WORKS IN PROGRESS is a podcast produced by the ArtLab at Harvard University. In this podcast, we speak with the contemporary visual and performing artists working at ArtLab. The ArtLab is helping create the conditions for the Arts to flourish at Harvard, and this podcast brings these artists and their ideas to you.
Season 3 - Ep. 8 Jacek Smolicki on Soundwalks: 2026 Loeb/ArtLab Fellow
In this episode of “Works in Progress,” ArtLab director Bree Edwards speaks with Loeb/ ArtLab fellow Jacek Smolicki, a cross-disciplinary artist and researcher exploring the multivalent qualities of sound. A cofounder of the Walking Festival of Sound, Jacek has brought together transdisciplinary artists to guide participants through the reflective practice of walking through shared environments. Jacek has published and performed internationally, creating projects that reckon with the fr...
3 Feb 2026
Season 3 - Ep. 7 Pontus Lidberg, artist-in-residence with Harvard Medical School’s Media, Medicine, and Health
In this episode of “Works in Progress,” ArtLab director Bree Edwards sits down with Pontus Lidberg, an award-winning Swedish choreographer, filmmaker, and dancer. A recipient of the Guggenheim fellowship in 2019, Pontus’ works grapple with the power of touch as it relates to interpersonal connections and communication. He has choreographed for a wealth of dance companies including but not limited to the Paris Opera Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, New York City Ballet, and Beijing Dance T...
27 Jan 2026
Season 3 - Ep. 6 Shana F. griffin, 2025 Loeb/ArtLab Fellow
In this episode, we catch up with last year’s Loeb/ArtLab Fellow (2025) Shana M. griffin—artist, activist, sociologist, and geographer from New Orleans. Grounded in Black feminist theory, griffin reflects on a year of making new work in the ArtLab studios and reimagining spatial politics at the GSD. While research grounds Shana’s work, she strives to represent perspectives historically left out of the archive. Projects like SOIL go beyond traditional archival materials to instead document so...
25 Nov 2025
Season 3 - Ep. 5 Jessie Cox: Sound as a new way of thinking
Season 3, Episode 5 with Jessie Cox, composer, percussionist, scholar, and Assistant Professor in the Harvard Department of Music. Jessie Cox has performed and created with ensembles including the Sun Ra Arkestra, LA Phil, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, and the International Contemporary Ensemble. In this episode, Jessie and ArtLab director Bree Edwards dive into his course Music, Technology, and Ecology and the instrument-making workshops held at ArtLab. Together, they explore how sound...
18 Nov 2025
Season 3 - Ep. 4 Dayron J. Miles - The power of theater to bring communities together
Visible through the windows of the ArtLab, the construction site for the American Repertory Theater’s new Goel Center for Creativity and Performance bustles with activity. This new home for the A.R.T. promises to accommodate public gatherings and community activities alongside the typical slate of theatrical works, weaving itself into a thriving arts community in Allston. In Season 3, episode 4 of “Works in Progress,” ArtLab director Bree Edwards speaks with Dayron J. Miles, Associate A...
11 Nov 2025
Season 3 - Ep. 3 Louisa Penfold - ArtLab as third teacher
Works in Progress Season 3 Ep 3– Episode: Every Child is an Artist with Dr. Louisa Penfold In this episode of Works in Progress, ArtLab Director Bree Edwards talks with Dr. Louisa Penfold, Faculty Co-Chair of Arts and Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and faculty resident at the ArtLab during 2022 and 2025. Dr. Penfold is the project director of Project Zero’s Art/Play, an NEA-funded study exploring how modern and contemporary art practices can be integrated into public sch...
4 Nov 2025
Season 3 - Ep 2: How did the ArtLab come to be? - Robin Kelsey and Lori Gross
Season 3, Episode 2: Building the ArtLab In this episode, we speak with Robin Kelsey, Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography in the Department of History of Art & Architecture and the former Dean of Arts and Humanities, and Lori E. Gross, Associate Provost for the Arts, about the history and making of the Harvard ArtLab. Robin and Lori share insights into the building’s development and design, reflecting on the balance between the needs of faculty, students, and visiting artists ...
28 Oct 2025
Season 3 - Ep 1: Special Highlights - Ria Cuéllar-Koh, SHARP Fellow
In this very special episode of “Works in Progress,” we’re revisiting some highlights from the podcast. As part of the Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program, research fellow Ria Cuéllar-Koh curated and narrated this episode. With clips from all three seasons of “Works in Progress,” Episode 1 explains how the ArtLab came to be and what opportunities it affords to artistic researchers. We cover the different forms artistic research can take and how the ArtLab enriches the fabric of a camp...
