Podcasts by Broken Boxes Podcast

Brown Skin, Black Music, White Institutions: Conversation with Mario Ybarra, Jr. from 2022-04-05T12:37:12

Mario Ybarra, Jr., is a visual and performance artist, an educator and an activist who combines street culture with fine art in order to produce what he calls “contemporary art that is filtered thr...

To Witness: Conversation with Dr. Chip Thomas aka jetsonorama from 2022-03-06T15:24:18

Chip Thomas, aka jetsonorama, is a photographer, public artist and physician who has been working in a small clinic on the Navajo Nation since 1987. There he coordinates the Painted Desert Project ...

For Generations PART III: Kathy Elkwoman Whitman speaks with Cannupa Hanska Luger from 2022-02-21T22:28:19

This is the final episode of a 3 part interview series featuring artist Kathy Elkwoman Whitman reflecting on her life and art in conversation with her son, artist Cannupa Hanska Luger.

For Generations PART II: Kathy Elkwoman Whitman speaks with Cannupa Hanska Luger from 2022-02-13T03:53:31

This is the second episode of a 3 part interview series featuring artist Kathy Elkwoman Whitman reflecting on her life and art in conversation with her son, artist Cannupa Hanska Luger.

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For Generations PART I: Kathy Elkwoman Whitman speaks with Cannupa Hanska Luger from 2022-02-06T00:21:39

This is the first episode of a 3 part interview series featuring artist Kathy Elkwoman Whitman reflecting on her life and art in conversation with her son, artist Cannupa Hanska Luger.

Ka...

We Circle Back To Move Into The Future: Léuli Eshr?ghi and Cannupa Hanska Luger from 2022-01-24T18:59:44

In this conversation, artists Léuli Eshr?ghi and Cannupa Hanska Luger untangle topics of Indigenous futures, science fiction, belonging, and the possibilities of language. Léuli Eshr?ghi is a cura...

Bonus episode: WE ARE AWAKE - Mixtape for Resistance from 2021-12-29T18:34:08

This bonus episode features a reworked live DJ set by DJ Miss Ginger at The Art Of Indigenous Resistance exhibition and concert at Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, May 2017. "This mix is dedic...

Love Like You Mean It: Conversation with April Holder from 2021-12-21T14:52:18

In this conversation artist April Holder and I talk about motherhood, naming the narrow lens of social media, the accessible art of printmaking, dismantling the myth of loneliness, allowing our com...

Trust Yourself: Conversation with Oriana Lee from 2021-11-15T01:53:44

In this episode we get into conversation with the one and only Oriana Lee. I first engaged with Oriana in Santa Fe, NM while doing sound production for Wise Fool New Mexico several years back. I ...

By Breath&By Song: Conversation with Dakota Camacho from 2021-10-30T02:55:33

In this episode we hear from artist Dakota Camacho. They speak to us through song and story about depth in relationship to land, community and in what ways they practice their art. They speak on mi...

I Am The River: Conversation with Amber Morning Star Byars from 2021-10-14T20:12:25

In this podcast we feature a timely and pointed conversation with dear friend, water protector, artist and current law school student Amber Morning Star Byars. The topics we discuss in this episode...

Bonus episode: Ku'e - Who I am/ What I stand for - CCA series launch for Radio Coyote from 2021-10-13T15:02:55

This is a special Bonus Episode, presented as a poem stitched together with music and memory, story and reflection. I am a sound artist and this is how I feel most comfortable to share a bit of my ...

Through Paradox: Conversation with Cannupa Hanska Luger&Ginger Dunnill from 2021-09-30T13:33:51

This episode presents a candid and vulnerable reflection into the experience of one family of creatives and how they are making it work. Creatives and life partners, Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger a...

On This Site: Interview with Jeremy Dennis from 2021-09-15T03:23:35

This episode we hear from Afro-Indigenous photographer Jeremy Dennis who shares insight, concept and approach around their practice. Jeremy also describes a myriad of exciting projects they have go...

Revolutions of Pattern: Interview with Lehuauakea from 2021-08-30T14:01:21

This episode I speak with artist Lehuauakea. Lehua is a m?h? or Queer, Kanaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian and mixed heritage interdisciplinary artist and kapa maker from P?pa?ikou on Moku O Keawe, or the...

