You Can't Eat Art

In this episode of You Can’t Eat Art , Clara Kamunde is in conversation with multidisciplinary conceptual artist Kathy Aoki. Her work addresses gender and pop-culture issues through approachable visual formats spiked with humor. She recently received a 2025 Creative Capital Grant for her groundbreaking project, Koons Ruins Atlas . Kathy's work will further critique the art market — About Kath...

In this episode of You Can’t Eat Art , Clara Kamunde is in conversation with Beatrice Gosse an interdisciplinary artist whose practice intersects contemporary dance, film and performance. Their work dives deep into queer identity, movement, filmmaking, and the generative messiness of chaos. — About Beatrice Gosse:  Beatrice Gosse (she/they) is a director, creative director, and performance artist...

Episode 10:  Narrative Intervention with Jalena Keane-Lee In this episode of You Can’t Eat Art , Clara Kamunde is in conversation with Jalena Keane-Lee an award-winning documentary film maker. Her short films have screened at over 40 film festivals, won best short documentary at the 2020 LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, the 2024 San Diego Asian Film Festival, the Sundance Jury Award in 2023, stream...

Episode 9 In this episode of You Can’t Eat Art, Clara Kamunde is in conversation with Pantea Karimi a multidisciplinary artist whose  practice blends  printmaking, animation, video, sculpture. Pantea blends these disciplines in an innovative visual vocabulary that borrows from classical Persian painting, medieval science diagrams, botany philosophy, archives, and print culture to explore harmony a...

You Can’t Eat Art Episode 8 - The Impulse To Create In this episode of You Can’t Eat Art, Clara Kamunde is in conversation with multi-disciplinary artist Francisco Graciano, a primarily self-taught artist who’s impulse to observe and create manifested in early childhood. Fransisco has been creating art in San Jose as long as he can remember and his practices include sculpture, public art, ceramics...

In this episode of You Can’t Eat Art , Clara Kamunde is in conversation with Christine Wong Yap a visual artist and social practitioner working in drawing, printmaking, publishing, textiles, public art. Her practice expands and makes visible grassroots perspectives on belonging, resilience and mental well-being through her hyperlocal research projects. Christine was the first artist-in-residence a...

In this episode of You Can’t Eat Art Clara Kamunde is in conversation with interdisciplinary performer-composer-improviser Damian Norfleet. A critical review describes him as “ a gifted improvisational singer, performance artist, actor, and social justice activist who has occupied a rare multi-dimensional space in the performing arts ” (I Care If You Listen). — About Damian Norfleet :  Damian Norf...

In this episode of You Can’t Eat Art, Clara Kamunde is in conversation with interdisciplinary artist Beth Krebs. Beth's work includes site responsive installations, performance videos, sculpture, and participatory projects. Her work champions work champions faith against the odds, reflecting her " precarious experience as a human, always stretched between her limits and her longing. &quo...

In this episode of You Can’t Eat Art , Clara Kamunde is in conversation with literary artist Lyzette Wanzer. Lizette is a writer, editor, writing instructor and coach, and her work appears in over thirty literary journals, magazines, books and newspapers.  __ About Lyzette Wanzer:   Lyzette Wanzer’s work appears in over thirty literary journals, books, and magazines. Library Journal named her book...

In this episode of You Can’t Eat Art , Clara Kamunde is in conversation with interdisciplinary artist Mike Arcega. Mike’s works range from sculpture, drawing, and painting to installations, video and performance. He is also an associate professor at San Francisco State University, where he leads the sculpture and expanded practice area in the School of Art. If anyone can demystify contemporary art...

In this episode of You Can’t Eat Art , Clara Kamunde speaks with Ava Roy, founder of We Players, an innovative site-specific theater company that blends storytelling and public performance, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the realm of public art. Ava's singular artistic vision is about the power of art to imagine and create brave new worlds all around us. About Ava Roy:  Ava Roy...

In this episode of You Can’t Eat Art , listeners will be immersed in the rich and resonant sound vibrations created by LAP guest artist, Jenn Johns. Jenn is a multidisciplinary artist who transcends genres but is best known as a powerful vocalist blending high energy and deep spirituality. Her extraordinary gift for using music as medium for shared communication has earned her the moniker, “High P...