Living & Working: Jakeya Caruthers & Xandra Ibarra

Jakeya Caruthers and Xandra Ibarra reminisce in the Growlery’s kitchen to commemorate the many conversations had in each other's kitchens.

Living & Working: Brontez Purnell & Sophia Wang

Brontez Purnell and Sophia Wang discuss communities have shaped their practices, and how the two work together through dance and movement.

Living & Working: Mik Gaspay & Kija Lucas

Mik Gaspay and Kija Lucas share an intimate conversation about their experiences growing up in Palo Alto, and the paths that led them to becoming Bay Area-based artists. 

Emory Douglas: Art + Survival

Emory Douglas sits down with the California College of the Arts (CCA) Students of Color Coalition in a roundtable conversation.​

Episode 40: Maya Stovall

Weston Teruya speaks with artist Maya Stovall about her interrogations in ethnographic traditions and the expectations of artists in public practice.

Sandstone Spines: Keith Hennessy’s de(composition) workshops

Keith Hennessy’s de(composition) workshops invite erosion of power systems and anticipate failure in both posture and in politics.

Colliding: Jennifer Brandon and Andréanne Michon at SF Camerawork

Once at Present: Contemporary Art of Bay Area Iranian Diaspora at Minnesota Street Project

Tina Takemoto at the Center for Asian American Media

Filmmaker & CCA Professor, Tina Takemoto, gives us an intimate portrait of the Center for Asian American Media through her personal memories and encounters as an early filmmaker.

Episode 6: The Value of Doing Nothing

Dorothy R. Santos speaks with Jenny Odell about exercises in attention, space for refusal, bonding over our experience of an Ellsworth Kelly painting at the SFMOMA, and much more. 

This Land Is Not Neutral: Georgina Reskala and Dionne Lee

Works by Georgina Reskala and Dionne Lee consider how bodies orient themselves when confronted with embedded histories and memories in landscape.

Al Farrow: Divine Ammunition

Episode 39: Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt

Weston Teruya speaks with Honolulu-based artist Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt about her methodologies on understanding the land and de-centering the United States.

Taravat Talepasand at Sinopia Pigments

Artist, Taravat Talepasand, invites us to Sinopia Pigments, where some of the world's rarest pigments are mixed for her paintings.

Dan Paz: The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building

Exploring how concrete monoliths control and subvert light, Dan Paz works to expose the underlying levels of surveillance one incurs within the Brutalist building forms of Seattle University and the juvenile detention center nestled nearby.

Returning to Prison: Future IDs at Alcatraz

Future IDs intervenes in the cycle of hollow tourism by inserting the stories of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals into Alcatraz, complicating the site’s own story.

“Troubling Disappearance”: (Re-)Constructing Remnants

The works in Built Environments present the visibly fabricated architecture of everyday life as a way to remember a human presence in the natural and urban world.

The Metrics of Backpacks

"The backpacks of my youth were not optimized. They had padded straps and meaningless loops that dangled like ponytails."

Sofía Córdova at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park

Artist and musician, Sofía Córdova, takes us to the "foot" of the tech empire to talk to us about the intersections of art, climate change, and finding one's community in an apocalyptic Oakland.

Episode 5: Not Your Average Playtest, Part II

Dorothy R. Santos looks at how artist Veronica Graham translates her drawings and paintings into digital architectures within the virtual world.