ON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in Residence

A conversation between legendary composer and sound-gatherer Stuart Dempster, and artist Tonya Lockyer, celebrating the Cistern at Fort Worden State Park and its part in Deep Listening and new music development.  “ Our conversation is about deep listening and creative friendships and lost sounds, the intricacies of harmony and reverberation, how parks should protect their sounds as much as they pr...

Overlaps and kinship abound in this nourishing conversation between Christi Krug and Alyssa Graybeal, whose respective careers in writing, memoir, and coaching yields a generous conversation full of juicy advice and heart. Alyssa Graybeal Alyssa Graybeal (she/her) is a queer writer and cartoonist whose work explores chronic illness and disability. In particular, she is fascinated by questions of c...

Ari Mokdad and Frank Abe discuss the poignant ways that their respective family histories have played significantly into the themes and approaches of their work. Both residents discuss their range in processes to screenwriting, poetry, and the multiple disciplines they’ve each engaged with over their careers. Frank Abe Frank Abe has worked to reframe the public’s understanding of the WW2 incarcera...

Christian Vistan and Josephine Lee illuminate the threads that connect their work and the ways that materials and water serve as keystones to both of their practices. Both of these artists, one working in painting and the other in bio-materials find that they share interests in the roles of regeneration, repair, and nourishment in their work. Josephine Lee Informed by a lifetime of movement throug...

Allie Hankins and Hexe Fey compare notes on how they manage expectations for their work, follow curiosities, and conquer insecurities within their processes. Allie Hankins Allie Hankins is a dancer, performer, and maker who recently performed in a dream wherein she announced “Today I am Truit” before jumping into a pool. The next day in waking life she learned that ‘truit’ is a word used by the lu...

Garland and maximiliano talk about everything from video games to ghosts alongside questions exploring self-care and what it means to slow down. Spencer Garland Spencer Garland is an interdisciplinary artist and teacher operating in Portland, Oregon. His practice encompasses filmmaking, video game development, and social work-all of which Garland brings his unique vision of new Black narratives to...

We’re continuing to listen in on the 2021 Emerging Artist Residents! In this episode Angelic Goldsky and Hayla Ragland talk through their intermedia practices and the ways that their backgrounds, the site of Fort Worden, and time for focus has affected their work. Listen to a special track from Angelic and gain a deep insight into the future archives that both Hayla and Angelic are creating. This...

For the second installment of the 2021 Centrum Emerging Artist Residency conversations Azali Ansar Muhammad and Laura Medina share processes and backgrounds behind their current projects. They talk animation, working fluidly through mediums, and leveraging these methods to navigate hard subject matters while bringing joy and play into the work. Muhammad shares about their work in recording and arc...

In October 2021, six artists were juried into Centrum’s Emerging Artist Residency and received stipends, housing, and studio space for one month at Fort Worden State Park. Artists paired up towards the end of their residencies to chat with one another about what they were working on and thinking about after weeks of being in residence. Mel Carter and Woodrow Hunt kick off this series and chat abou...

In early 2021, Centrum hosted award-winning director, writer, and story artist, Brenda Chapman for a month-long residency. A few months later, Michelle Hagewood catches up with Chapman to revisit conversations started over that residency. Chapman reflects on the ups and downs of her long career at Disney, Dreamworks, and Pixar and shares her early influences and the threads that connect to her new...

This is part three of a four-part series put together by Centrum and Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and July Hazard to ask   “what is queer ecology?”  of climate scientists,  ecologists, choreographers, poets, and creatives  who  each share unique perspectives on  how  queer and trans identities  can and do play important roles in shifting the way we think about the sciences and our relations with the more-...

This is part 2 of a four-part series put together by Centrum and Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and July Hazard to ask   “what is queer ecology?”  of climate scientists,  ecologists, choreographers, poets, and creatives  who  each share unique perspectives on  how  queer and trans identities  can and do play important roles in shifting the way we think about the sciences and our relations with the more-than...

This episode is part of a series put together by Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and July Hazard to  ask   “what is queer ecology?”  of climate scientists,  ecologists, choreographers, poets, and creatives  who  each share unique perspectives on  how  queer and trans identities  can and do play important roles in shifting the way we think about the sciences and our relations with the more-than-human.  This p...

