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Stipan wkcr mfa podcastOct 16, 2020

Sergio Miguel
Sergio Miguel (Mexicali, 1992) is a Mexican-born artist based in New York. Informed by colonial and modern Mexican art as well as the New Objectivity, his work explores ideas of personhood, symbolism, and sexuality. After completing studies in Art History and Criticism in San Diego and Paris, he lived in Santiago, Chile where he began painting. He is currently an MFA candidate at Columbia University.

Tomas Vu
www.tomasvu.com

Cary Hulbert and Nathan Catlin
www.caryhulbert.com
Nathan Catlin (b.1984) is an artist and educator who works primarily in printmaking, painting, and ceramics. Catlin received his BFA from SFAI and his MFA from Columbia University. He was born and raised in Southern California and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
instagram.com/natcatwhisperer?igshid=1twe6b76acnp5

Mirko Ilić
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirko_Ili%C4%87
Mirko Ilić was born in Bosnia.
In Europe, he drew comics, illustrations, and art-directed posters, books, and record covers. When he arrived in the U.S. he became the art director of Time Magazine International Edition. Later he became art director of the Op-Ed pages of the New York Times. In 1995 he established his firm Mirko Ilić Corp. His company designs for a wide range of clients, from pro bono organizations to the high luxury hospitality clients.
For his work he received numerous awards and is in collections of institutions such as Smithsonian Museum and MoMA, New York.
Mirko is the co-author of several books with Steve Heller, including Genius Moves: 100 Icons of Graphic Design, Handwritten, The Anatomy of Design, Stop Think Go Do, Lettering Large, and Presenting Shakespeare. With Milton Glaser he co-wrote The Design of Dissent.
He also organizes and curates shows and lectures around the world.
Mirko teaches masters degree illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
The studio is especially known for its strong visual concepts.

Carles García O'Dowd and Taarika John
Carles García O'Dowd (G.O'D.) Palma, 1988; is a visual artist, activist and Illustrator based in New York. Has studied Fine arts in Barcelona, Hamburg and Guadalajara, Mexico and has exhibited and given conferences in over 15 countries around the world. Heavily influenced by pop culture, cyberpunk, politics and cartoons; he developed his identity in the underground European art scene. Carles uses drawing as a language to expand upon, always in the search of new ways to engage with society in a positive and meaningful way. He is currently pursuing the MFA "Illustration as a Visual Essay" in School of Visual Arts with a Fulbright scholarship.
Taarika Ravi John (1992, Kochi, India) makes drawings and narrative-driven work. With a focus on storytelling, her work is influenced by daily life and local culture. Finding elements of interest in the ordinary, she attempts to make work that documents the every day. She is a compulsive people-watcher, Seinfeld enthusiast and lover of filter coffee. Taarika John currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Mónica Félix and Rosana Cabán
Mónica Félix (b. 1984) is an interdisciplinary visual artist, professional photographer, and yoga instructor born and raised in Puerto Rico. Based in Brooklyn since 2010, she has a BA in Communications from the University of Puerto Rico, a Photography Certificate from Pratt Institute, and is currently finishing her MFA in Visual Arts at Columbia University. She moved to New York City to pursue a career as a visual artist and a professional photographer. In 2013 she was the recipient of the Lexus Grant for Artist at the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Puerto Rico, New York, California, and Spain. Her work is a personal account on the representation of the migratory experience of one female body; the fantastically compromised corners of this traveled life. The devices for this identity study are photography, video, installation, writing, and performance.
http://www.monicafelix.com/
Rosana Cabán is a Puerto Rican born, Brooklyn based artist. She uses sound, sculpture and performance as mediums to address problematic binaries of masculine and feminine, "good" and "evil", and technology vs humanity. She has performed in over 80 rock venues across the US and Canada as a touring musician and. She was an invited collaborator for Xandra Ibarra during her 2020 Montalvo Arts Center fellowship, a Marble House Project artist in residency in 2018, and an Ace Hotel AIR in 2017.
https://www.rosanacaban.com/

Keli Safia Maksud
Keli Safia Maksud (b. 1985) is a Kenyan-Tanzanian-Canadian-Muslim-Christian visual artist and writer based in New York. Concerned with the histories of the colonial encounter and its effects on memory, Maksud’s interdisciplinary practice uses multiple voices to work towards destabilizing received histories and manufactured identities.
Maksud earned her BFA in Painting from the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto, a Diploma in Art and Curatorial Studies at the New Centre for Research and Practice and is currently an MFA candidate at Columbia University. Her work has shown in a range of venues including the Bamako Biennial (Mali), National Museum of Contemporary Art - Seoul (South Korea), Galería Nueva (Spain) and the Biennial of Contemporary Art Sesc_Videobrasil (Brazil).

