I Like Your Work: Conversations with Artists

I Like Your Work supports artists! Each week artist Erika b Hess interviews artists, gallerists, and curators to cover topics that will help you in your art practice. From inspiring interviews from the lives of artists to business practices you will walk away ready to get in the studio.

Create Your Own Artist Residency 04/25/2025

Exploring Printmaking with Taro Takizawa 04/18/2025

Exploring Printmaking with Taro Takizawa Taro Takizawa is an artist specializing in printmaking, wall vinyl installations, drawings, and 2D designs. His work blends both Western and Eastern aesthetics, with a deep appreciation for traditional printmaking processes and the art of mark-making. Takizawa is fascinated by the fusion of contemporary studio practices with traditional methods, exploring the boundaries between printmaking and installation art. He earned his BFA with a printmaking emphasis from Central Michigan University and completed his MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University in 2017. Takizawa has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally at prominent venues such as the Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, PARADOX European Fine Art Forum in Poland, ArtPrize 10 at the Grand Rapids Public Museum, LUX Center for the Arts, the China Printmaking Museum, Tyger Tyger Gallery, and Kai Lin Art in Atlanta, GA. He has also participated in several artist residencies, including those at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Morgan Conservatory, GoggleWorks, and Lawrence Arts Center. Takizawa currently serves as the Assistant Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Wilmington. LINKS: Artist Shout Out: Michael Dickins (curator) @mdickins at APSU who has been so generous to me since we met. He is generous to everyone. Tyger Tyger Gallery at Asheville, NC who suffered greatly from the flooding. Wishing them luck and strengths and recovery - amazing team amazing space. I Like Your Work Links: Thank you to our Sponsor, Creativity Matters Coaching: Naomi Vladeck & her signature 10-week spring course - Unstoppable! Starting April 28. Apply to our Summer Exhibition & Publication at Chautauqua Visual Arts: Join the Works Membership! Watch our Youtube channel: Interviews Say “hi” on /episode/index/show/ilikeyourworkpodcast/id/36212545

Tips for Balancing Multiple Creative Projects (Without Losing Your Mind) 04/04/2025

Interior Spaces and Crafting a Life as an Artist with Anne Buckwalter 03/28/2025

Interior Spaces and Crafting a Life as an Artist with Anne Buckwalter Anne Buckwalter is an American painter based in Maine. She was born and raised in Lancaster, PA. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and her MFA from Maine College of Art and Design. A recipient of a 2020-2021 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a 2020 Idea Fund Grant, and a 2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, Anne has been an artist-in-residence at the Galveston Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Studios at Mass MoCA, Hewnoaks Artist Colony, and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Her exhibition history includes the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA; Boston University Gallery, Boston, MA; The Painting Center, New York, NY, and others. Her paintings have been highlighted in New American Paintings, Juxtapoz, Hyperallergic, and The New York Times, and included in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami; Aishti Foundation, Lebanon; Zuzeum, Latvia; X Museum, Beijing; Art Museum of West Virginia, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 2025, she mounted her first institutional solo show, Manors, at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. She is represented by Rachel Uffner Gallery (New York, NY), Pentimenti Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Micki Meng (San Francisco, CA), and Rebecca Camacho Presents (San Francisco, CA). "Anne Buckwalter’s creative practice explores female identity and the coexistence of contradictory elements. Inspired by the folk art traditions of her Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, her work arranges disparate objects in mysterious domestic interiors and ambiguous spaces. By imagining obscure narratives that embrace paradoxes, her paintings delve into questions about the body, femininity, sexuality, and desire." LINKS: I Like Your Work Links: Apply to our Summer Exhibition & Publication at Chautauqua Visual Arts: Join the Works Membership! Watch our Youtube channel: Interviews Say “hi” on /episode/index/show/ilikeyourworkpodcast/id/35891965

