Beyond the Clock Resident Artist Eliza Blue reflects on September 2025’s Beyond the Clock with Viktor le. Givens

Beyond the Clock Resident Artist Eliza Blue reflects on June 2025’s Beyond the Clock with Siricasso.

Beyond the Clock Resident Artist Eliza Blue reflects on April 2025’s Beyond the Clock with Lacy Hale.

Beyond the Clock Resident Artist Eliza Blue reflects on February 2025’s Beyond the Clock with Nancy X. Valentine.

Beyond the Clock Co-Host Anna Claussen reflects on her time with Beyond the Clock Co-Host Ash Hanson and 2025 Beyond the Clock Resident Artist Eliza Blue during the Offal Fashion Show at the Denver stockyards.

In addition to our regular virtual learning exchanges with rural rockstars, Beyond the Clock is introducing... A PODCAST!!

For each Beyond the Clock season, we invite a Resident Artist to capture high-level themes in a creative format; this year we are elated to be welcoming Eliza Blue as Beyond the Clock's 2025 Resident Artist! 

Nhatt Nichols is a poet and graphic journalist living on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. She uses drawing, poetry, and comics to explore human/animal relationships and how they fit into bigger political and environmental issues. You can find her work in High Country News, Edible Magazine, Civil Eats, and The Daily Yonder. Nhatt is a 2023 Literary GAP Grant recipient. Her first book, This Party of the Soft Things (Bored Wolves, 2022), is in its second printing, and Morels, an illustrated novella, is forthcoming from Bored Woles. 

Erika Nelson is an independent artist and educator, exploring contemporary art forms in the public realm. She investigates the nooks and crannies of the United States seeking out the odd and unusual, gathering stories of people who build immersive elaborate art environments, as well as roadside vernacular architecture known as World’s Largest Things.

Rae Garringer (they/them) is a writer, oral historian, and audio producer who grew up on a sheep farm in southeastern West Virginia, and now lives a few counties away on S’atsoyaha (Yuchi) and Šaawanwaki (Shawnee) lands. They are the founder of Country Queers, a multimedia oral history project documenting rural and small town LGBTQIA2S+ experiences since 2013.

In this conversation with Melissa, we explored themes of archiving the stories of one's community and the trust and reciprocity required to do so, considering questions like: in rural communities, where humility often reigns, how do we invite humble leaders to document their stories and archive their own journeys?