Art People

About Art People

We Are Art People is an interdependent conversation series — exploring possibilities for making and being in dialogue with the world, as a creative person. Bringing together diverse narratives and complex perspectives, our commitment is to facilitate a space of autonomy and resiliency for the artists’ voice. A goal is these process-driven conversations will bolster community and provide an open-resource for other creative people, navigating their journey and in relationship with the world. Located in Brooklyn, New York — we are engaging in a dialogue through a radio broadcast, publishing and site-specific projects — our conversation series is facilitated by New York-based artist, Emily Nam. Say hello 👋 @weareartpeople (www.instagram.com/weareartpeople) Sign up to our newsletter www.weareartpeople.com (www.weareartpeople.com) Support 💸 https://donate.stripe.com/6oE5mZa0KbDJa4g144 (https://donate.stripe.com/6oE5mZa0KbDJa4g144) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Emily Nam

Category

arts · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Sept 2024

Latest episode

7 Jul 2025

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Jul 2025

   We Are Art People in conversation with Musa Guston Mayer

   Musa Guston Mayer is a writer, curator, breast cancer advocate and President of The Guston Foundation, living in Woodstock, NY. She is the daughter of the formidable painter, Philip Guston (1913-1980) and her Mother is, painter and poet Musa McKim Guston (1908-1992). Since his passing in 1980, alongside a team of committed champions of Guston’s work, Musa has been involved in shaping her Father’s legacy, who is recognized today as a Modern Master. Not bad, sonny. Pas mal While pursing an MFA in writing at Columbia University, Musa published her first title — an intimate memoir, Night Studio (1988) — grounded in a personal account of being the daughter of Philip Guston. Musa’s process of writing as a way of self discovery and to deepen her understanding of who her father was, evokes an awareness of the fragility and beauty of life, through what feels to be a natural inclination for storytelling. Originally trained as a mental health counselor, Musa authored several books reflecting her journey and diagnosis with breast cancer; Examining Myself: One Woman's Story of Breast Cancer Treatment (1994) Recovery, Advanced Breast Cancer: A Guide to Living with Metastatic Disease (1998) and After Breast Cancer: Answers to the Questions You're Afraid to Ask(2003). She has curated exhibitions, and published amongst others, the award winning catalogue ‘Philip Guston: Nixon Drawings, 1971 & 1975’. Night Studio remains in print after 37 years. We discuss the fragility and nature of living closely to an inner life, storytelling as an act towards activism and social-political commentary, and the value of Musa’s promised gift of 220 ‘Not.For.Sale’ paintings to The Metropolitan Museum of Art (https://www.metmuseum.org/press-releases/philip-guston-gift-2022-news), for scholarship and in support of her Father's legacy. The Guston Foundation continues to further a dialogue with Philip Guston, to a wider public. Upcoming projects include an audiobook of Night Studio, narrated by Musa Guston Mayer (2027) and publishing the Journals of Musa McKim Guston, A Life with P. (2026). Links: @the_guston_foundation (https://www.instagram.com/the_guston_foundation) www.philipguston.org (www.philipguston.org) https://www.youtube.com/@TheGustonFoundation (https://www.youtube.com/@TheGustonFoundation) Show notes: Restoration of "The Struggle Against Terrorism (https://youtu.be/wIeSMuW2XMQ?si=GKDNAKtFt4Xcih5o)", by Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish, Morelia, MX. Musée Picasso (https://www.museepicassoparis.fr/) — Philip Guston: The Irony of History [opens October 14 2025] Arensberg Collection (https://philamuseum.org/collection/curated/arensberg) Scottsboro Boys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_Boys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_Boys) Ira Progoff "Intensive Journal Method" Giorgio de Chirico, The Gladiators' School: the Combat [1928] Follow @weareartpeople (https://open.acast.com/networks/66e56cbf2dcefcfc931573ef/shows/66e56dd0f49774e5d3ad0cfa/episodes/www.instagram.com/weareartpeople) YouTube/weareartpeopletv www.weareartpeople.com (https://open.acast.com/networks/66e56cbf2dcefcfc931573ef/shows/66e56dd0f49774e5d3ad0cfa/episodes/www.weareartpeople.com) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

2. 

