Rée the Interdisciplinarian on Impact Producing, Education, and Baltimore
Download MP3In this episode of The Truth In This Art, the guest is Rée the Interdisciplinarian!
About Rée the Interdisciplinarian: Originally from Los Angeles, she holds a BA in fine art and an MFA in filmmaking, with a teaching background spanning multiple countries. She now works as an impact producer and is based in Baltimore, where she lives at the intersection of education and media.
Rée joins the podcast and introduces herself and her work for listeners who may be meeting her for the first time — walking through the path from fine art graduate to film school in Baltimore, to teaching English in South Korea for about eight years, and into impact producing, which she describes as building audiences and communities for filmmakers and media makers.
We get into HOMEWORK, her MFA thesis web series, which she wrote to document her anger at systems that prioritize profit over morals. Raised by a single immigrant mother who outsourced her upbringing to public schools, Rée set out to indict those systems — episode by episode — covering the school-to-prison pipeline, the medical industry, food systems, and more.
Rée also talks about Home Room, her podcast — nearly a hundred conversations in — which she describes as a human-centered design research project on what is and isn't working in education. She started it during the pandemic to reach people across the world, then moved back to Baltimore to focus on the city's stakeholders, and is now developing it into a documentary series.
She also shares news of her first children's book — wordless and image-based — funded by a small grant and due out in November, designed so that the reader collaborates with the images to make the story their own.
Be sure to follow Rée on Instagram at @theinterdisciplinarian and follow her Home Room podcast at @homeroomed on Instagram.
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Host
Rob Lee
The Truth In This Art is an interview series featuring artists, entrepreneurs and tastemakers in & around Baltimore.
Guest
Rée the Interdisciplinarian
With a BA in Fine Art (Visual Storytelling), and a MFA in Filmmaking (Creative Producing), she develops and produces interdisciplinary media projects that center the next generation. Her relevant projects include directing a series of videos for The Walters Art Museum, collaborating on the social design of a marketing campaign for Johns Hopkins Hospital, redesigning the website for an NGO operating in 40 countries, and producing short films which have screened at film festivals in the United States.
