Rage to Master

RMB speaks to the ground-breaking artist Nikita Gale from Atlanta to London about the limits of performers being all the things, from Adrian Piper to Beyoncé to Tina Turner. This episode also marks the 10-year anniversary of the performance this podcast is named after regarding legal contracts in the art world. At the end, RMB celebrates the historic milestone of becoming the first PhD in her fami...

Performed live at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine For the class of 2025 Written by Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB) Characters: Narrator – Landon Newton The Predator – RMB The Ally – Julie Malen The Curator – Mary Marshall Martin Artgirl – Sidian Liu Artboy – Mekko Harjo Daddy Alcohol – Mickey Aloisio Swaggy – Felli Maynard Frenemy (No Lines) GOD S – Noa Castro Lema THE ONE WHO GOT AWA...

We're starting off season 2 with guns blazing. In part 1 of this two-part episode, Liz Magic Laser shares her creative process as one of the most provocative artists working today in performance and video art. RMB and Liz speak about all the sinister ways that we sign up for our own oppression and some potential ways out of this form of self-sabotage. This episode sets up the world premiere of...

It’s been a long time. We shouldn'ta left you! Here’s why RMB was on a hiatus for 9 months. Not a baby (technically anyway). Catch up on “Season” one, and hear a little about Season two.

This episode rewinds twenty years to RMB’s Yale days, when she tried to find her voice as a campus leader under constant threat. We revisit the documentary Still Black at Yale (2004, Dir: Monique Walton, Andia Winslow), featuring RMB, Nikki Giovanni, and others reflecting on how little had changed since the ’70s. Just as the film released, RMB’s world was shaken by the loss of her brother, Marques...

RMB speaks with Black femme artists who carved their own lanes and define community with values, not just identity. In a kiki with Tsedaye Makonnen and Ayana Evans about the Venice Biennale, we take notes on how they made curators pay attention to their work while navigating art world elitism. We travel down memory lane when RMB was the (first) DEI director at a major art school and interviewed Ju...

What are you supposed to you if you are not supposed to exist? RMB seeks answers from Berlin to Budapest to Marrakech to find out. In Chicago, she speaks with world-renowned artist Michael Rakowitz for a 2020 class they co-taught that's almost a little too relevant to academia today. They speak about call-out culture, the failure of open letters, and his integrity to remove himself from problemati...

Welcome to a podcast that is also a work of art. Join Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB), a resilient artist and PTSD survivor, on a journey to get through times like these. No slogans or hot takes. Just humanity. Credits: Video Editing: Rashayla Marie Brown Audio and Story Editing: Tribble Ashley Camera: Jason Boulware, Rashayla Marie Brown, Devin Cain, Vitaliia Fedorova, Cecil McDonald Media Consultant:...