10 Feb 2025
Episode 4 Jessi Stegall and Ilya Vidrin
In this final episode of season two of Works in Progress, movement-based researchers Ilya Vidrin and Jessi Stegall join ArtLab Director Bree Edwards to discuss their dance-based collaborations at the ArtLab. Both are dancers and educators with graduate degrees from Harvard specializing in neuroscience and ethics. Ilya and Jessi make the invisible visible through their studies of the ethics of physical interaction. During their residency at ArtLab, Ilya and Jessi utilized movement and ...
12 Dec 2024
Episode 3 Frank Waln
Lakota music artist Frank Waln joins Bree Edwards to explore the medicinal power of music in constructing futures from colonial violence and celebrating indigeneity through storytelling.
20 Nov 2024
Episode 2 Samora Pinderhughes
Samora Pinderhughes discusses his Healing Project, a musical performance that harnesses the power of music to heal and uplift communities, showcasing the transformative impact of art on social justice.
8 Sept 2024
Season 2 - Episode 1 Joseph Zeal-Henry
Works in Progress is recorded and produced in ArtLab’s Mead Production Lab, located on the traditional territory of the Massachusetts people, the original inhabitants of what is now known as Boston and Cambridge. The show is hosted by Bree Edwards, produced by Kat Nakaji, and edited by Luke Damrosch. Theme music by Kicktracks.For more information about the show, the ArtLab, and the artists featured, visit artlab.harvard.edu. You can also follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching @ArtLa...
11 Apr 2022
Season 1 - Episode 5 Alan Burroughs Collection with Jennifer Roberts and Matt Saunders
Matt Saunders, Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies; Jennifer Roberts, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, and American and Contemporary Art and; Kristian Hardy & Erik Zou, Harvard Undergraduate Fellows, Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program (SHARP).Diving into “artistic research,” we discuss what it means to Harvard professors and students. In today’s case study, we catch a glimpse into how artists and scholars engage with a specific set of images in the Alan ...
23 Mar 2022
Season 1 - Episode 4 Ayodele Casel and Torya Beard
Talking about Tap, today we are joined in the studio by Ayodele Casel, award winning tap dancer, actor, and choreographer of the current Broadway revival of “Funny Girl” and her collaborator and partner, the Director, Torya Beard. Ayodele and Torya were first at the ArtLab in 2019 and have been advisors to its development since then. They return to Harvard for the premiere of their newest performance, 'Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic' at the American Repertory Theater. Leaders of the Arts both o...
8 Mar 2022
Season 1 - Episode 3 Claire Chase and Li Harris
Join us in the studio with MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and Harvard Music Professor, flutist Claire Chase and her collaborator Lisa (Li) E. Harris. Professor Chase commissioned Li to create a musical composition that would be co-written and performed by Harvard freshman students in the fall of 2021 and 2022. The score entitled, A Black Woman Told Me, And I Believe Her: A Movement Still Moving, was performed this morning at the ArtLab. Claire and Li are working in experimental composition t...
11 Feb 2022
Season 1 - Episode 2 Merritt Moore
One of the first artists in residence at the ArtLab, Dr. Merritt Moore combines two unique passions in her career: physics and ballet. Merritt graduated with a degree in physics from Harvard and went on to earn her PhD in Atomic and Laser Physics from the University of Oxford. She has been named to the “Forbes 30 Under 30” and is featured in "Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls," alongside Ada Lovelace and Oprah Winfrey. While in residence at the ArtLab, Merritt experimented to design, choreogr...
28 Jan 2022
Season 1 - Episode 1 Jordan Weber with John Peterson
Artist Jordan Weber joins us in the ArtLab studio to discuss race, identity, design of the built environment and art-making in historically white spaces. Employing slick black obsidian stone and chrome rims, Weber’s sculpture Perennial Philosophies was recently installed outside the ArtLab. For the artist, it evokes a dark “sea we must wade,'' a line from poet Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem “The Hill We Climb.” A section of Gorman’s poem is included in this sculpture as a memorial to the soci...
20 Jan 2022
Works in Progress Coming Soon!
Art is a journey, but very rarely do we get to witness the creative evolution. Imagine the conversations that could be explored if we truly understood the artistic process and appreciated the research and experimentation that each artwork entailed? Works in Progress, a production of the ArtLab at Harvard University, is taking on this challenge. Start listening to Works in Progress in early 2022 wherever you listen to your podcasts. WORKS IN PROGRESS is a podcast produced by the ArtLab at...
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