Scratching the Surface is a podcast about design, theory, and creative practice. Hosted by Jarrett Fuller, each episode features wide-ranging conversations with designers, architects, writers, academics, artists, and theorists about how design shapes culture. Previous guests include architecture critic Paul Goldberger, MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli, architect and OMA partner Reinier de Graaf, Pentagram partner Michael Bierut, RISD President Rosanne Somerson, writer Kurt Andersen, and d ...
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A podcast about all things art hosted by NYC street artist City Kitty
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EJ Scott has in depth conversations with celebrity guests, actors, writers, directors, producers, comedians, improvisers, comic book artists and writers, musicians, legends and up and comers. Conversational, open, honest and humorous. Guests that brought you The Walking Dead, VEEP, True Blood, Marvel's Daredevil, Marvel's Luke Cage, Areested Development, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Stranger Things, Breaking Bad, Saturday Night Live, MADtv, The Good Wi ...
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Send us a text This week I'm talking with photographer, curator and retired Zamboni driver Nick Koch. We're discussing how he got into photography and how that led him into curating. If you're in The Rochester area make sure to check out the second installment of his annual show "Thanks To The Streets" at Frank's Chop Shop located at 127 East Ave. …
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259. Federica Sofia Zambeletti
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Federica Sofia Zambeletti is an architect, researcher, and storyteller. She’s the founder and managing director of KoozArch, a digital platform and research studio that explores architecture beyond the limits of the build form, which she founded in 2014 while she was a student at the Architectural Association. In this conversation, Jarrett and Fede…
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Send us a text This week I'm in NYC talking with sculptor and now race car driver Ben Godward. Back in August Ben told me he was building a race car with a few friends. I wanted to catch with him after he and his team raced in the 24 hours of lemons race in New Hampshire back in October.De către City Kitty/ Ben Godward
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Send us a text This week I'm talking with Rochester based tattoo and sticker artist Stefan Fella. We're discussing what got him into tattooing. What it's like owning a shop and having an apprentice. As well as what got him interested in stickers and street art.De către City Kitty /Stefan Fella
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Petra Blaisse is the founder of Inside Outside, an Amsterdam-based design studio that focuses on textiles, interior design, gardens, and landscapes. Known for her long-running collaborations with OMA, Petra began her career in 1978 at the Stedelijk Museum in the department of Applied Arts. A new book on the studio’s work, Art Applied, was released …
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Talking murals, travel and voting with Toastoro
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Send us a text This week I'm in NYC catching up with Fellow street artist Toastoro. We're discussing his latest travels. What it's been like curating a mural wall in Manhattan. Also it's Nov. 5th, GO VOTE!De către City Kitty/ Toastoro
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Send us a text This week I'm talking with artist and illustrator David Cowles. after 40 years in the industry David has worked with many great clients including The Village Voice, Entertainment weekly, Sesame Street and They Might Be Giants. It was great to talk to him about how he got into illustration, how he created his signature style and how t…
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Lesley-Ann Noel is a designer, researcher, and educator. She’s the author of Design Social Change and a co-editor of The Black Experience in Design. Earlier this year, Lesley-Ann was appointed the dean of design at OCAD University and she previously taught at North Carolina State University, Tulane University, Stanford University, and the Universit…
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Send us a text This week I'm in Delaware catching up with artist Sean Lugo. After a day of running around Philadelphia putting up wheat pastes and looking for spots we are back at Sean's place comparing notes. We're discussing the differences between our work and where we like to get up in the street. We're also discussing his ongoing "Clone" serie…
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Send us a text This week I'm talking with artist John Perry. I met John about 20 years ago when we were both doing posters for bands. It was great to reminisce about the scene we use to be apart of. we also discussed how he got started doing graffiti and art and his ongoing series Lower Deck cards where he paints characters on old baseball cards.…
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256. Taylor Levy & Che-Wei Wang
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Taylor Levy and Che-Wei Wang are the founders of the art and design studio CW&T. Founded in 2009, CW&T has produced human-scaled objects like pens, clocks, and tape dispensers engineered to last multiple generations as well interactive software, art installations, and more. In 2022, they were the recipients of the 2022 National Design Award for pro…
