055: A Creative Change of Perspective

Catalyst is a Creative Industries podcast, from Chapman University. Each episode features Chapman students who have completed a Podcasting course through the Center for Creative and Cultural Industries at the university. Students who had no podcasting experience or technical ability in the genre before taking the course were able to contribute all the segments to Catalyst this season with the goal being that they will take this 'hands-on' experience and carry it over to the launching of their very own series. Each episode of Season 7 will feature one to two different interviews conducted by CCI students, exploring different aspects of the Creative and Cultural Industries. Our first segment this week is brought to you by Rocky Wetzler who sits down with Kara Vorabutr a food writer and photographer whose work expands across multiple disciplines. Using food as both her subject of study and medium of art, Vorabutr produces projects that feature food as a conduit for people and cultures. She recently published a Bi-annual print journal and conceptual food project based on the art of eating, sharing, and connecting. Listen along as Rocky and Kara talk about the challenges of emerging art forms and the many unique ways to tell stories through creative and cultural mediums and platforms. In our final section of the season, senior Jalen Dural, interviews local Orange County Artist, Presley Lozano. Jalen delves into the mind of an artist who is trying to take the right steps towards being successful and explores with Presley the concepts of art expressionism and the reality of making a living as an artist in the modern marketplace. Listeners can hear how Presley chooses to try and push the boundaries of what she sees in art.