Skywalkers&Vulnerability: Interview with Marie Watt from 2021-08-15T05:12:34

This episode we are in conversation with artist Marie Watt. Marie is a member of the Seneca Nation and also has German-Scot ancestry. Her interdisciplinary...

It’s How We Do In Our Communities: Sterlin Harjo&Cannupa Hanska Luger talk Reservation Dogs, Life&Indigenous Art from 2021-08-01T14:06:25

Sterlin Harjo is an award winning Seminole/Muscogee Creek filmmaker who has directed three feature films and a feature documentary all of which address the contemporary Native American lived experi...

On the Poetics of an Afrofuture: Interview with Anaïs Duplan from 2021-07-31T14:59:49

To open this episode I rebroadcast a reading by Anaïs Duplan of his recent new work Blackspace: on the Poetics of an Afrofuture, and which took place through Harvard Book Store's virtual event seri...

Storywork: Interview with Maria Hupfield from 2021-07-30T15:39:43

Transdisciplinary artist Maria Hupfield activates her creations in live performances. She is interested in the production of shared moments that open spaces for possibility and new narratives. In h...

Process&Intention: Interview with Kali Spitzer from 2021-07-28T15:02:34

"Indigenous Femme Queer Photographer Kali Spitzer ignites the spirit of our current unbound human experience with all the complex histories we exist in, pa...

We Left Them Nothing: Interview with Demian Dinéyazhi' from 2021-07-25T18:20:08

In this episode artist Demian DinéYazhi´ speaks with Broken Boxes about their practice, navigating the contemporary art world and online spaces and they read excerpts from their poetry works includ...

The Beatbox Queen Ashley Saywut?! Moyer: On Becoming A Dominant Female Act from 2021-07-23T15:32:44

Ashley Moyer aka Saywut?! is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Widely known for her unique talent of Beatboxing (producing sounds and beats through her mouth), Ashley is an award winning fem...

Indigenous Women In Film: Interview with Tia Taurere-Clearsky from 2021-07-21T16:35:24

Interview with Tia Taurere-Clearsky, founder of Whaea Productions.

Tia Taurere-Clearsky of Whaea Productions i...

Trans Solidarity, Interview with Shelby Chestnut, music by Shea Diamond from 2021-07-18T14:55:49

Shelby Chestnut is the Director of Policy and Programs at the Transgender Law Center (TLC), the countries largest trans led organization. Shelby’s work foc...

On The Land: Black Belt Eagle Scout from 2021-07-11T15:32:16

Conversation and live music with Indigenous music artist Black Belt Eagle Scout aka Katherine Paul and BBES live drummer Camas Logue live from KP's ancestral homelands in Swinomish territory. Feat...

Anti-Racist Resource: Interview with Ann Lewis from 2021-07-08T14:30:19

Conversation with feminist activist artist and white accomplice Ann Lewis. Introduction audio by Activist and educator Joseph Capehart explaining the difference between reforming, defunding, and ...

Anti-Racist Resource: Interview with Ann Lewis from 2021-07-08T14:30:19

Conversation with feminist activist artist and white accomplice Ann Lewis.

Introduction audio by Activist and educator Joseph Capehart explaining the difference between reforming, defundi...

On Love&Fury: A conversation with Director Sterlin Harjo&Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger from 2021-07-02T00:40

As part of STTLMNT Digital Occupation, we are thrilled to share a vulnerable, vivid, layered, and candid conversation between Director Sterlin Harjo and ar...

Ancestral Ink: A Symposium Honoring Indigenous Tattoo Traditions Part 2 from 2021-06-29T18:47:32

For this broadcast I will present part 2 of a live recording from Ancestral Ink, a Symposium Honoring Indigenous Tattoo Traditions took place on Tewa/Tewa ancestral lands of what is now known as Sa...

On Location: Ancestral Ink PART II - Symposium Honoring Indigenous Tattoo Traditions from 2021-06-29T18:47:32

For this broadcast presents part 2 of a live recording from Ancestral Ink, a Symposium Honoring Indigenous Tattoo Traditions took place on Tewa/Tewa ancestral lands of what is now known as Santa Fe...

