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163: Arts Freedom Weather Report: MINNEAPOLIS JAN. 2026
Episode 163
What does it look like when artists and cultural organizers respond to authoritarian pressure—not with silence or fear, but with imagination, strateg…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
162: Alan Jenkins: These Art & Social Change Superpowers Can Help Save Democracy
Episode 162
So if democracy is under pressure, what role do stories, culture, and imagination play in defending it?
In this episode, we're joined by Alan Jenkins,…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
161: The Arts Freedom Weather Report - January 2026
Episode 161
When unchecked power rewrites the story of America,
who gets to live, who gets to speak,
and who quietly disappears?
In this episode of ART IS CHANGE,…
5 months ago
160: METRA - A Climate Revolution With Songs
Episode 160
What if a Musical Could Help us Tell the Truth
About Climate Change?
In this episode, Bill Cleveland sits down with theater director Emily Hartford an…
5 months, 1 week ago
159 What Can We Learn From Activist Artists in Australia: PART 2
Episode 159
BIGhART is Australia's leading
arts & social change organization.
Making art, Building communities, Driving change.
30 years in operation,
62 communiti…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
158 Goodbye Leni Sloan: Artist, Activist, Catalyst
Episode 158
Adios Leni
This isn’t a regular ART IS CHANGE episode. It’s a pause. A moment to mark the passing of Leni Sloan—artist, activist, catalytic troublemak…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
157 What Can We Learn From Activist Artists in Australia? Part 1
Episode 157
When I describe BIGhART to folks in the U.S. they
accuse me of making it up.
What if telling a story could rewrite history, heal generational trauma, a…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
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…
6 months 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…
6 months, 1 week 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…
6 months, 2 weeks ago