Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast

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The Cerebral Women media platform presents Cerebral Women Art Talks, a podcast that is an extension of @cerebral_women. Conversations offer insights into the visual art world from artists, mainly artists of color, and female artists who freely articulate what inspires their creativity. In addition, you'll hear interesting perspectives from dedicated art professionals who work with artists and the art institutions that feature them. Art Advisors, Art Critics, Collectors, Curators, Gallerists, Museum Professionals.

  1. Tiffanie Delune

    4D AGO

    Tiffanie Delune

    Tiffanie Delune. Born in Paris, France in 1988 and living now in Montpellier in the South of France, she has exhibited internationally in Europe, North America, West Africa and Asia. Her solo exhibitions include “The Geography of Feelings”, Gallery 1957, London, United Kingdom (2024), “There's Gold on the Palms of My Hands”, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana (2023), “See Me Flowing”, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, United States (2022), “There's Gasoline in My Heart”, Foreign Agent, Lausanne, Switzerland (2022) and “Seeds of Light”, Ed Cross Fine Art, London, United Kingdom (2020). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including: “Sacred Movements”, Galerie Christophe Person, Brussels, Belgium (2025), “Alchemical Gestures”, Galerie Revel, Bordeaux, France (2025), “The Fabric of Life”, Paul Smith, London, UK (2024), “A Spirit Inside”, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, United Kingdom (2024) and The Lightbox, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom (2023), “Touching the Sky”, Mucciaccia Contemporary, Rome, Italy (2023), “In and Out of Time”, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana (2023), “Unlimited”, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana (2022), “The Storytellers”, Gallery 1957, London , United Kingdom (2022), “Mother Nature”, The Core Club, New York, United States (2022), “Her Dark Materials”, With Eye of the Huntress, London, United Kingdom (2021) and “In the Midst of All That Is”, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, United States (2021). In 2023, Tiffanie Delune was in an art residency with Gallery 1957 in Accra, Ghana. In 2022, the artist was nominated to the Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2023 and in 2021 to the Reiffers Art Initiatives in Paris, France. Her work has notably been published in the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Evening Standard, Cultured Magazine and Frieze Magazine and has covered the medical publication Ethics & Human Research, The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY, United States (2023), the poetry books Open Leaves poetry collections — Poems from Earth, Harryette Mullen, Black Sun Flowers Poetry, London, United Kingdom Photo credit: Ninon de Buyl Artist https://tiffaniedelune.com/ Christophe Person https://www.christopheperson.com/artworks/2121-tiffanie-delune-morph-x-2025/ Gallery 1957 https://www.gallery1957.com/artists/82-tiffanie-delune/ Art Paris 2026 https://www.artparis.com/fr/artist/112715 | https://www.artparis.com/en/gallery/3485 Drawing Now https://www.drawingnowparis.com/en/exhibitors/christophe-person/ Galerie Revel https://www.galerierevel.com/exhibitions/26-alchemical-gestures-tiffanie-delune-kartini-thomas-kimia-ferdowsi-kline-alymamah/ Cultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2021/07/08/tiffanie-delune/ C& https://www.contemporaryand.com/fr/events/tiffanie-delune-theres-gasoline-in-my-heart SHOWstudio https://www.showstudio.com/news/frieze-highlights-how-spirituality-and-geometry-coalesce-in-tiffanie-delunes-exhibition Asakan https://asakan.art/tiffanie-delune-je-ne-cherche-ni-a-plaire-ni-a-menfermer-je-souhaite-uniquement-appeler-au-reve-a-lemotion-a-la-question-et-au-dialogue-entre-les-mondes-et-limaginaire/ Artnet https://www.artnet.fr/artistes/tiffanie-delune/ Mucciaccia https://mucciaccia.com/it/tiffanie-delune/

