Virtual Programs
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AIRIE Asks
AIRIE Asks
Chris Friday
AIRIE Asks with July Fellow Chris Friday. Friday walks us through their practice and time spent in the Everglades. AIRIE Residency Coordinator Arsimmer McCoy facilitates the conversation. Listen on Spotify.
AIRIE Asks
P Eldridge & Ashleigh Musk
An intimate look at December 2023 Fellows’ practice, process, and month-long stay in the Florida Everglades. The AIRIE Programs Manager, Kristina Reinis, facilitated the talk. You can also listen to this talk on the new AIRIE Asks podcast.
AIRIE Asks
Gentry Isaiah George
An intimate look at Gentry’s practice, process, and month-long stay in the Florida Everglades. The AIRIE Residency Coordinator, Arsimmer McCoy, will be facilitating the talk. This AIRIE Asks took place at the AIRIE Cabin in the Everglades. You can also listen to this talk on the new AIRIE Asks podcast.
AIRIE Asks
Venus Jasper
An intimate look at Venus Jasper’s practice, process, and month-long stay in the Florida Everglades. Facilitating the talk is local artist and queer ecologist Lee Pivnik. This AIRIE Asks took place at Greenspace, Miami. Learn More.
AIRIE Asks
Morel Doucet
Listen as Morel shares with listeners his practice, process, and adventures in the Everglades. In conversation with Melissa Hunter Davis, founder of Sugarcane Magazine.
Lauren Shapiro Explores
Her Art in the Everglades
Lauren Shapiro was the AIRIE Fellow for February 2024. A visual artist based in Miami, Lauren Shapiro integrates ceramics and technology to discover and share insights into the natural world. Join her as she shares about exploring her craft in the Everglades. More about Lauren.
"I was selected to be a 2024 Fellow and Artist in Residence in the Everglades with AIRIE, which took place during February. During my residency, I had the opportunity to explore the diverse ecosystems in the park and take photographs to create 3D models, which will later be incorporated into my sculptures and installations. This short video offers a glimpse into my experiences and research I accomplished during my time there." - Lauren
AIRIE Asks
T. Eliott Mansa
An intimate look at T. Eliott Mansa’s practice, process, and month-long stay in the Florida Everglades. Interviewed by guest moderator Melissa Hunter Davis, creator of Sugarcane Magazine, Mansa discussed in depth his research on the history of the Black Maroons of Florida, the Seminole Maroons, and Seminole Freedmen coming to the Florida swamps seeking liberation.
AIRIE Asks
Alejandro Rodriguez
In conversation with curator & cultural worker Zee Lopez Del Carmen and Everglades National Park Rangers, Rodriguez reflected on his time in residency at Everglades National Park. This in-depth and illuminating conversation explored the impact of AIRIE and ENP's partnership, the importance of the Everglades, as well as some work in progress from Rodriguez himself.
AIRIE Asks + Listening Party
Sydney Maubert & Atéha Bailly
On July 29th, AIRIE held “Queen of the Swamp” a two-part event with June and July AIRIE fellows Sydney Maubert and Atéha Bailly in Everglades National Park. This event includes an AIRIE Asks conversation with the artists as well as a musical performance by Atéha.
AIRIE 2024 Residency Informational
The AIRIE Team discusses the 2024 application process and the AIRIE residency followed by a Q&A.
AIRIE Asks
Diana Eusebio & Khari Turner
Diana Eusebio and Khari Turner in a special in-person conversation where they reflect on their residency in the Everglades. Hosted by Arsimmer McCoy and Cornelius Tulloch.
AIRIE 2023 Residency Informational
AIRIE Residency Coordinator, Arsimmer McCoy, shares information on the application process, residency, and her time in the Everglades. Followed by a Q&A.
AIRIE Asks
Kunya Rowley
Kunya Rowley in conversation with associate professor of musicology Dr. Melvin Butler as they reflect on Rowley’s September residency in the Everglades hosted by Residency Coordinator, Arsimmer McCoy.
AIRIE Asks
Arsimmer McCoy
Watch AIRIE Fellow Arsimmer McCoy in conversation with filmmaker Faren Humes as they reflect on McCoy's February residency in the Everglades. They discussed her experience during the residency and her project 'Homecoming', in which she invited voices from her Black community to connect with the voices of the Indigenous communities in the Everglades.
AIRIE Asks
Cornelius Tulloch
Hear from visual artist and AIRIE Fellow Cornelius Tulloch in conversation with Luisa Múnera, Associate Curator at YoungArts.
