FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington is excited to be hosting Juliet Hinely, Peabody and Audie Award-winning podcast producer and sound designer, as a featured Libra Scholar sponsored by the UMF Art & Design program for the 2024 fall semester. Hinely comes to audio from the world of visual art and loves the deeply evocative power of sound to expand a story.
The Peabody Awards were established in 1940 as “the Pulitzer Prize of Radio,” and are recognized as one of the highest honors in media, naming the most powerful, enlightening and invigorating stories in television, radio and digital media.
“For the creator, podcasting is a way to communicate out your thoughts and ideas with both practical accessibility and immense creative possibility,” said Hinely. “For the audience, podcasts allow you to connect deeply with other people’s stories and your own imagination.”
Hinely will be teaching a Story, Sound and Podcasting course at UMF and offering a 2-part workshop for UMF faculty and staff on podcast production for the classroom.
She will also be presenting several exciting and creative free and open to the public events in the Performance Space in the Emery Community Arts Center, including:
• Wednesday, Sept. 11, Artist Talk with UMF Libra Professor, Juliet Hinely
UMF Libra Professor, Juliet Hinely, discusses the ideas and processes behind her creative practice as an audio story producer and sound designer.
• Friday, Oct. 4, “Radio Campfire: Movies for your ears”
“Radio Campfire” – a live listening event series featuring creative audio stories of all kinds. This community based listening experience was first created by Hinely and collaborators in 2015 and has involved podcast producers from all over the world.
Hinely is an award-winning story producer and sound designer specializing in podcasts and narrative audio. She produces, edits, consults and collaborates on narrative audio works for podcasts, audio tours, exhibitions, films, and hybrid-media projects. She has been working in audio since 2010, when she began utilizing audio tours as a method of site-specific storytelling.
Since then, she has lived and worked in San Francisco making immersive audio tours and managing production at Detour, worked at Audible to help develop and produce their original comedy and educational podcast programming, and, in 2019 she won a Peabody Award with the podcast team at Michigan Radio as Senior Producer on the NPR-distributed podcast Believed.
Hinely is now based in Michigan where she works from her studio in Ypsilanti and also teaches radio storytelling and podcast production to new producers for Interlochen Public Radio at Interlochen Center for the Arts. Her own audio documentary work braids sound and story to explore narratives of place, relationships, and inheritance.
For her own projects Hinely has been awarded artist residencies and fellowships at the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative at Skidmore College, Monson Arts in Monson, Maine, Tofte Lake Arts Center in Ely, Minnesota, Elsewhere in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Kala Arts in Berkeley, California.
She holds an MFA with a focus in Sound and Story from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art and Design and has completed studio intensives at the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies and the Parsons School of Design New York Studio Program. She is also a co-founder and co-curator of the live community listening event series Radio Campfire.
The Libra Professorship Program brings scholars of national and international prominence to University of Maine System campuses to provide students and community members with outstanding models of teaching, research, and public service.
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