CulturalDC Podcast

Featuring musician, composer, and director, Alex Lasalle, interdisciplinary artist, Amber Robles-Gordon, and founder and director of Semilla Cultural, Isha M. Renta López. Moderated by Torrents 2024 Scholar, Adrian Loving Torrents: New Links to Black Futures is November 14-17, 2024 in the Union Market District and The Kennedy Center. Learn more on our website: culturaldc.org/torrents The Bomba Per...

In this conversation, Thomas Stanley, Ph. D., interviews spoken word recording artist Ursula Rucker.    Thomas Stanley is an artist, author, and activist deeply committed to audio culture in the service of personal growth and social change. As performer and curator, Bushmeat Sound has been an integral part of a visionary music scene straddling the Baltimore-Washington corridor. His audio work empl...

Today’s conversation is between Thomas Stanley, Ph. D., and Alex Zamalin. Thomas Stanley is an artist, author, and activist deeply committed to audio culture in the service of personal growth and social change. As performer and curator, Bushmeat Sound has been an integral part of a visionary music scene straddling the Baltimore-Washington corridor. His audio work employs musical sound to anchor, f...

Torrents: New Links to Black Futures  is an artist-led program exploring new territories in Black future-building through visual arts, technology, music, film, and performance.   This DC-based interdisciplinary event series gathers artists, collectors, professors, and community stakeholders to participate in a week filled with engaging experiences.  Torrents examines critical questions about the d...

Torrents: New Links to Black Futures is an artist-led program exploring new territories in Black future-building through visual arts, technology, music, film, and performance.   This DC-based interdisciplinary event series gathers artists, collectors, professors, and community stakeholders to participate in a week filled with engaging experiences.  Torrents examines critical questions about the de...

Artist David Jeremiah and Journalist & Curator Teri Henderson discuss Jeremiah’s artistic practice, his Dallas roots, his exhibition "FOGA" with CulturalDC, and more.

For 20 years, CulturalDC has been making space for art. That includes physical places like galleries, theaters and affordable housing for artists. But it also includes making space in the conversation for art.  In this brand new episode of the Cultural DC podcast, we sit with three arts leaders to reflect on CulturalDC’s latest film collaboration, Insurrection by Andres Serrano presented by a/poli...

For 20 years, CulturalDC has been making space for art. That includes physical places like galleries, theaters and affordable housing for artists. But it also includes making space in the conversation for art.  In this brand new episode of the Cultural DC podcast, we sit with two influential artists to discuss their latest works and reflect on CulturalDC’s latest film collaboration, Insurrection b...

For 20 years, CulturalDC has been making space for art. That includes physical places like galleries, theaters and affordable housing for artists. But it also includes making space in the conversation for art. This summer, CulturalDC is proud to present, When We Gather…, a collaborative exploration between Haïtian-American (Flo·reen Day·most·ten) and Ghanaian (Aaah·chu Nuu·maah·jee). “When We Gath...

In this brand new episode of the Cultural DC podcast, we sit with three purveyors of DC sneakerhead culture to discuss the impact and future of sneaker collecting and community. Today’s discussion is framed against CulturalDC’s latest Mobile Art Gallery Installation, Overboard by Andy Yoder, an exhibit of over 220 sneakers constructed from recycled and repurposed materials. The installation examin...

CulturalDC presents the second video installation in partnership with Baltimore-based curator Teri Henderson. The exhibit, “SUBVERSIONS,” will be projected onto the windows of CulturalDC’s Source Theatre in the historic 14th and U Street Corridor in Northwest Washington, D.C. “As An Enemy” is a multichannel video installation showing the corruption of the Baltimore City Police Department. Curated...

Several formative experiences have shaped D.C. and Baltimore-based artist Zoë Charlton’s career and inspired her work. Growing up, she was a frequent visitor to her grandmother’s blue house and wooded property in the Florida panhandle, a place that was “dense with growth and large with memory,” where extended family frequently gathered. At Florida State University, one of Charlton’s mentors, the l...

In Mighty Mighty, Shimoyama’s paintings come to life, engaging individuals in a dialogue about how to evolve from said stereotypes of such performed hypermasculinity in barbershops and how to cultivate a safe, welcome environment for all. Devan Shimoyama is a visual artist working primarily in self-portraiture and narratives inspired from classical mythology and allegory. The work of Devan Shimoya...

On this episode, we hear from artist Jefferson Pinder about his performance art piece “This Is Not A Drill” performed at The Source on 14th Street in mid June 2019. Jefferson Pinder is an artist whose work provides evocative commentary on race and forms of struggle, aiming to investigate aspects of personal identity through the materials of neon, found objects, performance, and video. Pinder is jo...

For 20 years, CulturalDC has been making space for art. That includes physical places like galleries, theaters and affordable housing for artists. But it also includes making space in the conversation for art. We’re excited to bring you the second episode in our podcast series with our friends at Caandor Labs. On this episode, we hear from Mobile Art Gallery artist Jamea Richmond-Edwards about her...

For 20 years, CulturalDC has been making space for art. That means physical places like galleries, theaters and affordable housing for artists. But it also means we make space in the conversation. Podcasting is an exciting way to have those conversations and make our work and artistic programs accessible to a broader audience. We look forward to sharing insights from some of our key collaborators...