Art of the Rural
Podcast Description
The Art of the Rural podcast highlights the work of individuals & organizations across rural America & Indian Country. Join us for conversations expressing visions and futures across the wide field of non-urban art, culture, and community.Founded in 2010, Art of the Rural is a collaborative arts non-profit organization that works to resource artists & culture bearers to build the field, change narratives, and bridge divides. Learn more and support our work at artoftherural.org
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Content Themes
The podcast embraces a wide range of topics focused on rural arts, community development, and cultural narratives, exemplified by episodes such as Faye Dant's exploration of Black history in Hannibal, MO, and discussions on the impact of art in non-urban settings. Themes like cross-cultural understanding, historical preservation, and community empowerment are prevalent throughout the series.
The Art of the Rural podcast highlights the work of individuals & organizations across rural America & Indian Country. Join us for conversations expressing visions and futures across the wide field of non-urban art, culture, and community.
Founded in 2010, Art of the Rural is a collaborative arts non-profit organization that works to resource artists & culture bearers to build the field, change narratives, and bridge divides. Learn more and support our work at artoftherural.org
This episode was produced in partnership with 5 Plain Questions and Eleven Warrior Arts. Hosted by Joe Williams, 5 Plain Questions is a podcast that proposes 5 general questions to Native American and Indigenous artists, creators, musicians, writers, movers and shakers, and culture bearers.
In this episode, meet Holly Doll. Holly Doll lives in Bismarck, North Dakota, and is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. First and foremost, Holly is an artist. She specializes in Lakota forms of beadwork and quillwork, which her mother started to teach her when she was just two years old. Holly grounds herself with cultural values passed down by her family and applies them to any artistic, cultural, and community work that she does.
“Even though we're holding something that's hundreds or thousands of years old, culture is something that lives and breathes. It's okay to leave your mark on it and to move it forward and be okay with it changing with future generations that also participate in it.”
In addition to being an artist, Holly wears many professional hats. She has over a decade of experience in arts and cultural nonprofits. Currently, she works in collaboration with The Waterers, a collective of radical disruptors of philanthropy, as a Program Director for Ignite Rural with the Department of Public Transformation, and as Program Manager with Arts Midwest.
EpisodeResources
- Episode webpage
- Episode transcript
- Holly Doll on LinkedIn
- The Waterers
- Ignite Rural, Department of Public Transformation
- Midwest Culture Bearers Award, Arts Midwest
- Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, & Museums (ATALM)
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Art of the Rural is honored to support 5 Plain Questions. We are grateful to individual donors across the country, the Ford Foundation, and Good Chaos for making these conversations possible. Additional support for this podcast is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Learn more about our work and show your support at artoftherural.org
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