Full Interviews
Norm Magnusson
(Via Wikipedia)
"Norm Magnusson is a New York-based artist and political activist and founder, in 1991, of the art movement funism, he began his career creating allegorical animal paintings with pointed social commentaries. Eventually became more and more interested in political art and its potential for persuasion"
http://www.funism.com/art/index.html
Malcolm Gladwell
(Via Gladwellbooks.com)
"Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers — The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcasts Revisionist History, which reconsiders things both overlooked and misunderstood, and Broken Record, where he, Rick Rubin, and Bruce Headlam interview musicians across a wide range of genres."
https://www.gladwellbooks.com/
Matt Dilling
Creative Director of Lite Brite Neon Studio and Co-Founder of Cygnets Way (Kingston NY)
(Via Linkedin)
"Lite Brite Neon Studio is a collective of craftspeople that specializes in the production of neon art, display, luminous visual props and architectural lighting through a collaborative approach. We seek to transform and transmit the power of light art and display as a viable medium to convey the mystical truths that surround us in everyday life."
http://www.litebriteneon.com/
Grace Villamil
(Via Radio Kingston)
Grace Villamil a multidisciplinary artist exploring interconnectivity between humans & nature through installation, video, and sound. She has performed live-video manipulations as an accompaniment to electronic & live instruments in venues over the globe.
Happy Traum
(Via WIkipedia)
Happy Traum is an American folk musician who started playing music in the 1950s and became a stalwart of the Greenwich Village music scene of the 1960s and the Woodstock music scene of the 1970s and 1980s. For several years, he studied blues guitar with Brownie McGhee, who was a big influence on his guitar style
Sacha Jenkins
(Via Wikipedia)
Sacha Jenkins is an American television producer, filmmaker, writer, musician, artist, curator, and chronicler of hip-hop, graffiti, punk, and metal cultures. While still in his teens, Jenkins published Graphic Scenes & X-Plicit Language, one of the earliest ‘zines solely dedicated to “graffiti” art.
Sara Driver
(Via Wikipedia)
"Sara Driver is an American independent filmmaker and actress from Westfield, New Jersey. A participant in the independent film scene that flourished in lower Manhattan from the late 1970s through the 1990s, she gained initial recognition as producer of two early films by Jim Jarmusch, Permanent Vacation (1980) and Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Sharif Abdus-Salaam
(Via Radio Kingston)
Sharif Abdus-Salaam is the host of Jazz in the Valley, a weekly musician and culture appreciation program focused on the phenomenal American musical expression style known as Jazz.
Mary Frank
(Via Wikipedia)
Mary Frank is an English visual artist who works as a sculptor, painter, printmaker, draftswoman, and illustrator
Susannah Livingston
(Via Linkedin)
Susannah Livingston, PhD is a Humanities educator with over twenty years of experience in both public and independent schools. Her work in critical pedagogical theory draws from her background as an Indigenous American as well as her work in public and non-public urban school systems.
Kysa Johnson
(Via Wikipedia)
Kysa Johnson is a contemporary artist, drawings, paintings and installations explore patterns in nature that exist at the extremes of scale.
Malcolm Grover
Malcolm Grover is a young filmmaker and Woodstock Day School Alumni. For his WDS Senior Project, he made a short film about police brutality. This short film ended up reaching thousands of people and won multiple awards at high school film festivals.