Faten Nastas Mitwasi talks with Qanita Lilla about growing up in Bethlehem in occupied Palestine, the artistic sensibilities she inherited from her parents, and establishing a career as an artist, curator, scholar and arts administrator. Faten shares the physical and emotional challenges of attending art school in Israel and the joys of making site-specific and community-engaged art in Palestine and around the world. This conversation shows that contemporary Palestinian art is rich in humor, experimentation and full of hope for the future.

In the show Ukutula, Jill Glatt’s vibrant textile pieces Seed and Who is Belle Island? rise to meet visitors. In this interview, Jill talks with Qanita Lilla about her close familial bonds and her personal routes toward art. She talks about juggling teaching and being an artist, the processes of harvesting botanicals, and of find a home in Kingston.

In this episode, Qanita Lilla talks with Jessica Karuhanga about her creative journeys from Sarnia, in south western Ontario to London, Ontario. Jessica talks about how her personal geographies shapes her artistic practice. She also talks about Black embodiment, about the audible demands of space, and of moving toward art as experience and embodiment.