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156: Why Should Activist Artists & Cultural Organizers Care About Sustainability?
Episode 156
Why does sustainability matter in activist art? When funding cycles are short, residencies are brief, and institutions often treat creative work as t…
2 months, 1 week ago
155: Why Are Humility & Failure Essential to Art and Social Change Success?
Episode 155
This episode digs into one of the trickiest—and most revealing—corners of community-based arts work: the way humility and failure shape everything we…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
154: What are the Moral & Ethical Challenges Facing Activist Artists & Cultural Organizers?
Episode 154
Budgets frozen. Institutions wobbling. Political earthquakes everywhere. In the middle of all that, many artists and cultural workers are stepping st…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
153: How Robert Farid Karimi Uses COMEDY & FOOD as a Powerful Strategy for Social Change
Episode 153
Robert Farid Karimi
The "inbetween" is often ignored. It is also the juicy territory that this week’s guest, comedian, chef, poet, educator, and activ…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
152: Art, Agency, & Fear: How Artmaking Can Help Crush the MAGA Monsters at the Door
Episode 152
What if the scariest threat we face isn’t some monster outside—but the quiet, invisible loss of our own power to act?
In a world wired to exploit our …
3 months ago
151: Should Activist Artists & Cultural Organizers be Running for Office - Tom Tresser Says, "ABSOLUTELY!"
Episode 151
What if the solution to our democracy’s crisis isn’t another white paper or study—but an artist running for office?
In this episode, civic organizer a…
3 months, 1 week ago
150: What Can We Learn from Activist Artists in Singapore?
Episode 150
What happens when a tiny city-state with tight state control becomes a hub for community-driven, arts-based transformation?
Meet ArtsWok, a Singapore…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
149: What Can We Learn From Activist Artists In Serbia?
Episode 149
DAH SAYS: "In today’s world, we can oppose destruction and violence with the creation of meaning "
The Economist Magazine's Intelligence Unit places, …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
148 ; Five Arts Superpowers for Activist Artists & Cultural Organizers to Make Change NOW!
Episode 148
When everything feels like it’s unraveling, how do we know art still matters? In this episode, we explore the question:
What use is art in a world on…
4 months ago
147: Emma Addams: Can a Quilt Change how Congress Listens— & How you Practice Democracy at Home?
Episode 147
Can a Quilt Change how Congress Listens—
& How you Practice Democracy at Home?
If you’re exhausted by performative politics and digital outrage, this e…
4 months, 1 week ago