About WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
WORK IN PROGRESS: CONVERSATIONS WITH CREATORS is a monthly arts podcast with Albuquerque Journal writer Logan Royce Beitmen. Logan talks to visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, and others about their current projects, getting inside the minds of creators and exploring their creative processes.
B.C. Smith is the creator of “Phasmagorica,” an immersive séance experience in Santa Fe. He is also a stage magician and an acclaimed film composer, who has created original scores for Chris Eyre’s “Smoke Signals” and horror master Tobe Hooper’s final film, “Djinn,” among other projects. Logan, who recently experienced “Phasmagorica,” talks to B.C. about that experience, which was less theatrical and more real than expected. B.C. also discusses his experiments in paramusicology and how sound can influence human consciousness.
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7 Oct 2026
Director and choreographer MATT WEST
Matt West directed and choreographed the new version of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” the musical, having choreographed the original version in 1994. On today’s show, he talks about what it was like to reimagine the musical three decades later, making it lighter, brighter and even more spectacular.
“Beauty and the Beast” opens at Albuquerque’s Popejoy Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 14, and runs through Oct. 18.
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1 Oct 2026
Fashion Designer JONTAY KAHM
Santa Fe-based designer Jontay Kahm (Plains Cree) is a rising star in the world of high fashion. A 2023 Vogue Magazine feature compared him favorably to Alexander McQueen, and in 2024 he was named Best Emerging Fashion Designer of the Year at Toronto’s Creative Arts and Fashion Awards.
Jontay spoke with Logan from The Jule Museum at Auburn University, which is hosting the first solo museum exhibition of his work, “Jontay Kahm: Personified Existence.” The exhibition runs through Dec. 6.
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