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WORKS IN PROGRESS is a podcast produced by the ArtLab at Harvard University. In this podcast, we speak with the contemporary visual and performing artists working at ArtLab. The ArtLab is helping create the conditions for the Arts to flourish at Harvard, and this podcast brings these artists and their ideas to you. Season 1: Spring, 2022Hosted by Bree Edwards, ArtLab Director, with Kristian Hardy, a student at Harvard College Ep 1: Jordan Weber, artist and John Peterson, Curator of Loeb Fell ...
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This is a podcast for purpose driven creatives trying to bring change to the world through their works of art. Every week, our host, Celine Nyanchama talks to creatives from different fields such as Art, Music, Film & Photography, Food and culinary arts so as to bring to you actionable strategies on how to grow as a creative.
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In this final episode of season two of Works in Progress, movement-based researchers Ilya Vidrin and Jessi Stegall join ArtLab Director Bree Edwards to discuss their dance-based collaborations at the ArtLab. Both are dancers and educators with graduate degrees from Harvard specializing in neuroscience and ethics. Ilya and Jessi make the invisible v…
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In this episode, Lakota music artist, public speaker, and educator Frank Waln joins ArtLab director Bree Edwards to explore the medicinal power of music in constructing futures from the rubble of colonial violence. Drawing on his formative relationship with music, Frank traces the lineage of hip-hop back to experiences of colonial displacement face…
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The music in the introduction and conclusion of this episode comes from the concert on April 30, 2024, at Harvard University, led by artist and composer Samora Pinderhughes and The Healing Project. It includes Dani Murcia, Nia Drummond, and Jebreal Jackson on vocals, Elliott Skinner on guitar and vocals, and Joshua Crumbly on bass. The performance …
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In this episode, designer, urbanist, and curator Joseph Zeal-Henry joins ArtLab director Bree Edwards to discuss equity and politics in the built environment. We sat down with Joseph to explore his year-long residency as the Loeb Fellow at ArtLab, where he sought to bridge public service and art in pursuit of new cultural architectures. In collabor…
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Season 1 - Episode 5 Alan Burroughs Collection with Jennifer Roberts and Matt Saunders
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Matt Saunders, Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies; Jennifer Roberts, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, and American and Contemporary Art and; Kristian Hardy & Erik Zou, Harvard Undergraduate Fellows, Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program (SHARP). Diving into “artistic research,” we discuss what it means to Harvard pr…
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Season 1 - Episode 4 Ayodele Casel and Torya Beard
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Talking about Tap, today we are joined in the studio by Ayodele Casel, award winning tap dancer, actor, and choreographer of the current Broadway revival of “Funny Girl” and her collaborator and partner, the Director, Torya Beard. Ayodele and Torya were first at the ArtLab in 2019 and have been advisors to its development since then. They return to…
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Season 1 - Episode 3 Claire Chase and Li Harris
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Join us in the studio with MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and Harvard Music Professor, flutist Claire Chase and her collaborator Lisa (Li) E. Harris. Professor Chase commissioned Li to create a musical composition that would be co-written and performed by Harvard freshman students in the fall of 2021 and 2022. The score entitled, A Black Woman Told Me, …
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One of the first artists in residence at the ArtLab, Dr. Merritt Moore combines two unique passions in her career: physics and ballet. Merritt graduated with a degree in physics from Harvard and went on to earn her PhD in Atomic and Laser Physics from the University of Oxford. She has been named to the “Forbes 30 Under 30” and is featured in "Goodn…
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Season 1 - Episode 1 Jordan Weber with John Peterson
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Artist Jordan Weber joins us in the ArtLab studio to discuss race, identity, design of the built environment and art-making in historically white spaces. Employing slick black obsidian stone and chrome rims, Weber’s sculpture Perennial Philosophies was recently installed outside the ArtLab. For the artist, it evokes a dark “sea we must wade,'' a li…
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Art is a journey, but very rarely do we get to witness the creative evolution. Imagine the conversations that could be explored if we truly understood the artistic process and appreciated the research and experimentation that each artwork entailed? Works in Progress, a production of the ArtLab at Harvard University, is taking on this challenge. Sta…
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This is the second Episode of the ArtLab Radio. In this episode, our host, Celine Nyanchama, talks to ArtLab Founder and Creative Director; Wallace Mecha about why creatives need to pay attention to the little details that are often ignored. Find ArtLab on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artlabke/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com…
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This is the first episode of the ArtLab Radio. In this episode, our host, Celine Nyanchama, talks to the Founder and Creative Director of ArtLab Media, Wallace Mecha about why ArtLab was formed and the vision we have. Find ArtLab on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artlabke/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKL-pZptgQ-rRb…
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This is a podcast for purpose driven creatives trying to bring change to the world through their works of art.Every week, we talk to creatives from different fields such as Art, Music, Film & Photography, Food and culinary arts so as to bring to you actionable strategies on how to grow as a creative.…
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