In Episode 40 of Make/Work, host speaks with writer and activist Kate Schatz, author of the New York Times bestselling and , which she did in collaboration with illustrator Miriam Klein Stahl. Schatz is also one of the founders of the nationw

Episode #39: Dorian Wood

May 22nd, 2017 17m 6s

is a musician, vocalist, and experimental performer. Much of Wood’s music and performance is an intensely visceral celebration and embrace of the body, often his own, which he fearlessly exposes while rendering gorgeous and virtuosic melodies.

Episode #38: Beth Pickens

Apr 19th, 2017 23m 7s

is an LA-based consultant for artists and arts organizations. Pickens’s background is in Counseling Psychology and she applies those skills to her work, specializing in supporting queer and trans artists, women, and artists of color. After the

Episode #37: Melody Parker

Jan 4th, 2017 45m 48s

Melody Parker composes intricate chamber songs, and is her imaginative debut record. It invites the listener to inhabit an otherworldly place and time, yet it evokes the familiar as much as the fantastical. She has created these songs with mou

Episode 36: Abeer Hoque

Oct 14th, 2015 50m 54s

Author and photographer Abeer Hoque lives in New York, has Bangladeshi roots, was born and raised in Nigeria, and identifies home in several different places. She captures this kind of simultaneous global existence beautifully in her new collec

Episode 35: Dru Farro

Sep 16th, 2015 1h 7m

Scholar Dru Farro is currently finishing his PhD at the Center for the Study of Theory and Criticism in London, Ontario. He is also the Chief Deputy Editor of the journal , and head administrator of the blog . Farro talks with Pinkmountain abou

Episode 34: Joy Castro

Aug 19th, 2015 1h 6m

Joy Castro works in memoir, nonfiction, both literary and so-called commercialfiction, and poetry. And she’ll also be directing the Institute for Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln this fall. Castro speaks about her somewhat

Episode 33: Daniel Baird and Alex Chitty

Jul 15th, 2015 53m 15s

Back in January, artists Daniel G. Baird and Alex Chitty sublet their apartment, quit their jobs, packed what they could into their van, Bosco, and left their home base of Chicago to travel around for a year with the intention of figuring out h

Episode 32: Nathan Langston

Jun 17th, 2015 51m 18s

Several years back Nathan Langston schemed up a “gimmick” to meet other artists when he landed friendless in New York City. In April, he launched with the , linking 315 artists from 42 countries. Langston speaks about the origin and developmen

Episode 31: Aurora Tang

May 20th, 2015 59m 20s

Researcher/curator splits her time between Los Angeles, working as the Program Director at the , and Joshua Tree, where she’s the Managing Director of .

Episode 30: Jon Nielsen

Apr 15th, 2015 43m 38s

Guitarist/composer Jon Nielsen spends half of his year working as a bike mechanic in Minneapolis and the other half traveling the country in an RV. He speaks about becoming disillusioned with the music scene, the difficulty he’s had regaining h

Episode 29: David Meltzer and Julie Rogers

Mar 18th, 2015 1h

Episode 29 of Make/Work is the fifth of a sub-series where host Scott Pinkmountain interviews couples in which both partners are artists, addressing some of the unique issues that may arise in those relationships and talking about the challenge

Episode 28: Pamela Z

Feb 18th, 2015 55m 27s

Rooted in the San Francisco avant-garde music scene, composer and performer combines vocals, electronic processing, and multi-media performance into a hybrid, experimental medium of her own invention.

Episode 27: Saul Melman

Jan 28th, 2015 52m 56s

Host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with emergency room physician and visual artist Saul Melman about ephemeral relationships, the parallels between creative practice and caregiving, and how to reconcile your identity as both a doctor and an artist.

Episode 26: Christine Hiebert

Jan 14th, 2015 51m 48s

has focused on drawing for nearly 30 years. She has shown at museums and galleries all over the world, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her work is both abstract and organic, investigating the nature and l

Episode 25: Jim Ragen

Dec 31st, 2014 44m 34s

For over forty years, with career, family and various natural disasters intervening, Jim Ragen has been at work on a five-volume novel spanning generations of life in the Dakotas. He turned down an offer to publish his writing in his mid-twenti

Episode 24: Artist Roundtable

Dec 17th, 2014 1h 13m

Host Scott Pinkmountain facilitates a conversation between four artists—Fiona Connor; her brother, Jamie Connor, a web developer; artist and writer Brigitte Nicole Grice; and artist Catherine Davis, who works as the manager at the Eames House i

Episode 23: Katherine Ball

Dec 3rd, 2014 51m 17s

’s work happens at the intersection of anti-capitalism, environmental issues, and social justice issues. For Ball, this has translated to a broad spectrum of projects ranging from making inflatable barricades for climate change demonstrations t

Episode 22: Mick

Nov 12th, 2014 47m 32s

Guitarist and songwriter Mick (who has requested anonymity due to the nature of the discussion) speaks frankly about his childhood abuse and drug use, and the crucial need for alternatives to Katy Perry.

Episode 21: Mona Tian

Oct 29th, 2014 42m 47s

Mona Tian grew up in Shanghai and started playing violin at age 3. She made her major solo debut at age 8, then moved to the US to further her studies when she was 12. She speaks with Scott Pinkmountain about her lost childhood, the pressure sh

Episode 20: Gene V. Baker

Oct 15th, 2014 1h 19m

Gene V. Baker is an immensely talented multi-instrumentalist and singer, as well as a composer and songwriter. He speaks candidly about the challenges he’s faced moving from the Bay Area to New York, and about the difficulty he’s had finding ti

Episode 19: Angela C. Villa and Thollem McDonas

Oct 1st, 2014 57m 13s

Documentarian Angela C. Villa and musician Thollem McDonas have been living on the road on perpetual tour for the past eight years. Villa has captured Thollem in improvised performance with the likes of Nels Cline, Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah

Episode 18: Lisa Ward

Sep 17th, 2014 47m 43s

An artist and architect, Lisa Ward also has an extensive background in theater, and speaks about her work with the Brooklyn Pageant Project bringing performances to the streets of New York on a wagon that folded out into a theater. More recentl

Episode 17: Brett Fletcher Lauer

Sep 3rd, 2014 47m 27s

Brett Fletcher Lauer is mainly known for his work as a poet. His debut book, , has recently been published by Four Way Books, and his work has also been published in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Fence, Harper's, and Tin House. He is

Episode 16: Cheryl Leonard

Aug 20th, 2014 46m 10s

Composer, performer, and instrument builder is known for creating compositions using materials she finds in the natural world—things like stones, wood, water, ice, sand, shells and feathers. She’s travelled as far as the Arctic and Antarctica