Bad at Sports Episode 941: Myra Greene

Recorded live in Atlanta at the Art Papers Symposium at Ponce City Market, Duncan MacKenzie and Brian Andrews sit down with artist, educator, and department chair Myra Greene for a conversation on materiality, identity, and the long arc from photography to textiles to weaving.

The conversation centers on practice as evolution, about what happens when an artist refuses to stay in one lane, and about how material decisions carry conceptual weight. Greene reflects on her move from Columbia College Chicago to Spelman College, where she helped build a program grounded in storytelling, experimentation, and liberal arts integration.

From ambrotypes to fabric dye to loom-based weaving, Greene’s work consistently circles a central question: how can identity exist without the body?

 

Name Drops & Links

• Myra Greene — https://www.myragreene.com/

• Duncan MacKenzie — https://kurasmackenzie.com/

• Brian Andrews — https://www.brianandrews.org/

• Spelman College — https://www.spelman.edu/

• Columbia College Chicago — https://www.colum.edu/

• Jeanne Gang — https://studiogang.com/

• Mary Schmidt Campbell — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Schmidt_Campbell

• LaTanya Richardson Jackson — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTanya_Richardson

• Samuel L. Jackson — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_L._Jackson

• Candida Alvarez — https://candidaalvarez.com/

• Patron Gallery — https://patrongallery.com/

• The Weaving Mill — https://theweavingmill.com/

• Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild — https://chgweavers.org/

• Ansel Adams — https://www.anseladams.com/