Renée Bever is a black, queer and fat abstract artist living in Los Angeles. Originally from the midwest, Renee moved to LA shortly after completing grad school in Boston. Renee cohosts a podcast for Blumhouse called Attack of the Queerwolf where she and her cohosts analyze horror movies through a queer lens. She is currently working on a set of te…

Clarity Haynes is a New York-based painter whose work explores the torso as a site for portraiture, revealing themes of healing, trauma and self-determination. Her work can be seen in “The Outwin: American Portraiture Today”, a traveling exhibition originating at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Clarity’s work has been exhibited at Invi…

Shawné Michaelain Holloway is a new media artist using sound, video, and performance to shape the rhetorics of technology and sexuality into tools for exposing structures of power. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like The New Museum (NYC, NY), Sorbus Galleria (Helsinki, Fi), The Kitchen (NYC, NY) Institute of Contemporar…

Macy Rodman is a Brooklyn-based experimental singer-songwriter. Her 2016 EP Help, explored the idea of the trans girl as a pop star. Her debut album The Lake was released in 2017. Macy is perhaps best known for her music videos, which have been described by Vogue as “vibrant and campy.” On this episode, Annie and Macy discuss making danceable music…

Rindon Johnson is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. His sculptures, videos and performances have been shared at Human Resources, Los Angeles; MoMA PS1; Artists Space and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne - among others. Rindon is the author of "Nobody Sleeps Better Than White People" from Inpatient Press, the virtual reality book, "Meet …

Lindsay Dye is a 29 year old artist of Puerto Rican descent from Weston, Florida. She holds an MFA in Photography and Sculpture from the Pratt Institute.She is most known on social media for her Cake Sitting Performances, which are sugary, colorful displays of sexuality and humor. Recently, a profile of her career as sex worker artist appeared in P…

RAFiA Santana is a multimedia artist from Brooklyn, New York working in primarily photography, video, and music. They frequently work with their own image, using a combination of selfies and original graphics to discuss black queer femme identity. Their work has been exhibited internationally at Housing Gallery in Brooklyn, The Museum of Moving Ima…

Emma Sulkowicz is an American artist of Japanese-Chinese-Jewish descent who lives and makes art in their hometown, New York City. They earned a BFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2015 and studied studio art in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. They are perhaps best known for their senior thesis at Columbia University — "Matt…

Pacifico Silano is a lens-based artist whose work is an exploration of print culture and the circulation of imagery. Born in Brooklyn, NY, he received his MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts. Reviews of his work have appeared in The New Yorker, Artforum, Newsweek and The New York Times. He is a 2016 fellow in Photography with the New …