Fresh Art International

Sep 03 2024 312 ep. 25 mins 76
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Writer/curator Cathy Byrd sparks conversations with culture makers from around the world for our podcast. Our professionally produced podcast synthesizes voices, field recordings, and rich sound effects to inform and inspire each conversation. Keeping in mind both the expert and the novice in contemporary art, we promote and support public access and awareness of the arts through our free digital archive of more than 300 episodes. Cathy and her team are committed to curating informed, balanced and diverse stories through the lens of today’s art, film and design. Since 2011, Fresh Art International has served as an engaging resource for individuals, communities and schools.

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Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson—A Conversation

Sep 03 2024 35 mins  
How does your art engage the world? How do you speak to the issues and ideas of our time? What do you hope others will remember about your life, your beliefs, your work? The exhibition Teresita Fernandez / Robert Smithson, SITE Santa Fe opens a portal for us to consider our place in the landscape and explore the legacy of two significant artists. Their vibrant visual exchange feels

The Collective Impulse—Notes from the Middle East

May 23 2024 20 mins  
Today, we take you to Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, for our first experience of the yearly gathering known as March Meeting. The Sharjah Art Foundation designs these programs to resonate with issues and events of the moment. March Meeting 2024 is no exception. Across three days, artists, curators, educators and writers from near and far converge to consider the power and pu

Making and Teaching Art on Louisiana's Gulf Coast

Feb 08 2024 33 mins  
In this episode, we consider the role that teaching artists play in shaping the art school experience. How does an artist in academia cultivate expressive opportunities for students while making time to deepen their own creative practice? New Orleans based artist Cristina Molina invites us to consider this challenging dynamic at the art school where she teaches—Southeastern Loui

Creating Community in Central Asia—with CEC ArtsLink

Dec 20 2023 22 mins  
Where in the world can you express yourself freely, share cultural knowledge, test inventive art practices, and build a transnational creative community in only 10 days time? During an intensive CEC ArtsLink program in Kazakhstan, 23 artists and curators from across the region and the U.S. seize the moment to think deeply about their socially engaged projects. Our home base for tal

Trash Sparks Public Art in Central Asia

Dec 07 2023 25 mins  
Today, we introduce a few of the artists and activists energizing the 2023 Art Prospect & TRASH-5 Festival in Kyrgyzstan. They give voice to the issues, ideas, and intentions that shape their truly creative approaches to mitigate pollution. Their projects illuminate the potential for artists everywhere to build community and drive sustainable solutions to our global environment

Listening to St. Louis at the Counterpublic Art Triennial

May 18 2023 26 mins  
Today, we take you to St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States of America. Home of the Gateway Arch, an Emblem of Manifest Destiny, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Emblem of Manifest Destiny. St. Louis is nicknamed “‘Mound City”’ because of the number of earthworks built by Indigenous peoples there, before the westward expansion of colonizers cons

Searching for Libertalia in the Indian Ocean—with Shiraz Bayjoo

Mar 16 2023 15 mins  
In February 2023, we travel to the United Arab Emirates for the first time. We’re here to witness and celebrate Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present. Four years in the making, the exhibition is ambitious and expansive. More than 100 artists from 70 countries are presenting projects in 19 venues across the emirate. One afternoon, we wander through Sharjah�

Thinking Historically in the Present—with Hoor Al Qasimi in Sharjah

Mar 02 2023 27 mins  
In February 2023, we travel to the Arab Emirates for the first time. We’re here to witness and celebrate Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present. Four years in the making, the exhibition is ambitious and expansive. More than 100 artists from 70 countries are presenting projects in 19 venues across the emirate. Seventy of those projects are new commissions. The

Global Appalachia—Where Culture and Geography Shape Community

Nov 30 2022 38 mins  
Generations of curators, poets, and artists from a world of cultures have found their way across time and space to build communities in Appalachia.

Lure of Local Arts in Appalachia

Nov 15 2022 31 mins  
In 2022, members and guests of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art make their way to Kentucky, in the United States. Our first days are packed with urban experiences — museum, gallery, private collection, and studio visits, a symposium — and sunset tours of two outdoor sculpture collections. A small group continues the adventure on a road trip that ta