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This interview was conducted on May 28, 2026 in Ntangou Badila's artist studio in Hudson, New York. Ntangou Badila is a 39 year-old Congolese-American artist and longtime resident of Hudson. This interview explores many topics including Badila's relationship to home, family, career transitions, creative expression, spirituality, and Hudson Hall.
Oral history is an iterative process. In keeping with oral history values of anti-fixity, interviewees will have an opportunity to add, annotate and reflect upon their lives and interviews in perpetuity. Talking back to the archive is a form of “shared authority.”