Hosted by Lola Opatayo · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 43 episodes
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On Journey of the Art, we discuss the artist, unravel the art, and explore the road between, celebrating the highs of artistic achievement and pondering the lows of the artist's sacrifice. This is our biggest question: what is the secret to staying on the journey of the art? Stay connectedFind out more about the show: https://journeyoftheart.com/
Lola Opatayo hosts Journey of the Art, a arts show with 43 episodes published.
Did you know that hope is a story and a science? In Episode 43, I'm speaking with journalist Andrea Curtis about her book for middle graders, The Story and Science of Hope . Sparked by an observation of despair among chi
I’m delighted to resume the show with a discussion on naming and history. In Episode 42, I’m chatting with Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto about his poetry collection, “The Naming,” a book about revelations and ongoing conversation
In Episode 41, I’m joined by Canadian children’s book writers Eric Walters and Lana Button to discuss their award-winning book, One Can. Illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant, One Can tells the emotional story of a young boy
In Episode 40 of the podcast, I have the privilege of speaking with adult and children’s book writer Caroline Adderson, writer of A Pond, A Poet, and Three Pests . A Pond, A Poet, and Three Pests is a brilliant children’
In Episode 39, I’m chatting with Whitney French about her novel in verse, Syncopation , a science fiction novel about two women searching for meaning and purpose in a catastrophic world where memory is currency. We talk
In this episode, I’m joined by Nadia Ragbar to discuss her latest work, The Pugilist and the Sailor . The book follows the lives of conjoined twins, Bruce and Dougie. One an ambitious boxer and the other a bookkeeper. As
In Episode 37, I have the privilege of speaking with three-time Pushcart nominee Bill Gaythwaite about his short story collection, A Place In The World , winner of the 2025 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. This stunning coll
In this episode, I have the honour of chatting with Minelle Mahtani to discuss her memoir, May It Have A Happy Ending . In May It Have A Happy Ending , Minelle travels back and forth in time to investigate the parallels
In this episode, I’m joined by award-winning Cree Métis storyteller and multidisciplinary artist Arnolda Dufour-Bowes to discuss her latest children's book, "Maggie Lou Meets Her Match." Arnolda shares her creative strat
This moving episode with Halina St James is a conversation about intergenerational trauma, an exploration of a mother-daughter relationship, the Second World War, family secrets, love and forgiveness. Our conversation is
In this episode, I have the privilege of speaking with Eddie Kawooya, author of the Ace and the Misfits series. We talk about how immigrant kids can foster friendships and a sense of purpose through sports. Inspired by h
I’m truly honored to share this episode with Summer Brenner, fiction writer, poet, and the oldest guest on the show (Summer turned 80 this year)! In this episode, we step back in time to the 1950s through her memoir, DUS
In this episode, my guest is Adedayo Agarau, author of The Years of Blood , a poetry collection that explores trauma, memory, anxiety, and immigration. Listen as we discuss the lack of emergency on ritual killings and ab
In this episode with Saad Omar Khan, we discuss depression, faith, unrequited love, and the connections between these. We explore these in Khan’s latest work, Drinking the Ocean, which tells the story of Murad, whose car
What do math and art have in common? For most of my life, I’ve heard that these two concepts (and subjects) belonged in different worlds, but in this episode, we explore the intersection points between these two and how
In Episode 28, I’m joined by Kate Jenks Landry, author of A Summer Without Anna, to discuss the hardship children face when a family member is sick. When we think about sickness, especially those requiring hospitalizatio
What parallels can be drawn between personal and societal crisis? In this episode, I’m joined by James Cairns, professor and writer of the essay collection, In Crisis, On Crisis , to discuss what happens when we examine
What do ADHD and ship salvage have in common? In this episode of the Journey of the Art podcast, Elizabeth Rynecki and I discuss her six-part podcast series, That Sinking Feeling, exploring the similarities between her f
Who really was Isabel de Saavedra? And was she really as cruel as history portrays her? In Episode 25, Martha Bátiz tells me what inspired her to reimagine the stories of Miguel de Cervantes, his sisters, wife, and daugh
I’m joined by poet, scholar, and renowned translator Radha Chakravarty for a powerful conversation on the crossroads between translation and literature, feminism in writing, and the inner work of creating across language
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