Mana Art Studio Tour – Pt. 1 Pt. 2 Pt. 3 (Season 26, Episode 6)

Mana Art Studio Tour – Pt 1 Pt 2 Pt 3 (Season 26, Episode 6) Tarik Talk Podcast

Open House New York – Caroline Almond (Season 26, Episode 5)

Supermrin is a sculptor and installation artist whose work merges foraged trees with a self-developed grass-based bioplastic to explore the capitalist and colonial systems embedded in landscapes, particularly the global lawn. Her ongoing project, FIELD, intertwines biophilosophy, decolonial theory, and material science, and was featured in Towards Another Architecture: New Visions for the 21st Century (Lund Humphries, 2024). She has exhibited internationally across venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Untitled Art Fair Miami, and the Italian Virtual Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Supermrin has received major grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Franklin Furnace Fund, NYFA, and the Ohio Arts Council. She currently serves as Area Head of Interdisciplinary Practice at the University of Cincinnati’s School of Art, is an artist-in-residence at Silver Art Projects in the World Trade Center, and a research fellow at Genspace in Brooklyn.All episodes are now available to watch on YouTube & Instagram, and to listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major streaming platforms.

In this episode of Tarik Talk, Tarik speaks with Belgian artist Adrien Lucca, born in Paris and now living and working in Brussels, in his Brussels studio about a practice that sits at the intersection of art, science, light, and color. Adrien explores how non-human beings, particularly the elephant hawk moth, perceive the world, using LEDs, pigments, and coding to translate invisible color spectra into immersive visual experiences for human viewers. He shares his journey from studying art and music to creating large-scale public installations, including a pivotal breakthrough project in 2015 that helped define the direction of his work. The conversation also looks ahead to his upcoming long-term installation at Botanique Brussels, where the building’s lobby will be transformed through programmable, color-shifting light. At the core of Adrien’s practice is a critique of human-centered vision and a deeper reflection on how artificial light impacts insects, plants, and entire ecosystems. Through his work, he invites us to consider the worlds that exist beyond human perception and how art can make the invisible visible.

In this episode of Tarik Talk, Tarik speaks with Belgian artist Adrien Lucca, born in Paris and now living and working in Brussels, in his Brussels studio about a practice that sits at the intersection of art, science, light, and color. Adrien explores how non-human beings, particularly the elephant hawk moth, perceive the world, using LEDs, pigments, and coding to translate invisible color spectra into immersive visual experiences for human viewers. He shares his journey from studying art and music to creating large-scale public installations, including a pivotal breakthrough project in 2015 that helped define the direction of his work. The conversation also looks ahead to his upcoming long-term installation at Botanique Brussels, where the building’s lobby will be transformed through programmable, color-shifting light. At the core of Adrien’s practice is a critique of human-centered vision and a deeper reflection on how artificial light impacts insects, plants, and entire ecosystems. Through his work, he invites us to consider the worlds that exist beyond human perception and how art can make the invisible visible.

In this episode of Tarik Talk, Tarik speaks with Belgian artist Adrien Lucca, born in Paris and now living and working in Brussels, in his Brussels studio about a practice that sits at the intersection of art, science, light, and color. Adrien explores how non-human beings, particularly the elephant hawk moth, perceive the world, using LEDs, pigments, and coding to translate invisible color spectra into immersive visual experiences for human viewers. He shares his journey from studying art and music to creating large-scale public installations, including a pivotal breakthrough project in 2015 that helped define the direction of his work. The conversation also looks ahead to his upcoming long-term installation at Botanique Brussels, where the building’s lobby will be transformed through programmable, color-shifting light. At the core of Adrien’s practice is a critique of human-centered vision and a deeper reflection on how artificial light impacts insects, plants, and entire ecosystems. Through his work, he invites us to consider the worlds that exist beyond human perception and how art can make the invisible visible.

Deonté Griffin-Quick embodies the powerful intersection of faith, arts, and cultural leadership that defines DGQ Culture. As an actor, revivalist, and nationally recognized arts administrator, he brings a unique vision for how faith-rooted strategy can transform communities and organizations. Through DGQ Culture, Deonté unites his calling and artistic expertise to help faith-rooted creatives and organizations maximize their cultural impact and fulfill their divine purpose. His spiritual journey started early—delivering his first sermon at 12 entitled "G.O.D: God Opens Doors" (Revelation 3:8). This prophetic message foreshadowed his future work bridging spiritual wisdom with cultural innovation. Deonté accepted his call to ministry in 2017 and became a licensed minister. He currently serves at Destiny Living Ministries where he continues to develop his approach to faith-based community engagement and artistic transformation. In the arts and cultural sector, Deonté has established himself as a changemaker at both regional and national levels. As Managing Director of External Affairs at Artist Communities Alliance, he helped shape support systems for creative communities globally. Previously, as Director of Programs and Services at New Jersey Theatre Alliance, he built lasting partnerships, led statewide initiatives, and cultivated 42 professional theatre companies. His commitment to creating pathways for underrepresented voices led him to develop the New Jersey Arts and Culture Administrators of Color Network in 2019. This pioneering initiative demonstrates his ability to identify systemic gaps and create structures that empower others—a cornerstone of DGQ Culture's approach. His achievements have been recognized with the inaugural Individual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and the Outstanding Achievement in the Arts Award from the Union County Urban League of Young Professionals. Deonté holds a BA in Theatre with a Communications minor from Kean University and a Master's in Arts Administration from Drexel University.

Noah Xifr aka Bird has painted empowering art all his life. "I explore concepts like achieving psychological wellbeing, strength, love, community building, and striving for environmental justice."Born in Madrid, Spain and growing up in the Bronx, NY, this 3rd generation artist started drawing as a child inspired by the city, birds he raised, surreal painters, science fiction, graffiti and comic books. In 5th grade he won a NY Transit Museum poster design contest and went on to earn a Bachelor’s of Fine Art from the Cooper Union School of Art, with a major in Painting and Printmaking. His creative journey has brought him to found the Symbolic Realism arts movement, a home for contemporary surreal conceptual artists.

Caroline Amond is an emerging visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University in 2019 and a MFA in Art from CUNY Brooklyn College in 2024. Caroline has exhibited in an assortment of exhibitions across New York (Powerhouse Arts, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery) and has received multiple awards (Morris Dorsky and Rose Goldstein Memorial Scholarship) for her artistic contributions. Her work was featured on Artnet’s “Best Work of 2024: 11 Standouts We Saw Globally.” Amond’s bold paintings challenge conventional beauty standards and provoke viewers to decode the layered symbolism and iconography imbues within each work. She focuses on allegorical themes and prioritizes the female gaze, while also reflecting on the post-internet culture in which she was raised.

About Stephanie Norberg INSTALLATION: I’m interested in creating environments that reference pop-culture, questions the notions of value of worth, talks about the DIY culture many young artists across the nation are embracing, the relevance of wonder and phenomena while we are existing in an ever increasing digitally-driven world, and the general notion of spirituality and self-identification within the framework of a contemporary culture. Within these environments I create fragments of subcultures spanning time from historical to contemporary movements. These subcultures date back to Native Americans; embracing spirituality, mysticism, and transcendentalism to current movements occurring in music culture such as; trance, electronic, and Witch House. These fragments of already existing subcultures work together to talk about the human condition for the need to identify within a group and are also self-reflexive of my own personal narrative and interests.