Jon Kessler

Katie Miller
******Forever in a Prison of Glitter******
Katie a.k.a. Kathryn Ann Miller
-Born and raised in the "Sunny South" (Knoxville, Tennessee, 1988)
-Studied Anthropology at University of Tennessee (2013)
-Studied Painting, Drawing and Ceramics at University of Tennessee (2017)
-Website: katiemiller.art
-IG: glitter_prison
Hidden talents: can eat fire, tricks with hula hoop (also on fire), can juggle, has walked on fire, left-handed.
-Now lives in Harlem and has a studio in Ridgewood

MARK DION AND DANA SHERWOOD

ERIN HOLLAND
Erin Holland is a filmmaker, artist and writer. Originally from Texas, now based in New York, she bridges the disparate viewpoints of these regions with narratives told through performance, video and social media. Her practice weaves service, empathy and emulation into deeply personal works, most recently seen in the Instagram series Mother Daughter, about the hardship and richness of long-term caregiving. Holland formerly worked as an art director and producer for The Museum of Modern Art, participating in performances written by such artists as John Cage and Jérôme Bel, while engaging in community projects led by Creative Time and Public Art Fund. She will receive her MFA in Moving Image from Columbia University in 2021.

JEFFREY MERIS AND BAT-AMI RIVLIN
Jeffrey Meris is an artist born in Haiti in 1991 and raised in the Bahamas. Meris earned an A.A in Arts and Crafts from the College of The Bahamas, a B.F.A in Sculpture from Temple University, and an M.F.A in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2019. Meris is a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 2019 alumnus, and a 2020 NXTHVN Studio Fellow.
Bat-Ami Rivlin is a New York-based artist. Rivlin utilizes found and surplus objects to create installation and sculptural works that explore conceptual spaces between object ontology, material function, and bodily characteristics. Rivlin received her BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 2016 and her MFA in Sculpture from Columbia University in 2019. She was an artist in residence at NARS Foundation, Arts Letters and Numbers Residency, and SVA Sculpture and New Media Residency. She is currently an Artist Fellow at A.I.R. Gallery for the 2020-2021 year. She teaches sculpture at Columbia University's Teachers College.

CARA LYNCH
Cara Lynch makes installations that center on the psychological and sensory experience of the viewer, incorporating objects, prints, sound, video, and motion. Using her own memories or emotions as points of departure, Lynch explores intermingling states of longing, disappointment, fear, anxiety, relaxation, and bliss in relationship to contemporary life and the limitations of the American dream. Concerns surrounding agency, animism, and wish-fulfillment are fundamental to the work. Recent exhibitions include shows with Steve Turner in LA, Urbanglass in Brooklyn, and IPCNY in Manhattan.

GREGORY AMENOFF
Interview with Columbia School of the Arts professor Gregory Amenoff recorded for WKCR FM New York and broadcasted on Sunday, June 28th, 2020
http://www.gregoryamenoff.com/
Gregory Amenoff (born 1948) is an American painter. He is located in the tradition of the early American Modernist painters Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Burchfield, Milton Avery, Arthur Dove and Marsden Hartley. In the early 80s, his work was often associated with a style of painting called organic abstraction and exhibited alongside artists Bill Jensen, Katherine Porter and Terry Winters.

KIYOMI TAYLOR
Interview with Columbia MFA student Kiyomi Taylor recorded for WKCR FM New York and broadcasted on Sunday, June 14th, 2020
http://www.kiyomitaylor.com/
Kiyomi Quinn Taylor (b.1995) is a multimedia artist born and raised in South Orange, New Jersey. Taylor received her BFA from New York University in 2017 and will receive her MFA from Columbia University in 2021. Her work examines her family’s narrative history as well as the iconography of her mixed-race heritage - Black and Japanese. Taylor uses collage and mixed media (painting, drawing, installation, stop-motion animation, performance, and sculpture) to consider ancestral memory and her own inner, emotional life. She currently lives in Harlem. Since vacating her studio at Columbia, she has been working out of her parents’ house in West Orange, New Jersey.

