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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “I have no inheritance” Playwright, theater artist, and teacher Jeannine Coulombe talks about deciding to concentrate on playwriting once she became a mother. “I do find a parallel between playwriting and my father’s carpentry” She talks about being a founding member of the Workhaus Collective and how much [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “It seems weird to me now that we would think about community as something that didn’t have children in it” Colin Kloecker and Shanai Matteson of Works Progress talk about balancing their personal partnership, their artistic partnership, and their work partnership as they’ve transitioned in to parenthood. They [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “When you’re listening from a place of love rather than judgment, it really changes what you hear.” In this episode Poet, spoken word artistic, and activist Suzi Q Smith talks about poetry, competition, education, race, class, gender, and modern motherhood. “I need those things to exist in the [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Why not make pasties out of glitter-covered infant bottle nipples?” Burlesque performer and producer Gina Woods aka Gina Louise and her husband director and corporate communications expert David Mann balancing art and practicality. David talks about his work sharing communication tools and skills with Lawyers and sales people. [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Yeah, I’m a grandma, but I don’t really feel like a Grandma” Director, writer, and theater professor, and grandmother Anne Byrd talks about always feeling like she wasn’t the right age or following the right life timeline. “I feel stuck at a certain age. I still think I’m [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “We leapt because we knew we were capable of it” Sculptor, educator, and founder of the Chicago Ave Fire Arts Center Heather Doyle talks about how being raised by a single dad and how his work as a builder and his willingness to let her participate in [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “What if they don’t like the arts?” This episode features improviser Josh Awend and print-maker Robyn Stoller Awend. Josh talks about spending a lot of time as a kid at his dad’s work hiding in a closet drawing and creating and how that fostered an interesting in doing [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “I really did not want to become someone who’s hopes and dreams were subsumed by their child” Michelle Hensley, co-founder and artistic director of Ten Thousand Things theater company, talks about her early work writing stories in second grade and reading them to the class. She talks about [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “For me it is easier to deal with the world when I’m trying to make art about it” Photographer Carrie Thompson about how having a mother who is a painter made her move from painting to photography a subtle act of rebellion. “Having a child is insane” Carrie [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “The times that we learn most are when we make mistakes” Improviser, actor, photographer, and arts educator Seniz Lennes talks about the complexity of growing up in a family that supported artistic work but strongly encouraged having a practical job and making creative work a hobby. Seniz talks [...]
