A new show about art and culture in South Central Indiana from the producers of Inner States, Earth Eats, and Journey Indiana
16 Jul 2025
Dad Took the Cake (Recipe)
Family recipes may be beloved within the family, but they don’t usually rise to the level where people ask for them outside the family. And when they do, sometimes the family is protective of the recipe. They feel it’s so much a part of their identity, they can’t give it away.
I grew up with a chocolate cake recipe that my dad made for most special occasions. It was beloved within the family, and when other people tasted it, they wanted it to be beloved in their family too. It’s become a standard cake in a lot households connected to mine. But the recipe’s origins have been murky. So I went home and, while my dad baked another edition of the cake, I got the recipe – and pinned Dad down on where it came from.
14 May 2025
Action + Agency: 3 Live Interviews
A couple months ago, I got invited to help put on an experiment in collective art-making. I was working with two smart, creative thinkers here on the IU campus. Carmel Curtis is the interim director of the IU Moving Image Archive – she initiated the project. And Linda Tien is the director of the Grunwald Gallery at the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture, and Design. We invited people to the Grunwald to make film strips without cameras—which is to say, we had strips of blank film that they could draw on. While they were making their art, I interviewed three people—Amy Oelsner, Stephanie Littell, and Ileana Haberman—about times in their lives when they resisted the status quo. These weren’t big, public shows of resistance, but changes in their own lives. After the conversations and the film-drawing, Carmel and her team of film archivists spliced the film together and we all watched the abstract film everyone had made. In today’s episode, I’m sharing the interviews. If you want to see the film, you can watch it here (https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_objects/s7527b51t).
And I have an announcement: Here at WFIU, we are hard at work on a new project that will keep up the longform conversations with artists and thinkers that you love on Inner States. But will also do more reporting on what’s going on in the arts here in Southern Indiana. That means this podcast feed’s going to go quiet for a while. But don’t unsubscribe! We’ll announce the new project here in a few months. And I’m hoping to get at least one more Inner States episode out to you in the meantime.
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5.0 / 5
13 ratings
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5.0 / 5
8 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100
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YouTube
86
Engagement
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