The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews was created to highlight the artists of the 2020 Naked Truth Pride Exhibition. Expanding beyond the 5 artists of the show, the show will continue beyond June with interviews of queer artists of all backgrounds and mediums, sharing their lives, discussing their work, and exploring the connections between their sexuality and their artistic practices, processes, and careers.Beyond the 2020 June show, The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews seeks to amplify the reach of queer artists, as the freelance art community has been deeply affected by the COVID-19 crisis, both bringing their works to a wider audience and bringing us all closer through a digital community of celebrating art and sharing our unique narratives as queer people. Artists will mostly be based out of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
Episodes
18 episodes
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - ELON
[Recorded on Friday, April 30, 2021] This episode was recorded using ZoomToday I am joined by Elon. They are a pansexual, multidisciplinary, autodidact artist from Baltimore, Maryland that specializes in electronic production, singing an...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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25:09
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - Alex Temple
[Recorded on Saturday, April 25, 2021]Today I am joined by Alex Temple. She is a queer composer, writer, performer, educator and and self-described polystylist, postmodernist and surrealist. In February of 2020 Julia Holter and Spektral ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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33:09
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - Russell Henry Holbert
[Recorded on Friday, April 9]Today I am joined by Russell Henry Holbert. They are a queer artist and scholar who works in and around opera and rhetoric. Russell received his BFA in vocal performance from Carnegie Mellon University, where he...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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33:55
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - Joan Cox
[Recorded on Sunday, March 28, 2021]Today I am joined by Joan Cox. A Baltimore-born feminist and lesbian artist, Joan is a figurative painter whose work portrays intimate and loving relationships between women—through the use of contemporar...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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32:17
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - ĐĐA (Diamond David Anthony)
[Recorded on Friday, April 2, 2021]Today I am joined by Diamond David Anthony (ĐĐA ). They are a non-binary multi-genre music artist and performer. Diamond recently performed an hour show for The Cultured Professional-TCP, a Black owned Rok...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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31:10
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - James Newland (SpacePup Silver) SEASON 1 Finale
SEASON 1 Finale!Today I am joined by James Newland, also known as SpacePup Silver. He is a gay fetish illustrator documenting the strange and slippery lives of gimps. Silver has recently partnered with two of the major fetish stor...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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31:20
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - Kent Lau
Today I am joined by Kent Lau. He is an artist whose simplicity of materials and style tells a story of authenticity and getting back to basics. He is a prolific artist whose work has been included in 14 art shows, including 2 solo shows. Du...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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30:58
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - Phong Tran
Today I am joined by Phong Tran. He is a composer exploring new mediums at the intersection of electronic music, visuals, and programming. Phong is a recent Bang on a Can Summer Institute Fellow and is in residence at the So Percussion Studi...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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28:47
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - Kotic Couture
Today I am joined by Kotic Couture. They are a Non-Binary, Genre-Bending Rapper, DJ and Resident MC of Baltimore's Queer Dance Party VERSION. Kotic has been a featured DJ at The John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts and Their Music V...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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32:08
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - B Kleymeyer
Today I am joined by B Kleymeyer. B is a queer theatre artist working as a director, performer, and deviser. B was named Baltimore’s Best Lead Actor by the Baltimore independent theatre awards in 2019. With Single Carrot Theatre B has direct...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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34:06
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - APARTSCAPE SPECIAL: Niccolo Seligmann
Today I am joined by Niccolo Seligmann. Niccolo is a queer musician, composer, and sound designer who unites historical & traditional musics with contemporary music technology & practices. As a 2020 Strathmore Artist in Residence, Nicco...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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32:29
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - Nebal Maysaud
Today I am joined by Nebal Maysaud. They are a Lebanese non-binary composer of music exploring trans-temporal spiritual queerness rooted in their faith, ancestry, and identity. Their music has been performed by the Alexandria Symphony Orches...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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33:10
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - Heather Raquel Phillips
An interview with unfixed artist Heather Raquel Phillips, They are an unfixed, autonomous person of color living and working in Philadelphia as an interdisciplinary visual artist, educator and independent curator, dedicated to creating equity i...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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30:15
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - Kieran Solley
An interview Kieran Solley, a LGBTQ artist skilled in portraiture and figure drawing. He received his BFA in Illustration from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2015.Examples of Kieran's Work (including works referenced in the epi...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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14:39
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - Lania D'Agostino
An interview with lesbian artist Lania D'Agostino, a sculptor, visual artist, and the founder of D’Agostino Studios, which has allowed her to work with a staff of artists creating life casts figures for the museum industry. She has worked with ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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29:33
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - Douglas Johnson
An interview with gay artist Douglas Johnson, he is a painter, playwright, director, and set designer with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. An well-loved figure of the Baltimore arts scene, he has exhibited ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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28:59
The Naked Truth: Queer Artists Interviews - Jasjyot Singh Hans
Today we’re joined by visual artist Jasjyot Singh Hans, Jasjyot Singh Hans is an illustrator unendingly inspired by an explosive neon mix of fashion, music and pop culture. He has a constant regard for things past and a voracity for all that is...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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28:06
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - Scott G. Brooks
Today we’re joined by visual artist Scott G. Brooks, in addition to exhibiting in galleries, he has illustrated several children's books, and his work is frequently featured on the cover of DC LGBT magazine MetroWeekly. In 2019, Scott was one o...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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29:25