• the power of the voice 🖤 @mr_henreid on @npr today
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    the power of the voice 🖤 @mr_henreid on @npr today
  • Our video's gotten over one million views in 24 hours. Thank you to the whole @futureprairie team for nourishing and sustaining @mr_henreid and @filbertgoddess as we navigate this new world. And we're just getting started. Support our work here: https://gf.me/u/x7iqq4
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    Our video's gotten over one million views in 24 hours. Thank you to the whole @futureprairie team for nourishing and sustaining @mr_henreid and @filbertgoddess as we navigate this new world. And we're just getting started. Support our work here: https://gf.me/u/x7iqq4
  • You can help make @livininthelightfilm a reality. 🎶 https://gf.me/u/x7iqq4
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    You can help make @livininthelightfilm a reality. 🎶 https://gf.me/u/x7iqq4
  • Thank you @abcworldnewstonight @davidmuirabc @katutv @kgwnews @msn @yahoonews @etccanada.official for sharing the story of @livininthelightfilm. 🎶
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    Thank you @abcworldnewstonight @davidmuirabc @katutv @kgwnews @msn @yahoonews @etccanada.official for sharing the story of @livininthelightfilm. 🎶
  • @mr_henreid on @abcworldnewstonight with @davidmuirabc 🤲🏾🧺🎶
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    @mr_henreid on @abcworldnewstonight with @davidmuirabc 🤲🏾🧺🎶
  • “What always captivated me about writing, urban planning, and design, is hearing the stories of people and their lives, and how their lives intersected with other lives in particular places, leading to an understanding issues of power and access, inclusion and exclusion, both on the individual level and the community level. Now, as a curator, I work with artists, mostly social practice artists, who are asking these questions through their work, and about places and people and systems and structures and I help them find a way to put that work into content but also to make them happen. I've been leaning more into my identification as hard of hearing — sensorineural hearing loss from birth, had hearing aids since I was a baby. I've been trying to understand how that has shaped my view of the world and lead to more questions of how other people experience their capabilities or disabilities in different ways in space, not just as people who are hard of hearing, but people with all different types of disabilities across the spectrum. We’re reframing disability not as a source or a lack thereof, but as a different way of viewing the world that has its own power and insight and ways of being.” — Joal Stein, civic curator and writer. Listen to the whole episode to hear our conversation with Joal as he discusses his work investigating spatial and social power through contemporary culture, his experience as a hard of hearing artist, and his work in art, urbanism, architecture, and social engagement. You can find us on iTunes or Soundcloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 6: The Role of an Artist with Joal Stein. Post-production and sound engineering by Mat Larimer (@matlarimerrecording).
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    “What always captivated me about writing, urban planning, and design, is hearing the stories of people and their lives, and how their lives intersected with other lives in particular places, leading to an understanding issues of power and access, inclusion and exclusion, both on the individual level and the community level. Now, as a curator, I work with artists, mostly social practice artists, who are asking these questions through their work, and about places and people and systems and structures and I help them find a way to put that work into content but also to make them happen. I've been leaning more into my identification as hard of hearing — sensorineural hearing loss from birth, had hearing aids since I was a baby. I've been trying to understand how that has shaped my view of the world and lead to more questions of how other people experience their capabilities or disabilities in different ways in space, not just as people who are hard of hearing, but people with all different types of disabilities across the spectrum. We’re reframing disability not as a source or a lack thereof, but as a different way of viewing the world that has its own power and insight and ways of being.” — Joal Stein, civic curator and writer. Listen to the whole episode to hear our conversation with Joal as he discusses his work investigating spatial and social power through contemporary culture, his experience as a hard of hearing artist, and his work in art, urbanism, architecture, and social engagement. You can find us on iTunes or Soundcloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 6: The Role of an Artist with Joal Stein. Post-production and sound engineering by Mat Larimer (@matlarimerrecording).
  • “I am 58, and I'm gay and black, and I'm originally from the rural south. All of it, every bit of who I am, affects how I talk about work. Much of my work is about women, because I feel that the woman is an integral part of civilization. The black woman is the cradle to human civilization. Especially in America, because I believe that she raised America, figuratively and literally, up until the 20th century. Then being so marginalized and teased and bullied, as a very sensitive gay black boy from the south, I carry that with me. Because my work is challenging, I take no prisoners. I tell the truth as I see it. In my memoir, I tell the exact truth about the people, and people who bullied me, and how my family was so uber-religious, and how I felt so ashamed to be gay, and I would hear the ridicule, and I kept so many secrets. There's so much pain, and I hope that that work, the stories and the words I tell, inspire young gay black men from the rural south. Stories have been told about the gay experience, especially coming out today, but very few deal with the gay black men in the rural south. I have many stories. I knew that I had a story to tell from a very young age. I know that I have not finished telling the story. I want to reach as many people as I can to tell many more stories about how I grew up with the most honesty, and truth.” — Willie Little. Look for more from our interview with multimedia installation artist and storyteller Willie Little. He spoke to us about his career, themes and issues he's exploring as a queer Black artist from the south, advice for emerging artists, and the Regional Arts and Culture Council grant that helped him publish his newest art book and memoir, In the Sticks. You can see more of Willie’s work at www.willielittle.com or follow him on Instagram @willielittleart1234.
