Hosted by TJ Dedeaux-Norris & Jason Šimánek. Conversations on art, care, creativity, and what it means to emerge.
This week we sit down with Margo Weitzman, Rome Prize Fellow and PhD candidate at Rutgers University, whose research traces a sixteenth-century merchant moving between India and Italy—translating worlds through trade, language, and desire.
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In this episode of The Emergence Room, we sit down with the extraordinary duo Bonnie Fisher and Boris Dramov of the ROMA Design Group—partners in life, in practice, and in purpose. This married team of architects has shaped communities, cities, and cultural memory through their work, including the iconic Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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In this episode of The Emergence Room, we sit down with Pythagoras The Sage — artist, philosopher, musician, and fellow traveler at the American Academy in Rome — to explore how flow, music, and philosophy merge in a practice rooted in transformation and queerness.
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Rick Luttmann – Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Sonoma State University – joins The Emergence Room as a Rome Fellow Traveler at the American Academy in Rome. A mathematician, public servant, and lifelong wanderer of unconventional paths, Rick brings a generosity of spirit and a catalog of stories that simply do not fit into one episode.
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In this powerful and expansive episode, we sit down with Chuna McIntyre, Founder and Director of the Nunamta Yup’ik Eskimo Singers and Dancers and current American Academy in Rome Fellow, to talk about his work with the Yup’ik Masks in the “Anima Mundi” of the Vatican Museums.
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In our third episode, co-hosts T.J. Dedeaux-Norris and Jason Šimánek finally turn the mic on themselves. Now that each of our individual episodes has dropped, we sit down together—wine in hand—for a one-of-a-kind, maybe once-in-a-lifetime Emergence Room session.
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For our second episode, Jason Simanek turns inward to consider what it means to emerge through care and clarity. In conversation with T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, he explores the quiet strength of self-prioritization, the rhythm of restoration, and the creative tenderness that arises when we honor our own needs first.
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In our first episode of The Emergence Room, artist and educator T.J. Dedeaux-Norris opens up about performing and shedding identity. In conversation with co-host Jason Simanek, T.J. explores how race, gender, and size shape leadership and self-expression, and what it means to strip away what no longer serves in order to lead from authenticity and vulnerability.
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