The Cloud of Unknowing in the Studio 03/21/2025

Level Up: Insight for Mid-Career Artists with Ceri Hand 03/14/2025

Level Up: Insight for Mid-Career Artists with Ceri Hand Ceri Hand is a creative coach, mentor, host of the Extraordinary Creatives podcast, public speaker and the founder of www.cerihand.com, supporting thousands of creatives to make an impact with their work and earn more money doing what they love. Prior to establishing Ceri Hand she was Director of Programmes for Somerset House, responsible for the exhibitions, live events, learning and skills programme across the whole historic site. She successfully helped to build its profile and brand, shaping its reputation as one of the UK’s top 10 most visited arts attractions (2.5million visitors annually). Significant highlights include landmark exhibitions such as Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future of Funghi; Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers; Good Grief, Charlie Brown! Celebrating Snoopy and the Enduring Power of Peanuts; Hassan Hajjaj: La Caravane, in partnership with 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair; commissioning filmmaker Bradford Young for the annual Film4 Summer Screen programme; Anna Meredith and GAIKA for the ice-rink and Kojey Radical and Little Simz for the outdoor concerts Summer Series. During her time there, she also successfully commissioned artists based within Somerset House Studios including Hannah Perry, Larry Achiampong and GAIKA, as well as commissioning new work for 1:54 AFrican Art Fair, Photo London, British Council International Fashion Showcase, and the London Design Biennale. Throughout her career she’s worked with and commissioned new work from thousands of artists including notably: Hans Peter Feldmann, Gary Simmons, Angela Bulloch, Vito Acconci, Pipilotti Rist, Bedwyr Williams, Toby Ziegler, Dexter Dalwood, Chen Chieh-jen, Walid Raad/The Atlas Group, Sophie Jung, Anthea Hamilton, John Akomfrah and Black Audio Film Collective, Christian Jankowski, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Sissel Tolaas, Shilpa Gupta, Salla Tykka, Candice Breitz, Yang Fudong, Jill Magid, Cory Arcangel, Jeremy Deller & Alan Kane, Naeem Mohaiemen, Ran Huang, Paulina Olowska, Claudio Parmiggiani, João Penalva, Mai-Thu Perret, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Josephine Pryde, Hugh Scott-Douglas, Jim Shaw, Clare Woods and Heimo Zobernig. Ceri’s other previous roles include: Associate Director: Institutions and Public Relations, Simon Lee Gallery, London; Associate Consultant, Contemporary Art Society, London; Director, Ceri Hand Gallery, London/Liverpool; Director of Metal, Liverpool; Director of Exhibitions, FACT, Liverpool; Deputy Director of Grizedale Arts, Cumbria and Director of Make, London. Ceri is currently Chair of Castlefield Gallery, Manchester. LINKS: I Like Your Work Links: Apply to our Summer Exhibition & Publication at Chautauqua Visual Arts: Join the Works Membership! Watch our Youtube channel: Interviews Say “hi” on /episode/index/show/ilikeyourworkpodcast/id/35672565

Mapping Trust and Confidence in Your Work 03/07/2025

Lost in the Wilderness – Why Uncertainty is Part of the Journey 02/28/2025

Artist Susan Lichtman: Painting Domestic Spaces, Light and Color 02/21/2025

Artist Susan Lichtman: Painting Domestic Spaces, Light and Color Susan Lichtman is a figurative painter of domestic spaces, working out of her home studio in southeastern Massachusetts. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and an MFA in Painting from Yale University School of Art. Lichtman has had solo exhibitions at Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, NY, NY. (2017, 2024); Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA (2024); Fahrenheit, Madrid, (2022); Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (2018) and the Wilson Museum of Hollins University, Roanoke, VA (2017.) Recent group and two person exhibitions have been at Steven Harvey Fine Arts Project, NY ,NY; Nathalie Karg Gallery, NY, NY; Wege Center for the Arts, Fairfield, IA; Chazen Gallery, Providence, RI; Page Gallery, Camden, ME; and Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN. A recipient of a fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, she also holds awards from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A Fine Arts professor at Brandeis University between 1980-2024, Lichtman has also been a visiting artist at numerous universities and art programs. She was the Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence at Hollins University in 2017, Guest Artist at JSS Civita in 2018 and a faculty member at the Chautauqua Visual Art program in 2024. LINKS: Artist Shout out: Steven Harvey Fine Arts Project, NY, NY. Page Gallery, Camden ME.; Nancy Devine Gallery, Warren, RI I Like Your Work Links: Thank you to our sponsors: Naomi Vladeck with Creativity Matters Coaching: Registration for The Fear Less Creator Method Intensive is NOW LIVE This transformational experience for women artists and creators begins on February 24 runs through April 7 2025. Register on Or email her at [email protected] to learn about her early-bird spots! Apply for a residency at Chautauqua Visual Arts: Join the Works Membership! Watch our Youtube channel: Interviews Say “hi” on /episode/index/show/ilikeyourworkpodcast/id/35370935

