Host Rachel Hopkin is joined by visual artists Cat Sheridan of Columbus and Gabriel Amza of Timișoara, Romania.

Sheridan uses many different media in her artistic work, with a special focus on ceramics. She is the director of the Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery in downtown Columbus.

Amza is a Romanian photographer, curator, and community organizer. His work usually takes the form of long-term documentary projects and installations, often with themes relating to social justice and the environment.

Covid Conversationsis a podcast series from the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University in which artists and humanities professionals from Ohio and their counterparts elsewhere in the world discuss how their lives and work have been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.

The series is funded by anOSU Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant and distributed by Ohio Humanities. It is produced and presented by radio producer and folklorist Rachel Hopkin and mastered by Paul Kotheimer at OSU.

Music for this podcast is provided by Pixabay.

For more about the Center for Folklore Studies, where the full recordings of each episode will be archived along with contextual information about each episode, please visit cfs.osu.edu.

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