Why Art Still Matters

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Made It Out Media

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Director in the arts at Stanford University, A-lan Holt joins Mal this week to talk about why art still matters, how culture shapes the way we care for one another, and why creativity remains one of the most powerful tools for change. Thank you to this episode's sponsor! -Tomboyx: Head over to ⁠https://tomboyx.com⁠ and use promo code MADEIT15 for 15% off your purchase, and tell them Made It Out sent you. Follow our guest @a_lanmoon, follow the show @madeitout, and follow Mal @malglowenke 👉 Subscribe, like & comment to support queer content! Check out our new show, Out For A Drive, and please remember to subscribe, engage, like, comment, show us some love babyyyy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey all, welcome back to Made It Out. Today I'm here with Alon Holt, who is the director of IDA at Stanford
0:05.9	University. I feel very grateful that I get to have conversations like these and learn from
0:12.4	brilliant people like Alon. We're talking about how historically art has pushed culture forward.
0:20.0	And now in a time like this, in our current climate, that is
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1:38.7	All right. I'm so excited about today's conversation.
1:41.9	I want to focus really on just kind of the climate that we're in and
1:45.7	where art and culture fits into that narrative. But first can we start with who are you? What do you do?
1:53.3	Yeah. And like what brought you to the work that you do? My name is Alon Holt. I'm an artist. I'm an
1:58.3	educator. I work at the intersection of art culture and social
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