    28 min
  2. Stephanie Sparling Williams

    FEB 10

    Stephanie Sparling Williams

    Ep.260 Stephanie Sparling Williams is the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Before coming to the Brooklyn Museum, she was the Associate Curator at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, and a Visiting Lecturer in Art History and Africana Studies at Mount Holyoke College. Prior to her appointments at Mount Holyoke, she was the Assistant Curator at the Addison Gallery of American Art, and in 2016-2017, she was the John Walsh Fellow at the Yale University Art Gallery. Sparling Williams has taught interdisciplinary courses on American Art, Art and African Americans, Latinx Art, and Museums and Exhibitions at Phillips Academy, Andover; the University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Eastern Connecticut State University, and Mount Holyoke College. She also holds the 2026 Anschutz Distinguished Fellowship in American Studies at the Effron Center for the Study of America at Princeton University. Her curatorial practice is predicated on interdisciplinary research, writing, and teaching on American art, and foregrounds Black Feminist space-making. Her scholarly work is invested in the space of the museum, with a focus on African American art and culture, and the work of U.S.-based artists of color. Related interests include material histories, cross cultural exchange, strategies of address, and contemporary art that engages with the history of the United States. Sparling Williams holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity, and a certificate in Visual Studies from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She holds a B.A. in Fine Art and Ethnic Studies from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Sparling Williams has published a monographic study on feminist conceptual artist Lorraine O’Grady, and over two dozen academic articles, reviews, and catalogue essays. Her book on O’Grady, Speaking Out of Turn: Lorraine O’Grady and the Art of Language (UC Press 2021), was awarded 32nd Annual James A. Porter Book Award. Her recent work, Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art reimagines how contemporary audiences experience historic American art. Disrupting traditional presentations of art from the Americas and offering a new set of approaches to collection display and interpretation, this groundbreaking reinstallation and accompanying publication reframes 2,000 years of art drawn from the world-renowned holdings of the Brooklyn Museum.

    30 min
  3. Ep.259 April Bey

    FEB 3

    Ep.259 April Bey

    Ep.259 April Bey by Phyllis Hollis

    24 min
  4. Ep.258 Yulia Bas

    JAN 27

    Ep.258 Yulia Bas

    Ep.258 Born in Moscow in 1986, Yulia Bas pursued fine art studies from an early age. After earning her architecture diploma, she made the move to Western Europe. Today, she resides in Barcelona, Spain. In 2008 she and her partner established a successful yacht design studio. Shortly after they relocated to Italy first, then to Spain. Several years ago, after more than a decade in design she rekindled her passion for art, engaging in private study and collaborations with artists, curators, and art historians. Yulia has forged partnerships with international galleries, showcasing her work in solo and group exhibitions, including a display at Christie's London, as well as participating in various art fairs. Her works are being acquired for the collections around the world. Artist https://www.yuliabas.com/ Galerie LeRoyer https://www.galerieleroyer.com/fr/artists/35-yulia-bas/ Gillian Jason Gallery https://www.gillianjason.com/artists/57-yulia-bas/ G.Gallery https://www.g.gallery/about Glogauair https://glogauair.net/open-studios/december-2023/yulia-bas/ Luisa Catucci Gallery https://www.luisacatucci.com/yulia-bas-2/ Art Cat https://www.setmanadelart.cat/esdeveniment/yulia-bas-caminaboires/

