For our season finale, we're bringing Cookie Mueller home to the Coven she inspired. Sharp-tongued muse, accidental guru, downtown mystic—Cookie moved through worlds with a chaos that felt like clarity. John Waters saw it. Nan Goldin captured it. From Baltimore to San Francisco, to the burning heart of 70s NYC, she wrote and lived with the same raw honesty until AIDS took her in '89. Her multidimensionality, free spirited eccentricity, and counter-cultural heart, bursting with love and creativity reverberates across art and culture today.
Coven is a Stars, Etc Production
Written & Hosted by Jenna Scott and Socorro Erekani Carrillo-Lopez
Executive Producer: Jenna Scott
Produced and Directed by Sierra Barter
Audio Engineer: Josh Brumley
Audio Assistant: Christopher Bryan Amaral
Graphic Design: Jacob Scott
Music by Jeffrey Boyle and Jenna Scott
Created by Jenna Scott and Reilly Hail
Sources:
Mueller, Cookie. 1990. Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black.semiotext.
https://www.artforum.com/features/john-waters-divine-comedy-208458/#:~:text=Waters'%20films%20bring%20to%20the,most%20films%20are%20relatively%20benign.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-04-21/collected-stories-of-late-great-1980s-it-girl-cookie-mueller
https://girlsontopstees.com/en-us/blogs/read-me/how-cookie-mueller-captured-life?srsltid=AfmBOorLwDOJB6MC05NsS5xgVA4mCXktFnwev5PLgTvkfhcOICc69snD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B4jPRzaJck