Polina Smith, Author at Bioneers
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Do What You Love, The Rest Will Follow: An Interview with Indigenous Artist and Activist Mer Young
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Mer Young is an Indigenous (Chichimeca and Apache) socially-engaged, Southern California-based artist whose body of work includes collages,...

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Making the Invisible Visible: An Interview with Patricia Watts, Founder of ecoartspace
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Patricia Watts, the founder (in 1997) of the groundbreaking, highly influential nonprofit ecoartspace, has been one of the world’s most important...

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Living Small to Live Big: An Interview with Lindsay Wood, the ‘Tiny Home Lady’
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Lindsay Wood, widely known as “The Tiny Home Lady,” the founder and CEO of Experience Tiny Homes, is an expert on tiny home design,...

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Reconsidering All that Drives Us: An Interview with Patsy Craig, Founder of AWA
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Patsy Craig is a curator/producer, author/artist and Indigenous rights advocate who has for over 20 years generated and cultivated a wide range of...

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Sacred Activism: An Interview with Artist Veronica Ramirez
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Note: This is an edited version of an interview conducted in October 2022 by Bioneers’ Polina Smith. Veronica Ramirez, an Oakland, CA-based...

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“Folktivism” for the Earth: an Interview with Musician Luke Wallace
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An Interview with Luke Wallace, politically engaged Canadian singer/songwriter; conducted by Bioneers Arts Coordinator, Polina Smith. Luke...

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Conscious Music is the Soundtrack of the Movement: An Interview with Alfred Howard
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Alfred Howard, a prolific spoken-word artist, writer, and co-founder of The Redwoods Music, a San Diego record label and collective, was,...

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Art That Responds to the Times: Wisdom from Rising Appalachia
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An interview with Chloe Smith, multi-instrumental musician, co-leader (with her sister, Leah Song) of the American musical group, Rising Appalachia,...

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The Planetary Dance: Using Somatic-Centered Art to Heal Communities and the Earth
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An Interview with Daria Halprin, somatic/expressive arts therapist, author, teacher, dancer, actress, and co-founding Director of Tamalpa Institute;...

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Woof Woof, Wanna Play? An Interview with Visionary Astrologer, Caroline Casey
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Caroline W. Casey is a Visionary Activist Astrologer, devoted to the principle that imagination lays the tracks for the reality train to follow....

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When You Hit Rock Bottom, the Only Place to Go Is Up: How Catastrophe Can Bring Us Together, with Lyla June
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Lyla June is a poet, musician, anthropologist, educator, public speaker and community organizer of Diné, Cheyenne and European lineages who has...

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The Sacred Forest: an Online Art Exhibit and Interview with AWA Gallery Founder, Patsy Craig
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Patsy Craig, photo by Kelly Campbell Patsy Craig is a curator/producer, author/artist and Indigenous rights advocate who has for over 16 years...

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