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Artist Interviews & Practice Podcasts
46 shows and 4,074 episodes sit under Artist Interviews & Practice.
Studio life, materials, craft, and the pressure of continuing — artist interview podcasts across painting, ceramics, sculpture, and more.
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How Artist Interviews & Practice podcasts differ, and which to try
The room matters. You hear introductions, acknowledgements, audience cues and the occasional rough handoff alongside the artists themselves. These conversations keep the setting intact, whether that setting is a gallery program or a working ceramic studio.
Art in public
ACCA Podcast preserves contemporary art as a live event. Its artist talks, lectures, walkthroughs and panels unfold at a leisurely pace, with speakers allowed to qualify an idea or follow a tangent instead of compressing everything into a neat answer. The result feels close to being present: thoughtful, sometimes unfinished and comfortable with complexity.
The clearest entry points are the conversations named in We need to talk: with Tourmaline and Sophie Prince and We need to talk: with Tschabalala Self and Myles Russell-Cook. For a larger group exchange, try Artist Talks: with Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Megan Cope, Khaled Sabsabi and Ali Tahayori. Artist Talk and Book Launch: with r e a, Judith Ryan AM and Myles Russell-Cook adds the context of a book launch without promising a tidier kind of discussion.
Inside the ceramic studio
Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: A pottery and ceramic art podcast is more intimate and materially specific. It sounds like a long studio visit, with practical questions about clay, tools, firing and surface opening into broader reflections on discipline, place and artistic life. The host is craft-literate without shutting out curious newcomers; specialized language tends to arrive through lived examples.
Answers are given room to sprawl, repeat and find their shape. That patience suits a practice where small decisions accumulate slowly. Jillian Mae Seversky and Josh Goering is the direct on-ramp.
Beyond these conversations
If a broader range of media and critical approaches is what you want, head up a level to Visual Arts. Contemporary Art stays closer to current exhibitions, institutions and debate, while Photography narrows the field to image-making. Artist Interviews & Practice is the route for hearing how artists speak about the work and the conditions around making it.
Where to start
Choose ACCA Podcast and We need to talk: with Tourmaline and Sophie Prince for the atmosphere of a public art conversation. The exchange feels closer to a studio bench on Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: A pottery and ceramic art podcast, where Jillian Mae Seversky and Josh Goering is the place to begin.
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Featured shows
4 shows, described rather than listed
A short write-up for each, plus the job it does in this guide.
Roving studio visits and gallery walks with named artists across NYC and beyond.
Warm, interview-centric deep dives into ceramics — materials, firing, studio cycles, risk.
Working artists, painters, sculptors, and studio residents in a loose, art-ecosystem format.
Institutional in-conversation programming with artists and thinkers in a contemporary art setting.
Where to start
4 routes in, one per reader
Direct studio visits and gallery tours give a literal, space-first entry into artist practice.
Craft-literate interviews on clay, firing, studio cycles, and how production pressure shapes a practice.
Plain, searchable artist interview episodes across media — easy to sample and share.
Direct routes for listeners who want painting, technique, and landscape practice in one place.
Glossary
Artist Interviews & Practice vocabulary, decoded
The sustained, habitual activity of making art in a dedicated space, including material choices, working routines, and the decisions that shape a body of work over time.
Painting or drawing on location outdoors in natural light, directly observing the scene rather than working from studio references.
A high-temperature furnace used to fire ceramic work, permanently hardening clay and fusing glazes in a process that is irreversible once begun.
In studio ceramics, the proportion of pieces that crack, warp, or fail during drying, firing, or finishing — a practical constraint that shapes production decisions.
A funded period during which an artist works in a new environment — often a dedicated studio or institution — with time, space, and sometimes a stipend to develop new work.
A discipline of visual practice that applies animation and graphic design principles to moving image, often for commercial, broadcast, or digital contexts.