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Writer/curator Cathy Byrd sparks conversations with culture makers from around the world for our podcast. Our professionally produced podcast synthesizes voices, field recordings, and rich sound effects to inform and inspire each conversation. Keeping in mind both the expert and the novice in contemporary art, we promote and support public access and awareness of the arts through our free digital archive of more than 300 episodes. Cathy and her team are committed to curating informed, balanced and diverse stories through the lens of today’s art, film and design. Since 2011, Fresh Art International has served as an engaging resource for individuals, communities and schools.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWriter/curator Cathy Byrd sparks conversations with culture makers from around the world for our podcast. Our professionally produced podcast synthesizes voices, field recordings, and rich sound effects to inform and inspire each conversation.
Fresh Art International is hosted by Cathy Byrd. The show has published 317 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Amy Sherald, American Sublime" (31 December 2025, 19 minutes), "Cannupa Hanska Luger, The Art of 21st Century Indigeneity" (12 November 2025, 25 minutes), and "Video Performance Art Reimagines the Future" (5 November 2025, 25 minutes).
Fresh Art International publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 23 minutes across 317 episodes.
Booking probability for Fresh Art International is 27%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Fresh Art International requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Fresh Art International's contact route on record: verified email.
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Cathy Byrd hosts Fresh Art International, an arts podcast with 317 episodes published.
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Episode #209
Today, we share with you the finale of the Fresh Art International podcast, ending more than a decade of storytelling from art scenes around the world. Coming full circle, we’ve returned to Baltimore, Maryland. The...
Today, we introduce Cannupa Hanska Luger, an American artist born on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, who now lives and works outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Our conversation reveals a few of the ways...
Episode #207
In this episode, we explore an emerging microgenre in contemporary performance art. Some of today’s artists create liminal spaces, construct original expressive forms, and make powerful statements in a range of...
Today’s episode is a poetic epilogue to the Student Edition we produced with university students from the United States and Canada. The emerging podcasters who share this story are enrolled at schools in Chișinău...
Episode #205
To introduce the new Reflecting Zemstvei podcast produced by local creatives in Chișinău, Moldova, Cathy Byrd and Olga Raileanu take listeners inside an intensive workshop experience that spanned three days in March...
How does your art engage the world? How do you speak to the issues and ideas of our time? What do you hope others will remember about your life, your beliefs, your work? The exhibition Teresita Fernandez / Robert...
Today, we take you to Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, for our first experience of the yearly gathering known as March Meeting. The Sharjah Art Foundation designs these programs to resonate with issues and events...
In this episode, we consider the role that teaching artists play in shaping the art school experience. How does an artist in academia cultivate expressive opportunities for students while making time to deepen their own...
Where in the world can you express yourself freely, share cultural knowledge, test inventive art practices, and build a transnational creative community in only 10 days time? During an intensive CEC ArtsLink program in...
Episode #200
Today, we introduce a few of the artists and activists energizing the 2023 Art Prospect & TRASH-5 Festival in Kyrgyzstan. They give voice to the issues, ideas, and intentions that shape their truly creative approaches...
Today, we take you to St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States of America. Home of the Gateway Arch, an Emblem of Manifest Destiny, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Emblem of Manifest Destiny...
In February 2023, we travel to the United Arab Emirates for the first time. We’re here to witness and celebrate Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present. Four years in the making, the exhibition is...
In February 2023, we travel to the Arab Emirates for the first time. We’re here to witness and celebrate Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present. Four years in the making, the exhibition is ambitious...
In 2022, members and guests of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT) travel from around the world to Kentucky, in the Appalachian region of the United States. The uninitiated might consider...
Episode #195
In 2022, members and guests of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art make their way to Kentucky, in the United States. Our first days are packed with urban experiences — museum, gallery, private...
Episode #194
With six independent curators, we explore a growing trend in the field of contemporary art. We discover that the covid epidemic and a global economic recession have not weakened their resolve to navigate the field on...
Episode #193
“This Persian Garden Project will be providing visitors with a private, yet public environment in which to engage important social and cultural issues by gathering and gardening through conversations, screenings...
Episode #192
“In a way, I've always been working on the edge of both a larger dominant society engagement and a deep engagement with my communities. My focus is really digging deep into blackness.” Andrea Fatona, 2021 Toronto-based...
Episode #191
With American-born artist Mary Mattingly, we delve into her collaborative environmental interventions over time. We remember the 2015 Havana Biennial when rainwater nourished Pull, a pair of geodesic dome eco-systems...
Episode #190
Today’s story takes place at the intersection of art and the First Amendment. This vital element of the United States Constitution protects our right to freedom of expression, by prohibiting lawmakers from restricting...
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