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ON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceArtists in Place: Stuart Dempster with Tonya LockyerA conversation between legendary composer and sound-gatherer Stuart Dempster, and artist Tonya Lockyer, celebrating the Cistern at Fort Worden State Park and its part in Deep Listening and new music development.
“Our conversation is about deep listening and creative friendships and lost sounds, the intricacies of harmony and reverberation, how parks should protect their sounds as much as they protect their fauna, and what it's like to create seminal moments in music. We travel from the streetcars of San Francisco to Carnegie Hall, but it begins right here at Centrum in the sonic depths under Fort Worden, in...2024-05-1155 minON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceEpisode 25: Christi Krug & Alyssa GraybealOverlaps and kinship abound in this nourishing conversation between Christi Krug and Alyssa Graybeal, whose respective careers in writing, memoir, and coaching yields a generous conversation full of juicy advice and heart.
Alyssa Graybeal
Alyssa Graybeal (she/her) is a queer writer and cartoonist whose work explores chronic illness and disability. In particular, she is fascinated by questions of creativity and entrepreneurship, and how navigating the world in a disabled body increases creative capacity. Her first memoir, Floppy: Tales of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World, explores the emotional landscape...2023-01-3047 minON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceEpisode 24: Ari Mokdad & Frank AbeAri Mokdad and Frank Abe discuss the poignant ways that their respective family histories have played significantly into the themes and approaches of their work. Both residents discuss their range in processes to screenwriting, poetry, and the multiple disciplines they’ve each engaged with over their careers.
Frank Abe
Frank Abe has worked to reframe the public’s understanding of the WW2 incarceration of Japanese Americans ever since helping create the first Day of Remembrance for the camps in the campaign for redress and reparations. He is co-author of a new graphic novel, “WE HEREBY REFUSE...2023-01-301h 03ON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceEpisode 23: Christian Vistan and Josephine LeeChristian Vistan and Josephine Lee illuminate the threads that connect their work and the ways that materials and water serve as keystones to both of their practices. Both of these artists, one working in painting and the other in bio-materials find that they share interests in the roles of regeneration, repair, and nourishment in their work.
Josephine Lee
Informed by a lifetime of movement through the United States, Canada, and South Korea, Josephine Lee’s interdisciplinary practice addresses the psychic violence of cultural assimilation and naturalization through migration, alongside issues of ecological and racial justice wi...2023-01-301h 12ON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceEpisode 22: Allie Hankins and Hexe FeyAllie Hankins and Hexe Fey compare notes on how they manage expectations for their work, follow curiosities, and conquer insecurities within their processes.
Allie Hankins
Allie Hankins is a dancer, performer, and maker who recently performed in a dream wherein she announced “Today I am Truit” before jumping into a pool. The next day in waking life she learned that ‘truit’ is a word used by the lucid dreaming community to mean ‘trout’. In waking life, Allie is a resident artist and steward of FLOCK Dance Center, a creative home to Portland’s experimental dance artists founde...2023-01-3054 minON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceEpisode 21: Spencer Garland and MaximilianoGarland and maximiliano talk about everything from video games to ghosts alongside questions exploring self-care and what it means to slow down. Spencer Garland
Spencer Garland is an interdisciplinary artist and teacher operating in Portland, Oregon. His practice encompasses filmmaking, video game development, and social work-all of which Garland brings his unique vision of new Black narratives to life. His greatest accomplishment is the creation of BRENDA ARTS. Named after his late mother, BRENDA is a media company that integrates the ideas of BIPOC youth into every project via their after-school programming. BRENDA ARTS’ goal is...2023-01-3059 minON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceEpisode 20: Expanding Your Constrained Universe: Angelic Goldsky and Hayla RaglandWe’re continuing to listen in on the 2021 Emerging Artist Residents! In this episode Angelic Goldsky and Hayla Ragland talk through their intermedia practices and the ways that their backgrounds, the site of Fort Worden, and time for focus has affected their work. Listen to a special track from Angelic and gain a deep insight into the future archives that both Hayla and Angelic are creating.
