangbin & Leon Bridges
Summer's End by John Prine
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2apnzasqONvzmEuhNMOjID
Carmen Radley’s Biography:
Carmen Radley is the editor of the Isolation Journals. She’s currently writing a climate change memoir about her hometown of Sour Lake, Texas, an early twentieth-century oil boomtown where her family has worked in the oilfield for more than a century. A graduate of the University of Texas and Bennington College, she lives in Austin, Texas.
Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com
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Season 2, EPISODE 4: RAHELEH FILSOOFI :|: immense, boundless, and limitless
This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Raheleh Filsoofi.
Raheleh is based in Nashville, Tennessee. Born in Tehran and raised during the post-Islamic Revolution era and eight years of war with Iraq that followed, she is a keen observer of the world, integrating the subtleties of experiences within her performances and art.
When we spoke, Raheleh was in her third week of an artist residency at MacDowell in New Hampshire. She had recently completed an incredible year that included multiple significant exhibitions and performances, and as part of her residency she was taking time to reflect on the work she had completed in the past year.
Be sure to listen to the end of our conversation where she shares part of her newest poem.
To learn more about Raheleh follow her on Instagram @rahafilsoofi and check out her website www.rahelehfilsoofi.com
Notes from the show:
Fragile handle with care: https://www.rahelehfilsoofi.com/blank
Bite: https://www.rahelehfilsoofi.com/bite
Say Their Names: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0d0IJMTdE4
Podcast: www.theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com Instagram: @theartistinmeisdeadpodcast
Host Information: www.rhondawillers.com Instagram: @r_willers
Studio Mix #15 :|: Raheleh Filsoofi
Reza Filsoofi: Whispers of Persia
Bamboo Water Fountain 24/7
Best Oud Instrumentals (Mixed by Billy Esteban)
National Arab Orchestra - Ahwak - Chadi Kassem
Erkan Ogur
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kQf78hfOk3QVxHKFasYWO
Raheleh Filsoofi’s Biography:
Filsoofi is collector of soil and sound, an itinerant artist, and a feminist curator. Her geographical, disciplinary and conceptual practice take on critical narratives about movement, immigration, and social activism. Clay and sound are the nexus of her practice and act as expressive mediums, with their cryptic and architectural qualities engendering new narratives through diverse aesthetic strategies such as multimedia installations and immersive sound performances. Her art disrupts the borders that exist between us and seeks a more inclusive world, illuminating and challenging policies and politics.
Her current and recent exhibitions include Imagined Boundaries, an interactive multimedia installation at Gibbes Museum in Charleston, SC (2023-2024), and Only Sound Remains, an interactive multimedia installation at the Sharjah Biennial 15, Thinking Historically in the Present in Sharjah, UAE (2023).
Filsoofi’s Imagined Boundaries, a multimedia installation, consisting of two separate exhibitions, debuted concurrently in a solo exhibition at the Abad Gallery in Tehran and group exhibition Dual Frequency at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida in 2017. The installation in each country connected audiences in the U.S. and Iran for few hours in the night of the show opening.
Raheleh's project, 'Listening: The Fourth String,' in collaboration with musician Reza Filsoofi, introduces an interactive instrument and platform called ShahTár. Through public performances, it highlights the contributions of the silenced Iranian musician and Sufi, Moshtagh Ali Shah, to music while emphasizing the power of listening to drive community engagement and promote social change.
She has been the 2022 Winner of the 1858 Contemporary Southern Art Award and the recipient of the 2021 Southern Prize Tennessee State Fellowship. She is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics in the Department of Art at Vanderbilt University and holds the secondary appointment at the Blair School of Music. She received her M.F.A. in Fine Arts from Florida Atlantic University and a B.F.A. in Ceramics from Al-Zahra University in Tehran, Iran.
Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com
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