Everything Is Connected

On this episode we're joined by Muna Malik - the multidisciplinary artist whose work spans photography, painting, and sculpture, to include a wide array of mediums that seek to create cultural awareness and understanding. Her work has also been featured in ArtForum and i-D Magazine.  Malik also explores the complexities and entanglements between individuals and communities. The two core inter...

On this episode, we're joined by Jerrell Gibbs. His vibrant paintings retrace family memories examining the origin of his own life by representing intimate and instantly joyous moments. Affirming the multilayered experience of the African American diaspora Gibbs plunges the viewer into an immersive experience through the realm of his childhood. Growing up in Baltimore influenced his perspecti...

On this episode, we’re joined by Nico Wheadon. She is an independent art advisor, curator, educator, and writer who adopts interdisciplinarity as a strategy for building a more responsive cultural ecosystem. An advocate for BIPOC and womxn artists in all endeavors, she uses her myriad platforms to expand the canon of contemporary art, whilst cultivating a community of professional practice and col...

On this episode of Light Work presents: Everything is Connected, we are joined by Patrick Alston and Larry Ossei-Mensah.  Alston has a solo show on  at Ross and Kramer Gallery in Chelsea until May 14th 2021. We sat down to talk about how this new body of work came about, some of the themes that he's exploring in his most recent paintings, the relationship he's developed with Larry over t...

On our final episode of the season, Renee Cox shares some of her thoughts on Black life in America, discovering racism for the first time as a young artist, and validating oneself as a radical act of self-love in an oppressive capitalist society.  --------------------------------- Follow & Subscribe  Subscribe on Substack Follow Light Work on Instagram Follow Folasade Ologundudu on Instagram Y...

Layo is a Nigerian artist mainly in the 3D space with sculptures that lend themselves to tell the story of her identity and cultural heritage as a West African woman born and raised in Lagos Nigeria. She currently lives and works in New York City. Bright completed her MFA at Parsons in 2018 with honors. In her newer works, she continues exploring themes of the self through portraiture using glass,...

Cydne Jasmin Coleby, the Bahamian born artist who studied graphic design in her formative years at the University of the Bahamas,  takes a mixed media approach to her works that deal with breaking new ground and achieving personal triumph in spite of trauma and loss. Using rich personal experiences as a backdrop for her creativity, Coleby fuses traditional Bahamian textiles with her skills in grap...

Lucia Hierro is a New York based multimedia artist exploring themes of culture and class as seen through the lens of her eyes as a self-proclaimed Domninican New Yorker. The Yale MFA graduate creates distinct pieces using digital media, collage, painting, and installation to realize her life-sized works.through pop-at and notions of identity politics her work shows an understanding of the ways in...

I sat down with Mikhaile Solomon, the founder of Prizm Art Fair to learn more about how and why she started the Black-led fair which amplifies the work of Black artists working throughout the world. In this episode, recorded just a few weeks before Art Basel in Miami during the COVID pandemic we talked about her passions and why it’s so important that people - Black people especially - take agency...

In an intimate conversation Delphine Diallo shared how she’s been developing her creative process through the COVID pandemic, why decolonizing the mind of western patriarchy is so important, and how her art seeks to create a new archetype for the Black woman.  Delphine Diallo is a Brooklyn-based French and Senegalese visual artist and photographer. Diallo immerses herself in the realm of anthropol...

Dexter Wimberly is an independent curator and entrepreneur who has organized exhibitions and developed programs with galleries and institutions throughout the world including The Third Line in Dubai; Contemporary Art Museum CAM Raleigh in North Carolina; The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco; Koki Arts in Tokyo; and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. His exhibitio...

Patrick Quarm is a contemporary painter who lives and works in Ghana. His use of richly patterned textiles from Ghana, painted on and cut out to reveal new shapes form a tapestry of historical references that confront ideas of Black and African identity. 'Quarm weaves and splices cultural signifiers from different eras and communities into multi-layered works that invite the viewer to explore...

In this 2nd episode of a two-part series with Ferrari Sheppard, the artist shares some of the intimate details of his youth and the incredible experiences that shaped him into the man he is today. From growing up in Chicago to finding himself as a creative, and adding beauty to the world one painting at a time, Ferrari spoke openly about his passions as an artist and creative individual. If your i...

In this first part of a two-part episode, Ferrari Sheppard joins me in conversation on living in Africa, finding his distinct style, and the rising consumption of Black art. Sheppard is a contemporary painter whose work has been described as raw figurative abstraction. His highly anticipated first solo show at Wilding Cran gallery opens in Los Angeles on September 12th 2020.  Ferrari Sheppard - ww...

Ludovic Nkoth is a MFA student at New York City's Hunter College, with several group and solos shows forthcoming this fall. On this episode, Nkoth discusses the ways in which his art can be used as an educational tool to teach Black people about their stolen African heritage through visual arts. We talked about his love of family, cooking, and the importance of keeping a great team of people...

Khari Turner is an emerging artist currently in Columbia's 2021 MFA program. His work is a celebration of Blackness. While earlier undergraduate works focused on social justice and prison reform, Turner's current paintings are a celebration of Black life and focus on the deeply rooted relationship African-Americans hold to water or a lack thereof while exploring the nuances of love, iden...

On this episode Larry Ossei-Mensah joins Folasade Ologundudu in conversation on COVID-19, the Black Lives Matter movement and his work as an independent curator and one of the co-founders of ArtNoir. Ossei-Mensah has over a decade of experience in the arts industry and through ArtNoir highlights the talent of Black and Brown artists from across the globe.  Larry Ossei Mensah: @youngglobal  ArtNoir...

In this trailer, Folasade Ologundudu, the host and creator of Everything is Connected, introduces the ideas behind this new podcast.  Everything is Connected features some of today's most diverse and interesting creatives working in art, education, and design. We discuss current events and culture. No topic is off-limits. We talk about race, sex, love, mental health, and the state of our worl...