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 Sophie Kitching

    5 days ago

    Across the Studio with Sophie Kitching

    In the 18th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Sophie Kitching, a French and British artist based in New York City who works across painting, sculpture, installation, and found object collection. Born on the Isle of Wight, raised in Paris, and now a decade into her practice in New York, Sophie creates work inspired by nature, architecture, literature, and the specific colors she collects from the places she has lived. Her practice spans Venetian blinds transformed with neon and gold leaf, polycarbonate paintings lined with two-way mirrors that feel like painting on water, and large-scale canvases that began as watercolors on paper. Her work has been shown at the Palais de Tokyo, the Maison de Châteaubriand, and she was invited by Bulgari to create a capsule collection for the 75th anniversary of the Serpenti icon — a collaboration that led to the discovery that emerald inclusions are called "the jardin" (the garden), which connected directly to her artistic vision. In this conversation: how she collaborated with Bulgari and Ruinart, the moment seeing her large-scale paintings unroll on a ballet stage felt like a heart attack, what she learned during a full moon in Bali when she saw the world in black and white, and why her ritual is keeping her brushes out in a controlled mess so the work always feels in progress. Follow Across the Studio Instagram @acrossthestudio TikTok @acrossthestudio Follow SophieInstagram @sophiekitching sophiekitching.com

    50 min
  2. Across the Studio with Akiva Listman

    14 Jun

    Across the Studio with Akiva Listman

    In the 17th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Akiva Listman, a New York City based painter and third generation New Yorker whose shaped canvas works transform the everyday objects of city life into something worth stopping for. Subway seats, metrocards, road signs, pigeons, locks, and cones...the things most New Yorkers walk past without thinking...are Frankensteined together in Photoshop, cut from plywood with a jigsaw, and painted with craft and attention. Akiva works four days a week in his own studio and three days a week assisting artist Dustin Yellin. He has collaborated with Nike, Beams, and Only New York and showing at the New York Transit Museum in a show saying goodbye to the subway seats that are slowly being phased out of the city he has painted his whole life. In this conversation: why he waited years before cutting his first shaped canvas until he could make one he was proud of, how the head of basketball apparel at Nike found him through years of genuine kindness and patience, why every artist is a small business whether they like it or not, and the one piece of advice he gives to anyone who wants to do this full time: treat every opportunity like it could work out. Across the Studio Instagram @acrossthestudio Tiktok @acrossthestudio Akiva ListmanInstagram @akivalistman

    36 min
  3. Across the Studio with Amanda Zheng

    7 Jun

    Across the Studio with Amanda Zheng

    In the 16th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Amanda Zheng, a New Zealand born, New York based visual artist and designer who graduated from Parsons School of Design with a BFA in communication design. Her work spans fine art, graphic design, and experimental material practice — from medium transfers and metal engravings to lithographic prints. Sponsored by Adobe and Apple, her work has been featured in Vogue and Vanity Fair, and she recently released Plume, a limited edition lithographic print collection about desire, excess, and the compulsion to construct a singular perfect identity. Amanda grew up as one of three students doing art in high school in New Zealand, where school counselors told her she was not going to America. She applied to Parsons on a whim, got in on a scholarship, and moved to New York at 18 with no blueprint and no one who had done it before her. In this conversation: why she approaches her practice more like an athlete than an artist, how taste is a privilege she only discovered after moving to New York, why every piece of inspiration she has ever used has come from offline, the 400 page artist catalog she designed as her senior thesis, and why her only ritual before making art is pressure. Follow Across the StudioInstagram @acrossthestudio@miaschoolmanTikTok @acrossthestudio Follow Amanda ZhengInstagram @amandaaartWebsite amandazheng.com

    26 min
  4. Across the Studio with Dipa Halder

    31 May

    Across the Studio with Dipa Halder

    In the 15th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Dipa Halder, a Brooklyn based artist working across abstract painting, florals, tablescapes, and interior design. Born in India and raised in the Bay Area, Dipa spent years as a software engineer at Figma before quitting her job the day she got back from painting a mural for their London office, not because she had planned to, but because she knew if she did not do it that day it would never happen. She spent the following year traveling solo, ended up at an artist residency in the mountains of Bogota, and eventually moved to Brooklyn to build a studio practice from scratch. She paints on raw unprimed canvas with water diluted acrylic, stitches canvases together with a sewing machine, draws images with salt, and makes tablescapes until 2am for supper clubs across New York. In this conversation: growing up South Asian with parents who nurtured creativity but never valued it as a career, the first apartment she turned into a gallery with 20 people and a last minute party poll, why she thinks she has been most depressed when she did not have a creative outlet, how putting financial pressure on your art changes your relationship to it, and the piece of advice she would give her earlier self about finding her style. Follow Across the Studio Instagram @acrossthestudio TikTok @acrossthestudio Dipa Halder @dipahalderstudio

    45 min
  5. Across the Studio with Diego Miró-Rivera

    17 May

    Across the Studio with Diego Miró-Rivera

    In the 14th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman runs into Diego Miró-Rivera on the streets of Tribeca during New York Art Week. No studio. No appointment. No microphones. Just a U-Haul truck and the loudest corner in New York. Diego Miró-Rivera graduated from Yale in 2023 and has spent the last three years living on the road, with the back of his truck as his studio. He is a land artist, or as he prefers, a land student. His work is anchored in the natural world, literally and conceptually. He collected 100,000 cicadas by hand during a once in 221 year emergence and made paintings with them without a single drop of glue. He grew a sculpture from native Texas grass seeds over two years. In this conversation: why his favorite place to make art is literally called Art, why glue is the enemy of poetry, and what it means to give the natural world credit for its creations. Apologies for the street noise. We recorded this on the loudest corner in Tribeca with my voice memos on my iPhone...worth it. Follow Across the Studio Instagram @acrossthestudio TikTok @acrossthestudio Follow Diego Miró-RiveraInstagram @gogomiro

    11 min
  6. Across the Studio with Mallory Granata of Impermanence Studios

    10 May

    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 Studio Instagram ⁠@acrossthestudio⁠ @miaschoolman TikTok ⁠@acrossthestudio⁠ Follow Mallory Granata Instagram ⁠@impermanencestudios⁠ @mallorygranata

    33 min
  7. 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
  8. 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
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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
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  • Episodes
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