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Inspiring podcast featuring interviews with artists, meditators and pioneers of culture. Hosted by Brooklyn, NY based artist Dan Gratz.

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01:35:19

Amanda Browder

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2025/06/28

Born in Missoula, MT in 1976, Amanda Browder received an MFA/MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives in Brooklyn, producing over 25+ large-scale fabric installations all around the world. Amplifying multiple voices (over 6000+), she collaborates with local community groups and sources her textiles from local donations. Exhibitions include: Triennale Brugge, Belgium; Project 1: ArtPrize; SPRING/BREAK Art Fair; White

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01:19:37

Roxanne Jackson

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2025/06/21

Roxanne Jackson was born in California’s East Bay and currently lives in New York. Press for her work includes the New York Times, the New Yorker, the LA Times, Juxtapoz Magazine, Hyperallergic, Sculpture Magazine, Forbes, Metal Magazine, Cool Hunting and Ceramics Monthly, among others. Selected museum exhibitions include the Schloss Museum, Linz, Austria; the Arter Museum, Istanbul, TRKY; Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; the Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, PA; the Grassi Museum, Leipzig, DE; and

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01:44:56

Reuben Paterson

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2025/06/14

Reuben Paterson (b. 1973, Auckland, New Zealand: Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūhourangi, Scottish).Paterson uses the transformative properties of light to reach beyond appearances and pry open the complex histories and tensions that sit just beneath the surface of all things. His art is made in celebration of exchange and encounter, hybridity and fluidity, spirituality and sexuality, and is especially attuned to the dynamics of queer identity and whakapapa (genealogy)-based modes of cultural

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01:19:31

Jonathan Allmaier

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2025/06/07

Jonathan Allmaier lives in New York, where he has presented three solo exhibitions at James Fuentes. His work has been discussed in The New Yorker, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Hyperallergic, TimeOut New York, New American Paintings, The Brooklyn Rail, New York Magazine, and other publications. In 2014, James Fuentes published Which World, a collection of his essays. He earned his BA in Philosophy and Visual Arts (honors) from Brown University, and his MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of

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01:50:57

Alex Yudzon

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2025/05/31

Alex Yudzon is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of photography, sculpture, and performance. His debut monograph, A Room for the Night (Radius Books, 2023), explores American hotel culture through thirty-four site-specific installations made across the United States. Yudzon’s work has been exhibited at the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, the China International Photography Biennial, Arles Photo Festival, and the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts. He is a 2019 NYFA Fellow and

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01:28:22

Michael Santi Keezing Part 2

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2025/05/24

Former monk (bhikkhu) Santi trained in the Thai forest tradition, a meditation-centered branch of Theravada Buddhism. He disrobed after eight years, and now teaches and writes on Buddhist, post-Buddhist, and other spiritual and practice-related themes. His website is findingsanti.org.

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01:44:37

Wells Chandler

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2025/05/17

Wells Chandler is a space alien born on Planet Birthday. Drawing from folk art, 1970s craft feminism and countercultural thinkers, he weaves esoteric art history into the canonical. His vibrant, devotional work explores non-dual representations of queer identity, community and belonging. Chandler is also an amateur scholar of comparative religion. Beyond the studio, his practice extends to writing, curating and mentorship.

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01:39:26

Fr. Peter Funk, O.S.B.

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2025/05/10

Fr. Peter Funk, O.S.B., is the prior of the Monastery of the Holy Cross, a contemplative Benedictine monastery in the archdiocese of Chicago. Before entering monastic life in 1997, he was a choral conductor at St. Thomas the Apostle parish and the University of Chicago. His exposure to great Renaissance composers such as Palestrina and Victoria was catalytic in his desire to enter religious life as well as his interest in the power of Catholic culture to evangelize. Having studied theology at St

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01:01:02

Haley Josephs

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2025/05/03

Haley Josephs (b. Seattle, WA 1987) lives and works in Providence, RI. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in 2010 and an MFA from Yale University in 2014.Drawing inspiration from notions of transformation, mortality, and femininity, Josephs paints solitary figures in fantastical yet foreboding environments that transcend time and space. A recurring character within Josephs' work is the artist's late sister, who is often evoked in bold, almost daring, portraits that amalgamate intimate

