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The Full Expression Podcast: What is Creativity? With host Dan Imhoff Full Expression is a series of one-hour conversations about the creative process with host, Dan Imhoff. Each month, Imhoff brings his lifetime of experience as an author, musician, and small-scale farmer to these enlightening dialogs. What is creativity? Is it problem solving, disciplined practice, unexpected good fortune? Tune in to the Full Expression podcast for explorations into these fundamentally human pursuits.

  1. 17 Haz

    John Muir Laws: Journaling Will Transform Your Life

    In this episode of Full Expression, host Dan Imhoff sits down with naturalist, artist, educator, and lifelong journaler John Muir Laws for a conversation about attention, creativity, and the transformative power of keeping a journal.   They explore journaling as more than a record of experience, but as an essential tool for observation, reflection, and deeper engagement with the world. Drawing from decades of nature journaling, John Muir Laws explains how sketching, writing, mapping, and asking questions on paper can expand our capacity to notice, learn, and connect.   The conversation ranges from Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and Steinbeck's journals to the neuroscience of learning, creativity, and distributed cognition.    This is an invitation to slow down, cultivate curiosity, and discover how creativity grows through practice, observation, and sustained attention to the world around us.

    59 dk.

  2. 3 Haz

    Ava Mingo and Royer Bockus: The Magic of Repertory Theater

    In this episode of Full Expression, host Dan Imhoff sits down with actresses Ava Mingo and Royer Bockus from the renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, one of the largest and longest-running repertory theater companies in the United States. Eva and Royer take us behind the scenes of life at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, from building characters and mastering Shakespeare's language to understudying major roles, sustaining creativity over months-long runs, and finding balance between the characters they play, and their everyday lives. This is a conversation about artistic collaboration, adaptation, and the unique challenges and rewards of repertory theater. Ava and Royer also reflect on the power of performance to build empathy, spark conversation, and create moments of genuine human connection.

    59 dk.

  3. 20 May

    Cathy Bailey and Robin Petravic: Heath Ceramics and the Art of Everyday Objects

    In this episode of Full Expression, host Dan Imhoff sits down with Cathy Bailey and Robin Petravic, the owners of Heath Ceramics, for a conversation about craft, California design, and the art of making things built to last.   They reflect on discovering the struggling Sausalito factory in the early 2000s, rebuilding an iconic American ceramics company, and balancing creativity with the realities of manufacturing. The conversation explores Edith Heath's legacy, the philosophy behind Heath's glazes and forms, and why imperfection, materiality, and human touch remain central to the work.   They discuss sustainability, Japanese and Scandinavian design influences, and the deeper question of how thoughtful objects shape everyday life.

    59 dk.

  4. 6 May

    Amy Bowers Cordalis: The Century-Long Fight to Save the Klamath and Its People

    In this episode of Full Expression, host Dan Imhoff sits down with Amy Bowers Cordalis—Yurok attorney, activist, and author of The Water Remembers—for a  conversation about storytelling, sovereignty, and the long fight to restore a river.   Amy traces her journey from growing up between Ashland and the Klamath River to becoming a leading legal voice in one of the largest dam removal and salmon restoration efforts in history. At the center of the conversation is an intergenerational story: a family, a tribe, and a river bound together through culture, survival, and resistance.   They explore Amy's creative process, how she translated oral storytelling traditions into a "circular" narrative form, and the challenge of writing a book that carries both personal memory and collective history.   The conversation also dives into the deeper stakes behind the story: the history of dispossession, the criminalization of Indigenous lifeways, and the decades-long legal and grassroots battle that ultimately led to the removal of four dams on the Klamath River. It's not just a story of environmental restoration, but of cultural survival and hard-won victory.

    59 dk.

  5. 22 Nis

    Charles Loi & Hannah Lee: Reimagining How We Tell The Climate Story

    In this episode of Full Expression, host Dan Imhoff sits down with filmmakers  Charles Loi and Hannah Lee to explore storytelling, the climate climate, and the creative process. Both trace their paths from early experiments with film to collaborating on Climate California, a documentary series that reimagines how we tell stories about the climate crisis from NorCal Public Media. The series shifts away from the doom and gloom approach to climate change reporting, and toward beauty, connection, and lived experience. They discuss the challenges of making ambitious work with limited resources, the tension between message and aesthetics, and the responsibility of telling delicate stories with care.  They explore what it means to create something that resonates beyond the moment, and how art can bring people together around shared uncertainty, rather than division.

