Across the Studio

Mia Schoolman
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A podcast recorded inside artists’ studios. Conversations about process, inspiration, and building a career as an artist. Hosted by Mia Schoolman. Instagram: @acrossthestudio TikTok: @acrossthestudio Substack: @acrossthestudio

  1. Across the Studio with Mallory Granata of Impermanence Studios

    1 DAY AGO

    Across the Studio with Mallory Granata of Impermanence Studios

    In the 13th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Mallory Granata, the Detroit-born, New York-based founder of Impermanence Studios, a multidisciplinary atelier working across sculpture, wearable objects, and material experimentation. Her practice exists at the intersection of fashion and art, deeply informed by archival research and unconventional materials — shark teeth, sea urchin spines, and porcelain hand carved to resemble metal. Mallory has spent the majority of her career building marketing strategy and brand experiences within the LVMH ecosystem, where years of working alongside heritage brands sharpened her understanding of archives, legacy, and what it actually takes for something to last. She is currently hand carving 1,200 porcelain razor clam shells to recreate Alexander McQueen's VOSS SS01 dress, and her finished Coiled Corset from The Overlook FW99 is one of the most labor intensive and quietly radical things I have ever seen in person. In this conversation: why the quote she read on a mountain about time guides her whole practice, a fashion designer's thoughts on the 2026 Met Gala theme, why she is revisiting the archives of the fashion masters and recreating them in materials that push back — shark teeth, sea urchin spines, and hand carved porcelain — the negotiation with materials that defines her entire process, and why slowing down has been the most surprising gift of building Impermanence Studios. Follow Across the StudioInstagram ⁠@acrossthestudio⁠ @miaschoolmanTikTok ⁠@acrossthestudio⁠ Follow Mallory Granata Instagram ⁠@impermanencestudios⁠ @mallorygranata

    33 min
  2. Across the Studio with Danielle Simone

    3 MAY

    Across the Studio with Danielle Simone

    In the 12th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Danielle Simone, a New York City based photographer, painter, and multimedia artist classically trained at Parsons, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been featured in Vogue, the New York Times, and Visionary Projects NYC and her surrealist, mad-hatter aesthetic has a way of making you look twice at everything you thought you understood. Danielle has photographed over 700 weddings, shot behind the scenes for John Legend and Sarah Bareilles, and had her illustrations animated for the MTV VMAs for Miley Cyrus (after someone called her with 30 minutes notice.) She paints feast tables, the seven sins, and upcycled clothing, and she does it all while building one of the most genuinely multidisciplinary practices in New York. In this conversation: the father she lost before college who compelled her to pursue art instead of stability, the seven sins painting she waited two years to make until she had a studio big enough to breathe in, why she never lets clients see a commission until it's finished, and the Steve Jobs quote that changed how she thinks about saying yes. Follow Across the StudioInstagram @acrossthestudioTikTok @acrossthestudio Follow Danielle SimoneInstagram @dniellesimone @simonesimonenyc @daniellesimone.co Websitesdaniellesimoneco.com daniellesimone.art

    34 min
  3. Across the Studio with Alyssa Stevens

    26 APR

    Across the Studio with Alyssa Stevens

    In the 11th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Alyssa Stevens, a New York-based artist working primarily in oil pastel on canvas. Rooted in memory, longing, and the in-between spaces formed by childhood, Alyssa's practice returns again and again to the places that feel suspended in time. Her work is immediately recognizable — colorful, playful, and intentionally chaotic. Every mark is intuitive, guided by feeling and form, and what emerges on the canvas is as much a self-portrait as it is a mirror held up to the universal experience of finding yourself again. In this conversation: the childhood places she returns to in her mind and in her dreams, quitting her corporate data analyst job weeks after her first collection sold out in two days, what it means to find acceptance through abstraction, and why she believes every mark — even the ones she regrets — is exactly where it's supposed to be. Follow Across the StudioInstagram @acrossthestudioTikTok @acrossthestudio Follow Alyssa StevensInstagram @alyssastevensssssalyssastevens.com

    30 min
  4. Across the Studio with Cam DeMars

    19 APR

    Across the Studio with Cam DeMars

    In the 10th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Cam DeMars, a filmmaker and painter originally from Montana, now based in New York. After years of filming professional skiers and alpine athletes across the west, Cam co-founded Benshi Creative before recently launching dontknow. film co, a documentary-focused company built around story-first filmmaking. Cam works across film, painting, and charcoal drawing, moving between commercial production and a fine art practice. His current body of work centers on combat sports — jiu-jitsu fighters and boxers rendered with an intensity that's less about the sport and more about who a person becomes at their physical and mental limit.  In this conversation: the documentary about a man who's lived alone on an island off the San Juan coast since 1978, the boxer series Cam made to continue his late grandfather's unfinished body of work, the philosophy behind Don't Know Productions and why the name means exactly what it says, how marketing is an art and what Cam is still figuring out about rest. Whether you're an artist, curator, or simply art-adjacent, this episode offers an intimate look into the mind and work of a compelling artist. Follow Across the Studio Instagram @acrossthestudio TikTok @acrossthestudio Follow Cam DeMars Instagram @demars_ camdemars.com

