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Art Restart Podcast & Salons

Art Restart Podcast & Salons

In the Art Restart podcast and salon series, the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts explores how creatives around the world are reinventing their fields and building a new landscape for the arts. 

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Rebuilding Ballet on New Terms: Ja' Malik

As artistic and interim executive director of Madison Ballet, Ja' Malik is taking real risks. And they're paying off. In this interview, he talks leadership, contemporary programming and how the company is growing audiences while others struggle.
Indigenous Americas, Indigenous Lens: Brian Adams and Sarah Stacke

Photographers Brian Adams and Sarah Stacke approach photography less as image-making than as long-term relationship-building and storytelling. In this interview, Adams and Stacke discuss the ethical and logistical choices behind their book "In Light and Shadow," the politics of archives and representation and what it means to be storytellers accountable to the people whose lives and histories they photograph.
Free Art, Real Value: The Zero Art Fair Story

What would happen if you ran an art fair where every work of art was free? Conceptual artists Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida did just that with the Zero Art Fair. In this interview, they explain how the Fair's unconventional contract works, why prioritizing access for people who need help to live with art reshaped their process, and what kinds of unexpected relationships and ripple effects have emerged along the way.
Ariel Fristoe's Community Theater Actually Changes Communities

As the artistic director of Atlanta's Out of Hand Theater, Ariel Fristoe has been at the center of one of the country's most inventive experiments in how theater can live inside a community. In this episode of the Art Restart podcast, Ariel reflects on how their approach emerged and why she believes artists are uniquely equipped to work on the most urgent social issues of our time.
Byron Au Yong Composes a New Kind of Leadership

For more than two decades, composer and educator Byron Au Yong has created music that bridges performance, ritual and activism. In this episode of the Art Restart podcast, Byron reflects on how his art and teaching are both rooted in listening, whether it's listening to the language of trees to compose his newest work or listening deeply to students and collaborators to imagine new, more equitable forms of leadership.
Damian Stamer Paints with Intelligence, Artificial and Human

Painter Damian Stamer is Known for transforming photographs of abandoned barns and rural landscapes into memory-laden canvases. In this episode of the Art Restart podcast, he reflects on how working with AI has deepened his understanding of intuition, authorship and faith in an age increasingly defined by machines.