The Heritage Meets Modernity Podcast

Welcome to the Heritage Meets Modernity Podcast where we explore how art, literature, and craft intersect with culture and contemporary life. Join us as we explore topics related to art and its history, and how it relates to our current society.  Given that widespread literacy was only achieved in the last century, how did ideas and information get passed down through the generations and across so...

Welcome to the Heritage Meets Modernity Podcast where we explore how art, literature, and craft intersect with culture and contemporary life. Join us as we explore topics related to art and its history, and how it relates to our current society.  Can everyone build a personal relationship with art? In this episode, we explore what it means to engage with art and how to approach building a meaningf...

Welcome to the Heritage Meets Modernity Podcast where we explore how art, literature, and craft intersect with culture and contemporary life. Join us as we explore topics related to art and its history, and how it relates to our current society.  In this episode, we discuss how museums and galleries influence cultural narratives and serve as important platforms for different interpretations of his...

Welcome to the Heritage Meets Modernity Podcast where we explore how art, literature, and craft intersect with culture and contemporary life. Join us as we explore topics related to art and its history, and how it relates to our current society.  In this episode, we discuss the importance of understanding the history and culture behind traditional arts and crafts, and the role of the artist in con...

Welcome to the Heritage Meets Modernity Podcast where we explore how art, literature, and craft intersect with culture and contemporary life. Join us as we explore topics related to art and its history, and how it relates to our current society.  In this episode we discuss how society's relationship to art and craft has changed over time, and how traditional crafts have evolved in a world that has...

Welcome to the Heritage Meets Modernity Podcast where we explore how history, art, literature, and craft intersect with culture and contemporary life.  In this debut episode we get to know more about Sophia, and how she is navigating a career shift together with the challenges she has faced along this journey. We talk about how she got into the world of urushi and maki-e, and why she made the deci...