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Interview: Katherine Moller (FAA AIR): musician: “Working Through Music”

Art is a way to express yourself, your world and your heart. My guest is Katherine Moller, a local musician who’s specialty is the violin — or the fiddle, depending on the piece. She spent her time in the residency combing through and refining musical compositions relating back to a reflective trip in France. Podcast:

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Interview: Faith MacFarlane (FAA AIR): lampshade artist: “Shady Spaces”

You know the old expression, “hang a lampshade on it”? Sometimes, that’s exactly what is needed. My guest today is Faith MacFarlane, who spent her time in residence at the Barracks building functional art in the form of complicated, sophisticated lampshades. This art challenges her to combine fabric, sculpting, and light to make an impact,

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Interview: Jacqueline Carr (FAA AIR): mixed media: “What We Carry”

Art can celebrate, but it can also challenge, inspire and offer change. My guest is Jacqueline Carr, a mixed-media artist who sought to challenge assumptions and invite the public to share their stories of how language and action has been used to oppress, do harm and box in women. In return, she offers them each

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Interview: Marla Lesage (FAA AIR): poetry: “Playing With Words”

Words are magical containers for thoughts, both shaping and being shaped by them. My guest today is Marla Lesage, who spent her time in the FAA artist residency rediscovering of writing poetry, rather than the illustrated children’s books she had usually been writing. She had fun inspiring others to “pick a word” to create their

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Interview: Hayley Monroe (FAA AIR): printmaker: “Creation Through Destruction”

Artists often have to develop their mental eyes to transform their vision into process; sometimes, it also means thinking backwards, and in reverse. My guest is Hayle Monroe, a printmaker and painter who was engaged in a new process (for her) of “reductive linocut printmaking”, where as each layer of the print is created, it

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