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Make/Work

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In each episode of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with emerging and established artists working in a wide range of creative mediums about how they survive, how they make a living, and how they maintain their work over the long term.

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Make/Work Episode 40: Kate Schatz

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  • July 20, 2017
In Episode 40 of The Rumpus's Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with writer and activist Kate Schatz.
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Make/Work Episode 39: Dorian Wood

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  • May 23, 2017
In episode 39 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with musician, vocalist, and experimental performer Dorian Wood.
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Make/Work Episode 38: Beth Pickens

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  • April 20, 2017
In episode 38 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, which begins its second season, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with Beth Pickens, an LA-based consultant for artists and arts organizations.
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Make/Work Episode 37: Melody Parker

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  • January 5, 2017
In Episode 37 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, Scott Pinkmountain speaks with composer, singer, and producer Melody Parker about her incredible new album, Archipelago.
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Make/Work Episode 36: Abeer Hoque

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  • October 15, 2015
In Episode 36 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, Scott Pinkmountain speaks with author and photographer Abeer Hoque about her long journey to publication, and her obsession with memory and nostalgia.
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Make/Work Episode 35: Dru Farro

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  • September 17, 2015
In Episode 35 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with scholar Dru Farro about his role on the fringes of academia, his deeply ingrained American reluctance to seek medical attention, and his eventual and abstract creative goals.
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Make/Work Episode 34: Joy Castro

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  • August 20, 2015
In Episode 34 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks to Joy Castro about her unorthodox writing process, the course of her career, and the distinctions between literary and commercial fiction.
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Make/Work Episode 33: Daniel Baird and Alex Chitty

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  • July 16, 2015
In episode 33 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with artists Daniel G. Baird and Alex Chitty.
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Make/Work Episode 32: Nathan Langston

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  • June 18, 2015
In episode 32 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with poet and composer Nathan Langston about the origin and development of his most recent project, and the effect it’s had on his creative and personal life.
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Make/Work Episode 31: Aurora Tang

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  • May 21, 2015
In episode 31 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with researcher/curator Aurora Tang, who has built a career around thinking about sustainability for artists and arts organizations.
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Make/Work Episode 30: Jon Nielsen

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  • April 16, 2015
In episode 30 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with guitarist/composer Jon Nielsen about becoming disillusioned with the music scene, and hitting the road in search of motivation.
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Make/Work Episode 29: David Meltzer and Julie Rogers

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  • March 19, 2015
In episode 29 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with poets David Meltzer and Julie Rogers about maintaining a long-term creative practice, the role of poetry in the US, music, and politics.
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