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    “I am 58, and I'm gay and black, and I'm originally from the rural south. All of it, every bit of who I am, affects how I talk about work. Much of my work is about women, because I feel that the woman is an integral part of civilization. The black woman is the cradle to human civilization. Especially in America, because I believe that she raised America, figuratively and literally, up until the 20th century. Then being so marginalized and teased and bullied, as a very sensitive gay black boy from the south, I carry that with me. Because my work is challenging, I take no prisoners. I tell the truth as I see it. In my memoir, I tell the exact truth about the people, and people who bullied me, and how my family was so uber-religious, and how I felt so ashamed to be gay, and I would hear the ridicule, and I kept so many secrets. There's so much pain, and I hope that that work, the stories and the words I tell, inspire young gay black men from the rural south. Stories have been told about the gay experience, especially coming out today, but very few deal with the gay black men in the rural south. I have many stories. I knew that I had a story to tell from a very young age. I know that I have not finished telling the story. I want to reach as many people as I can to tell many more stories about how I grew up with the most honesty, and truth.” — Willie Little. Look for more from our interview with multimedia installation artist and storyteller Willie Little. He spoke to us about his career, themes and issues he's exploring as a queer Black artist from the south, advice for emerging artists, and the Regional Arts and Culture Council grant that helped him publish his newest art book and memoir, In the Sticks. You can see more of Willie’s work at www.willielittle.com or follow him on Instagram @willielittleart1234.
  • “I have written a book called ‘In the Sticks’. It's a memoir, an art book, and a coming of age story. I experienced the first two years of integrated schools. It's all about growing up and growing beyond the shame of youth to the pride of an adult. Some of it takes place in my father's illegal liquor house. I thought I was just telling my story, but my audience and curators let me know it was a universal story. I tell stories with intricate details, and the intricate details lend themselves to people experiencing a similar thing. So when I talk about my first day of school, and my first year of school at an integrated school, most of the things that happened to me are familiar to what everybody experienced: bullying, or being teased. Because I tell it in such detail, people say, ‘That's my story too.’ I did that when I talked about some of the characters in the juke joint too. I described their figure flaws, their foibles. Like I said, the more specific it is, the more people say, ‘I know someone like that,” or, ‘that's me.’” — Multimedia installation artist and storyteller Willie Little. He spoke to us about his career, themes and issues he's exploring as a queer Black artist from the South, advice for emerging artists, and more. You can listen to the whole podcast episode on iTunes or Soundcloud — Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 5: In the Sticks with Willie Little. Post-production and sound engineering by Mat Larimer (@MatLarimerRecording). See more of Willie’s work at www.willielittle.com or follow him on IG @willielittleart1234.
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    “I have written a book called ‘In the Sticks’. It's a memoir, an art book, and a coming of age story. I experienced the first two years of integrated schools. It's all about growing up and growing beyond the shame of youth to the pride of an adult. Some of it takes place in my father's illegal liquor house. I thought I was just telling my story, but my audience and curators let me know it was a universal story. I tell stories with intricate details, and the intricate details lend themselves to people experiencing a similar thing. So when I talk about my first day of school, and my first year of school at an integrated school, most of the things that happened to me are familiar to what everybody experienced: bullying, or being teased. Because I tell it in such detail, people say, ‘That's my story too.’ I did that when I talked about some of the characters in the juke joint too. I described their figure flaws, their foibles. Like I said, the more specific it is, the more people say, ‘I know someone like that,” or, ‘that's me.’” — Multimedia installation artist and storyteller Willie Little. He spoke to us about his career, themes and issues he's exploring as a queer Black artist from the South, advice for emerging artists, and more. You can listen to the whole podcast episode on iTunes or Soundcloud — Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 5: In the Sticks with Willie Little. Post-production and sound engineering by Mat Larimer (@MatLarimerRecording). See more of Willie’s work at www.willielittle.com or follow him on IG @willielittleart1234.
