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Art Against Empire examines the intersection of creativity and politics through conversations with artists, craftspeople, and activists who use making as a form of resistance.
Hosted by recovering political pundit and textile artist Ian Danger Capstick, each episode dives into the radical history of craft traditions, profiles contemporary makers disrupting systems, and shares practical projects that merge beauty with dissent.
From textile workers' strikes to guerrilla street art, from Indigenous craft sovereignty to anti-capitalist maker spaces...we explore how human creativity has always been a tool for liberation.
Art Against Empire is produced and edited by Shawn Dearn, and is a production of Secret Agents.
Hosted by recovering political pundit and textile artist Ian Danger Capstick, each episode dives into the radical history of craft traditions, profiles contemporary makers disrupting systems, and shares practical projects that merge beauty with dissent.
From textile workers' strikes to guerrilla street art, from Indigenous craft sovereignty to anti-capitalist maker spaces...we explore how human creativity has always been a tool for liberation.
Art Against Empire is produced and edited by Shawn Dearn, and is a production of Secret Agents.
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Average audio length:
39 minutes
Guest interviews
English
Canada
14 episodes
since Nov. 10, 2025
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Art Against Empire examines the intersection of creativity and politics through conversations with artists, craftspeople, and activists who use making as a form of resistance.
Hosted by recovering political pundit and textile artist Ian Danger Capstick, each episode dives into the radical history …
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Quilters, blacksmiths, weavers, embroiderers - 25 artists across four countries using craft to fight systems of power. Welcome to Art Against Empire!
This series introduction launches a 16-episode journey featuring over two dozen artists, craftspeople, and theorists across four countries. You'll h…
Welcome to Episode 2 of Art Against Empire!
Quilting as Collective Storytelling weaves together the stories of the AIDS quilt, the Abolition Sewing Bee and features the work of Sara Trail who founded the Social Justice Sewing Academy in Oakland, Californnia.
Sara's putting needle and thread into …
Welcome to Episode 3 of Art Against Empire!
Stephen Towns paints and quilts the histories that America tried to erase, from Nat Turner's rebellion to forgotten spaces of Black joy.
In 2018, Stephen became the first African American artist-in-residence at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. Not 196…
Episode 4 of Art Against Empire explores how perfectionism is used as a tool of oppression.
This episode features an interview with Kim Werker who is a weaver, creator of the Mighty Ugly project and a craft entrepreneur; as well as an anecdote from Catherine West of Significant Seams in the Unite…
Artists have always responded to their environment, but what happens when it changes?
Art Against Empire's fifth episode goes to Michigan, where an artist embroiders glacier data onto silk and we check in on Minneapolis, where strangers gather in a library basement to make a crazy quilt from surg…
After her partner died, Mary Burgess wove herself a blanket from his clothes and the jacket she wore to his funeral. When she finished, she thought: I could do this for other people.
This episode asks a question that haunts empires: whose deaths count? Philosopher Judith Butler argues that to grie…
In 2018, eleven women blacksmiths gathered in Oregon to build together. They didn't plan to start an organization. But the conversation kept going and the Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths was born. Their motto is: "Everyone has something to offer, everyone has something to learn."
This episode exp…
It takes "quite an act of violence" to remove a mosaic from a wall. For twenty-five years, Carrie Reichardt has used that fact as political strategy — cementing memorials for death row inmates across four continents, covering her London home floor-to-roof in mosaic, and building a truck-mounted mon…
This is Part 1 of a three-episode documentary special tracing seven centuries of the same fight: who owns the cloth? Co-creator Shawn Dearn narrates the history while actors read from primary sources, including Lord Byron's furious defence of the Luddites, Charity Clarke's 1769 letter about "a figh…
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