Art Restart

By The Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts

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Host Pier Carlo Talenti interviews artists who are shaking up the status quo to learn how they are reinventing their fields and building a new landscape for the arts.

Episode Date
Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate brings the sounds of Indian Country to the concert hall.
May 14, 2024
Griff Braun makes ballet dancers union-strong.
Apr 29, 2024
From rural southern Oregon, Ka'ila Farrell-Smith fights for and paints with Native land.
Apr 15, 2024
For Rising Appalachia, time off is the newest tool in their slow-music toolbox.
Apr 01, 2024
Equity in collecting? April Bey has a plan.
Mar 18, 2024
Film composer Sultana Isham's curiosity takes her from horror to the stars.
Mar 04, 2024
"Water is memory": Zeke Peña illustrates the Rio Grande and our changing southern border.
Feb 19, 2024
Shayok Misha Chowdhury on the bracing success of his "Public Obscenities"
Feb 05, 2024
Dimensions Variable plays it smart and cool in Miami's red-hot art market.
Jan 23, 2024
Chicago's Floating Museum: "We don’t bring culture to people; people already have culture."
Jan 08, 2024
Cellist Leo Eguchi makes classical music inviting, immediate and personal
Dec 18, 2023
Midnight Oil Collective: Tech connects creators with venture capital, so why not art?
Dec 04, 2023
For social sculptor Philippa Pham Hughes, a meaningful conversation between strangers is a gorgeous work of art.
Nov 20, 2023
Steven Melendez, the new a.d. of New York Theatre Ballet, on his plan to create the most accessible dance company ever
Nov 07, 2023
With a clear and trained voice, Precious Perez advocates for herself and other blind artists
Oct 31, 2023
Three TX artists on creating with and for Meow Wolf
Oct 02, 2023
Executive producer/screenwriter Dorothy Fortenberry ("The Handmaid's Tale," "Extrapolations") on why the WGA strike matters to everyone whose profession might ever become just another gig
Sep 18, 2023
SAG-AFTRA Chicago local president Charles Andrew Gardner on strutting your stank through a strike
Sep 06, 2023
Jazz legend, drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, changed how she listened and then centered gender inclusivity in her artistic practice.
Aug 22, 2023
Woodworker and furniture-maker Aspen Golann likes having rules to both heed and push back against in her craft, but she's also working to toss out the rules of who's been traditionally welcomed into the wood shop.
Aug 07, 2023
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's new artistic director, Adam W. McKinney, sets the stage for the company to thrive one hundred years from now.
Jul 24, 2023
Designer Norma Baker-Flying Horse's fashions are acts of defiant storytelling.
Jul 10, 2023
For dancer/choreographer Michael Manson, Detroit Jit is not only a dance; it is also a key tool for cultural preservation and celebration.
Jun 28, 2023
Maura Brewer makes art by laundering money...through art!
Jun 13, 2023
Pro-wrestling aficionada, comedian Robin Tran, on how she's stayed in the comedy ring when it seemed likely she'd go over the top rope
May 30, 2023
Actor/dancer/choreographer/DASL Alexandria Wailes on why you can't just hire one ASL interpreter and call it a day
May 16, 2023
dots: three visionary scenic designers swap individual plaudits for the creativity and security of a business partnership
Apr 24, 2023
Director Sean Daniels plans an intervention for the performing-arts industry, which is failing its most vulnerable artists.
Apr 11, 2023
Chef J Chong has built her business not with bricks and mortar but with fundamentally artistic values
Mar 20, 2023
Drag clown Anthony Hudson celebrates horror onstage -- and stands up to homophobic horror off-stage.
Mar 06, 2023
Bassoonist Brian Petkovich on leading San Antonio's musical phoenix, the brand-new San Antonio Philharmonic
Feb 20, 2023
Sound artist Brian Harnetty plays the beauty of Appalachian Ohio back to itself.
Feb 06, 2023
Each cut in Sukanya Mani's paper sculptures tells part of a deeply researched story.