Ancestral Ink: A Symposium Honoring Indigenous Tattoo Traditions Part 1 from 2021-06-29T18:29:02

Ancestral Ink: A Symposium Honoring Indigenous Tattoo Traditions brought together Indigenous tattoo practitioners and cultural bearers from the Pacific and North America who are the forerunners in ...

On Location: Ancestral Ink PART I - Symposium Honoring Indigenous Tattoo Traditions from 2021-06-29T18:29:02

Ancestral Ink: A Symposium Honoring Indigenous Tattoo Traditions brought together Indigenous tattoo practitioners and cultural bearers from the Pacific and North America who are the forerunners in ...

"dear fellow settler colonizer," A Minus Plato broadcast. Episode 5 from 2021-06-04T16:00

"dear fellow settler colonizer," is a Minus Plato series, rebroadcast on Broken Boxes for STTLMNT Digital Occupation as resource archive directed towards education of settler ancestors who may li...

"dear fellow settler colonizer," A Minus Plato broadcast. Episode 4 from 2021-06-03T16:30

"dear fellow settler colonizer," is a Minus Plato series, rebroadcast on Broken Boxes for STTLMNT Digital Occupation as resource archive directed towards education of settler ancestors who may li...

"dear fellow settler colonizer," A Minus Plato broadcast. Episode 3 from 2021-06-03T16:06

"dear fellow settler colonizer," is a Minus Plato series, rebroadcast on Broken Boxes for STTLMNT Digital Occupation as resource archive directed towards education of settler ancestors who may li...

"dear fellow settler colonizer," A Minus Plato broadcast. Episode 2 from 2021-06-02T16:05

"dear fellow settler colonizer," is a minus plato series, rebroadcast on Broken Boxes for STTLMNT Digital Occupation as resource archive directed towards education of settler ancestors who may lik...

"dear fellow settler colonizer," A Minus Plato broadcast. Episode 1 from 2021-06-01T16:05

"dear fellow settler colonizer," is a minus plato series, rebroadcast on Broken Boxes for STTLMNT Digital Occupation as resource archive directed towards education of settler ancestors who may li...

Responsive Witnessing: Emily Johnson, Karyn Recollet, Joseph M. Pierce&Camille Usher from 2021-05-28T16:08:43

STTLMNT from 2020-10-13T18:31

Broken Boxes is proud to be an accomplice in supporting over 30 artists for the International project STTLMNT: An Indigenous Digital Wo...

ANCESTRAL INK / A SYMPOSIUM HONORING INDIGENOUS TATTOO TRADITIONS from 2019-06-29T22:48:51

On Location: Artists Christine Howard Sandoval and Cannupa Hanska Luger respond to The Diker Collection at The Met from 2018-10-22T19:07:54

This episode of Broken Boxes Podcast presents a live stream recording by artists Christine Howard Sandoval and Cannupa Hanska Luger as they visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new exhibit: Art...

Episode 77: Artists Christine Howard Sandoval and Cannupa Hanska Luger live stream at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new exhibit: Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection from 2018-10-22T19:07:54

This episode of Broken Boxes Podcast presents a live stream recording by artists Christine Howard Sandoval and Cannupa Hanska Luger as they visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new exhibit: Art...

Conversation with 2018 R.I.S.E. Fellowship recipients Katherine Paul, Whess Harman and fabian romero from 2018-08-03T23:45:11

In this episode BBP sits down with R.I.S.E. founder/director Demian DinéYazhi´ to find out exactly what is was like to launch  R.I.S.E. Fellowship, the first of its kind, which centers Indigenous Q...

Episode 76: Indigenous Queer Resilience Through R.I.S.E. Fellowships from 2018-08-03T23:45:11

In this episode BBP sits down with R.I.S.E. founder/director Demian DinéYazhi´ to find out exactly what is was like to launch  R.I.S.E. Fellowship, the first of its kind, which centers Indigenous Q...

Conversation with Artist Patricia Vázquez Gómez from 2018-05-21T20:23:07

Patricia breaks down how she uses art as a tool for investigation and to create situations which uncover tensions between visibility and invisibility. She reflects on her relationships with various...

