The Conversation Art Podcast
Episode 379- artist Linnéa Gabriella Spransy – growing up in a commune, Yale grad school, working as a living artist in Kansas City, and co-founding the gallery Bridge Projects
September 13, 202544 min · 6,597 words
Show notes
Pasadena-based artist Linnéa Gabriella Spransy talks about: Growing up between Wisconsin and a commune in Oregon, the latter which she describes as a complete commitment more than an experiment (the town was Wildeville, Cape Junction being the closest city); how you radically live out the life of Christianity, including giving away all their stuff, and how her father played in a Christian glam rock band that toured the world; having a positive commune expe…
Highlighted moments
i remember the first time i had to buy a lawnmower and i remember looking around at my neighborhood and being like every single person on this block has a lawnmower why do we each buy a lawnmower
“we run off to these jobs and give the life the the vital marrow of our lives i.e. our time jobs um so that we can be paid to squeeze our real life into weekends”
“i stayed the course i didn't have to but i did um and um i think that was revelatory to me is like oh this actually has substance if if there is no pressure i still do it”
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