Overview: Elliana Grace grew up in a circus family and in the circus life. From infancy. Like, from being a baby being breastfed while sitting atop an elephant kind of infancy. She and her two younger brothers, who also are globe-traveling professional circus performers, spent more time at their fantastically strange Read more…
I Want Poets /// When another’s world, another’s life, another’s tether to all that is is frayed and on fire, I want a poet to tell me what it feels like to bring me into the pain and the valor, the intensity and exhaustion, to make me wish I didn’t Read more…
Overview: In this episode, Adam Williams, creator and host of Humanitou, which typically features guests in “conversations of humanness and creativity,” is riding solo and launching something new. Starting with this episode, Adam is committing to a series of five solo episodes mixed in with the coming months’ conversations. In Read more…
DETAILS: Adam Williams will be giving an artist talk on his photographic series, Reverence: Portraits of Natures Mortes, at 5:30 p.m. on July 15, at Kreuser Gallery in Colorado Springs. It will be a small group (max. 15), given the pandemic circumstances. Attendees will wear masks and maintain distances for Read more…
Overview: Sara Meghdari, an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY., is Iranian and American. She comes from a family that honors two religions, two languages and two cultures. We talked as protests grew across the United States after police officers in Minneapolis killed George Floyd. This, on top of months of Read more…
Overview: Lucas Krump is CEO and co-founder of Evryman, a social enterprise that is cultivating a global men’s community, and is helping men to connect and to hone their emotional skills together. We get into Lucas’ personal journey. From growing up in Kansas and learning largely to support himself at a Read more…
Overview: Inaiah Lujan is a multifaceted and prolific creator. Music is at the heart of his work. In fact, he might be most widely known for his time with a folk band he co-founded, The Haunted Windchimes. Inaiah recently wrapped his first season of a web series called “Hanging Out Read more…
Overview: Laura Elizabeth Pohl is a humanitarian photographer and documentary filmmaker living in Cape Town, South Africa. Laura has traveled the world extensively, and spent many years living and working in developing countries, advocating for the dignity and humanity of the people she features in her visual storytelling. She has documented Read more…
Overview: Kate is an Emmy®-nominated producer and director, a writer and filmmaker, a television host with Rocky Mountain PBS, and a rock musician — currently in the band, Spirettes — who has performed, recorded and toured near and far with her music. Kate shares her story of growing up in poverty on Read more…
Overview: Dáreece Walker talks with Humanitou about his artwork, which combines race, identity and religion into socio-political responses. We talk about his work that speaks against police brutality, and his series that celebrates black fathers and addresses the lack of positive imagery of black men in society. We navigate creative Read more…
Overview: In this episode of the Humanitou Podcast, Jessica Patterson shares some intensely shaping experiences in her life and where her feral spirit comes from. We talk about yoga as a homonym, how the word, while it looks and sounds the same in its uses, conjures different meanings for different Read more…
Overview: In this conversation, I talk with singer-songwriter and musician Joe Johnson, a storyteller that learned at the sides of homegrown orators on the porches of Southern Mississippi. The most common themes of his music — death, loss and isolation — have been with him his entire life. He’ll share Read more…
Overview: Sister Ayya Dhammadhira is a Bhikkhuni, a fully ordained Buddhist nun, who has lived, worked and practiced in Buddhist monasteries around the world — and now does so independently — these past 20 or so years. We talk about Ayya’s upbringing in a Catholic family and the family tragedy Read more…
Overview: Jamal Parker is a two-time International Slam Poetry Champion. He grew up in Japan, where he first explored his poetry, and in Florida, where as a teenager he first came to recognize the politics of race with the murder of Trayvon Martin nearby. In this conversation, we cover a range Read more…
Cody Oldham is a professional wildlife and landscape painter who lives with his family — and several mountain lions that Cody’s dad rehabilitates for return to the wild — on 20 acres in the mountains of Colorado. As you will hear in this conversation, Cody also is a rather precocious Read more…
You might have seen Gregg Deal or his work at some point in the past decade or more, and not known it. He’s appeared in National Geographic magazine, the Washington Post, Huffington Post and on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, among other places in the media. Not to mention Read more…
After nearly three years and publishing 80 interviews on this site in a text-based, Q&A format, Humanitou is transitioning to podcast. Right now. In this inaugural Humanitou Podcast episode, I talk with my amazing wife, Becca Williams. I reveal a secret I’ve been holding throughout our 17-year relationship, something I’d Read more…
UPDATED: New trailer published March 2021 Hi. I’m Adam Williams, creator and host of the Humanitou Podcast. This podcast, which launched this month, is the next step in the evolution of Humanitou, a website that has shined light on humanness and creativity for nearly three years now. During more than Read more…
This is Part Two of the two-part interview with me, Adam Williams, the creator of Humanitou. When Yves Sturdevant interviewed me, we talked about where I come from, my Reverence photographic series, and how being a father and husband influence my art. We also talked about how I unintentionally became Read more…
I have written little about myself, as the creator of Humanitou, on this site. After I interviewed Yves Sturdevant for Humanitou in June 2019, she said she was curious to know something of my story. She proposed getting together again so she could interview me. I said yes. When Yves Read more…