MARGE PIERCY

MARGE PIERCY

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Novelist, Poet & Activist

People who take care of sick people and AIDS and teachers and garbage collectors and people who work in daycare…all the things that have to happen in society we pay shit for. We pay an enormous amount of money to people who can throw a ball through a hoop. We pay an enormous amount of hedge fund people. All the people who take over corporations go in and destroy get immensely rich while the people who do what we actually need doing, what we must have to survive, the people who grow food, the independent farmers that used to exist…

(Highlights) KOVACS

(Highlights) KOVACS

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Sharon Kovacs is a soul-inspired singer from Eindhoven, Netherlands. Her unique passion for musical poetry and unorthodox vocal style made her stand out while attending Eindhoven’s Rock City Institute. After graduating in 2013, she found international success when her debut single, “My Love” became a number one hit in Europe. Kovacs is very honest about the struggles and inner-demons that she continues to face and how they inspire her art. Such is apparent in her song “Shades of Black” which reached the top of the charts in the Netherlands and garnered over 60 million views on YouTube. Kovacs has a clutch of awards to her name and has performed high-profile sets at major festivals such as Glastonbury, Sziget, Pinkpop, and Rock Werchter. 

KOVACS · Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter (Highlights)
The Creative Process Podcast

Songwriting Journal Courtesy of Kovacs

This interview was conducted by Mia Funk with the participation of collaborating universities and students. Associate Interviews Producer on this podcast was Konner Kienzle. Digital Media Coordinator is Hannah Story Brown. 

Mia Funk is an artist, interviewer and founder of The Creative Process.

KOVACS

KOVACS

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Sharon Kovacs is a soul-inspired singer from Eindhoven, Netherlands. Her unique passion for musical poetry and unorthodox vocal style made her stand out while attending Eindhoven’s Rock City Institute. After graduating in 2013, she found international success when her debut single, “My Love” became a number one hit in Europe. Kovacs is very honest about the struggles and inner-demons that she continues to face and how they inspire her art. Such is apparent in her song “Shades of Black” which reached the top of the charts in the Netherlands and garnered over 60 million views on YouTube. Kovacs has a clutch of awards to her name and has performed high-profile sets at major festivals such as Glastonbury, Sziget, Pinkpop, and Rock Werchter. 

KOVACS · Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter (47 mins)
The Creative Process Podcast

Songwriting Journal Courtesy of Kovacs

This interview was conducted by Mia Funk with the participation of collaborating universities and students. Associate Interviews Producer on this podcast was Konner Kienzle. Digital Media Coordinator is Hannah Story Brown. 

Mia Funk is an artist, interviewer and founder of The Creative Process.

(Highlights) SIRI HUSTVEDT

(Highlights) SIRI HUSTVEDT

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Novelist and Essayist

The reason I think you should read in these other disciplines is because it will help you in your own work. Now I really mean that. I think what has happened with the fragmentation of disciplines is that when problems arise. ...the people working in the discipline are unable to see avenues out of the problem that they would easily see if they had worked through problems in other disciplines.

SIRI HUSTVEDT

SIRI HUSTVEDT

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Novelist and Essayist

The reason I think you should read in these other disciplines is because it will help you in your own work. Now I really mean that. I think what has happened with the fragmentation of disciplines is that when problems arise. ...the people working in the discipline are unable to see avenues out of the problem that they would easily see if they had worked through problems in other disciplines.

(Highlights) KATE MUETH

(Highlights) KATE MUETH

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Actress, Choreographer, Artistic Director - Neo-Political Cowgirls

I care very deeply about the arts, theater arts. So I had a choice to make, either leave entirely or be the change, as they say. So I started Neo-Political Cowgirls to embrace women in their story, in our story.

KATE MUETH

KATE MUETH

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Actress, Choreographer, Artistic Director - Neo-Political Cowgirls

I care very deeply about the arts, theater arts. So I had a choice to make, either leave entirely or be the change, as they say. So I started Neo-Political Cowgirls to embrace women in their story, in our story.

(Highlights) APRIL GORNIK

(Highlights) APRIL GORNIK

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Artist and activist for people, places, and animals

I was in a group called the Women's Action Coalition in the early 90's. The fact that we couldn't get the ERA passed is insane. Although, now as I’m seeing it reintroduced, it should be a true equal rights amendment for everybody. Not just focused on women being equal to men, but a real update to the constitution. We still have things that we need to rewrite.