This conversation is generous, worth listening to in its entirety, and full of various ways to think about transformation and from what art emerges and where it can take us.
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ON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceFuture Archives and Bringing it All to Life: Azali Ansar Muhammad and Laura MedinaFor the second installment of the 2021 Centrum Emerging Artist Residency conversations Azali Ansar Muhammad and Laura Medina share processes and backgrounds behind their current projects. They talk animation, working fluidly through mediums, and leveraging these methods to navigate hard subject matters while bringing joy and play into the work. Muhammad shares about their work in recording and archiving Black birth stories and creating new forms of community and visibility for Black, queer and trans families and birthers. Medina discusses her methods for fluidly and colorfully moving through personal history and tough subject matter in order to bring forth joy...2021-12-171h 04
ON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceLand Memory, Tattoos, and Liquid Spells - Woodrow Hunt and Mel Carter In October 2021, six artists were juried into Centrum’s Emerging Artist Residency and received stipends, housing, and studio space for one month at Fort Worden State Park. Artists paired up towards the end of their residencies to chat with one another about what they were working on and thinking about after weeks of being in residence.
Mel Carter and Woodrow Hunt kick off this series and chat about the ways that expectations changed because of the location and openness of the residency. They share thoughts on the history of the Fort as it relates to colonization and th...2021-12-0959 minON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceBrenda Chapman on Story Artistry, Disney, and Taking TimeIn early 2021, Centrum hosted award-winning director, writer, and story artist, Brenda Chapman for a month-long residency. A few months later, Michelle Hagewood catches up with Chapman to revisit conversations started over that residency. Chapman reflects on the ups and downs of her long career at Disney, Dreamworks, and Pixar and shares her early influences and the threads that connect to her newest projects and endeavors.
Brenda Chapman started her career as a story artist at Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1987, where she worked on several animated films including The Little Mermaid, and the Oscar nominated Beauty and...2021-06-2654 minON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceQueer Ecologies Part 4 with Jasmine HarveyIn this episode Jasmine Harvey and Cleo Woelfle-Erskine have a conversation outside about fire ecologies and culture as it relates to queerness, partnerships and work with Karuk initiatives and stories, and ways to think about eco-sexuality and possibilities for re-framing the study of ecology.
Jasmine Harvey (She/her) lives on the Klamath River on Karuk Land in Northern California. She currently works for the Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources, and in her spare time enjoys foraging wild mushrooms, gardening and swimming in the rivers, lakes and creeks of the region.2021-05-2441 minON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceQueer Ecologies Part 3 with Jocine Velasco
This is part three of a four-part series put together by Centrum and Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and July Hazard to ask “what is queer ecology?” of climate scientists, ecologists, choreographers, poets, and creatives who each share unique perspectives on how queer and trans identities can and do play important roles in shifting the way we think about the sciences and our relations with the more-than-human. This project is part of Woelfle-Erskine and Hazard’s 2019-2020 Centrum Northwest Heritage residencies, made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts.
In this conversation, Hazard and Woelfle-Erskine speak with Jocine Velasco about the urgency...2021-04-2754 minON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceQueer Ecologies Part 2, with Melecio Estrella and Andrew Jones
This is part 2 of a four-part series put together by Centrum and Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and July Hazard to ask “what is queer ecology?” of climate scientists, ecologists, choreographers, poets, and creatives who each share unique perspectives on how queer and trans identities can and do play important roles in shifting the way we think about the sciences and our relations with the more-than-human. This project is part of Woelfle-Erskine and Hazard’s 2019-2020 Centrum Northwest Heritage residencies, made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts.
