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Creating Community Through Art and Conversation

PODCAST

Art & Other People

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Art & Other People explores the intersection of care and creativity at a time when artists and caretakers are more needed than ever.

Artist-teachers Sophie Herxheimer and Dan Schifrin talk with artists across music, poetry, painting, film, and more, and investigate the spaces where imagination thrives — as much in the dustbin lids and screaming babyland of domestic effort as in the ivory towers of some mythical studio solitude.

Our theory of change is that everyone is creative, and accessing that creativity is fundamental to personal, familial, and social health.

Can the practice of caring for others expand our capacity as makers? And what do we make of that?

Through fiction, theater, journalism, and public conversations, I strive to create art and dialogue that changes people’s minds.

My work has been featured in:

The Los Angeles Times

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The San Francisco Chronicle

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McSweeney's

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The Giving List

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New York Jewish Week

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The Los Angeles Times | The San Francisco Chronicle | McSweeney's | The Giving List | New York Jewish Week |