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Healing Totems, 2014, pulped newspaper, Disney World park maps, various literary classics, and various religious texts This week on the show I speak with multi-media artist Orlando Estrada. Orlando creates installations, sculptures, and performances inspired by  his years living in Florida, his background in queer theory, and experiences he had growing up in a family of spiritual mediums...

Healing Totems, 2014, pulped newspaper, Disney World park maps, various literary classics, and various religious texts This week on the show I speak with multi-media artist Orlando Estrada. Orlando creates installations, sculptures, and performances inspired by  his years living in Florida, his background in queer theory, and experiences he had growing up in a family of spiritual mediums...

Stephen Fan is a designer and adjunct assistant professor in the Art History and Architectural Studies department at Connecticut College. His latest project is a traveling exhibition and book called Sub-Urbanisms: Casino Urbanization, Chinatowns and the Contested American Landscape. The project studies the ways that immigrant Chinese casino workers in Connecticut have converted single family homes into multi-family communities...

Stephen Fan is a designer and adjunct assistant professor in the Art History and Architectural Studies department at Connecticut College. His latest project is a traveling exhibition and book called Sub-Urbanisms: Casino Urbanization, Chinatowns and the Contested American Landscape. The project studies the ways that immigrant Chinese casino workers in Connecticut have converted single family homes into multi-family communities...

Mika Kaurismäki is the director of the new film The Girl King. The film tells the story of Queen Kristina of Sweden, who in the 17th century at the age of eighteen attempted to modernize Sweden and has become known as one of the earliest feminist figures in Europe. The Girl King picks up as Kristina assumes official control of her country at age eighteen and finds herself at odds with a conservative  court dominated by men...

Mika Kaurismäki is the director of the new film The Girl King. The film tells the story of Queen Kristina of Sweden, who in the 17th century at the age of eighteen attempted to modernize Sweden and has become known as one of the earliest feminist figures in Europe. The Girl King picks up as Kristina assumes official control of her country at age eighteen and finds herself at odds with a conservative  court dominated by men...

California Dreamin Artist Roxanne Jackson has taken an unconventional approach to her life as an artist.  Before going to grad school to study art she worked as a river guide in California, got a degree in botany and spent winters teaching  snowboarding in Colorado. Today Roxanne  makes sculptures and installations from materials like ceramics and paper mache...

California Dreamin Artist Roxanne Jackson has taken an unconventional approach to her life as an artist.  Before going to grad school to study art she worked as a river guide in California, got a degree in botany and spent winters teaching  snowboarding in Colorado. Today Roxanne  makes sculptures and installations from materials like ceramics and paper mache...

Edinburgh Airport, Scotland, United Kingdom Photographer Carolyn Russo has been traveling the world photographing the architecture of air traffic control towers. These essential, but often overlooked, structures are the subject of Carolyn's new book and National Air and Space Museum exhibition Art of the Airport Tower...

Edinburgh Airport, Scotland, United Kingdom Photographer Carolyn Russo has been traveling the world photographing the architecture of air traffic control towers. These essential, but often overlooked, structures are the subject of Carolyn's new book and National Air and Space Museum exhibition Art of the Airport Tower...