For this conversation, Woelfle-Erskine and Hazard meet up with Melecio Estrella and Andrew Jones...2021-04-091h 12ON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceQueer Ecologies Part 1, with Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and July Hazard
This episode is part of a series put together by Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and July Hazard to ask “what is queer ecology?” of climate scientists, ecologists, choreographers, poets, and creatives who each share unique perspectives on how queer and trans identities can and do play important roles in shifting the way we think about the sciences and our relations with the more-than-human. This project is part of Woelfle-Erskine and Hazard’s 2019-2020 Centrum Northwest Heritage residencies, made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts.
In Part 1, Michelle Hagewood sits down with these creative folks to learn more about what brought th...2021-04-011h 16ON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceRobots and the Subjectivity of Sound - Gabi Dao and Vo Vo
For our third installment of our series of conversations in our Emerging Artist Residency program, we listen in on Gabi Dao and Vo Vo who cover a wide breadth of topics that connect to their sound practices and interests in subjectivity and memory. They discuss a myriad of ideas around digital representations and our current times.
Gabi Dao is an artist and co-organizer at Duplex, a DIY project space + studio collective based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) SLAY-WA-TUTH Nations. Her interdisciplinary...2020-12-231h 04ON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceIt's Never Comfortable - Dawn StetzelThe second in our series of conversations with Centrum’s 2020 Emerging Artists. In this installment Michelle Hagewood chats with Dawn Stetzel about the evolution and processes within her work. Stetzel generously shares her thoughts on how the work deals with safety, edges, and elements of the ridiculous. She talks through the way the works are performed and documented, and the nuanced ways in which she approaches thinking about place.
Dawn Stetzel is an artist living in the USA on the Long Beach Peninsula on the southern coast of Washington. Living in a place of tides and tsunamis where “lan...2020-12-2247 minON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceAthletic Painting and Memory Palaces - Russna Kaur and Chase KeetleyThis episode kicks off a series of conversations with the 2020 Emerging Artist Residents who recently spent the month of October at Centrum in Fort Worden State Park. Today, we’re starting with Russna Kaur and Chase Keetley, whose conversation explores each of their relationships to place, space, and home, navigating racialized expectations and contexts, and the values and ideologies that inform their practices and pursuits.
Russna Kaur (b. 1991, Toronto, ON; lives and works in Vancouver) is a mixed media artist whose work explores alternative ways of addressing her identity as a Canadian of South Asian diaspora through an...2020-12-031h 03ON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceWhat We Might Shape – Alice Gosti and Bebe Miller
Incoming Northwest Heritage Centrum resident, Alice Gosti, invites Bebe Miller to have a conversation about dance, movement, and the context of their practices in the current moment. The two choreographers discover overlapping formative pedagogies and talk through the spatial experiences of zoom, intimacy and vulnerability in their bodies of work, the cultivation of collaboration and play, and the multiple influences of place, language, and connections with people. Listening to this conversation is a dance for the mind and offers new ways to think about how we move through the world.
Alice Gosti is an Italian-American choreographer, hybrid performance ar...2020-11-121h 01ON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceFort Words Part 2: Aaron Asis with Ella Sandvig and Timothy CaldwellFollowing up on episode 7 with Aaron Asis we continue to follow along and meet some of the voices that informed Fort Words at Fort Worden State Park. In this second installment, Asis interviews Ella Sandvig, a resident and employee during the Fort Worden Juvenile Diagnostic and Treatment Center era, and also Timothy Caldwell, a local historian intimate with the nuances and stories of the Fort during its military eras.
