The Jule Museum Podcast

Millian Pham is an Assistant Professor of Printmaking in the Department of Art and Art History. Her current research compares the effects of structural and systemic oppression on the body and spirit through drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance. Showcase brings together creative scholarship from across Auburn University. Showcase 2025 specifically centers on advocacy and process. In th...

Cait McCarthy is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Auburn University School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture. Through her research, teaching, and practice, McCarthy explores the ability of novel analog, digital, and material methods to simultaneously illuminate contemporary challenges and provide unexpected experiences. Jordan Young is Adjunct Faculty in the Auburn...

David Hill is an Associate Professor in Auburn’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture. His current research streams include plant performance and material harvesting and reuse strategies. Showcase brings together creative scholarship from across Auburn University. Showcase 2025 specifically centers on advocacy and process. In this podcast series, faculty discuss the process...

Lijun Chao is an artist and faculty member in the Department of Art and Art History. Showcase brings together creative scholarship from across Auburn University. Showcase 2025 specifically centers on advocacy and process. In this podcast series, faculty discuss the process behind the work on view at The Jule Museum through July 6, 2025: https://jcsm.auburn.edu/ Support the show

Andy Holliday is an Assistant Professor of Printmaking in the Department of Art and Art History. His studio practice ranges from printmaking to ceramics and sculpture. Andy's current work explores the roles of communication and collaboration in the creative process. Showcase brings together creative scholarship from across Auburn University. Showcase 2025 specifically centers on advocacy and...

Dawn Michaelson, Ph. D. is an Assistant Professor, Department of Consumer & Design Sciences in the College of Human Sciences. Her research and creative activities focus on apparel studies affecting individuals with health conditions. Showcase brings together creative scholarship from across Auburn University. Showcase 2025 specifically centers on advocacy and process. In this podcast series, f...

Sarah Coleman is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, teaching design studios as well as in the History, Theory and Practice sequence. Her recent work, undertaken as part of a Fulbright Scholarship, explored the historic health landscapes of the Sadgeri Plateau in the Republic of Georgia. Showcase brings together creative scholarship from across Auburn University. Showcase 2025 specif...

Young-A Lee, Ph. D. is Under Armour Professor and Department Head of the Department of Consumer & Design Sciences in the College of Human Sciences. Showcase brings together creative scholarship from across Auburn University. Showcase 2025 specifically centers on advocacy and process. In this podcast series, faculty discuss the process behind the work on view at The Jule Museum through July 6,...

Kelly Bryant is Professor of Graphic Design in the Auburn University School of Industrial and Graphic Design. A design educator for over 30 years, her personal work/research focus on collage and painting as an extension to her design work. Showcase brings together creative scholarship from across Auburn University. Showcase 2025 specifically centers on advocacy and process. In this podcast series,...

Kate Medley talks about her exhibition "Thank You Please Come Again" at The Jule. Working as a photojournalist, Kate Medley covers national news in the American South, focused on storytelling and environmental portraiture. In this exhibition, Medley invites viewers to see the people and culinary art of service stations, convenience stores and quick stops located across the South, shining...

Victoria Ashley discusses The Jule Museum with Dr. Randi Evans on “It's All History To Me" Auburn's History Radio Hour, WEGL 91.1 FM. Each week "It's All History To Me" interviews a history professional with the theme of Bridging the Past and Present. From "It's All History To Me" episode 4.2 "The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art with Dr. Rand...

Deirdre Madeleine Smith, Ph. D., Lecturer of Museum Studies at University of Pittsburgh and Assistant Curator, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, talks about the origins of animal art in conjunction with The Jule’s exhibition "Radical Naturalism: Daniel Newman" on view through December 8, 2024: https://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibition/newman/ Support the show

Sheri Schumacher talks about “mend WORKwear” a series created for Self-Care Saturdays at The Jule. The “mend WORKwear” sessions focus on the practice and mindfulness of mending using the Japanese Boro tradition as inspiration. Sheri Schumacher is a designer and maker whose creative practice explores narratives about cultural landscapes and records a sense of place through observation and material...

Rachel Libeskind talks about her exhibition "The Golden Record" at The Jule Museum at Auburn University, on view from August 6-December 7, 2024: https://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibition/libeskind/ Support the show

Walter Hood and Taneshia West Albert in conversation at the Auburn Forum for Southern Art and Culture, a symposium organized by The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University on February 3, 2024.Walter Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California. He is also a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and lectures on professional...

Lonnie Holley and Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander in conversation at the Auburn Forum for Southern Art and Culture, a symposium organized by The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University on February 3, 2024.Dr. Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander is curator of the exhibition "Black Codes: Art and Post-Civil Rights Alabama" on view January 23 through July 7, 2024 at The Jule Collins...

Tim Gihring of The Object Podcast from the Minneapolis Institute of Art explores the artist Joe Minter, featured in the exhibition "Black Codes: Art and Post-Civil Rights Alabama" organized by guest curator Dr. Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander for the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University."Thirty-five years ago, Joe Minter received a vision. Soon, his half-acre prope...

Bethany Collins and Janet Dees in conversation at the Auburn Forum for Southern Art and Culture, a symposium organized by The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University on February 3, 2024.Born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, artist Bethany Collins explores histories of the American South through sculpture, song, and the printed word. The third solo exhibition by Collins in her...

Elizabeth M. Webb and Joy Harjo in conversation at the Auburn Forum for Southern Art and Culture, a symposium organized by The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University on February 3, 2024.Joy Har­jo, the 23rd Poet Lau­re­ate of the Unit­ed States, is a mem­ber of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Elizabeth M. Webb's exhibition "a bearing tree is a witness; an oak is an echo&...

Walter Hood talks about "Ark of Bones" a sculptural installation created for his exhibition "Arc of Life/Ark of Bones" organized by The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. Inspired by the Henry Dumas short story of the same name, "Ark of Bones" represents ancestral connections to Black Americans. Walter Hood is the creative director and founder...

Walter Hood talks about growing up in North Carolina and the way in which he approaches painting in his creative practice. His exhibition "Arc of Life/Ark of Bones" opens on January 23, 2024 at The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. The exhibition features a new series of paintings that recall memories from the first ten years of his life. Walter Hood is the crea...

Jim Draper talks about his exhibition “Feral” as part of the series “Radical Naturalism” at The Jule, on view through December 10, 2023. Conversation recorded with Laura Sitterly '23.Draper's work, which includes drawing, painting, photography, video and writing, is informed by journeys into the wilds of Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina. https://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/radical-na...

What is that wildflower garden at the museum? Auburn scholars Kelly Homan and Zachary Beneduci talk about wildflowers, biochar, and bees and how they connect to a long-term research study happening in the gardens at The Jule. Conversation recorded with Laura Sitterly '23. Support the show

Sam Moyer talks about her exhibition "Memory Mine" at The Jule with Laura Sitterly '23. Centering the exhibition on Alabama’s richness in natural resources and regional artists’ contributions, Moyer creates sculptures and paintings from one natural marble boulder mined in Sylacauga, Alabama. https://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/sam-moyer/ Support the show

Charlotte Hendrix reads excerpts from "The Art Bargain of the Century" an unbelievable saga of how Auburn University purchased 36 controversial masterpieces and opened a world-class art museum for the 21st century, published in the Fall 2023 issue of Auburn Magazine. Support the show