  • PLEASE SHARE: artists and cultural workers in the PDX tri-county area: apply today for financial support from RACC! Go to RACC.org to apply. The deadline is 5 pm today, Monday, April 13th. You can apply for $500 to offset some of your losses as related to COVID-19. The application is very easy to fill out and takes about fifteen minutes. Please share this information widely. Thank you for helping us keep the arts alive and well in Portland. 👩‍🎨🎭🎨🧵✍️
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    PLEASE SHARE: artists and cultural workers in the PDX tri-county area: apply today for financial support from RACC! Go to RACC.org to apply. The deadline is 5 pm today, Monday, April 13th. You can apply for $500 to offset some of your losses as related to COVID-19. The application is very easy to fill out and takes about fifteen minutes. Please share this information widely. Thank you for helping us keep the arts alive and well in Portland. 👩‍🎨🎭🎨🧵✍️
  • Portland Creative Laureate Subashini “Suba” Ganesan (@subashinig) and Oregon Poet Laureate Kim Stafford (@kimstaffordpoetry) have teamed up with @futureprairie and local arts organizations to launch an emergency relief fund for independent and freelance artists in Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties. Please donate if you are able to! ✨ Apply before Wednesday, 3/25 to be considered to receive funding as soon as possible: pdxartistrelief.com Photo by Intisar Abioto (@intisarabioto)
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    Portland Creative Laureate Subashini “Suba” Ganesan (@subashinig) and Oregon Poet Laureate Kim Stafford (@kimstaffordpoetry) have teamed up with @futureprairie and local arts organizations to launch an emergency relief fund for independent and freelance artists in Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties. Please donate if you are able to! ✨ Apply before Wednesday, 3/25 to be considered to receive funding as soon as possible: pdxartistrelief.com Photo by Intisar Abioto (@intisarabioto)
  • Our latest guest: model, poet, and actress Kyra Rickards on art and expression through gesture. 🎊 “Everything we make matters. The act of creating is a radical, wonderful thing that we get to do and have the privilege to do. Art is wrapped with privileges: I have the privilege to create. I have the agency to create. As my collaborators and I do so, I want to ensure we're uplifting others along with us, that we're not using art to recreate a hierarchy of privilege and power. We can dismantle the system that creates tension, fragmented identities, and trauma. We can use beauty to make something that's accessible for everyone.” 📜 In this episode, she reads some beautiful poems from her new book, Crescent Moon, and talks about making art as a woman of color. Listen to the whole episode on iTunes or Soundcloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 4: Our Privilege to Create with Kyra Rickards. Post-production and sound engineering by Mat Larimer. 🔊 Here’s Kyra’s poem “After Waking”: Tell me something simple, like light through my white curtains, reaching lazy and languid through a glass of water. Like slow stretching as I watch your lips, the quiet uptick. I will tell you something true. There is nothing more real than the grip of my hands peeling a fresh orange to lay at your feet. 🍊 See more of her work @commelesetoiles 🕯️ This photo by @neekmason of @foxesandferns and @commelesetoiles ☄️ Styling by @benjaminholtrop 💌 HMUA by @kyliesallee 🧡 Production by @steichenstudio 🖌️A/D by @laughingmonk 🌞
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    Our latest guest: model, poet, and actress Kyra Rickards on art and expression through gesture. 🎊 “Everything we make matters. The act of creating is a radical, wonderful thing that we get to do and have the privilege to do. Art is wrapped with privileges: I have the privilege to create. I have the agency to create. As my collaborators and I do so, I want to ensure we're uplifting others along with us, that we're not using art to recreate a hierarchy of privilege and power. We can dismantle the system that creates tension, fragmented identities, and trauma. We can use beauty to make something that's accessible for everyone.” 📜 In this episode, she reads some beautiful poems from her new book, Crescent Moon, and talks about making art as a woman of color. Listen to the whole episode on iTunes or Soundcloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 4: Our Privilege to Create with Kyra Rickards. Post-production and sound engineering by Mat Larimer. 🔊 Here’s Kyra’s poem “After Waking”: Tell me something simple, like light through my white curtains, reaching lazy and languid through a glass of water. Like slow stretching as I watch your lips, the quiet uptick. I will tell you something true. There is nothing more real than the grip of my hands peeling a fresh orange to lay at your feet. 🍊 See more of her work @commelesetoiles 🕯️ This photo by @neekmason of @foxesandferns and @commelesetoiles ☄️ Styling by @benjaminholtrop 💌 HMUA by @kyliesallee 🧡 Production by @steichenstudio 🖌️A/D by @laughingmonk 🌞
  • Our latest guest: model, poet, and actress Kyra Rickards on art and expression through gesture. In this episode, she reads some beautiful poems from her new book, Crescent Moon, and talks about making art as a woman of color. Listen to the whole episode on iTunes or Soundcloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 4: Our Privilege to Create with Kyra Rickards. Post-production and sound engineering by Mat Larimer. Here’s her poem “After Leaving Your House at 7am”: Sometimes it tastes like honey and bitter leaves. Other times it is cool like water. Did I tell you that nothing remains the same, even if you hold it between your palms and whisper? “There's such a pressure on if you are a person of color when you write, but you have to write only about that experience. Being a person of color isn't always about pain. And just because I'm not writing about my identity doesn't mean that it's not steeped into my work. How I think about love and how I think about touch and how I think about connection has everything to do with my identity as a person of color.” See more of her work @commelesetoiles Photo by @alexxandrawho
