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Elan Rodman is a fashion professional with a flair for the past. He founded the @thelostandfoundmuseum on Instagram, a space that connects sportswear history with design and cultural histories. While a graduate student at Parsons School of Design in their M.A Fashion Studies program, he explored the possibilities of connecting fashion history with art and theory as a way to understand the effects...

Adam Trunell⁠ is an LA-based filmmaker. In the past, Adam's been a writer, producer, and editor, depending on the job. Eventually, by necessity, he had to do all those things at once, including camera. That, plus the need to make anything into something, is where you end up with "filmmaker." In this conversation we focus on Adam's feature documentary The Row that he shot and prod...

Christine Mai Nguyen  (b. 1988 Fountain Valley, CA) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. With a background in film studies and new media, Christine has been creating journalistic video diaries for the past 15 years. At the recommendation of a therapist she picked up clay in an effort to find peace in a tactile, off screen pursuit. She found comfort in the beginner’s mind of a new medium...

Laura Splan is a transdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of science, technology, and culture. She creates conceptually layered and carefully crafted artworks that explore the sublime complexity of the biological world while unraveling entanglements of natural and built systems. Her research-driven projects connect hidden artifacts of biotechnology to everyday lives through embodied i...

Torkil Stavdal (b. 1974) is a Norwegian photographer and curator currently residing in New York. At the age of 12, Torkil's grandmother gifted him a Kodak Instamatic 126, and he has not stopped taking photos since. In the mid-90's, after studying photography more formally in Copenhagen, he continued his education by assisting iconic photographers such as Knut Bry, Johan Wildhagen and Massi...

Chelsea Hodson is the author of the book of essays   Tonight I'm Someone Else  and the chapbook Pity the Animal . She is the publisher and editor of Rose Books , and she founded the Morning Writing Club . She has taught at Bennington College and co-founded the Mors Tua Vita Mea workshop in Sezze Romano, Italy. She has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell Colony and PEN Center USA. Her writi...

Kimberly Jenkins is the founder of The Fashion and Race Database and Artis Solomon Consulting . Artis Solomon offers consulting on fashion history and cultural awareness, and is a one of a kind learning platform that is supported by subscribing universities and museums globally. Kim formerly held the position of Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University and lecturer...

Singer-songwriter Leona Naess made her name in the early 2000s on warm, radiant, lyrically-driven indie rock, earning a wide range of rave reviews. In those years, Naess was living in the historic Chelsea Hotel and had put out three records in quick succession between 2000 and 2003. Naess’ diverse musical past also includes time studying music composition and even singing onstage as a child with h...

Shannon Price is an art, design, and fashion curator, historian, and educator with extensive leadership experience within cultural and academic institutions. Shannon recently moved back to her hometown of Oakland, CA after 20 years in New York City where her most recent position was at Parsons/The New School where she served as the Director of External Partnerships and Cultural Affairs. She develo...

Shradha Kochhar (b. Delhi, India) is a textile artist and knitwear designer based in New York, as well as the co-founder of apparel and clothing brand LOTA . Best known for her home spun and hand knitted ‘khadi’ sculptures using ‘kala cotton’ - an inherently organic cotton strain indigenous to India, her work is at an intersection of material memory, sustainability and intergenerational healing. F...

Christina Muscatello is the Co-Founder and Director of the Memory Maker Project based in Binghamton, NY. MMP is an arts, culture and advocacy program for people experiencing memory loss and their loved ones. When I learned about this organization, I sent Christina an e-mail out of the blue asking what I could do to be a part of her work, as I had done my college undergraduate thesis on the relatio...

Dorothy James is a Brooklyn based puppeteer and maker of tiny things. She has puppeteered for Wakka Wakka ( Made in China, 59E59 Theaters, FigurTeatret i Nordland; The Immortal Jellyfish Girl , FigurTeatret), Nick Lehane and Derek Fordjour ( SELF MUST DIE: Fly Away , Petzel Gallery), Basil Twist ( Hansel & Gretel, Michigan Opera Theatre), Molly Smith ( Snow Child, Arena Stage), AchesonWalsh &a...

