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171: Artist Proof Studio - What Can We Learn From Activist Artists in South Africa
Episode 171
What does it actually take to build
a democracy the people own?
The Artist Proof story takes us to Johannesburg, where a print studio becomes a livin…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
170: Is Community Based-art Making at the Heart of Cultural Democracy?
Episode 170
Is Community-Based Artmaking
at the Heart of Cultural Democracy?
In this conversation, community arts organizer, educator and theater maker Matt Schwa…
7 months ago
169: Joni Doherty: ART IN ACTION Is Fueling Free Expression & Democracy
Episode 169
What happens when artists step forward not just to create, but to defend the freedom to create?
In this opening episode of a new Art in Action series …
7 months, 1 week ago
168: Arts Freedom Weather Report - The MAGA Squeeze Is Provoking Creative Resistance
Episode 168
You can feel it in the air.
Across museums, national parks, libraries, and cultural institutions, the pressure around what can be said — and what must…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
167: Arts ON Prescription: Radical Art & Social Change in Healthcare
Episode 167
Arts On Prescription: What if your doctor prescribed an arts-based treatment for what ails you and your health insurance paid for it.
YEAH RIGHT! Actu…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
166: The Wedding - What Can We Learn From Activist Artists in Northern Ireland?
Episode 166
How can a play devised by enemies, performed in four locations across a peace wall in the middle of a war zone help provoke lasting peace?
In November…
8 months ago
165: The Intercessor - Art, Faith, & Repair in the MAGA Maelstrom
Episode 165
In this episode I talk with Arlene Goldbard about her new book that I think takes on a quiet but consequential democratic problem: how, in unstable t…
8 months, 1 week ago
164: Meeting The Moment - Tactics & Tools for Activist Artists & Cultural Organizers
Episode 164
What Arts-Based Tool & Tactics
are Emerging to Meeting the MAGA Storm?
This is the Arts Freedom weather report for February 11, 2026. In this episode …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
8 months, 3 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,…
9 months ago