Art & Other People

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?

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"Art & Other People" was made possible by a grant from Asylum Arts at The Neighborhood.

Co-host

Dan Schifrin

Dan Schifrin is an award-winning short story writer, whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, McSweeney’s, San Francisco Chronicle, Ayin, and other publications.

He is the author of the plays “Sweet and Sour” and “Marie Kondo and Martin Buber Walk into a Bar,” and of the forthcoming book of essays, “Here You Are.” In 2012 he co-curated the exhibition “Beyond Belief” with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and for seven years was Writer in Residence at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.

He has taught creative writing and business communication at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State, and as the founder of StoryForward he consults with organizations and companies around the world in the areas of narrative design, storytelling, and creativity.

https://www.danschifrin.com/