Introducing Our New Podcast: Universe Of Art

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

Natural Sciences, Wnyc, Science, Friday, Life Sciences

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

How do we use art to process the world around us in ways that science can’t? How are illustrators using their skills to help us understand nature’s most unusual creatures? On Universe of Art, a new podcast from Science Friday, hosted by SciFri producer and art nerd D Peterschmidt, we bring you some of our favorite arts stories from the show, some new ones too, and conversations with the producers who made those segments. We’ll hear from astronomers who integrate space into their artwork, drag performers who bring science into their acts, and many others. Join us for conversations with artists who use science to bring their creations to the next level. Listen to Universe of Art on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn or your favorite podcasting app.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. John Dankowski here, sitting in for Irafledo. I wanted to tell you about a new podcast
0:06.0	from Science Friday that I think you're really going to love. It's called Universe of Art.
0:11.4	And if you love our stories that feature artists integrating science into their creations or scientists
0:17.4	translating their research into art, then I think you're going to have a lot of fun with
0:21.0	this podcast. We wanted to play you the first episode of this podcast, and it features drag
0:26.2	artists Patagonia and Kine, who use social media to make science concepts like nature and
0:32.3	math just a little more approachable and a little more fabulous. Universe of Art is hosted by Science Friday producer
0:39.8	D. Peter Schmidt and you can subscribe to it wherever you get your podcasts. So here's the
0:45.8	episode. Enjoy. When I did drag for the first time in the outdoors, I put on six inch high heel
0:51.2	boots. I started strutting down the trails and I fell in love with nature in a whole new way.
0:55.2	I saw how queer nature was. I saw how much science was out there. Hi. Welcome to Universe of Art, a podcast from Science Friday about stories from the art world that have a surprising connection to science. I'm Dee Petershmidt. I'm a producer for Science Friday. and on the show, we're bringing you some of our favorite art stories from Science Friday and some new ones too.
1:15.3	And for our first episode, I have one of my favorite segments we've aired on SciFri about drag artists who use social media to teach STEM, or science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to their audiences in a super fun, fabulous way.
1:30.6	And before we get to that, I'm here with SciFRI producer Kathleen Davis and community
1:35.0	manager Kyle Marin Viterbo.
1:37.0	We're going to tell us how this segment came together.
1:39.6	What's up?
1:40.2	Hey.
1:40.9	Hi.
1:41.5	So how did the story come up on y'all's radar?
1:44.5	Drag has been just an artistic medium that I've really loved and appreciated for a long time.
1:49.9	And I think I was just like on Instagram one day and I came across Paddy Gonia, who is one of the queens who is featured in this segment.
1:58.7	She is all about environmentalism and bringing attention to climate
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