{"podcast":{"title":"The Truth In This Art: Stories That Matter","slug":"the-truth-in-this-art-stories-that-matter-1372723","podcast_index_feed_id":1372723,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-truth-in-this-art","website_url":"https://www.thetruthinthisart.com/episodes","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/nu3SKpIFFPlgkLoounIJyOuvwqK2UhqCswDkhN6Qe-g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85Y2U0/ZjJkMjUzNTFiYjlh/NTNkMDAxNzg0Y2Iy/ZWI5My5qcGc.jpg","author":"Rob Lee","episode_count":949,"summary":"The Truth In This Art with Rob Lee is a Baltimore-based arts and culture podcast where independent journalist Rob Lee goes beyond the highlight reel to uncover the truth behind the work—the creative process, the choices, and the stories that shape the people who make it. Through thoughtful conversations with emerging and established photographers, filmmakers, designers, musicians, chefs, writers, and other creative voices, each episode explores how artists build sustainable practices, stay connected to their communities, and create work that reflects the world around them. More than interviews, these are stories about what it takes to build a creative life—the challenges, choices, and experiences that make art matter. For makers, culture lovers, and the creatively curious.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T14:20:52.257530+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-truth-in-this-art-stories-that-matter-1372723"},"episode":{"title":"Veronica Jackson","slug":"veronica-jackson","published_at":"2026-03-30T04:02:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-truth-in-this-art-stories-that-matter-1372723/veronica-jackson","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-truth-in-this-art-stories-that-matter-1372723","url":"https://www.thetruthinthisart.com/episodes/veronica-jackson-d-c-artist-on-black-womens-invisibility-archival-art-making-history-visible","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/media.transistor.fm/816b8f21/33403ad4.mp3","summary":"In this episode of The Truth In This Art, the guest is Veronica Jackson! Who is Veronica Jackson: A Washington, D.C.-bred and Virginia-based visual artist whose foundation is rooted in architecture and museum exhibit design. She critically examines the lives of Black women through innovative visual art, exploring themes of invisibility, hypervisibility, and devaluation—bringing powerful narratives to life using familiar objects, archival texts, and data. In our conversation, Veronica traces her late-in-life arrival to visual art—graduating from grad school in 2016 with plans to teach, then attending a Santa Fe residency where \"art just started pouring out of me.\" She breaks down her seminal piece That's Pops’s Money , a data portrait memorializing her grandmother's devalued domestic labor through 813 hand-cranked time cards printed in blue ink on black paper—chronicling 67 years of marriage, nine children, and invisible work. Veronica explains how she pulls from established archives like the Library of Congress, Sojourner Truth's carte de visite statement \"I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance,\" Jefferson's Farm Book (which listed enslaved workers alongside cattle), and poets like Lucille Clifton (\"...every day something has tried to kill me and has failed\") to tell stories rooted in truth. She discusses her BLACKTIVISTS series spotlighting 13 understudied Black women from the 19th century, including Anna Julia Cooper—the only woman quoted in every U.S. passport—and reflects on how visual culture shapes perceptions, why Black land ownership matters, and what it means for Black women to mark, claim, and take up space. Don't miss Veronica Jackson's work—her archive-driven, text-based pieces make the invisible visible and challenge how we see history, labor, and valu…","meta_description":"In this episode of The Truth In This Art, the guest is Veronica Jackson! Who is Veronica Jackson: A Washington, D.C.-bred and Virginia-based visual artist…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3486,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-truth-in-this-art-stories-that-matter-1372723/episodes/veronica-jackson/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-truth-in-this-art-stories-that-matter-1372723/veronica-jackson.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}