In Part 2 of episode 4, Building New Forms of Knowledge, I'm talking with Bill Gaskins. After interviewing both Kelly Walters and Bill Gaskins, because of the depth of what each shared, I felt strongly that this was the only way I could do them justice. They each have such powerful voices in the spaces they occupy through their practices and as educators, curators, writers, and in pushing forward new knowledge and learning. Bill is the founding director of a new program, Photography + Media and Society, at MICA, Maryland College of Art, in Baltimore, Maryland. Bill discusses why he chose to leave the Fine Arts to join the field-based program as an affinity group among Graduate Directors at MICA because the Program is not limited to the white cubes of Fine Art alone. Furthermore he talks about the ways in which his students examine ideas through fine art, fashion, advertising, video journalism, politics, marketing, and other contexts, while fostering radical collaborations in and beyond the MICA community. Then Bill speaks about what it's like for him not just to be a professor, but what it means to be a transformative professor.Find more on Curious Story LabWebsite: Curiousstorylab.comTwitter: @curiousstorylabInstagram: @curiousstorylabEmail me: [email protected]:Creator & Host: Michele Y. WashingtonProducer: Alicia Ajayi @aliciaoajayiEditor: Angelina BrunoSound Engineer + Music: Roifield BrownFollow us on Spotify or Apple Podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite podcastYou can check out Bill Gaskin's website. billgaskins.comFor more information on the Photography+ Media and Society, program at MICA, Follow him on Instagram: @billgaaskinsBooks:Good & Bad Hair: Photographs by Bill Gaskins, Publisher Rutgers University Pressshort film The Meaning of HopeExhibitions:His work has been featured at these major institutions:  Crocker Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, and The Smithsonian InstitutionWritings:Working Together: Lou Draper and the Kamionge Workshop, published by Duke University Press, Out of Place, contributor Bill GaskinsYou can also find many of his essays in these publications: NKA; Journal of Contemporary African Art, Artsy, Aperture, Nature, and The New Yorker MagazineTalks: Art X Activism: Myra Greene X Bill GaskinsKamionge at the Schomburg Black Portraiture (V): Memory & the Archive Past 

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