"Portrait Series" by Women Imprint: Recent Episodes
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Women Imprint's "Portrait Series" archives the voice of female creatives through interviews. We chat with authors, artists, musicians, etc. about how they began their creative journey, about their inspiration, current projects, women in public spaces, and more. Make sure to follow!
Women Imprint is an independent U.S.-based nonprofit organization founded by Jana Mader and Kaitlyn Allen. It documents the imprint of women whose lives and actions continue to inspire today. We do this by creating carefully curated walking tours of women's history, through a podcast, and by evaluating dedications to women in the public space.
For more info visit our website: www.womenimprint.com
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In part 2, we continue Jessie's interview with Julie Crouse, a library supervisor, and modern-day eclectic witch. Jessie and Julie deep dive into the villainization of witchcraft and Julie's personal practice as a witch. They also chat about witchcraft as an alternative therapy and how Julie unites yoga with the craft. This episode is part 2 of 2.
Follow Julie Crouse:
Instagram: @crystal.grid.oracle email: crystal.grid.oracle@gmail.com website: www.crystalgridritual.com
Women Imprint is a nonprofit organization that explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. Women Imprint’s core mission is fostering more excellent representation of women creatives in the public space. We appreciate the donations from our supporters. Without you, this wouldn’t be possible!
Become a member: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint Website: www.womenimprint.com Instagram: @WomenImprint
In this episode, Jessie interviews Julie Crouse, a modern-day witch, and library supervisor who tells us how she came into her practice as a crystal & tarot reader and the difference between the two types of reading as a map to the questions that are asked, and what our higher self already knows in the universe. This episode is part 1 of 2.
Follow Julie Crouse:
Instagram: @crystal.grid.oracle email: crystal.grid.oracle@gmail.com website: www.crystalgridritual.com
Women Imprint is a nonprofit organization that explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. Women Imprint’s core mission is fostering more excellent representation of women creatives in the public space. We appreciate the donations from our supporters. Without you, this wouldn’t be possible!
Become a member: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint Website: www.womenimprint.com Instagram: @WomenImprint
Join Mia as she talks with Chicago singer, spoken word artist, actress, and producer Maggie Brown about growing up with creative luminaries as family members, and intersecting creative practices with teaching and activism.
Follow Maggie Brown:
Website: https://www.maggiebrown.com/about
Twitter: @legacycompany
LinkedIn: Maggie Brown
Women Imprint is a nonprofit organization that explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives in the public space. We appreciate the donations from our supporters. Without you, this wouldn’t be possible!
Become a member: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint Website: www.womenimprint.com Instagram: @WomenImprint
In this episode, Lucille interviews Amy Wu, journalist & storyteller whose book and documentary titled ‘From Farms to Incubators’ spotlights more than 30 portraits of women in agrifoodtech. She chats to us about her drive to tell the stories of women who have created sustainable and socially responsible innovations today, despite obstacles of culture & lack of financial funding for women & women of color.
Amy’s book: From Farms to Incubators: Women Innovators Revolutionizing How Our Food Is Grown
Follow Amy Wu: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amy8wu Email: amy@farmstoincubators.com Website: https://www.farmstoincubators.com/about
Women Imprint is a nonprofit organization that explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives in the public space. We appreciate the donations from our supporters. Without you, this wouldn’t be possible!
Become a member: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint Website: www.womenimprint.com Instagram: @WomenImprint
Hello from Winston Salem! In this episode, Jessie interviews author and librarian Bianca Orellana about her writing journey, how she writes to live, and the ups and downs of publishing a book. She also shares her inspirations and goals with us and gives great insights to those new to writing.
Bianca’s book (shop independent): We Are Eternal
Follow Bianca: Instagram: write.to.live_biancaorellana/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BJOwrites Website: BiancaOrellana.com
Women Imprint is a nonprofit organization that explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. In this interview series, writer Jana Marlene Mader and art historian Kaitlyn Allen speak to creative women working today. Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives in the public space.
Become a member: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint Website: www.womenimprint.com Instagram: @WomenImprint
A first, a chat between two creatives! In this episode, we welcome Leigh Pettus and Martha Nelson who are both old-time musicians from Western North Carolina. Leigh and Martha share with us their journey into playing stringed instruments and how old-time Appalachian music is a very strong community. They also talk about the spaces they feel creative in and how they connected with each other and music during covid-19.