Conversation with Queer Nature founders P?nar Ate? Sinopoulos-Lloyd and So Sinopoulos-Lloyd from 2018-04-02T18:09:53

Queer Nature is a project that creates a decolonially-informed queer futurism through earth-based skills. Queer Nature recognizes that many people, including LGBTQ2+ people and womxn, have historic...

Episode 74: Dear Patriarchy Series, Queer Nature from 2018-04-02T18:09:53

Queer Nature is a Colorado-based project that creates a decolonially-informed queer futurism through earth-based skills. Queer Nature recognizes that many people, including LGBTQ2+ people and womxn...

Dear Patriarchy - Conversation with Artist Demian DinéYazhi' about the R.I.S.E. Fellowship from 2018-02-25T17:15:55

In this episode of the Dear Patriarchy series we hear from collaborator, artist and activist Demian DinéYazhi' about the intention and motivation for the currently open $1,000 unrestricted Artist F...

Conversation with Artist and Organizer Sharita Towne from 2018-01-31T19:57:16

As an artist, Sharita Towne’s interests lie in unpacking the inherited struggles of past burdens and in affording collective catharsis. Through collaboration, stereo-photography, printmaking, video...

Conversation with Curator and Writer bart fitzgerald from 2017-12-27T15:30:26

bart fitzgerald’s work explores black sociality, religion and queerness through a lens of liberation theology as base ideology for radical living. they make work as an visual artist, writer, lectur...

Dear Patriarchy - Conversation with Artist Demian DinéYazhi’ from 2017-12-17T23:54:17

We are very excited to present the first episode of the Dear Patriarchy Podcast Series. The first episode of this series features a conversation on the topic of patriarchy with artist and radical i...

Conversation with Writer Cooper Lee Bombardier from 2017-11-18T17:15:07

Cooper Lee Bombardier is a writer and visual artist originally from the South Shore of Boston. He has been a construction worker, a cook, a carpenter, a union stagehand, a bouncer, a welder, a shop...

Conversation with Artist and Organizer Israel Francisco Haros Lopez from 2017-10-28T17:17

Artist and Poet Israel Francisco Haros Lopez was born in East Los Angeles to immigrant parents of Mexican descent. Israel brings his firsthand knowledge of the realities of migration, U.S. border p...

Conversation with Artists Leena Minifie and Cannupa Hanska Luger from 2017-09-27T12:33:32

Broken Boxes is very excited to launch a new podcast series titled INTERSECTION. Our first episode of the INTERSECTION series features Gitxaala/British (Tsimshian) artist, writer, curator and med...

Conversation with Artists Chief Lady Bird and Aura Last - Unceded Voices Project from 2017-08-22T23:56:21

In this episode we get into conversation with artists Chief Lady Bird and Aura Last, collaborators on a large mural project as part of 2017 Unceded Voices: Anticolonial Street Artists Convergence, ...

Conversation with Artist Jessica Canard - Unceded Voices Project from 2017-07-30T14:15:21

Jessica Canard is a multi-media visual artist who is inspired by street art and murals due to how accessible it is to the public. Born and currently based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she has goals of tr...

Conversation with Artist Ryan Dennison from 2017-07-05T14:44:51

Ryan Dennison is a Diné transdisciplinary artist from Tohatchi, NM. His work has been featured in both solo and collaboration exhibitions across Diné Nation and U.S. Sicksicksick Distro (Albuquerqu...

Conversation with Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo from 2017-06-15T13:05

In this episode Broken Boxes gets into conversation with writer and director Sterlin Harjo. We hear about Sterlin's journey to becoming a filmmaker and he shares memories of growing up in rural Okl...

Conversation with Artist and Filmmaker Jess X Snow from 2017-06-10T14:12

JESS X SNOW is a queer Asian-American artist, filmmaker and poet. After the Cultural Revolution, her parents immigrated from Nanchang, China to Canada, which she shortly left at the age of 7 to mig...

On Location: The Art of Indigenous Resistance: Inspiring the protection of Mother Earth from 2017-06-09T17:54:55

The Art Of Indigenous Resistance: Inspiring the protection of Mother Earth is an exhibition featuring the work of leading artists and activist collectives from across the globe whose work creates a...

