The Shakeup is a new podcast about bus driving in Seattle/King County, hosted, edited, and produced by two Metro Drivers, Kelsen Caldwell and Ross Kirshenbaum. As bus drivers traversing our city in the midst of a global pandemic and late stage capitalism, our podcast will share stories from fellow operators, bus passengers, mechanics, and bus […]
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Jasmine Iona Brown and Paul Jackson Ph.D. are married creatives. Jasmine earned her BFA from Howard University and MA from UCLA. She is a public artist, specializing in photo murals and sculpture, and arts administrator. She also started her own art academy teaching youth how to make digital art and electronic music. Paul earned his […]
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Sharece Anissa Phillips is a Seattle-based designer and interdisciplinary artist whose inspiration comes from the dissection of narrative art and the interconnection of creativity and emotional wellness. Works including jewelry and other modes of wearable sculptures, djing, collage, and podcast/oral history- offering a meditation on identity, duality, and the relativity of perception. Phillips is a […]
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Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist who innovates with artificial intelligence in ways that make a positive impact on our community and the environment. She is a Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts, at the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida. She is the inventor of Honor Native […]
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Erin Slomski-Pritz is an audio artist, producer, and journalist based in Seattle. Her work blends journalism, sound design, and narrative. She draws inspiration from fiction that moves us towards complexity, poetry that ventures into the unsayable, and the bridge over Ravenna Park, which is a profound place of wonder. Her work has appeared on numerous […]
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Jessica Gigot is a poet, farmer, and writing coach. She lives on a little sheep farm in the Skagit Valley. Her second book of poems, Feeding Hour (Wandering Aengus Press, 2020) was a finalist for the 2021 Washington State Book Award. Jessica’s writing and reviews appear in several publications, such as Orion, The New York Times, The Seattle […]
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Gavin Reub is the Artistic Director of The Seagull Project, which is a Gregory Award-winning company with an ensemble of 26 actors. Also, he has helped develop more than 20 local plays as the Director of Creative Development for The Umbrella Project, which exists to develop and advocate for diverse new theatrical work by demonstrating […]
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Jesikah Maria Ross is an award winning media artist who works with schools, non-governmental organizations and social action groups to create participatory media projects that generate civic engagement and community change. She is the founding director of the UC Davis Art of Regional Change, which brings scholars, students and artists together with community members to […]
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Danny Barksdale was raised in the Appalachian Mountain foothills in the northeast corner of Alabama. After a rigorous 18-year-training in Sunday School at a small Southern Baptist church, he left home and earned a B.A. in literature from the University of Montevallo, which is located at the geographic center of Alabama. Subsequently, he left Alabama […]
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Dmae Roberts is a two-time Peabody award-winning writer and independent media and theatre artist who has written and produced more than 400 audio art pieces and documentaries for NPR and PRI programs. Her Peabody award-winning documentary “Mei Mei, a Daughter’s Song” is a harrowing account of her mother’s childhood in Taiwan during WWII. Her Crossing […]
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Here you’ll find past podcasts from our Soundpages, Artist of the Week and Writers Programs. |
