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Episode 523 / Chenlu Hou & Chiara No
Born in Shandong, China in 1989, Chenlu Hou is currently based in Providence, RI. She earned her MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019. Since then, she has completed residencies at Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Penland School of Craft, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and Archie Bray Foundation. Her works have been included in exhibitions at Kristen Lorello, New York; YIRI Arts, Taipei City, Taiwan; the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Texas; and the Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT; among other venues. Hou is currently a resident artist at Harvard Ceramics and a Visiting Critic in Ceramics at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Chiara No was born in 1981 in Key West, FL, and currently lives and works in Johnson, VT. She studied Art and Theory at the Glasgow School of Art in 2002-03 and received a BA in Art History from Towson University in 2005 and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. She has been on faculty at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an instructor at University of Pennsylvania. She has shown at Spring Break New York, NY; MoCA Westport, Westport, CT; Field Projects and Bible, New York, NY; Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA; EXILE, Vienna, Austria; Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL; and has participated Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair in both New York and Los Angeles. Her works on paper are included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Special Collection, the Walker Art Center’s Library and Archives, the Art Institute of Chicago’s Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Library. 
Chenlu Hou and Chiara No: What the Hands Remember to Hear. A joint exhibition at the Aldrich Museum of two artists who use ceramic sculpture to explore storytelling and spirituality up through MAY 25, 2026.

Episode 522 / Kayla Witt
Kayla Witt is an artist born in Calgary, Canada and based in LA. She received her BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, ON and her MFA from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON. She has had solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA; and the University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON. She has participated in group shows at Arsenal Contemporary, New York; albertz benda, Los Angeles, CA; Ketabi Bourdet, Paris, FR; WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong; Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto, ON; among others. Witt has completed a number of residencies including Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA; and Struts Gallery, Sackville, NB. Her work has been featured in HypeArt, Booooooom, Harper’s Magazine, It’s Nice That, Surface Mag, among others.

Episode 521 / Nat Meade

Nat Meade received his BFA from the University of Oregon and his MFA from Pratt Institute. His work has shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, and has been reviewed in publications such as Artforum, Juxtapoz, The Boston Globe, and Hyperallergic. He attended the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture 2009, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in 2016, the Siena Art Institute in 2018, and the James Castle House Summer Residency in Boise, Idaho in Summer 2021. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Nat returns to the pod as he just hung a show called Franklin at Hesse Flatow for a talk about his new work, funny sad songs, cinema, teaching, making work for fellow painters, titles with multiple meanings and much more.

Episode 520 / Elizabeth Hazan
Elizabeth Hazan is a New York based visual artist born and raised in New York City and attended Bryn Mawr College and the New York Studio School where she was awarded a fellowship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. 
She has twice been a resident of Yaddo, and received a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation. Her recent solo shows include Double Fantasy at Hesse Flatow, NY, Weather, at  Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; and Under the Sun, HESSE FLATOW, NY. 
Her work has been written about in Hyperallergic, Forbes, Two Coats of Paint, Art Critical, The Brooklyn Rail and The Art Newspaper. She serves as the founder and director of Platform Project Space in Brooklyn, NY.

Episode 519 / Cyrilla Mozenter
Cyrilla Mozenter is known for her gouache-painted, pencil-drawn works on paper and hand stitched industrial wool felt pieces that include the transplantation of cutout letters, letter-derived and pictogram-like shapes. Her solo exhibitions include Problems of Art and Present Participle, 57W57 Arts, NY; See Why and the failed utopian, Lesley Heller Gallery, NY; the failed utopian & Other Stories, FiveMyles, Brooklyn; warm snow, Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, and the Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY; More saints seen, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; and Very well saint, The Drawing Center, NY. She has produced two collaborative books with photographer/writer Philip Perkis: ar, AC Books, San Diego, 2023, and the bilingual Octave, anmoc press, Seoul, 2020. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, she has also received two fellowships from the NY Foundation for the Arts and two project grants from The Fifth Floor Foundation. She has been in residence at Pianpicollo Selvatico, Dieu Donné Papermill, and Instituto Municipal de Arte e Cultura-Rioarte. Her work is in numerous public collections including the Brooklyn Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery. She taught for many years in the MFA program at Pratt Institute.