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Send us a text This week I’m talking with London based Argentinian artist Mowcka. Mowcka Is one of the hardest working artists in the street art scene. For years she has been traveling putting on shows, painting murals and putting up her hand painted wheat pastes all over. It was great to catch up with her on this most recent trip to NYC and talk t…
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Discussing alternative photographic printing with Nancy Holowka and Jen Perena
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Send us a text This week I’m talking with photographers Nancy Holowka and Jen Perena. Two artist that focus on using alternative photographic processes in their work. If you’re in the Rochester area they have their 4th annual show that highlights artists using alternative photographic processes opening this Friday October 4th at Lumiere.…
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John Ochsendorf is an engineer, educator, and designer. He’s the founding director of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design and has faculty appointments in the departments of architecture and civil engineering at MIT. From 2017-2020, he served as the director of the American Academy in Rome. In this conversation, Jarrett and John talk about Mornin…
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Send us a text This week is another compilation of the fake advertisements I have at the end of each episode. I've been doing these for the past 75 episodes so I figured it was time to take a minute again and highlight some of the great companies that make this podcast possible.De către City Kitty
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Christoph Lindner is the President and Vice-Chancellor of the Royal College of Art. An interdisciplinary scholar of cities and visual culture, he’s authored or edited over fifteen books across art, architecture, media, cultural studies, and urban geography. Prior to this role at the RCA, he served as Dean of the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Enviro…
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Send us a text This week I’m talking with Rochester graffiti Legend, Change. We’re talking about how he got into graffiti back in 1984. What it was like becoming a graffiti writer late in the game at the age of 21. Some of the long lasting relationships he’s created over the years and what he's learned about the scene as he's continued to make work…
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Voxx Romana and RX Skulls
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Send us a text This week I’m in NYC talking with my two favorite Portland based street artists, RX Skulls and Voxx Romana. We’re talking about the three person show they just had in Portland with Toastoro. What it’s like being a full time artist, and some of the changes in our cities and the street art scene in recent years.…
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212. Robert A.M. Stern (Originally aired 4/13/22)
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We're taking the summer off and will be republishing some of our favorite episodes from the archives through August. This episode originally aired April 13, 2022.—Robert A.M. Stern is an architect, teacher, and writer. He is the founder of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, served as dean of the Yale School of Architecture from 1998 to 2016, hosted the …
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Talking travel with Mike and Carla
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Send us a text This week I’m talking with fellow travel enthusiasts Mike Franciosa and Carla Fergusson. I always stress the importance of travel but many are intimidated by the idea. In this episode we are discussing why and how we travel. Everything from planning to paying for your trip.De către City Kitty / Mike Franciosa/ Carla Fergusson
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Send us a text This week I’m in NYC talking with Baltimore based street artist Cheer Up Official. We’re talking about our love for stickers and zines. The artists that are no longer active that inspired us and some of our street art travels.De către City Kitty/ Cheer Up
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199. Esther Choi (Originally aired 10/13/21)
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We're taking the summer off and will be republishing some of our favorite episodes from the archives through August. This episode originally aired October 13, 2021.—Esther Choi is a multidisciplinary artist and architectural historian. In 2019, she published Le Corbuffet, a Fluxus-inspired artist's book that adopts the form of a cookbook and in 202…
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Send us a text This week I'm in NYC catching up with d7606 who was in town from Manchester and Urban Ninja from Toronto. We're discussing what they've been working on, what they hope to do on their trip and their impressions of the city since it's been awhile since either of them have been to NYC.De către City Kitty /d7606 /Urban Ninja
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Send us a text This week I'm in NYC talking to painter and street artist Lecrue Eyebrows the day before his new solo show " Thoughts Moving forward" opened at Van Der Plas Gallery. We're discussing his artistic process and some of the breakthroughs he's had in this new body of work. Make sure to check out the show which is on display till August 25…
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210. Chris Rudd (Originally aired 3/16/22)
