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The Emergence Room

Hosted by TJ Dedeaux-Norris & Jason Šimánek. Conversations on art, care, creativity, and what it means to emerge.

Podcast · By T.J. Dedeaux-Norris · American English · Official site

Indexed episodes, last 90 days
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Sep 24, 2026
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Jul 9, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 24, 2026

    Liana Muccio (opens the original)

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    In this episode, we sit down with visual artist, photographer, filmmaker, and educator Liana Miuccio. Born in Rome and raised in New York, Liana is a dual citizen of Italy and the United States whose life and practice have moved between these two places. She teaches photography in Rome at Cornell University and Temple University, and her work explores identity, memory, migration, and the ways our everyday lives become part of the stories we tell about ourselves and one another. This conversation

  2. Episode · Aug 27, 2026

    Heather Hart (opens the original)

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    On this episode of The Emergence Room, Heather Hart joins us for a conversation about culminating our time as 2025–26 Rome Prize Fellows at the American Academy in Rome and what it means to carry that experience forward. Heather is an artist, Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Rutgers University, and co-founder of Black Lunch Table, a platform dedicated to supporting the histories, intellectual agency, and communities of Black artists. Heather's sculptural practice often takes the form of rooft

  3. Episode · Aug 14, 2026

    Michela Palermo (opens the original)

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    In this episode of The Emergence Room, we sit down with Michela Palermo, an artist, photographer, publisher, and the 2025–26 Fondazione Sicilia Affiliated Artist at the American Academy in Rome. She is also the founder of Palermo Publishing, an independent publishing project working across photography, visual art, and critical thought. We talk with Michela about her emergent journey through photography and publishing, and the ways her practice has expanded from making her own work to creating st

  4. Episode · Jul 9, 2026

    Samiya Bashir (opens the original)

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    New episode of The Emergence Room featuring Samiya Bashir. Poet, multimedia artist, educator, trailblazer, and the first Black woman to receive the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature at the American Academy in Rome. We talked about poetry as a living architecture. About queer women navigating institutions while becoming "the first" in rooms not originally built for them. About leadership, visibility, survival, and the strange emotional terrain of trailblazing while still trying to remain hu

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