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SALVAGE

Natalya Khorover

Conversations with artists who use repurposed materials in their art practice.SALVAGE is a podcast that celebrates creativity and sustainability through conversations with artists who turn discarded materials into powerful works of art. Each episode dives into their stories, techniques, and the deeper messages behind their work, showing how art can transform waste into beauty and inspire action against overconsumption and wastefulness.It’s a space for exploring how creativity and mindfulness can

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All Episodes

48:29

Conversation with Rebecca McGee Tuck

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2025/01/16

Please enjoy my conversation with Rebecca McGee Tuck. Rebecca and I had an IG live conversation back in April 2024, which became the impetus for this podcast. I thought it would be appropriate to start season two, and the New Year, with a proper interview with Rebecca. Rebecca is a fiber artist, sculptor and a dedicated ocean activist. Her artwork serves as a visual narrative, transforming discarded materials from our throw-away society into environmentally aware works of art. In her pr...

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24:17

Conversation with Nyah Estevez from Beyond Plastics

SALVAGE ·

2024/12/26

Please enjoy my conversation with Nyah Estevez. Nyah is an environmental advocate and grassroots organizer. During her time at SUNY New Paltz, where she pursued a bachelor's degree in Political Science, she quickly became an outspoken activist. She worked on a variety of different environmental justice issues through The Farmworker Law Project at the Legal Aid Society of Mid-New York and NYPIRG’s Environmental Protection Campaign. She is passionate about ending plastic pollution and creating ...

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74:18

Conversation with Leticia Bajuyo

SALVAGE ·

2024/12/19

Please enjoy my conversation with Leticia Bajuyo. Through her large-scale works, Leticia engages audiences and connects with communities through her site-specific installations that involve community collections of media and memories. Leticia’s drawings, sculptures, and installations highlight the impact of desire and the machines that create even more desire.https://www.leticiabajuyo.com/ Artist Ann Hamilton https://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/ Artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres https://ww...

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47:41

Conversation with Alejandro Duran

SALVAGE ·

2024/12/12

Please enjoy my conversation with Alejandro Durán. Alejandro is an artist who transforms international trash washing ashore on Mexico's Caribbean coast into aesthetic yet unsettling artworks, awakening viewers to the threat of plastic pollution. His long-term project, “Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed Landscape,” uses photography and installation to explore the complex intersections of humanity and nature, highlighting the pervasive impact of consumer culture on the natural world. https...

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54:45

Conversation with Bryan Northup

SALVAGE ·

2024/12/05

Please enjoy my conversation with Bryan Northup. Bryan’s work responds to human interactions with a uniquely modern material - plastic. Using collected single-use plastic and found objects from the waste stream as art medium, he attempts to blur the lines between appetizing consumables, biological dissection and everyday "waste", to explore layers of meaning in an age where toxic materials of our own creation have saturated our environment and penetrated our species—both biologically and cult...

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46:51

Conversation with Michelle Lougee

SALVAGE ·

2024/11/21

Please enjoy my conversation with Michelle Lougee. Michelle’s sculpture and other works focus on the delicate balance between nature versus human society and technology. The duality of this relationship is explored in both materials and subject matter. The combination of the two factions produce mysterious yet familiar forms. For example, both feathered helmets and chestnut pods encased in carpet tacks serve as a proverbial "call-to-arms" for environmental protection. Human figures shaped fro...

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68:29

Conversation with Swapna Namboodiri

SALVAGE ·

2024/11/07

Swapna is a plastic sculptor. She’s extremely passionate about contributing greener days for the coming generations. She upcycles plastics to create sculptural artworks. Swapna collects discarded plastics, and individually hand-cuts or carves them to create structures, inspired by the forms and patterns from nature itself. She cherishes this connection and believes in that artistic exchange between the artist and nature around her.https://swapnanamboodiri.com/ https://www.instagram.com/s...

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70:37

Conversation with Bonny Leibowitz

SALVAGE ·

2024/10/24

Please enjoy my conversation with Bonny Leibowitz. Here’s Bonny’s statement about her latest installation which I find very exciting. Her work embodies concepts of Post-naturalism — a perspective that questions the objectification of nature as pristine and separate from humans. The installations are simulacra of environmental stories, histories, and concepts of nature, all of which have been constructed and distorted by humans. Just as nature itself is hybridized and transformed by industry, ...

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46:32

Conversation with Judy Villett

SALVAGE ·

2024/10/10

Please enjoy my conversation with Judy Villett. Judy’s work combines many techniques, beginning with commercial prints, her own digital photographs printed on fabric, or hand dyed fabrics. She may stencil, paint, embellish, piece, or appliqué these and then finally machine quilt them. Judy says - “The world around us is colorful and filled with texture. I love taking those elements from nature and the patterns of our every-day living and create landscapes in fabric and thread.” We started ou...

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48:04

Conversation with Erik Jon Olson

SALVAGE ·

2024/09/26

Please enjoy my conversation with Erik Jon Olson. Using quilted plastic waste as his medium, Erik creates works that deal with the effects of consumerism, mass consumption and unfettered capitalism. By layering environmental issues with social justice messaging, his art emphasizes our alienation from the environment and each other, our willingness to waste, and our subsequent need for healing.https://www.erikjonolson.com/ Erik’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/erikjonolson/ Arti...

