Entry Points Miller Institute for Contemporary Art at Carnegie Mellon University

Entry Points Ep. 9 - Jessica Stockholder
Jessica Stockholder lives and works in Chicago, IL where she teaches at the University of Chicago. Stockholder’s works sit at the intersection of painting with sculpture and often incorporate the architecture in which it has been conceived. Employing a wide range of ordinary everyday materials, Stockholder orchestrates a meeting of pictorial and physical space. She probes how meaning derives from physicality, and engages the sensuality and pleasure evoked by color and formal order in an effort to call attention to the edges of understanding. With deliberate placement and the eye of a master colorist, she maps out a constructed world informed by numerous artistic traditions, including abstract expressionism, color field painting, installation art, and minimalism.

Entry Points Ep. 8 - Dawn Lundy Martin
Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet and essayist whose current creative-scholarly work operates at the intersection of experimental poetics, video installation, and performance.  She is the author of four books of poems including most recently: Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry. Martin is the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair of African American Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. A new book of poems, Instructions for The Lovers, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books and her memoir, When a Person Goes Missing, is forthcoming from Pantheon Books.

Entry Points Ep. 7 - Theodossis Issaias
Theo is an architect, educator, and founding member of Fatura Collaborative. He is Associate Curator at the Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art and visiting faculty at CMU School of Architecture. His Ph.D. dissertation, Architectures of the Humanitarian Front at Yale University, explored the nexus of humanitarian organizations and architecture and their relation to conflict, displacement, and the provision of shelter.

Photo credit:
Lindsay Dill, 2021

Ginger Brooks Takahashi is a transdisciplinary artist and educator working with installation, performance, and site-responsive works to examine our relationships to the mediums that connect us—an extension of feminist and queer praxis.

Divya Rao Heffley is an arts professional with over twenty years of experience in public art, museums, art and architectural history, and programming. As the Associate Director for the Office for Public Art, Divya works with artists and communities on temporary public art residencies and commissions that address a range of contemporary issues, seeking to foster justice and equity in public spaces.

In this Episode, Elizabeth Chodos interviews Liz Park, who guest curated the exhibition, This Skin of Ours at the Miller ICA.

https://miller-ica.cmu.edu/exhibitions/#429/this-skin-of-ours

Hear from janera solomon, Executive Director of Kelly Strayhorn Theater, as she discusses the ways she measures the impact of her work, builds community, supports risky art, and stays curious.