Across the Studio

Across the Studio with Diego Miró-Rivera

In the 14th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman runs into Diego Miró-Rivera on the streets of Tribeca during New York Art Week. No studio. No appointment. No microphones. Just a U-Haul truck and the loudest corner in New York. Diego Miró-Rivera graduated from Yale in 2023 and has spent the last three years living on the road, with the back of his truck as his studio. He is a land artist, or as he prefers, a land student. His work is anchored in the natural world, literally and conceptually. He collected 100,000 cicadas by hand during a once in 221 year emergence and made paintings with them without a single drop of glue. He grew a sculpture from native Texas grass seeds over two years. In this conversation: why his favorite place to make art is literally called Art, why glue is the enemy of poetry, and what it means to give the natural world credit for its creations. Apologies for the street noise. We recorded this on the loudest corner in Tribeca with my voice memos on my iPhone...worth it. Follow Across the Studio Instagram @acrossthestudio [https://www.instagram.com/acrossthestudio] TikTok @acrossthestudio [https://www.tiktok.com/@acrossthestudio] Follow Diego Miró-RiveraInstagram @gogomiro [https://www.instagram.com/gogomiro/]

Across the Studio with Mallory Granata of Impermanence Studios

In the 13th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Mallory Granata, the Detroit-born, New York-based founder of Impermanence Studios, a multidisciplinary atelier working across sculpture, wearable objects, and material experimentation. Her practice exists at the intersection of fashion and art, deeply informed by archival research and unconventional materials — shark teeth, sea urchin spines, and porcelain hand carved to resemble metal. Mallory has spent the majority of her career building marketing strategy and brand experiences within the LVMH ecosystem, where years of working alongside heritage brands sharpened her understanding of archives, legacy, and what it actually takes for something to last. She is currently hand carving 1,200 porcelain razor clam shells to recreate Alexander McQueen's VOSS SS01 dress, and her finished Coiled Corset from The Overlook FW99 is one of the most labor intensive and quietly radical things I have ever seen in person. In this conversation: why the quote she read on a mountain about time guides her whole practice, a fashion designer's thoughts on the 2026 Met Gala theme, why she is revisiting the archives of the fashion masters and recreating them in materials that push back — shark teeth, sea urchin spines, and hand carved porcelain — the negotiation with materials that defines her entire process, and why slowing down has been the most surprising gift of building Impermanence Studios. Follow Across the StudioInstagram ⁠@acrossthestudio⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/acrossthestudio/] @miaschoolman [https://www.instagram.com/miaschoolman]TikTok ⁠@acrossthestudio⁠ [https://www.tiktok.com/@acrossthestudio] Follow Mallory Granata Instagram ⁠@impermanencestudios⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/impermanencestudios/]@mallorygranata [https://www.instagram.com/mallorygranata/]

Across the Studio with Danielle Simone

In the 12th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Danielle Simone, a New York City based photographer, painter, and multimedia artist classically trained at Parsons, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been featured in Vogue, the New York Times, and Visionary Projects NYC and her surrealist, mad-hatter aesthetic has a way of making you look twice at everything you thought you understood. Danielle has photographed over 700 weddings, shot behind the scenes for John Legend and Sarah Bareilles, and had her illustrations animated for the MTV VMAs for Miley Cyrus (after someone called her with 30 minutes notice.) She paints feast tables, the seven sins, and upcycled clothing, and she does it all while building one of the most genuinely multidisciplinary practices in New York. In this conversation: the father she lost before college who compelled her to pursue art instead of stability, the seven sins painting she waited two years to make until she had a studio big enough to breathe in, why she never lets clients see a commission until it's finished, and the Steve Jobs quote that changed how she thinks about saying yes. Follow Across the StudioInstagram @acrossthestudio [https://www.instagram.com/acrossthestudio/]TikTok @acrossthestudio [https://www.tiktok.com/@acrossthestudio] Follow Danielle SimoneInstagram @dniellesimone [https://www.instagram.com/dniellesimone?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==] @simonesimonenyc [https://www.instagram.com/simonesimonenyc/] @daniellesimone.co [https://www.instagram.com/daniellesimone.co/] Websitesdaniellesimoneco.com [https://daniellesimoneco.com/] daniellesimone.art [https://daniellesimone.art/]

Across the Studio with Alyssa Stevens

In the 11th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Alyssa Stevens, a New York-based artist working primarily in oil pastel on canvas. Rooted in memory, longing, and the in-between spaces formed by childhood, Alyssa's practice returns again and again to the places that feel suspended in time. Her work is immediately recognizable — colorful, playful, and intentionally chaotic. Every mark is intuitive, guided by feeling and form, and what emerges on the canvas is as much a self-portrait as it is a mirror held up to the universal experience of finding yourself again. In this conversation: the childhood places she returns to in her mind and in her dreams, quitting her corporate data analyst job weeks after her first collection sold out in two days, what it means to find acceptance through abstraction, and why she believes every mark — even the ones she regrets — is exactly where it's supposed to be. Follow Across the StudioInstagram @acrossthestudio [https://www.instagram.com/acrossthestudio/]TikTok @acrossthestudio [https://www.tiktok.com/@acrossthestudio] Follow Alyssa StevensInstagram @alyssastevensssss [https://www.instagram.com/alyssastevenssss/]alyssastevens.com [https://www.alyssastevens.com/]

Across the Studio with Cam DeMars

In the 10th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Cam DeMars, a filmmaker and painter originally from Montana, now based in New York. After years of filming professional skiers and alpine athletes across the west, Cam co-founded Benshi Creative before recently launching dontknow. film co, a documentary-focused company built around story-first filmmaking. Cam works across film, painting, and charcoal drawing, moving between commercial production and a fine art practice. His current body of work centers on combat sports — jiu-jitsu fighters and boxers rendered with an intensity that's less about the sport and more about who a person becomes at their physical and mental limit.  In this conversation: the documentary about a man who's lived alone on an island off the San Juan coast since 1978, the boxer series Cam made to continue his late grandfather's unfinished body of work, the philosophy behind Don't Know Productions and why the name means exactly what it says, how marketing is an art and what Cam is still figuring out about rest. Whether you're an artist, curator, or simply art-adjacent, this episode offers an intimate look into the mind and work of a compelling artist. Follow Across the Studio Instagram @acrossthestudio [https://www.instagram.com/acrossthestudio/] TikTok @acrossthestudio [https://www.tiktok.com/@acrossthestudio] Follow Cam DeMars Instagram @demars_ [https://www.instagram.com/demars_/] camdemars.com [https://www.camdemars.com/]