Women As/In Art

07/10/2024

Episode 25 is live! It's WAIA Wednesday again, and this week BOTH of our interviewers sit down for an interview with the whipsmart and generous Alexandra Goldman , managing director of Barro New York.

Leah Schrager Emerald Gruin

06/05/2024

Episode 24 sees photographer, sculptor, and painter Melissa Coote muse over the "alchemy of light" in a fascinating palaver with our very own Emerald Gruin.

Hear the episode at http://womenasinart.com, Spotify, or Apple Music.

Leah Schrager Emerald Gruin

05/29/2024

In our 23rd episode, Emerald sits down with artist, explorer, refiner, Jasmine Mansbridge, whose work provokes thought and wonder, and gives the viewer the chance to apply their personal storytelling as they unpack the geometry and portals of Mansbridge’s imagined world. Jasmine’s exhibition POETRY BURIED IN GEOMETRY is now open at Michael Reid Northern Beaches in Australia.

Hear the episode at womenasinart.com, Spotify, or Apple Music.

Leah Schrager Emerald Gruin

05/22/2024

Jiayin Chen sits down with me this WAIA Wednesday to discuss the brave new world in which we find ourselves, with cutting-edge and forward-thinking insights into NFTs, Web3, and the blockchain. Join us for a stimulating conversation about the art of tomorrow.

Leah Schrager Emerald Gruin

05/15/2024

It's WAIA Wednesday, folx, and this week I'm stoked to just listen as my fellow interviewer Emerald Gruin sits down with Scosha Woolridge. The Scosha aesthetic is a colorful, creative combustion of Art meets Artifact... join her and Emerald for a fascinating convo about the raw and the refined.



Leah Schrager

05/08/2024

Surprise! More Season 1!

In Episode 20, Kurt McVey takes us on an insightful journey through the search for fresh art amidst staid institutions. He also asks Leah Schrager some wonderfully poignant questions about pregnancy and the transition into motherhood as an artist.

Look for some of the artists he mentions in our conversation – Junyu Liu, Alex and Allison Grey, and Jennifer Elster – as well as events he’s involved with coming up at Ma’s House on the Shinnecock Reservation & Little Beach Harvest in July.

11/15/2023

It's WAIA Wednesday and the SEASON FINALE of our first season of the Women As/In Art podcast. We're ending with a really thought-provoking one, as Olivia Miller, arts scholar and director of University of Arizona Museum of Art engages with us on big questions like artist’s intention versus the ever-changing meaning of the work itself... join in the conversation, and stay tuned for Season 2!

This WAIA Wednesday, the inspiring and incredibly thoughtful curator Olivia Miller discusses de Kooning’s ‘slashed’ women, opportunities and challenges of working in a smaller city, the inspirational significance of women-led art organizations, the contextual power of a museum, the return to c...

11/08/2023

https://womenasinart.com/podcast/episode-18-emma-shapiro/

This week on WAIA Wednesday we sit down with Emma Shapiro - - for a fantastic and wide-ranging conversation on inspiration, censorship, and liberation. Join us!

This week artist-activist Emma Shapiro talks with us about the exhausting liberation of being an art model, art censorship in social media, the belated recognition of women artists, the “original sin” of linking nudity with s*x, and finding inspiration in a Walmart. Emma Shapiro is an American a...

11/01/2023

The phenomenal Andréa Stanislav sits down with us in Episode 17 to discuss, among many other topics, the artist's responsibility in the face of genocide. We're LIVE now, so join us!

This week we dig in with Andréa Stanislav, covering the inspirational cross-fertilization of narrative film and fine art, the erotic yet imperial power of horses, the artist’s role in the face of genocide, avoiding and accepting identity, and the axiom of ‘practice practice practice.’ Andréa...

10/25/2023

The brilliant Dr. Alexandra Schwartz considers craft art, feminism re-evaluated, and more in Episode 16 of the Women As/In Art podcast, LIVE NOW!

This week, the brilliant Alexandra Schwartz considers pay equity in arts institutions, craft traditions’ roles in art history, the re-evaluation of feminism post-Hillary Clinton, cultural determinism in fashion, the parallels between podcasting and curation, and if a selfie can ever be considered ...

10/18/2023

Episode 15 of the Women As/In Art podcast is LIVE! This week's artist is the ineffable OONA; join us for an exciting conversation...

Ona meets OONA, as Leah gets to know the anonymous artist’s ideas on the value of female artists, applying the tenets of cryptocurrency to fine art, wallet washing, manipulating social value, faceless performance art, CCTV’s complicity in the male gaze, misgendering, and the innocence (or not) o...

10/11/2023

It's WAIA Wednesday and we are LIVE with Ep 14 of the Women As/In Art podcast and a sparkling, fascinating chat with the tremendous Margaret Murphy !

Margaret Murphy breaks down hyperfemininity as rebellion, the surprisingly in-person community around NFTs, existing as both surveyor and surveyed, the capitalism inherent in face filters, narcissism versus self-observation, dressing for other women, and the algorithm that gazes right into your soul...