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Are We Happy Yet?Ep. 29: Beyond craft: how can creative expression be a tool for personal healing and societal change? w/Michael HenryIn this insightful conversation, the hosts sit down with Michael Henry to discuss the transformative role of creative writing in mental health and community building. Michael, a passionate advocate for the arts, shares the origins and mission of Lighthouse Writers Workshop, a space where writers can explore vulnerability and self-expression. Through their conversation, they delve into how writing and storytelling can foster connection, healing, and personal growth, especially in communities facing mental health challenges.The discussion highlights the importance of authenticity in writing, emphasizing how vulnerability can create deeper connections with audiences. Michael also explores the significant...2025-04-011h 10
Art MovesUnder a Clear Blue Sky with Lucy HoltsniderUnder a Clear Blue Sky is a collection of collages and prints answering the question “What could Suncor be?”. The Suncor oil refinery in Commerce City has been a known source of pollution and severe adverse health effects for decades. These works explore how the site could be transformed into something new that serves the interests of the surrounding neighborhoods while contributing to Colorado’s ambitious goal to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The theme is inspired by activists like printmaker Favianna Rodriguez and marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson who both use their platforms to creatively envision a heal...2025-03-1828 min
Art MovesEpisode 17: On the Table with Eileen RoscinaEileen Roscina is an artist, experimental filmmaker and naturalist from Denver, Colorado. She holds an MFA in Art Practices from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a BFA from Emerson College in Boston, MA, and also trained at the School of Botanical Art and Illustration in Denver. Through biomimicry and the study of biophilia, her work examines human’s spiritual and social (dis)connection with nature, and seeks to raise questions about realizing a radically different metaphoric mapping of time, space and our place in the world. Roscina works in 16mm film and animation, sculpture/installation with natural materials an...2024-11-1930 min
Otherppl with Brad ListiSarah GerardSarah Gerard is the author of Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable, available from Zando Projects. Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State, a New York Timescritics' choice; the novella Binary Star, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times first fiction prize; two chapbooks; and the novel True Love. Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, Granta, The Baffler, Vice, BOMB Magazine, and other journals, as well as anthologies. She's been supported by fellowships and residencies from Yaddo, Tin H...2024-10-291h 29
Art MovesEpisode 16: How Strange it is to be Anything at All with Lexy Ho-TaiLexy Ho-Tai is an artist, educator and goopey human. Her practice is expansive and ever-changing, but often rooted in exploring human connection, otherness, our inner-child and world-building through craft, play, DIY, monsters and collaboration. Recent projects include: creating a collaborative giant textile cuddle monster with 500+ elementary students, building and burning a wearable heartbreak monster, and making her first stop motion animation featuring tiny puppets of her family. She’s currently dreaming of a surrealist All-Ages Kids TV show with puppetry, masking and more (stay tuned!). She’s bad at small talk, convinced that everything is made up, and uses art...2024-08-1540 min
Art MovesEpisode 15: What Makes it Home with Heather SchulteHeather Schulte is an interdisciplinary artist in Boulder, CO. Her work combines hand-made textile materials and techniques with digital fabrication and design processes, analyzing the intersection of personal and public forms of language and communication. In 2020 she founded ‘Stitching the Situation,’ a collaborative tapestry documenting the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. She has exhibited throughout Colorado at numerous galleries and contemporary art spaces, including RedLine Contemporary and the Denver Art Museum, as well as various galleries and museums nationally and internationally. Her work has been featured in publications such as, "Fiber Art Now," the "Surface Design Jour...2024-06-2040 min
Art MovesEpisode 14: The Moon in Her Mouth with Tricia WaddellTricia Waddell is the textile artist behind Studio Blkbird, based in Denver, Colorado at Tank Studios. Inspired by her degree in fashion design from the Fashion Institute of Technology and a variety of surface design workshops, her work combines painting and screen-printing with reactive dyes and resists to create visual textures inspired by abstract art, ceramics, and graphic design. Often incorporating mixed media and fiber elements, her current work focuses on soft sculptures that are interior self-portraits exploring mental health issues from processing raw internalized emotions to depression and negative self-talk. Inspired by the beliefs in many cultures that...2024-05-0631 min
