Conversations around creativity, identity, and disability
About
The Work Between is a podcast about the relationship between creative practice and identity. Host Nic Steenhout talks with disabled creators, artists, and makers. Guests include painters, quilters, musicians, sculptors, and photographers. Conversations explore how artistic work and disability shape each other. These aren't inspiration stories. They're conversations about the actual, sometimes complicated ways people make things.
Latest episode
Nic Steenhout on learning urban sketching
Guest: Nic Steenhout
Nic Steenhout uses this solo episode to push back on standard urban sketching advice: draw from life, use ink, skip photos. He argues that advice assumes a non-disabled body and a brain that can tune out a busy street. Speaking from his own experience as a disabled sketcher, he separates scaffolding (photos, pencils, things you use while learning and can drop later) from accommodation (wheelchair access, noise control, things that don't go away once you've improved).
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This show is about creative work: How it's made, sustained, and sometimes blocked. It centers disabled voices and treats disability as a lived experience shaped by the world around us, not a metaphor. I don't platform perspectives that deny disabled people's autonomy or dignity.
Come talk to me
- Are you an artist or a maker?
- Are you disabled?
When I ask if you are an artist or a maker, I'm thinking about people who make things. Painters, sculptors, musicians, photographers, chefs, fiber artists, and authors. If that sounds like you, I'd love to talk.
I would love to invite you as a guest on the show if you answered yes to both questions. Please contact me at info@nicolas-steenhout.com to discuss your participation on the podcast.