Episode 24: Emerald Gruin interviews Melissa Coote
Melissa Coote is an artist based in Sydney, Australia. Melissa studied photography in the early stages of her practice and this still underpins...
Episode 23: Emerald Gruin interviews Jasmine Mansbridge
Jasmine is a professional practicing artist whose work is best described as the meeting of exploration and refinement. Jasmine has taken her art...
Episode 22: Jiayin Chen
Jiayin Chen shares her very contemporary and fascinating knowledge of our new world with NFTs, Web3, and the blockchain, as well as many...
Episode 21: Emerald Gruin interviews Scosha Woolridge
Scosha is a jewelry designer that has evolved her collections as wearable art as a way to tell story, by collecting and collaging...
Episode 20: Kurt McVey
Kurt McVey takes us on an insightful journey through the search for fresh art amidst staid institutions. He also asks Leah some wonderfully...
Episode 19: Olivia Miller
This WAIA Wednesday, the inspiring and incredibly thoughtful curator Olivia Miller discusses de Kooning’s ‘slashed’ women, opportunities and challenges of working in a...
Episode 18: Emma Shapiro
This week artist-activist Emma Shapiro talks with us about the exhausting liberation of being an art model, art censorship in social media, the...
Episode 17: Andréa Stanislav
This week we dig in with Andréa Stanislav, covering the inspirational cross-fertilization of narrative film and fine art, the erotic yet imperial power...
Episode 16: Alexandra Schwartz
This week, the brilliant Alexandra Schwartz considers pay equity in arts institutions, craft traditions’ roles in art history, the re-evaluation of feminism post-Hillary...
Episode 15: OONA
Ona meets OONA, as Leah gets to know the anonymous artist’s ideas on the value of female artists, applying the tenets of cryptocurrency...
Episode 14: Margaret Murphy
Margaret Murphy breaks down hyperfemininity as rebellion, the surprisingly in-person community around NFTs, existing as both surveyor and surveyed, the capitalism inherent in...
Episode 13: Jeanette Hayes
We talk with the fantastically talented, warm-hearted Jeanette Hayes about commonalities for women in history, looking at stuff, where Bratz intersects with Picasso,...
Episode 12: Serwah Attafuah
Serwah Attafuah, an Indigenous Australian artist, tells us about her journey of creating digital art in the 2010s and now selling her stunning...
Episode 11: Ariana Page Russell
This week on WAIA, we sit down with Ariana Page Russell and muse over the power balance between model and artist, the line...
Episode 10: Elena Zavelev
Elena Zavelev discusses digital art in physical spaces, finding the right collectors, reproduction vs value, opportunities for women artists in Web3, art as...
Episode 9: Penny Slinger
Penny Slinger sits down with us to discuss multimedia as cross-fertilization, the changing fashions of art and digital collage, the danger of the...
Episode 8: Grace Graupe-Pillard
Grace Graupe-Pillard speaks with us about ambition, showing work in the internet era, activism in art, body acceptance in your 70s, and windows...
Episode 7: Ann Hirsch
The legendary Ann Hirsch brings her usual directness and keen observations to our conversation! She explains what makes a selfie by an artist...
Episode 26: Maxine Hoover
Artist, model, and curator Maxine Hoover shares her recent projects, discusses the power of women self-representing on Instagram, and explores the dynamics of...