Melissa Potter's guest appearances

Melissa Potter

Paper Talk

Mostly Ghostly

Behold a Pale Podcast

Alexander Hauck

Harry Houdini

Aleister Crowley

Lizzie Borden

Adam Walsh

Michelle Wilson

Sam Cooke

Josh Bell

Anthony Douglas

Richard Stanley

William Cooper

Matt Simpson

Aileen Wuornos

Robbin Ami Silverberg

Hedi Kyle

OwlTail

S2E4 -Ghost Movie Mash Up with Melissa Potter (Mostly Ghostly x Shock Treatment)

Well Rounded Adjustments with Melissa Potter

S1E37 -Cults of Personality with Melissa Potter

S1E11 -Spiritual Treatment with Melissa Potter

Through her practice, which includes art making, writing, curating and teaching, Melissa Potter focuses on traditions that are endangered, underpaid and under-recognized due to industrialization, war, gender bias, and globalization. In this episode, we discuss her Quaker upbringing in New Jersey that instilled her desire to be an activist, how she has expanded upon The Papermaker’s Garden (that I initiated at Dieu Donné Papermill in the mid 90’s) and has continued to develop it as a socially engaged practice. We also discuss her career path – as an advocate for artists at the New York Foundation for the Arts, her work through the Fulbright Program to build paper studios at the University of Serbia and the University of Sarajevo and her current position as Associate Professor of Art &amp; Art History at Columbia College Chicago, where some of her goals are to give students who may never have access to a papermaking studio after college a transformative experience and to document the legacy of hand papermaking as a craft form in the United States. Continue reading Melissa Potter