Martha Willette Lewis, WPKN

Live Culture

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Live Culture is a monthly program focusing on visual artists addressing climate change, through innovative shifts in materials. Greening one's practice can be difficult, and here are some artists looking at environmental issues, making art and making changes in how they make their art that one can learn from. The show's creator and host, Martha Willette Lewis, is a visual artist, curator and radio presenter who loves discussing materials and processes and the challenges of making the visual tangible in the audio realm. Live Culture airs on WPKN independent radio streaming out of Bridgeport Con...

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Martha Willette Lewis, WPKN

Episodes

Live Culture: In the pottery studio with Kiara Matos 14.02.2026 55:06

This Month on Live Culture : a discussion with ceramicist Kiara Matos about developing a new method for making glazes that uses a common material that- in big quantities- creates disposal issues! Find out about this exciting project, developed by Kiara with Jan Schroers, the Robert Higgin Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Yale University. The show is also about the chal...

Live Culture: In the woods with artist Natalia Petkov 10.01.2026 55:08

Live Culture: In the woods with artist Natalia Petkov This episode is a discussion with artist Natalia Petkov about her art practice, which involves hand made cyanotype works based on her walks through the woods. Join us as we walk together in Central Parks’ North Woods and discuss her process, what it means to make work about the natural world now, and what the ecology of urban park spaces- like...

Live Culture: making bioplastics with artist Janine Brown 13.12.2025 55:00

Live Culture: making bioplastics with artist Janine Brown This episode of Live Culture is an interview with artist Janine Brown as she cooks bioplastics in her Bridgeport studio! Janine constructs sewn quilt-like pieces that show to full advantage the various bioplastic materials which include plant, flower, garden and kitchen ingredients. The show is half artistic chemistry, and half cooking sho...