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Inspiring podcast featuring interviews with artists, meditators and pioneers of culture. Hosted by Brooklyn, NY based artist Dan Gratz.

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August 15, 2025 78 mins
Ben Pederson was raised by a poet and a sculptor who taught him to value intuition and curiosity above all else. He makes sculptures and paintings that are born from dreams, books, and all of the people he has ever known and loved. Most summer evenings Ben can be found drinking a beer on his rooftop garden that he tends with his studio mate and great friend Dan. His Gods are Art, Love, and Hacky Sack . 
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Born in Coshocton, Ohio 1976, Clinton King holds a BFA in painting from Columbus College of Art and Design and an MFA in sculpture from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. King’s artistic approach is defined by his emphasis on the material and sensory qualities of painting and his minimalist approach, which often creates elaborate maximalist effects. King’s recent solo exhibitions include Participation Mystique, STEMS (Bru...

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August 2, 2025 83 mins

Texas-born artist Robin Kang creates woven artworks that merge ancestral textile traditions, shamanic healing, and digital innovation.  Using a digitally operated Jacquard loom, she creates textiles that blend botanical motifs with circuit-like patterns, exploring the dualities of past and future, nature and technology, and mysticism and computation.  A 2017 NYFA Fellow, Kang has exhibited internationally at venues including the Qu...

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July 26, 2025 81 mins

Jonathan Herrera Soto (b. 1994) holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Yale School of Art. He is a recipient of the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, Yale Prison Education Initiative Fellowship, and the Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts at the Hartford Art School. Herrera Soto is a printmaker, whose practice explores the relat...

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July 19, 2025 66 mins

Katya Varlamova is a clinical herbalist with a private practice in New York City, Hudson Valley and online. She is also founder of the organic herbal wellness line Warmicita Herbals. Katya teaches herbal workshops to private and corporate clients, as well as hosts plant walks, women's circles, and plant medicine retreats in the Amazon and the Peruvian Andes.

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July 5, 2025 95 mins

Trampas Thompson is a Hollywood Stuntman and Stunt Coordinator with over 150 credits in film an television, including Pirates of the Caribbean, Birdman, and Spider-Man: Homecoming. In 2014, he encountered Ayahuasca for the first time, and, after working with the plant medicine for some years, moved to Peru full time in 2020. He now lives in the Sacred Valley of Cusco, with his dog Blueberry.  

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June 28, 2025 95 mins

Born in Missoula, MT in 1976, Amanda Browder received an MFA/MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives in Brooklyn, producing over 25+ large-scale fabric installations all around the world. Amplifying multiple voices (over 6000+), she collaborates with local community groups and sources her textiles from local donations. Exhibitions include: Triennale B...

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June 21, 2025 79 mins

Roxanne Jackson was born in California’s East Bay and currently lives in New York. Press for her work includes the New York Times, the New Yorker, the LA Times, Juxtapoz Magazine, Hyperallergic, Sculpture Magazine, Forbes, Metal Magazine, Cool Hunting and Ceramics Monthly, among others. Selected museum exhibitions include the Schloss Museum, Linz, Austria; the Arter Museum, Istanbul, TRKY; Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; the M...

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June 14, 2025 104 mins

Reuben Paterson (b. 1973, Auckland, New Zealand: Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūhourangi, Scottish). Paterson uses the transformative properties of light to reach beyond appearances and pry open the complex histories and tensions that sit just beneath the surface of all things. His art is made in celebration of exchange and encounter, hybridity and fluidity, spirituality and sexuality, and is especially attuned to the dynamics of q...

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June 7, 2025 79 mins

Jonathan Allmaier lives in New York, where he has presented three solo exhibitions at James Fuentes. His work has been discussed in The New Yorker, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Hyperallergic, TimeOut New York, New American Paintings, The Brooklyn Rail, New York Magazine, and other publications. In 2014, James Fuentes published Which World, a collection of his essays. He earned his BA in Philosophy and Visual Arts (honors) from Bro...

