
B+S With Friends
B+S with Friends is a podcast from the Bader + Simon Gallery discussing art, life, social justice, and basic b.s. with friends.
Episodes
68 episodes
Repeat Episode: Fizz White
Enjoy a repeat episode with Fizz White, Deputy Director of Mission Programs & Communications of The Matriots, a non-partisan, Ohio-based, political action committee dedicated to supporting, endorsing, and encouraging women candidates. Liste...
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46:57

Episode 57: Thank God For Abortion
Thank God For Abortion is working to eliminate the criminalizing stigma around abortion by providing an apology-free space, and is committed to allowing others to repossess their narratives from the extreme right by inhabiting a joyful and auth...
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Episode 56: Winnie van der Rijn
Winnie van der Rijn is a multi-disciplinary artist of opportunity– collecting materials, experimenting with techniques and pursuing her curiosities. Her art practice includes textiles, sculpture, collage and collaboration (which she considers i...
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43:40

Episode 55: Asia Stewart
Performance artist Asia Stewart centers her conceptual work on her body as a living archive. She devises rituals that reflect the way she weathers life in a deeply extractive society. Stewart’s performances frequently unfold as social experimen...
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39:08

Repeat Episode: Rachel Churner
Carolee Schneemann was an American visual experimental artist, known for her multi-media works on the body, narrative, sexuality and gender who is a part of our permanent collection and featured in our current online exhibition. Enjoy this repe...
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33:26

Episode 54: Eric "Maserati-E" Abercrombie
Eric “Maserati-E” Abercrombie was born in Oakland Ca. and was featured in the Emmy nominated documentary "Q-Ball." Eric has been a co-host of the Last Mile Radio on Sirius XM, and is the Sound Designer for the Uncuffed podcast in Solano State P...
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Episode 53: Greg Eskridge
Greg Eskridge is a founding member of the Uncuffed radio program and podcast. On July 23, 2024, Greg was released from San Quentin prison after serving 30 years and 25 days and currently serves as Uncuffed’s first Leadership Fellow. Greg looks ...
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Episode 52: Wendy Jason and Cuong "Mike" Tran
This episode features the social impact arts administrator and grassroots community organizer and the artist, who is incarcerated, Cuong "Mike" Tran. Mike called in from his prison environment for this conversation. We appreciate your patience ...
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Episode 51: Marcus Manganni
Marcus Manganni is a New York based sculptor and installation artist who is best known for his innovative, site-specific works that confront the crisis of mass incarceration. For today's episode, all questions were created by students at the Ca...
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Repeat Episode: Hilma's Ghost
In celebration of the upcoming opening of Hilma's Ghost's mosaic mural at Grand Central Station next week, please enjoy this repeat episode featuring Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray. You can get a sneak peek of the design at: https://www.h...
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51:38

Episode 50: Lucy Lang
For our 50th episode, enjoy this engaging conversation with NY Inspector General Lucy Lang, who oversees investigations into corruption, fraud, and abuse in New York State government.
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28:27

Episode 49: Fizz White
Fizz White is the Deputy Director of Mission Programs & Communications for The Matriots, a nonpartisan political action committee dedicated to supporting, endorsing, and encouraging women candidates. Listen in on our conversation about the ...
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46:57

REPEAT EPISODE: Sara Bennett and Mark Loughney
As we continue exploring the theme of taking back equity, justice, and the future of our country in our current exhibition, Reclaiming Orange, we are revisiting a compelling episode of B+S with Friends. This conversation featu...
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Episode 48: Shelley Brenner Baird
Shelley Brenner Baird is an Ohio-based artist whose work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and textile surface design. An archivist by instinct, Shelley collects and creates images to construct a visual vocabulary, often ...
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Episode 47: Christen Clifford
Christen Clifford is a mother, artist, and writer who is a fierce advocate for the trans community. Her work is currently in Body Freedom for Every (Body) at Project for Empty Space and is working on an experimental memoir documentary film abou...
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Episode 46: Carla Rae Johnson
Carla Rae Johnson’ is an artist that often addresses issues of social, political, and cultural importance through drawing, sculpture, conceptual, peformance, and installation art. You can find her at carlaraejohnson.org
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Episode 45: Donna Beisel
Enjoy this episode with Donna Beisel, Director of Museum Operations at Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama.
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27:05

Episode 44: Robert Hightower
Enjoy this episode with artist Robert Hightower, first recipient of the Bader+Simon Empowerment Grant. Hightower uses his art to show the struggle between vulnerabiity and strength —two things we all have but rarely show at the same time. ...
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Episode 43: Hilma's Ghost
Hilma's Ghost, a feminist artist collective, co-founded by Brooklyn-based artists Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray in 2020, conducts experimental pedagogy, transcultural dialogue, and collectivity through the lens of feminism and spirituali...
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51:38

Episode 42: Sarah Potter
Sarah Potter is a renowned psychic medium, known for her exceptional Tarot reading abilities and deep occult knowledge. Her spiritual guidance, personalized sessions, and communal rituals have positively impacted countless lives, spanning priva...
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39:51

Episode 41: Adriene Jenik
Adriene Jenik is an artist, educator, scholar-activist and end of life doula. Her work supports personal introspection, social critique, community building, and culturaltransformation. Jenik's projects include "data humanization" performanc...
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Repeat Episode: V.L. Cox
Listen in on this repeat episode with professional artist, V.L. Cox, whose work has been highly active in projects that involve Human Rights and Equality. Cox is currently featured in Riveting: Women Artists from the Sa...
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33:09

Episode 40: Rachel Churner
Rachel Churner is director of the Carolee Schneemann Foundation, an art critic, editor, and part-time faculty member at Eugene Lang College at The New School, New York. Listen in to hear about her trajectory and what's coming up next at the Sch...
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