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Off-Leash Arts: Conversations on Creativity
by Tanya Shaffer
Host Tanya Shaffer talks with artists from a wide range of disciplines about their creative process: what excites them, ignites them, and helps them get to that free-flowing creative state where they feel they’ve slipped the leash.
Episodes
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Author Jennifer Steil: Go Somewhere That Challenges Your Beliefs
Jennifer Steil is a British-American writer currently living in France. She’s the author of the novel Exile Music, which won Grand Prize in the Eyelands 2020 Book Awards and the Multicultural and Historical International Book Awards. It was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Lesbian Fiction...
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Writer and Teacher Laurie Wagner: Pray That You Get Lost
Laurie Wagner has been publishing books and essays and teaching writing for the last 25 years. In her Wild Writing classes, she helps people unzip what’s inside them and get ink on the page. Laurie teaches online and takes people around the world to places like Kathmandu; San Miguel de Allende…
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Writer-Translator Mara Faye Lethem: Found in Translation
Mara Faye Lethem has received numerous international awards for her translations of contemporary Catalan authors, including the inaugural 2022 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award for Max Besora’s The Adventures and Misadventures of Joan Orpí and the 2022 Joan Baptiste Cendrós International…
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Actor Kelly AuCoin: Ferocious Listening
Kelly AuCoin is best known for playing cult favorite “Dollar Bill” Stearn on Showtime’s Billions and Pastor Tim (known to fans as Pastor Groovyhair) on FX’s iconic drama The Americans. Last year he starred in Hulu’s The Girl from Plainville and AppleTV+’s WeCrashed and is currently filming the FX...
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Author-Columnist Political Commentator Steve Phillips: How We Win the Civil War
Steve Phillips suspected there would be no “red wave” in November. One of the most astute political thinkers of our time, he showed us, in his book Brown is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Created a New American Majority, that people of color in combination with progressive whites...
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Visual Artist Donna Alena Hrabčáková: The Paradox of Beauty
Artist and art therapist Donna Alena Hrabčáková has dedicated her life to the healing capacities of art. She has lived and worked in Ohio, California, Slovakia, and the Red Lake Nation Reservation in Northern Minnesota. Her exquisitely colorful paintings are dreamlike, vivid, and profoundly…
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Poet-Playwright-Essayist Alison Luterman: Where My Hope Is
Alison Luterman is a writer of extraordinary passion, power, courage and depth. Her work is both timely and timeless, engaging with contemporary issues in profound and complex ways while simultaneously probing the fundamental question of what it means to be human. In this conversation, we talked...
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Writer-Podcaster Debra Gipson: Everything Is Possible
Debra Gipson is the creator of the award-winning podcast Dear Michelle, a memoir framed as a series of letters to former First Lady Michelle Obama. In her podcast, Debra manages to be both laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving as she discusses her rise from poverty and abuse to the hallowed…
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Visual Artist Marjorie Morgan: The Landscape of Dreams
Marjorie Morgan has had an extraordinarily varied career in the arts. After receiving a BA in Dance from Oberlin College, she spent over 25 years dancing professionally and creating dances and performance art to be performed by herself and others. When a serious injury compromised her ability to...
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Singer-Songwriter-Activist Holly Near: I Am Open, and I Am Willing
Holly Near has had a legendary performing career spanning over 50 years, that has taken her from Hollywood to Broadway to marches and rallies and concert halls all over the world. One of the most powerful, consistent, and outspoken singers and songwriters of our time, her music elevates spirits…
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Actor-Writer-Filmmaker Shruti Tewari: Think Amorphous
Two decades ago, Shruti Tewari left a career as an investment banker to raise her children and pursue a life in the arts. Since then she has acted in projects ranging from independent films to Bollywood Blockbusters, as well as becoming a playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker, committed to...
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Writer-Editor-Podcaster Carol Lloyd: Creating a Life Worth Living
In this episode, I talk with Carol Lloyd, author of the ground-breaking book Creating a Life Worth Living: Career Counseling for the Creatively Inclined, which came out in 1997 and is still going strong. We reflect on the book’s insights and lessons, what Carol gleaned from her conversations with...
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Dancer-Choreographer Tonya Marie Amos: Dance for the Revolution
Tonya Amos is the founder of Grown Women Dance Collective, a company made up of internationally renowned dancers in their forties and fifties who have retired from full-time positions in the nation’s finest professional dance ensembles. Tonya combines her exuberant spirit, her passion for arts…
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Singer-Songwriter Noe Venable: Pilgrim at Creativity’s Spring
Singer-songwriter Noe Venable has been called “a homegrown, full-blown musical visionary” (Puremusic.com). Her gorgeously layered songs, rich in myth and poetry, speak to the wilderness in each of our souls. Although she’s still young, she’s already had a rich and varied career, releasing the…
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Playwright-Performer-Visual Artist Herbert Sigüenza: Whitse Jesus Was the Original Fake News
Herbert Sigüenza is a founding member of the brilliant, hilarious, and politically incisive group Culture Clash, the most produced Latino performance troupe in the country. He’s also the playwright-in-residence at the San Diego Repertory Theatre and has appeared as an actor in theatre, tv and…
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Poet Athena Kashyap: Where a Poem Lives
Athena Kashyap is the author of two exquisite books of poetry, Crossing Black Waters and Sita’s Choice. In this episode, host Tanya Shaffer talks with her about her writing process and the mysteries of courting the muse. They also discuss some of the themes Athena explores in her books, including...
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Multidisciplinary Artist and Disability Rights Activist Gwynneth Van Laven: Am I Allowed to Laugh at This?
Multidisciplinary artist Gwynneth VanLaven uses photography, installation, performance, writing, and social engagement to challenge stigma, which she says “takes the real experience of real people and squashes it flat into stereotypes and presumptions.” Through work that is both playful and dark,...
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Singer-Songer-Climate Activist Vienna Teng: Following A Soul’s Whisper
Vienna Teng is a powerhouse. Her 2013 album AIMS received four independent music awards, including best adult contemporary album, the most any artist has ever received in a given year. Throughout her twenty-year career, she has released five studio albums and two live albums. She also…
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Writer-Actor-Director-Activist Michael Gene Sullivan: Never Shoot for Compromise
Michael Gene Sullivan wears many hats. In this episode of Off-Leash Arts, the prolific playwright-blogger-actor-director-teacher-rabble rouser talks with host Tanya Shaffer about his unusual writing process, his work with the Tony Award-Winning San Francisco Mime Troupe (“always outspoken; never...
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Visual Artist Mia Risberg: The Viewer Makes the Narrative
Ann Arbor, Michigan-based visual artist Mia Risberg talks with Off-Leash Arts host Tanya Shaffer about her creative process, her series “Lost Child,” the abstract seascapes she made after 9/11, and her current series-in-progress of 100 small paintings.
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Host Tanya Shaffer talks with artists from a wide range of disciplines about their creative process: what excites them, ignites them, and helps them get to that free-flowing creative state where they feel they’ve slipped the leash.
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