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We're taking the summer off and will be republishing some of our favorite episodes from the archives through August. This episode originally aired March 16, 2022.—Chris Rudd is a designer, community organizer, and youth worker. He’s currently a professor of community-driven design at IIT Institute of Design and founder of ChiByDesign, a black-owned…
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Send us a text This week I'm in Beacon NY talking with Graffiti writer Skatch. We're discussing what it was like being a graffiti writer growing up in the Hudson Valley, his love for abandoned spaces and some of the challenges street artists and graffiti writers face when bringing their work into a gallery setting.…
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165. Alicia Cheng (Originally aired 10/28/20)
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We're taking the summer off and will be republishing some of our favorite episodes from the archives through August. This episode originally aired October 28, 2020.—Alicia Cheng is a founding partner of the New York design studio MGMT and the author of the book This Is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot. She previous…
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Post show depression with Toastoro
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Send us a text This week I'm in NY catching up with fellow street artist Toastoro. We're discussing our recent shows and the post show depression an artist can suffer from when a show is over and they are faced with the question, what's next?De către City Kitty / Toastoro
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Send us a text This week I'm in Beacon NY talking with the Godfather of street art Ron English. We're talking about his band The Rabbbits, yes with three B’s. How he got started in the art world and the latest documentary about his work "Living in Delusionville" that is out now and available on Prime video.…
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223. James Bridle (Originally aired 12/21/22)
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We're taking the summer off and will be republishing some of our favorite episodes from the archives through August. This episode originally aired December 21, 2022.—James Bridle is a writer, artist, and technologist. They are the author, most recently, of Ways of Being as well as New Dark Age. They've exhibited art in galleries and institutions ar…
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Send us a text This week I'm talking with street artist 0H10 M1ke. I was lucky enough to catch up with 0H10 M1ke the day after the opening of his newest show at Revolving Store in NYC. We're discussing the number of different series he's worked on over the years, his love for contour line drawing and his new shows overseas.…
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A discussion with street art collector Craig Hyland
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Send us a text This week I'm talking with street art collector Craig Hyland. As a street artist it's rare that we get to interact with our audience, so it was great to sit down and talk with Craig. We're discussing how he got into street art and what made him want to start collecting it.De către City Kitty / Craig Hyland
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204. Lorraine Wild (Originally aired 12/22/21)
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We're taking the summer off and will be republishing some of our favorite episodes from the archives through August. This episode originally aired December 22, 2021.—Lorraine Wild is a designer who teaches and writes. A graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Yale School of Art, Lorraine runs Green Dragon Office in Los Angeles and is on the facult…
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Hot topic with Leon Carter
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Send us a text This week I'm in the Catskills talking with my favorite Irishman, photographer Leon Carter. We're talking about our experience working in the photo industry. We're also discussing if it's the right path to peruse your dreams in the art world head on or to get an art adjacent job and work your way in. Also while we're having this disc…
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164. Kyle Chayka (Originally aired 10/14/20)
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We're taking the summer off and will be republishing some of our favorite episodes from the archives through August. This episode originally aired October 14, 2020.—Kyle Chayka writes about art, technology, design, and the systems that shape culture. His first book, The Longing for Less, is a cultural history of minimalism that looks at minimalist …
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Send us a text This week I'm talking with Rochester NY based graffiti and collage artist Nova. He has a new book coming out entitled " Graff Fragments, analogue collages by Nova" that showcases 365 collages that he created in 2023. If you're in the Rochester area he has a show of all the collages opening this Friday June 7th 6-9pm at Lumiere. The s…
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Leonard Koren is a writer, aesthetics expert, artist, and publisher. He’s the author of books like Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, What Artists Do, Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement, Musings of a Curious Aesthete, and most recently On Creating Things Aesthetic. From 1976 to 1981, he was the editor and publishe…
