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Conversations with artists about how becoming a parent transforms their life and work. From loss to creative reinvention, their stories reveal the complex and unique transformation career artists go through in parenthood. Hosted by Jess Wainer, RISD alumni, glass artist and lighting designer, turned solo parent and late-night storyteller.
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George Sawyer is the lead fine woodworker and creator of Windsor Chairs at Sawyer Made, a family business started by his father in rural Vermont. George describes the evolution of his business and how both the studio and their natural surroundings enrich their children's lives. George explores how long commutes to school and out of town work commit…
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Mark Slee is a polymath with a successful career in software engineering, music, and sculpture. Now based in the UK, Mark describes juggling his many interests and talents with the constraints and joys of parenting. In this candid conversation, we look at the time and energetic demands of both creative and academic work, and how they relate to life…
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Chris Keating is a free spirited, devoted father to a 10 year old daughter. He paints an honest picture of the messiness and beauty of parenthood and describes how his shifting priorities ostensibly lead to him ending his career as a performing artist/musician in the band, Yeasayer. He currently lives in Los Angeles, CA where he spends his time par…
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Jim Drain is a widely collected American Artist who has received numerous prestigious awards and has exhibited extensively across the United States and abroad. In this conversation, he describes the arc of his career from showing in Chelsea galleries and museums, to teaching as a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design to his current life as…
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Bohyun Yoon is an imaginative, playful and brilliant glass artist based in Richmond, VA. His thought provoking work with glass employs its essential qualities to explore the human body and experience with a sense delight and wonder. Bohyun is an associate professor of glass in the Craft/Material Studies department at Virginia Commonwealth Universit…
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Noah Breuer is a Professor of Print Media for University at Buffalo SUNY. His formal training in printmaking has served as the foundation of his current sculptural work that utilizes glass and textiles to explore the Jewish diaspora through his personal family history. Noah talks about maximizing his time and efforts as an exhibiting fine artist wh…
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Ivan Lee Mora is a self-taught, independent artist based out of Los Angeles, CA. His concept-driven work leads to an ever-evolving process and use of materials including glass, clay, wood, and metal. The passion and heart Ivan puts into his work is apparent in his attitude about parenthood. The newest parent in the series, Ivan's son was just a few…
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Jeremy Mayer is an extraordinary sculptor whose primary medium is typewriter parts. He meticulously sorts and assembles these parts using purely mechanical joints to make human figures, animals, mandalas and more. He shares about his deep love of fatherhood, and the creative mentorship his daughter received being in the studio with him over the yea…
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Olivia Chen is an illustrator, painter and art educator in the Bay Area. She shares her long path back to her own art making practice as she raises her two children. In this conversation we examine how studios function as symbolic and literal foundations for one's art-making practice. Olivia started and runs Liv & Chiu art studio, a youth art educa…
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Shana Siegel is a scenic artist for film, TV and theater in New York City, and an illustrator. She shares how the physicality of her work, paired with the logistics of her field created a unique experience for her as a parent artist. In this conversation she dives into the creative strategies she's employed to make it all work.…
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Kitty Clark is a documentary photographer based out of the UK. She explores intimate and vulnerable aspects of motherhood through her lens. In this candid conversation she opens up about her own experience from pregnancy into parenthood. Her words, and the images she creates, embody a similar quality of humility and heartfelt storytelling.…
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Kelly Rathbone Rebo is an extraordinarily talented ceramic sculptor and painter. As a mother of three, she shares her fascinating life story that weaves together different chapters of her art career with phases of parenthood. An adaptive global traveler, she presents a view of being an artist parent that includes travel, adventure and dynamic creat…
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Liz Maher is a painter, sculptor and improvisational quilter. In addition to being an accomplished artist she works as an Art Therapist. In this conversation we dive into the challenges of time management, work family balance, and the struggle to find enough time and emotional space to dive deeply into creative work. Always inspiring, Liz shares ab…
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Meryl Pataky is a renowned mixed media sculptor who focuses on neon and is based in the Bay Area. In this conversation we discuss how becoming a parent has infused the subject matter, process and materials she uses. Meryl's work encapsulates the complexity of motherhood through exploring themes of time, labor, and physical transformation.…
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