They reflect on Cornelius' January 2022 residency in Everglades National Park in which he worked to re-imagine transatlantic narratives of Black histories, cultures, and bodies within the Everglades, exploring influences from the Florida Highwaymen.
Meet the 2022 AIRIE Fellows
Meet the 2022 AIRIE Fellows! Hear from artists Germane Barnes, Lola Flash, Maya Freelon, Ania Freer, M. Carmen Lane, Arsimmer McCoy, Meg Ojala, Kunya Rowley, and Cornelius Tulloch as they discuss their current work, plans for their AIRIE residencies, and expectations about the Everglades.
Moderated by AIRIE Board Member Tommy Ralph Pace.
AIRIE Asks
Yukio Suzuki + Juraj Kojš
Japanese dancer and choreographer Yukio Suzuki and Slovakian-born, Miami-based composer, sound/multimedia artist, performer, researcher and educator Juraj Kojš, discuss their collaboration on Cross Pollination, a performance art piece presented on April 17 in the Everglades National Park. Moderated by Dale Andree, AIRIE Fellow and Founder and Director of National Water Dance Projects. In partnership with PAXy.
AIRIE Asks
Kory Reeder
Composer Kory Reeder (2021 AIRIE Fellow) in conversation with Miami-based artist, Thom Wheeler Castillo (2016 AIRIE Fellow). They reflect on Kory's June residency in Everglades National Park in which he collected field recordings of various locations around the park, capturing audio snapshots and investigating human and non-human interactions within our shared environment.
AIRIE In Conversation
Pedro Ramos, Superintendent of Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks
AIRIE Board Co-Chair T. Robertson Carter in conversation with Pedro Ramos, Superintendent of Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks. In the first of a three-part series on diversity and inclusion, listeners will learn about AIRIE’s unique partnership with Everglades National Park and the impact artists can have on creating a more accessible environment through their work as interpreters and communicators.
AIRIE Asks
Elizabeth Withstandley
Watch L.A.-based artist Elizabeth Withstandley, January’s AIRIE Fellow, for a conversation with Miami-based artist Adler Guerrier. They will discuss Withstandley’s experiences during her residency where she explored the identity of the Everglades through its stories, myths, legends, and truths.
AIRIE Asks
Alliance of the Southern Triangle
Get to know AIRIE's 2021 Research Fellows --- Alliance of the Southern Triangle (A.S.T.). In this presentation you will be introduced to A.S.T.'s body of work through conversation and their visual aesthetics. During their year-long research fellowship, A.S.T. will be exploring the theme Water as a Distributed System.
AIRIE Asks
Onajide Shabaka
Artist Onajide Shabaka discusses his practice and what he hopes to accomplish during his return residency in the Everglades. Inspired by the landscape, Shabaka says, "I have forged a path for my artistic interests that challenges the status quo, especially the exclusivity, hermeticism and austerity of the white cubic gallery space. At the same time, my work, in its engagement with nature, history, technology, and ritual allows the viewers to experience a more holistic view of the world."
AIRIE Asks
Rebecca Reeve
Rebecca Reeve is a British multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Working in sculpture, painting, and photography she produces site-specific temporal works in the natural environment, often using familial household objects to frame the scene. The landscape and biological rhythms are a source for investigation and perceptual experimentation in her lush, photographic works.
AIRIE Asks
Dara Friedman
For the inaugural episode, AIRIE Asks Dara Friedman, the internationally renowned, Miami-based artist and filmmaker, to share her experience as the artist-in-residence in January 2020. Dara Friedman is a German-born artist and filmmaker working in Miami. With a background in structural film and dance, Friedman’s cinema calls for a radical reduction of the medium to its most essential material properties. This conversation took place on Earth Day, April 22, 2020.
AIRIE In Conversation
UNTITLED, ART
Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE, @airieglades) and UNTITLED, ART (@untitledartfair) present a conversation between artist Rebecca Reeve and Helen Toomer about the impact Reeve's 2012 residency in the Everglades National Park had on her photographic practice. They discuss Reeve's current work, new benefit editions and what she hopes to accomplish during her AIRIE alumni residency in February 2021.
AIRIE Asks
Dorian Emerson Munroe
The first in the AIRIE Asks series, Dorian Emerson Munroe is a first-generation local Miami creative, born to Caribbean parents who migrated from Guyana, South America. A recent winner of the Oolite Documentary Block Contest Grant, Dorian now looks to immersively showcase the animals, people, and plants of the Everglades.