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53. Erica Keswin Jan 26, 2021

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Erica Keswin is a workplace strategist who has worked for the past twenty years with some of the most iconic brands in the world as a consultant, speaker, author, and professional dot-connector. Her first book, Bring Your Human to Work: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Design a Workplace That’s Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the World, published in 2018 was a best-seller. Her next book, Rituals Roadmap: The Human Way to Transform Everyday Routines Into Workplace Magic is out now.
Keswin and Zuckerman discuss tasting coffee, routines versus rituals, reflecting our values, family dinner, working moms, being a connector, personal missions, looking into each other’s personal spaces, bringing your whole self to work, things that make you feel most like you, a sense of purpose, priorities, being open, doing without a known return, and honoring relationships!

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52. Brad Cloepfil Jan 19, 2021

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Brad Cloepfil founded Allied Works in 1994 in Portland, Oregon. Since 2000, the practice has grown steadily through the completion of major museum projects, innovative educational facilities, residences and workplaces of diverse scale, purpose and character. Allied Works was established to engage artists, builders, and thinkers in a collective pursuit of new expression. Their ethic is boundless curiosity and uncommon commitment to creating beautiful, moving, and meaningful work.
Cloepfil and Zuckerman discuss architecture, the impact of geography on creativity, ritual practice, “the Robert Frost of architects,” the role of the room, finding an architecture you don’t yet know, that the building is never subject nor the answer, the truth and possibilities of beauty, making contemporary relevant spiritual space, the need for God, where ethical conversations can occur, the discipline of listening, the transcendent, hell yeses!

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51. Adam Pendleton Jan 12, 2021

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Pulling from a wide range of mediums including collage, painting, writing, printmaking, video, and publishing, Adam Pendleton utilizes language as his primary tool, recontextualizing appropriated imagery to shed light on underrepresented historical narratives. He is particularly interested in social resistance and avant-garde artistic movements and has synthesized a variety of practices under the rubric of "Black Dada,” a term borrowed from the poet Amiri Baraka. This year Pendleton will present Who Is Queen, a major new project in the atrium of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Pendleton and Zuckerman discuss preventing unnecessary distraction, the fact and shape of time, the urgency of art, being a curious being, chaos as a means of meaning making, historical mashups, the regression of social interaction, the responsibility of living, what do you do with your life, art in America, and what he feels good about!

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50. Words and Wisdom from 2020 (Part II) Jan 05, 2021

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In Episode 50 of “Conversations About Art,” Heidi Zuckerman introduces excerpts from 14 episodes featured in the second half of 2020. We hear the words and wisdom of Sam Falls, Jen Guidi, Bharti Kher, Christopher Bedford, Guerilla Girls, Noah Horowitz, Michelle Maccarone, Christian Lutien, Daniel Arsham, Sean Green, Ricky Gates, Patrick Steel and Pete McBride! As stated previously, in what was indisputably the wildest, most unexpected, isolating, surprising, and also strangely hopeful year, Zuckerman expresses her profound gratitude for the time, generous conversation, and community this podcast and these conversations have afforded and created! This is part two of a two part extended episode of “Conversations About Art.”

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49. Words and Wisdom from 2020 (Part I) Dec 29, 2020

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This final episode of 2020 pulls together excerpts from 15 episodes featured in the first half of 2020. We listen to the words and wisdom of Rich Roll, Mary Weatherford, Seth Price, Christina Quarles, Hank Willis Thomas, Tom Sachs, Richard Phillips, Helen Molesworth, Lance Armstrong, Amy Cappellazzo, JiaJia Fei, John Hickenlooper, Dennis Scholl, Richard Betts, and Kara Goldin. In what was indisputably the wildest, most unexpected, isolating, surprising, and also strangely hopeful year, Zuckerman expresses her profound gratitude for the time, generous conversation, and community this podcast and these conversations have afforded and created!
This is part one of a two part extended episode of “Conversations About Art.”

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48. Ralph Steadman Dec 22, 2020

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Ralph Steadman is a UK satirist, artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and writer whose work is synonymous with the counterculture of the 1970s. Renowned for his collaborations with iconic American writer Hunter S. Thompson, he formed an unlikely duo that created "Gonzo" journalism. This lifelong collaboration included the now-legendary Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, originally published in Rolling Stone magazine, which has since become a cult classic. The subject of numerous books and documentaries, at 84 he still turns his keen and critical eye to politicians and popular culture.
He and I discuss nude models, the British tradition of cartooning, his first meeting with Hunter S. Thompson, American Presidential politics, suicide, pre-planning memorials, the Gonzo fist, fax machines, Travis Scott, dirty water drawings, animals, passing over and God, Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, Johnny Depp, learning to draw, and cremation. A bonus of this podcast is not only hearing him recite texts he has written, but also describing some of his iconic friends in their accents!

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47. Melissa Cowley Wolf Dec 15, 2020

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Melissa Cowley Wolf is the Founder of MCW Projects. With 20 years of experience in philanthropy and programming for cultural institutions across the United States, she is dedicated to re-imagining and democratizing cultural philanthropy to better engage diverse generations and audiences as well as to expanding the next generation of cultural philanthropists, advocates, and audiences. Melissa is also the Director of the Arts Funders Forum, an advocacy, media, convening, and research platform designed to increase private support for arts and culture. Melissa was recently named to the Artnet 2020 Innovators List as one of 51 global innovators transforming the art industry.

