Cathy Hannabach interviews Jasmine Nichole Cobb about haptic blackness and the cultural politics of Black hair in US visual culture.
Resources: art and visual culture
Josef Nguyen on the Politics of Flexibility
Cathy Hannabach interviews digital media scholar Josef Nguyen about the promises and perils of flexible planning in education, work, and life.
Catherine Knight Steele on Black Feminist Extensions of Grace
Cathy Hannabach interviews Catherine Knight Steele about extensions of grace, collaboration, and the future of Black digital studies.
Sandra Ristovska on Seeing Human Rights
Cathy Hannabach interviews Sandra Ristovska about the ethical, political, and legal relationship between imagery and human rights.
J. Faith Almiron on Abolitionist Pedagogy within and beyond Institutions
Cathy Hannabach interviews scholar and performance artist J. Faith Almiron about abolitionist pedagogy in the classroom and the art world.
La Marr Bruce on Renewal, Loss, and Black Creativity
Cathy Hannabach interviews La Marr Bruce about how loss shapes academic research and the role of madness in Black creative expression.
Badia Ahad-Legardy on Black Historical Joy and Inspiration
Cathy Hannabach interviews Badia Ahad-Legardy about Black historical joy and cultivating intellectual and political inspiration in our daily practices.
Bakirathi Mani on Curating with Confidence
Cathy Hannabach interviews Bakirathi Mani about postcolonial art curation and building representations no longer haunted by empire.
Jillian Hernandez on the Politics of Confidence and Creativity
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews curator and professor Jillian Hernandez about the politics of confidence and collective creative support.
Sasha Engelmann on Art and Activism in the Air
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews feminist geographer Sasha Engelmann about the transnational politics of air and activist-artistic collaboration.
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on Black Feminist Interdisciplinarity
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews interdisciplinary feminist scholar Zakiyyah Iman Jackson about the role of blackness in histories of the human.
Porchia Moore on Cultural Heritage and Collective Freedom
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews museum visionary Porchia Moore about COVID-19 and racial justice in musuems, libraries, and cultural heritage institutions.
Rebecca Wanzo on Visibility and African American Comics
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Rebecca Wanzo about black cartoonists, interdisciplinary humanities, and teaching others to see the world differently.
Sasha Costanza-Chock on Design Justice
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Sasha Costanza-Chock about the design justice movement, challenging universalism, and valuing things that don’t scale.
Melody Jue on Thinking through Seawater
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews professor and scuba diver Melody Jue about how she uses scuba diving for humanities research and climate justice.
Sarah Stefana Smith on a Poetics and Politics of Bafflement
Host Cathy Hannabach chats with artist Sarah Stefana Smith about a poetics and politics of bafflement, Black art, and artistic collaboration.
Anthony Romero on Sound and Socially Engaged Art
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews artist and educator Anthony Romero about socially engaged art, Latinx artist retreats, and the sonic color line.
Amber Jamilla Musser on Valuing Embodied Knowledge
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Amber Jamilla Musser about aesthetics and racialized sexuality and the politics of co-authoring.