Conversation with Artist and Filmmaker Dylan McLaughlin

In this episode we hear how Artist Dylan McLaughlin finds a sustainable creative outlet through filmmaking. Dylan looks back over the past couple of years at the friendships he has carved out while creating visual portraits of Artists for various museums and galleries. He talks on collaboration and of his personal creative experience with the medium of film. How being Indigenous allows him to relate to certain projects in a fluid way without it becoming a main focus in his work. Dylan breaks down how he uses impulse as the main thread for connecting into his process, capturing the truth of a moment while allowing his subjects to live in abstraction. We hear how Dylan's work and aesthetics are informed by everything from the gear he uses to his emotional grounding while editing a piece.

Here is the conversation with Dylan McLaughlin:

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Dylan McLaughlin (Diné) is a digital media artist and filmmaker, primarily focusing on documentary, narrative video and photography.

His work ranges from co-organization of the Attention Span 30 Second Film Festival, documentary style artist and community portraits, narrative short filmmaking, to more experimental interactive works and video installation.

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Directors - Nicholas Galanin & Dylan McLaughlin
Director of Photography - Dylan McLaughlin
Timelapse star footage - Renan Ozturk
Woman in Water - Merritt Johnson
Woman in Car - Liberty Yablon

Created by Dylan McLaughlin for Nordamerika Native Museum's (Zurich, Switzerland) Native Art Now exhibition of contemporary indigenous art

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Conversation with Photographer Te Rawhitiroa Bosch

Māori artist and photorgrapher Te Rawhitiroa Bosch evokes the magic and intensity of the human experience with his work. In this podcast Te Rawhitiroa shares how he has come to his unique and empowering photographic style which focuses on people, performance, and our relationship to place. In this episode, we hear Te Rawhitiroa break down his experience of traveling the world, connecting to various Indigenous cultures and his experience being welcomed into community through protest and celebration. We hear how Te Rawhitiroa sustains his body, mind and spirit on this epic year long journey and we gain insight into his personal account of being on Mauna Kea in Hawai'i during the first arrests of Kanaka Maoli practicing peaceful resistance. 

Music on this episode by the following artists: Maisey Rika, Trinity Roots, Iva Lamkum, Halau O Kekuhi, Rob Ruha, and Majic & The Acoustic Activists.

More about the artist:

Te Rawhitiroa is currently on a connective journey from Canada to Hawai'i, from Holland to Morroco and beyond, documenting the human experience and connecting our stories through imagery. In his journey, Te Rawhitiroa captures the beauty of humanity within daily existence while celebrating the importance of indigenous peoples and their connection to place. 

Crow Fair, Montana. Rawhitiroa Photography

Crow Fair, Montana. Rawhitiroa Photography

Kapu Aloha. Mauna Kea, Hawai'i. Rawhitiroa Photography

Kapu Aloha. Mauna Kea, Hawai'i. Rawhitiroa Photography

"As I travel around this world of ours, I reflect, and I’m grateful for the opportunities I have to connect with such a diverse range of beautiful people, epic places and rich cultures. I’ve been loving reconnecting with old friends from throughout the years and meeting new friends as I move from place to place. It reminds me that regardless of what is happening around the globe, this world of ours is full of beautiful people and for that, I’m grateful...

E kore aku mihi e ngū ki a koutou e te whānau, mō koutou e tautoko nei i ahau i runga i tēnei haerenga āku. Tēnā koutou e pupuri nei i te ahi kā o te kāinga, kia pai te rere haere o te waekaikapua nei.

I am grateful for all of your generosity and support, and for all the magic that is yet to come!!" - Te Rawhitiroa Bosch 

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Conversation with Organizer Lauren Higgins

What can the the Art of Organizing bring to your projects? What can Organizers learn from Artists and Artists from Organizers? 

Global organizer Lauren Higgins is a creative producer, artist, and strategist committed to innovative design and change serving 100% of humanity. In this podcast, she explores her experience with local and global organizing, how to work collaboratively with diverse people and how these lesson can be applied to making your very own projects more successful. Lauren shares her passion for igniting experience, pioneering new ways of working in organizations and enterprises that help both teams and leaders respond to the challenges and opportunities of the sustainability era. Happy organizing!

