X-TRA’s ARTISTS AND RIGHTS is a conversation series exploring what art can do. In each podcast, four artists come together to talk about about the intersection of Los Angeles’s most urgent issues and artistic practice.

Participating Artists
NAO BUSTAMANTE
COG•NATE COLLECTIVE
MICHELLE DIZON
ZACKARY DRUCKER
TODD GRAY
ARSHIA HAQ
VISHAL JUGDEO
GELARE KHOSHGOZARAN
MARCUS KUILAND-NAZARIO
AHREE LEE
SANDRA DE LA LOZA
ELANA MANN
JENNIFER MOON
JAKLIN ROMINE
PATRICK STAFF
MARIO YBARRA JR.

Moderated by Mario Ontiveros

Hear intimate and wide-ranging conversations about re-framing the role of the artist, challenging our institutions, building community and strategies for developing codes of ethics and self-care.

How do artists help to collectively create supportive conditions and opportunities in our city? What is the particular role artists play in relationship to these conditions?

Executive Producers: Shana Lutker and Mario Ontiveros.
Recorded at Catasonic Studios in Echo Park by Mark Wheaton.
Production and editorial assistance from Sara Ellen Fowler and Kara Hart.

This series was made possible by generous support from California Arts Council Art and Public Media Grant, the Michael Asher Foundation, and KCET’s Artbound.

Thanks to all who contributed to the development of this series, including Ellen Birrell, Andrea Bowers, Ian Chillag, Neha Choksi, Poppy Coles, Justin Cram, Gilda Davidian, Juan Devis, Sara Ellen Fowler, Harry Gamboa Jr., Kara Hart, Carren Jao, Anuradha Vikram, Brica Wilcox, Matty Wilder, and Lindsay Preston Zappas.