Ep.7: Choosing Creativity
Episode 7: CHOOSING CREATIVITY
Faina Lerman and Scott Vincent Campbell dismantle the idea of being full-time artists and emphasize manifesting a life full of creativity, particularly in Detroit, instead.
SHOW NOTES
Faina Lerman, The Nature of Things.
Scott Vincent Campbell, Wedge 1, Acrylic paint, Collage, Glass, LED, Metal, MDF, Oil Stick, Rubber, Wood, 92 1/2 × 63 × 29 3/4 in/235 × 160 × 75.6 cm. (2016)
ABOUT THE GUESTS
FAINA LERMAN was born in 1975 in Riga, Latvia, immigrating to the US with her family in 1980. She earned a BFA from the College for Creative studies in 2004 with a focus on painting and sculpture. Lerman is an accomplished visual and performing artist who has exhibited and performed work in both solo and group shows locally and nationally and her performance art duo, Tzarinas of the Plane, was named as a 2015 Kresge Visual Art Fellow.
In 2009 she co-founded, with her husband Graem Whyte, Popps Packing, a neighborhood based arts organization on the Hamtramck/Detroit border. Popps Packing is an artist laboratory that provides local, national and international artist space for experimentation and the creation of new works through artist residencies, exhibitions, workshops and intimate happenings.
SCOTT VINCENT CAMPBELL (b. 1983, New York, NY) is a visual artist and curator. He earned a BA in Fine Art from Haverford College in 2005, and currently lives and works between Detroit, MI and Chicago, IL, where he is an MFA candidate at the University of Chicago. Campbell’s work has been exhibited across the US at institutions such as the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, MI; Library Street Collective in Detroit, MI; and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York, NY. Campbell was a resident at Red Bull Arts Detroit in 2016, and in 2017 was the first Ford Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He is represented by M Contemporary Art in Ferndale, MI.