    59 dk.

  6. 1 Nis

    Narsiso Martinez: Making Hidden Labor Visible Through Art

    In this episode of Full Expression, host Dan Imhoff sits down with artist Narsiso Martinez for a conversation about labor, migration, and the creative process. Narsiso traces his journey from a rural town in Oaxaca, Mexico—where he worked in the fields as a child—to immigrating to Los Angeles in search of opportunity and education. What began as a pursuit of stability gradually evolved into a deep artistic practice, shaped by his lived experience and the communities he came from. Working on discarded produce boxes, Narsiso creates portraits of farmworkers that merge subject and material in a powerful way. His work brings visibility to a labor force that is essential yet often unseen, while exploring themes of class, dignity, and belonging. The conversation moves between worlds: from agricultural labor to art school, from the challenges of navigating life as an immigrant to the evolution of a distinct visual language. Narsiso reflects on the role of education, the influence of artists like Van Gogh, and how art became a way to express what could not be said in the fields.

    59 dk.

  7. 18 Mar

    Angelo Garro: Life of a Master Craftsman

    Craft lives in the hands. And in a world increasingly shaped by speed, automation, and abstraction, what does it mean to dedicate your life to making things slowly, by hand? In this episode of Full Expression, host Dan Imhoff sits down with Angelo Garro, Sicilian-born blacksmith, sculptor, forager, and founder of Omnivore Salt, for a conversation about craft, culture, food, and the creative life. Angelo traces his journey from a small village in Sicily to apprenticing with a master metalworker in the Swiss Alps, before building a life in North America as an architectural blacksmith and artist. He developed a deep connection to the natural world—through foraging, hunting, cooking, and community—that would eventually place him at the center of California's early slow food movement. The conversation moves between worlds: from the history of ironwork in Europe to the philosophy of creating, from the realities of running a small food business to the challenges facing organic producers today. Angelo reflects on immigration, identity, and the role of culture—food, art, and craft—in shaping both personal meaning and collective freedom. We also explore what may be lost—and what could be rediscovered—in an age of artificial intelligence, as Angelo makes a case for the return of traditional skills and the enduring value of working with your hands.

    59 dk.

  8. 4 Mar

    Thomas Lauderdale on Pink Martini & Building a 'United Nations of Sound'

    Behind Pink Martini's unmistakable sound is a simple idea: music can bring people together across cultures. In this episode of Full Expression, host Dan Imhoff sits down with Thomas Lauderdale—pianist, bandleader, and artistic director of Pink Martini, the "little orchestra" that blends classical, jazz, pop, and world music into a style that feels both timeless and global. Thomas traces the unlikely path that led him to the band. Raised on a plant nursery in rural Indiana, he began piano lessons at six and later studied history and literature at Harvard, originally planning a career in politics. But in 1994, while working on a political campaign in Portland, he started a small band to play fundraisers for progressive causes. What began as a festive antidote to dreary political events slowly grew into Pink Martini—a genre-defying ensemble that now performs around the world with songs in more than 25 languages. Thomas shares the philosophy behind the band: treating music as hospitality, learning songs in the languages of the countries they visit, and creating what he describes as a kind of "United Nations of sound." The conversation also explores the creative process behind Pink Martini's recordings—from recording live on tape and chasing the "magical accident" in the studio to building a musical family that has stayed vibrant for more than three decades.

    59 dk.
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The Full Expression Podcast: What is Creativity? With host Dan Imhoff Full Expression is a series of one-hour conversations about the creative process with host, Dan Imhoff. Each month, Imhoff brings his lifetime of experience as an author, musician, and small-scale farmer to these enlightening dialogs. What is creativity? Is it problem solving, disciplined practice, unexpected good fortune? Tune in to the Full Expression podcast for explorations into these fundamentally human pursuits.

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  • Yaratıcı
    Dan Imhoff
  • Aktif Yıllar
    2021 - 2026
  • Bölümler
    48
  • Sınıflandırma
    Uygun
  • Telif Hakkı
    © Llama Shed
  • Şovun Web Sitesi
    Full Expression

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