She and I discuss creating intimacy through technology, building communities, increasing private giving to the arts, telling stories about what matters, political art, trust, relevancy, urgency, and the essentiality of art and artists, generational shifts in understanding philanthropy, impact giving, optimism and positivity, nomadism, practice, synchronicity, and how freedom and justice are at the essence of a life well lived!

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MCW Projects

https://www.mcw-projects.com

Art Funders Forum

https://www.artsfundersforum.com

Artnet 2020 Innovators List

https://storage.googleapis.com/artnet-interim-static-assets-repository/intelligence-reports/2020/fall_2020_intelligence_report.pdf

OpEd on Arts Funding

https://news.artnet.com/opinion/arts-funding-op-ed-melissa-cowley-wolf-1929365

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46. Bharti Kher Dec 08, 2020

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Bharti Kher’s art gives form to quotidian life and its daily rituals in a way that reassesses and transforms their meaning to yield an air of magical realism. Living and working in Delhi, India and born and raised in the U.K., her use of found objects is informed by her own position as an artist located between geographic and social milieus. Her way of working is exploratory: surveying, looking, collecting, and transforming. Her chimeras, mythical monsters, and allegorical tales combine references that are at once topical and traditional, political and poetic.
She and I discuss geeky science stuff, markers of time, the beauty of imperfection, freeing things from themselves, the interest of difference, neither/nor, following intuition, how to see, the intrinsic intelligence of our bodies, Joseph Campbell, being a teacher to yourself, two things that are actually one thing, motherhood, and the most profound parts of ourselves!

References:

Joseph Campbell - https://www.jcf.org (referenced The Hero's Journey”, “The Hero With a Thousand Faces,” and his quote “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasures you seek”)

Kazimir Malevich - https://www.kazimir-malevich.org

Sol LeWitt - https://massmoca.org/sol-lewitt/

Constantin Brancusi - https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/constantin-brancusi

Giuseppe Arcimboldo - https://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org

William Blake - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/william-blake-39 (referenced “Dante’s Divine Comedy”)

John Berger - https://lannan.org/bios/john-berger

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45. Alison Sokol Blosser Dec 01, 2020

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Alison Sokol Blosser isCo-President, CEO & Second Generation Winegrower of Sokol Blosser. Sokol Blosser was founded in 1971 when her parents Susan Sokol and Bill Blosser planted their first vines in the Dundee Hills AVA (American Viticultural Area) of the Willamette Valley. At the time, there was no wine industry in Oregon. Today, with over 700 wineries and more than 30,000 acres of planted vineyards, Oregon has grown exponentially and its wines are available throughout the world. Sokol Blosser has survived, grown and prospered as a family-owned and run operation, and has been a key part of developing and shaping Oregon’s now prominent wine industry.

She and Zuckerman discuss the pull of a family business, being a farmer, the reality of a glamorous profession, picking the grapes at the exact right time, hand versus land, the definition of an estate wine, the magic to being on site, connecting wine and memory, loving bubbles, taking care of and nurturing the third generation, some tips on how to order wine, adaptability, and the importance of saying what you like and don’t like!

References:

https://sokolblosser.com/

Evolution wines - https://shop.sokolblosser.com/Shop-Our-Wine/Evolution-Wine

Richard Betts - http://yobetts.com

Pinot in a box - https://www.reversewinesnob.com/sokol-blosser-evolution-oregon-pinot-noir

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44. Sam Falls Nov 24, 2020

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Sam Falls is contemporary American artist whose boundary-defying work applies artistic processes to natural phenomena. The resulting paintings, prints, sculptures, and videos, often insert organic structures into art and man-made objects into nature. "We change the work by being present, and the work changes us by being present,” the artist has said. “We are breaking down and being built up, just like every moment." Falls works intimately with the fundamentals of nature and the transience of life that art best addresses.

He and I discussed the intimacy of nature, the best part of making art, the ambiguous space between the inside and outside worlds, what artists he looks to for solace (we love the same ones!), his rain works, place, extended time, and the hand of nature, the challenges of choosing, anxiety, the parental bond, listening to music on repeat, and what helps with the darkness.

References:

Julia Kristeva - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julia-Kristeva

Collier Schorr - https://www.303gallery.com/artists/collier-schorr

Wolfgang Tillmans - https://tillmans.co.uk

Bruce Nauman - https://www.moma.org/artists/4243 (referenced his work that was digging a hole by his ranch “Setting a Good Corner”)

Gillian Welch “Back in Time” https://music.apple.com/us/album/wayside-back-in-time/79759147?i=79759085

Salem “Capulets” https://music.apple.com/us/album/capulets/1535710389?i=1535710390

Salem “Not Much of a Life” https://music.apple.com/us/album/not-much-of-a-life/1535710389?i=1535710400

Stevie Nicks Wild Heart backstage https://youtu.be/ikMahqHWQXY

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