Episodes 32
Avg. Duration 28m
Activity Sporadic
Apple Rating 5.0 (15)
Since Aug 2020
Latest Episode Jan 2026

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In May of 2020, the citizens of Richmond, Virginia took to the streets to protest racial inequality, police brutality and the monuments to confederate generals that line on our historical streets and city parks. As a result, African American artist and community activist, Hamilton Glass, chose to create a public art project that brought together artists from different cultural backgrounds to create murals that start conversation and heal the divides between us. That project is called Mending Walls. Host Hamilton Glass sits down with the artist pairings as they discuss their mural vision, their process and the hard conversations that they had throughout their collaboration.

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S4E4 Trust Building/s: Empatía

Jan 09, 2026 30m

Hamilton talks with Artists Alfonso Pérez Acosta and Noah Scalin about their recent collaboration. Trust Building/s is a four-part mural series that will spread throughout the city. These murals will…

S4E3 Inspiring the Next Generation of Artists

Aug 12, 2025 18m

Hamilton talks with Ava, Tio and Bannessa, students in the College of Arts and Architecture who are members of the Mending Walls at Penn State student club.  These students recently traveled to…

S4E2 Mending Walls.. at Penn State

Aug 01, 2025 22m

Hamilton talks with Sarah and Adriana who are Art majors and designers of the second mural they completed along with other students from Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture and inspired by…

S4E1 Trust Building/s: Reliability

Jul 25, 2025 32m

Hamilton talks with Artists Alfonso Pérez Acosta and Noah Scalin about their recent collaboration.  Trust Building/s is a four-part mural series that will spread throughout the city. These murals…

S3E3 Part 3: Transcending Walls (Education)

Jan 20, 2023 30m Transcript

Hamilton Glass, Taekia Glass, and Caitlin Black discuss their roles and they collaborate together to create deeper connections to the education space. In particular Caitlin, an adjunct professor and…

S3E2 Part 2: Transcending Walls (The Artists)

Jan 13, 2023 47m

Hamilton Glass talk with the five artists of the Richmond Hill mural project; Nadd Harvin, Sam Skrimpz, Hope Morgan, Rian Moses, and Lizzie Brown as they discuss their experiences  engaging with the…

S3E1 Part 1: Transcending Walls (Richmond Hill)

Jan 06, 2023 33m

Hamilton Glass talks with Taekia Glass, Rev. Lindsey Franklin, Rev. Ben Hadley-Goggin as they discuss the Transcending Walls project. This episode will explore the origins of the project, challenges…

S2E5 We Want Clean Air. We Want Good Food. We Want Peace.

Oct 08, 2021 24m

Inspired by their conversations and experiences with the good people at Virginia Community Voice, artists Barry O’Keefe and Mahari Chabwera talk about how their mural along Richmond Highway (formerly…

S2E4 Reflection for Change

Oct 01, 2021 32m

Inspired by their conversations and experiences with the young people at RISE for Youth and their own backgrounds, artists Courtney Lebow and Hamilton Glass talk about how their mural in the Fan…

S2E3 All Put Together

Sep 24, 2021 32m

Inspired by their conversations and experiences with the Richmond Association of Black Social Workers and their own backgrounds, artist Juliana Bustillo and Khalid Thompson talk with host Hamilton…

S2E2 The Golden Hour & NeoGenesis

Sep 17, 2021 27m

Inspired by Duron Chavis, local urban agriculture leader and Executive Director of Happily Natural, and the oasis he created at Sankofa Community Orchard,artists Sarah Apple and Ron Stokes talk with…

S2E1 Mending Walls 2021

Sep 10, 2021 31m

Host Hamilton Glass chats with his core Mending Walls team to discuss how 2021 Mending Walls is different than 2020 but still serves the same mission of artists coming together to have deep…

S2 BONUS: Meet the Mending Walls Documentarians

Sep 03, 2021 34m

At the end of the 2020 Mending Walls project, Hamilton Glass sat down with filmmakers Pam and Todd Hervey to talk about how they created a documentary about the project and why they believe it's a…

S2 Season 2 is coming soon + Documentary Trailer!

Aug 20, 2021 1m

Mending Walls: The Documentary premieres on:September 7 @ The Richmond International Film Festival.  Get tickets!September 16 @ 8pm on VPM PBS.  Watch the Trailer.More information:Mending Walls: The…

S1E18 Finding Tomorrow

Nov 27, 2020 30m

Host Hamilton Glass talks with Producer Pam Hervey and Artist Eli McMullen about his second collaboration in the Mending Walls Project, celebrating the life and work of Lorna Pinckney, and how our…

S1E17 Once Upon...With Love.

Nov 20, 2020 22m

Host Hamilton Glass talks with artists Shaylen Broughton and Hasson Roberts about their commitment to showcasing the wishes of a younger generation after being gifted a wall at the Children's Museum…

S1E16 The Journey Forward

Nov 13, 2020 21m

Host Hamilton Glass talks with artists Humble & Nadd Harvin about their mural that celebrates the youth movement for social justice and change.-The public art created for Mending Walls addresses…

S1E15 The Blackwell Drip

Nov 06, 2020 35m

Inspired by a visionary local music star and honoring Yemoja, the African Goddess of the Ocean, artists Chris Visions and Heide Trepanier talk with Host Hamilton Glass about how their mural in the…

S1E14 African American Gothic

Oct 30, 2020 26m

Host Hamilton Glass talks with artists Andre Shank and Sone-Seere about their twist on a classical piece of American art by celebrating local urban agriculture advocates Duron and Nikaya Chavis.-The…

S1E13 It's Time for Change

Oct 23, 2020 27m

"Am I next?" is the powerful question on artists Sir James L. Thornhill and Kevin Orlosky's mural in Richmond's Oliver Hill Way.  They talk with Host Hamilton Glass about how the answer to that…

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Mending Walls has published 32 episodes since August 2020, covering topics in Arts, Documentary.

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