Ma's House Podcast: With AIR Megan Hicks
Ma's House Podcast
In this interview, Jeremy Dennis, lead artist of Ma's House, converses with Megan Hicks, March 2025 resident and archaeologist. Megan explores community ecologies within colonial and capitalistic transformations, focusing on traditional practices in Iceland and Black enclaves in the northeastern United States, especially during the 19th century. She collaborates with native communities to protect heritage sites using excavation, zooarchaeology, and archival research, often through counter-mapping—an approach emphasized in her work with the Ramapo community in New Jersey to protect endangered...
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Ma's House Podcast: With AIR Prince Shakur
Ma's House Podcast
In this episode, Podcast host Jeremy Dennis sits down with Prince Shakur, the March 2025 resident artist at Ma’s House. Prince, a multimedia artist, award-winning author, and grassroots organizer, shares insights into how his diverse creative mediums—writing, filmmaking, podcasting, and journalism—intersect to explore radical histories and diasporic identity. He discusses how his activism informs his storytelling and his belief in media as a revolutionary tool for social change. Prince also reflects on the importance of overcoming self-doubt to create meaningful work, emphasizing the...
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Ma's House Podcast: With AIR Nadira Foster-Williams
Ma's House Podcast
NEW Ma's House podcast episode with January 2025 resident artist Nadira Foster-Williams! In this episode, we discuss mythology, performance, grief, healing, community, resistance, and more. Nadira is a multidisciplinary artist dedicated to exploring transmutation and radical curiosity through multimedia art and theatre-making. Their work challenges colonial constructs that have historically disconnected Blackness from wholeness, mythology, and the fantastical. By weaving together performance, visual storytelling, and immersive experiences, they confront institutions of colorism and paternalism...
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Ma's House Podcast: With AIR Fadl Fakhouri
Ma's House Podcast
NEW Ma's House podcast conversation with November 2024 alumni artist Fadl Fakhouri! Fadl Fakhouri (b.1997, San Francisco, CA) is a Palestinian-American, nonbinary artist whose work centers on dots, lines, and color as a method of pursuing definition and positionality. Through the utility of body, images, and contextualized objects, they formulate poetic statements of determination. Fadl has exhibited work at SFAI (San Francisco), A.I.R. (New York), Times Square (New York), Jacobs Institute (Berkeley), Worth Ryder (Berkeley), The Cincinnati Art Museum and The Jewish Museum (New York). They hold...
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Ma's House Podcast: With AIR Pamella Allen
Ma's House Podcast
NEW Ma's House podcast conversation with October 2021 alumni artist Pamella Allen! Pamella shares her journey of reconnection with her Jamaican roots, driven by her artistic exploration of memory, nature, and identity. She recounts her experiences finding long-lost family members and the profound influence these rediscoveries have on her artistic processes, including her work with mixed media, foraged materials, and healing herbs. Pamella discusses the contrasts between Jamaican and American public school art programs and highlights the importance of preserving and learning from elder...
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Ma's House Podcast: With AIR Kiani Kodama
Ma's House Podcast
This podcast features Ma’s House October 2024 resident artist Kiani Kodama! Kiani (b. 1996, Seattle, WA) is a Brooklyn-based artist. They received their BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2020 and studied at Kyoto Seika University in 2018. Kodama is currently a member of Trestle Art Space in Brooklyn, NY. In 2023, they received the Liu Shiming Foundation Art Grant (New York, NY), were Curator-in-Residence at Underland Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), and held residence at the LA Warman Writer’s Residency (Brooklyn, NY). They have exhibited at the NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY; 2023),...
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Ma's House Podcast: With AIR Qiaira Riley
Ma's House Podcast
This podcast features Ma’s House resident artist Qiaira Riley! Qiaira is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, guerilla art theorist, and Sagittarius, raised on Chicago’s south side and based in Philadelphia. She holds a dual B.A. in Black Studies and Studio Art from Lake Forest College, as well as an M.F.A. in Socially Engaged Studio Art from Moore College of Art & Design. She is a co-founder and curator of 2.0, a collective collaborating with artists and organizations to curate free, experimental offerings for Black women and femmes. Her art practice shifts between painting,...
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Ma's House Podcast: With AIRs Jenie Gao & Daesha Devón Harris
Ma's House Podcast
In this episode of the Ma's House Podcast, Jeremy Dennis, the lead artist of Ma's House, sits down with August resident artists Jenie Gao and Daesha Devon Harris to discuss the intersections of art, place, and social justice. The episode delves into the personal histories and artistic practices of both artists, emphasizing their advocacy against gentrification and their efforts to preserve local and global histories through their work. Jenie and Daesha share their unique perspectives on the roles of community, labor, and visibility in art, and highlight upcoming projects that continue to push...
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Ma's House Podcast: With Artist in Residence Margeaux Abeyta
Ma's House Podcast
This week we have a guest host! Rebecca Wise hosts Margeaux Abeyta on the Ma's House podcast, where they discuss a range of topics from their personal experiences to their artistic journeys and cultural backgrounds. Artio Bio Margaeux is a Taos Pueblo and Diné multimedia artist, currently traveling and working between Europe and the United States. She studied sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Arts before finishing her BFA in communication at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Her practice has evolved from traditional woodworking into digital fabrication, sound, and technology design....
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Ma's House Podcast: With Exhibiting Artist Michael A. Butler
Ma's House Podcast
In this episode of the Ma's House Podcast, host Hunter Begun chats with exhibiting artist Michael Butler, whose work is currently on display in his solo show titled Coalescence: Stories & Visions of the East End until June 29th. The discussion covers a wide range of topics, including Michael's show, his time as an artist on Long Island, and much more. Join us on June 29th for the closing reception of Coalescence at Ma's House. Artist Bio Michael A. Butler is an artist, historian, and humanitarian who continues to leave his mark on Sag Harbor. Butler has been on the board of the Eastville...
info_outlineIn this episode of the Ma's House Podcast our host, Hunter Begun, engages in a conversation with the talented Artist in Residence, Sen Mendez. Dive into Sen's art, hear about their residency experiences, and learn about Sen's workshop program, "Legacy," and much more.
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Sen, aka Queen Sen Sen, is an Indigenous, non-binary, and fat artist, educator, and bachata dancer deeply rooted in the Huichin Ohlone Territory/Oakland, California. Sen is a self-taught artist, working primarily in printmaking, painting, and social practice. They prioritizes creating accessible and inclusive spaces to learn art for those without the resources and privileges to receive formal art education. Sen is an artist dedicated to affirming and highlighting bodies that are often made invisible in everyday life. Sen strives to celebrate these bodies through whimsical, colorful, and fun visual arts.