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Social Alchemy Symposium 2022 - Maurice Broaddus

The Social Alchemy Symposium is a participatory gathering April 10-13 in New Harmony, a town twice the site of utopian experiments. Conversations — led by more than 20 authors, artists, designers, and philosophers from around the world — will look at the role of utopian thinking: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Attendees are welcome to join any parts of the free symposium in person, online, or both. Organized by Big Car Collaborative and the University of Southern Indiana. And made possible by Indiana Humanities, the Efroymson Family Fund, and New America.

Create Hear- Stuart Hyatt

Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative — the nonprofit arts organization behind WQRT — Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond. Find out more and access additional episodes at wqrt.org.

Create Hear: Jenny Delfuego

Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative — the nonprofit arts organization behind WQRT — Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond. Find out more and access additional episodes at wqrt.org.

Create Hear: Kelvin Burzon

Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative — the nonprofit arts organization behind WQRT — Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond. Find out more and access additional episodes at wqrt.org.

Create Hear: Indy Movement Arts

Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative — the nonprofit arts organization behind WQRT — Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond. Find out more and access additional episodes at wqrt.org.

Create Hear:John Green and Sarah Urist Green

Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative, Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond. In this episode, Jim Walker interviews John Green and Sarah Urist Green — married collaborators based in Indianapolis who both released books during the pandemic.

Sarah’s book, You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation, is connected to her work on The Art Assignment show on PBS Digital. This popular series started with artists sharing assignments for others to try and moved into shows about art history and travel. Sarah’s book came out from Penguin in 2020.  More at www.theartassignment.com

John’s latest book, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet, came out in 2021 — also from Penguin. It is the print version of his podcast series by the same name. John is known for his novels and vlogs. More at www.johngreenbooks.com 

Landon Caldwell and Mark Tester Score - Jan Svankmajer’s ”Alice”

Step through the looking glass with WQRT! In late 2021 artists Landon Caldwell and Mark Tester were commissioned to create a live soundtrack to Jan Svankmajer's "Alice." Have a cup of tea or coffee and tune in to 99.1 FM. You can also watch along on YouTube while listening.

About Landon Caldwell & Mark Tester:
Caldwell & Tester are Indianapolis-based artists, musicians, composers, and producers. Their duo work explores various niches in electronic music with a focus on process, often incorporating spontaneous composition & experimentation with an array of technology, creating works that harness rhythm, ambiance, and melody to conjure meditations on fleeting sensations and early morning comedowns.

Together they have toured in the United States, Canada, and Europe and are regularly engaged with artists and musicians across the Midwest and beyond. Since 2016 they have operated Medium Sound, producing a number of the label’s releases.

Create Hear: Laura Foster Nicholson

Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative, Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond.

In this episode, Shauta Marsh interviews New Harmony, IN based textile artist Laura Foster Nicholson, who recently received the Dehaan Artist of Distinction Award. Her exhibit “Scenes from the Carbon Border” runs February 4-April 18 at Tube Factory artspace.

Create Hear: Kris Graves

Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative, Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond.

 

In this episode, Oreo Jones interviews photographer Kris Graves, the most recent Artist in Residence at Aurora PhotoCenter and whose exhibit "A Southern Horror" is Feb.4-March 20 at Tube Factory artspace's Guichelaar Gallery.

 

Graves (b. 1982 New York, NY) is an artist and publisher based in New York and California. He received his BFA in Visual Arts from S.U.N.Y. Purchase College and has been published and exhibited globally, including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Getty Institute, Los Angeles; and National Portrait Gallery in London, England; among others. Permanent collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Institute, Schomburg Center, Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Brooklyn Museum; and The Wedge Collection, Toronto; amongst others. Graves also sits on the board of Blue Sky Gallery: Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland; and The Architectural League of New York as Vice President of Photography.

Create Hear: Rebecca Robinson

Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative — the nonprofit arts organization behind WQRT — Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond. Find out more and access additional episodes at wqrt.org.

In this program, 18 Collective Artist Rebecca Robinson , talks with host Dr. Jarrod Dortch of APLR during a special MLK Day celebration.