In this episode, we beautifully wrap up this season of the YBCA 10 podcast with an invigorating extended conversation with YBCA 10 artist Deanna Van Buren and multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes. Seated front and center, these two offer a wealth of insight and grounded thought on topics including the agency of healing (both individual and collective), being in service to community, uplifting the stories of marginalized voices, eradicating systems of structural violence, and much more. L...
Jun 10, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 15
The dreamseeds exhibition at YBCA featuring the YBCA 10 artist workshop has launched and is open to the public til September 4! In this episode, we continue our extended conversations with YBCA 10 artist Leticia Hernández-Linares. Joining her in this intimate dialogue is YCBA Creative Cohort Artist Caleb Duarte. Listen to hear the group flesh out conceptual ideas around art, healing through storytelling, memory work, and being historians of our own history through dialogue. Learn more about Leti...
May 27, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 14
In this episode, we keep our extended conversations going with select members of the YBCA 10 and likeminded community doers and practitioners in the space. We reconnect with YBCA 10 member Alex J. Bledsoe, a multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on Black liberation and dismantling exploitative systems. Paired with her is the eminent and renowned Cara Page, Black Queer Feminist cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer. Together we discuss stories of healing, creation of sacred spaces,...
May 13, 2022•1 hr 14 min
More extended conversations with the YBCA 10? Yes please! In this episode, we reconnect with organic farmer, memory keeper, and YBCA 10 artist Nikiko Masumoto. We hear an update on the Plant Library, the prototype collaboration between Nikiko and fellow YBCA 10 artist Darryl Ratcliff. We also welcome to the table Galería de la Raza, a non-profit dedicated to promoting Xicanx/Latinx art and culture. Galería de la Raza’s Ani Rivera, Executive Director and Ivette Diaz, Curatorial Programs Coordinat...
Apr 29, 2022•1 hr 14 min
This podcast has introduced audiences to the artists who comprise The YBCA 10. Now we keep it rolling with extended conversations about the deployment of artist work! In this episode, we reconnect with acclaimed photographer a member of the 10 Hasain Rasheed and get an update on his creative prototype titled Too Experienced to be Taken for a Stroll , a home structure that captures the spirit, sights, scents, and sounds shared by immigrant families who migrate to the Bay Area. We also meet Fay Da...
Apr 15, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 11
“As a visual artist I really think that I’m most inspired by composers…In my practice, I try to take a few notes that you don't normally recognize as being blended and create a new chord.” - Binta Ayofemi Visual artist Binta Ayofemi creates urban forms inspired by Black abstraction, transforming overlooked spaces through sound, movement, and material. In this charming episode, Binta shares with us her artistic journey, the rehearsal of everyday spaces to create radical possibility and imaginatio...
Apr 01, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 10
“When I discovered the power in words, was when I began to take the idea of making art and make worlds and understand that’s what it was – world making – that it was powerful. Really, really powerful.” - Dr. Ayodele Nzinga Sometimes, words just hit different. And this episode explains why. Settle in and listen to an intimate conversation with this episode’s featured guest, City of Oakland's first poet laureate Dr. Ayodele Nzinga. Hear from this renowned director, playwright, poet, and community ...
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 9
"When I look at turfing by itself […] it's already a whole database. It's already a genre of study. We think that scientific method is the only way of knowing something, and that's just simply not true. Our bodies know so much." - My-Linh Le Largely influenced by 80s popping and hip-hop, My-Linh’s career positively exploded in different directions once she fully committed to dance. Now as a choreographer, competitive freestyle dancer, and Founder/Director of the turf dance project known as Mud W...
Feb 25, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 8
“I think there’s been great impact in at least having people think that we can be, as architects, we can be folks who address social change rather than propping up systems of oppressions, which is what we’ve been doing since the dawn of time, even to change systems like mass incarceration.” - Deanna Van Buren As one of only 500 licensed Black female architects in the United States, Deanna Van Buren is committed to racial equity in the built environment. In this episode, Deanna shares with us the...
Feb 11, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 7
“It’s a constant desire to want to be better…When I hear the other artists in the 10 talk, I feel motivated to learn more. And not only about myself, but about them and their art and the value of working in community.” - Hasain Rasheed In this episode, acclaimed photographer Hasain Rasheed is the featured guest. Co-hosted by singer, composer, and YBCA’s Chief of Program Meklit Hadero, this episode not only grounds us at the intersection of creative practice and social impact, but also invites us...
Jan 28, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 6
“A lot of my own practice, I make things based on feeling because sometimes that’s where the greatest kernels or nuggets come from.” - Dorothy R. Santos Writer, artist, educator, and Ph.D. candidate in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Dorothy R. Santos stars as the featured guest. In this upbeat episode, Dorothy openly shares a wealth of detail about her interests in art, technology, sound, spell books, and much more. Listen in as this YBCA 10 cohort member off...
Jan 07, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 5
“...this has been one of the biggest honors and gifts that I've received and the timing of it couldn't have been better. I think it's a gift to be able to have all this time with such an amazing group, not just the 10, but everybody who's part of this.” - Leticia Hernández-Linares Alongside being a valued member of the YBCA 10, Leticia Hernández-Linares is also a bilingual interdisciplinary writer, artist, and racial justice educator. In this episode, hear from Leticia as she vibrantly shares wi...
Dec 17, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 4
“We have a lot to learn from one another, especially when we’re tapping into our ancestral roots and our understanding of the land and our connections with land.” --Alex J. Bledsoe. Featured guest is Alex J. Bledsoe, multidisciplinary artist, activist, and strategist whose work is inspired by dismantling exploitative systems. In this episode, listen in as this YBCA 10 member shares insight on her journey of building community around intention, film production work centered on healing justice, an...
Dec 03, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 3
“Sometimes I say I do the work of justice because I'm actually really interested in being free. And every time I try to be free, I run into these structures that keep getting the way of me being as free as I want to be.” -- Darryl Ratcliff In this episode, hear from award-winning artist, poet, and YBCA 10 member Darryl Ratcliff. You’re invited behind the curtain of his artistry and activism to hear about Darryl’s intention to root culture in his creative practice, motivation behind inserting joy...
Nov 19, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 2
“I want the people who work the land, the people who feed us, to be valued.” In the kickoff episode for the YBCA 10 Podcast, this episode introduces you to Nikiko Masumoto - a yonsei (4th generation) farmer at the Masumoto Family Farm. Listen in as she describes reigniting the soul of farming, radical resilience, community engagement, and much more about her creative enterprises in art and activism. Learn more about Nikiko by visiting: Masumoto Family Farm Nikiko’s Ted Talk “Reigniting the soul ...
Nov 05, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 1