Maddie Edgar is a maker and teacher who was raised in Massachusetts, lived in Brooklyn, and currently resides just outside of Los Angeles in Topanga Canyon. She graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Communications Design and a focus in Illustration, and now works in many roles including: as a maker of up-cycled apparel, an elementary art school teacher, a botanical illustration teacher, and...

Molly Haynes is a Los Angeles-based weaver working at the intersection of art, craft and design. Her tactile sculptures explore structure and materiality—echoing tensions between humans and the natural world. She utilizes unconventional materials such as salvaged marine ropes, raw plant fiber, and deadstock yarns to construct undulating forms which blur the line between natural and manmade. H...

Ross McCampbell is an animation artist based in the Pacific Northwest. His abilities as a graphic artist and animator combine to produce magical worlds full of color and motion. In this episode we chat growing up in rural Idaho, switching mediums, the dance between freelance and full-time work (reference " N.Y.C. to L.A. to N.Y.C. to L.A., Ad Infinitum " by Cirocco Dunlap + the reading of it here...

Laci Chisholm is a dance educator, community builder, and the founder and CEO of Fit4Dance in New York City. This conversation was recorded about a year after our initial blog interview, which you can find here . Follow Laci's dance studio, Fit4Dance here (+ follow them on insta here )! On a personal note, Fit4Dance gave me a place to go when I was looking for community in the neighborhood and thi...

Christian Joy (Christiane Joy Hultquist) is an American fashion designer and artist best known for her stage costume designs for Yeah Yeah Yeahs ' lead singer, Karen O . Using found articles and occasionally eschewing thread and print for glue and marker pens, she has influenced contemporary fashion with punk and DIY stylings. She has designed for the likes of Karen O, Childish Gambino, Alabama Sh...

Besides being your hosts... Jenny Morris is a fiber artist and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She loves spending time with her Saori loom and her favorite pup Jo. In addition to weaving, Jenny feels especially passionate towards organizations that help to build social change. In 2019, she became the first artist-in-residence at The Memory Maker Project , an organization that brings art, culture and...

A serial entrepreneur and performing multimedia artist, Jay Rinsky is the founder and Chief Creative Director of Emmy-nominated Little Cinema / Little Cinema Digital. Through his leadership, Little Cinema has grown to win multiple awards, establish itself as a true pioneer in ‘immersive’ and experiential, and has grown to become the go-to agency for producing Hollywood’s biggest hybrid and virtual...

Shayna Klee is an American multimedia Artist and Youtuber living and working in Paris, France. Through video, installation, sculpture and performance, Shayna creates works that are visually tumultuous, appealing to immersive scales, patterns and vivid colors. Her practice is multidisciplinary and variable: from multimedia theater pieces to writing a book (The Purple Palace & other poems),...

Nasrin Jafari is the founder and designer of Mixed , a New York City based fashion brand and textile studio making a name for printwear. She designs statement prints and pieces that inspire you to embrace your mixed identities and be seen in full color. In this episode, we chat about building her brand in a global pandemic, how she connects her personal identity to her public brand, and her ways o...

Brandi Spering resides in Philadelphia, where she writes, sews, and paints. Favoring non-fiction and poetry above else, her writing tends to sway between both, carrying a little over each time. Spering’s first book, This I Can Tell You is available through Perennial Press. Other works can be found in super / natural: art and fiction for the future, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Forum Magazine, Artblo...

Jordan Bruner is an artist and filmmaker from Virginia Beach, VA. Growing up she learned how to paint from her artist mother and on her twelfth birthday received a video camera. Having developed a love for painting, illustration, and movie making from her time experimenting as a child and studying at the Governor’s School for the Arts in high school, she continued her studies in animation and film...

StudioSophiaSophia  is a color and earring enthusiast who makes jewelry that is not for wallflowers. Her handcrafted statement pieces are known for their unapologetic use of loud color and bold shape, which can be viewed as wearable small sculptures meant for starting conversations. In this episode we chat about the marriage of fine art and design, the dilemma of small town vs. big city, work...

Aminah Ibrahim is an interdisciplinary artist of Kuwaiti, Black American, and Indonesian heritage, raised in Kuwait and currently based in NYC. Through anthropological and movement research, she connects performance, video, and sound to build modern mythologies. Using meditative modes of improvisation and repetition, she explores the geographies of identity, body politics, mysticism and ritual tra...