Gay says, “My vision as board president is to continue supporting great experimental art and to make sure that a diversity of aesthetics is brought to Performance Space. Together, they attended Performance Space’s Spring 2019 gala, where Gay was inspired by the gathering of “so many interesting people who all love experimental theater and experimental art in one place, with the common goal of making sure that this sort of work is continuing to be nurtured.” Gay, a lover of performance with years of experience in theater tech, with a robust legacy of supporting underrepresented and groundbreaking voices (through her Book Club and Substack), first stepped onto the board after having been connected with the organization by her wife, board member Debbie Millman. Gay’s new position at the board’s helm represents a further step towards ensuring Performance Space New York’s capacity to put artists’ need for risk-taking and community first. Earlier this year, the organization made strides in placing its artist-centric model at the very core of its institutional structure, bringing artists including Gay, Nicole Eisenman, as well 02020 cohort members Jonathan González and Jackson Polys onto the board and nearing a stated goal of building a board made up of at least 50% artists. Jackson, Oliver Jeffers, Saeed Jones, Thomas Kail, Maira Kalman, Chip Kidd, Anne Lamott, Elle Luna, Carmen Maria Machado, Thomas Page McBee, Erin McKeown, Chanel Miller, Mike Mills, Marilyn Minter, Isaac Mizrahi, Nico Muhly, Eileen Myles, Emily Oberman, Amanda Palmer, Priya Parker, Esther Perel, Maria Popova, Edel Rodriguez, Paula Scher, Amy Sherald, Simon Sinek, Pete Souza, Aminatou Sow, Brandon Stanton, Cheryl Strayed, Amber Tamblyn, Christina Tosi, Tea Uglow, Chris Ware, and Albert Watson.Performance Space New York announces influential best-selling author, professor, editor, and public intellectual Roxane Gay as Board President. Marina Abramovic, Cey Adams, Elizabeth Alexander, Laurie Anderson, Lynda Barry, Allison Bechdel, Michael Bierut, Brené Brown, Alain de Botton, Eve Ensler, Shepard Fairey, Tim Ferriss, Louise Fili, Kenny Fries, Anand Girhidardas, Cindy Gallop, Malcolm Gladwell, Milton Glaser, Ira Glass, Seth Godin, Thelma Golden, Gabrielle Hamilton, Steven Heller, Jessica Hische, Michael R. Why Design Matters features 100 images and includes interviews with: Grouped by category-Legends, Truth Tellers, Culture Makers, Trendsetters, and Visionaries-these eye-opening, entertaining, and enlightening conversations-offer insights into new ways of being and living.Īccompanying each entry is a brief biography, a portrait photographed by Millman, and a pull quote written in Millman’s artistic hand. In this illustrated, curated anthology, Millman includes approximately 80 of her best interviews with visionaries from across diverse fields. In those conversations, she has not only explored what it means to design a creative life, but has, as Millman’s wife, Roxane Gay, assesses in her foreword, “created a gloriously interesting and ongoing conversation about what it means to live well, overcome trauma, face rejection, learn to love and be loved, and thrive both personally and professional.” Over the course of her popular podcast’s fifteen-year reign, Debbie Millman has interviewed more than 400 creative minds. She has demonstrated time, and again, why design matters.”-Roxane Gay, from the foreword “Debbie Millman has become a singular voice in the world of intimate, enlightening conversations.
The author, educator, brand consultant, and host of the widely successful and award-winning podcast Design Matters showcases dozens of her most exciting interviews, bringing together insights and reflections from today’s leading creative minds from across diverse fields. This sparkling collection is one to be savored slowly.”- Publisher’s Weekly Sharpened by Millman’s penetrating commentary, the candid musings teem with insight and empathy. “Debbie Millman brings her Design Matters podcast, ‘about how the most creative people in the world create their lives,’ to the page with this excellent interview anthology.