Besides being your hosts...
Jenny Morris is a fiber artist and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She loves spending time with her Saori loom and her favorite pup Jo. In addition to weaving, Jenny feels especially passionate towards organizations that help to build social change. In 2019, she became the first artist-in-residence at The Memory Maker Project, an organization that brings art, culture and advocacy to people living with memory loss. The same year, she started the No Hard Feelings Project, an interview series where she talks to artists and creative entrepreneurs alike about work, play and process. Her friend Sofia told her to make it into a podcast, and here we are.
Sofia Pashaei is an illustrator, animation director and multidisciplinary artist, with a focus on stylized graphic imagery. Through the use of paintings and animation, she investigates the perception of modern day life told from the perspective of womanhood and relationships. Sofia aims to create quiet paintings portraying artificial moments and surrealistic films emphasizing the absurdity of our modern day life. She has worked with clients such as Google, Adult Swim and TED Education to name a few and is an AI-AP winner with her shot film for Adult Swim. You can find a selection of her incredible short films here. Follow her painting work here.
In this episode we tell you a bit about who we are, our processes, our pain points and what we are thinking about right now.