    24 min
  5. Robert Garland

    JAN 20

    Robert Garland

    Ep.257 Robert Garland is currently the Dance Theatre of Harlem Artistic Director. Mr. Garland was a member of the Dance Theatre of Harlem Company achieving the rank of principal dancer. After creating a work for the DTH School Ensemble, Arthur Mitchell invited Robert Garland to create a work for The Dance Theatre of Harlem Company and appointed him the organization’s first Resident Choreographer. He was also Director of the Professional Training Program of the DTH school, and the organization’s webmaster. In addition to choreographing several ballets for DTH, Mr. Garland has also created works for New York City Ballet, Britain’s Royal Ballet, Oakland Ballet and many others. His commercial work has included music videos, commercials and short films, including the children’s television show Sesame Street, a Nike commercial featuring New York Yankee Derek Jeter, the NAACP Image Awards, a short film for designer Donna Karan, and the “Charmin Cha-Cha” for Proctor and Gamble. Mr. Garland holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Juilliard School in New York City. Photo Credit: Nir Arieli Robert Garland https://www.dancetheatreofharlem.org/people/robert-garland/ Dance Theatre of Harlem in Paris https://www.dancetheatreofharlem.org/dthinparis/ Pointe Magazine https://pointemagazine.com/robert-garland-dance-theatre-of-harlem/#gsc.tab=0 New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/arts/dance/robert-garland-dance-theater-of-harlem.html San Francisco Classical Voice https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/arts/dance/robert-garland-dance-theater-of-harlem.html National Arts Center https://nac-cna.ca/fr/bio/robert-garland Dance Consortium https://danceconsortium.com/resources/choreographer/robert-garland/ Pulse Kenya https://www.pulse.co.ke/story/the-ballet-world-needs-robert-garland-why-isnt-it-calling-2024082008555077311 Yale https://schwarzman.yale.edu/artist/robert-garland Bach Track https://bachtrack.com/performer/robert-garland News Tank Culture https://culture.newstank.fr/article/view/264305/etats-unis-robert-garland-directeur-artistique-dance-theater-of-harlem.html Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Garland_(choreographer)

    34 min
  6. Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe

    JAN 14

    Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe

    Ep.256 Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe is a Ghanaian-born, Portland-based painter whose work moves quietly but with immense presence. Born in Accra in 1988, he trained at the Ghanatta College of Art and Design in Ghana before relocating to Portland, Oregon in 2017 where he continued to develop his distinctive visual language. His luminous oil portraits have been exhibited internationally, from Los Angeles to Sydney, and his work is included in major museum collections and group shows across the United States and Europe. What began as an exploration of figurative painting evolved into a deliberate visual language rooted in identity, embodiment and cultural narrative. Quaicoe has spoken about how his move from Ghana to the United States deepened his awareness of how Black bodies are seen, read and experienced in different cultural contexts. This awareness, he explains, informs how he paints presence, gaze and posture. Vangart https://vangart.fr/otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe/ Lex Weill https://weillgallery.com/artists/41-otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe/biography/ Zongville Appreciation Series https://zongoville.com/blogs/news/otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe-24-12-2025 Russo Lee Gallery https://www.russoleegallery.com/artists/otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe Roberts Project https://www.robertsprojectsla.com/artists/otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe Zara https://www.zara.com/us/en/search?searchTerm=otis%20kwame%20kye%20quaicoe§ion=WOMAN Artsper https://www.artsper.com/fr/artistes-contemporains/ghana/98535/otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe Almine Rech https://www.alminerech.com/exhibitions/8892-otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe-superficial-incisions Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe-you-re-in-america/ Rubell Museum https://rubellmuseum.org/2021-otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe Deeds Magazine https://www.deedsmag.com/stories/in-conversation-with-exhibitor-otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe-about-pharrells-upcoming-femmes-group-exhibition-in-paris