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    Our latest guest: model, poet, and actress Kyra Rickards on art and expression through gesture. In this episode, she reads some beautiful poems from her new book, Crescent Moon, and talks about making art as a woman of color. Listen to the whole episode on iTunes or Soundcloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 4: Our Privilege to Create with Kyra Rickards. Post-production and sound engineering by Mat Larimer. Here’s her poem “After Leaving Your House at 7am”: Sometimes it tastes like honey and bitter leaves. Other times it is cool like water. Did I tell you that nothing remains the same, even if you hold it between your palms and whisper? “There's such a pressure on if you are a person of color when you write, but you have to write only about that experience. Being a person of color isn't always about pain. And just because I'm not writing about my identity doesn't mean that it's not steeped into my work. How I think about love and how I think about touch and how I think about connection has everything to do with my identity as a person of color.” See more of her work @commelesetoiles Photo by @alexxandrawho
  • Next up on Season 2 of our podcast: model, poet, and actress @commelesetoiles on art and expression through gesture! In this episode, she reads some beautiful poems from her new book, Crescent Moon, and talks about making art as a woman of color. Listen to the whole episode on iTunes or Soundcloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 4: Our Privilege to Create with Kyra Rickards https://soundcloud.com/futureprairie/kyra Post-production and sound design by @matlarimerrecording Photo by @calebgaskins
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    Next up on Season 2 of our podcast: model, poet, and actress @commelesetoiles on art and expression through gesture! In this episode, she reads some beautiful poems from her new book, Crescent Moon, and talks about making art as a woman of color. Listen to the whole episode on iTunes or Soundcloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 4: Our Privilege to Create with Kyra Rickards https://soundcloud.com/futureprairie/kyra Post-production and sound design by @matlarimerrecording Photo by @calebgaskins
  • “I’ve been working with aging bodies for probably ten years. I started off making work in undergrad with my grandmother and my mother. Through that, I ended up making work with my grandmother's buddies, my mom's buddies, and I thought of that work as queer — creating a queer relationship with these women and their sexuality...I’m focusing on the women who provided kinship to me — not in a family way — queer kin. I’m looking for lineage isn't the straight relationship what I learned from women before me — what I would learn from queer women, rather than what I would learn from familial relationships. I was thinking a lot about inheriting trauma and inheriting, quite literally, a gender expression from my mother and grandmother. I was fascinated by this thing we would all do — or the thing they were upset I wasn't doing…I’m not trying to make like a Dove Beauty campaign. I'm trying to walk the line of understanding that this can be empowering for them, but I'm more interested in what leisure would look like if women aged 60+ were unbothered by the weight of the world.” Hear more about Samantha Nye's art on our podcast on iTunes or Soundcloud — Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 3: A New Opulence with @samantha_nye_studio ⛲
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    “I’ve been working with aging bodies for probably ten years. I started off making work in undergrad with my grandmother and my mother. Through that, I ended up making work with my grandmother's buddies, my mom's buddies, and I thought of that work as queer — creating a queer relationship with these women and their sexuality...I’m focusing on the women who provided kinship to me — not in a family way — queer kin. I’m looking for lineage isn't the straight relationship what I learned from women before me — what I would learn from queer women, rather than what I would learn from familial relationships. I was thinking a lot about inheriting trauma and inheriting, quite literally, a gender expression from my mother and grandmother. I was fascinated by this thing we would all do — or the thing they were upset I wasn't doing…I’m not trying to make like a Dove Beauty campaign. I'm trying to walk the line of understanding that this can be empowering for them, but I'm more interested in what leisure would look like if women aged 60+ were unbothered by the weight of the world.” Hear more about Samantha Nye's art on our podcast on iTunes or Soundcloud — Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 3: A New Opulence with @samantha_nye_studio ⛲
  • “I make paintings and videos. Both aspects of my work approach utopia through the remaking of pop culture from the 60s. They do that by filling up the spaces of those pop cultural images with utopia full of queer women and trans-inclusive lesbian spaces. I'm a queer Jewish woman, but not a religious Jewish woman, but you can't take that cultural Judaism out of a gal. The elders in my family influenced my work. I’m trying to make an ideal future. I would like a queer women’s pool party to go on when I'm 60, 70 and 80, and hopefully 90. I'm trying to make that happen and at least image it.” Hear more about Samantha Nye's fun poolside paintings featuring elderly women, including her mother, grandmother, their lifelong friends and elders from her queer community on our podcast on iTunes or Soundcloud — Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 3: A New Opulence with @samantha_nye_studio 👙
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    “I make paintings and videos. Both aspects of my work approach utopia through the remaking of pop culture from the 60s. They do that by filling up the spaces of those pop cultural images with utopia full of queer women and trans-inclusive lesbian spaces. I'm a queer Jewish woman, but not a religious Jewish woman, but you can't take that cultural Judaism out of a gal. The elders in my family influenced my work. I’m trying to make an ideal future. I would like a queer women’s pool party to go on when I'm 60, 70 and 80, and hopefully 90. I'm trying to make that happen and at least image it.” Hear more about Samantha Nye's fun poolside paintings featuring elderly women, including her mother, grandmother, their lifelong friends and elders from her queer community on our podcast on iTunes or Soundcloud — Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 3: A New Opulence with @samantha_nye_studio 👙
