ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists
ARTMATTERS is an intimate, bi-weekly podcast featuring in-studio conversations between host Isaac Mann and professional
artists from around the world. Now in its second season with over 55 episodes, the show has become a vital resource for the
contemporary art community, exploring everything from technical practices and daily studio insights to career advice, creative
blocks, and the emotional realities of making art.
Host Isaac Mann brings both the perspective of a working artist and the curiosity of a thoughtful interviewer to each conversation,
creating a space where artists can discuss not just their techniques and influences, but also the vulnerable aspects of creative life-
hope, depression, expectation, success, and failure.
Whether exploring technical processes, relationship dynamics, or tips for a healthier practice, ARTMATTERS offers
both emerging and established artists a rare glimpse into the real experiences behind successful creative careers.
ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists
#52 with Julie Harrison
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Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.
This week, we’re joined by Julie Harrison, a New York-based artist whose decades-long career has spanned drawing, photography, video, painting, and performance.
In this episode we discuss Julie’s transition from grayscale to color and back again, her interest in scientific imagery, archiving and selecting reference materials, drawing techniques, early artistic influences and her career path. We also discuss her transition to painting in the 1980s, graduate school, the importance of mentorship and the intersection of challenge, doubt and curiousity at play behind her practice.
Julie’s work has been exhibited at MoMA, the Museum of Arts & Design and the Neuberger Museum, with reviews in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, and The Village Voice. Harrison is a recipient of NEA and NYFA grants, she has published with Granary Books and held residencies at the Nordic Arts Center and Cold Spring Harbor Lab. Harrison also founded the Art & Technology B.A. program at Stevens Institute of Technology, where she taught for 18 years.
Enjoy this conversation with the artist Julie Harrison.
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guest: Julie Harrison
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Thank you as always to ARRN, the Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist, for the music.