Nicole Martinez is an arts journalist and the deputy director of Fountainhead Arts in Miami. She is a winner of a 2025 Rabkin Prize, and you can read her full bio on our website.
We invited Nicole to have a conversation about her work. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait of Nicole in her home office in Miami.
The interview has been gently edited for length and clarity.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
“Trump’s Former Pal Plans To Beat Tariffs And The Immigration Crackdown” by Giacomo Tognini (Forbes, June 2025)
The Yearbook: 2024, An Annual Survey of Fountainhead Residency Artists by various writers (Fountainhead Arts, 2024)
Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates
Otter.ai app
Laurie Simmons’ Instagram account
“With the help of fellow Floridians and artificial intelligence, a Miami artist imagines a climate-resilient future for his city” by Nicole Martinez (The Art Newspaper, August 2022)
Ragnar Kjartansson’s solo show Las cosas que ves al momento de caer el telón, (The Things You See Before the Curtain Hits the Floor), Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 2023.
Ragnar Kjartansson, God
Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)
RUNIK by Petrit Halilaj, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2023-2024)
Art on my mind by bell hooks
Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood, edited by Moyra Davey (Seven Stories Press, 2001)
This episode of the Rabkin Interviews was produced by the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, an artist-endowed foundation based in Portland, Maine. The interview was conducted by Mary Louise Schumacher, a journalist and the executive director of the Rabkin Foundation. The portraits were made by artist-photographer Kevin J. Miyazaki. The production team for the Rabkin Interviews also includes Cindy Eggert Johnson, producer; Johnathon Olsen, editor; with research and copyediting by Katie Avila Loughmiller and Karen Samelson. Music is by Flint, HaHaHa, Just for Kicks, and Curtis Cole. The Rabkin Prize is awarded through a nomination process, and an independent jury selects the winners.
