B+S With Friends

As we continue exploring the theme of taking back equity, justice, and the future of our country in our current exhibition, Reclaiming Orange, we are revisiting a compelling episode of B+S with Friends. This conversation features Sara Bennett, a former defense attorney turned award-winning photographer, and Mark Loughney, a formerly incarcerated artist. Sara’s work focuses on cap

Shelley Brenner Baird is an Ohio-based artist whose work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and textile surface design. An archivist by instinct, Shelley collects and creates images to construct a visual vocabulary, often in response to human rights topics. You can see more of her work at: https://www.shelleybrennerbaird.com/

Christen Clifford is a mother, artist, and writer who is a fierce advocate for the trans community. Her work is currently in Body Freedom for Every (Body) at Project for Empty Space and is working on an experimental memoir documentary film about her experiences with ovarian, uterine, and breast cancers. She teaches at The New School and can be found on Bluesky at @cdclifford.bsky.s

Carla Rae Johnson’ is an artist that often addresses issues of social, political, and cultural importance through drawing, sculpture, conceptual, peformance, and installation art. You can find her at carlaraejohnson.org

Enjoy this episode with Donna Beisel, Director of Museum Operations at Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama.

Enjoy this episode with artist Robert Hightower, first recipient of the Bader+Simon Empowerment Grant. Hightower uses his art to show the struggle between vulnerabiity and strength —two things we all have but rarely show at the same time.

Hilma's Ghost, a feminist artist collective, co-founded by Brooklyn-based artists Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray in 2020, conducts experimental pedagogy, transcultural dialogue, and collectivity through the lens of feminism and spirituality to build community and reckon with patriarchal art histories that have excluded women, trans, and nonbinary practitioners.

Sarah Potter is a renowned psychic medium, known for her exceptional Tarot reading abilities and deep occult knowledge. Her spiritual guidance, personalized sessions, and communal rituals have positively impacted countless lives, spanning private individuals and corporate clients alike as a forefront face in modern witchcraft.

Adriene Jenik is an artist, educator, scholar-activist and end of life doula. Her work supports personal introspection, social critique, community building, and cultural transformation. Jenik's projects include "data humanization" performances, the crowd-sourced grief toolkit and repository “the Grief Deck” and public performances reading “climate futures” with her ECOtarot

Listen in on this repeat episode with professional artist, V.L. Cox, whose work has been highly active in projects that involve Human Rights and Equality. Cox is currently featured in Riveting: Women Artists from the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Collection, currently on view on the Bader+Simon podcast.