Fresh Art International

Series produced by Cathy Byrd

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Curator Cathy Byrd hosts the Fresh Art International podcast featuring conversations with contemporary artists, curators, architects, and filmmakers from the center and fringe of art scenes around the world.

Fresh Art International with curator Cathy Byrd features more than 200 episodes recorded with artists, curators, architects, and filmmakers from around the world. Professionally scripted and edited, episodes range in length from 8 to 20 minutes. Subscribe to this signature audio podcast on FreshArtInternational.com, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Android, I Heart Radio, and SoundCloud.


209 Pieces

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Today, we take you to St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States of America. Home of the Gateway Arch, an Emblem of Manifest Destiny, at the conflue...

  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 26:13
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Sharjah Art Foundation Director Hoor Al Qasimi was 22 years old when she met Okwui Enwezor and experienced his non-western curatorial model at docu...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 16:02
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In 2022, members and guests of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art make their way to Kentucky, in the United States. Our ...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 31:28
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With six independent curators, we explore a growing trend in the field of contemporary art. We discover that the covid epidemic and a global econom...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 17:52
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The art of Brooklyn-based artist Bahar Behbahani responds to the history and character of the complex landscapes that surround her—reflecting on he...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 16:19
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Jillian Hernandez gives voice to girls and women of color in her 2020 book Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodimen...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 18:40
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Locust Projects director Lorie Mertes and artists from a collaborative known as FeCuOp—Jason Ferguson, Christian Curiel, Brandon Opalka, and Victor...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2021
  • Length: 19:38
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From Jamaica, Rosie Gordon-Wallace is a globally recognized curator, arts advocate, and community leader based in Miami, Florida, since the 1970s. ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 19:01
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This segment of our Puerto Rico Rising series revolves around creative resistance to foreign fantasies of ‘paradise.’ The conversation exposes a fe...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 18:12
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What part can creativity play in such turbulent times? We speak to six women artists and curators responding to the challenges of the past year wi...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 28:24
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In 1968, Black American athlete Tommie Smith set a new world record. He became a gold medalist when he raced to win the 200-meter event at the Summ...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 20:52
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In today’s prologue to our Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami senior Melissa Huberman tells the story of Art in the Time of Corona. She...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 13:56
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Meet fresh voices from Miami! With educators Giselle Heraux and Jahné King, we talk about art, storytelling, and the next generation of creative po...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 13:56
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We hear from artist william cordova about the 2014 documentary "silent parade," featuring the New Orleans band, The Soul Rebels, who faced off Robe...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 19:45
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With filmmaker Alla Kovgan, we spark a conversation to find out why and how she realized CUNNINGHAM. The 2019 documentary traces American choreogra...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2020
  • Length: 18:46
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The Toronto-made film RISE embodies the creative force of a local youth-led spoken word movement known as RISE Edutainment. A subway station serves...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 17:12
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Edra Soto is a Puerto Rico born, Chicago based, interdisciplinary artist, educator and curator whose architectural projects connect with communitie...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 12:39
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Public art meets poetry in the month-long festival known as O, Miami. We sit down with visual artists Najja Moon and Michelle Lisa Polissaint and O...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2019
  • Length: 51:46
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Norwegian artist Jana Winderen records sounds above and below the surface of our blue planet to compose site-specific sonic environments. For four ...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 23:27
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Today, we take you to meet three globally engaged, Miami-based contemporary art experts. Ombretta Agro Andruff, Tami Katz-Freiman and Kathryn Mikes...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 21:19