{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Making art through life\u2019s changes, with Margot Kingon","description":"Our new interview with Margot Kingon, an artist and the founder of Second Wave Supplies, has a wonderful sweep to it.  As an artist and creative instigator, much of Margot\u2019s work could be labeled \u201cart as social practice.\u201d Her many projects have included a long-running pop-up dance party (Dance\/Play), a year-long series of Covid-era family portraits, and most recently, an art supply thrift store in Beacon.  When she takes something new on, Margot typically isn\u2019t only out to express herself creatively but also to invite others to engage and build something together.  All of this is fairly new. Margot grew up in Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side during a period of high crime. (She was mugged multiple times). She took a million art classes as a kid but strayed from making art as she grew up. She only returned to it in force after working for decades in work she didn\u2019t love, as a lighting technician. The initial spark that renewed her creative life came when she became a mother, as she and her husband (musician Josh Stark) made a pact to do the work they wanted their child to know them for. But even after making that commitment, she grappled for nearly two decades with work\/life balance, her responsibilities to her ailing mother, and how to live.  That all sounds rather serious but Margot recounts her stumbles and epiphanies with a lot of humor and insight. And of course she talks at length about Second Wave Supplies\u2019 mission to provide affordable access to art materials to folks in Beacon while keeping them out of the landfill.  Photo by Michael Isabell ","author_name":"Beaconites!","author_url":"http:\/\/beaconites.libsyn.com\/website","html":"