APRIL GORNIK

APRIL GORNIK

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Artist and activist for people, places, and animals

I was in a group called the Women's Action Coalition in the early 90's. The fact that we couldn't get the ERA passed is insane. Although, now as I’m seeing it reintroduced, it should be a true equal rights amendment for everybody. Not just focused on women being equal to men, but a real update to the constitution. We still have things that we need to rewrite.

(Highlights) ALICE NOTLEY

(Highlights) ALICE NOTLEY

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Poet

I wrote "I the People" in about 1985. I was living in New York and it was one of those years when it was an anniversary of the Constitution…My first husband had died a few years previously, and I didn't feel like I was part of any "we." But I did feel that I was "the people," somehow. So, I just changed it to "I the People." It seemed to me that that could be something that anyone might say to themselves, I the people.

ALICE NOTLEY

ALICE NOTLEY

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Poet

It's all-inclusive – poetry– and everything is poetry in a certain way, and poetic measure is like what we're composed of. It's what we are. I mean, we're poetry.

JESSA REED

JESSA REED

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Comedian & Host of Awakening Orientation Dept. & Soberish

That’s just always been something that’s been inspiring to me which is helping people from the wrong side of the tracks, the misunderstood, the addicted, helping people step into their power and believe in themselves.

(Highlights) CINDY CHUPACK

(Highlights) CINDY CHUPACK

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Writer · Producer · Director
Sex and the City, Modern Family, Everybody Loves Raymond, Otherhood

It was a long journey because I think I've been writing television now twenty-five years. I never really had the directing bug. I always loved writing and I like being behind the scenes and, in television, writers have so much control anyway to rise up the ranks and run the show and hire the directors, so I mostly had just great collaborations with directors.

CINDY CHUPACK

CINDY CHUPACK

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Writer · Producer · Director
Sex and the City, Modern Family, Everybody Loves Raymond, Otherhood

It was a long journey because I think I've been writing television now twenty-five years. I never really had the directing bug. I always loved writing and I like being behind the scenes and, in television, writers have so much control anyway to rise up the ranks and run the show and hire the directors, so I mostly had just great collaborations with directors.

(Highlights) SARA PARETSKY
SARA PARETSKY

SARA PARETSKY

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Sara Paretsky is the author of nineteen books, including sixteen V.I. Warshawski novels. She was named 2011 Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America and is the winner of many awards, including the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers' Association and the CWA Gold Dagger for Blacklist.

Sara Paretsky · Author & Mystery Writers of America “Grand Master” (58 mins)
The Creative Process Podcast

This interview was conducted by Mia Funk with the participation of collaborating universities and students. Associate Interviews Producer on this podcast was Lilian Liu. Digital Media Coordinator is Hannah Story Brown.

Mia Funk is an artist, interviewer and founder of The Creative Process.

(Highlights) ELISSA AUTHER

(Highlights) ELISSA AUTHER

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Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator Museum of Arts and Design

So the Museum of Arts and Design historically, for me, is part of a New York avantgarde scene. It's just that it was dedicated to artists working in these historically-marginalized materials. And it continues to do that. That mission has never changed.

ELISSA AUTHER

ELISSA AUTHER

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Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator Museum of Arts and Design

So the Museum of Arts and Design historically, for me, is part of a New York avantgarde scene. It's just that it was dedicated to artists working in these historically-marginalized materials. And it continues to do that. That mission has never changed.

(Highlights) JEANNIE VANASCO

(Highlights) JEANNIE VANASCO

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Award-Winning Memoirist, Author & Educator

What interested me about this particular experience is that I didn’t have the language to attach to it in the way I had the language to attach to a later experience that I would have no trouble calling rape, but happened to me and I call Mark in the book. I didn’t know what to call that for the longest time, so I didn’t know what to feel about it, and so as a writer that interests me. When I don’t have the words for something, when I sense that inevitably I’m going to fail.


JEANNIE VANASCO

JEANNIE VANASCO

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Award-Winning Memoirist, Author & Educator

What interested me about this particular experience is that I didn’t have the language to attach to it in the way I had the language to attach to a later experience that I would have no trouble calling rape, but happened to me and I call Mark in the book. I didn’t know what to call that for the longest time, so I didn’t know what to feel about it, and so as a writer that interests me. When I don’t have the words for something, when I sense that inevitably I’m going to fail.