Lauren Higgins with Impact Hub Global

Lauren Higgins with Impact Hub Global

Music featured on this episode by ZZK Records

More about the artist:

Lauren Higgins is known for her interdisciplinary work in organizational development and design, event production and curation, economic innovation, and her focus in collaborative governance, and learning in organizations and society. Her passion lies at the intersection between creativity, collaboration and strategy, inspiring her to develop large-scale visions into meaningful projects.

She works as Experience Lead as part of the Impact Hub Global Team, and orchestrates large, network-wide projects relating to learning, innovation exchange and global events that empower the 72+ Impact Hub teams worldwide to better support the entrepreneurs and change-makers in their local cities. As an artist and organizer she has also co-created many festivals and curated many innovative events, including the Communikey Festival and Catapulta Festival. 

Lauren Higgins is currently working with Impact Hub Mexico DF

Lauren Higgins is currently working with Impact Hub Mexico DF

Lauren Higgins presenting for Catipulta Social Innovation Festival

Lauren Higgins presenting for Catipulta Social Innovation Festival


Conversation with Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger

When this podcast project began, one of the first artists interviewed was Cannupa Hanska Luger. The episode was an insight into artist Cannupa Hanska's past and how he came to practice his art as we see it evolve today. (Listen to Episode 2). 

Now as this podcast develops further, we loop back around and touch base with Cannupa Hanska again to hear about where his art is now. In this episode we dig deeper into the context of Cannupa's current work and process, and hear his perspective on being a working artist today.

Never Neverland III. Ceramic. Cannupa Hanska. Image by Thosh Collins from Indian Country Today. 

Never Neverland III. Ceramic. Cannupa Hanska. Image by Thosh Collins from Indian Country Today. 

"Every piece continues to take a lifetime to create, so that life itself is a material. And so, art should represent this moment in time, an interpretation of right now. What is created is an attempt to be as honest as possible. Truth is static and fragile. Honesty and sincerity has plasticity." -Cannupa Hanska

Here is the conversation with Cannupa Hanska Luger:

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Music featured on this episode by artist DJ KRUSH

More about the artist:

Cannupa Hanska Luger is a ceramic and mixed media artist who creates socially conscious work balanced with a high standard of craftsmanship. His sculpture has been added to various museum collections and shown in exhibitions worldwide. Born in North Dakota on the Standing Rock Reservation, Cannupa's genetics derive from Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, Austrian, and Norwegian. He graduated with honors from The Institute of American Indian Arts in 2011 with a BFA focusing in studio ceramics. Cannupa Hanska is represented by Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. 

More about Cannupa Hanska and his work on his website and Facebook.

Cannupa Hanksa at his studio in New Mexico

Cannupa Hanksa at his studio in New Mexico

'The Unicorn', Ceramic, Steel, Wool. Cannupa Hanska

'The Unicorn', Ceramic, Steel, Wool. Cannupa Hanska

'Feline I & II', Ceramic, Leather. Cannupa Hanska

'Feline I & II', Ceramic, Leather. Cannupa Hanska

Conversation with Organizer and Activist Alma Rosa Silva-Bañuelos

Organizing can be considered as one of the highest forms of Art. It requires equal measures of creative thought, patience, compassion, problem solving, awareness and selflessness. In this episode of Broken Boxes Podcast we get into conversation with community organizer and global revolutionary Alma Rosa Silva-Bañuelos. Her insight and words of advice regarding self care and community level connectivity are invigorating and desperately needed food for thought as we continue to stand up for what we believe in. 

Here is the conversation with Alma Rosa Silva-Bañuelos:

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Alma Rosa Silva-Bañuelos is currently the Director of the LGBTQ Resource Center at the University of New Mexico. In this role, Alma Rosa is committed to creating a space that provides service to UNM students, faculty and staff of all gender identities and sexual orientations through support, advocacy, education and safety. She has also been a community organizer in her hometown of Albuquerque, NM since the late 1990’s, and has worked throughout New Mexico facilitating local and rural communities to self-organize for social justice. She has worked with many local, statewide, regional, national, bi-national non-profits and currently is part a member of the Board of Directors for the Transgender Resource Center of NM (TGRCNM). She is also a co-founding member of Young Women United, local grass-roots non-profit organization founded in 1999. Alma Rosa continues to organize and advocate for social justice while working towards LGBTQ* recognition, acceptance, equal rights and liberation.