
SALVAGE
Conversations with artists who use repurposed materials in their art practice.
SALVAGE is a podcast that celebrates creativity and sustainability through conversations with artists who turn discarded materials into powerful works of art. Each episode dives into their stories, techniques, and the deeper messages behind their work, showing how art can transform waste into beauty and inspire action against overconsumption and wastefulness.
It’s a space for exploring how creativity and mindfulness can help us reimagine our relationship with the planet—one repurposed piece at a time.
#RepurposedArtConversations #SustainableCreativity #EcoArtDialogues #UpcyclingArtists #EnvironmentalAdvocacy
Episodes
33 episodes
Conversation with kHyal!
Please enjoy my conversation with kHyal. Complex, and unclassifiable, kHyal’s mixed media work riffs off of pop culture icons and performs like a Rorschach Test in a behavioral science lab, tugging at the neurons of each viewer, and born to cha...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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1:06:12

Conversation with Amy Orr
Please enjoy my conversation with Amy Orr. Amy is a multimedia artist whose work often involves the reinvention of manufactured materials; plastic and plastic cards in particular. The understanding and perception of plastic and ephemera is chan...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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53:28

Conversation with Robin Frohardt
Please enjoy my conversation with Robin Frohardt. Known for her rich aesthetic and highly detailed constructions, Robin Frohardt is an award-winning theater and film director. Her narrative-based film, puppetry, and sculpture, use reco...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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36:16

Conversation with Kate Dodd
*Please note two corrections to episode 30: Kate Dodd referenced the artwork “Tilted Arc” but incorrectly attributed it to Robert Smithson rather than its creator, Richard Serra. She also referenced an exhibit put on by Stand 4 Gallery, w...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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1:07:38

Conversation with Ian Trask
Please enjoy my conversation with Ian Trask. Ian is a sculptor and multimedia artist who transforms waste materials into objects and installations with new purpose and integrity. His immersive works often play with sophisticated patterns, lendi...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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1:01:21

Conversation with Lisa Barthelson
Please enjoy my conversation with Lisa Barthelson. Originally a painter, Lisa currently explores and works in many media: printmaking, ceramics, photography, encaustic, site specific environmental installations/sculpture, mixed media, and found...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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54:38

Conversation with Elise Vazelakis
Please enjoy my conversation with Elise Vazelakis. Elise, a Los Angeles-based textile artist, creates sculptural textiles and installations that explore themes of consumption mapping and capitalism. Central to Vazelakis' work is the juxtapositi...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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45:18

Conversation with Portia Munson
Please enjoy my conversation with Portia Munson. Portia creates maximal installations, sculptures, paintings, and digital prints, synthesizing environmental and cultural themes from a feminist perspective. Her work has been the subject of over ...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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1:05:26

Conversation with Rebecca McGee Tuck
Please enjoy my conversation with Rebecca McGee Tuck. Rebecca and I had an IG live conversation back in April 2024, which became the impetus for this podcast. I thought it would be appropriate to start season two, and the New Year, with a prope...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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48:29

Conversation with Nyah Estevez from Beyond Plastics
Please enjoy my conversation with Nyah Estevez. Nyah is an environmental advocate and grassroots organizer. During her time at SUNY New Paltz, where she pursued a bachelor's degree in Political Science, she quickly became an outspoken activist....
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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24:17

Conversation with Leticia Bajuyo
Please enjoy my conversation with Leticia Bajuyo. Through her large-scale works, Leticia engages audiences and connects with communities through her site-specific installations that involve community collections of media and memories. Leticia’s...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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1:14:18

Conversation with Alejandro Duran
Please enjoy my conversation with Alejandro Durán. Alejandro is an artist who transforms international trash washing ashore on Mexico's Caribbean coast into aesthetic yet unsettling artworks, awakening viewers to the threat of plastic pollution...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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47:41

Conversation with Bryan Northup
Please enjoy my conversation with Bryan Northup. Bryan’s work responds to human interactions with a uniquely modern material - plastic. Using collected single-use plastic and found objects from the waste stream as art medium, he attempts to blu...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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54:45

Conversation with Michelle Lougee
Please enjoy my conversation with Michelle Lougee. Michelle’s sculpture and other works focus on the delicate balance between nature versus human society and technology. The duality of this relationship is explored in both materials and subject...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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46:51

Conversation with Swapna Namboodiri
Swapna is a plastic sculptor. She’s extremely passionate about contributing greener days for the coming generations. She upcycles plastics to create sculptural artworks. Swapna collects discarded plastics, and individually hand-cuts or carves t...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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1:08:29

Conversation with Bonny Leibowitz
Please enjoy my conversation with Bonny Leibowitz. Here’s Bonny’s statement about her latest installation which I find very exciting. Her work embodies concepts of Post-naturalism — a perspective that questions the objectification of nature as ...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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1:10:37

Conversation with Judy Villett
Please enjoy my conversation with Judy Villett. Judy’s work combines many techniques, beginning with commercial prints, her own digital photographs printed on fabric, or hand dyed fabrics. She may stencil, paint, embellish, piece, or appliqué t...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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46:32

Conversation with Erik Jon Olson
Please enjoy my conversation with Erik Jon Olson. Using quilted plastic waste as his medium, Erik creates works that deal with the effects of consumerism, mass consumption and unfettered capitalism. By layering environmental issues with social ...
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Season 11
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Episode 16
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48:04

Conversation with Kalliopi Monoyios
Please enjoy my conversation with Kalliopi Monoyios. Kalliopi is an artist and curator dedicated to communicating the wonder of the natural world to a wide and varied audience. Driven by the conviction that science communicators operating in al...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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58:39

Conversation with Bridget O'Flaherty
Please enjoy my conversation with Bridget O’Flaherty. Bridget is a passionate textile artist and quilter with over 30 years of experience. Her journey in textiles has been a deeply personal one, influenced by her heritage and love for nature. A...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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38:13

Conversation with Jessica Thomas McGhee aka LoveHeyLola
Please enjoy my conversation with Jessica Thomas McGhee. Jessica is an environmental artist who works in paint, jewelry and marine debris. During the spring, summer, and early fall, you can find her selling her jewelry and art at various market...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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44:18

Conversation with Lynn Goldstein
Please enjoy my conversation with Lynn Goldstein. Lynn and I have been friends and accountability buddies for a long time. We have monthly conversations on our art practice and art business goals and of course life in general.Lynn is dee...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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50:16

Conversation with Kim Thomas
Please enjoy my conversation with Kim Thomas. Kim’s works are a visual discussion around climate change, nature, and our insatiable consumer culture. As an intersection between all three issues, found single-use plastics are often used as a key...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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48:33

Conversation with Chrissanth Greene Gross
Please enjoy my conversation with Chrissanth Gross. Chrissanth and I chatted about her early start in art as a daughter of artists, her figure drawings and her plein air practice. We dove into how she gives back to her community by...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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40:33
