What are your assumptions about creativity? 

"Processing..." will question, explode, subvert, and, in some cases, confirm what you think you already know about creativity (and the University of Pittsburgh community). 

Through one-on-one conversation, our podcast explores the individual experience with creativity, with a focus on its processes rather than its products.  Join us for inspiration, community, and a connection to your own creative process.

In this episode: Taylor Waits (https://www.taylorwaits.com) on creating across disciplines, social activism, and making in the time of coronavirus. 

Music by Pachyderm (https://soundcloud.com/pachydermband)

C4C | processing.... Episode 101: Taylor Waits

What are your assumptions about creativity?

"Processing..." will question, explode, subvert, and, in some cases, confirm what you think you already know about creativity (and the University of Pittsburgh community).

Through one-on-one conversation, our podcast explores the individual experience with creativity, with a focus on its processes rather than its products. Join us for inspiration, community, and a connection to your own creative process.

In this episode: Will Entrekin (http://willentrekin.com) on the power of storytelling, technology and the democratization of publishing, and the universality of creativity.

Music by Pachyderm (@pachydermband)

C4C | processing... Episode 102: Will Entrekin

What are your assumptions about creativity?

"Processing..." will question, explode, subvert, and, in some cases, confirm what you think you already know about creativity (and the University of Pittsburgh community).

Through one-on-one conversation, our podcast explores the individual experience with creativity, with a focus on its processes rather than its products. Join us for inspiration, community, and a connection to your own creative process.

In this episode: Adam Nie (https://www.instagram.com/minimungo.etc/) on collaboration, connection, and using the whole buffalo.

Music by Pachyderm (@pachydermband)

Additional music: "Comfortable Mystery 2 " by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

C4C | processing... Episode 103: Adam Nie

What are your assumptions about creativity?

"Processing..." will question, explode, subvert, and, in some cases, confirm what you think you already know about creativity (and the University of Pittsburgh community).

Through one-on-one conversation, our podcast explores the individual experience with creativity, with a focus on its processes rather than its products. Join us for inspiration, community, and a connection to your own creative process.

In this episode: Jeff Oaks (www.jeffoaks.wordpress.com/) on .the importance of exploration, channeling curiosity and anxiety, and thwarting mortality through creative making. 

Music by Pachyderm (@pachydermband)

Additional music: Walt Yang and the University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

C4C | processing... Episode 104: Jeff Oaks

What are your assumptions about creativity?

"Processing..." will question, explode, subvert, and, in some cases, confirm what you think you already know about creativity (and the University of Pittsburgh community).

Through one-on-one conversation, our podcast explores the individual experience with creativity, with a focus on its processes rather than its products. Join us for inspiration, community, and a connection to your own creative process.

In this episode: Ana Rodriguez Castillo (https://www.instagram.com/tirana_banderas) on the intersection of scientific and artistic processes, the importance of curiosity, and the risks of barbequing your materials.

Music by Pachyderm (@pachydermband)

Additional music: The Dark Glow of the Mountains by Chris Zabriskie (http://chriszabriskie.com) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)

C4C | processing... Episode 105: Ana Rodriguez Castillo

What are your assumptions about creativity?

"Processing..." will question, explode, subvert, and, in some cases, confirm what you think you already know about creativity (and the University of Pittsburgh community).

Through one-on-one conversation, our podcast explores the individual experience with creativity, with a focus on its processes rather than its products. Join us for inspiration, community, and a connection to your own creative process.

In this episode: Frank March(www.instagram.com/thearthouse33) on discovering style through experimentation, finding delight in unconventional materials, and his room of misfit paintings.

Music by Pachyderm (@pachydermband)

Additional music: With a Stamp by Twin Musicom(http://www.twinmusicom.org) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Additional music by Unicorn Heads and Letter Box.

C4C | processing... Episode 106: Frank March

What are your assumptions about creativity?

"Processing..." will question, explode, subvert, and, in some cases, confirm what you think you already know about creativity (and the University of Pittsburgh community).

Through one-on-one conversation, our podcast explores the individual experience with creativity, with a focus on its processes rather than its products. Join us for inspiration, community, and a connection to your own creative process.

In this episode: Babs Carryer (www.newventurist.com) on storytelling, the connection between creativity and innovation, how acting led her into entrepreneurship, and the significance of a blue baby carriage.

Music by Pachyderm (@pachydermband)

Additional music: Chris Zabriskie, E's Jammy Jams, and Aaron Kenny.

C4C | processing... Episode 107: Babs Carryer

Most of us instinctively react to feelings of anger, fear, confusion, and sadness by retreating. We often prefer consumption to creation during difficult times: rereading favorite books, or binging a whole season of television in an afternoon, or doomscrolling on our phones. We’re not built to handle uncertainty, and our impulse is to escape into the familiar.

But creativity calls us to take risks, to dare failure, to face the immense and potentially overwhelming possibilities of a blank page or canvas or computer screen, an empty stage, a bare plot of earth. It’s often uncomfortable at the best of times. And these, to state the obvious, are not those.

How do creative makers work through periods of intense political and personal uncertainty? Can outrage and anxiety power creativity, or do they inevitably work against it? How can we learn to practice creativity, a generative and fundamentally optimistic act, in times that all too often seem to reflect back to us the most fearful versions of our neighbors and ourselves?

In this season of Processing, we’ll engage with these questions by talking with Pitt creators who persist.

Music by Blue Dot Sessions from their albums RadioPink, Little Rock, and TinyTiny Trio.

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