Visual journalist and author Sarah Mirk on representing marginalized voices as a method of writing future historic records.

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S4E4: Everyday Feelings with Sarah Mirk

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

Collage artist Laura Weiler on visual composition, working with texture, line, color, form, and placement, image sourcing, and developing a narrative for an art piece.

S4E5: All the Million Things with Laura Weiler

Writer and doodler Kate Zipse on her two full-length illustrated children’s books: "Squishing the Squash" and "Lighting the Garden".

S4E6: Moment by Moment with Kate Zipse

Artist and activist Michael Bui on self-expression, social practice as art, and living a free and creative life.

S4E7: Beautiful but Chaotic with Michael Bui

Photographer Ebenezer Galluzzo on gender identity and photography as a way to claim and redefine the lens through which he sees the world and the world sees him.

S4E8: Away from Language with Ebenezer Galluzzo

Freelance illustrator and muralist Damon Smyth on making work that makes your family proud, staying engaged with the community, and creating and facilitating difficult conversations through art. Please note this episode contains racial slurs, racialized violence, and a discussion of violent crime.

S4E10: How Long Everything's Been Going On with Damon Smith

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

Medical student, retired football player, and augmented reality artist Steven Christian on making Black stories available to children of all ages, reading skill and comprehension level, making time for everything you love, and getting big dreams to come true.

S4E3: What Speaks to Me with Steven Christian

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

Visual artist and musician Daren Todd on unearthing buried Black history, expressing through art, and letting go of expectations through the creative process.

S4E15: That's Art Larger Than Me with Daren Todd

Trans poet, curator, and artist An Duplan on accessibility in art, Afrofuturism, and driving social change through community building in the arts.

S4E13: Year of Unity with An Duplan

Artist and entrepreneur Marceau Michel on self-discovery, the process to liberate oneself from outmoded ways of thinking, and raising ten million dollars for Black Founders Matter, a venture fund for black entrepreneurs.

S4E12: Art Starts With Feeling with Marceau Michel

Future Prairie Radio is a podcast that examines the future of art, design, and culture through the eyes of marginalized artists. We go beyond AI, robotics, and new currencies to investigate the humanist and ethical values that intersect with contemporary life and technology.

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