Art · The Creative Process: Artists, Curators, Museum Directors Talk Art, Life & Creativity

About Art · The Creative Process: Artists, Curators, Museum Directors Talk Art, Life & Creativity

Art episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to artists, curators, museum directors about their work & how they made their creative careers. To listen to arts episodes across a variety of disciplines, follow our main podcast: “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”. You’ll find us on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists & creative thinkers across the Arts & STEM. We discuss their life, work & artistic practice. Winners of Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Pulitzer, leaders & public figures share real experiences & offer valuable insights. Notable guests and participating museums include: Laurent Le Bon (Centre Pompidou, Fmr. Musée Picasso), Dwandalyn Reece (Smithsonian Nat’l Museum of African American History & Culture), Chris Dercon (Grand Palais · Fmr. TATE Modern), Mechtild Rössler (UNESCO World Heritage Centre), Dimitrios Pandermalis (Acropolis Museum), Marilyn Minter, Ian Wardropper (The Frick Collection), Hans-Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Galleries), Mark Seliger, Paul Chaat Smith (Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian), Susan Fisher Sterling (National Museum of Women in the Arts, Ioannis Trohopoulos (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center), Richard Flood (New Museum), John Marciari (Morgan Library & Museum), Jacques Villeglé, Nicole Fleetwood, Sébastien Gokalp (Musée national de l'histoire de l’immigration, Fondation Louis-Vuitton), Ralph Gibson, Jennifer Flay (FIAC), Bénédicte Alliot (Cité Internationale des Arts), Mojeb Al Zahrani (Institut du Monde Arabe), Valerie Steele (Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology), Eric Fischl, Alicia Longwell (Parrish Art Museum), George Manginis (Benaki Museum), Elissa Auther (Museum of Arts and Design), Christina Mossaides Strassfield (Guild Hall of East Hampton), among others. The interviews are hosted by founder and creative educator Mia Funk with the participation of students, universities, and collaborators from around the world. These conversations are also part of our traveling exhibition.
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Publisher

Artists, Curators, Museum Directors Talk Art & Creativity · Creative Process Original Series

Category

arts · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Dec 2018

Latest episode

4 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

3 of 217 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   4 Aug 2026

   Transforming Public Art & Spaces w/ LINCOLN CENTER’S SHANTA THAKE

   As the Chief Artistic Officer at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Shanta Thake is breaking down barriers—both literal and figurative—to create a more inclusive cultural landscape. From transforming New York’s grandest plazas into welcoming dance floors to grappling with the complex history of San Juan Hill, she views the arts as an essential civic infrastructure. In this episode, we explore her journey from a theater intern to leading one of the world's most prestigious arts institutions, the intersection of technology and human creation, and why gathering together remains our most vital technology for the future.

2. 

   3 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Building Bridges Between Art, Memory, Nature & Architecture w/ SALWA & SELMA MIKOU

   Founders Salwa and Selma Mikou discuss building living architectural ecosystems that weave local narratives and historical traces into their designs in this interview.

3. 

   13 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Game Over: Metrics, Big Data & Why We Need to Stop Keeping Score w/ C. THI NGUYEN - Highlights

   On this episode of The Creative Process, philosopher C. Thi Nguyen joins us to discuss his new book, The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game. He unpacks the profound concept of "value capture"—the moment we stop caring about the rich, subtle experiences of life and start obsessing over simplified, external metrics like grades, likes, and screen time . Beyond the trap of quantification, C. Thi Nguyen explores the liberating power of games and art. We discuss how true play requires us to step lightly between different rule sets, the difference between art and craft, and how reclaiming our creative process might just be the ultimate meaning of life .

Inside a recent episode

Building Bridges Between Art, Memory, Nature & Architecture w/ SALWA & SELMA MIKOU

Published 3 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Each site is singular. Each site has its own truth. And we love going deeper and deeper to reveal what are the traces, what are here, how kind of local narratives we could find. For example, we worked in the département de Saint-Saint-Denis And we had the site along the railways. But still, we were not that far from the cathedral, Saint-Denis, with all these vitro, amazing colors, amazing history. And we noticed that this street was like a very famous street, because it was the street that the old king, they took to go to the cathedral. So then, when you make some research about the site, we can find... lots of things about geology but history topography symbolic and all these traces for us are very amazing and layers that we try to bring into the project and we try to interact them with the program with the space and so that to be able to build like a kind of very rooted building in a way Part of the ecosystem. […]

Who has been a guest on Art · The Creative Process: Artists, Curators, Museum Directors Talk Art, Life & Creativity

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Salwa Mikou
• Selma Mikou
• Doug Woodham
• Maxim Derevianko
• Ai Weiwei

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

58 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

307 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

73

Social presence

94

YouTube

0

Engagement

67

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