BARIS GOKTURK
Interview with Columbia MFA student Baris Gokturk recorded for WKCR FM New York and broadcasted on Sunday, June 7th, 2020
Baris Gokturk is a Turkish artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently an MFA candidate in sculpture at Columbia University. He currently teaches studio art at Pace University and runs an art program for Johns Hopkins University’s neurology department. Baris recently completed a mural for Columbia University’s Butler Library. He also was the ApexArt fellow in Korea, the artist-in-resident at YADDO and LMCC, as well as participating in SOMA Mexico and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.
http://www.barisgokturk.com/

RONI AVIV AND DIANA PALERMO
Interview with Columbia MFA students Roni Aviv and Diana Palermo recorded for WKCR FM New York and broadcasted on Sunday, June 1st, 2020
Roni Aviv is a lens-based artist, born in Tel Aviv and based in New York. Her work is a visual and psychological inquiry into unaddressed experiences that are inherent in the domestic everyday.
Her work has been published and exhibited internationally, most recently at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, and Steve Turner, Los Angeles.
https://www.roniaviv.com/
Diana Palermo is an American born artist living in NYC. They got their BFA in fibers/textiles from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and also received a Masters in Fine Arts Education from Kean University in New Jersey. In 2019, they decided to pursue their MFA in photography from Columbia. Their work continues to probe concepts related to power, intuition, gender, and psychosexual experience through various processes in various mediums.
http://www.dianapalermo.com/

NOGA COHEN AND DENISSE GRISELDA
Interview with Columbia MFA students Noga Cohen and Denisse Griselda recorded for WKCR FM New York and broadcasted on Sunday, May 24th, 2020
Noga Cohen was born in 1994 in Israel. She moved to New York to participate in the MFA visual arts program at Columbia University. She works in photography, video, sculpture and installation. She is interested in the human body and in the ways it is perceived and represented in our current time.
Denisse Griselda Reyes (she/her/they) is an animator, performance artist, and filmmaker working in New York, NY. Currently, she is completing her Visual Arts MFA in New Genres at Columbia University. Straddling the lines of assimilation, refuge, and self-preservation, Denisse Griselda's current work interrogates the boundaries of representation by publicly engaging with memory.
http://denissegriselda.com/

SUSANNA COFFEY AND STEVEN HARVEY
Interview with Columbia MFA full-time professor Susanna Coffey and her gallerist Steven Harvey recorded for WKCR FM New York and broadcasted on Sunday, May 18th, 2020
Susanna Coffey
https://www.susannacoffey.com/
Steven Harvey
http://shfap.com/

PRISCILLA JEONG
Interview with Columbia MFA students Priscilla Jeong recorded for WKCR FM New York and broadcasted on Sunday, May 5th, 2020
Priscilla Jeong (b. 1990 college station, tx) is a Korean-American artist based in new york, NY. She is an MFA candidate at Columbia University in Sculpture.
Jeong’s works are informed by the ephemerality of materials and its vulnerability in stasis and sensitivity in time. From anthropological sets to laboratories, she explores the nuanced ways that nature, human emotions, technology, ephemerality, organics, and synthetics intersect and mutate one another.
Her recent film ‘Tofu Messias’ is to be released in September 2020.
http://www.priscillajeong.com/

IVANA CARMAN AND SUSAN CHEN
Interview with Columbia MFA students Ivana Carman and Susan Chen recorded for WKCR FM New York and broadcasted on Sunday, May 5th, 2020.
IVANA CARMAN
http://ivanacarman.com/
SUSAN CHEN
https://susanmbchen.com/

MEREDITH PENCE WILSON
Interview with Columbia MFA student Meredith Pence Wilson, recorded for WKCR FM New York and broadcasted on Sunday, April 26th, 2020
MEREDITH PENCE WILSON
Meredith was born and raised in mid-Missouri. She got her BFA in Illustration from Pratt institute in 2014, and after that moved to St. Louis where she lived and worked for two years before coming to Columbia. She lives in Chinatown, but at the moment is back home in Missouri, working in her late grandma's cabin.

JAMES MERCER AND YIFAN JIANG
A podcast with James Mercer and Yifan Jiang, two Columbia MFA Visual Arts students. This was broadcasted on WKCR FM NY, 9 pm, April 19th, 2020
JAMES MERCER
http://jamesmercer.net/
YIFAN JIANG
https://www.yfjiang.com/about