Category: Arts

“Hannah Arendt: Between Worlds” a New Podcast Produced and Edited by Lisa

Arts / Audio / interview / Podcast Production

Listen here. In recent years many people have turned to the work of Hannah Arendt to try to understand what is happening in our world today. But who was Hannah Arendt? And why is she so relevant now? Over the course of seven podcast episodes, Samantha Rose Hill will be talking with artists, poets, writers, scholars, musicians, and activists who think with Hannah Arendt as they explore questions of solitude, peace, privacy, freedom, love, and politics. This podcast series was produced …

Profile: Meklit Hadero & Zena Carlota

afropop.org / Arts / Audio

The San Francisco Bay Area is a unique cultural space that has given birth to some of the most iconic countercultural American music. It is a place where identities can be fluid and hyphenated, where new voices emerge to speak to their times. Two very different Bay Area artists, Meklit Hadero and Zena Carlota, use their music to explore what it means to live on two sides of a hyphen: African-American, black-artist, Ethiopian-American, female-musician, to name a few.

Profile: Sean Kramer

Arts / Audio / KALW

In the Russian Orthodox Church, art is much more than just decoration. Small, elaborate paintings known as icons portray Christianity’s most famous persons, and are used as tools for prayer. Today, a number of artists who are neither Russian nor Russian Orthodox are nonetheless pushing the boundaries of this religious art form. Sean Kramer is one of them.

StoryCorps SF

Arts / Audio / interview / KALW

The Mission District is famous for its vibrantly colored murals, and some of the oldest murals can be found in Balmy Alley. Mia Gonzalez started the mural project in the early ’70s when the alley was a run down little street that connected 24th Street with nearby Precita Park. She wanted to make the alley safer for the kids who were walking through on their way to the park. What she didn’t expect was that it would launch a new wave of women muralists working in a strong Chicana tradition. Gonzalez sat down in the StoryCorps booth with art archivist Linda Wilson to talk about change, paint and pride.

Porning News Interview

Arts / Audio / interview

Courtney Trouble has been called the Queen of Queer porn. She has been performing in queer porn for 12 years and runs the production company Trouble Films. The work she makes is for herself and her fans. Listen to see what Courtney and her queer porn colleague Dylan Ryan have to say about their inspiration and their process.

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