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WORK IN PROGRESS: CONVERSATIONS WITH CREATORS is a monthly arts podcast with Albuquerque Journal writer Logan Royce Beitmen. Logan talks to visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, and others about their current projects, getting inside the minds of creators and exploring their creative processes.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWORK IN PROGRESS: CONVERSATIONS WITH CREATORS is a monthly arts podcast with Albuquerque Journal writer Logan Royce Beitmen. Logan talks to visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, and others about their current projects, getting inside the minds of creators and exploring their creative processes.
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators is hosted by Albuquerque Journal. The show has published 71 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Composer and magician B.C. SMITH" (20 October 2026, 43 minutes), "Director and choreographer MATT WEST" (7 October 2026, 39 minutes), and "Fashion Designer JONTAY KAHM" (1 October 2026, 28 minutes).
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 39 minutes across 71 episodes.
Booking probability for WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators's contact route on record: verified email.
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Albuquerque Journal hosts WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators, an arts podcast with 71 episodes published.
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WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
B.C. Smith is the creator of “Phasmagorica,” an immersive séance experience in Santa Fe. He is also a stage magician and an acclaimed film composer, who has created original scores for Chris Eyre’s “Smoke Signals” and...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Matt West directed and choreographed the new version of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” the musical, having choreographed the original version in 1994. On today’s show, he talks about what it was like to reimagine the...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Santa Fe-based designer Jontay Kahm (Plains Cree) is a rising star in the world of high fashion. A 2023 Vogue Magazine feature compared him favorably to Alexander McQueen, and in 2024 he was named Best Emerging Fashion...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Renowned architect, scholar and artist Jorge Otero-Pailos has revolutionized the field of cultural heritage preservation through thought-provoking experimental projects. On today’s show, he talks about casting the soot...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Roswell-born Michael Glen has been flying in hot air balloons since before he could speak. His father took him on his first balloon ride when he was only two weeks old. But an auto accident in 1996 changed his life...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Southwest-based fashion designer Madison Van Der Lingen is the creator of MadVan Design and executive producer of Albuquerque Fashion Week. On today’s show, she discusses her upcoming AFW fashion event, Nocturnal Flame...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Award-winning singer-songwriter and producer Ron Crowder joins “Work in Progress” this week to discuss his new album, “Moving at the Speed of Life,” and to play a few songs from it. Crowder, who is one of New Mexico’s...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Albuquerque-based poet and educator Manuel González was named poet laureate of New Mexico in 2025 and will serve through 2028. “The laureateship is how I try to bring poetry into schools, libraries, Pueblos, tribal...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Sophia Heymans is a contemporary artist known for magical landscape paintings where hills, trees and rocks come alive with mysterious human presences. On this week’s show, Sophia talks about growing up in a rural part...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Albuquerque-based Gigi Bella is an award-winning performance poet, actor, artist and activist. She was ranked 10th in the world at the 2017 Women of the World Poetry Slam and is a two-time Bronx poetry champion with the...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Devon Hawkes Ludlow, who lives in Santa Fe, is an Emmy-winning puppeteer, as well as an award-winning director, filmmaker, writer, editor and composer. He is the designer, lead puppeteer and a voice actor for the...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Maxine Thévenot is an award-winning Canadian American musician, composer and conductor, who serves as the organist and director of cathedral music at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John in Albuquerque. She is also the...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Maria Kelson is a poet and novelist. Her debut thriller, “Not the Killing Kind,” won the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Crime Fiction Writers of Color, the Women Writing the West WILLA Literary Award for a...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Anthonee Smith is an emerging, underground, Albuquerque-based filmmaker whose genre-defying experimental films, "Plants" and "The Museum," recently screened at Albuquerque's Guild Cinema. On this week's episode...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Irish-born author Colm Tóibín wrote the critically-acclaimed novels "Brooklyn," "Nora Webster," "The Blackwater Lightship," "The Master" and "Long Island," among other titles. Two of his novels have been shortlisted for...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
National Book Award finalist and 2022 Guggenheim fellow Brandon Hobson (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma) is known primarily for his literary fiction novels "The Removed" and "Where the Dead Sit Talking." On today's episode...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Priyanka Kumar is the award-winning author of the creative nonfiction books "Conversations with Birds" and "The Light between Apple Trees." On this episode, she discusses how her love of nature informs her writing and...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Tamar Lando’s debut documentary feature, “Land with No Rider,” follows the everyday lives of aging cowboys in the Mimbres Valley of southwestern New Mexico. RogerEbert.com called the film “a stirring ode to the last few...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Award-winning filmmaker Annemarie Jacir has written, directed and produced over sixteen films. Her most recent, “Palestine 36,” was the only feature film to shoot in Palestine since the start of the Gaza War two years...
WORK IN PROGRESS: Conversations with Creators
Craig Allen Smith is a Broadway actor and singer currently starring as the title role in the North American tour of “Mrs. Doubtfire.” He has previously performed in “The Full Monty,” “Guys and Dolls,” “Annie,” “Anything...
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