Fiber artist Lehuauakea on identity, displacement, and environmental dysfunction through a contemporary Indigenous lens.

S5E2: In This Cloth with Lehuauakea

Choreographer Colleen Loverde on integrity, voice, and expression in movement.

S5E3: For Nourishment with Colleen Loverde

Playwright Karen Polinsky on devising multilingual theater.

S5E7: What it Becomes with Karen Polinsky

Director Rusty Tennant on queer canon, building a career as an artist, and the resilience of indie theater.

S5E10: The New Stories with Rusty Tennant

Vocalist Saeeda Wright on finding the gift of song in Northeast Portland, Oregon.

S5E11: Queen Energy with Saeeda Wright

Rapper and poet Mic Crenshaw on creating social change through music.

S5E12: For Artists to Thrive with Mic Crenshaw

Artist Alexandra Loves Lewis on storytelling from Africa and her diaspora.

S5E14: Our Healing with Alexandra Loves Lewis

Performance artist Mami Takahashi on sculptural explorations of being Asian and a woman living outside her home country while working towards US citizenship.

S5E15: Seeing You/Seeing Me with Mami Takahashi

Multidisciplinary creative David Shirkhani on creating Black & Gifted, his art collective exploring mental health.

S6E1: By Any Means﻿ with David Shirkhani

Musician Ashleigh Flynn on creating a band of female musicians over 40 paying a musical homage to “Rosie the Riveter,” whose brand inspired a social movement putting women to work in America.

S6E2: Grateful Cry with Ashleigh Flynn

Filmmaker Miriam Gossing on making art with her BFF, showing queer work at international film festivals and exhibitions, and making a feature-length movie about mermaids.

S6E8: Into Another Being with Miriam Gossing

Curator Stephanie Chefas on bringing local, national, and international artists to Portland.

S6E9: Navigating with Stephanie Chefas

Rapper Libretto on getting his first record deal with BSI Records, his journey in hip hop, and making art after incarceration.

S6E10: In the Realm of the Ancestors with Libretto

Singer Alonzo Chadwick on finding peace through music, his work with the Grammy-nominated Oregon Symphony, and managing BRAVO Youth Orchestras, a nonprofit that teaches children to play classical music with free violin, string, and choral classes.

S6E11: Destiny with Alonzo Chadwick

Photographer Ricardo Nagaoka on his process and 2022 solo show in Portland, Oregon.

S6E12: At Last, I See You with Ricardo Nagaoka

Gospel music director Derrick McDuffey on ministering and teaching in Portland, Oregon.

S6E13: The Chosen Generation with Derrick McDuffey

Musician Stephen Nance on creating poetic piano pop inspired by birds and winning an artist grant from Regional Arts and Culture Council.

S6E14: A Metropolis in Eden with Stephan Nance

Multidisciplinary artist Vaughn Kimmons on celebrating Blackness and the sacred through music, digital collage, video, and visual art.

S6E15: I Always Dreamt with Vaughn Kimmons

Drummer Mel Brown on art, life, and legacy in Portland, Oregon.

S7E1: Stay Ready with Mel Brown

Musician, labor organizer, and Oregon state legislator Rob Nosse on Portland, politics, and what we need to thrive. 

S7E2: Work Ethic with Rob Nosse

Artist Portia Munson helps us imagine the end of plastic.

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S1E1: Imagining the End of Plastic with Portia Munson

Urban studies professor Vivek Shandas discusses China's bold plan to develop nineteen massive supercities.

S1E5: Supercities with Vivek Shandas

Ceramicist and scholar of international migration policy Jacqueline Gow discusses citizenship, the American dream, and her practice with clay.

S1E10: A Place to Go with Jacqueline Gow

Musician and mathematician Vivian Tylinska discusses her Russian futurist-inspired transcendental black metal project, Victory Over the Sun.

S1E11: Victory Over the Sun with Vivian Tylinska

Mixed reality digital collage artist Laura Camila Medina on uprooting and migration.

S1E12: Memory Palace with Laura Camila Medina

Musician and creative coder Helen Spencer Wallace on memory, vulnerability, resilience, healing, and how she made her interactive sculpture, the Brain Shrine.

S2E1: Brain Shrine with Helen Spencer Wallace

Artist and musician Emily Wells on art and the future.

S2E2: To Live More Closely with Emily Wells

Painter and video maker Samantha Nye explores aging bodies, celebrates queer kinship, and facilitates an intergenerational dialogue between queer women and their mothers and grandmothers.

S2E3: A New Opulence with Samantha Nye

Artist and curator Sarah Turner on her work in video, immersive installations, and electronic arts.

S2E8: Glitch Witchticism with Sarah Turner

S2E9: How to Respond with Renée Muzquiz

Photographer Kaelyn Rose on creative process and making portraits of queer + trans + non binary people.

S2E10: Lifting with Kaelyn Rose

Sociologist, stylist, and producer Emily Darling on coordinating large group art projects and the future of collaboration.

S2E13: Keep Getting Mesmerized with Emily Darling

Photographer Kayla Brock on travel, race, portraiture, and using her photojournalism skills to cover the Black Lives Matter movement.

S3E1: To See All Those People with Kayla Brock

Poet Nastashia Minto on being a queer, Black, socially-responsive poet, writer, musician, student, and teacher.

S3E3: What Wakes You Up with Nastashia Minto

Painter, teacher, and creative mentor Annamieka Davidson on getting started with a professional art career, making botanical paintings, and finding new avenues for social support for artists.

S4E2: Layer by Layer with Annamieka Davidson

Professor Matt Schumacher on moving play into process, how to manage a tenuous artist collective during an economic crisis, the importance of creating art during crisis, and how poetry can support the community during challenging times.

S4E1: The Cannon Will Be Made with Matt Schumacher

Designer, printer, and educator John Akira Harrold on responding to what interests you, finding a political home while grappling with wokeness, and developing personal politics as an artist.

S4E9: How To Talk About It with John Akira Harrold

Sponsored by Regional Arts and Culture Council, Future Prairie Radio is a podcast examining the future of art, design, and culture through the eyes of marginalized artists. We go beyond AI, robotics, and new currencies to learn about process and art making across media. We're using art practice as a lens to investigate the humanist and ethical values that intersect with contemporary life and technology.

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