Fort Words is a public art installation created by Asis to celebrate the inspired conditions and historic significance at Fort Worden State Park. These temporary installations are drawn from l...2020-10-291h 01ON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceFort Words Part 1: Aaron Asis, Shelly Leavens, and Marlin HoldenFor this episode, we hone in on a project put together by one of our recent artists-in-residence, Aaron Asis. After installing Fort Words at Fort Worden State Park, Asis interviews two of the voices that influenced and crossed over with the project. Marlin Holden, Jamestown S'Klallam Elder, shares stories of the S'Klallam people, upon whose land the Fort sits, and what the continued relationship and presence of the tribes has been with Fort Worden. Shelly Leavens, Executive Director, Jefferson County Historical Society, discusses her practice as an oral historian and the significance of capturing oral storytelling through her work w...2020-10-091h 33ON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceOne plus One is Three – Dr. Susan Pavel and Kelly Sullivan Two friends, two weavers, and a contagious passion for exploring the past and present richness of Coast Salish Wool Weaving, Dr. Susan Pavel (sa’ hLa mitSa) and Kelly Sullivan let us hear them check in with one another. Following up months after their Centrum Northwest Heritage Residency, the two swap stories about what they’ve been doing during the pandemic, talk about their roots in becoming a part of the Coast Salish Wool Weaving Center, and what gathering, weaving, and teaching has been like for the past few months. They touch on the ways that gifting and healing are inte...2020-09-2459 minON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceThinking Things that the Brain Can’t Think - Daniel Coka and Leon Finley in Conversation Daniel Coka and Leon Finley compare notes on the ways that they are each questioning their art practices, how audience factors into their histories with performance, and the ways that ritual, pyschomagical, and drawing practices function as modes of healing and connecting with self. They share experiences of navigating cultural appropriation and un-learning harmful idealogies that come out of art school and patriarchy.
This conversation is part of a collaboration between Centrum and New Archives, focused on supporting dialogue between artists across the Northwest. Curated by Satpreet Kahlon, editor for New Archives, the conversations will also be pub...2020-09-171h 02ON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceEverything is Art or Nothing is Art - manuel arturo abreu and Jaleesa Johnstonmanuel arturo abreu and Jaleesa Johnston explore and compare notes about digital performance and Blackness, amorphousness and commitments to the ephemeral, and how they each deal with “untrustworthy archives” in their bodies and memories. They share experiences in navigating colonized art spaces and the ways that oversimplified receptions of their work impact their approaches. Both work fluidly among various mediums and disciplines and they discuss the ways that collaboration, Portland, and alternative art spaces have influenced their work.
This conversation is part of a collaboration between Centrum and New Archives, focused on supporting dialogue between artists across the No...2020-08-281h 09ON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceYou Write When You Write - Martha Worthley and Natalie Goldberg in Conversation Former Residency and Youth Programs Manager Martha Worthley catches up with Natalie Goldberg, renowned author and Centrum Artist Resident alum. The two acquaintances reminisce about Goldberg’s first experience at Centrum, her writing and painting philosophies, Zen practice, living with cancer, and the importance of her teaching practice. Worthley shares her own experience of reading Natalie’s work as it relates to her artistic practice and her time at Centrum and at the closing, Natalie treats the listeners to a reading from her upcoming book on Haiku.
Martha Worthley is a visual artist and arts educator. As a visi...2020-08-201h 04ON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceMegan Hildebrandt and the Role of Health, Place, and Community In this episode we sit down with former Centrum resident, Megan Hildebrandt, who exudes humor, care, and generosity as she shares stories of the various shifts in her life and the ways that cancer and parenting have impacted her work over the years.
Megan Hildebrandt received her BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design in 2006, and her MFA in Studio Art from the University of South Florida in 2012. Hildebrandt has exhibited nationally and internationally, including: The Painting Center, New American Paintings, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Craft, Arlington Arts Center, Detroit Contemporary, HE...2020-08-1156 minON A.I.R. - Conversations with Artists in ResidenceIntro to On A.I.R. with Michelle Hagewood and Tavin Dotson In this first episode, ON A.I.R. producer Tavin Dotson sits down with host Michelle Hagewood, Program Manager for Centrum Residencies to unpack the hopes and thoughts that have gone into podcast. We explore questions surrounding artists and the current challenges of pandemic and social crises, the role of residencies and the creative workforce, and Michelle’s background as an artist, museum educator, and parent. We peek at the Centrum Print Collection archives and acknowledge the rich history of artists at Fort Worden. We discuss the ways that place and space play pivotal roles in artist practices and ta...2020-08-1032 min