The Jule Museum Podcast

Jontay Kahm talks with Chelsi Banks '28 about his first solo museum exhibition Jontay Kahm: Personified Existence  organized by guest curator Nancy Strickland Chavis for The Jule Museum at Auburn University. Kahm, a Plains Cree designer from Mosquito First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada, approaches fashion with a combination of technical mastery and Indigenous ontology. Using materials such a...

How do we know what color is? Is color a feature of the world itself, or is it created through perception? Drawing from their book The Metaphysics of Color , Auburn University philosophers Michael Watkins and Elay Shech explore these fundamental questions. They examine how color shapes our understanding of reality and challenge us to reconsider whether colors exist independently of those who perce...

Doug Baulos talks about the exhibition "A Bird’s Eye View" on view at The Jule Museum from August 18, 2026 through December 6, 2026. The exhibition presents new work by Baulos in dialogue with 19th-century prints by John James Audubon. Across the 2026-2027 academic year, The Jule Museum is exploring themes of color, one of the most basic yet complex elements of visual art. Learn more abo...

The Kitchen Sisters, together with The Jule Museum , present "Quilts as Monuments: Sew Their Names" an episode to document the story behind our 2026 exhibition " Sew Their Names: Quilting, Creativity and Activism " at The Jule Museum. Presented as part of The Jule’s year of exhibitions celebrating the 250th anniversary of signing of the Declaration of Independence, Sew Their Na...

Caid Pitman reads "Poem about a Killdeer" a poem created for the exhibition "Lyric Birdscapes" at The Jule Museum. As an academic museum, The Jule Museum engages with faculty to develop tours and class assignments, creating active learning opportunities that enhance the student experience. Graduate students in Auburn University’s creative writing workshop, Poetry Writing: The N...

Jewel Odom reads "To Witness is to Grieve" a poem created for the exhibition "Lyric Birdscapes" at The Jule Museum. As an academic museum, The Jule Museum engages with faculty to develop tours and class assignments, creating active learning opportunities that enhance the student experience. Graduate students in Auburn University’s creative writing workshop, Poetry Writing: The...

Alexandria Skelton reads "tiny little things" a poem created for the exhibition "Lyric Birdscapes" at The Jule Museum. As an academic museum, The Jule Museum engages with faculty to develop tours and class assignments, creating active learning opportunities that enhance the student experience. Graduate students in Auburn University’s creative writing workshop, Poetry Writing: T...

Lizzie McGlynn reads "In the Reaching" a poem created for the exhibition "Lyric Birdscapes" at The Jule Museum. As an academic museum, The Jule Museum engages with faculty to develop tours and class assignments, creating active learning opportunities that enhance the student experience. Graduate students in Auburn University’s creative writing workshop, Poetry Writing: The Natu...

Davis Brasfield reads "Mirrorbird" a poem created for the exhibition "Lyric Birdscapes" at The Jule Museum. As an academic museum, The Jule engages with faculty to develop tours and class assignments, creating active learning opportunities that enhance the student experience. Graduate students in Auburn University’s creative writing workshop, Poetry Writing: The Natural, the So...

Tatyana Hill reads "Away from the Meadow" a poem created for the exhibition "Lyric Birdscapes" at The Jule Museum. As an academic museum, The Jule Museum engages with faculty to develop tours and class assignments, creating active learning opportunities that enhance the student experience. Graduate students in Auburn University’s creative writing workshop, Poetry Writing: The N...

Nicole Sealey talks with poets Donika Kelly and David Baker about birds, the 19th-century naturalist John James Audubon, and the exhibition "Lyric Birdscapes" at The Jule Museum. As a poet-in-residence at The Jule, Sealey commissioned Baker and Kelly to write new poems for The Jule in response to a print by Audubon for the exhibition "Lyric Birdscapes" (on view August 19, 2025...

Nicole Sealey talks with poets Donika Kelly and David Baker about birds, the 19th-century naturalist John James Audubon, and the exhibition "Lyric Birdscapes" at The Jule Museum. As a poet-in-residence at The Jule, Sealey commissioned Baker and Kelly to write new poems for The Jule in response to a print by Audubon for the exhibition "Lyric Birdscapes" (on view August 19, 2025...

