Monica McGivern and Cathy Byrd in the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami, Florida, 14 Dec 2016

Fresh Art International fêtes a brilliant 2016 with our growing community of listeners, followers and supporters from around the world. Our landmark moments? Achieving five years of podcasting! Presenting live podcast events in Miami and Chicago! Releasing our signature conversations on cultural platforms in Europe and the Caribbean! Broadcasting LIVE from the 32nd São Paulo Biennial! Hosting more than a dozen contemporary art talk shows on two independent radio stations!

Rachel Armstrong on IDEA Laboratory
Franky Cruz on Bringing Nature to Culture
Sanford Biggers on Social History
Athi Patra Ruga on Global Human Rights
Yvette Mutumba and Julia Grosse on Contemporary African Perspectives
Amy Sherald on Black Art and New Racial Narratives
Rauschenberg Residency on Rising Water
Donna Kukama on Unfinished Stories
Hattie Mae Williams on Concrete Culture
Creative Mornings Miami with Cathy Byrd

About Those Milestones…

March
We appeared live on Clocktower Radio at Volta art fair in New York. Cathy Byrd talked about Change for Creative Mornings Miami at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens.

April
The University of Istanbul’s Radio TV Online initiated a three-month broadcast of Fresh Art International podcast episodes. We forged a partnership with Fresh Milk Art Platform, Barbados, to share Fresh Art International episodes with our Caribbean community.

July
Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, hosted our conversation with Baltimore-based artist Amy Sherald.

August
Recording with Anawana Haloba (Norway) and Donna Kukama (South Africa), we produced our first podcast episodes for release on Contemporary And, an online platform for contemporary art with African perspectives.

September
We flew to Brazil to launch our contemporary art talk show on Jolt Radio, broadcasting remote for three days from the 32nd São Paulo Biennial.

October
We celebrated five years of podcasting on our Jolt Radio premiere in Miami with Joyce J. Scott and Antonia Wright.

December
During Miami Art Week, we hosted a fantastic five-day program on UNTITLED, radio via Wynwood Radio.

We invite you to explore our new PODCAST INDEX to hear the voices of more than 100 artists, curators, architects, filmmakers, writers, and other cultural producers featured in our five years of podcasting!