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Blog - The Project Room

by The Project Room

A series of one-on-one interviews with creative people in arts and culture

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Episodes

  1. Podcast Episode 21

    Displacement: Visual Artist Veit Stratmann Paris-based artist Veit Stratmann, who presented the work title L'Aquila at The Project Room in 2012, has made a practice of researching and writing about places of massive upheaval and its impact on the people who have lived there. After the recent...

  2. Podcast Episode 20

    Learning Outside The Classroom: Electronic Artist Michna Adrian Michna shares his perspective on what makes a good song, how college transformed his musical style, and advice for young musicians.

  3. Podcast Episode 19:

    The New Art Marketplace: Digital Artist Kevin McCoy In this interview, we visit with Kevin McCoy during the launch of his first company, an online platform for the buying and selling of digital artwork. Monegraph, as this company is called, could change everything about how we value artwork and…

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  4. Podcast Episode 18:

    In 1978, Gilbert Baker, a drag queen and community activist in San Francisco, responded to his friend Harvey Milk's assertion that the gay rights movement needed a new symbol. The pink triangle had been in use but was connected to the atrocities of the Holocaust, and the movement needed something...

  5. Podcast Episode 17

    This month's podcast is a conversation with Seattle-based artist Ellie Dicola. As part of Seattle Storefronts, a program that places artist projects in vacant storefront spaces, Ellie created the installation Was Here. As a corporeal monument to places that are gone, Was Here is a documentation…

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  6. Podcast Episode 16

    For this month's podcast, TPR Editor Tessa Hulls sat down with Sarah Smith and Micah Stanovsky of Sawhorse Revolution, a Seattle nonprofit that teaches carpentry skills to high school youth. With an emphasis on projects that serve their local communities, Sawhorse has constructed everything from...

  7. Podcast Episode 15

    TPR is proud to share our first ever online sound piece, created by New York-based Daniel Neumann in response to our interview with him in his studio. The conversation addresses the idea of monument through Daniel's use of found objects and personal history- have a listen!

  8. Podcast Episode 14

    Getting Good: Interdisciplinary Artist Tameka Norris Artist Tameka Norris dives into issues of intellectual property, authorship, appropriation and her relationship to art history as she discusses the vulnerabilities encountered while building a legacy in our digital era.

  9. Podcast Episode 13

    This month, Director of the Project Room, Tia Kramer sat down with Seattle-based poet and artist Natasha Marin. Their discussion moved from her various works in poetry, performance, and visual art, to her upbringing in Canada and how the country's politics influences her work.

  10. Podcast Episode 12

    Monuments, Durian, & Portable Toilets: Artist Jenifer Wofford Visual artist and educator Jenifer Wofford met with TPR editor, Tessa Hulls, in San Francisco to discuss the themes of monument and memory and their presence in Jenifer's diverse body of work.

  11. Podcast Episode 11

    Paradox and Choice: Visual Artist Jennifer Dalton Visual artist Jennifer Dalton hosted TPR at her Brooklyn studio recently, where she makes thought-provoking work about her (and our) surroundings.

  12. Podcast Episode 10

    The legacy of Alvin Ailey has a powerful presence for those who appreciate the history of American dance, and American culture in general. This month in our podcast series, Alvin Ailey dancer and choreographer Matthew Rushing talks with Jess Van Nostrand about his memorable introduction to dance…

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  13. Podcast Episode 9

    Jess Van Nostrand took a New York-centric storyline this month, interviewing author Sherill Tippins, who recently published a book about the famous NY art hub, The Chelsea Hotel. Sherill uncovered incredible stories about the creative people who lived and visit this historic hotel, and it’s a...

  14. Podcast Episode 8

    Icelandic visual artist Hrafnhildur Arnardottir aka Shoplifter invited TPR Founder Jess to her studio in New York for a conversation about collecting, making, and our current Big Question, "How Are We Remembered?" Much was discussed beyond these topics as well, including playing between art and...

  15. Podcast Episode 7

    Jess sits down with artist Juan Pablo Macias to talk about his upcoming show that documents

  16. Podcast Episode 6

    Japanese Noh master Munenori Takeda and composer Garrett Fisher of the Fisher Ensemble join Jess at the Project room to talk about their collaboration and our current topic of "transformation" and how it relates to the rich tradition of opera and Japanese Noh Theatre.

  17. Podcast Episode 5

    Musican and visual artist Paul Rucker and Jess sit down to talk about his on-going project on slavery and its relationship to current American issues about race and equality

  18. Podcast Episode 4

    Author Jesmyn Ward stops by the Project Room to have a conversation about her memoir "Men We Reaped"

  19. Podcast Episode 3

    Writer, Director, an Actor Peres Owino visits the Project Room to discuss her new film "Bound: Africans vs. African Americans"

  20. Podcast Episode 2

    Author Rebecca Walker visited The Project Room on November 18, 2013 to talk with TPR Founder Jess Van Nostrand and Off Paper Editor Tessa Hulls about her latest book, Adé: A Love Story, the fiction-like memoir about the man she fell in love with during her travels as a young woman.

  21. Podcast Episode 1

    Brothers and authors Joe & David Henry join Jess at the Project Room to talk about their new book, Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

A series of one-on-one interviews with creative people in arts and culture

HOSTED BY

The Project Room

Produced by Jess Van Nostrand

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