Art is the New Wall Street
We were sold a specific version of success. Get the degree. Climb the ladder. Hit the milestones. For artists and creatives, that plan usually comes with a quiet cost: the slow shrinking of the thing that makes you you.
Art is the New Wall Street is a podcast hosted by poet and creative director, Morgan Short for creatives who are done making their art fit around their life and are ready to build their life around their art. Every month, Morgan talks with musicians, writers, photographers, designers, dancers, and others who made that shift. Honest conversations about what it takes and what becomes possible when you do.
The show covers creative identity, creative process, imposter syndrome, leaving inherited ideas of success behind, and what it actually looks like to build a more fulfilling life.
Art is the New Wall Street
What Artists Can Do About ICE w/ Kyle Tran Myhre - Lessons from Minneapolis
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ICE has been occupying Minnesota for weeks now. They are targeting workplaces, neighborhoods, and even schools. Protestors are being met with pepper spray and tear gas. Community members, including Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, were killed in January. Fear is present. So is organized resistance.
This episode was recorded January 28th just a few days after a large ICE Out march and strike in Minneapolis. It documents what artists can do when harm is unfolding in real time and communities are mobilizing to protect one another.
Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre, a Minneapolis-based poet, educator, and activist, joins the show to talk about the roles artists can play in moments of crisis. Artists are connectors, organizers, storytellers, and resource-sharers.
We talk about:
- What people on the ground in Minnesota are witnessing
- The workshop Kyle hosted for artists in MPLS and lessons learned
- Simple ways artists can move information, resources, and supplies
- How to use your platform and your voice
- What zines are and how they are a useful tool for spreading information
- The difference between outrage that mobilizes and outrage that demobilizes
- How to create responsibly when real people are at risk
- Why expertise is not required to help
- Staying informed without burning out
Kyle also shared an original piece, "Discourse - Let Your Heart be a Whistle"
If you're feeling powerless right now and want to get involved, but don't know where to start, this episode is for you.
Find movement-related resources for artists
Zine featured in the episode
Learn more about Kyle
Kyle’s Racket Article about what artists can do in Minneapolis
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