In the Studio with Nathaniel Donnett
Zahrah Butler visits the Houston studio of cultural practitioner Nathaniel Donnett to discuss music, locality, and abstractions of the Black experience.
Zahrah Butler visits the Houston studio of cultural practitioner Nathaniel Donnett to discuss music, locality, and abstractions of the Black experience.
Amy Kennedy visits the New Orleans studio of photographer Ben Depp, reflecting on his aerial documentation of Louisiana, the impact of climate change on coastlines, and Southern landscapes.
Maria Owen visits the Louisville studio of Kiah Celeste to discuss the repurposing of discarded synthetic materials and organic forms across her work.
Mario Andrés Rodriguez visits the Miami studio of Karla Kantorovich to speak on the artist’s use of earthy materials and nature as grounding to her practice.
Shabez Jamal visits the studio of New Orleans-based artist Carlie Trosclair to discuss the patterns of collecting and intentional looking.
Sarah Carter speaks with Nashville-based artist Brett Douglas Hunter on returning to smaller works and the wild, wonderful figures found in his solo show Cryptids and Crinoids at Elephant Gallery, Nashville.
Susanna Klingenberg visits the studio of Raleigh-based artist Patrizia Ferreira to discuss her hand-stitched “fragile, collapsing creations” that speak to the human experience.
Samantha Oleschuk visits Kelsey Merreck Wagner’s studio in western North Carolina to discuss her weavings, often made from discarded materials, and how the artist sometimes comically becomes “an icon of trash collection.”
Elizabeth Withers visits the Atlanta-based studio of Liz Whalen to speak about her familial lineage in textile work and the freedom of felt as a medium.