The ARTPOWER Podcast
The ARTPOWER Podcast is a show that delves into the lives of working artists and the intricate dance between sustaining financial well-being and nurturing their creative practice. Hosted by janera solomon, a writer, poet, curator, and cultural strategist, The ARTPOWER Podcast features monthly conversations about the under-explored and overlooked financial journey of independent working artists.
Podcasting since 2024 • 7 episodes
The ARTPOWER Podcast
Latest Episodes
Engage Your Public with Jon Rubin
In our sixth episode, janera solomon is joined by friend and interdisciplinary artist Jon Rubin to talk about expanding the idea of what it means to be an artist, creating art with the public, committing to your community, and building your ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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37:29
Create Your Religion with Nadya Tolokonnikova
In our fifth episode, conceptual performance artist and activist Nadya Tolokonnikova - the founding member of the feminist art movement Pussy Riot - joins janera solomon to talk about changing convictions, how we can’t unmake our art, and fi...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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36:15
Find Your Peace with Casey Gerald
In our first live episode, writer, entrepreneur and thought leader Casey Gerald joins janera solomon and an intimate audience at True T Studios in Pittsburgh to share about listening to cosmic messages, writing to ‘trace his cracks,’ and wor...
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Episode 4
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34:05
Claim Your Creative Space with Reiko Yamamoto
Reiko Yamamoto is a Pittsburgh-based ceramicist who has owned her studio for a decade. She brings her wisdom to the ARTPOWER Podcast this month to chat with janera solomon about her struggles with self-promotion, staking out something for yo...
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Episode 3
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42:00
Owning Your Path with Lenka Clayton
This month, janera solomon talks to Lenka Clayton, an interdisciplinary artist whose work considers, exaggerates, and alters the accepted rules of everyday life, extending the familiar into the realms of the poetic and absurd.Lenka s...
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Episode 2
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