How Open Calls & Residencies Create Unexpected Opportunities 02/14/2025

How Open Calls & Residencies Create Unexpected Opportunities Have you ever hesitated to apply for an open call or residency because of self-doubt? Or maybe you’ve wondered, Is this even worth it? In this episode of I Like Your Work, we’re flipping that narrative. Open calls and residencies aren’t just about submitting your work—they’re about creating opportunities, making connections, and getting your art seen in ways you never imagined. I’ve heard from so many artists who have had real, tangible opportunities come from being featured in the I Like Your Work Open Call catalog—things like exhibitions, representation, and new collectors. And residencies? They can be game-changers for artists looking to deepen their practice, meet incredible peers, and create work in an inspiring environment. We’ll also talk about Chautauqua Visual Arts Residencies—an incredible space for artists to grow, reflect, and push their work forward. And I’m beyond excited to introduce our guest curator for this year’s Open Call, Leah Triplett, an amazing curator and writer who brings a thoughtful and engaging eye to contemporary art.If you’ve been waiting for a sign to put yourself out there—this is it. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: Why open calls and residencies are more than just applications—they’re opportunities for transformation How artists have gained career-changing connections from the I Like Your Work Open Call What makes Chautauqua Visual Arts Residencies such an exciting and valuable experience Insights from guest curator Leah Triplett, a leading curator and writer shaping contemporary art The importance of believing in your work and stepping into opportunity—despite fear Apply Today! I Like Your Work Open Call: Chautauqua Visual Arts Residency: Let’s Connect! Follow me on Instagram: Join the Artist Membership: Leave a review & share this episode with an artist friend who needs a little encouragement! Hit play and get ready to embrace new opportunities! /episode/index/show/ilikeyourworkpodcast/id/35276510

Color and Searching with Artist Neil Callander 02/07/2025

Color and Searching with Artist Neil Callander Neil Callander is an artist and an educator. Born in Louisville KY, Neil earned a BFA from Indiana University (2003) and an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (2006). In 2005 he received a full fellowship to be a resident at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. After graduate school Neil worked as a painter for the artist Jeff Koons in his New York studio. In 2007 Neil and family left New York City to pursue careers as artists and academics. This decision has offered a tour of the South with time spent in Louisville KY, Starkville MS, and Tuscaloosa AL. Neil and his wife Adrienne are currently professors of Art at the University of Arkansas and live in a household of makers, dogs, and sheep on three acres in Fayetteville AR. Neil has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at Goose Barnacle (Brooklyn NY), Studio Break Gallery (West Chicago IL), Bowling Green State University (OH), MANIFEST Gallery and Drawing Center (Cincinnati OH), Elon University (NC) and The Kentucky School of Art (Louisville). Group exhibitions include MANIFEST Gallery and Drawing Center (Cincinnati OH), The Huntsville Museum of Art (AL), The Mississippi Museum of Art (Jackson), The New Gallery of Modern Art (Charlotte NC), First Street Gallery (NYC), Washington Art Association (CT) and many others. He has presented on his work and practice at institutes of higher learning including Boston University, UMass Dartmouth, Arkansas State University, and the University of Mississippi. He is a member of ZEUXIS (an association of still life painters based in NYC), and SECAC whose conferences he regularly attends. Recent creative endeavors include participation in Art Week (July 2022) at the fabled family home of painter Fairfield Porter on Great Spruce Head Island in Maine. Neil returned to the island in 2024 and will again in 2025 to facilitate a painting retreat he developed. "Cinema is the king of story-telling. Photography is a much more efficient form of documentation. Music is superior at catharsis. Television and the Internet own propaganda. That leaves painting the domains of materiality and ambiguity. I pack a painting with cultural and personal references and work toward an image that is provocative yet conceptually flexible. As more is added the compositions grow thicker, tighter, and more refined over time – like the tangle of a garden in late summer. The act of viewing my paintings is an unlocking of these internal relationships. Experiencing dense paintings that slowly reveal their nature can help us contend with the pervasiveness of fast-talking, slick images. In a media-riddled world, painting is a stabilizing force." LINKS: Artist Shout out: 2024 Great Spruce Head Island Painting Retreat participants: Gabbe Grodin @gabbegrodin Amanda Millis @amandacmillis Elise Schweitzer @eliseschweitzer Aaron Thompson @paintlanguage Kimberly Trowbridge @Kimberly_trowbridge I Like Your Work Links: Thank you to our sponsors: Naomi Vladeck with Creativity Matters Coaching: Registration for The Fear Less Creator Method Intensive is NOW LIVE This transformational experience for women artists and creators begins on February 24 runs through April 7 2025. Register on Or email her at [email protected] to learn about her early-bird spots! Apply for a residency at Chautauqua Visual Arts: Join the Works Membership! Watch our Youtube channel: Interviews Say “hi” on /episode/index/show/ilikeyourworkpodcast/id/35180540