For our third installment of our series of conversations in our Emerging Artist Residency program, we listen in on Gabi Dao and Vo Vo who cover a wide breadth of topics that connect to their sound practices and interests in subjectivity and memory. They discuss  a myriad of ideas around digital representations and our current times.  Gabi Dao  is an artist and co-organizer at Duplex, a DIY project...

The second in our series of conversations with Centrum’s  2020 Emerging Artist s. In this installment Michelle Hagewood chats with  Dawn Stetzel about the evolution  and processes within her work. Stetzel generously shares her thoughts on how the work deals with safety, edges,  and elements of the ridiculous.  She talks through the way the works are performed and documented, and the nuanced ways i...

This episode kicks off a series of conversations with the 2020 Emerging Artist Residents who recently spent the month of October at Centrum in Fort Worden State Park. Today, we’re starting with Russna Kaur and Chase Keetley, whose conversation explores each of their relationships to place, space, and home, navigating racialized expectations and contexts, and the values and ideologies that inform t...

Incoming Northwest Heritage Centrum resident, Alice Gosti, invites Bebe  Miller to have a conversation about dance, movement, and the context of the ir  practices in the current moment.  The two choreographers   discover overlapping formative pedagogies and talk through the  spatial experiences of zoom, intimacy and vulnerability in their bodies of work, the cultivation of collaboration and play ,...

Following up on episode 7 with Aaron Asis we continue to follow along and meet some of the voices that informed  Fort Words at Fort Worden State Park. In this second installment, Asis interviews Ella Sandvig, a resident and employee during the Fort Worden Juvenile Diagnostic and Treatment Center era, and also Timothy Caldwell, a local historian intimate with the nuances and stories of the Fort dur...

For this episode, we hone in on a project put together by one of our recent artists-in-residence, Aaron Asis .  After installing Fort Words at Fort Worden State Park, Asis interviews two of the voices that influenced and crossed over with the project. Marlin Holden, Jamestown S'Klallam Elder, shares stories of the S'Klallam people, upon whose land the Fort sits, and what the continued relationship...

Two friends, two weavers, and a contagious passion for exploring the past and present richness of Coast Salish Wool Weaving, Dr. Susan Pavel ( sa’ hLa mitSa ) and Kelly Sullivan let us hear them check in with one another. Following up months after their Centrum Northwest Heritage Residency , the two swap stories about what they’ve been doing during the pandemic, talk about their roots in becoming...

Daniel Coka and Leon Finley compare notes on the ways that they are each questioning their art practices, ho w audience factors into their histories with performance, and the ways that ritual, pyschomagical , and drawing practices function as modes of healing and connecting with self. They share experiences of navigating cultural appropriation and un-learning harmful idealogies that c o me out of...

manuel arturo abreu and Jaleesa Johnston explore and compare notes about digital performance and Blackness, amorphousness and commitments to the ephemeral , and how they each deal with “ untrustworthy archives ” in their bodies and memories . They share experiences in navigating colonized art spaces and the ways that oversimplified receptions of their work impact their approaches. Both work fluidl...

Former Residency and Youth Programs Manager Martha Worthley catches up with Natalie Goldberg, renowned author and Centrum Artist Resident alum. The two acquaintances reminisce about Goldberg’s first experience at Centrum, her writing and painting philosophies, Zen practice, living with cancer , and the importance of her teaching practice. Worthley shares her own experience of reading Natalie’s wor...

In this episode we sit down with former Centrum resident , Megan Hildebrandt , who exudes humor, care, and generosity as she shares stories of the various shifts in her life and the ways that cancer and parenting have impacted her work over the years.    Megan Hildebrandt received her BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design in 2006, and her MFA in Studio Art from the University of South Flo...

In this first episode, ON A.I.R. producer Tavin Dotson sits down with host Michelle Hagewood , Program Manager for Centrum Residencies to unpack the hopes and thoughts that have gone into podcast. We explore questions surrounding artists and the current challenges of pandemic and social crises , the role of residencies and the creative workforce, and Michelle’s background as an artist, museum educ...