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May 31, 2025 110 mins

Alex Yudzon is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of photography, sculpture, and performance. His debut monograph, A Room for the Night (Radius Books, 2023), explores American hotel culture through thirty-four site-specific installations made across the United States. Yudzon’s work has been exhibited at the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, the China International Photography Biennial, Arles Photo Festival, and ...

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May 24, 2025 88 mins

Former monk (bhikkhu) Santi trained in the Thai forest tradition, a meditation-centered branch of Theravada Buddhism. He disrobed after eight years, and now teaches and writes on Buddhist, post-Buddhist, and other spiritual and practice-related themes. His website is findingsanti.org.

 

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May 17, 2025 104 mins

Wells Chandler is a space alien born on Planet Birthday. Drawing from folk art, 1970s craft feminism and countercultural thinkers, he weaves esoteric art history into the canonical. His vibrant, devotional work explores non-dual representations of queer identity, community and belonging. Chandler is also an amateur scholar of comparative religion. Beyond the studio, his practice extends to writing, curating and mentorship.

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May 10, 2025 99 mins

Fr. Peter Funk, O.S.B., is the prior of the Monastery of the Holy Cross, a contemplative Benedictine monastery in the archdiocese of Chicago.  Before entering monastic life in 1997, he was a choral conductor at St. Thomas the Apostle parish and the University of Chicago.  His exposure to great Renaissance composers such as Palestrina and Victoria was catalytic in his desire to enter religious life as well as his interest in the pow...

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May 3, 2025 61 mins
Haley Josephs (b. Seattle, WA 1987) lives and works in Providence, RI.  She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in 2010 and an MFA from Yale University in 2014. Drawing inspiration from notions of transformation, mortality, and femininity, Josephs paints solitary figures in fantastical yet foreboding environments that transcend time and space. A recurring character within Josephs' work is the artist's late sister, who is ofte...
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April 26, 2025 66 mins

Michael Ambron is a Queens-based artist whose work explores time, perception, and the relationships between materiality and emergent forms of consciousness. He received his BFA from Tyler School of Art and his MFA from The Ohio State University. Michael is the owner and operator of Paint Makers Notes LLC, a company that provides customized paints, educational demonstrations, and technical assistance to artists and designers of ever...

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April 19, 2025 68 mins
Skye Gilkerson is an interdisciplinary artist creating poignant conceptual projects across a range of media, including sculpture, installation, film, collage, and poetry. With a sense of wonder, tenderness, and humor, her work engages the tension between time and timelessness, place and placelessness, and the human and universal scale.    Skye has walked the distance to outer space and back, made drawings from the ash remains of bu...
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April 12, 2025 74 mins

Tim van Laar is a Detroit visual artist and writer who exhibits his artwork nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions in Germany, the UK, and The Netherlands. He has written numerous reviews and essays and co-authored four books, including Artworld Prestige: Arguing Cultural Value (Oxford), and Shiny Things: Reflective Surfaces and Their Mixed Meanings (Intellect). His creative activities have been supported by ins...

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April 5, 2025 74 mins

David Greenwood's stories have appeared in Electric Literature, Fence, Tin House online, and elsewhere. His debut novel, The Cloud Intern, will be published on May 27th. He has a BA in computer science from Boston University, and an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College. His ongoing micro-novels project, The Bubble Cannon, can be found on Substack, his literary fitness videos on YouTube. 

  The Cloud Intern: https://booksho...
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March 29, 2025 69 mins

Letha Wilson is a visual artist based in New York (Craryville and Brooklyn) who was born in Honolulu, HI and raised in Greeley, Colorado. She is known for her synthesis of mediums, expanding the visual and physical dimensions of photography and sculpture.  By combining industrial materials such as Corten steel, aluminum, vinyl and photography, Wilson has developed unique fabrication processes.  She prints images depicting the beaut...

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