Leigh & Martha’s book recommendations for creative journaling:
- ‘The Artist Way’ by Julia Cameron
- ‘The Listening Path’ by Julia Cameron
Feel free to contact Martha (MarthaRNelson@gmail.com) or Leigh (Pettus57@gmail.com) for more information about their music.
Women Imprint is a nonprofit organization that explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. In this interview series, writer Jana Marlene Mader and art historian Kaitlyn Allen speak to creative women working today. Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives in the public space.
Become a member: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint
Website: www.womenimprint.com
Instagram: @WomenImprint
In this episode, Mia talks with Chicago actress, spoken word artist, model, filmmaker, educator, and public health professional Hannah Bonecutter about how traveling the world influences her, about her faith, about being an agent of change in a range of different careers, and about the urgent problems we face in the world today.
Hannah Bonecutter's Instagram: @the_bonecutter
Women Imprint is a nonprofit organization that explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. In this interview series, writer Jana Marlene Mader and art historian Kaitlyn Allen speak to creative women working today. Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives in the public space.
Become a member: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint
Website: www.womenimprint.com
Instagram: @WomenImprint
This week on the Portrait Series' first episode from Latin America, Sara has a chat with Mexico City’s own Estefanía Morlette, an Art and Cultural Patrimony expert about what it means to her to be a creative, about how no matter what she does she just can’t get away from art and also some interesting places you might want to explore in Mexico City.
Estefanía Morlette's Instagram: @marion_morlett / @dezeroalarte
Women Imprint is a nonprofit organization that explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. In this interview series, writer Jana Marlene Mader and art historian Kaitlyn Allen speak to creative women working today. Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives in the public space.
Become a member: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint
Website: www.womenimprint.com
Instagram: @WomenImprint
Join Mia as she talks with Chicago native painter, muralist, curator, educator, and community planner Dorian Sylvain about her inspirations and her creative ties to the city, about all the different aspects of her life and career as an artist, educator, and creative Black woman, about the importance of giving back to our communities and the beautification of our spaces.
Dorian’s Website: doriansylvain.com
Instagram: @doriansylvain
Women Imprint is a nonprofit organization that explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. In this interview series, writer Jana Marlene Mader, art historian Kaitlyn Allen, and our interns speak to creative women working today. Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives in the public space.
Become a member: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint
Website: www.womenimprint.com
Instagram: @WomenImprint
Join Kaitlyn as she talks with Dr. Sarah Mannle, an emergency medicine nurse practitioner in Asheville, North Carolina as she tells about her journey into medicine, creating a course in medical humanities for nurses as a way to bridge patient and medical staff connection, and her experience working in the ER during the Covid pandemic.
Sarah Mannle’s Instagram: @cinnaman77 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smannle77
Dr. Sarah Mannles Book Recommendations:
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman's
Women Imprint is a nonprofit organization that explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. In this interview series, writer Jana Marlene Mader and art historian Kaitlyn Allen speak to creative women working today. Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives in the public space.
Become a member: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint
Website: www.womenimprint.com
Instagram: @WomenImprint
Join Jana as she talks with Brooklyn-born dancer, choreographer, educator, and artist organizer Alanna Morris-Van Tassel about their upbringing and early dance education, finding their own artistic voice, about all the different aspects of their career as an organizer, educator, and creative person, about the importance of community and the language of dance.
Alanna's Website: www.alannamvt.com Instagram: @amvtp_ig
Women Imprint is a nonprofit organization that explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. In this interview series, writer Jana Marlene Mader and art historian Kaitlyn Allen speak to creative women working today. Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives in the public space.
Become a member: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint
Website: www.womenimprint.com
Instagram: @WomenImprint
Join Kaitlyn as she interviews Minori Hinds, a comedian based in Atlanta, Georgia with loving ties to Asheville, North Carolina. Minori chats with us about her journey as a creative, the perfect audience, and how the quote by Cesar A. Cruz, ‘Art Should Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable.’ illustrates her comedic process.
Minori’s Instagram: @buffoonori Tumblr: minorihinds.tumblr.com
Women Imprint is a nonprofit organization that explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. In this interview series, writer Jana Marlene Mader and art historian Kaitlyn Allen speak to creative women working today. Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives in the public space.