   23 Jun 2025

   We Are Art People in conversation with Pascale Gatzen

   Pascale Gatzen is not someone who you can bind with words. She moves freely across and within spaces of education, pattern making, commoning and compassionate communication. She continues to seek opportunities for and to shape the conditions under which people learn together. In the '90s, Pascale was a member of a group of fashion designers known as Le Cri Néerlandais (“The Dutch Cry”) including Saskia van Drimmelen, Viktor Horsting, Rolf Snoeren et al. — and the first Dutch designers to present their collections in Paris. Her garments have been included in early editions of Purple Magazine (https://purple.fr/), photographed by Mark Borthwick and presented in spaces of cross-disciplinary dialogue. Alongside a practice of making garments, Pascale’s place in education, aligned on making and situating fashion as an expression of being — has included developing an alternative fashion program at the Parsons School of Design in New York City and she previously led the Fashion Design Master’s program at ArtEZ, Netherlands. Our conversation dances between generative projects Pascale has contributed to; including The Linen Project, a collective endeavor to reintroduce small-scale local flax cultivation to the Netherlands, and a clothing workshop Pascale facilitated with guards at Art Tower Mito, in Japan. Interspersed, with the acknowledgment of and observing feelings and needs, reflective of Marshall Rosenberg’s teachings of Non-Violent Communication (NVC). Pascale has recognized this practice to be a vital design for human communication, an opportunity to meet each other with empathy and authentic connection. Pascale makes and wears her clothing. Links: The Linen Project https://thelinenproject.online/ (https://thelinenproject.online/) Friends of Light https://www.friendsoflight.net/ (https://www.friendsoflight.net/) Art Tower Mito, Japan https://mitoguards.blogspot.com/ (https://mitoguards.blogspot.com/) Show notes: "If ‘commoning’ has any meaning, it must be the production of ourselves as a common subject." - Silvia Federici Intentional communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community) Gana Community, Statan Island https://geo.coop/articles/40-years-community (https://geo.coop/articles/40-years-community) NYCNVC https://www.nycnvc.org/thom-bond (https://www.nycnvc.org/thom-bond) Hannah Arendt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt) Eric Fromm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Fromm (about:blank) Pema Chödrön; Comfort Zones youtube.com/watch?v=MH2vfdhGiTM (youtube.com/watch?v=MH2vfdhGiTM) Follow @weareartpeople (https://open.acast.com/networks/66e56cbf2dcefcfc931573ef/shows/66e56dd0f49774e5d3ad0cfa/episodes/www.instagram.com/weareartpeople) YouTube/weareartpeopletv www.weareartpeople.com (https://open.acast.com/networks/66e56cbf2dcefcfc931573ef/shows/66e56dd0f49774e5d3ad0cfa/episodes/www.weareartpeople.com) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   9 Jun 2025

   We Are Art People in conversation with LARAAJI

   LARAAJI is an interdimensional artist, musician and playful laughter therapist— living in Harlem, New York City. LARAAJI is a seven letter word, including three upward facing triangles (A) and the hieroglyphic RA, in reference to the ancient Egyptian deity of the sun. Born into the physical world as Edward Larry Gordon in Philadelphia (1943), LARAAJI has embarked on a journey of the soul, a vision quest of remembering and discovering. Engaging in music, playing the violin during his school years, his connection to the string instrument has been a life long bond which led him to the autoharp, which he exchanged for his guitar at a pawn shop in New York City, this was in 1969. After studying Piano and composition at Howard University and a brief moment navigating stand-up comedy in the 1970s, LARAAJI began to explore the complexities of sound and in alignment with his mystical discoveries, he has become a pioneer and composer of ambient and new age sounds. We discuss the role of mentors that have appeared along his path. This has included; Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati (https://www.anandaashram.org/Founder), founder of the Ananda Ashram, New York, organizers of The Tree of Life, a metaphysical bookstore in Harlem, who blessed LARAAJI with an unofficial naming ceremony during a meeting at Bethseda Fountain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethesda_Terrace_and_Fountain), in Central Park and Brian Eno, their connection at Washington Square Park evolved into the creation of Ambient 3: Day of Radiance (1980), which Brian Eno (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno) produced. LARAAJI's ambient and extrasensory music is both a celebration of community and a space for communication with the non-dimensional world. We discuss the notion of bouncing between dimensions, and the presence of holding space while co-creating in the physical plane. In a form similar to a yogic shavasana, LARAAJI creates an sonic environment that invites the body to unlock the abstract self, to enter into unexplored states of rest, allowing space to move and connect with greater ease and peace within our self, interconnected as one with the cosmos. LARAAJI's musical and spiritual voice, is a tool of service, to support the growth and evolution of humanity. He continues to celebrate his connection and evocation of the sun’s loving presence and his adoration for orange clothing. Links: https://laraajimusic.bandcamp.com/ @laraaji_official Show Notes: Shavasana ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavasana)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavasana Ohso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh Tree of Life https://www.nytimes.com/1976/01/24/archives/a-parking-lot-is-to-replace-the-tree-of-life-in-harlem.html 440HZ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A440_(pitch_standard) Zither / Autoharp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoharp Pentatonic Scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale The Orange Book: The Meditation Techniques of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Follow @weareartpeople (https://open.acast.com/networks/66e56cbf2dcefcfc931573ef/shows/66e56dd0f49774e5d3ad0cfa/episodes/www.instagram.com/weareartpeople) www.weareartpeople.com (https://open.acast.com/networks/66e56cbf2dcefcfc931573ef/shows/66e56dd0f49774e5d3ad0cfa/episodes/www.weareartpeople.com) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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