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Talking Nostalgia with Chris RWK
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Send us a text This week I'm back in Staten Island catching up with Chris RWK the night before our collaboration show opened. We're talking about collaboration, the series that's in the show we had and the role that nostalgia plays in our work.De către City Kitty / Chris RWK
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Send us a text This week is another compilation of the fake advertisements I have at the end of each episode. I've been doing these for the past 61 episodes so I figured it was time to take a min again and highlight some of the great companies that make this podcast possible.De către City Kitty
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The good, the bad, and the ugly of NYC with Tara Gaddy
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Send us a text This week I’m back talking with one of my favorite native New Yorkers Tara Gaddy. We’re discussing some of the fun, crazy and downright outrageous experiences we've had living in New York City.De către City Kitty /Tara Gaddy
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Ingrid Schroder is the director of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. She was previously Head of Design Teaching and Director of the MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Cambridge Department of Architecture. In this conversation, Jarrett and Ingrid talk about the legacy and future of the AA, the c…
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Beating the algorithm with Lynn Luong
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Send us a text This week I'm talking with the head of digital marketing for Avon, Lynn Luong. Regardless if you’re a small buisness or a large corporation we are all dealing with the same issue when it comes to marketing, how to keep our audience engaged. It was great to sit down with Lynn and discuss some of the strategies she utilizes to help gro…
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Cynthia Davidson is the cofounder and executive director of Anyone Corporation, a nonprofit architecture think tank. She is the editor of the architecture journal Log, and previously ANY magazine, an architecture theory tabloid that published from 1993-2000. She is also responsible for more than 40 books in print, including 24 books in the Anyone p…
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The pros and cons of Ai with Justin Craig-Kuhn and Dan VerWeire
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Send us a text This week I'm talking with two software developers who happen to be my old band mates, Justin Craig-Kuhn and Dan VerWeire. I've done one previous episode on Ai but after talking to Justin last time he was in town I thought it would be good to revisit the topic with two people who understand this technology way more than myself. I mus…
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Hanging out with Urban Ninja, Toastoro and Sketch Rat in Toronto
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Send us a text This week I'm in Toronto With Toastoro. It's Toastoro's first time to Toronto so we met up with Urban Ninja and Sketch Rat two great local street artists to give us the lowdown on the scene and show us around. It's been a year since I interviewed Urban Ninja So It was great to able to catch up with him and see what he's been working …
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Jacob R. Moore was named the executive director of The Architectural League of New York in June 2023. He previously served as associate director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University. He’s worked as a writer, editor, curator, and publisher and helped co-found The Avery Review. In this convers…
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Jackie E. Davis from Underpants and Overbites
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Send us a text This week I'm talking with artist Jackie E. Davis creator of the comic Underpants and Overbites. We're talking about how she developed her series and drawing style. How things have changed since she became a mother and how she continues to create interesting storylines for her comics.De către City Kitty/ Jackie E. Davis from Underpants and Overbites
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Send us a text This week I'm in Syracuse NY talking with Marianna and Michael from Midoma. It's been four years since they closed the doors of their midtown Manhattan salon and gallery and moved to Syracuse. So I thought I would take the drive and see some of the new art projects they have been working on and get a peek at their new gallery Art Hau…
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José Esparza Chong Cuy is the executive director and chief curator of Storefront for Art and Architecture, a New York-based institution that amplifies the understanding of the built environment through artistic practice. Before Storefront, José was an associate curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and an associate curator at the Museo …
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Send us a text This week I'm talking to actor, director, writer and Rochester based Real Estate agent Filipa Rodrigues Abreu. We're discussing what brought her from Portugal to NY. The state of the housing market and the trials and tribulations of helping people, like myself through the process of looking for a home.…
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