SAME 5 QUESTIONS, DIFFERENT ARTISTS:
a simple but meaningful list of questions offers concise, engaging conversations with a variety of artists.
The series features Tank and the Bangas, Bruno Big, Marco Gallotta, Jungho Lee, La rouille, Nik West, Chris Cuffaro, Karen Francis, Mo Ganji, Guante, Trevor Carroll and many others. All mediums and forms of creation are included — visual, performing, written, digital, community-based, etc.
I’m Julia Travers, a writer and artist who runs this series. Learn about submissions and interviews here.
“Everything we do in this world beyond survival and self-destruction is art.”
Featured work: May 2021 Design Museum Magazine: The Policing Issue (edited by Jennifer Rittner, cover art by Blacksneakers)
“Pick up a pencil, brush, hot glue gun, tambourine!”
Featured work: Lucky Bird
“I love and live to create.”
Featured work: Nirvana, from the “Greatest Hits” series
“ I want people to feel validated and connected again.”
Featured work: Image from the “Tap Kids” series
“It’s never too late… you can change paths many times.”
Featured work: Bird illustrations
“Art is the expression of being.”
Featured Work: Illustrations for the “Wingspan” game and companion field guide.
“Writing is patience.”
Featured work: “Link-Up 2 Lift-Up: Sorting through Our Culture Kingdom for Our Future Generations”
“I like to think about music as a biography in sounds.”
Featured Work: Ear Training Challenge — Uirapuru (Musician Wren)
From bird song to quantum physics, composer and teacher Alexander Liebermann’s music explores the universe at levels minute and momentary, and epic and intangible. His ever-evolving collection of works, of which only a glimpse is offered here, invites deep wandering and listening.
His recent pieces include a soundtrack for the documentary film, “Frozen Corpses Golden Treasures,” about a search for the tombs of ancient steppe nomads; and “ear training challenges,” in which he transcribes voices of the natural world, such as those of wolves and whales. …
Ask Artists with Julia Travers
I’m a writer who runs the Ask Artists interview series. Find interviews here along with some other stories. More of my work: https://linktr.ee/JuliaTravers
