art workers

Today we welcome artist and ceramist, Joel Gaitan. While celebrating life, death, and the afterlife, Gaitan’s work studies the matters of self-identity, sexuality, and ancestral lineage. From forgotten tongues, to erased cultures, Gaitan immerses into traditional hand building clay techniques, keeping a sacred tradition from Nicaragua & Central America alive in a colonized world. Since encount...

Our next guest is the spiritual, playful and energetic, Ever Velasquez. This is such a special episode where Ever reminds us of the important things in life, like kindness, helping others and finding purpose. I hope you enjoy the episode! Ever Velasquez is an artist and Santera/Curandera based in Los Angeles. Known for her performative work and for her photo-based and collage works, Ever’s practic...

This week's guest is a Nancy Lee. Lee (she/they) worked in art museums and organizations for 15 years in Communications roles for MOCA, GYOPO , and the Hammer. She is currently on sabbatical, experimenting with rest, play, volunteering, and other interests. Lee is also a self-taught textile artist and lives in their hometown of Los Angeles.

I started following the Instagram account Imagenes de Nicaragua in 2020 and through that account discovered the talented artist, Gabrielle Garcia-Steib. Gabrielle works in archives and moving image. Frequenting Nicaragua, and Mexico, her work explores the construction of narratives through outdated processes that connect Latin America with the Deep South. She is interested in ways in which collect...

I found out about Ravon through the newsletter she launched this earlier year, New Terms & Conditions, a glossary for an anti-colonial black feminist Critical Media Ecology or abc glossary for short. Ravon Ruffin Feliz (she/they) is a new york-based artist, cyber anthropologist, writer, educator, and founder of Citation Studio, a Black feminist experimental thinking studio mapping the possibilitie...

Welcome Phung Huynh to the art workers podcast! Huynh is a Los Angeles-based artist and educator with a practice in drawing, painting, public art, and community engagement. Her work explores cultural perception and representation. Huynh challenges beauty standards by constructing images of the Asian female body vis-à-vis plastic surgery to unpack how contemporary cosmetic surgery can whitewash cul...

Our first guest is Marvella Muro,  Self Help Graphic & Arts  Director of Artistic, Curatorial, and Education Programs and is currently curating SHG’s Getty PST: Art x Science exhibition,  Sinks: Places We Call Home.   Marvella works tirelessly in Los Angeles arts communities to build a bridge between artists and community engagement. Edited by Alvaro Parra at De La Parra Productions Jingle by:...

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