Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer documentary tells the story of Maria Alyokhina, Nadya Tolokonnikova, and Katia Samutsevich, members of the radical feminist art collective Pussy Riot. In…
Valerie Cassel Oliver is Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum. In Houston, Cathy Byrd visits Valerie’s latest exhibition project: Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art….
Adam Schreiber is Chicago-based photographer. Cathy Byrd meets him at an outdoor coffee house on East 5th Street in Austin, Texas. Adam talks about the…
In summer 2012, we travel to New England to visit MacDowell, a New Hampshire retreat for artists, writers, and composers. We’re among hundreds of visitors…
While in residence at Open Ateliers Zuidoost, in Southeast Amsterdam, Cathy Byrd meets Dutch novelist Rashid Novaire. Of Dutch and Moroccan descent, Rashid is an…
In Berlin, Cathy Byrd meets German artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis in the control tower of Tempelhof, an abandoned airport at the edge of the city, to…
We continue to explore our creative universe, recording conversations with remarkable artists, curators, composers, writers, musicians and architects. Fresh Talk 2013 will begin with these…
Cathy Byrd speaks on Skype with photographer Sarah Hobbs on a night when Sarah is testing materials she collected for Overpacked, a set of site-specific…
