Dealing with Criticism as an Artist: What to Take In and What to Ignore 01/31/2025

Transforming Materials with Artist Sachiko Akiyama 01/17/2025

Contemporary Curation with Leah Triplett 01/10/2025

Your Bravest Year Yet- Embracing Fear and Moving Forward in Your Creative Practice 01/03/2025

Do it Afraid- Planning Your Artistic Year 12/20/2024

Environmental Embroidery with Hillary Waters Fayle 12/13/2024

Environmental Embroidery with Hillary Waters Fayle Hillary Waters Fayle is an artist and Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she directs the fiber/textile program. She has taught embroidery and textile workshops around the world and is an alumna of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation’s Artist Residency Program. Her work is in the permanent collections of the AKG Museum in Buffalo, NY, Grace Farms Foundation in New Canaan, CT, the United States Embassy to Sri Lanka, Colombo, the Kalmthout Arboretum & Botanical Gardens in Belgium and is on view at the US Embassies in Algiers, Algeria and Dhaka, Bangladesh. Recent professional projects and publications include collaborations with Domestika, L'Occitane en Provance and the New York Botanical Garden. "My work brings together materials and processes that express the union of humanity and the physical world, most often textile traditions in collaboration with botanical material. The deep historical and lived experience we have with cloth echoes our connection to the botany all around us-both are entwined with our evolution and survival, and they are now so completely integrated into our lives, that they become nearly invisible. Both flora and cloth represent powerful and symbolic connections to place, time, people and our past. Whether stitching, drawing, planting seeds, or harvesting, my hands echo the gestures made by thousands of hands over thousands of years and I feel connected to the lineage of people working with textiles, plants and the land. Stitching, like horticulture, can be functional-- a technical solution to join materials/a means of survival-- or, both can be done purely in service of the soul, lifting the spirit through beauty and wonder." LINKS: I Like Your Work Links: Thank you to our sponsors: Doubworks: Use code LIKE for 20% off of any order of Belgian Linen by the yard. NYC Crit Club Canopy Program: Applications for the Canopy Program close January 12 Create Magazine: Deadline is February 1 Apply for a residency at Chautauqua Visual Arts: Join the Works Membership! Watch our Youtube channel: Interviews Say “hi” on /episode/index/show/ilikeyourworkpodcast/id/34417835

Reconnect With What Matters in Your Studio 12/06/2024

Navigating Hurricane Helene: Resilience and Tax Insights for Artists Facing Crisis with Hannah Cole of Sunlight Tax 11/22/2024

