Artists Like Us

By: Jenita Richards
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  • Artists Like Us is a space for deep-dive conversations with creatives you may not know yet but should. This podcast brings together a mosaic of voices—writers, dancers, musicians, performers, visual artists—each with their own stories, struggles, and unique paths in the world of art. The conversations here are candid, sometimes chaotic, and all about finding joy and purpose in the process, whether the world is watching or not. We hope you take away inspiration, and a renewed sense of how much art can mold the way we see the world and ourselves.

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Episodes
  • Aziza is the Artist's Art Worker

    Aziza is the Artist's Art Worker
    Jan 21 2025

    Aziza is a Karachi-born illustrator living and working in Berlin. Her personal and professional art is based around collectivism and spreading voices for vulnerable people who are unheard. She walks the walk and talks the talk. If you have nothing but good things to say about Germany, this is not the episode for you. We don’t shy away from talking about oppression, genocide, political silence, and politics that silence.

    As an art worker, Aziza’s day to day shies away from what one may imagine a typical artist does. But most art can’t get done without the art worker to support. Community activism is a need and not a want yesterday and today. Further resources for topics mentioned in this episode are @strikegermany and @archive_of_silence. Aziza followed up with an email:

    Another thing I got caught up with in the last couple of weeks was a new resolution passed by the German government that severely limits freedom of speech particularly for artists, and threatens expulsions for students protesting the Israeli genocide and also deportation and revoking of nationality for cultural workers who do the same. This, on top of cutting public funding for artists and arts spaces whose activities are deemed "anti-semitic", which we already discussed in the episode. The resolution also specifically labels "Middle Eastern and North African people" as its targets.

    I hope this episode inspires an outrage for and interest in justice and equality.


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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Dan Actively Observes

    Dan Actively Observes
    Jan 7 2025

    Dan Caplan is a professional amateur photographer who has just released his first photo book, "Temporary Forever."


    Set against the backdrop of a global health crisis, social upheaval, and environmental disaster, Temporary Forever is Dan Caplan's portrait of daily life in the early 2020s. Beginning in the nascent days of the Covid-19 pandemic, this visual archive captures moments of uncertainty, beauty, and the absurdities of modern life.-Borderline Press


    Based in Portland, Dan's passion for music and community comes through in his photography and cinematographic endeavors. After leaving LA and losing his desire to work in the Big Industry of entertainment, Dan needed an authorship over the work he wanted to create.


    Accepting that he wants to be selfish about his work, Dan's been able to carve out a path that's still being carved. Collaborating with local artists turned friends and peers, he's defining his own success. With bands called Ghost Piss and other names you might imagine if you thought "Portland Band."


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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Sabrina Writes Home

    Sabrina Writes Home
    Dec 17 2024

    Sabrina Pinksen is a writer and painter based in Newfoundland. After spending her 20s traveling and living everywhere but home, she was the most surprised of anyone to realize that’s where she needed to be. Storytelling has been a requirement for Sabrina since she was young, and now she gets to tell a story that isn’t often told. A story about HER home.


    Somehow able to put off getting a job for as long as possible, listen to find out how Sabrina is able to live her life as a full time artist.


    Spoiler alert: it’s not easy, and you need a good support system.


    Find her paintings and follow what she's up to at https://www.sabrinapinksen.com/


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    1 hr and 7 mins

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