EPISODE 65: Casting Lots with David Muenzer

Choreographer Mariana Valencia and I discuss her early start to performance on WCIU-TV (Channel 26), Hampshire College, and the themes of community and friendship in her performances. Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Show NotesMariana Valencia

Samantha Roth and I talk about drawing and night time on my podcast. ("Podcast"?) Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram. Show Notes: Samantha Roth A Casual Pincer

Today on the podcast is artist, filmmaker and icon Pau S. Pescador. Pau is a trans-nonbinary artist who works in film, photography, and performance. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Pau is prolific, and on the podcast we focus on work she made post-Covid that documents her life transitioning in various social spaces: her dating life, her work life, her domestic life. I love Pau, and I think you will too.     Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Show Notes Pau S. Pescador Pau on Instagram

Julia Weist and I talk about municipal archives, private detectives, following and finding stuff. Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Show Notes Julia Weist Parbunkells Public Record Sexy Librarian National Gleaning Project Guide to the Online Gleaning Resources Hub Materials for the Arts > Donations

We talk kinship, games, and the perfect first job. And a cameo from Benny! Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. Subscribe to my newsletter or follow the pod on Instagram and Facebook. Show Notes David Muenzer My grandparents' living room in Floral Park 'Drawing Marketplace' essay by David Muenzer

Photographer David Gilbert and I relish in flatness, drapery, and ghosts.  Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show .Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

Bronwen Tate writes poems about sex after miscarriage, among other things. She is brilliant, she is my friend. Recorded from my bed in 2022, I don't entirely remember what we talked about…definitely writing, higher education, friendship, and Barbara Johnson.  Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Show Notes Bronwen Tate's website Barbara Johnson's essay "Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion" Subscribe to Bronwen Tate's Substack Newsletter   Read the feature on Bronwen in Jill Hess's Noted newsletter YELLOW TALE // SCARCITY published in Typo Mag (as read aloud in the episode by Bronwen) Bronwen curates a Reading Series in Vancouver. Subscribe to the newsletter here: https://wholecloth.substack.com/ Bronwen's previous podcast appearances!: The Slowdown with Ada Limón Writers Read Their Early Sh*t Podcast interview Of Poetry podcast interview

Filmmaker Leslie Tai's How To Have an American Baby is streaming on PBS through March 10, 2024. The POV documentary is an intimate look at the shadow economy that caters to Chinese parents who travel to the US to give birth for citizenship. We discuss the film, the commodification of American motherhood, the tragedies of infant morbidity, and what birth sounds like (in any language). Trigger warning: this episode includes discussion of death and medical malpractice.   Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Show Notes Watch How To Have An American Baby on PBS How To Have An American Baby on Instagram How To Have An American Baby Website Leslie Tai

This episode is an enlightening conversation with basket weaver and green burial expert Mary Lauren Fraser. Content warning: Mary weaves urns and coffins. We talk a lot about death and dying in this episode.  Show Notes Mary Lauren Fraser Baskets Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

Erin M. Riley makes narrative, painterly weavings that give voice to complex stories of domestic abuse and intimacy. We talk trauma, healing, self-splintering, and weaving.  Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Show Notes Erin M. Riley