Conversation with Composer and Artist Raven Chacon from 2017-05-20T16:40

riginally from the Navajo Nation, Raven Chacon is a composer of chamber music, a performer of experimental noise music, and an installation artist. He performs regularly as a solo artist as well as...

On Location: Peñasco Theater Youth Podcast Workshop from 2017-05-04T15:48:24

The Peñasco Theatre is a crucial community and performance space located in Northern New Mexico. Last year Broken Boxes was invited to host a podcast workshop with young people from throughout the ...

Conversation with Artist Freyr A Marie from 2017-01-09T15:37:59

A message from Freyr A Marie: G/^/L/^/I/^/T/^/C/^/H/---*_*---/P/^/R/^/0/^/F/^/I/^/L/^/E I'm no authority:::: but making things for me is a practice of doing and being*** My critical minds lives the...

Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger Talks Standing Rock, ND from 2016-11-29T08:01

For the past year, the Dakota Access Pipeline (ETP) in collaboration with the North Dakota State police force have been trampling upon the constitutional, human, and civil rights of his people. In ...

Conversation with Land Defender Kim Smith from 2016-11-28T14:32

Kim Smith is a Todích'íí'nii (Bitterwater clan) woman from St Michaels Arizona. As a woman of a water clan she holds her responsibilities to water dear and has dedicated her life to protecting wate...

WARRIORS WANTED: COME IN A GOOD WAY: Standing Rock, ND. November 26, 2016 from 2016-11-27T15:20:07

"On December 5th, 2016 the Army Corps of Engineers has announced that they will begin evicting water protectors at Standing Rock from the Oceti Sakowin Camp. What they failed to acknowledge is tha...

WARRIORS WANTED: Live from Standing Rock, ND November 25, 2016 from 2016-11-26T15:58:49

Material rebroadcast here is from the Facebook pages: Mykay Rajahdat Kden Last Real Indians: Chase Iron Eyes Digital Smoke Signals Kash Jackson TYT Politics Prolific TheRapper Waniya Locke Indi...

WARRIORS WANTED: Live from Standing Rock, ND November 20, 2016 from 2016-11-22T20:28:57

Live From Standing Rock, ND November 20th 2016. Material rebroadcast here from the following Facebook pages November 20-21 2016: Standing Rock Rising Linda Black Elk Digital Smoke Signals Indigeno...

WARRIORS WANTED: Live from Standing Rock, ND Nov. 7-9 2016 from 2016-11-10T15:44:06

This is the THIRD episode featuring a collection of live feed Facebook posts from water protectors providing first hand accounts and information about what has taken place from November 7th to Nove...

WARRIORS WANTED: Live from Standing Rock, ND Oct. 27-30 2016 from 2016-10-31T20:12:51

This is the SECOND episode in a series featuring a collection of live stream Facebook posts from water protectors and features first hand accounts and information regarding what has taken place Oct...

WARRIORS WANTED: Live from Standing Rock, ND. Oct. 22-24 2016 from 2016-10-25T14:23:48

This episode urgently rebroadcasts FB live footage from the water protectors through Broken Boxes Podcast is an attempt to allow this information to reach further than one media forum, to share thi...

On Location: Water Protectors at Camp of the Sacred Stones - Standing Rock, ND from 2016-10-24T17:05

I had the opportunity to travel to Standing Rock, North Dakota last week to deliver supplies from New Mexico to the water protectors currently on the front lines. Although my stay was very short wi...

Conversation with Curators/ Artists Tania Willard, Maria Hupfield and Tarah Hogue - #callresponse project finale at Grunt Gallery from 2016-10-21T13:33

This episode completes the series regarding the #callresponse project and provides interviews and reflections from the culminating exhibition held at grunt gallery in October 2016 with guest respon...

Conversation with Curator Tarah Hogue from 2016-10-20T14:02:59

Tarah Hogue is the 2016 Audain Aboriginal Curatorial Fellow with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and Curator at grunt gallery in Vancouver. Her work with Indigenous People in Canada aims to de...

