Michelle Osterhoudt is an educator and bonafide country girl from the Northern Catskill Mountains. In this episode, she discusses her childhood in a loving interracial family, the joys of small-town living, the magic of lollipop trees and country music, and the positive impact of living authentically within her community.

Produced by Christina Hunt Wood
Sound Design & Engineering by Christina Hunt Wood

This program was made possible with the funds from a NYSCA Community Arts Grant, administered by Roxbury Arts Group; and the support of a Creatives Rebuild New York AEP Grant.

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Sinzia Reese talks about her sheltered life in rural Gilboa, NY. In her childhood, she spent summers playing manhunt and diving off "pride rock" into the Schoharie Creek. As a teen, a violent tragedy involving a family member pushed her to leave home and find solace and anonymity hundreds of miles away in Providence, RI. Sinzia shares how coming home, recovering from surgery, and learning to crochet (a craft passed down from her mother and grandmother) helped her heal physically and emotionally, and find a new appreciation for her quiet home in the hills.

[CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses violence]

Produced by Christina Hunt Wood
Sound Design by Christina Hunt Wood
Sound Engineering by Andris Balins

This program was made possible with funds from a NYSCA Community Arts Grant, administered by the Roxbury Arts Group; and the support of a Creatives Rebuild New York AEP Grant and the Prattsville Art Center and Residency.

Learn more about Get Woke! Catskills at www.getwokecatskills.org

zay grew up barefoot, snacking on string beans in their family garden in the rural Northern Catskills. In this episode, zay explains how a childhood conversation in a car turned into a lifelong commitment to dance and how they challenge gender norms in their practice.

zaybra is a dancer and Sourcepoint practitioner from rural Bovina Center, NY. They are exploring ways of integrating creativity, health, and somatic movement into collective care and personal exploration. For several years, zay performed with Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks in NYC and collaborated with Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone in “Scarcity Complex or 21st Century Feelings.” zaybra has performed at MoMA PS1 (Queens, NY), Judson Church (NYC), Center for Performance Research (Brooklyn, NY), as well at many DIY venues in Bushwick, NY. In 2021, they created a short film that premiered at Bushel Collective in Delhi, thanks to NYSCA's Decentralization Individual Artist Grant administered by The Roxbury Arts Group.

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African American artist, Christina Hunt Wood talks about growing up in rural Upstate NY in the 80s and 90s and how her art practice is influenced by it.

Christina Hunt Wood is a multi-media artist exploring her rural, predominantly white community’s relationship with race and everyday expressions of power. She earned her MFA in Visual Arts from Lesley Art+Design and her BA in Studio Art from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Her work has been exhibited throughout the east coast, recently in shows at Collar Works (Troy, NY), Fenimore Art Museum (Cooperstown, NY), and The Painting Center (NYC).

Christina is a 2022 recipient of the Creatives Rebuild NY AEP Grant, 2021 recipient of NYSCA's Decentralization Individual Artist Grant, and she was named a "Steward of the Catskills" by The Catskill Center in 2019 for her work as an artist and anti-racism community organizer. Christina is a founding member of Get Woke! Catskills, an organization using the arts as a vehicle for discussions around race and identity. Visit her website at www.christinahuntwood.com

Cover photo by Dmitri Kasterine

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