Concept Aware®

About Concept Aware®

Here we host interviews with artists, curators, academics and writers to discuss concept development and the creative process. If you are a photographer, mixed media artist, a visual creator of any kind you have come to the right place for shared inspiration and resources. Join our Concept Aware® community and be part of an engaging and educational global visual culture conversation.

Publisher

J. Sybylla Smith

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Apr 2020

Latest episode

28 May 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 96 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   28 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Through Our Eyes: Sheila Pree Bright, Julie Yarbrough, Nicole Craine, Ysa Lopez

   Lens-based artist Sheila Pree Bright and fellow photographers Julie Yarbrough, Nicole Craine, and Ysa Lopez explore Atlanta's diverse communities through their collaborative "Through Our Eyes" project for the FIFA World Cup.

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   11 Feb 2026

   Lillian Bassman at the Brooklyn Museum with Lizzie Himmel, Vince Aletti and Pauline Vermare

   A live podcast recording with Photographer Lizzie Himmel, Author and Art Critic Vince Aletti and Curator Pauline Vermare discussing Lillian Bassman’s process, practice and indelible influence on magazine culture, art direction and fashion photography.

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   3 Feb 2026

   Keeping Women’s Rights in the Picture: A Live Podcast Conversation with Meg Griffiths, Frances Jakubek, Jordanna Kalman and Kathya Maria Landeros

   A panel discussion on photography, representation and rights through the creative process of 4 participating artists of A Yellow Rose Project honoring the centennial of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote in the U.S.

Inside a recent episode

Through Our Eyes: Sheila Pree Bright, Julie Yarbrough, Nicole Craine, Ysa Lopez

Published 28 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And those are the things that people are known for Atlanta. Atlanta and then the civil rights movement, celebrity culture and rap. And so I wanted to do a different conversation. And so that's why I focus on sports and the fans' culture. Mm-hmm. And the World Cup, did you think that that was the time to highlight Atlanta in terms of... There's more to Atlanta than people know. And you were after that. That's what I was after. Because I went to the tailgates. I was in the stadiums. And I just wanted to show a different glimpse of Atlanta and who Atlanta is besides the other people. things that people might be familiar with with Atlanta. […]

Who has been a guest on Concept Aware®

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

• Sheila Pree Bright
• Julie Yarbrough
• Ysa Lopez
• Nicole Craine
• Maki Tomiyama

Reach and audience

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

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

25 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

13 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 44 / 100

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

Quality

67

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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