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Art Against Empire

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by Ian Danger Capstick

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Art Against Empire examines the intersection of creativity and politics through conversations with artists, craftspeople, and activists who use making as a form of resistance. Hosted by recovering political pundit and textile artist Ian Danger Capstick, each episode dives into the radical history of craft traditions, profiles contemporary makers disrupting systems, and shares practical projects that merge beauty with dissent. From textile workers' strikes to guerrilla street art, from Indigenous craft sovereignty to anti-capitalist maker spaces...we explore how human creativity has always been a tool for liberation. Art Against Empire is produced and edited by Shawn Dearn, and is a production of Secret Agents.

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May 8, 2026

Sports & Queer Spirits Featuring Maria Molteni

A queer artist in Boston crochets basketball nets and paints whole courts like quilts. This is what happens next. Maria Molteni makes hand-crocheted basketball nets and paints full-size basketball courts at the kind of scale you can only see from a drone. Their courts have won a National Public Art Award. Their collective, NCAA (New Craft Artists in Action), has collaborators around the world. They sell the pattern book by donation and give it away free to anyone who can't pay. Maria is also a Shaker scholar. Their family farm in Tennessee sat thirty minutes from South Union Shaker Village in Kentucky, and their grandparents were competitive square dancers doing moves that weren't far from the Shakers' own formal shape dancing. Basketball, Shakers, Keith Haring, yarn bombing, and the tension between practical and visionary. Featuring throughline voices from AJ Young and Zak Foster. Art Against Empire is hosted by Ian Danger Capstick, co-created and edited by Shawn Dearn, and is a production of Secret Agents. New episodes every two weeks. Visit <a href= "https://artagainstempire.net/">artagainstempire.net</a> for show notes, images and much more. Produced by <a href= "https://secretagents.ca/">Secret Agents</a>.

April 24, 2026

Looms and Algorithms (1946-Present)

This is Part 3 of 3 of our documentary. The Freedom Quilting Bee, where sixty Black women in Alabama built a cooperative while fighting for the right to vote. The AIDS Memorial Quilt, forty-four thousand panels on the National Mall. Gilbert Baker's rainbow flag. Palestinian tatreez. Rana Plaza, where the locked door was the same locked door from the Triangle fire a century earlier. And then the turn: Potemkin AI, the Cricut Revolt, farmers jailbreaking their own tractors, and what happens when the Empire stops coming for the fabric and starts coming for the software. Featuring Cleve Jones, Grace Rother, Sara Trail, Shug Munich, Gavin Mueller, Jathan Sadowski, Kim Werker, Carrie Reichardt, Kimmie Dearest, Stephen Towns, Paul Yore, and Catherine West. Art Against Empire is co-created and edited by Shawn Dearn and is a production of Secret Agents. Visit ArtAgainstEmpire.net for photos, episode notes, and resources.

April 11, 2026

Cleave Jones: Creator of the AIDS Memorial Quilt

A Queer Legends × Art Against Empire crossover. Ian Danger Capstick sits down with Cleve Jones, the activist who conceived the AIDS Memorial Quilt on a cold November night in 1985 with a stack of posterboard and Harvey Milk's old bullhorn, given to Cleve after Harvey was assassinated. The two talk about the afternoon Cleve first walked into Castro Camera, the morning Gilbert Baker raised the first rainbow flag, the grandmothers who could not find the words, and Seven Days in June, the mobilization Cleve is building to mark forty-five years of HIV and AIDS. Close to an hour, close to uncut, and one of the most important conversations either show has had this year.

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What is Art Against Empire?: Art Against Empire examines the intersection of creativity and politics through conversations with artists, craftspeople, and activists who use making as a form of resistance.

Hosted by recovering political pundit and textile artist Ian Danger Capstick, each episode dives into the radical history of craft traditions, profiles contemporary makers disrupting systems, and shares practical projects that merge beauty with dissent.

From textile workers' strikes to guerrilla street art, from Indigenous craft sovereignty to anti-capitalist maker spaces...we explore how human creativity has always been a tool for liberation.

Art Against Empire is produced and edited by Shawn Dearn, and is a production of Secret Agents.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.

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