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58:39

Conversation with Kalliopi Monoyios

SALVAGE ·

2024/09/13

Please enjoy my conversation with Kalliopi Monoyios. Kalliopi is an artist and curator dedicated to communicating the wonder of the natural world to a wide and varied audience. Driven by the conviction that science communicators operating in all spheres are a critical part of creating a scientifically literate public, she is developing new avenues of public engagement with science via her own art and curated exhibits.https://www.kalliopimonoyios.com/ Neil Shubin scientist https://en.wiki...

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38:13

Conversation with Bridget O'Flaherty

SALVAGE ·

2024/08/30

Please enjoy my conversation with Bridget O’Flaherty. Bridget is a passionate textile artist and quilter with over 30 years of experience. Her journey in textiles has been a deeply personal one, influenced by her heritage and love for nature. As a sustainability enthusiast, Bridget believes in the power of shared knowledge and understanding. Together, we can navigate this wild world and create a positive future for generations to come.https://bridgetoflaherty.com/Better Cotton Initiative http...

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44:18

Conversation with Jessica Thomas McGhee aka LoveHeyLola

SALVAGE ·

2024/08/20

Please enjoy my conversation with Jessica Thomas McGhee. Jessica is an environmental artist who works in paint, jewelry and marine debris. During the spring, summer, and early fall, you can find her selling her jewelry and art at various markets throughout Central Illinois, working on murals, and having the occasional art show. Garbage is Jessica’s favorite medium and coral reefs and tide pools are her favorite subject matter.Jessica’s website https://www.loveheylola.com/ Jessica’s Insta...

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50:16

Conversation with Lynn Goldstein

SALVAGE ·

2024/08/07

Please enjoy my conversation with Lynn Goldstein. Lynn and I have been friends and accountability buddies for a long time. We have monthly conversations on our art practice and art business goals and of course life in general.Lynn is deeply intrigued by history and the gradual passage of time evident in weathered frescoes, worn paint on building walls, and the intricate textures of the natural world. To emulate these textures in her work, Lynn uses multiple paint layers, marks, and imperfecti...

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48:33

Conversation with Kim Thomas

SALVAGE ·

2024/07/19

Please enjoy my conversation with Kim Thomas. Kim’s works are a visual discussion around climate change, nature, and our insatiable consumer culture. As an intersection between all three issues, found single-use plastics are often used as a key material in her artwork. In manipulating debris through a variety of media — primarily sculpture, installation, and printmaking — Kim presents the viewer with an everyday object in an unexpected, new form.https://iamkimthomas.com/ Artists Kim ment...

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40:33

Conversation with Chrissanth Greene Gross

SALVAGE ·

2024/07/09

Please enjoy my conversation with Chrissanth Gross. Chrissanth and I chatted about her early start in art as a daughter of artists, her figure drawings and her plein air practice. We dove into how she gives back to her community by picking up roadside trash. Then we talked about her activism of making a 47 foot tidal wave of plastic trash that she collects in her own home and travels with to Albany NY to present as a visual aid to legislators to help pass the plastic packaging reduction ...

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48:22

Conversation with Stephanie Hongo

SALVAGE ·

2024/06/28

Please enjoy my conversation with Stephanie Hongo. Stephanie and I talked about her start in the art world, how she started making art from trash, her unique way of collecting the trash she prefers to use and so much more!Stephanie is an American artist living in Connecticut. She has been creating art for the majority of her life, but it wasn’t until she began making the trash pieces that she really felt inspired to create art for art’s sake. She comes from a family of creators of all kinds, ...

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46:11

Conversation with Christine Aaron

SALVAGE ·

2024/06/14

Please enjoy my conversation with Christine Aaron. We had a very interesting conversation which ranged from the benefits and problems of a studio outside or inside the home, to a conversation about Christine’s art practice and to a discussion about our possible collaboration.https://www.christineaaron.com/ Article about microplastics https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/microplastics-air-human-body-organs-spread/?utm_campaign=wp_the7&utm_medium=social_s...

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56:50

Conversation with Carol Paik

SALVAGE ·

2024/05/24

Please enjoy my conversation with Carol Paik. Carol discovered her love of art-making relatively late, and is trying hard to catch up. She is interested in many different media, but most enjoys working with repurposed textiles. After years of buying expensive and often toxic materials for her work, her goal now is to create art exclusively out of the unappreciated, overlooked, landfill-destined stuff she finds around her, of which there is a great abundance.Carol’s website https://carolpaik.c...

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44:48

Conversation with Michelle Sirois Silver

SALVAGE ·

2024/05/17

Please enjoy my conversation with Michelle Sirois-Silver. Michelle’s works explore themes about ordinary life and the ways she imagines herself within the natural environment. Known for her experimentation, she investigates ways to integrate materials and techniques, adding layers to create a framework to support the conceptual narrative of her work. Her art practice encompasses the hand hooked surface, surface design, and sculpture. https://www.michellesirois-silver.com/&nbs...

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