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The Project Room

A series of one-on-one interviews with creative people in arts and culture

  1. 01/11/2016

    Podcast Episode 21

    Displacement: Visual Artist Veit Stratmann Paris-based artist Veit Stratmann, who presented the work title L'Aquila at The Project Room in 2012, has made a practice of researching and writing about places of massive upheaval and its impact on the people who have lived there. After the recent terrorist attacks in Paris which took place near his home, we had a conversation about the connections between this event and his work, and what motivates him to be an artist, especially during difficult times.

    30 min

  2. 12/02/2015

    Podcast Episode 20

    Learning Outside The Classroom: Electronic Artist Michna Adrian Michna shares his perspective on what makes a good song, how college transformed his musical style, and advice for young musicians.

    34 min

  3. 11/05/2015

    Podcast Episode 19:

    The New Art Marketplace: Digital Artist Kevin McCoy In this interview, we visit with Kevin McCoy during the launch of his first company, an online platform for the buying and selling of digital artwork.  Monegraph, as this company is called, could change everything about how we value artwork and how artists get paid for the work they make.

    35 min

  4. 10/06/2015

    Podcast Episode 18:

    In 1978, Gilbert Baker, a drag queen and community activist in San Francisco, responded to his friend Harvey Milk's assertion that the gay rights movement needed a new symbol. The pink triangle had been in use but was connected to the atrocities of the Holocaust, and the movement needed something uplifting to replace it. Using his creativity, his sewing skills, many many volunteers and even more fabric dye, Baker designed and produced the Rainbow Flag- or Gay Pride Flag- that we know today.

    33 min

  5. 09/03/2015

    Podcast Episode 17

    This month's podcast is a conversation with Seattle-based artist Ellie Dicola. As part of Seattle Storefronts, a program that places artist projects in vacant storefront spaces, Ellie created the installation Was Here. As a corporeal monument to places that are gone, Was Here is a documentation of local businesses and organizations that have disappeared over the last handful of years. Ellie refers to her project as a map of experiences, and in our discussion of evolution and change, we explore what it means to give voice to memory and to create a place to collectively mourn the intangible.

    31 min

  6. 08/05/2015

    Podcast Episode 16

    For this month's podcast, TPR Editor Tessa Hulls sat down with Sarah Smith and Micah Stanovsky of Sawhorse Revolution, a Seattle nonprofit that teaches carpentry skills to high school youth. With an emphasis on projects that serve their local communities, Sawhorse has constructed everything from tree houses to garden beds. Recently, they've been garnering national attention for their project The Impossible City, a partnership with the Nickelsville homeless community in Seattle, in which students are building micro-homes for homeless residents.

    48 min

  7. 07/01/2015

    Podcast Episode 15

    TPR is proud to share our first ever online sound piece, created by New York-based Daniel Neumann in response to our interview with him in his studio. The conversation addresses the idea of monument through Daniel's use of found objects and personal history- have a listen!

    31 min

  8. 06/03/2015

    Podcast Episode 14

    Getting Good: Interdisciplinary Artist Tameka Norris Artist Tameka Norris dives into issues of intellectual property, authorship, appropriation and her relationship to art history as she discusses the vulnerabilities encountered while building a legacy in our digital era.

    38 min
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