Interview

"Living in these characters gives me a freedom to explore what it feels like to embrace emotion and let it do what it needs to — through sadness or confusion or strange sexiness or filth or isolation." 

"It's not just the content of hate speech that is problematic. It's the algorithms that have funneled haters toward more hate."

"My relationship with the border has led to the quest of understanding the space of the borders by attempting to materialize an intangible exchange."

Christopher Blay hosts Jonathan Morris, a Fort Worth Entrepreneur and community leader. They talk about the marriage of art and commerce, and how Morris' Hotel Dryce You Are Here Art Grant could help build an inclusive community in Fort Worth.

For the past 40 years, Deborah Butterfield has been creating large-scale sculptures of horses. Her work is currently on view at The Old Jail Art Center in Albany.

Christopher Blay and Bernardo Vallarino discuss Vallarino's work, which addresses the hollow sentiments of “Thoughts and Prayers” in the face of violence in society.

The first installment in Glasstire's video and audio podcast series, Artist on Artist, in which Glasstire's News Editor Christopher Blay, also an artist, hosts Texas-based artists and art professionals in one-on-one conversations.

Here Lauren Moya Ford is in conversation with curator and artist Jesus Treviño and artists Cande Aguilar, Jessie Burciaga, and Samantha Isabel García about how a current show at UT Austin speaks to the Borderlands and its soulful hidden currents.

"Every day try to be more human, and less of a consumer." 

The Dallas-based artist and curator of experimental film and new media is off to Cairo to teach for two years! Christina Rees chats with him about the adjunct teaching racket, opportunities for American artists overseas, and how his new city may influence his work.

"'Offerings' needs to be shown literally across the street from a police station. It deserves it."

"The moment we listen, we care about ourselves. How resistant is that?"

"It takes all of us, but as individuals we need to stand up, open our eyes, be brave and realize this is not the America we should be living in."

Porch Swing Orchestra has the feel of a personal experience, a recording you would make for yourself and not something to be shared for "likes."

Christopher Blay's May 22 video check in with Letitia and Sedrick Huckaby at Huckaby Studios. The artists and educators talked about studio work during the Great Lockdown of 2020, family, and their students.

"I would argue that it shouldn’t be looked at as tagging or graffiti, but a political utterance that is actually really fucking smart, and is an artful intervention, you know?"

Houston-based artist Tierney Malone talks to Glasstire about Willie Nelson, the importance of family, and the politics of our current moment. 

Christina Rees talks to Zeke Williams about him contracting COVID-19 in March, about his going to grad school after his art career started, and the essence of getting business done in the art world.

Sterling Allen talks to Christina Rees about the seduction of graphic design, using a parking lot as a gallery, and being a sculptor with a preoccupation with flatness.

Brandon Zech talks with artist Kevin McNamee-Tweed about Austin’s art scene, finding the perfect paintbrush, and the abundance of deadpan humor in his work.