Conversation with Artists and Land Defenders Christi Belcourt and Isaac Murdoch from 2016-10-01T16:52:25

For the #callresponse project Christi Belcourt works with traditional teacher and collaborator Isaac Murdoch to hold ceremony with plants and animals as her community with The Onaman Collective. Ju...

Conversation with Writer Marcia Crosby from 2016-09-20T16:13:04

Broken Boxes Podcast is proud to present this episode featuring Marcia Crosby, Tsimshian-Haida writer, art historian, and educator from British Columbia and respondent for Tania Willard. This is th...

Conversation with Artist Tania Willard from 2016-08-06T16:16:36

Broken Boxes Podcast is proud to present this episode as the seventh installation in a series of interviews featuring artists and their respondents from the socially engaged project #callresponse. ...

Conversation with Performance Artists Esther Neff&IV Castellanos from 2016-07-08T14:19:53

In this episode Brooklyn based performance artists Esther Neff and IV Castellanos share insight on collective organizing and their involvement in various performance hives including Panoply Perform...

Conversation with Artist Maria Hupfield from 2016-06-01T17:41:58

In this episode, Maria Hupfield speaks about her experiences living as an artist in New York, the influence her upbringing has had on her lifestyle, and shares reflections on where she finds inspir...

Conversation with Singer Tanya Tagaq from 2016-05-10T20:03:50

In this conversation, Tanya Tagaq offers an honest reflection to being an established recording artist today. She speaks about her relationship with her incredible band, her ideas surrounding being...

Conversation with Artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory from 2016-04-16T15:59:01

Laakkuluk Williamson-Bathory a uaajeerneq performer of Greenlandic mask dancing, music, drum­-dancing, storytelling and acting. Her career has allowed her to travel all across Canada and to many wo...

Conversation with Artist Cheryl L'Hirondelle from 2016-03-28T13:54:22

Cheryl L'Hirondelle is a community-engaged Alberta-born, Cree/Metis, interdisciplinary artist, singer/songwriter and curator. Since the early 1980s, L’Hirondelle has created, performed and presente...

Conversation with Artist Ursula A. Johnson from 2016-03-15T16:14:24

The first in a series of interviews featuring participating artists from the socially engaged project #callresponse. Ursula A. Johnsons The Land Sings follows from an audio­based endurance performa...

Conversation with Curators/ Artists Tania Willard, Maria Hupfield and Tarah Hogue - Introduction to the #callresponse project from 2016-02-21T14:52:54

This Episode will serve as an introduction to the #callresponse project series and will feature interview with Artists Tarah Hogue, Maria Hupfield and Tania Willard. Each episode released through A...

Conversation with Artist Micah BlackLight from 2016-02-09T15:29:40

"I am here to create the most brilliant, evocative, challenging, innovative, impactful art I am capable of, to have THE most fun while doing it, and to leave a trail of empowering, inspiring intera...

Conversation with Artist Jason Lujan from 2016-01-27T18:02:13

"I believe that artists have a responsibility to be cultural producers and agents of social change; my art practice is an effort to invest contemporary Native American culture with an international...

Conversation with Artist and Filmmaker Dylan McLaughlin from 2016-01-12T15:51:30

In this episode we hear how Artist Dylan McLaughlin finds a sustainable creative outlet through filmmaking. Dylan looks back over the past couple of years at the friendships he has carved out while...

Conversation with Performance Artist Rulan Tangen from 2015-12-16T19:06:53

Performance Artist Rulan Tangen is a true pioneer of the Indigenous contemporary dance movement. Working in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brasil, and Argentina within Indigenous cultures, she relates th...

Conversation with Photographer Te Rawhitiroa Bosch from 2015-11-28T17:37:05

In this podcast photographer Te Rawhitiroa shares how he has come to his unique and empowering photographic style which focuses on people, performance, and our relationship to place. In this episod...

Conversation with Organizer Lauren Higgins from 2015-11-06T17:17:34

Lauren HIggins ignites experience, pioneering new ways of working in organizations and enterprises that help both teams and leaders respond to the challenges and opportunities of the sustainability...

