Hosted by TJ Dedeaux-Norris & Jason Šimánek. Conversations on art, care, creativity, and what it means to emerge.
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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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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