The Heart Gallery Podcast brings you artists and creators that confront the issues of our time, help us create deeper relationships with other inhabitants of this planetary home, & inspire compelling visions of the future. Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer is the creator and host of The Heart Gallery Podcast. She is an illustrator and creative education strategist, and works primarily with humanitarian, climate, and social change organizations. She also has a studio art practice where she applies less ...
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Loretta Pettway Bennett pieces a Gee's Bend quilt full of community resilience and colorful coziness
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Send us a text In this episode launching on Juneteenth, come on a trip down the road from Selma, Alabama - home of the 1960s Selma Voting Rights Movement and the Selma to Montgomery marches - to the tiny little enclave of Gee’s Bend, situated in a bend of the Alabama river. This is the home of the famous Gees Bend quilters. The community of Gee’s B…
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Marine Tanguy explores the sinister and heartening aspects of your visual landscape
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Send us a text Did you know that the average person encounters 10,000 commercial images in a day? That neighborhoods where people have lower incomes tend to have more advertisements for unhealthy foods and have more stores selling and advertising commercial tobacco? That the majority of images we see of the African continent are mostly from Western…
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Tara DePorte on envisioning enticing futures and meaningful climate opportunities
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Send us a text A recurring theme on the podcast is the climate crisis and the ways in which artists are addressing it in their work, whether they're focused on showing ways forward for society, making the issue more concrete for individuals and specific communities, or inviting people sideways into the issue through art that is focused on elements …
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Métis artist Christi Belcourt on how to "make things right" in Canada
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Send us a text This episode of The Heart Gallery will take you into the history and ongoing realities of Indigenous affairs in Canada. Recent years have shed light on a painful and violent history, as well as present-day systemic challenges. From the harrowing legacy of the residential school system, which remained active until the 1990s, to the co…
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Beyond the crisis: Justin Cook on climate stories that truly captivate
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Send us a text In today's episode, Justin Cook takes us into the evolving world of climate storytelling where he's been a journalist and photographer covering "communities living along the edges in America" for the past several years. Justin's work stands in stark contrast to the conventional climate storytelling landscape that's so often dominated…
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What good can a museum do for global society? With Pascal Hufschmid
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Send us a text In today's escalating humanitarian crises, the term itself is complex, influenced by various factors. The United Nations reports 235 million people needing humanitarian help, nearly double from a decade ago. These crises and the treatment of them, often rooted in colonialism, affect everything from resources to power structures, and,…
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Lingering in the sun with Gaelynn Lea
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Send us a text For the 12th episode of The Heart Gallery, I am in conversation with Gaelynn Lea. Gaelynn, a violinist and songwriter who won NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest in 2016, has a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities in the music industry, especially for disabled artists. She has performed over 600 shows in 45 states and 9 c…
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Inclusive storytelling from Gaza and beyond with Patrick Gathara - Part 2
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Send us a text This is the second part of my conversation with Patrick Gathara. In this segment, we continue to dissect inclusive storytelling and its critical role in understanding humanity - both that of the world as well as our own. We cover the genocide in Gaza, inclusive stories from other context, the problems of western media today, and how …
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Inclusive storytelling from Gaza and beyond with Patrick Gathara - Part 1
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Send us a text For the first episode of The Heart Gallery Season 2, I talk to Patrick Gathara, The New Humanitarian's Senior Editor of Inclusive Storytelling. Patrick talks about what inclusive storytelling look like in a context where the news is changing by the minute, where echo chambers are swirling with recycled talking points, where mainstrea…
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Taylor Freesolo Rees on tuning into the heart
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Send us a text For the 10th episode (and the season finale!) of The Heart Gallery Podcast, I connect with my wonderful friend Taylor Freesolo Rees. Taylor is a filmmaker, documentarian, storyteller and photographer. She has won numerous film festival awards for her work exploring environmental justice, natural resource issues, the outdoor adventure…
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Alisa Petrosova on weaving climate threads into mainstream stories
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Send us a text For Episode 9 of The Heart Gallery Podcast, Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer talks to climate story consultant Alisa Petrosova. This episode explores how the film and TV industry is doing on climate messaging. According to research from Good Energy and The Media Impact Project that analyzed 37, 453 scripted television episodes and films relea…
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John Kazior on nonhuman perspectives, greenwashing arts, & moving beyond consumption
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Send us a text For Episode 8 of The Heart Gallery Podcast, Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer talks to artist and writer John Kazior. Today’s guest on The Heart Gallery sparks imagination incredibly well. He is John Kazior, an American artist and writer based in Sweden. John's writing also reveals the depths of these dark arts and shares how we can come to se…
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Gemma Lloyd & Lara Goodband on wild card witches, curating museum spaces in a changing climate, & the power of tears as big as plums
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Send us a text For Episode 7 of The Heart Gallery Podcast, Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer talks to curators Lara Goodband & Gemma Lloyd. Lara & Gemma are curators of Earth Spells: Witches of the Anthropocene, happening now at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter. The exhibit features works from some incredible artists from around the globe: Caroline…
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Lauren Shapiro on collaborating with scientists, technology in art, & inspiring environmental stewardship
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Send us a text For Episode 6 of The Heart Gallery Podcast, Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer talks to artist Lauren Shapiro. Lauren has spent her whole life in Southern Florida and her work explores the potential of art to cultivate awareness of the environment. She often works alongside ecologists to understand and narrate nature and she merges craft, scien…
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Morel Doucet on climate gentrification, magical realism, & art for advocacy
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Send us a text For Episode 5 of The Heart Gallery Podcast, Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer talks to Morel Doucet. Morel is a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist and arts educator from Haiti. He creates captivating ceramic, illustration, and print works that examine the realities of climate gentrification, migration, and displacement within the Black diasp…
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Vidushi Yadav on deep communication in the social media era, what real representation looks like, & how to lead with love
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Send us a text For Episode 4 of The Heart Gallery Podcast, Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer talks to "artivist" Vidushi Yadav. Vidushi’s work revolves around gender justice, South Asian identity, access & right-based content. She is a communication & design consultant for multiple women rights, humanitarian & development organizations world-wide. Through he…
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Introduction to The Heart Gallery with Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer & Alice Irene Whittaker
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Send us a text For Episode 1 of The Heart Gallery Podcast, Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer introduces the podcast in conversation with writer & podcaster Alice Irene Whittaker. Visit The Heart Gallery's visual accompaniment for this podcast episode here (podcast transcript also available here). Mentioned: - Poet & ornithologist Drew Lanham - Doireann Ní Gh…
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Rohan Chakravarty on cartooning for the earth, the creatures all around, & some enthralling nature facts
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Send us a text For Episode 2 of The Heart Gallery Podcast, I talk to nature's cartoonist, Rohan Chakravarty. Rohan's cartoons about animals, the natural world, and human-environment connections are published as comic strips, books, and educational materials all around the world. He is talented, hilarious, and a critical voice for the voiceless. Lis…
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Joyce Yu-Jean Lee on understanding of the “other”, mesophotic corals, & the responsibilities of an artist
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Send us a text For Episode 3 of The Heart Gallery Podcast, Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer talks to artist Joyce Yu-Jean Lee. Joyce works with video, digital photography, and interactive installation that combine social practice with institutional critique. Curious about how the act of seeing is transformed by technology, her artwork examines how mass …
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