  • Today on our podcast: Florida-born painter and video maker Samantha Nye on reenactment, performance, identity. Through her paintings and videos, Nye highlights aging bodies, celebrates queer kinship, and facilitates an intergenerational dialogue between queer womxn and their mothers and grandmothers. Samantha's tongue-in-cheek paintings feature elderly womxn, including her mother, grandmother, their life-long friends, and elders of her communities lounging and at leisure. Her paintings and videos are designed as love letters to queer spaces past, present, and future. She imagines an ideal future while also referencing queer legacies and failures. She mashes up incongruent luxurious references like Slim Aarons photographs of the 1960s, lesbian separatist spaces of the 1970s, bat mitzvah parties from the 1990s, and the Miami club scene of the early 2000's. Listen to the whole thing on iTunes or Soundcloud — Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 3: A New Opulence with Samantha Nye 🏳️‍🌈 https://soundcloud.com/futureprairie/opulence 💋
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    Today on our podcast: Florida-born painter and video maker Samantha Nye on reenactment, performance, identity. Through her paintings and videos, Nye highlights aging bodies, celebrates queer kinship, and facilitates an intergenerational dialogue between queer womxn and their mothers and grandmothers. Samantha's tongue-in-cheek paintings feature elderly womxn, including her mother, grandmother, their life-long friends, and elders of her communities lounging and at leisure. Her paintings and videos are designed as love letters to queer spaces past, present, and future. She imagines an ideal future while also referencing queer legacies and failures. She mashes up incongruent luxurious references like Slim Aarons photographs of the 1960s, lesbian separatist spaces of the 1970s, bat mitzvah parties from the 1990s, and the Miami club scene of the early 2000's. Listen to the whole thing on iTunes or Soundcloud — Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 3: A New Opulence with Samantha Nye 🏳️‍🌈 https://soundcloud.com/futureprairie/opulence 💋
  • If you've hung around any of the Future Prairie artist fam this year, you've likely heard our mantra/catchphrase keep dreamin and schemin. 🍂 It gets to the heart of what we're after, and we're pleased as punch to share with you our first official FP merch. Mugs, hats, and tote bags are $20 each, and all proceeds go towards funding our podcast highlighting marginalized voices in the arts. ♥️ Venmo or Square Cash @futureprairie to grab yours today. 🌊
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    If you've hung around any of the Future Prairie artist fam this year, you've likely heard our mantra/catchphrase keep dreamin and schemin. 🍂 It gets to the heart of what we're after, and we're pleased as punch to share with you our first official FP merch. Mugs, hats, and tote bags are $20 each, and all proceeds go towards funding our podcast highlighting marginalized voices in the arts. ♥️ Venmo or Square Cash @futureprairie to grab yours today. 🌊
  • Today on the podcast: artist, musician, composer, producer, and total dreamboat @emilywellsmusic , who’s known for her queer, political, classical/modern hybrid instrumentation. Her art bridges pop and chamber music and explores concepts around human relation to the natural world, rooted in love for both. Her short films and projections weave poetic imagery of contemporary dance, extreme weather and effects of climate crisis, and protest footage from the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, an international, grassroots political group working to end the AIDS pandemic. Emily’s latest album, This World is Too _____ For You, was released last March and has been hailed by NPR as “breathtaking” “mind-blowing” and “visionary”. I sat down with Emily before one of her concerts for a conversation about art and the future. ⛲ Listen to the whole thing on iTunes or Soundcloud! Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 2: To Live More Closely with Emily Wells 🌀
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    Today on the podcast: artist, musician, composer, producer, and total dreamboat @emilywellsmusic , who’s known for her queer, political, classical/modern hybrid instrumentation. Her art bridges pop and chamber music and explores concepts around human relation to the natural world, rooted in love for both. Her short films and projections weave poetic imagery of contemporary dance, extreme weather and effects of climate crisis, and protest footage from the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, an international, grassroots political group working to end the AIDS pandemic. Emily’s latest album, This World is Too _____ For You, was released last March and has been hailed by NPR as “breathtaking” “mind-blowing” and “visionary”. I sat down with Emily before one of her concerts for a conversation about art and the future. ⛲ Listen to the whole thing on iTunes or Soundcloud! Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 2: To Live More Closely with Emily Wells 🌀
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  • Season 2 of our podcast is now live! Musician and creative coder Helen Spencer Wallace discusses memory, vulnerability, resilience, healing, and how she made her interactive sculpture, the Brain Shrine. Listen to the whole episode on iTunes or Soundcloud: Future Prairie Radio S2E1: Brain Shrine with Helen Spencer Wallace ▶️🎶⏳ photo by @_clamber_
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    Season 2 of our podcast is now live! Musician and creative coder Helen Spencer Wallace discusses memory, vulnerability, resilience, healing, and how she made her interactive sculpture, the Brain Shrine. Listen to the whole episode on iTunes or Soundcloud: Future Prairie Radio S2E1: Brain Shrine with Helen Spencer Wallace ▶️🎶⏳ photo by @_clamber_
  • all in on Season Two 💗
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    all in on Season Two 💗
