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

Sophie Herxheimer

Sophie Herxheimer is an artist and poet. Her work has been commissioned by The British Library and The Royal Society of Literature, and has been shown at Tate Modern, The Museum of Liverpool and on a giant mural along the sea-front at Margate. Her collection Velkom to Inklandt (Short Books, 2017) was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her book 60 Lovers to Make and Do, (Henningham Family Press, 2019) was a TLS Book of the Year.

She has illustrated six collections of mythology and fairy tale, most recently The Mighty Goddess (The History Press, 2023.) with Sally Pomme Clayton. She has an ongoing project where she listens and draws stories live with members of the public. Her latest collection is INDEX (zimZalla, 2021) 78 poems made from found text, published as a tarot deck. She is currently working on a graphic novel to be published by Pushkin Press in 2026.

https://www.sophieherxheimer.com