Art MovesEpisode 13: The Oracle of AI with Paulus van HornePaulus van Horne, a multimedia artist and technology researcher from Lafayette, Colorado, specializes in AI, machine learning, game design, and large-scale audiovisual installations, often incorporating supposedly autonomous digital technology. Their next exhibition, The Oracle of AI, explores the spiritual intimacy between humans and technology, Paulus prompts viewers to contemplate the implications of AI's role in replacing human emotional care.2024-05-0639 min
Art MovesEpisode 12: Once Lost Now Found: One Drop of Blood Between UsHailing from Albion, MI, Michael Dixon is an oil painter and full professor of art at Albion College. Dixon was born in 1976 to a white mother and black father in San Diego, CA. After participating in genetic testing Dixon found a sister, and subsequently learned he was one of eleven children. This discovery also provided his biological father’s name and identity. Having never met his biological father, Once Lost Now Found: One-Drop of Blood Between Us is a new body of work about his missing biological father and his new-found family members. After 47-years of wondering, Dixon is at...2024-05-0645 min
Art MovesEpisode 11: To Dusk with Kenzie SitterudIn this episode, Kenzie Sitterud shares their process and approach for generating new work in an upcoming exhibition, To Dusk. To Dusk replicates the landscape of the Utah desert through material metaphor and is inspired by Sitterud’s Mormon cultural heritage and place of origin. Kenzie shares detail about growing up with quilting and how the desert landscape has inspired sound art and a gradient of colors that can be experienced in To Dusk. To learn more about Kenzie: www.kenziemckenzie.com/about2024-05-0628 min
Art MovesEpisode 10: Indigo with Jahna Rae ChurchJahna Rae Church shares her inspiration for creating art and the meaning behind her striking portrait paintings. She discusses her journey of facing and overcoming mental health challenges and how it has made her a stronger person. Jahna also talks about the new Community Mentee Residency Program at PlatteForum and invites listeners to attend her debut solo exhibition on January 13th at PlatteForum's Annex Gallery. Tune in for an inspiring and thought-provoking conversation with Jahna Rae about her journey toward strength and resilience. Jahna Rae Church is a Multidisciplinary Artist and emerging Muralist in Denver, Colorado. She...2024-05-0638 min
Art MovesEpisode 9: Collected Perspectives with Jennifer Maravillas-BellJennifer Maravillas-Bell is a multimedia artist focusing on cartography and land. She utilizes collage, acrylic paint, and found objects to create portraits of cities and places that tell stories of our collective pasts. In her upcoming exhibition, the Artlab interns and Maravillas-Bell will create a series of maps that give voice to their lived experiences and identities as together they explore their immediate surroundings in Denver. She hopes to inspire empowerment for the youth and the viewers involved in this examination and creation while also inspiring connection and investment in the places we exist. In this episode, you will...2024-05-0632 min
Art MovesEpisode 8: Concrete Redundancy with Raquel MeyersMaking connections with brutalist architecture, 8 bit pixel graphics, teletext and future fossils in her upcoming exhibition, “Concrete Redundancy,” Raquel Meyers uses obsolete technologies as tools to create animations and pose questions around our unhealthy relationship patterns with technology. Her work explores ideas around the naivety of brutalist architecture ethics and technology that emerged post world war II, exposing the dystopian undercurrents left in its wake. To learn more about Raquel Meyers visit: www.raquelmeyers.com/2024-05-0651 min
Art MovesEpisode 7: Annette Isham and Nori PaoOur current Artist in Residence, Annette Isham, takes over the podcast! Annette is an artist and professor living in Denver, Colorado. She creates captivating mirrored, animated and layered videos within landscapes where she explores identity but more specifically, how a woman of mixed race can appropriate the masculine myth of the American West. Annette invited her friend Nori Pao to discuss the intersectionality of ideas and concepts in their creative practices. Nori is a ceramicist and also works in several other mediums such as photography, drawing and digital fabrication, her works explores themes of time, memory and identity, she...2024-05-0655 min
Art MovesEpisode 6: Portraits of ChangeJonathan and Letishia Kelley, talk about what it was like to document the Minneapolis uprising and the protests at the 2020 Fourth of July GOP rallies at Mount Rushmore. They discuss the skewed media portrayal of the events, Lakota protest tactics and the beauty of seeing all kinds of people come together for the good of all. They will be sharing their collection of photographs and video in an exhibition titled, “Portraits of Change” November 5th at PlatteForum in Denver, CO. As a creative husband/wife duo Jonathan Kelley (Afro Indigenous) and Letishia Kelley (Diné...2024-05-0643 min
