Across the Studio

In the 19th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Daniel Tagbo, a figurative surrealist artist based in Brooklyn, originally from St. Louis. Daniel creates work exploring psychological themes of journey, searching, and the American Dream through surrealism, mythology, and lived experience. His first collection, Fever Dreams, created in his bedroom after graduation, was a dream...

In the 18th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Sophie Kitching, a French and British artist based in New York City who works across painting, sculpture, installation, and found object collection. Born on the Isle of Wight, raised in Paris, and now a decade into her practice in New York, Sophie creates work inspired by nature, architecture, literature, and the specific color...

In the 17th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Akiva Listman, a New York City based painter and third generation New Yorker whose shaped canvas works transform the everyday objects of city life into something worth stopping for. Subway seats, metrocards, road signs, pigeons, locks, and cones...the things most New Yorkers walk past without thinking...are Frankensteined toget...

In the 16th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Amanda Zheng, a New Zealand born, New York based visual artist and designer who graduated from Parsons School of Design with a BFA in communication design. Her work spans fine art, graphic design, and experimental material practice — from medium transfers and metal engravings to lithographic prints. Sponsored by Adobe and Apple...

In the 15th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Dipa Halder, a Brooklyn based artist working across abstract painting, florals, tablescapes, and interior design. Born in India and raised in the Bay Area, Dipa spent years as a software engineer at Figma before quitting her job the day she got back from painting a mural for their London office, not because she had planned to,...

In the 14th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman runs into Diego Miró-Rivera on the streets of Tribeca during New York Art Week. No studio. No appointment. No microphones. Just a U-Haul truck and the loudest corner in New York. Diego Miró-Rivera graduated from Yale in 2023 and has spent the last three years living on the road, with the back of his truck as his studio. He is a land artist, o...

In the 13th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Mallory Granata, the Detroit-born, New York-based founder of Impermanence Studios, a multidisciplinary atelier working across sculpture, wearable objects, and material experimentation. Her practice exists at the intersection of fashion and art, deeply informed by archival research and unconventional materials — shark teeth, sea...

In the 12th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Danielle Simone, a New York City based photographer, painter, and multimedia artist classically trained at Parsons, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been featured in Vogue, the New York Times, and Visionary Projects NYC and her surrealist, mad-hatter aesthetic has a way of maki...

In the 11th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Alyssa Stevens, a New York-based artist working primarily in oil pastel on canvas. Rooted in memory, longing, and the in-between spaces formed by childhood, Alyssa's practice returns again and again to the places that feel suspended in time. Her work is immediately recognizable — colorful, playful, and intentionally chaotic...

In the 10th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Cam DeMars, a filmmaker and painter originally from Montana, now based in New York. After years of filming professional skiers and alpine athletes across the west, Cam co-founded Benshi Creative before recently launching dontknow. film co, a documentary-focused company built around story-first filmmaking. Cam works across film,...

In the 9th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Kwamé Azure Gomez, a painter originally from Akron, Ohio, now based in New Haven, Connecticut. Kwamé earned her BFA from the University of Akron and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and recently opened her debut solo exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kwamé works in oil, spray pai...

In the 8th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Mary Royall Wilgis, a contemporary artist originally from South Carolina and now based in Brooklyn, New York.  Mary Royall calls herself a light painter, and her practice centers on a method she developed called light foraging: taking raw, unstretched canvas out into the street or park, and painting the imprint of sunlight and s...

In the 7th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Leda Tsoutreli, a Greek-born painter who lives and works in New York City, where she recently completed her MFA at Pratt Institute. At just 23, Tsoutreli landed a solo show at Palo Gallery one month after graduating—a debut that sold out at the opening. Tsoutreli works in oil, creating expansive abstract compositions that explor...

In the sixth episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Ryann Woods Ham, a Brooklyn-based painter originally from Chico, California. After studying graphic design and spending years working in packaging design, Ryann made the leap in 2024 to commit fully to her studio practice. Working across painting, drawing, and ceramics, Ryann's work explores the idea that the interior self...

In the fifth episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Brandon Foushée, a Brooklyn-based lens-based artist born and raised in New Jersey who received his BFA from Pratt Institute. His work has been exhibited internationally, including a solo exhibition at Baxter Street Camera Club, and he is currently an artist in residence at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Brandon&#39...

In the fourth episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Arlina Cai, a Chinese American painter based in Brooklyn whose ethereal, dreamlike compositions explore spirituality, vulnerability, and the interconnectedness of the human experience. Raised on the East Coast in a Chinese American immigrant household, Arlina spent seven years in the corporate world before making the decision...

In the third episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Brett Park, a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist originally from California, working across painting, cellophane, ceramics, works on paper, and performance. Best known for his viral ceramic tiger sculptures, Brett's practice examines flatness, cartoon iconography, and the tension between playfulness and serious inquir...

Across the Studio is a podcast recorded inside artists' studios. It is a series of conversations about process, inspiration, and building a career as an artist. In the second episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Margot Sinclair, a Brooklyn based contemporary artist. Through fusing mixed media across oil, graphite, acrylic, and thread, Margot's work conveys palpable te...

Across the Studio   is a podcast recorded inside artists’ studios. It is a series of conversations about process, inspiration, and building a career as an artist. In the premiere episode of Across the Studio , Mia Schoolman sits down with Philadelphia-based painter and illustrator Elizabeth Bergeland (b. 1983). Her work blends figurative realism with surreal, imagined spaces, always rich in symbol...