  • I've been having a great time working on Season Two of Future Prairie Radio. Lots of fun podcast content coming your way this autumn. 💘 Thank you to @sarahsarahturnerturner for welcoming me into the beautiful and healing creation space that was pink noise iii 🏩
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    I've been having a great time working on Season Two of Future Prairie Radio. Lots of fun podcast content coming your way this autumn. 💘 Thank you to @sarahsarahturnerturner for welcoming me into the beautiful and healing creation space that was pink noise iii 🏩
  • Today on the podcast, mixed reality digital collage artist Laura Camila Medina dives into the personal history and process behind her work on uprooting and migration. Inspired by memories of Colombia, her mother’s arepas, and her father’s soundtracks, her work has been shown at the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, PLANETA New York, and the Nat Turner Project. Listen to the whole episode on iTunes or Soundcloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 12: Memory Palace with Laura Camila Medina. 🎨 @lil___lau
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    Today on the podcast, mixed reality digital collage artist Laura Camila Medina dives into the personal history and process behind her work on uprooting and migration. Inspired by memories of Colombia, her mother’s arepas, and her father’s soundtracks, her work has been shown at the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, PLANETA New York, and the Nat Turner Project. Listen to the whole episode on iTunes or Soundcloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 12: Memory Palace with Laura Camila Medina. 🎨 @lil___lau
  • “I work top down. I’ll get a concept first. One of my songs was based on a fluctuating passage that would change in length, expand and contract, a pulsating, living musical unit. Each album took about a year. I would write and rewrite and rewrite the songs. Yes, it sounds chaotic. It sounds like listening to four different songs at once, but I think it creates a larger union, a multiplicity of meanings, a completely new synthesis. It’s an exciting time of inventing new art forms. Now I’m writing a progressive metal album. If you have a song in your heart, write it, don't think about it too much. The only way to get better is by creating, not necessarily for yourself, but without expectation, without trying to be somebody else. Take what works, cut out what doesn’t work. What's left is a new and unique artistic language that you have created for yourself, that other people can then start drawing from. Art is something that brings people together. — musician and mathematician Vivian Tylinska on her Russian futurism inspired transcendental black metal project, Victory Over the Sun. Hear the whole podcast episode on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 11: Victory Over the Sun.
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    “I work top down. I’ll get a concept first. One of my songs was based on a fluctuating passage that would change in length, expand and contract, a pulsating, living musical unit. Each album took about a year. I would write and rewrite and rewrite the songs. Yes, it sounds chaotic. It sounds like listening to four different songs at once, but I think it creates a larger union, a multiplicity of meanings, a completely new synthesis. It’s an exciting time of inventing new art forms. Now I’m writing a progressive metal album. If you have a song in your heart, write it, don't think about it too much. The only way to get better is by creating, not necessarily for yourself, but without expectation, without trying to be somebody else. Take what works, cut out what doesn’t work. What's left is a new and unique artistic language that you have created for yourself, that other people can then start drawing from. Art is something that brings people together. — musician and mathematician Vivian Tylinska on her Russian futurism inspired transcendental black metal project, Victory Over the Sun. Hear the whole podcast episode on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 11: Victory Over the Sun.
  • I like to make music that is complicated...to use math, to use the ideas that were developing in the 20th century in classical music using the language of metal. There is definitely correlation between math and music in terms of music being sets of pictures, the frequencies, the way elements interact. Over the last year, I’ve been very interested in microtonal music, which uses notes that are not the 12 notes that are most common in Western music. We get different relationships between tones, which gives you different flavors and qualities of chords. That can give you very different range of emotional feelings that don't exist in Western music. There's math in that, the way that you choose the notes, the way that you arrange things. Rhythmically, there are also complicated rhythms that have more large scale structures. What I've been doing this year is, I will take off the frets on a guitar and fill them in and cut new frets in. I use 17 tones instead of the usual 12. You get different flavors. 17 is nice because you can do similar stuff that you can in 12 but there are alien sounds, there are foreign and dissonant sounding intervals, which I think are really interesting. Whenever I show people microtonal music, at first, they’re like, 'This just sounds bad and out of tune.' I’m like, 'No, but it's a different tune!' My solo project is called Victory Over the Sun, which is the name of a Russian futurist opera from 1917. It's designed by this Soviet artist, Kazimir Malevich with text by other Russian futurists. I've been very interested in Russian futurism. Italian futurism was closely associated with fascism, which I absolutely condemn; I have no interest in Italian futurism. Russian futurism is what fascinates me most. I am working on a new project about Kazimir Malevich called 'The Objectless World', based on his ideas about art as pure emotional expression and a non-objective representation of feeling. — musician and mathematician Vivian Tylinska on her Russian futurism inspired transcendental black metal project, Victory Over the Sun. Hear the whole podcast episode on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 11: Victory Over the Sun.
