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In the final episode of Season 1, Jordan talks with Maria about the Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao. Founded in 2004, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio has been recognized globally as a leading architectural firm working in sustainable architecture and affordable housing. Taking inspiration from both the natural environment and culture, Bilbao's designs are innovative and functional while also being thoughtfully aesthetic and meaningful. 

This episode features a discussion about the life and work of Hanaa Malallah, an Iraqi artist and educator living in London. Maria speaks to Jordan and the listeners about Malallah’s practice with respect to her deep interest in ancient Mesopotamian culture and how it has influenced even her artist’s signature. Moreover, Malallah provokes her audience into having a more well-rounded and global understanding of the complexities of war and violence with respect to her own experiences both in Iraq and abroad.

In this episode, Jordan talks about the Danish artist Rune Bosse with Maria and the listeners. Bosse is a scientistic artist who uses natural materials and organic matter to question the natural processes of the universe, which most often result in impressive large-scale installations and site-specific works.

In this episode, Maria discusses the life and career of Palestinian British artist, Mona Hatoum, with Jordan and the listeners. Staunchly opposing the restrictive boundaries of an identity many have assumed for her, Hatoum explores the complexities of gender and inequality not just in the Middle East, but globally. Through a practice of multimedia, namely film and sculpture, the artist tackles issues that are often interchangeable with respect to Western and Middle Eastern cultures -- and, in the rare instance, are deeply personal and autobiographical. 

This episode features a discussion of Maya Lin's wide-ranging practice. Jordan highlights several of Lin's environmental art installations, architecture, and memory works for Maria and the listeners. Since winning the design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Lin's practice has often dealt with themes of environmental activism, remembrance, and social justice.  

In this episode, Maria speaks to Jordan and the listeners about Palestinian artist, Emily Jacir, whose complex work is as highly political as it is deeply personal. Through the use of multimedia, with a focus on photography, film, and performance, Jacir investigates questions of displacement and identity, offering a platform to those whose voices have been historically silenced.

This week, Jordan talks about Agnes Denes with Maria and the listeners. Through a number of mediums, especially large-scale, site-specific works, Denes works with the land and other disciplines like math and philosophy to ponder the future of the Earth and of humanity.

In this episode, Maria talks to Jordan about the whirlwind career of Huguette Caland, a Lebanese artist who spent her entire life breaking away from certain expectations placed on her as a result of being born into an infamous family. Her work explores themes of eroticism, sexuality, and women's liberation, all of which blossomed upon her move to and eventual residency in Paris. 

In this episode, Jordan presents the work of Peruvian artist Elena Damiani to Maria and the listeners. Working at the intersection of fine arts and scientific disciplines such as geology and cartography, Damiani tackles questions of how we acquire knowledge, understand time and history, and how materials may shine a light on previously hidden or concealed perceptions of our world. Maria and Jordan also give an update about their graduate school decisions!

This week, Maria talks to Jordan and the listeners about the life and work of Ghada Amer, an Egyptian-born contemporary artist who now resides in New York. Through an in-depth conversation about the complexities of her identity as an artist of the diaspora, in addition to the toxic patriarchal environment she faced in graduate school, find out more about what makes Amer who she is today, and why she so passionately stands by referring to her embroidery as painting. 

In this episode, Jordan introduces Maria and the listeners to the pioneering experimental filmmaker Maya Deren. Working primarily in the 1940s and 50s, Deren's short films have been classified as "surrealist" and "feminist" by critics and scholars throughout the 20th century. But as Jordan and Maria discover, there's more to Deren and her films than just labels. 

This week, Maria talks to Jordan and the listeners about the art and activism of Bahia Shehab, an Egyptian-based artist, educator, historian, and creative director. The conversation focuses primarily on Shehab’s well-known “A thousand times no” series in relation to the Egyptian revolution of 2011, in addition to a more broad dialogue surrounding the significance of public art in political movements.