    47 min
  5. Across the Studio with Kwamé Azure Gomez

    12 APR

    Across the Studio with Kwamé Azure Gomez

    In the 9th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Kwamé Azure Gomez, a painter originally from Akron, Ohio, now based in New Haven, Connecticut. Kwamé earned her BFA from the University of Akron and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and recently opened her debut solo exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kwamé works in oil, spray paint, modeling paste, and mixed media, building canvases through layered, gestural mark-making that she describes as a full lexicon of felt experience. Her paintings draw from liturgical dance, queer ballroom culture, black radical theory, and personal ancestry, circulating what is felt rather than what can be explained. Standing in front of one of her pieces, you get the sense that something is still moving. In this conversation: the dream that determined the color of a painting, the OCD diagnosis that pushed her toward abstraction, her New York solo exhibition, and what intuition truly feels like. Whether you're an artist, curator, or simply art-adjacent, this episode offers an intimate look into the mind and work of a compelling contemporary artist. Follow Across the Studio Instagram @acrossthestudio TikTok @acrossthestudio Follow Kwamé Azure Gomez Instagram @_kwame.azuregomez marianneboeskygallery.com

    40 min
  6. Across the Studio with Mary Royall Wilgis

    5 APR

    Across the Studio with Mary Royall Wilgis

    In the 8th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Mary Royall Wilgis, a contemporary artist originally from South Carolina and now based in Brooklyn, New York.  Mary Royall calls herself a light painter, and her practice centers on a method she developed called light foraging: taking raw, unstretched canvas out into the street or park, and painting the imprint of sunlight and shadows in real time before layering oil paint back in the studio to capture what she calls the personality of the light. Her work draws from the legacy of the light and space movement and operates on the belief that light is not just a subject but a revelation worth stopping for. Standing in front of her paintings feels less like looking at a canvas and more like watching a window. In this conversation: the primordial soup of materials she uses to paint outdoors, the childhood kitchen window that started it all, the story of splitting her pants wide open in the middle of Fort Greene Park while working on a commission, and what it actually takes to sustain a painting practice when you're also managing a chronic illness. Whether you're an artist, curator, or simply art-adjacent, this episode offers an intimate look into the mind and work of a compelling contemporary artist. Follow Across the Studio Instagram @acrossthestudio TikTok @acrossthestudio Follow Mary Royall Wilgis Instagram @maryroyallstudio www.maryroyallwilgis.com

    41 min
  7. Across the Studio with Leda Tsoutreli

    29 MAR

    Across the Studio with Leda Tsoutreli

    In the 7th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Leda Tsoutreli, a Greek-born painter who lives and works in New York City, where she recently completed her MFA at Pratt Institute. At just 23, Tsoutreli landed a solo show at Palo Gallery one month after graduating—a debut that sold out at the opening.Tsoutreli works in oil, creating expansive abstract compositions that explore the tension between spatial excess and the functional limits of canvas. Her work draws from Baroque, Rococo, and biblical imagery, but filters these references through a deeply personal lens: the scribble, the childlike line, the act of measuring time with paint. The canvases feel like windows into infinite, nutritious spaces where her hand can travel freely.In this conversation: the tiny gap between midnight and morning and where Tsoutreli finds timelessness; the ritual of staring at paintings over breakfast and dancing around the studio; the moment she realized she was imitating herself after her debut show; the way blue travels through her work like a ballpoint pen through drawing.Whether you're an artist, curator, or simply art-adjacent, this episode offers an intimate look into the mind and work of a compelling contemporary artist.Follow Across the StudioInstagram @acrossthestudioTikTok @acrossthestudioFollow Leda TsoutreliInstagram @ledatsoutreliledatsoutreli.com

    37 min
  8. Across the Studio with Ryann Woods Ham

    22 MAR

    Across the Studio with Ryann Woods Ham

    In the sixth episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Ryann Woods Ham, a Brooklyn-based painter originally from Chico, California. After studying graphic design and spending years working in packaging design, Ryann made the leap in 2024 to commit fully to her studio practice. Working across painting, drawing, and ceramics, Ryann's work explores the idea that the interior self is inseparable from the larger stories that we inherit and share. Through soft figuration and dream logic, she paints worlds that feel tender, familiar, and just out of reach — inviting the viewer into spaces where animals and humans coexist world of their own. In this conversation: what it took to walk away from a stable career, the graphic design work you've held in your hands without knowing her name, the dreamlike worlds she builds on canvas, and what she's still figuring out. Whether you're an artist, curator, or simply art-adjacent, this episode offers an intimate look into the mind and work of a compelling contemporary artist. Follow Across the StudioInstagram @acrossthestudioTikTok @acrossthestudio Follow Ryann Woods HamInstagram @ryawoham ryannwoodsham.work

    35 min
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A podcast recorded inside artists’ studios. Conversations about process, inspiration, and building a career as an artist. Hosted by Mia Schoolman. Instagram: @acrossthestudio TikTok: @acrossthestudio Substack: @acrossthestudio

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    Mia Schoolman
  • Years Active
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  • Episodes
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  • Rating
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