Alternate Currents Discussion Series
Episodes
AC Discussion | Small Energies
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, Amplify worked with MdW Atlas as guest editors on a series of posts running throughout the month of April. Artists and organizers Lydia Ches...
AC Discussion | Meet Me Where You Are (Or, How Not To Starve An Artist)
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artists and organizers Amanada Huckins, Alex Jochim, Joseph Orzal, Bilgesu Sisman, Marcey Yates, and Rachel Ziegler sat down to discuss how artists ar...
AC Interview | Rosela del Bosque
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We recently sat down curator, researcher, and cultural practitioner Rosela del Bosque to talk more about her collaborative project, The Family Archive...
AC Interview | Lydia Cheshewalla + Sarah Rowe
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We recently sat down with artists Lydia Cheshewalla and Sarah Rowe to talk about GROUNDING, their highly collaborative exhibition at Amplify’s Gener...
AC Interview | John Cohorst + Holly Kranker
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We recently sat down with John Cohorst and Holly Kranker, Amplify's 2019 Public Impact Grant recipients, to talk more about their project CAR>GO (C...
AC Interview | Zedeka Poindexter
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We recently sat down with Zedeka Poindexter, Amplify's 2022-23 Public Impact Grant recipient. Zedeka was awarded a Public Impact Grant by an external ...
AC Interview | Jared Ledsema
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We recently sat down with Jared Ledesma, Senior Curator at the Akron Art Museum, to follow up on ‘From the Margins to the Center: Inclusive Curatori...
AC Interview | Sunshine Thomas-Bear + Annika Johnson
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Joslyn Art Museum, Annika Johnson sat down with Sunshine Thomas-Bear, Director of the Angel ...
AC Interview | Lydia Cheshewalla
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We recently sat down with artist, organizer, and member of the Osage Nation, Lydia Cheshewalla to talk about the ways in which relationships, rooted i...
AC Interview | Alajia McKizia
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We recently sat down with artist and organizer, Alajia McKizia to talk about charity, solidarity, and self-determination. The conversation trained its...
AC Interview | Nathaniel Ruleaux + Jonathan Orozco
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, writer and art historian, Jonathan Orozco sat down with artist, organizer, and member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, Nathaniel Ruleaux to unpa...
AC Interview | Rynn Kerkhove
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, we sat down with musician, artist, and city planner Rynn Kerkhove to talk about some of the connections between ecologically reproductive la...
AC Interview | Marisa Cummings + Annika Johnson: Part 2
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Joslyn Art Museum, Annika Johnson and CEO of the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center,...
AC Interview | Steve Tamayo
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We recently asked Amplify’s 2020 Indigenous American Artist Support Grant recipient, Steve Tamayo, if he would share some of his thoughts about what...
AC Interview | Marisa Cummings + Annika Johnson
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Indigenous communities, particularly those located in rural areas where ways of knowing and being are rooted in interdependencies with the environment...
AC Interview | Paige Reitz + Joey Lynch
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We sat down recently with Paige Reitz, Deputy Director at the Union for Contemporary Art and Joey Lynch, the Union’s Director of Facilities an...
AC Interview | Erin Foley
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We sat down recently with Erin Foley, Finance Manager at Film Streams, to talk about the relationship between art and labor and working toward m...
AC Interview: Corson Androski & Sarah Hummel Jones
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We sat down with 2019 Artist Support Grant recipients Sarah Hummel Jones and Corson Androski to find out more about the content that drives their work...