Interview
Peter Mishler
Peter Mishler is the author of Fludde (Sarabande Books), chosen by Dean Young as winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. The book was a selection for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club and was called “must-read poetry” by The Millions. Poems from Fludde have appeared at Conjunctions, Poetry Daily, Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, diode, The Literary Review, and The Winter Anthology.
Mishler is the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from Syracuse University and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. As an editor, he curates a contemporary poetry interview series for Literary Hub.
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The book mentioned in the interview are here.
Brian Alfred
Brian Alfred is an artist, musician, and curator based out of Brooklyn, and has shown his work internationally for the past seventeen years. Alfred is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, the New York Foundation of the Arts Inspiration Award, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
He is an alumnus of Yale, Skowhegan, and Penn State. His work is in the collections of institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.
Alfred is also the creator and host of the Sound & Vision podcast, which features conversations with contemporary artists and musicians.
Michelle Charles
An 8 minute mini documentary that outlines the work and archiving the work in New York and London, click here.
Information on the exhibit, ON THE PERIPHERY OF VISION, mentioned in the interview is here. It opens on June 27th at Jane Lombard Gallery.
Barbara Earl Thomas
Barbara Earl Thomas is a writer and visual artist. Drawing on her personal history between the American south and the Pacific Northwest, Thomas incorporates themes of people and their rituals with the land, foregrounding the a mythologized, metaphorical sense of place as operating between a geographical and spiritual location. Thomas’ builds tension filled narratives through abstracted papercuts and prints, placing silhouetted figures within almost mythological landscapes. Thomas’s site-specific sculptural practice expands these forms into space; her public sculptures and large-scale installations incorporate light, space and location into her dramatic landscapes and scenographies.
Thomas’ works are included in, among others, the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, Microsoft, in addition to Washington State and Seattle City public collections. She is the recipient of the City of Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award for Cultural Ambassador, the Artist Trust Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Award, and the The Stranger Genius Award for excellence in the arts. Thomas has lectured on arts and culture as well as serving as a social and cultural activist who was instrumental in the creation of the Northwest African American Museum, where she served as its executive director from 2008 to 2012. She received her BA and MFA from the University of Washington School of Art.