Practice Practice: Martha Coates Donahoo

Episode 1.12

Artist Martha Coates Donahoo stands outside, in front of a dilapidated stone cottage.

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Isa and Dylan interview Martha Coates Donahoo.

Martha Coates Donahoo is an interdisciplinary artist who ponders the alchemy of time and the art of saving the world. They believe that folk traditions have the power to lead us back into kinship and reciprocity with the world around us. Martha blends pre-industrial sensibilities and technologies with discarded modern ephemera to create pieces that ask, “where have we come from, where are we going?” Their current body of work revolves around folk inspired garments cut from found textiles using historical patterns that are then dyed with foraged botanicals and block printed with hand carved blocks.

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About the Practice Practice podcast

Practice Practice is created by Isa Rodriguez and Dylan Cale Jones. Season One of Practice Practice is funded by a THRIVE Grant from the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition and the Andy Warhol Foundation.