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During this podcast episode we talk with artist Leslie Vigeant about social and economic hierarchies and how suggested meaning gets imbued upon the materials that surround us. We also talk about a practice maintained by ritual, and the process of getting into the art making head space. Leslie Vigeant knows how to sweat. Based in Portland, OR, she is an adjunct professor, does freelance marketing, and considers the hierarchies of social expectations in her studio practice. She received her MFA in Applied Craft + Design, Oregon College of Art and Craft / Pacific Northwest College of Art; BFA 2D Studies / Painting, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Leslie has exhibited at Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Canada; Woodbury Art Museum, UT; AIA, San Francisco, CA; Cambridge College, MA; University of Missouri, MO; 

In this episode, we talk about new work by Carnation Contemporary member M. Acuff. This exhibition of work faces the slow, invasive, inescapable violence of capitalist-driven climate change. In recent years Acuff has exhibited their work nationally in group and solo exhibitions across the country at venues such as CARNATION CONTEMPORARY, 3S Artspace, the Jundt Museum, White Box, The Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Woman Made Gallery, AIR Gallery, and the Attleboro Museum of Art. Acuff has been the recipient of an Artist Trust GAP Grant, a Mississippi Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, and has been awarded fellowships at many artist residencies throughout the United States including Signal Fire, Djerassi, The Arctic Circle, Jentel, Ragdale, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Playa and Brush Creek. In 2012 they were a resident at the VCCA’s Moulin Au Nef program in Auvillar, France. Acuff is an Associate Professor of Art at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA.

Sarah Hummel Jones hosts a conversation about ceramics, the influence of platforms such as Instagram and using your time productively in order to meld a practice around life. For more info about the artist, music or books talked about in this podcast please visit https://www.digitalexhibition.space/sarahjones Sarah works primarily with clay using hand building & press mold techniques. Working with this material allows her to create objects that are often inspired by music videos, blipster culture, television and movies. Jones received a Masters of Fine Art in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2014 and shortly after graduation, moved to Brooklyn, NY and worked as a ceramic technician & assistant. Sarah Hummel Jones has been living & working in Omaha for the past 3 years.

“Digital Scripts” with artist Hannah Newman will uncover thoughts about what it means to be a practicing artist today and talk through the value of different types of production. We will also discuss the artist's work which explores the aesthetic possibilities of social media and digital platforms as new vehicles for carrying language, metaphor, and nuance. If you want more information about mentioned songs, readings or the artist please visit this web link: https://www.digitalexhibition.space/hannahnewman Hannah Newman has shown at CICA Museum in South Korea and recently has had a solo show at Tropical Contemporary in Eugene, OR. Her work has received press from Chicago’s New City Art blog, and the Boston Globe.  Newman received a Master of Fine Arts from Oregon College of Art and Craft and a B.S in Ceramics and Fine Arts with a minor in Art History from Indiana Wesleyan University. 

“A Holistic Platform” is talked through with artist Kathryn Zazenski and will address the malleability of perception and connection through physical and digital means. We will also talk through the possibilities of a contemporary art practice, including curation, writing, and teaching. Please click on the link below for images of artwork and links to the music that was played in our podcast: https://www.digitalexhibition.space/kathrynzazenski

Zazenski has participated in international artist residencies and has exhibited her work internationally at institutions such as the San Diego Art Institute, the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, and the Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle. Zazenski received her MFA in Sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and is a two-time Fulbright Fellow to Poland, where she is co-director of Stroboskop Art Space and is the creator of The Haptic Mind. Zazenski currently lives between the US and Poland.

Join us at SCRIPT as we interview our first artist Katherine Spinella. Her work often finds the beauty of objects discarded. Both physical and digital, we will discuss the methods she utilizes in her art practice when mining for content. We will also discuss how artist's practices have shifted with the endless potential of search sources such as Google. 

Katherine Spinella is an artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. Her studio practice explores the fallacy of human dominance and mastery over the natural world, while transporting the refuse of commerce into fractures, elevated, and philosophically personified artifacts. As a habitual collector of discarded physical and digital commodities, she uses printmaking, sculpture, and digital images as a means of archiving and deconstructing commonplace objects and materials in search of their embedded ideological meaning.

Spinella has recently exhibited in Portland, OR at Littman + White Gallery, Carnation Contemporary, and One Grand Gallery and in Los Angeles, CA at Outback Arthouse. Additionally, she has exhibited at Musée de Charmey in Charmey, Switzerland and Disjecta Contemporary Art Center and Portland Art Museum in Portland, OR. Her work has recently been published in the Endless Editions 2018 Biennial Catalog Project in NYC and Peripheral Vision Journal No. 7 based in Dallas, TX. She has received grant support from the Ford Family Foundation and Oregon Arts Commission and attended residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Kala Art Institute, and Women's Studio Workshop. Spinella is an MFA graduate from the University of Oregon 2013 cohort. She is currently a faculty member at Portland State University, Oregon State University, Linn-Benton Community College and MFA Mentor at Oregon College of Art and Craft.