B+S With Friends

For our 50th episode, enjoy this engaging conversation with NY Inspector General Lucy Lang, who oversees investigations into corruption, fraud, and abuse in New York State government. 

Fizz White is the Deputy Director of Mission Programs & Communications for The Matriots, a nonpartisan political action committee dedicated to supporting, endorsing, and encouraging women candidates. Listen in on our conversation about the importance of electing more women leaders. 

As we continue exploring the theme of taking back equity, justice, and the future of our country in our current exhibition, Reclaiming Orange , we are revisiting a compelling episode of B+S with Friends . This conversation features Sara Bennett, a former defense attorney turned award-winning photographer, and Mark Loughney, a formerly incarcerated artist. Sara’s work focuses on capturing the lives...

Shelley Brenner Baird is an Ohio-based artist whose work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and textile surface design. An archivist by instinct, Shelley collects and creates images to construct a visual vocabulary, often in response to human rights topics. You can see more of her work at: https://www.shelleybrennerbaird.com/

Christen Clifford is a mother, artist, and writer who is a fierce advocate for the trans community. Her work is currently in Body Freedom for Every (Body) at Project for Empty Space and is working on an experimental memoir documentary film about her experiences with ovarian, uterine, and breast cancers. She teaches at The New School and can be found on Bluesky at @cdclifford.bsky.social and www.ch...

Carla Rae Johnson’ is an artist that often addresses issues of social, political, and cultural importance through drawing, sculpture, conceptual, peformance, and installation art. You can find her at carlaraejohnson.org

Enjoy this episode with Donna Beisel, Director of Museum Operations at Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. 

Enjoy this episode with artist Robert Hightower, first recipient of the Bader+Simon Empowerment Grant. Hightower uses his art to show the struggle between vulnerabiity and strength —two things we all have but rarely show at the same time. 

Hilma's Ghost, a feminist artist collective, co-founded by Brooklyn-based artists Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray in 2020, conducts experimental pedagogy, transcultural dialogue, and collectivity through the lens of feminism and spirituality to build community and reckon with patriarchal art histories that have excluded women, trans, and nonbinary practitioners.

Sarah Potter is a renowned psychic medium, known for her exceptional Tarot reading abilities and deep occult knowledge. Her spiritual guidance, personalized sessions, and communal rituals have positively impacted countless lives, spanning private individuals and corporate clients alike as a forefront face in modern witchcraft. 

Adriene Jenik is an artist, educator, scholar-activist and end of life doula. Her work supports personal introspection, social critique, community building, and cultural transformation. Jenik's projects include "data humanization" performances, the crowd-sourced grief toolkit and repository “the Grief Deck” and public performances reading “climate futures” with her ECOtarot deck.  M...

Listen in on this repeat episode with professional artist, V.L. Cox, whose work has been highly active in projects that involve Human Rights and Equality. Cox is currently featured in  Riveting: Women Artists from the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Collection,  currently on view on the Bader+Simon podcast. 

Rachel Churner is director of the Carolee Schneemann Foundation, an art critic, editor, and part-time faculty member at Eugene Lang College at The New School, New York. Listen in to hear about her trajectory and what's coming up next at the Schneemann Foundation. 

Patricia Cronin is New York based, award-winning interdisciplinary visual artist whose paintings, sculptures and public art examine issues of gender, sexuality, and social justice.

Jerry Smith is the Head Curator and Curatorial Affairs Director at the Dayton Art Institute. Listen in as he talks about what excites him about curating, who he'd like to be stalled with in an elevator, and what's coming up next at DAI.

Enjoy this repeat episode with Sara Vance Waddell. Our upcoming exhibition will feature the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell collection that has recently been exhibited at the Dayton Art Museum.

Christopher Leigh Roberts is a scholar, teacher, father, artist and journalist who was wrongly convicted and incarcerated, yet is working to transform the educational system and ensure that no one falls behind. Creativity and education are at the foundation of his work, where he designs and facilitates courses that challenge conventional boundaries, encourages hands-on learning while aiming to spa...

Lewis Derogene, artistically known as PhenomenaLewis, is the Head of Exhibitions at MoCA CT where she assists with curation, manages exhibitions and visitor experiences, and creates programming, while also teaching neurodiverse adults.

Our next exhibition features how artists use their work to creatively discuss disabilities and neurodiversity. Please enjoy this repeat episode with the prolific artist Appleton, an artist and photographer who has been creating art, images, and sculptures his entire life. After surviving a diabetic coma at the age of six, he has gone on to inspire millions of people living with diabetes to carry o...

Listen in on artists Sharon Koelblinger and Mychaelyn Michalec talk about their processes, themes of their work, and the artists who most inspire them.

Artists Migiwa Orimo and Calista Lyon discuss the themes reflected in their work, their greatest influences, and the New Worlds Exhibition currently on view at The Weston Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Matt Distel and Sso-Rha Kang, co-curators for the Ohio exhibit of NMWA's Women to Watch exhibition series, discuss their process in putting together this spectacular show that focuses on women artists in Ohio.

Hear our founder and podcast host tell the story about how her art collection informed the start of Bader+Simon, why Cincinnati, and how Michael Stipe is on her bucket list.

Montez Mickens, a remarkable entrepreneur who, after serving an 11-year prison sentence, discusses his life and how he embarked on a path of redemption and success.

Sara Bennett is a former defense attorney turned award winning photographer who focuses on women with life sentences, both inside and outside of prison. Mark Loughney is a formerly incarcerated artist who has exhibited extensively and uses his art to explore the impact of mass incarceration.