This week, Neil Freese interviews writer, artist, writing/arts coach, consultant, professor, curator, and arts administrator Cindy Shearer. Cindy is a professor at CIIS and the chair of the MFA program, as well as the co-creator of the Artifact podcast series. Neil and Cindy will delve deeper into the story behind Cindy’s podcast episode, Lost-Proof.

This week our guest is writer, artist, writing/arts coach, consultant, professor, curator, and arts administrator Cindy Shearer. Cindy is a professor at CIIS and the chair of the MFA program, as well as the co-creator of the Artifact podcast series. Now it’s her turn to tell a story about holding space for the complexities of our time and exploring the idea of walking as travel.

The questions central to our lives are also core to our art, and inquiring into those questions advances the artist and the art.

Conversation with poet, essayist, and educator Diana Goetsch.

Conversation painter and collage artist Mark Harris.

Conversation with performance maker, choreographer, and director Erika Chong Shuch.

Conversation with poet, activist, and social theorist Judy Grahn.

The questions central to our lives are also core to our art, and inquiring into those questions advances the artist and the art.

Cindy Shearer explains how viewing artworks from the vantage point of its makers allows us to experience art-making from the inside out.