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.
In Episode 14 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with creative couple Dan Nelson and Lexa Walsh about the challenges and benefits of building a life with someone who’s also engaged in a creative pursuit.
In Episode 13 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with artist Vanesa Zendejas. Recently, Zendejas has been dealing primarily with Modernist sculpture and her habit to decorate, perfect, and balance, which she says may or may not be related to being a woman.
In Episode 12 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with writer Diane Cook. Cook was a producer at This American Life for years until she quit to pursue her own fiction writing.
Every creative laborer has a story about negotiating the relationship between their creative work and their paycheck. In Episode 7 of the podcast Scott Pinkmountain talks with Nate Query, bass player for The Decemberists and Black Prairie,
Episode 5 of Make/Work is the first of a sub-series where host Scott Pinkmountain interviews couples in which both partners are artists, addressing some of the unique issues that may arise in those relationships.