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    I like to make music that is complicated...to use math, to use the ideas that were developing in the 20th century in classical music using the language of metal. There is definitely correlation between math and music in terms of music being sets of pictures, the frequencies, the way elements interact. Over the last year, I’ve been very interested in microtonal music, which uses notes that are not the 12 notes that are most common in Western music. We get different relationships between tones, which gives you different flavors and qualities of chords. That can give you very different range of emotional feelings that don't exist in Western music. There's math in that, the way that you choose the notes, the way that you arrange things. Rhythmically, there are also complicated rhythms that have more large scale structures. What I've been doing this year is, I will take off the frets on a guitar and fill them in and cut new frets in. I use 17 tones instead of the usual 12. You get different flavors. 17 is nice because you can do similar stuff that you can in 12 but there are alien sounds, there are foreign and dissonant sounding intervals, which I think are really interesting. Whenever I show people microtonal music, at first, they’re like, 'This just sounds bad and out of tune.' I’m like, 'No, but it's a different tune!' My solo project is called Victory Over the Sun, which is the name of a Russian futurist opera from 1917. It's designed by this Soviet artist, Kazimir Malevich with text by other Russian futurists. I've been very interested in Russian futurism. Italian futurism was closely associated with fascism, which I absolutely condemn; I have no interest in Italian futurism. Russian futurism is what fascinates me most. I am working on a new project about Kazimir Malevich called 'The Objectless World', based on his ideas about art as pure emotional expression and a non-objective representation of feeling. — musician and mathematician Vivian Tylinska on her Russian futurism inspired transcendental black metal project, Victory Over the Sun. Hear the whole podcast episode on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 11: Victory Over the Sun.
  • In our latest episode, musician and mathematician Vivian Tylinska discusses her Russian futurism inspired transcendental black metal project, Victory Over the Sun. Check out the whole podcast on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 11: Victory Over the Sun with Vivian Tylinska ⚡⚡⚡
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    In our latest episode, musician and mathematician Vivian Tylinska discusses her Russian futurism inspired transcendental black metal project, Victory Over the Sun. Check out the whole podcast on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 11: Victory Over the Sun with Vivian Tylinska ⚡⚡⚡
  • “Why do we say that this small plot is ours? How do we own this thing that’s part of Mother Nature? I was going through thoughts about that, thinking about fencing, property lines, and the American Dream. One association of the American Dream is the white picket fence. I went through online photos and Instagram, and there were people using the white picket fence in hashtags ironically and some people who were not — they really wanted that white picket fence. I made a one-quarter replica, similar to what you could buy at Home Depot, in white porcelain slip (which is a liquid clay). I have one that is a complete and intact white picket fence, and then I have one that's broken. People see it and know the reference one way or the other, whether it's ironic, or not, or complicated.” @cu.studios makes narrative, symbolic ceramic art as well as laser-etched tableware and planters. She’s a student of International Migration and Public Policy at The London School of Economics and Political Science and previously worked on the Family Reunification Program for the International Rescue Committee, where she represented and advocated for her clients’ human rights. Hear more of our podcast interview together up on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 10: A Place to Go with Jacqueline Gow.
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    “Why do we say that this small plot is ours? How do we own this thing that’s part of Mother Nature? I was going through thoughts about that, thinking about fencing, property lines, and the American Dream. One association of the American Dream is the white picket fence. I went through online photos and Instagram, and there were people using the white picket fence in hashtags ironically and some people who were not — they really wanted that white picket fence. I made a one-quarter replica, similar to what you could buy at Home Depot, in white porcelain slip (which is a liquid clay). I have one that is a complete and intact white picket fence, and then I have one that's broken. People see it and know the reference one way or the other, whether it's ironic, or not, or complicated.” @cu.studios makes narrative, symbolic ceramic art as well as laser-etched tableware and planters. She’s a student of International Migration and Public Policy at The London School of Economics and Political Science and previously worked on the Family Reunification Program for the International Rescue Committee, where she represented and advocated for her clients’ human rights. Hear more of our podcast interview together up on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 10: A Place to Go with Jacqueline Gow.
  • “I like using my hands. Clay has a strong structure...it teaches patience, it’s a long process from beginning to end. Being in such a computer-driven world, it's nice to be able to produce something you can see, that has function. Most of my work is tableware. To have your work in other people’s homes, work they touch either with a fork, or their hands, or their mouth (with a mug), it's an intimate space. When people say, ‘Hey, I use your mug every morning,’ it's really interesting...to get to be a part of their world in that way.” @cu.studios makes narrative, symbolic ceramic art as well as laser-etched tableware and planters. She’s a student of International Migration and Public Policy at The London School of Economics and Political Science and previously worked on the Family Reunification Program for the International Rescue Committee, where she represented and advocated for her clients’ human rights. Hear more on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 10: A Place to Go with Jacqueline Gow.