Conversation with Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger from 2015-10-07T14:27:55

When this podcast project first began, one of the first artists interviewed was Cannupa Hanska Luger (Episode 2). The episode was an insight into artist Cannupa Hanska's past and how he came to pra...

Conversation with Organizer and Activist Alma Rosa Silva-Bañuelos from 2015-09-15T15:26:14

Alma Rosa Silva-Bañuelos is currently the Director of the LGBTQ Resource Center at the University of New Mexico. In this role, Alma Rosa is committed to creating a space that provides service to UN...

Conversation with Photographer Cara Romero from 2015-08-11T17:46:07

Cara Romero is creating monumental fine art works that are representative of her editorial and photo documentary background. Her work is a response to current events and issues in Indian Country fr...

Conversation with Artist Demian DinéYazhi' from 2015-07-21T14:31:22

Demian's work as an artist can be understood through the lens of curatorial inquiry, zine production, street interventions, education, workshops, and transdisciplinary methods of art production. Be...

Conversation with Filmmaker Razelle Benally from 2015-06-20T18:26:13

"I feel it is a creative duty of mine to represent native women in a positive manner, and to show the world that we are still here, that we still have a voice. Our stories are important and so are ...

Conversation with Artist Nanibah 'NANI' Chacon from 2015-05-21T01:43:16

"The characters in my work, which are often female, providing a commentary on women within traditional and contemporary cultures. The subjects become a piece to embrace and confront the natural att...

On Location: Nihígaal bee Iiná :: Journey for Existence from 2015-04-13T21:20:48

The Navajo Nation sits on one of the richest energy corridors in the United States, and for close to a century, we have been on the frontline on resource colonization to provide cheap energy and wa...

Episode 28. Interview with Ian Kuali'i from 2015-03-21T00:51:33

Ian Kuali`i’s creative process is "The meditative process of destroying to create". Blending the contrasting elements of loose Urban Contemporary techniques with detailed hand cut paper to manifest...

Conversation with Artist Rose B. Simpson from 2015-03-12T13:49:54

Rose B. Simpson was born in Santa Fe, NM, and raised among an extended family of artists in Santa Fe and Santa Clara Pueblo. Her mother; Roxanne Swentzell, a known ceramic sculptor within the Indig...

Conversation with Artist Chris Pappan from 2015-02-20T19:25:05

Currently the artwork of Chris Pappan is based on American Indian ledger drawings of the mid to late 19th Century with his own 21st Century twist. Chris has lived in Chicago for the past 20 yrs wi...

Conversation with Artist Douglas Miles from 2015-02-09T22:58:42

Artist and founder of Apache Skateboards Douglas Miles is San Carlos Apache, Akimel O'Odham, and White Mountain Apache from the San Carlos Apache reservation. As an indigenous visionary, Douglas Mi...

Conversation with DJ 13Pieces - Justin Ray from 2015-01-10T00:55:27

Justin Ray bought his first DJ mixer in the early nineties. Ten years later, Justin created the DJ persona 13pieces. A decade after that, 13pieces created DJ Chopper. They currently live in Santa F...

Conversation with Artist Nicholas Galanin from 2014-12-21T13:56:58

"Culture cannot be contained as it unfolds. My art enters this stream at many different points, looking backwards, looking forwards, generating its own sound and motion. I am inspired by generatio...

Conversation with Artist Monica Canilao from 2014-12-10T21:02:57

"Art is a way to communicate and engage with others transcending distance, time, or place. My images and installations, like the communities and experiences they draw upon, become symbiotic. My lif...

Making the Film: This Is A Stereotype from 2014-11-21T01:02:35

“This Is A Stereotype” is an artistic narrative about the possible causes and effects surrounding Indigenous identity with the intention to socially engage the public. The project is compiled of hi...

Conversation with Artist Wendy Red Star from 2014-11-09T16:26:17

Through Red Star's photographs and sculpture new universes are built, simultaneously urban-rural and high-low with their own language of symbols created from such seemingly disparate sites as HUD h...

Conversation with Artist and Athlete Kimi Werner from 2014-10-26T18:40:09

Kimi grew up on Maui, Hawaii where her father was a dedicated freediver. With a craving for the simple life, Kimi followed in her dad’s footsteps, winning a U.S. National Spearfishing Championship ...

