Future Prairie Radio

DJ and speaker designer Michael Davis-Yates on “Custom Mathematics”, a series of speakers he designed and hand-built from the ground up, inspired by teachings from the Nation of Islam as well as the spirit of classic vintage boomboxes.

Painter Ameera Saahir on her series of paintings called “Uninhabitable Living Conditions”. The pieces connect historical images of slave ships and sharecropping with transitional housing for African Americans.

Architecture evangelist Claire Blaylock on environmental justice, program development, and designing built environments for the post-pandemic world.

Sculptor, painter, and community organizer Matt Manalo on his work and explorations of home and identity as a first-generation immigrant. His work considers the colonization of the Philippines by Spain, Japan, and the United States, which has resulted in erasure, colorism and a pervasive colonial mentality.

Multidisciplinary artist and animator Matt Dan on building a dystopian point-and-click adventure game set near the Nike brand headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon.

Slavic Shamanic performance artist, herbalist, and certified firewalking instructor Olga on her choice to spend most of her days in silence.

Artist, athlete, and community organizer Alex Schmidt on founding @DykeSoccer, @BodyConfidence, and @QueerSpeedCruising. This interview took place in the spring of 2020.

Photographer Emery Barnes on making art at #BlackLivesMatter protests in Portland, Oregon.

Urban designer Heather Flint Chatto on environmental design, street art, civic planning, and the future of collaborative policymaking.

Poet Nastashia Minto on being a queer, Black, socially-responsive poet, writer, musician, student, and teacher.

Jené Etheridge, who DJs as Black Daria, on being a music curator, producer, and community organizer who centers Blackness and Black music.

Photographer Kayla Brock on travel, race, portraiture, and using her photojournalism skills to cover the Black Lives Matter movement.

Visual artist Maeve McCool on process, memory, practice, and growth.

Painter Megan Krzmarzick on color, creation, intention, identity, and ritual.

Cultural strategist George Thorn on endurance, perseverance, and how arts organizations can survive COVID-19.

Sociologist, stylist, and producer Emily Darling on coordinating large group art projects and the future of collaboration.

Photographer Sam Gehrke on making portraits during quarantine for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Photographer Kaelyn Rose on creative process and making portraits of queer + trans + non binary people.

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Artist and curator Sarah Turner on her work in video, immersive installations, and electronic arts.

Opera singer Onry on finding your voice, working as a marginalized performer in a Eurocentric industry, making an EP, and finding a path for activism within art.

Writer and curator Joal Stein on his experience as a hard-of-hearing artist working with themes of spatial and social power in contemporary culture.

Multimedia artist Willie Little discusses his art career, themes and issues he’s exploring as a queer Black artist from the South, and the path to publication of his newest art memoir, "In the Sticks".

Model, poet, and actress Kyra Rickards on art and expression through gesture. Photo by @calebgaskins.

Painter and video maker Samantha Nye explores aging bodies, celebrates queer kinship, and facilitates an intergenerational dialogue between queer women and their mothers and grandmothers.