Independent Education with Metalsmith Margaret Jacobs 11/15/2024

Independent Education with Metalsmith Margaret Jacobs Margaret Jacobs, Akwesasne Mohawk, is an artist, educator and independent curator. A metalsmith who creates fabricated steel sculpture and powdercoated, one-of-a-kind jewelry, her work reflects on kinship to the natural world referencing cultural, historical and personal narratives while exploring the lines of contemporary craft and fine art objects. Overall, her life has been greatly influenced by rural living and her interest in object making stems from her youth in Northern New York and a constant respect for creating, repairing, refinishing and re-making objects that were vital to survival. Her artistic process involves steel fabrication techniques that intermingle traditional blacksmithing tools and techniques--primarily forging and hot forming with a forge--with more present day metalworking fabrication processes. This is a unique process that makes the steel feel alive and organic. Jacobs is a 2024 Teaching Artist Cohort and Rural and Traditional Fellowship recipient; a 2024 Native Arts Fellowship through the NMAI Smithsonian; a 2023 Independent Curators International (ICI) Curatorial Research Fellow and a 2019 recipient of the Artist in Business Leadership Award through the First Peoples Fund. She has participated in several artist residencies including at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Sante Fe, NM and Franconia Sculpture Park in Shafer, MN. Recent exhibitions include solo-shows at the Boise Art Museum in Idaho; Burlington City Arts in Vermont; and Ma’s House in Southampton, NY. Jacobs attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH where she graduated with high honors for her thesis work and received the Perspectives on Design (POD) award. LINKS: @margaretofsteel Artist Shout Out: Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths, @inclusive_blacksmiths I Like Your Work Links: Apply for a residency at Chautauqua Visual Arts: Join the Works Membership! Watch our Youtube channel: Interviews Say “hi” on /episode/index/show/ilikeyourworkpodcast/id/33934507

Resilience, Kindness and Trauma Response in Challenging Times 11/08/2024

Creative Momentum with Art Coach Christine Garvey 11/01/2024

Creating Parameters for Artists- Class Recap 10/25/2024

Don Kimes: The Language and Power of Art 10/18/2024

Don Kimes: The Language and Power of Art Don Kimes' work has been included in more than 150 exhibitions internationally, including Biennale Internazionale di Firenze (Florence, Italy); Global Art Fair (Singapore); Rueda Museum (Madrid); Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum (New York); Burchfield-Penney Museum (Buffalo); ExMoenia (Todi, Italy); Living Art (Milan); America Haus (Munich); Casa di Cultura (Villahermosa, Mexico); Rocca Paolina (Perugia, Italy); AU Katzen Museum (Washington, DC); Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC); National Academy of Design (New York); Denise Bibro, Boom Contemporary, Jim Kempner, Frederieke Taylor, Claudia Carr, Kouros, Stephan Gang, Lucky Strike, NY Studio School, Prince Street, and Arsenal galleries, Ammo Artists Space (all New York City); Washington Project for the Arts, Fondo del Sol Galleries, Hillyer Art Space, Sense Gallery, Elizabeth Robert's Gallery, Constitution Hall (all Washington, DC), and many others. He has received awards to be Scholar in Residence in the Art and Philosophy seminar at the American Academy in Rome; Artist in Residence at SACI in Florence, Italy; to live and work on the Pacific island of Kauai; to spend a year painting near Todi, Italy; a US Department of the Interior award to be artist in residence at Yellowstone; a grant from the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes to work in southern Mexico; Eisenhower Foundation support to be a United States Visual Arts representative to the Jurmala Cultural Exchange in the Soviet Union; and studio residency awards from the Millay Foundation; the Assensore di Cultura in Corciano, Italy; the Accademia di Belli Arti in Perugia, Italy, and many others. In 2001 he was a finalist for the position of Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2018 he was named the inaugural Sonkin-Segal Endowed Chair in the Visual Arts at the the Chautauqua Institution, where he had served as the Institution's first Artistic Director in the Visual Arts for more than three decades. During his tenure there he and his wife, Lois Jubeck, built Chautauqua into one of the most respected summer art programs in America (including the Chautauqua School of Art, establishing and building the Fowler-Kellogg and Strohl Art Centers, and expanding the Chautauqua Visual Arts Lecture series). Previously he taught for ten years at the New York Studio School in Greenwich Village, where he also served as Program Director for six years. In 2019 Kimes and his wife, Lois Jubeck, established the ACI International Artists, Writers and Scholars Residency program in a 500 year old complex in Corciano, Italy. He continues to serve as Artistic Director there. He is also the Senior Professor in the Visual Arts at American University in Washington, DC, where he served as head of the studio art program for 19 of the past 35 years (and department chair for 11 years). He conceived of and then led this program in a successful campaign raising funds to design and build Washington's 130,000 square foot Katzen Arts Center and museum. Additionally, Kimes is a frequent contributor to Art Lantern/New Art Examiner which currently has editorial staff in New York City, DC, Toronto, Detroit, UK, Germany, Italy, France, Singapore, Hong Kong and other locations internationally. Kimes has been a guest artist at schools and universities throughout the United States, including Bard, Carnegie-Mellon, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cooper Union, Dartmouth, UC Davis, Harvard, Parsons, University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, and many others, as well as academies and universities in Rome, Umbria, Florence, Mexico, Germany and Latvia. His curatorial practice is extensive, having organized dozens of exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally over the past 30+ years. As an artist, an educator/mentor, and cultural builder he is in his fourth decade as a practicing artist who also teaches: More than 5,000 art students have worked with him directly, and many thousands more indirectly, in the programs he has built and led in New York, Washington, DC, Rome and Umbria. "Don Kimes divides his time between Italy, New York and Washington, DC. For more than three decades he has worked extensively in western New York State and Umbria - places he goes to have consecutive thoughts in a world where it is increasingly difficult to have the chance to simply focus. In a 1996 catalogue essay for an exhibition of his work in Munich, he wrote about the relationship between nature and culture saying Italy affords the opportunity to think about culture, nature and the passage of time . . . In the end nature takes everything back. Seven years later a flood destroyed his home and studio. He subsequently wrote about the loss of 30 years years of his life's work: paintings, drawings, most of his photos, filing cabinets full of writing, and more. It felt like the record of my existence had been erased. The house and furnishings seemed incidental by comparison. Nature took everything back. Since recovering from that flood my work based on those destroyed images. Through them color, form and structure combine with nature, time, memory, loss, rebirth and meaning." LINKS: I Like Your Work Links: Thank you to our sponsor Sunlight Tax! Artist and tax pro Hannah Cole (of Sunlight Tax) is collecting donations for artists effected by Hurricane Helene in the Asheville, North Carolina area please donate at her paypal: Sunlight Tax LLC Check out Hannah's program: Use the code LIKE on any Sunlight Tax Class or Bootcamp to save $100 Sign up for my free class: Creating Healthy Parameters: Apply for a residency at Chautauqua Visual Arts: Join the Works Membership! Watch our Youtube channel: Interviews Say “hi” on /episode/index/show/ilikeyourworkpodcast/id/33503082