Become a member: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint
Website: www.womenimprint.com
Instagram: @WomenImprint
Join Jana as she talks with singer-songwriter Suzie Candell about her journey and inspiration, her home in Liechtenstein – a small country next to Switzerland, country music in Europe, the process of songwriting, and her latest album “Restless” that was released in March 2020 right before the pandemic hit.
Women Imprint is a nonprofit organization that explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. In this interview series, writer Jana Marlene Mader and art historian Kaitlyn Allen speak to creative women working today. Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives through documenting the imprint of those whose lives and actions continue to inspire today.
Become a member: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint
Website: womenimprint.com
Join Kaitlyn as she talks with basket weaver and potter Mary Thompson at her shop in the Big Cove Community in Cherokee, North Carolina. A member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Mary tells us about her journey and also shares techniques and history of Cherokee baskets and more.
Women Imprint is a nonprofit organization that explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. In this interview series, writer Jana Marlene Mader and art historian Kaitlyn Allen speak to creative women working today. Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives through documenting the imprint of those whose lives and actions continue to inspire today.
Become a member: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint
Website: womenimprint.com
Join Jana as she talks with gardener and business owner Amelia Legare at "The O Zone", a sustainability center in Red Hook NY, about her journey, her inspiration and influences and her vision for her community and for our planet.
Women Imprint is a nonprofit organization that explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. In this interview series, writer Jana Marlene Mader and art historian Kaitlyn Allen speak to creative women working today. Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives through documenting the imprint of those whose lives and actions continue to inspire today.
Become a member: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint
Website: womenimprint.com
Join Kaitlyn as she talks with potter Martha Nelson in her ceramics studio in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Martha talks about her family’s pottery traditions and how the practice of yoga can share similar philosophies to ceramic traditions.
Women Imprint explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. In this interview series, writer Jana Marlene Mader and art historian Kaitlyn Allen speak to creative women working today. Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives through documenting the imprint of those whose lives and actions continue to inspire today.
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Join Jana as she talks with the artist Melora Kuhn in her studio in Upstate New York about the creative process, inspiration, nature in the Hudson Valley, and her national and international exhibitions.
Women Imprint explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. In this interview series, writer Jana Marlene Mader and art historian Kaitlyn Allen speak to creative women working today. Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives through documenting the imprint of those whose lives and actions continue to inspire today.
Website: womenimprint.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint
Join Kaitlyn as she interviews Asheville, North Carolina based artist Maxx Feist about their journey to becoming a working artist, painting during the pandemic, and their current inspiration on social media.
Women Imprint explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. Join writer Jana Marlene Mader and art historian Kaitlyn Allen as they take you on armchair travels around the world highlighting the interaction between places and creative process through walkable tours. We discuss badass women who are either forgotten, under-appreciated, portrayed one-sided, misunderstood, or all of them together.
Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives through documenting the imprint of those whose lives and actions continue to inspire today.
website: womenimprint.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint
Hosts Kaitlyn and Jana chat about Jana’s anthology “Denkräume”, a book about spaces of thinking, which she edited with the sociologist Simone Jung. They discuss the process of creating an anthology, spaces of creativity, and how “Denkräume” relates to their project Women Imprint. You can find the book on www.womenimprint.com
Join Jana as she talks with Vienna based theater director and writer Ivna Zic about her upbringing in Croatia and Germany, the role of women in theater, and her prize winning debut novel.
Women Imprint explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. In this interview series, writer Jana Marlene Mader and art historian Kaitlyn Allen speak to creative women working today. Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives through documenting the imprint of those whose lives and actions continue to inspire today.
Website: womenimprint.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint
Join Kaitlyn as she interviews Lisa Nance, an Asheville North Carolina based painter and poet. They talk about marshmallows, the value of art, and the unfettered process of poetry.
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Join Jana as she talks with writer Iman Humaydan about her work, the status of women in Lebanon and in France, and writing in times of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Women Imprint explores the lives and achievements of women creatives throughout history. In this interview series, writer Jana Marlene Mader and art historian Kaitlyn Allen speak to creative women working today. Women Imprint’s core mission lies in fostering greater representation of women creatives through documenting the imprint of those whose lives and actions continue to inspire today.
Website: womenimprint.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/womenimprint