The Creative Process

On this episode of The Creative Process, Dave Hopper speaks with artist Laura Swanson. https://wamcpodcasts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Episode-08-Laura-Swanson-Artist.mp3 Laura Swanson is an artist examining the behavior of looking at physical difference, working across various media including drawing, installation, photography, and sculpture. Born in Minneapolis, she received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008. Recent solo exhibitions include “Resistance”, presented at the Laurie M. Tisch Gallery in New York in 2016. Her work will be featured on the cover and within “Anti-Portraiture: Challenging the Limits of the Portrait”, published by I.B. Tauris in October 2017. An upcoming solo exhibition of new and recent work will be hosted by the Attenborough Arts Centre in the United Kingdom, opening September 2017. Her awards include grants and scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship program, and the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation. She lives and works in New York, NY.

On this episode of The Creative Process, Dave Hopper speaks with the creative director of Visual Country, Meagan Cignoli. https://wamcpodcasts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Episode-11-Meagan-Cignoli-Creative-Director.mp3 When social video first came to mobile phones through Vine and then Instagram, Meagan set aside a successful photography career to dive in headfirst. Her unique visual approach to those mediums quickly amassed a large and loyal following, drew the attention of brands, and won numerous awards (Cannes Lion, 4A’s O’Toole Award, Art Directors Award, a gold Andy, London International Awards, and others). Today, over one million people follow Meagan on social media…but more than just a social media influencer, Meagan had the foresight three years ago to start her own creative production agency, Visual Country, with her partner and ex-Ebayer, Amber Lee. The company that began in her Brooklyn apartment now counts Google, Coca Cola, Nike, Tiffany & Co, Twitter, and hundreds of other major brands as clients. Cignoli was named Digital Entrepreneur of the Year by the Hubbies (2014) and top 100 Creative by Ad Week (2015). She was also recently featured in Time Magazine, Wired magazine and in the PBS documentary, Frame by Frame, as an expert in stop motion.

On this episode of The Creative Process, Dave Hopper speaks with photographer Keith Yahrling. https://wamcpodcasts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Episode-12-Keith-Yahrling-Photographer-1.mp3 Yahrling is an artist based in Philadelphia. His most recent photographic work investigates the ways in which notions of freedom and independence have been implemented, altered and at times rejected in the contemporary American landscape. He was selected as one of PDN’s 30: New & Emerging Photographers to Watch for 2015. He recently mounted a solo exhibition at the Workspace Gallery in Lincoln, NE and has been included in group exhibitions at the Aperture Foundation, the Perkins Center for the Arts, and the Annenberg Space for Photography. He is currently working on a project on an Army base in Southwest Oklahoma.  

On this episode of The Creative Process, Dave Hopper speaks with artist Shannon Finnegan. https://wamcpodcasts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Episode-7-Shannon-Finnegan-Artist.mp3 Shannon Finnegan is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She works primarily in drawing and installation. Recent solo exhibitions include “Good Days & Bad Days” at Xiyi Gallery in Chengdu, China, “Should / Can’t” at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, NY and “DUEL” at OUTLET Fine Art in Brooklyn, NY. In 2014, she was a nominee for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant and in 2015, won an Awesome Foundation grant for her collaborative project Sandwich Club.

On the inaugural episode of The Creative Process, Dave Hopper speaks with fine-art photographer Brooke Shaden. https://wamcpodcasts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/01.-Brooke-Shaden-Final.mp3 Along with being a photographer, Brooke is also a speaker and an author.  Her fine-art work has been exhibited and published numerous times and she creates fantastic realities with her frames.  She’s on a mission to share compassion and create joy and she was kind enough to join me for the inaugural episode.

On this episode of The Creative Process, Dave Hopper speaks with photographer and filmmaker Hannah Price. https://wamcpodcasts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Episode-10-Hannah-Price-Photographer-and-Filmmaker.mp3 Raised in Fort Collins, Colorado, Hannah Price (b. 1986) is a photographic artist and filmmaker primarily interested in documenting relationships, race politics, social perception and misperception.  Price is internationally known for her project City of Brotherly Love (2009-2012), a series of photographs of the men who catcalled her on the streets of Philadelphia. In 2014, Price graduated from the Yale School of Art MFA Photography program, receiving the Richard Benson Prize for excellence in photography.  Over the past six years, Price’s photos have been displayed in several cities across the United States, with a few residing in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.   Currently, Ms. Price lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.

On this episode of The Creative Process, Dave Hopper speaks with photographer, text and installation artist Christa Blackwood. https://wamcpodcasts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Episode-4-Christa-Blackwood-Photographer.mp3 Her dream-like sequences and texts employ multiple techniques and methods, fusing traditional, historical and alternative processes with IPhone image-making and street installations. Blackwood received her MA in Studio Art from New York University and a BA in Classics from The University of Oklahoma. Her work has been featured in several publications including The New York Times, NYQ, New York Newsday, The Village Voice and The Chicago Sun Times. She has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and abroad.

On this episode of The Creative Process, Dave Hopper speaks with photographer Zora Murff. https://wamcpodcasts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/05.-Zora-Murff-Photographer-Final.mp3 Zora J Murff is an MFA student in Studio Art at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Zora attended the University of Iowa where he studied Photography and holds a BS in Psychology from Iowa State University. Combining his education in human services and art, Zora’s photography focuses on the experiences of youth in the juvenile justice system and the role of images in the correctional system; specifically how images are used to define individuals who are deemed criminals, and what happens when these definitions are abandoned or skewed. His work has been exhibited nationally, internationally, and featured online including The British Journal of Photography and Wired Magazine’s Raw File. His work has also been published in VICE Magazine, GOOD Magazine, and PDN’s Emerging Photographer Magazine. Zora published his first monograph, Corrections, through Aint-Bad Editions in the Winter of 2015. You can order a copy here.

On this episode of The Creative Process, Dave Hopper speaks with printmaker Breanne Trammell. https://wamcpodcasts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Episode-06-Breanne-Trammell-Final.mp3 Breanne is a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in printmaking. Her work explores objects and icons from popular culture, the confluence of high brow and low brow, and mines from her personal history. It presents common experiences and awkward memories that we come to terms with, and commemorates these experiences through humor and playful formalism. Like a giant papier-mâché paper clip or letterpress-printed twitter posts. Objects, observations, and inescapable memories that may seem unimportant but are significant and make us who we are.

On this episode of The Creative Process, Dave Hopper speaks with fine-art and documentary photographer Jennifer McClure. https://wamcpodcasts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Episode-3-Jennifer-McClure-Fine-Art-and-Documentary-Photographer.mp3 She uses the camera to ask and answer questions. She is interested in appearances and absences, short stories, poetry, and movies without happy endings.  She has lectured at Fotofusion and at Columbia Teacher’s College, and her work has been featured in publications such as Lenscratch, Feature Shoot, The Photo Review, and Photo District News among others. She was recommended by our last guest photographer Samantha Geballe.