    29 min
  7. Kandy G Lopez

    12/22/2025

    Kandy G Lopez

    ​Kandy G Lopez (b. 1987, New Jersey) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring cultural identity, representation, and power through fiber art, portraiture, painting, and mixed media. Born to Dominican parents, she draws from her experience navigating multiple cultural landscapes. Kandy G Lopez holds a BFA in Painting and a BS in Marketing/Management from the University of South Florida and earned her MFA in Painting from Florida Atlantic University in 2014. Her background in both fine arts and business informs her meticulous material investigations and strategic engagement with art institutions. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and Arts at Nova Southeastern University, where she integrates critical theory with hands-on material practice. Photo credit: Jade Lily Artist https://www.kandyglopez.com/ ACA Gallery https://acagalleries.com/artists/kandy-g-lopez/ Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/kandy-g-lopez-situational-identity-new-works-in-fiber-aca-galleries/ Armory Art Center https://armoryart.org/event/past-the-eyes-artist-talk-kandy-g-lopez/ Colossal https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/kandy-g-lopez-embroidered-portraits/ Fondation Florence https://www.fondationflorence.fr/espacecult Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/kandy-g-lopez-textile-truths-faces-of-resilience-aca-galleries Orlando Museum of Art https://omart.org/artwork/kandy-g-lopez-installation-view-from-the-florida-prize-in-contemporary-art/ Riverside Art Museum https://riversideartmuseum.org/exhibitions/kandy-g-lopez-invisible-threads-2/ Out Clique https://www.outclique.com/layers-you-can-see-inside-the-art-of-kandy-g-lopez/ Canvas Rebel https://canvasrebel.com/meet-kandy-g-lopez/ Bold Journal Magazine https://boldjourney.com/meet-kandy-g-lopez/ Meer https://www.meer.com/en/99807-textile-truths-faces-of-resilience Visual Arts Center of Richmond https://www.visarts.org/blog/blog/2024/a-conversation-with-visiting-artist-in-residence-kandy-g-lopez/ Luxe Source https://luxesource.com/article/artist-kandy-g-lopez VR Art Platform https://vrallart.com/artist/kandy_g_lopez/ Craft Council https://craftcouncil.org/articles/the-queue-kandy-g-lopez/

    25 min
  8. Trevyn McGowan

    12/02/2025

    Trevyn McGowan

    Ep.254 Trevyn McGowan is the co-founder of Southern Guild gallery in Cape Town and Los Angeles, representing contemporary artists from Africa and its diaspora. Over the past two decades, she has dedicated her career to provoking and propelling art and design across the continent by empowering makers both creatively and commercially, elevating the production and presentation of work, and fostering an ethos of community. Trevyn and her husband and business partner, Julian McGowan, pioneered Africa’s collectible design category with the establishment of Southern Guild in 2008, specialising in unprecedented modes of making, cross-disciplinary collaborations, and the ingenuity of the human hand. With the gallery as their primary focus, they have expanded Southern Guild’s programme to encompass contemporary art across multiple media and form cross-continental dialogues between artists. Works by the gallery’s artists are in the collections of museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art and National Gallery of Victoria. Born in Johannesburg in 1967, Trevyn graduated with a degree in dramatic arts from London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and pursued a successful stage, film and television actress for 10 years. She founded Site Specific, a creative interiors agency which she ran for seven years before returning to live in South Africa in 2003. The McGowans established a number of brands and platforms to promote Africa’s creative sector, including GUILD Design Fair, the Design Foundation and the export agency Source (now renamed Design Network Africa), which supplies handcrafted homeware to global retailers. Their pioneering vision earned them places on USA Art + Auction magazine’s ‘POWER 100’ list of the most influential players in the global art world, City Press newspaper’s 100 World Class South Africans and Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business. Headshot Image courtesy of Jorge Meza and Southern Guild Gallery https://southernguild.com/ Trevyn and Julian McGowan open New location https://southernguild.com/news/southern-guild-announces-new-tribeca-gallery-opening World African Artists Unite https://waau-art.com/events/southern-guild-presents-the-artists-kamyar-bineshtarigh-alex-hedison-bonolo-kavula-romeo-mivekannin-zanele-muholi-ziziphonposwa-and-dominique-zinkpe-at-frieze-new-york/ Artforum https://www.artforum.com/news/cape-towns-southern-guild-to-launch-first-us-gallery-in-la-252964/ Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2024/02/22/southern-guild-los-angeles-gallery/

    27 min
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The Cerebral Women media platform presents Cerebral Women Art Talks, a podcast that is an extension of @cerebral_women. Conversations offer insights into the visual art world from artists, mainly artists of color, and female artists who freely articulate what inspires their creativity. In addition, you'll hear interesting perspectives from dedicated art professionals who work with artists and the art institutions that feature them. Art Advisors, Art Critics, Collectors, Curators, Gallerists, Museum Professionals.

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