Nicole Sealey talks with poets Donika Kelly and David Baker about birds, the 19th-century naturalist John James Audubon, and the exhibition "Lyric Birdscapes" at The Jule Museum. As a poet-in-residence at The Jule, Sealey commissioned Baker and Kelly to write new poems for The Jule in response to a print by Audubon for the exhibition "Lyric Birdscapes" (on view August 19, 2025...

Acclaimed poet Nicole Sealey talks about her work as a poet-in-residence at The Jule Museum. Working with Auburn’s collection by the 19th-century naturalist John James Audubon, Sealey pairs works from Audubon’s monumental “The Birds of America” series in the exhibition "Lyric Birdscapes" with both contemporary and historical poetic responses, inviting visitors to question the symbolic an...

Binh Danh in conversation with Krystle Stricklin, Assistant Curator of Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, recorded live at The Jule Museum in September 2025. Danh is the 2024 recipient of the William Collins Smith Auburn Award for Advancing American Art. The annual award, established by the museum in 2023 with a major gift from the Julia and Albert Smith Foundation, honors an Amer...

Binh Danh discusses his approach to photography, landscapes, and his Vietnamese heritage. His exhibition at The Jule features chlorophyll prints and daguerreotype images that blur the line between past and present, examining a transformation of American identity. Danh is the 2024 recipient of the William Collins Smith Auburn Award for Advancing American Art. The annual award, established by the mu...

Benjamin Bush is an Associate Professor in the School of Industrial and Graphic Design. He is interested in the culture and standards native to the industrial design studio and curriculum. Also interested in designing for and instilling "fun" in to all walks of life. Showcase brings together creative scholarship from across Auburn University. Showcase 2025 specifically centers on advocac...

Mario Bocanegra is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design in the School of Industrial and Graphic Design, where he teaches courses in interactive media, imagemaking, photo communications, and typography. Showcase brings together creative scholarship from across Auburn University. Showcase 2025 specifically centers on advocacy and process. In this podcast series, faculty discuss the process behin...

Robert Finkel is the Program Chair and Associate Professor of Graphic Design in the Auburn University School of Industrial and Graphic Design. Showcase brings together creative scholarship from across Auburn University. Showcase 2025 specifically centers on advocacy and process. In this podcast series, faculty discuss the process behind the work on view at The Jule Museum through July 6, 2025: htt...

Frank Hu is Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture, where he teaches studio in addition to courses in construction and graphic studies. Robert Sproull is an Associate Professor in Auburn’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture. Showcase brings together creative scholarship from across Auburn University. Showcase 2025 specifically centers on advocacy and process. In thi...

Marguerite Dreyer teaches Graphic Design in the Auburn University School of Industrial and Graphic Design. Showcase 2025 specifically centers on advocacy and process. In this podcast series, faculty discuss the process behind the work on view at The Jule Museum through July 6, 2025: https://jcsm.auburn.edu/ Support the show

Georges Fares is an Assistant Professor of Interior Design, Department of Consumer & Design Sciences in the College of Human Sciences. Showcase 2025 specifically centers on advocacy and process. In this podcast series, faculty discuss the process behind the work on view at The Jule Museum through July 6, 2025: https://jcsm.auburn.edu/ Support the show

Jia Wu, Ph. D. is an Assistant Professor, Department of Consumer & Design Sciences in the College of Human Sciences. Her accomplishments emphasize interdisciplinary and industry collaborations in functional apparel, primarily focusing on usercentered apparel design research. Showcase 2025 specifically centers on advocacy and process. In this podcast series, faculty discuss the process behind t...

David Shanks is an Assistant Professor in Auburn’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture. Showcase 2025 specifically centers on advocacy and process. In this podcast series, faculty discuss the process behind the work on view at The Jule Museum through July 6, 2025: https://jcsm.auburn.edu/ Support the show

Meirav Goldhour teaches in the Department of Consumer & Design Sciences in the College of Human Sciences at Auburn University. Showcase 2025 specifically centers on advocacy and process. In this podcast series, faculty discuss the process behind the work on view at The Jule Museum through July 6, 2025: https://jcsm.auburn.edu/ Support the show