![Lure of Local Arts in Appalachia](https://i0.wp.com/freshartinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022_IKTCoalMineTour_LynchKY.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
a road trip that takes us to the far eastern edge of Kentucky. As we cross the state, we learn firsthand the challenges of growing up and producing culture in Appalachia. We bear witness to creative resilience and community in remote spaces and places where rich stories are told through art, film, music, and theater.
![CURATORS DECLARE INDEPENDENCE AT IKT KENTUCKY](https://i0.wp.com/freshartinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SBurney_PS-EncounterExchange-3119-sm.jpeg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
With six independent curators, we explore a growing trend in the field of contemporary art. We discover that the Covid epidemic and a global economic…
![The State of Blackness—with Andrea Fatona](https://i0.wp.com/freshartinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/sandrabrewsterblur18_banner.jpeg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Toronto-based curator and scholar Andrea Fatona and her colleagues are illuminating The State of Blackness in Canadian culture.
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With American-born artist Mary Mattingly, we trace her rising interest in water through her collaborative environmental interventions.
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The First Amendment became a cause célèbre for artist Sheryl Oring during the election season of 2004. In conversations across time, we trace her synthesis of art and free speech in a public performance project that quite naturally has no end in sight.
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Jillian Hernandez gives voice to girls and women of color in her 2020 book Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment. In this episode, you’ll hear how she has been delving into the aesthetic hierarchies of femme culture for more than a decade.
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Artists of the collective FeCuOp—Jason Ferguson, Christian Curiel, Brandon Opalka, and Victor Villafañe, with Locust Projects director Lorie Mertes, remember the history of contemporary art in Miami and contemplate the impact of the global pandemic on art. Recorded in person and online.
![Diaspora Art from the Creole City—with Rosie Gordon-Wallace](https://i0.wp.com/freshartinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2295_intersectionality-diaspora-art-from-the-creole-city_crop.jpeg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Now, more than ever, culture transcends geographic boundaries. In this episode, we explore the impact of that global phenomenon on the visibility of contemporary diaspora art with Miami-based curator and arts advocate Rosie Gordon-Wallace. In 1996, Gordon-Wallace launched a transformative enterprise, now known as Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator.
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In 2019, three years after Hurricane Maria, we venture to Puerto Rico for the opening of Resisting Paradise, an exhibition that Marina Reyes Franco organized with the support of Apex Art, New York. Jamaica born artists Leasho Johnson and Deborah Anzinger, and artist Joiri Minaya, from the Dominican Republic, show work engaging at the intersection of tourism, sexuality, gender, music and the internet. We record this episode inside Espacio Pública, a newly established culture space, in San Juan’s Santurce district.