Ma's House Podcast: With AIR XY Zhou
Ma's House Podcast
In this episode, we speak with July 2025 Resident Artist XY Zhou. XY Zhou (they/them) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in New York City whose work spans writing, painting, ceramics, textiles, and design. Their practice investigates the transmission of cultural traditions across generations, geographies, and mediums. They currently contribute to Phoenix House NY|LI’s Art of Advocacy program, facilitating art workshops and exhibitions. XY’s work has been exhibited at various NYC venues and has been supported by institutions such as NYU Gallatin and the Bobby Anspach Memorial...
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Ma's House Podcast: With AIR Ella Mahoney
Ma's House Podcast
In this Ma's House podcast, we hear from Ma's House alumni artist Ella Mahoney. Ella is a member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), an artist, illustrator, and teacher. She received her BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts and an MA in Art Education from Pratt Institute. Her work has been featured in galleries and performances across the United States, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Southampton Arts Center, and Invisible Exports. She has also illustrated multiple children’s books for the Wampanoag Language Reclamation Project. Mahoney’s...
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Ma's House Podcast: With AIR William PK Carter
Ma's House Podcast
In this podcast episode, Jeremy Dennis, lead artist of Ma's House and BIPOC Art Studio, converses with resident artist William PK Carter. William details their creative process, emphasizing themes of self-recognition, transformation, and various marginalized identities. They share insights on their debut puppet show, 'First Buds of the Garden', and its symbolic elements. William also discusses their inspirations, family support, and upcoming projects, including the 'Beautiful Without Consequence' puppet theater piece. The conversation underscores the importance of authenticity and community in...
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Ma's House Podcast: With AIR Joshua Allen
Ma's House Podcast
In this episode of the Ma's House podcast, host Jeremy Dennis speaks with Joshua Allen, the May 2025 resident artist at Ma's House, about their multifaceted career as an artist, community organizer, writer, and public speaker. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Joshua has been an active voice in the arts and activism scene since 2014, passionately advocating for LGBTQIA+ and people of color communities. The conversation explores Joshua's recent two-week residency at Ma's House, where they engaged in creative practices, including a public artist talk and a performance titled 'Waves and Meditation,'...
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Ma's House Podcast: With AIRs Chisato “Chisa” Hughes & Chris M Yee
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In this episode, we’re joined by two brilliant artists and Homebody Fellows: Chisato “Chisa” Hughes and Chris M Yee—both June residents here at Ma’s House. Chisa is a filmmaker whose work asks powerful questions about memory, belonging, and how we relate across time and place. Their debut film Many Moons explored the histories of Chinese expulsions in Humboldt County and the kinships formed between Chinese and Native peoples in the aftermath. Their next project, Behind the Horizon Line, is inspired by poet Etel Adnan and reflects on borders and their lingering shadows. ...
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Ma's House Podcast: With AIR Jake Kimble
Ma's House Podcast
We’re excited to share a brand-new episode of the Ma’s House podcast featuring May 2025 resident artist Jake Kimble (Chipewyan/Dënesųłıné), a multidisciplinary artist and curator whose work brings levity and layered meaning to the everyday. 🎧 In this clip, Kimble shares the story behind their unexpected use of paper towels as a print surface for landscape photographs of their homeland in Treaty 8 territory. What begins as a practical material choice unfolds into a poignant reflection on disposability, memory, and home. This episode dives into Kimble’s practice of...
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Ma's House Podcast: With AIRs Juan Giraldo & Cecilia Lim
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NEW MA's House Podcast Episode featuring Juan Giraldo and Cecilia Lim! 📸 Juan Giraldo, a Brooklyn-based photographer whose lens captures the intimate, everyday stories of working-class life. Born in Colombia and raised in Paterson, New Jersey, Juan’s work is a love letter to his family, his roots, and the labor that shaped his journey. His photographs—quiet, honest, and deeply personal—reflect the resilience and tenderness found in the homes and break rooms of those often unseen. 🎥 Cecilia Lim (she, siya, ella) joins us from Queens, New York, where she’s spent over two decades...
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Ma's House Podcast: With AIR Saidah Belo-Osagie
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In this episode of the Ma's House podcast, hosted by lead artist Jeremy Dennis, Nigerian American comedian, actress, and writer Saidah Belo-Osagie is featured as a guest. Saidah discusses her experiences and creative growth during her week-long residency at Ma's House on the Shinnecock Reservation. The conversation covers her directorial debut film 'Tinge,' her training in clowning, and her approach to comedy that incorporates vulnerability, playfulness, and social commentary. Saidah shares insights into her performance 'A Clown's Exploration of Identity,' her approach to integrating audience...
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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...
info_outlineIn this episode of the Ma's House Podcast, the host, Hunter Begun, engages in a captivating conversation with the artist in residence, Simón Vega. Delving into the profound themes embedded within Simón's remarkable sculptures, the duo explores his artistic process and the inspiration behind his creations. They also shed light on Simón's current exhibition, "Tropical Space Castaways," showcased at the Parish Art Museum until June 5th. This is an episode you do not want to miss!
Artist Profile
Vega creates drawings, objects, sculptural installations, and happenings inspired by local markets, self-made architecture, and vendor carts found in the streets and beaches of Central America. His sculptures are Third World replicas of the sophisticated capsules and satellites developed by NASA and the Soviet Space Program during the ‘Space Race’; however, they are assembled with found materials, including transmutable elements, colored lights, and live plants. This series, titled Tropical Space Proyectos, comments on the effects of the Cold War in contemporary El Salvador and Central America. In other artworks, the artist reinterprets ancient Mesoamerican architectural sculpture, Modernism’s iconic buildings, and contemporary surveillance systems, creating an ironic and humorous fusion between past and present, first and third worlds.
Born in El Salvador in 1972, Simón Vega graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Veracruz in Mexico in 2000. He received a Master´s in Contemporary Arts from the Complutense University in Madrid in 2006.
He has exhibited his work extensively in Europe, the United States and Latin America, including the 55th Venice Biennial in Italy (2013), the IX Havana Biennial in Cuba (2006), at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California (2018), at the Bronx Museum in New York (2019), at the Centre Pompidou, París for the exhibition Cosmópolis 2 (2019) and at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid amongst others. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Costa Rica, at Locust Projects, Miami, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, Texas, and at the Hilger Next Gallery in Vienna