Art MovesEpisode 5: Collective Futures Alejandra Abad talks about her upcoming exhibition at PlatteForum, reveals her creative process and asks ArtLab interns what traditions they would like to see passed down, as they imagine a collective future together through her upcoming exhibition. Alejandra Abad was born in Venezuela and partially raised in Florida. She is an interdisciplinary artist with a penchant for dense, fantastical landscapes through abstraction and light. Her style is informed by her studies in Architecture at Florida Atlantic University and in Film, Video, and New Media at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received he...2024-05-0629 min
Art MovesEpisode 4: Steven Frost and Kim McCartySteven Frost, PlatteForum’s most recent resident artist and Kim Estes McCarty, Executive Director of PlatteForum candidly chat about Steven’s residency at PlatteForum, working with youth, organizational equity, queer art, fiber art and the changes that PlatteForum is currently undergoing. Steven was PlatteForum’s 2021 summer resident artist, he is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on textiles, memes, queer history, pop culture and community development in DIY spaces and libraries. He is also a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Kim is the Executive Director of PlatteForum, Through Kim’s collaborative leadership style, P...2024-04-0553 min
Art MovesEpisode 3: Migration Connects Us AllArtist and activist Laura Soto joins us in this episode to discuss and celebrate recent immigration bills that have passed favoring immigrant rights in the state of Colorado. Laura eloquently shares her personal story and experience through poetry both in Spanish and English. This episode ends in multiple mini interviews with PlatteForum community members who offer what they think Americans should know about the immigrant experience from their perspective. Laura Soto is a DACA recipient, Mexican ARTivist who currently resides in Longmont, CO and works at Philanthropiece Foundation as Operations Manager. Through her position, Laura serves in...2024-04-051h 03
Art MovesEpisode 2: BiophiliaIn this episode, bio artist and sculptor, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy and photographer, filmmaker and producer Jonna McKone muse about nature, bugs, trees and changing landscapes, touching on the lingering effects of colonialism on our environment. Art Moves is a new podcast by PlatteForum where resident artists and community members talk about what means the most to them within their practice, in a space where art meets social change. To make a donation or learn about upcoming exhibitions, visit our website: platteforum.org/ Learn more about Lauri Lynnxe Murphy: www.laurilynnxemurphy.com/ Learn mo...2024-04-0548 min
Art MovesEpisode 1: Art and RepairThis debut episode explores a Black artist's journey of self discovery and healing interweaved with a dive into the Japanese art and philosophy of Kintsugi. Denver artist and photographer, Narkita Gold shares her personal story of self growth and healing while we also hear from Japanese Arts Network Founder and Creative Producer, Courtney Ozaki about the art of repair through Kintsugi. Art Moves is a new PlatteForum podcast where resident artists and community members talk about what means the most to them within their practice, in a space where art meets social change. To make...2024-04-0534 min
City Cast DenverThe Fallout from East High, Mushroom Growing 101, and a Cumbia Dance PartyThis year alone there have been two shootings at East High School, prompting mass student walkouts, renewed calls for gun control, and, in a surprising turn of events, the return of police to Denver schools. So we are channeling our outrage with one of our favorite returning guests, Ann Marie Awad, and digging into gun laws, school safety, mental health, and more. Plus, underreported stories from the week and then Hey Denver editor Adrian González joins us to recommend some cool events for your weekend. Read more about the stalled appointment of DIA CE...2023-03-2442 min
Dot Dot Dot: The NINE dot ARTS PodcastUplifting the Creative Economy with Michael GadlinMichael Gadlin, contemporary multimedia artist and Executive Director of PlatteForum, reflects on the value of collaboration and community for creating timeless public art. For show notes and more info: https://ninedotarts.com/podcast-uplifting-the-creative-economy/2022-06-1933 min
First Draft: A Dialogue on WritingFirst Draft - Sarah GerardSarah Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State, the novel Binary Star, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times first fiction prize, and two chapbooks, most recently BFF. Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Vice, BOMB Magazine, and other journals, as well as anthologies. She’s been supported by fellowships and residencies from Yaddo, Tin House, PlatteForum, and Ucross. She writes a monthly column for Hazlitt and teaches writing in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2017-05-0135 min