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    “I like using my hands. Clay has a strong structure...it teaches patience, it’s a long process from beginning to end. Being in such a computer-driven world, it's nice to be able to produce something you can see, that has function. Most of my work is tableware. To have your work in other people’s homes, work they touch either with a fork, or their hands, or their mouth (with a mug), it's an intimate space. When people say, ‘Hey, I use your mug every morning,’ it's really interesting...to get to be a part of their world in that way.” @cu.studios makes narrative, symbolic ceramic art as well as laser-etched tableware and planters. She’s a student of International Migration and Public Policy at The London School of Economics and Political Science and previously worked on the Family Reunification Program for the International Rescue Committee, where she represented and advocated for her clients’ human rights. Hear more on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 10: A Place to Go with Jacqueline Gow.
  • Today on the podcast, ceramicist Jackie Gow of @cu.studios 🍽️ Jackie makes narrative, symbolic ceramic art as well as laser-etched tableware and planters. She’s a student of International Migration and Public Policy at The London School of Economics and Political Science and previously worked on the Family Reunification Program for the International Rescue Committee, where she represented and advocated for her clients’ human rights.🚪🧱 I visited Jackie at her art studio in what used to be the immigration building of Seattle. Jackie’s art is quite relevant to discussions of the future as we grapple with a federal government shutdown while divisive rhetoric around the potential construction of a southern border wall rages on. We can’t have sensible discussions around options for our future without looking, at least in part, through the lens of the past, and ceramics are one of humanity’s oldest art forms. Jackie spoke with me about citizenship, the American dream, and working with clay. 🍚 Given her passion for human rights and migration policy, this weekend felt like a poignant time to bring you Jackie’s interview, on the 74th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. After our interview, in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I share a few fundamentals of universal human rights. Hear the whole thing on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 10: A Place to Go with Jacqueline Gow. Photo by Lisa Thiele.
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    Today on the podcast, ceramicist Jackie Gow of @cu.studios 🍽️ Jackie makes narrative, symbolic ceramic art as well as laser-etched tableware and planters. She’s a student of International Migration and Public Policy at The London School of Economics and Political Science and previously worked on the Family Reunification Program for the International Rescue Committee, where she represented and advocated for her clients’ human rights.🚪🧱 I visited Jackie at her art studio in what used to be the immigration building of Seattle. Jackie’s art is quite relevant to discussions of the future as we grapple with a federal government shutdown while divisive rhetoric around the potential construction of a southern border wall rages on. We can’t have sensible discussions around options for our future without looking, at least in part, through the lens of the past, and ceramics are one of humanity’s oldest art forms. Jackie spoke with me about citizenship, the American dream, and working with clay. 🍚 Given her passion for human rights and migration policy, this weekend felt like a poignant time to bring you Jackie’s interview, on the 74th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. After our interview, in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I share a few fundamentals of universal human rights. Hear the whole thing on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 10: A Place to Go with Jacqueline Gow. Photo by Lisa Thiele.
  • From artist, illustrator, and GIF queen @qrtrs : “There's more opportunity now, I think, for art to exist within a tech space. There was originally a push for really clean and crisp and the futuristic-looking programs, UIs, and technologies, but now people want to get back to something that is relatable, welcoming, something that's enjoyable to look at in a sense, something that isn't so focused on crisp design. We’re bringing in an element of hand-drawn artistry. For example, I use Google Calendar on my phone. You scroll through the months; each time you go pass a different month, there'll be a little banner illustration, and the illustration will coincide with the month in terms of weather. The April one, maybe there's someone holding an umbrella, and in January or February, a snowy scene…breaks up the otherwise crisp and clean UI of a calendar. It brings a home-y, relatable aspect to the calendar that I find really interesting. I would like to see more of that adopted in tech as well. I love clean and functional design as much as the next person, but I'd love to see some different voices and variety as well.” Check out the whole thing on iTunes and SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 9: A Thousand Words with Courtney Brendle.
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    From artist, illustrator, and GIF queen @qrtrs : “There's more opportunity now, I think, for art to exist within a tech space. There was originally a push for really clean and crisp and the futuristic-looking programs, UIs, and technologies, but now people want to get back to something that is relatable, welcoming, something that's enjoyable to look at in a sense, something that isn't so focused on crisp design. We’re bringing in an element of hand-drawn artistry. For example, I use Google Calendar on my phone. You scroll through the months; each time you go pass a different month, there'll be a little banner illustration, and the illustration will coincide with the month in terms of weather. The April one, maybe there's someone holding an umbrella, and in January or February, a snowy scene…breaks up the otherwise crisp and clean UI of a calendar. It brings a home-y, relatable aspect to the calendar that I find really interesting. I would like to see more of that adopted in tech as well. I love clean and functional design as much as the next person, but I'd love to see some different voices and variety as well.” Check out the whole thing on iTunes and SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 9: A Thousand Words with Courtney Brendle.