Live Culture

This Month on Live Culture :  a discussion with ceramicist Kiara Matos about developing a new method for making glazes that uses a common material that- in big quantities- creates disposal issues! Find out about this exciting project, developed by Kiara with Jan Schroers, the Robert Higgin Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Yale University. The show is also about the chal...

Live Culture: In the woods with artist Natalia Petkov This episode is a discussion with artist Natalia Petkov about her art practice, which involves hand made cyanotype works based on her walks through the woods. Join us as we walk together in Central Parks’ North Woods and discuss her process, what it means to make work about the natural world now, and what the ecology of urban park spaces- like...

Live Culture: making bioplastics with artist Janine Brown This episode of Live Culture is an interview with artist Janine Brown as she cooks bioplastics in her Bridgeport studio!  Janine constructs sewn quilt-like pieces that show to full advantage the various bioplastic materials which include plant, flower, garden and kitchen ingredients. The show is half artistic chemistry, and half cooking sho...