The Process Podcast - interviews exploring survival as a creative

Isis Hockenos is a painter working mostly in oils and creating narrative-based works. Until recently, she also worked in the culinary and arts departments at a mixed-use creative space and venue called The Midway. Previously, she worked as a butcher and in other food-related projects. She recently moved to LA and continues to focus on her painting and continue curatorial work. We talked about coming into your own and finding a sense of self internally and through your work, the importance of...

Kija Lucas is an artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area using photography to explore ideas of home, heritage, and inheritance. She’s interested in how ideas are passed down and how seemingly inconsequential moments create changes that last generations. Her work has been exhibited at Oakland Museum of California, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francico Arts Commission Galleries, California Institute of Integral Studies, Palo Alto Arts Center, Intersection for...

Massimo Mongiardo is an artist specializing in painting, illustration, and murals. He’s worked with skateboard and apparel companies and has completed murals for esteemed organizations such as Win Son Bakery, Maiden Lane, and The Grand Street Settlement in New York, as well as for aWall Mural Projects during Art Basel in Miami, and many more. In this conversation, he shares his winding path, how he has developed a distinctive style without getting bored or gimmicky, the challenges of pricing...

Cole Barash is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Working in the mediums of digital, analog, and archival photography, he often focuses on the conversation of color and composition between two objects or moments. Well acquainted with international subcultures, Cole seeks “subjects where the boundaries are more open and not as seasoned.” Using an organic approach, his portraiture and still lifes became known for their candid and spontaneous sense of intimacy. I'm a huge fan of Cole's...

Based in Wimberly, TX, Jordan Moser does many things. He’s a retired professional ballet dancer, filmmaker, choreographer, musician, activist, and now a soon-to-be-dad. Although he’s been making and sharing music for most of this life, he released his official debut record, Long Night in 2019 on Austin-based label, Keeled Scales. In this episode, we talk about his creative and professional evolution, his appetite to always be doing something creative, challenges he faces in pursuing so many...

Yo! You can now be a member of The Process, check out our Patreon page (patreon.com/theprocess.co). xo Welcome back! I’m stoked to share this latest season of The Process podcast. These episodes were recorded during a three-month residency at The Growlery in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco, CA. They’re a series of conversations with a variety of visual artists and creators. We spoke with painters, photographers, printmakers curators, gallerists, and more on their personal...

Michael McConnell was born in Michigan, where he used to watch squirrels from the front window. He studied art at the Columbus College of Art & Design with an emphasis in lithography and painting. After graduating from CCAD, he packed up a U-Haul and drove across the country to the Bay Area, where he now lives in San Francisco. In the past 17 years, he hasn’t found a good reason to leave. Michael was represented by Braunstein/Quay Gallery in San Francisco for 10 years. Since they’re closure,...

Tamara Suarez Porras is an artist, writer, and educator from Brooklyn, NY living in Berkeley, CA. Photography is her nucleus but around it are installation, filmmaking, writing, sculpture, and performance. She explores the fluid relationships of time, memory, and history through a photo-conceptual, research-centric practice. Her academic research interests currently center on photo-based artists who engage with archival practices to re-center histories. She has exhibited nationally,...

Danielle Devereux is the founder of damolade, a digital strategy consultancy in Austin, TX. Originally from Brooklyn, NY with 15 years of experience in marketing, she started damolade ten years go. She works with agencies, nonprofits, and startups on brand, content, SEO, and social media strategies, along with anything to help build awareness among their ideal audience. She’s worked with brands like Red Nose Day (Comic Relief), Austin Women’s Health Center, Presario Ventures, among others....

In 2015 in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley, Blessed was formed from a shared creative objective. From the start, its original four members found themselves naturally amalgamating elements of post-hardcore, minimalism, new wave, krautrock, and punk. The result is a blend of experimental art-rock that (borrowing words from Post-Trash) “defies expectations, eschews common structures and forms, and breeds its own alien landscapes.” They’ve released two critically lauded EPs and an LP called...

Hi, hello and happy new year! Just a quick little hello and rundown of what to expect from this season. ✌

oh, hello. It's 2018, baby and Season Two of The Process Podcast is hhhheerrreee. I never officially wrapped up Season One but that's the beauty of passion projects - flexibility. This short, 12-minute episode is essentially me just blabbing on about what Season One covered and who we talk to in Season Two. I promised myself I'd get something out this week, and here it is. The best part of this episode is that getting it done was a small step in publishing the real ones! Next week (Tuesday,...

Bryan Bruchman is a podcast host, filmmaker, illustrator, photographer, and musician. He films live in-studio sessions for BTR Today and hosts and produces two podcasts on the same network: The Subliminal Inevitable Show where he interviews indie record labels and The Music Digest where he and guests discuss the latest music releases. He also plays guitar in the band Mount Sharp. Oh, and he's a husband and dad and also illustrates and photographs people, sometimes for fun, sometimes for...

Joni Sternbach is a native New Yorker. She holds a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts and an MA from New York University/International Center of Photography. She uses both large format film and early photographic processes to explore the present-day landscape and to make environmental portraits. Her work centers on our relationship with water, contrasting some of the most desolate deserts in the American West to iconic surf beaches around the world. Joni’s work is included in...

Doug Walker is the founder of Lost and Found Collection, an archive preserving over 30,000 film negatives from 1970s surf culture. Through LxFC, he’s published a book, released a film, and sells prints, splitting the revenues with the photographers and their families. Doug is also a video director and editor and artist. In this episode, we spoke about how Lost and Found Collection came to be, the importance of preserving the work of those before us, why we should celebrate the living as well...

Hi, hello! Welcome back to The Process. We’re stoked to be back at it. This episode is a quick 10-minute intro sharing what to expect from this season and what we’ve been up to. These upcoming episodes were recorded when I was a resident at Elsewhere Studios in Paonia, CO. Both of which are magical places. I had the honor and pleasure of recording conversations with my fellow residents and several members of the community. The result was this series of conversations about the conservation of...

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Nimah Gobir creates art that explores her identity as a black woman. Through paintings and installations, her work teases out both the nuances and shared experiences of being black. Her work draws on text and photo references collected from family and personal archives. In this episode, we talk about how she balances her art practice with her academic career and how the two inform one another, the process of coming into ther own space...

We had the honor of chatting with the band Deeper’s singer and guitarist, Nic Gohl and guitarist Drew McBride. Based in Chicago, Deeper also consists of drummer Shiraz Bhatti and bassist Kevin Fairbairn. The band formed in 2014 with original guitarist Mike Clawson along with Nic, Shiraz, and Drew on bass. They released their debut self-titled record in 2018 followed by their newly released and much-anticipated sophomore record, Auto-Pain this March. In this episode, we talk about canceling...

Chris Gould is an artist specializing in photography, an instructor at Harvey Milk Photo Center, and he works with the artist, John Chiara, helping him build cameras and on shoots. In this episode, we talk about his journey into photography, learning from his older work, what drives him as an artist, living and working in San Francisco, and more. [Read more in the show notes](http://theprocess.co/chris-gould-interview/).

Carl Shane has been making music under the moniker Kal Marks for over a decade, exploring topics of life, death, failure, and the edges of humanity. Based in Boston, MA, the heavy-hitting post-rock / art-rock band (if you had to attach a genre to them) is known for their tireless work ethic and propensity to push themselves harder, reshaping their formula and expanding their sound with every release. Like many bands, they’ve taken a hard hit from COVID-19. Plans to record and tour have come...