Esperanza Spalding
“It's not fantasy. It's imagining...What does it look like to live with a community of people I get along with and don't necessarily get along with.”...
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Helga with host Helga Davis features probing conversations with creative and performing artists who have a unique, uncompromising voice and a stake in the matter of social change. Davis is an internationally touring vocalist and performance artist with firm roots in the realities and concerns of her local community; guests are those who put themselves out on the edge of their commitment, who dare to change their art form and their world.
Elizabeth Alexander
“I studied dance and it turned out that I communicate more with words.” Poet and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation President, Elizabeth Alexander joins Hel...
Ranky Tanky
“I think you're going to encounter moments of faith and moments of fear in any path that you're on.” Guitarist Clay Ross and Charlton Singleton are ...
Maury Rubin
“I think there's something about being an outsider to New York that helped me create a lot of what the sum of City Bakeries parts were.” Pastry Chef,...
Judy Collins
“I think transitional moments in our lives... it's very important to put them together like a string of beads for yourself, so you'll remember and kn...
Bethann Hardison
“I'm literally saying to myself that I'm proud of me. That I'm proud that I have the determination, that I had the natural drive to want to do someth...
Stanley Whitney
“I think my work is really who I am. And I think, you know, I grew up with freedom, freedom, freedom. So I paint a lot of freedom.” Visual artist a...
Krista Tippett
“I know that most of us across all of the divisions and differences we could name, don't want to live this way.” Krista Tippett talks about her life ...
Helga Season III Trailer
Artist, performer and host Helga Davis brings a soulful curiosity and love of people to the podcast Helga. In Season 3, she continues to draw the list...
Art Maven Kimberly Drew
Kimberly Drew, also known online as @museummammy, is a unrelenting, taste-making purveyor of art, fashion and culture. Her work has appeared in Glamou...