Conversation with Artist and Writer Miyuki Baker from 2014-10-09T13:13:55

As a queer, multi-racial/lingual female mixed-media artist, Miyuki is happiest when working with people who embrace intersectionality. After graduating from Swarthmore College in 2012, where she wa...

Conversation with Artist Thomas 'BREEZE' Marcus from 2014-09-20T20:29:50

Painter and large scale muralist Thomas 'Breeze' Marcus has painted over a dozen murals in the city of Phoenix alone, but he is also known to rock a canvas and mixed-media materials in a gallery se...

Conversation with Artist and Vocalist Valentina Gonzales (VRGNZ) from 2014-09-09T16:40:18

Valentina, better known in the music and art scene as VRGNZ was born a daughter of Texas music. This Appala Chilean exemplifies diversity not only in heritage, but also in her multi faceted artisti...

Conversation with Artist Yatika Starr Fields from 2014-08-20T18:19:30

"I am motivated in my work fundamentally by the search for freedom in all forms. I seek to create a contemporary terrain in the juxtaposition of my living memories. Playing with elements of space a...

Conversation with Artist Bethany Edmunds from 2014-08-09T19:41:17

Bethany Matai Edmunds a.k.a Miss b.Me is a weaver, artist, fiber sculptor and Hip Hop lyricist. Edmunds visual work is grounded in traditional Maori weaving which she conceptually translates using ...

Conversation with Artist Frank Buffalo Hyde from 2014-07-20T17:33:33

Frank Buffalo Hyde traces his heritage to the Nez Perce and Onondaga people, Hyde is recognized for breaking through the boundaries commonly placed around what is considered Native American art. Hi...

Conversation with Filmmaker Sophie Rousmaniere from 2014-07-10T18:33:53

Sophie Rousmaniere has worked as a filmmaker and freelance journalist in the US, Canada, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Guatemala, Pakistan, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand. She has produced, edited and dire...

Conversation with Artist Loriann Hernandez (Elle Seven) from 2014-06-21T06:25:02

Interview with roller skater, artist and curator Loriann Hernandez aka Elle Seven, "My goal is to affect the fields of art and skating in ways that will bring a positive transformation to the world...

Conversation with Artist Patrick 'Cloud Face' Burnham from 2014-06-09T16:54:37

Patrick Burnham, better known in the art continuum as Cloud Face, is a Navajo/Hopi painter, musician, dancer and all around true expressionist. Cloud Face is an active creator in the indigenous hip...

Episode 8. Interview with Rebekah Tarin from 2014-05-25T13:52:18

Conversation with Artist Jamison Chas Banks from 2014-05-10T04:44:20

Conversation with Artist Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski from 2014-04-21T14:01:43

A conversation with Future Femme Artist Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski. A passionate activist and visionary, DeJesus Moleski possesses a positive, humble and gracious presence that is whole and rare. H...

Conversation with Artist Micah Wesley (The Werewulf) from 2014-04-15T15:11:16

Micah Wesley (Creek/Kiowa) is a painter who works in Oil, Acrylic, and Graphite. His work is genuine and skillful, yet in the same moment able to convey the underbelly of our American culture. His ...

Conversation with Artist Courtney M. Leonard from 2014-03-30T18:16:35

This episode of Art Beat Conversations I interview ceramic and mixed media artist Courtney M. Leonard from the Shinnecock Nation of Long Island, New York. Leonard's work explores the evolution of l...

Conversation with Activist and Artist Jesse Hazelip from 2014-03-21T03:11:40

In this episode, I interview Jesse Hazelip. Hazelip was born in 1977 in Cortez, Colorado amidst Navajo and Ute Nation territory, where at a young age, he became acutely aware of the racism and clas...

Conversation with Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger from 2014-03-09T14:38:33

In this episode I talk with ceramic and mixed media artist Cannupa Hanska (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara/Lakota). Cannupa Hanska is from Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota, and in this interview we l...

Conversation with DJ Inti from 2014-02-23T19:09:28

In this episode, we hear from DJ INTI. Inti is currently living and Dj’ing in Oakland, CA. He has been working in music stores and collecting records for ...