The Financial Return of Being an Artist 10/11/2024

Growing a Gallery with Gallerist Eric Fallen 10/04/2024

How You Can Have Multiple Studios as a Professional Artist 09/27/2024

Alex Callender: Materiality Meets Content 09/20/2024

Alex Callender: Materiality Meets Content Alex Callender has had solo exhibitions and projects at the Center for the Arts Northeastern University, UMass Contemporary Museum of Art, NYU Gallatin Galleries, Rubber Factory (NY), and Michigan State University’s LookOut Gallery. She has held artist residencies with MacDowell Colony, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Drawing Center’s Open Session program, Art in Embassies Program, The Vermont Studio Center, the Santa Fe Art Institute, Alice Yard in Trinidad, and DRAWinternational and The BAU Institute in France. Raised in NYC, Callender is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Smith College and lives and works in Western Massachusetts. Alex Callender uses methods of drawings, painting and installation to trace and remap historical materials as a means to explore with both criticality and care, how we might disentangle the interwoven relations of race, gender, and capitalism. Drawing largely from archival sources her work engages the mythic and residual forms of coloniality to think about ways that we orient ourselves to the past; using different visual modes of annotation, hybrid narratives, and speculative storytelling, Callender recontextualizes static (or seemingly fixed) renderings of history to consider their relationship to social forces like scale, time, and memory. LINKS: I Like Your Work Links: Thank you to our sponsor Sunlight Tax! Artist and tax pro Hannah Cole (of Sunlight Tax) is hosting a free class, . It’s one hour, and designed to help you understand why you keep getting stuck in a cycle of pain surrounding taxes, and the simple systems you need to get out of it. It’s on 9/25 at noon Eastern. It’s free, but you need to register: Use the code LIKE on any Sunlight Tax Class or Bootcamp to save $100 Join the Works Membership! Watch our Youtube channel: Interviews Say “hi” on /episode/index/show/ilikeyourworkpodcast/id/33126907

One Thing Artists Need to Grow In their Work & Chautauqua Visual Arts Residency Recap 09/13/2024

Matt Bollinger-The Armory & Fine Arts Work Center 09/06/2024

I Like Your Work: Conversations with Artists

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