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01:06:34

Michael Ambron

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2025/04/26

Michael Ambron is a Queens-based artist whose work explores time, perception, and the relationships between materiality and emergent forms of consciousness. He received his BFA from Tyler School of Art and his MFA from The Ohio State University. Michael is the owner and operator of Paint Makers Notes LLC, a company that provides customized paints, educational demonstrations, and technical assistance to artists and designers of every background. You can see more of his work with raw materials in

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01:08:57

Skye Gilkerson

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2025/04/19

Skye Gilkerson is an interdisciplinary artist creating poignant conceptual projects across a range of media, including sculpture, installation, film, collage, and poetry. With a sense of wonder, tenderness, and humor, her work engages the tension between time and timelessness, place and placelessness, and the human and universal scale. Skye has walked the distance to outer space and back, made drawings from the ash remains of burning newspapers on each new moon, and keeps a reference library of

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01:14:35

Tim Van Laar

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2025/04/12

Tim van Laar is a Detroit visual artist and writer who exhibits his artwork nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions in Germany, the UK, and The Netherlands. He has written numerous reviews and essays and co-authored four books, including Artworld Prestige: Arguing Cultural Value (Oxford), and Shiny Things: Reflective Surfaces and Their Mixed Meanings (Intellect). His creative activities have been supported by institutions such as Fulbright, Yaddo, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and

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01:14:12

David Greenwood

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2025/04/05

David Greenwood's stories have appeared in Electric Literature, Fence, Tin House online, and elsewhere. His debut novel, The Cloud Intern, will be published on May 27th. He has a BA in computer science from Boston University, and an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College. His ongoing micro-novels project, The Bubble Cannon, can be found on Substack, his literary fitness videos on YouTube. The Cloud

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01:09:30

Letha Wilson

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2025/03/29

Letha Wilson is a visual artist based in New York (Craryville and Brooklyn) who was born in Honolulu, HI and raised in Greeley, Colorado. She is known for her synthesis of mediums, expanding the visual and physical dimensions of photography and sculpture. By combining industrial materials such as Corten steel, aluminum, vinyl and photography, Wilson has developed unique fabrication processes. She prints images depicting the beauty of natural landscapes onto her sculptures, embeds them in the

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01:09:34

Rob Westerholm

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2025/03/22

Robert Westerholm, Ph.D. is an NYC-based clinical psychologist who specializes in cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for the treatment of anxiety and mood disorders across the lifespan. Dr. Westerholm and his wife, fashion designer Monica Wesley, are avid art collectors who have been building their contemporary art collection over the last 15 years.

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01:23:40

Ajahn Kovilo

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2025/03/15

Ajahn Kovilo is an Ohio-born Theravāda forest monk. Having been introduced to meditation, the five precepts, and the Pāli Canon through the Goenka tradition, Ajahn Kovilo’s growing interest in Dhamma led him to enter the monastery in 2006 in hopes of devoting his life to practice. Ajahn Kovilo received full ordination from Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in California in 2010, and spent the next decade training at monasteries and with teachers of the Ajahn Chah

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Paul Mogensen

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2025/03/08

Paul Mogensen became known for his single-color many paneled paintings utilizing mathematical ratios, which were first shown at the Bykert Gallery in New York City in 1966. Throughout his career, he continued to use mathematical principles in conjunction with basic designs and color to distill painting to its most essential nature, while infusing his work with a tension that exists as a result of inherently opposing qualities.

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01:34:11

Lysha Smith

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2025/03/01

Lysha Smith is a Senior Assistant Teacher and the Administrator at the Vipassana Meditation Center in Shelburne Falls, MA. Lysha also has a background in Sound Art and Design, and teaches Music Technology at Greenfield (MA) Community College. While Lysha centers and anchors his life around his meditation practice and Dhamma service to others, teaching and engaging with sound and music practice remains an integral balancing force in his life.

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01:04:30

Aidan Hart

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2025/02/22

Aidan Hart was born in England in 1957 and grew up in New Zealand. He has been a professional liturgical artist for over forty years, with commissioned works in over twenty-five countries. From 1988 to 2000 he tested his vocation as a monk, including spending a total of two years on Mount Athos and six as a hermit in Shropshire, UK. This life dedicated to prayer has had a profound impact on his work.

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01:22:56

Joe Holtz

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2025/02/15

Joe Holtz is the general manager of the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, NY. After helping to start the coop in 1973, he became the first staff member in 1975. Joe has announced he will retire in 2025 after 50 years at the PSFC.

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