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Singer-songwriter Brittany Howard, former lead singer and guitarist of the Grammy Award-winning Alabama Shakes, is now a spectacular and charismatic solo artist. Brittany joins Helga in the studio following the release of her second solo album,
Singer-songwriter Brittany Howard, former lead singer and guitarist of the Grammy Award-winning Alabama Shakes, is now a spectacular and charismatic solo artist. Brittany joins Helga in the studio following the release of her second solo album,
Get ready for a new season of fearless conversations that reveal the extraordinary in all of us.Critically acclaimed actress, singer, writer and composer Helga Davis returns for a new season of soulful conversations with artists and thinkers fr
Black people know this: There’s a difference between what you say and what you mean. It’s been a matter of survival for us.For over 30 years, American visual artist and cinematographer Arthur Jafa has captured the histories and experiences of
I don't want to be the prisoner in a box, even if it's a box I made.For over 30 years, American visual artist and cinematographer Arthur Jafa has captured the histories and experiences of Black Americans with projects that exemplify both the u
This [term] 'femme' becomes more possible to me as a figure for not just embodiment, but for thought, action, engagement, connection.Macarena Goméz-Barris is Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, founder of the G
There are whole histories of African American artists wrestling with stereotypical depictions and minstrelsy - and it seemed worthy anyway to me as an artist to consider them as some kind of artwork.American painter and silhouettist Kara Walke
I like to say we're living in a precedent time, not an unprecedented one. How do we understand that? Being at the museum or writing histories both in poetry and in non-fiction are ways of trying to understand that. “Gatekeepers” hold an essent
It’s hard when you try to talk across racial groups about race ... I do believe that there's a better chance of them getting further if we can create spaces of both accountability and connection. Tricia Rose is a pioneering scholar in the fiel
Within seriousness, there's little room for play, but within play there's tremendous room for seriousness. It's through the act of serious play that wonderful ideas are born. Carrie Mae Weems is one of today’s most influential and generous con
I knew that there was a power I had when I stripped off my shirt and looked you in the eye as I moved my hips. But I also knew the other side of that attraction to me was the impulse to kill me.Legendary dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones
Once I could feel grounded in an East African context and value who I am in an American context - suddenly it was so apparent that music was where I was supposed to be.The dynamic, ascendant jazz singer Somi has been celebrated for her artistr
I was making it for the people who feel like they don't really get a shot or are not seen, talked about, or cared about at all.Even with his surging popularity in indie and rock scenes, Bartees Strange strives to bring his music to unexpecte
Usually the things that are the farthest out — that look the least like art to me — are the things that become the most important.American painter Glenn Ligon is one of the most recognizable figures in the contemporary art scene. His distinc
There are times in life when you need to be able to live in the vision, where you are making a leap of faith into something unknowable.Claudia Rankine is a professor of the Creative Writing Program at New York University, a recipient of fellow
'Safe' also has another connotation of being not willing to take risks or to push a boundary.Michael R. Jackson is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Strange Loop, a play into which he poured almost 20 years of self-investigation. He’s als
Artist, performer, and host Helga Davis brings a soulful curiosity and love of people to the podcast Helga, where she talks about the intimate lives of creative people as they share the steps they’ve taken along their path. She draws listeners
"We’re struggling. Our generation is trying to cope. Life is crazy."On this final episode of Helga: The Armory Conversations, I look to this next generation of artists. Three participants in Park Avenue Armory’s Youth Corps program, playwright
"I want to push those limitations. Push them."Researcher, writer and critic K. Anthony Jones discusses what it means to make your own way and how to carve a path where one does not exist. K. Anthony Jones researches and writes on the history,
“There’s a real potential in art making to have someone reassess everything that they had thought about a history.”Curator, critic and writer, Antwaun Sargent engages Helga in a discussion around the motivations behind his work as a curator an
“It was so important to be apart of community. To find strength in each other. To know that on the days when I can’t move forward, someone is going to take up the baton and move forward for me. “Professor, Lawyer and ACLU President Deborah Arc
“That's been one of the hardest things to really heal from. Has been the grief of knowing that my choices and the way that I live my life, which I love means that I am isolated from my community.”Liliana Maria Percy Ruíz, radio producer and fo
"The positioning of being kind of on the edge of the room looking in? That's the position of a journalist."Jad Abumrad, co-Host and creator of Radiolab, joined Helga to talk about the beginnings of his career, the impact of family and how he w
"It split me. In one instance it split me in two. Because I had never thought of using my different voices to do different things."Opera singer Davóne Tines joined Helga to talk about his path towards a career in classical music, how he's trie
"I love to hear humans just gathering and talking and being and making lots of noise. I like to do that too...just being, and making yourself known and present."Author and performing artist Karen Finley spoke with Helga Davis about the evoluti
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