Jan 23, 2023
Despite a devastating flood, visual artist Lacy Hale burrows her roots even deeper into the Appalachian community that has supported her through the years.
Dec 16, 2022
Don't tell choreographer and photographer Trey McIntyre what success is. He knows it when he feels it.
Nov 23, 2022
Siblings Crystal and Rico Worl honor Tlingit and Athabascan tradition with ultra-contemporary design
Nov 09, 2022
Glass artist Cedric Mitchell on joining an exclusive club...and then throwing its doors wide open
Oct 26, 2022
Theater artists Mallory Catlett and Aaron Landsman on remaining unique and humble
Oct 05, 2022
For bassoonist Midori Samson, holism beats so-called excellence hands-down.
Sep 27, 2022
Sekou Cooke translates hip-hop culture into built form
Sep 12, 2022
Rural and proud: In Green River, UT, Maria Sykes and Epicenter place creativity in service to their small community.
Aug 29, 2022
Photographer Shedrick Pelt on capturing the January 6 attack on the Capitol through a Black lens
Aug 15, 2022
"Don't be ashy!" -- Performance artist Ayo Janeen Jackson pivoted her dance career to honor and care for the Black body through art as well as business.
Aug 01, 2022
Actor and artistic director Gregg Mozgala uses theater to put the disabled body on display with unassailable authenticity.
Jul 18, 2022
Multidisciplinary artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya on how she protects her explorer's spirit and invites strangers to join her in her discoveries
Jul 05, 2022
Lear deBessonet and Clyde Valentín galvanize community artmaking to achieve local and national healing
Jun 20, 2022
Dancer Lauren Edson and musician Andrew Stensaas co-created and co-lead Boise’s LED, where dance and music are just two elements of numerous artistic adventures.
Jun 07, 2022
Composer Brittany J. Green cultivates community and a deep listening practice
May 23, 2022
ChristinaMaria Patiño Xochitlzihuatl Houle decolonizes the interview itself!
May 09, 2022
For Artistic Director Jacob Padrón, a radical change at his theater is an opportunity for collective reimagining
Apr 25, 2022
Landscape architect Daniel Woodroffe tells stories of joy and ingenuity through his urban landscapes.
Apr 11, 2022
Fashion designer Nyla Hasan on code-flexing and playing the long game
Mar 28, 2022
Violinist and composer Earl Maneein brings Paganini chops to heavy metal and punk, slaying all the way
Mar 14, 2022
Amelia Winger-Bearskin on why AI needs artists as a guiding force
Feb 28, 2022
Muralist Troy Summerell on taking an artistic leap of faith and joy, haters be damned
Feb 14, 2022
Interlochen’s Director of Music, Enrique Márquez, shapes the next generation of leaders through music.
Jan 31, 2022
Dancer Valencia James urges artists of all stripes to dream and scheme with techies.
Jan 24, 2022
Composer Sahba Aminikia proves that a musical education is part of a spiritual education.
Jan 03, 2022
José Ome Navarrete Mazatl
Dec 14, 2021
Evan Weissman
Dec 01, 2021
Danielle Villasana
Nov 15, 2021
Noelle Scaggs
Nov 01, 2021
christopher oscar peña
Oct 19, 2021
Frank Horvat
Oct 04, 2021
Martine Kei Green-Rogers
Sep 20, 2021
Rulan Tangen
Sep 06, 2021
Stephen McKinley Henderson
Aug 23, 2021
Tara Rynders
Aug 09, 2021
Hannah Drake
Jul 26, 2021
Carlton Turner
Jul 12, 2021
Snehal Desai
Jun 28, 2021
Narsiso Martinez
Jun 14, 2021
Sarah Cahill
May 31, 2021
Keith Knight
May 17, 2021
Eisa Davis
May 03, 2021
Chip Thomas
Apr 19, 2021
Kathy A. Perkins
Apr 05, 2021
Katy Pyle
Mar 22, 2021
Vicky Jenson
Mar 08, 2021
Rachel Hauck
Feb 22, 2021
Okwui Okpokwasili
Feb 08, 2021
Marin Alsop
Jan 25, 2021
Seema Sueko
Jan 11, 2021
Eric Gilbert
Nov 23, 2020
Lily Yeh
Nov 09, 2020
Pierce Freelon
Oct 26, 2020
Nikki Giovanni
Oct 12, 2020
Carmen Aguirre
Sep 27, 2020
Chris Wells
Sep 15, 2020
Wayne Price
Sep 14, 2020
Lucinda Hinojos
Aug 31, 2020
Yazmany Arboleda
Aug 17, 2020
Abigail Washburn
Aug 03, 2020
Cliff Notez
Jul 20, 2020
Lucia Lucas
Jul 06, 2020
Murielle Elizéon and Tommy Noonan
Jun 22, 2020
Paola Prestini
Jun 15, 2020
Jonah Bokaer
Jun 08, 2020
Lisa Wolpe
Apr 27, 2020
Tito Muñoz
Apr 13, 2020