The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society: 2022-2023
Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists and creative thinkers across the Arts and STEM. We discuss their life, work and artistic practice. Winners of Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Pulitzer, Nobel Prize, leaders and public figures share real experiences and offer valuable insights. Notable guests and participating museums and organizations include: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Neil Patrick Harris, Smithsonian, Roxane Gay, Musée Picasso, EARTHDAY-ORG, Neil Gaiman, UNESCO, Joyce Carol Oates, Mark Seliger, Acropolis Museum, Hilary Mantel, Songwriters Hall of Fame, George Saunders, The New Museum, Lemony Snicket, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Galleries, Joe Mantegna, PETA, Greenpeace, EPA, Morgan Library and Museum, and many others.
The interviews are hosted by founder and creative educator Mia Funk with the participation of students, universities, and collaborators from around the world. These conversations are also part of our traveling exhibition.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 22
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2023
Special Earth Day Stories - Environmentalists, Artists, Students & Teachers share their Love for the Planet - Part 1
Today we’re streaming voices of environmentalists, artists, students, and teachers. Enjoy Part 1 of this Special Series with music courtesy of composer Max Richter.
00:15:09 |
Sat 22 Apr 2023
MAX RICHTER - Award-winning Composer & Pianist
Composer Max Richter is known for his ability to translate profound human emotions into music. Max’s record Sleep is the most streamed classical album of all time and his catalogue has surpassed 3 bi…
01:00:47 |
Sat 22 Apr 2023
The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now - HENRY SHUE - Highlights
“These long-lived connections provide a radically different example of the insight from one of the characters created by my fellow Southerner William Faulkner: 'The past is never dead. It's not even …
00:15:30 |
Wed 12 Apr 2023
PERRY MASON starring Matthew Rhys with Showrunner MICHAEL BEGLER - Highlights
“Storytelling is our oldest art form. We can't silence the arts and those voices because if we do, we lose something that is so crucial to who we are just as human beings. We want to tell stories. We…
00:11:21 |
Thu 06 Apr 2023
Inside the Pritzker Architecture Prize & Venice Biennale with MANUELA LUCÁ-DAZIO - Highlights
“So for me being born in a place like Naples helped me absorb and to be constantly open and curious about other cultures, simply because they were part of my own culture. So it's a challenging city, …
00:10:18 |
Wed 22 Mar 2023
Florian Hoffmeister - Award-winning DP “TAR” starring Cate Blanchett - Highlights
Florian Hoffmeister is a prolific director of photography. Recent works by Hoffmeister include his lensing on the Apple TV+ series Pachinko, the critically-acclaimed political thriller Official Secre…
00:12:56 |
Thu 19 Jan 2023
Poetry, Politics, Technology & Society with Poet, Filmmaker MAX STOSSEL - Highlights
"Technology has very much changed the way we read and take in information and shortened it into quick bursts and attention spans. We're living in a new world, for sure. And how do we communicate in t…
00:10:45 |
Wed 18 Jan 2023
Max Stossel - Award-winning Poet, Filmmaker, Creator of "Words That Move"
Max Stossel is an Award-winning poet, filmmaker, and speaker, named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year. His Stand-Up Poetry Special Words That Move takes the audience through a var…
00:50:56 |
Wed 18 Jan 2023
Debra J. Fisher - Showrunner of Netflix’s “Ginny & Georgia” - Writer, Exec. Producer “Criminal Minds” , “Alias”
Debra J. Fisher is a writer, producer, and director. She currently serves as the showrunner, writer, and executive producer of the Netflix series Ginny & Georgia. Season one of the hit series was wa…
00:41:43 |
Wed 11 Jan 2023
Adam Alter - Author of “Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology”, “Anatomy of a Breakthrough"
Adam Alter is a Professor of Marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business and the Robert Stansky Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow. Adam is the New York Times bestselling author of Irresistible: The …
00:47:48 |
Tue 10 Jan 2023
Humanity’s Moment: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope w/ IPCC, Lead Author JOËLLE GERGIS - Highlights
"We're really starting to witness serious climate extremes that can no longer be ignored. And the IPCC, one of our key conclusions to that report was that effectively the human fingerprint on the cli…
00:10:13 |
Sat 07 Jan 2023
Britt Wray - Author of “Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis”
Britt Wray is the author of Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis. She's a writer and broadcaster researching the emotional and psychological impacts of the climate crisis. Bo…
00:42:06 |
Tue 18 Oct 2022
The Changing Flow of Energy Through the Climate System w/ Nobel Prize-winning Scientist KEVIN TRENBERTH - Highlights
"The whole social fabric that we have is based upon the past climate, and so once we cross that threshold, it's what I call the Straw that Breaks the Camel's Back Syndrome. And so you have a relative…
00:12:40 |
Mon 25 Jul 2022
The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth & Inequality with ODED GALOR - Highlights
"If we reduce population growth by 1% in the world economy, we can have growth in income per capita at a level of about 7% and still hold carbon emissions unchanged. Namely, by reducing population gr…
00:13:31 |
Tue 14 Jun 2022
ODED GALOR - Author of The Journey of Humanity - Founder of Unified Growth Theory
Oded Galor is Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University and the founding thinker behind Unified Growth Theory, which seeks to uncover the fundamental causes of development, pro…
00:53:22 |
Tue 14 Jun 2022
The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society w/ NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS - Dir. - Human Nature Lab, Yale - Highlights
“Are there simple forms of artificial intelligence, simple programming of bots, such that when they are added to groups of humans – because those humans are smart or otherwise positively inclined - t…
Tue 31 May 2022
DOLEN PERKINS-VALDEZ - NYTimes Best-selling Author of Take My Hand
Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Wench, and Balm. She was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction, and she was awarded th…
Tue 10 May 2022
AARON DWORKIN - Social Entrepreneur, Performing Artist, Filmmaker, Philanthropist & Teacher
Aaron Dworkin is a multifaceted artist and entrepreneur with passion for diversifying and amplifying the arts. Epitomizing how art, leadership, and diversity all play a vital role in advancing our so…
00:43:00 |
Sat 30 Apr 2022
TRISH SIE - Grammy & Smithsonian Ingenuity Award-winning Film Director, Choreographer & Dancer
Trish Sie is a multi-talented director whose work spans the realms of music videos, commercials, and short and feature films. After spending a decade as a professional dancer, championship ballroom c…
01:05:00 |
Thu 28 Apr 2022
E.J. KOH - Award-Winning Memoirist & Poet - The Magical Language of Others - A Lesser Love
E. J. Koh is the author of the memoir The Magical Language of Others, winner of the Washington State Book Award and the 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Award. For her poetry collection A Lesser Love she …
Tue 26 Apr 2022
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