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I'm Here Too Podcast

I’m Here Too Podcast

A podcast, hosted by Ara Tucker that explores the intersections of art, culture, creativity, family, identity and all that fills the spaces in between.

We all have a chance to make our own mark, our own impression. Big or small as it ends up being. What a freeing realization that has been for me. Don’t get me wrong. It’s been a long and circuitous road getting to the place where “I” feels authentic and where I don’t apologize for the way I walk through the world.

It took me a long time to get to here, a place where I will be seen and heard. But now that I’m here, I’m eager for some company. I look forward to sharing my journey with you, learning from others, and creating a space where we can feel more connected, inspired and safe to be ourselves.

Off we go!

Shaping a Creative Life Together, a conversation with Jason Tranchida & Matthew Lawrence

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In this episode, I talk with artists and collaborators Jason Tranchida and Matthew Lawrence, whose creative partnership spans performance, publishing, and multi-year collaborative projects. Their work includes the long-running art publication Headmaster and the immersive musical documentary Scandalous Conduct, rooted in archival research about the Newport Navy Sex Scandal of 1919.

Together they explore what it means to build a life by building work together: how shared creative labor becomes a way of shaping identity, supporting one another, and moving through the world with curiosity and conviction.

This is a conversation about collaboration as intimacy, community as practice, and how two people can create a creative ecosystem that feeds them both.

About Matthew and Jason

Matthew Lawrence and Jason Tranchida’s collaborative practice is interdisciplinary and research-driven, centering around curatorial projects, video, and performative events. Their assignment-based print publication Headmaster explores themes of gender and masculinity, amplifying the work of queer artists from around the world. Their projects often center around the unearthing of forgotten LGBTQIA+ histories. Their most recent project, Scandalous Conduct: A Fairy Extravaganza is a feature length musical-documentary. The multi-screen video installation is a re-telling of the Newport Navy Sex Scandal of 1919.


Matthew Lawrence (writer/director/producer/sound editor) is an archivist, writer, and editor in Providence, Rhode Island. In 2022 he received his Master of Information Studies from McGill University, and has since worked on archival projects with Providence Public Library, the Massachusetts State Historical Records Board, and Providence College Galleries, among others. He has also written about art for many local and regional publications. He was a 2021 finalist for the Rabkin Prize for Visual Art Journalism and a 2015 recipient of the Public Humanities Scholar Award from Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. 


Jason Tranchida (writer/director/producer/production designer/editor) has a creative practice that is a multi-disciplinary intersection of art, design, and curatorial projects. Born in Detroit and living in Providence, Rhode Island, his project-based art practice includes objects, installations, video, and digital explorations. As creative director of Headmaster magazine, Tranchida has received two Print Merit Awards from the Society of Publication Designers. His creative agency LLAMAproduct specializes in graphic and experience design, creative direction, and event production. His work draws heavily on his foundation in architecture and stage design. 


Photo credit: Nelson Villarreal

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