In this episode of You Can’t Eat Art, Clara Kamunde is in conversation with interdisciplinary artist Beth Krebs. Beth's work includes site responsive installations, performance videos, sculpture, and participatory projects. Her work champions work champions faith against the odds, reflecting her "precarious experience as a human, always stretched between her limits and her longing." __About Beth Krebs:  Beth Krebs is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes site responsive installations, performance videos, sculpture, and participatory projects.  A graduate of the MFA program at Rutgers University, Beth has exhibited her work in New York City, San Francisco and abroad, at venues including Riverside Park (NYC), Station Independent Projects (NYC), Mixed Greens, Storefront Ten Eyck, Southern Exposure, Marin MoCA and the San Jose ICA. She has been awarded fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, the Bemis Center, the Montalvo Arts Center and Recology San Francisco (the dump).  She is a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA grant, and in 2012 was awarded a grant from the Buchegger Foundation to fund an installation in Germany.  In 2019 and 2020, while the San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art was closed due to Covid restrictions, her interactive telephone hotline took over their phone line. She is a member of Real Time and Space, an artist studio community in Oakland, California, where she lives.For more about Beth Krebs, visit our webpage here and Beth's website. Follow @beth.krebs.studio— About Clara Kamunde: Clara Kamunde is an Oakland-based, Kenyan-born cultural worker practicing at the intersection of arts education and social justice. Her career began with the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles where, as a grantee for the Artist-In-The-Community program, she collaborated with community organizations to produce and present site-integrated programming in urban parks, recreation areas, historic sites, and schools throughout Greater Los Angeles. For her contribution in supporting access to quality arts programming with DCA, she was awarded an Honorary Citation by the City of Los Angeles. — About the Lucas Artists Residency Program: Established in 1939, Montalvo Arts Center is home to the third oldest residency program in the United States. In 2004, Montalvo re-committed to its support of artists by opening a new, state-of-the-art facility, relaunching as the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program. The residency is dedicated to providing artists with a flexible and expansive space in which to create, encouraging the creative process, risk taking, collaboration, and cross-disciplinary investigation of contemporary issues. The LAP is a hybrid model that supports uninterrupted time to develop new work, while offering opportunities to share ideas and projects through public programming and partnerships.  For more info about the residency, visit our website. Follow the LAP @lucasartresCredits: “Syndrome” from the album Tide’s Arising Instrumentals (Mashibeats, 2024) used with permission of LAP 2023 CA Fellow Mark de Clive-Lowe; © Mark de Clive-Lowe/Mashibeats Podcast cover art created by Olivia Esparza© Montalvo Arts Center, 2025

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