Dana Hemenway on Public Art, Ceramics and Motherhood

Dana Hemenway on Public Art, Ceramics and Motherhood

From The Side Woo by Thibault

August 21, 2025 · 1h 15m · Season 5 · Episode 4

About this episode

Thibault interviews Dana Hemenway about her experiences in public art, motherhood, and their collaboration at Royal Nonesuch Gallery.

This week Thibault talks with Dana Hemenway at The Space Program studio where Dana is doing a residency. They talk about Dana's background in public art, how motherhood has changed her practice, and what it was like working together as co-director at Royal Nonesuch Gallery in the 2010s. Check out our next bonus episode for Dana's hot takes. About Dana Hemenway Dana Hemenway is an artist based in San Francisco. Her work is rooted in the excavation and elevation of utilitarian objects to make visible what has become habituated in our built environments. Hemenway uses these functional items as materials to form traditionally fiber-based crafts–– lights and cords are woven through ceramics or the gallery wall, extension cords are transformed into macramé chains. Hemenway has had residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE), ACRE (Stueben, WI), SÍM (Reykjavik, Iceland), Joya: arte + ecología (Spain), The Wassaic Project (Upstate New York) and at Recology Waste Management (San Francisco). Dana is a 2024 Eureka Fellow, Fleishhacker Foundation and the recipient of The San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant and a Southern Exposure Alternative Exposure…

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