11. Artist Opportunities and Expanding Your Practice with Osceola Refetoff and Shana Nys Dambrot

(Recorded in January 2024), Photographer Osceola Refetoff, curator Shana Nys Dambrot, museum manager Andi Campognone, and art coordinator Monica Baker explore how artists are expanding their practices in response to global change. Touching on film, photography, science, sustainability, and AI, they discuss how creative work intersects with culture, land stewardship, and environmental urgency. The conversation centers on how artists can use aggressive beauty—aesthetic strategies that provoke, engage, and inspire—to meet this pivotal moment as storytellers, visionaries, and changemakers. Whether you're an emerging or established artist, curator, or cultural thinker, this episode offers valuable insights into the evolving ecosystem of art and its power to influence the future.