Reclaiming Representation Podcast

Meet storyteller and visual artist, Sarah Fox.

Their multimedia stories and characters evoke fantasy and discomfort while exploring different facets of the embodied female experience. We discuss the censorship of her most recent work by the McNay Art Museum, her community’s response to it, and the ways motherhood has influenced her art and career.

This episode’s transcript and references are available on our website.

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Meet visual artist and storyteller, Sarah Fox. (00:59)
What is your art like? What mediums do you work with? (02:20)
What do you want your work to say? What subject matter have you covered? (03:39)
How do you use images of animals to express the experience of being in a woman’s body? (04:44)
What is your relationship with your own body like in terms of grotesqueness? How did art impact that relationship? (08:27)
Do you think of yourself as disabled? (11:16)
Some of your art is related to your infertility. Do you want to talk about that at all? (13:42)
What are you currently working on? (15:03)
Where can people see your censored puppet show? (23:15)
Who do you make work for? (24:21)
What messages or feelings do you hope your work inspires? (25:32)
What is it like to have a child in Texas right now? (29:20)
When did you start to see yourself as an artist? (34:08)
Being the child of an artist, how do you think of your child’s relationship to art? (37:05)
Where do you see yourself with your art in the future? How has this situation with the McNay changed that? (40:14)
Do you feel like you’re a successful artist? Do you think others see you as successful? (43:08)
What has your experience been as a mother going on artist residencies? (44:41)
Can you tell us a little more about your main space exhibition at Artpace? (46:36)
Do you find the career of any other artists aspirational in some way? Who and how? (47:46)
Can you speak on the ways being a single mother changes the way you approach your career? (48:48)
What is your artist community like? How do you support each other? (52:53)
What does it mean to be an artist? (54:02)
What is the cost of being an artist? (55:43)
How does art allow people to subvert systems of oppression? (01:01:29)
How can people find and support your work? (01:04:05)

Host, Producer, Audio/Video Editor | Carina HiscockCo-Producer | Hailey WangMusic | Wish

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