Accession

Accession will return this Summer. In the meantime, check out my new audio fiction project The Wanderer. The Wanderer is a queer fairy-folk tale audio drama, about being separated from the people we love to keep them safe. You can listen to the first two episodes now wherever you listen to podcasts, or on our website at www.callofthewander.com.

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Description and Notes: A portrait is so much more than a space, a subject, and a keen eye. It’s a place, a person, and a photographer’s truth. The transcript, notes, images, and discussion questions for this episode can be found on our website here. Support: Help support the fight for systemic change in Minneapolis, by donating to Reclaim the Block. Newsletter: Get the latest on all the Accession episodes, articles, interviews, and more. Social: Give us a shout out! Use #accession #accessionhomeward and #aroundtheframe! Twitter - Instagram - Facebook www.accession.fm

Descripción y notas: Un retrato es muchísimo más que un espacio, un sujeto y un buen ojo. Es un lugar, una persona y la verdad de un fotógrafo. Se puede encontrar la transcripción, los apuntes, y las preguntas para la discusión en nuestro sitio, aquí. Apoye: Ayude la lucha por el cambio sistémico en Minneapolis, donando Reclaim the Block. Newsletter: Get the latest on all the Accession episodes, articles, interviews, and more. Social: Give us a shout out! Use #accession #accessionhomeward and #aroundtheframe! Twitter - Instagram - Facebook www.accession.fm

Description and Notes: Ana and Ponders take a detour, meet a small friend, and find a place that feels special. This episode was written by Ana O'Daniel and T.H. Ponders, and features Chad Ellis as the park ranger. This episode features Mason Jar of Home from the album Mason Jar of Home by Black Agnes and Mike Dunbar. The transcript for this episode can be found on our website here. Support: Pledge to Accession on Patreon for exclusive essays, bonus mini-sodes, and behind the scenes extras. Newsletter: Get the latest on all the Accession episodes, articles, interviews, and more. Social: Give us a shout out! Use #accession #accessionhomeward and #aroundtheframe! Twitter - Instagram - Facebook www.accession.fm

Description and Notes: The congregation gathers on the banks of the river to be baptized. An audio fiction based on Baptism Study by Benny Andrews.  Content Warning: There are sound effects simulating being underwater. The transcript, notes, images, and discussion questions for this episode can be found on our website here. Support: Visit AGTrapHaus to bring their art into your home today. Make a recurring donation to Accession on Patreon for exclusive essays, bonus mini-sodes, and behind the scenes extras. Newsletter: Get the latest on all the Accession episodes, articles, interviews, and more. Social: Give us a shout out! Use #accession #accessionhomeward and #aroundtheframe! Twitter - Instagram - Facebook www.accession.fm

Description and Notes: Ana and Ponders take a walk after beignets, and meet the Man in the Mississippi. The song in this episode is Lylo (All Will be Will) from the album Mason Jar of Home by Black Agnes and Mike Dunbar. The transcript for this episode can be found on our website here. Support: Pledge to Accession on Patreon for exclusive essays, bonus mini-sodes, and behind the scenes extras. Newsletter: Get the latest on all the Accession episodes, articles, interviews, and more. Social: Give us a shout out! Use #accession #accessionhomeward and #aroundtheframe! Twitter - Instagram - Facebook www.accession.fm

To hear the other half of this interview, and get us closer to our goal of 100 patrons, visit our Patreon and pledge $1 today! Description and Notes: Wil Williams shares with us a description of Ed Ruscha's High-Speed Gardening, the joy that they find in Ruscha's work, and a bit about what it means to them. Wil Williams is a podcaster and 1/3 of Hug House Productions, who make Valence, a new audio drama written and directed by Wil, and Scoring Magic, a documentary about the making of Valence. The transcript, notes, images, and discussion questions for this episode can be found on our website here. Support: Make a recurring donation to Accession on Patreon for exclusive essays, bonus mini-sodes, and behind the scenes extras. Newsletter: Get the latest on all the Accession episodes, articles, interviews, and more. Social: Give us a shout out! Use #accession #accessionhomeward and #aroundtheframe! Twitter - Instagram - Facebook www.accession.fm

Description and Notes: A room where the art, and the artist, feel perfectly at home. A conversation on starts. An exploration of the Calder Tower at the National Gallery in D.C. The transcript, notes, images, and discussion questions for this episode can be found on our website here. Support: Visit AGTrapHaus to bring their art into your home today. Make a recurring donation to Accession on Patreon for exclusive essays, bonus mini-sodes, and behind the scenes extras. Newsletter: Get the latest on all the Accession episodes, articles, interviews, and more. Social: Give us a shout out! Use #accession #accessionhomeward and #aroundtheframe! Twitter - Instagram - Facebook www.accession.fm  

Description and Notes: Ana and Ponders start their road trip. It's going to be incredible. The song in this episode Along for the Ride from the album Belvidere by Mike Dunbar.  The transcript for this episode can be found on our website here. Support: Pledge to Accession on Patreon for exclusive essays, bonus mini-sodes, and behind the scenes extras. Newsletter: Get the latest on all the Accession episodes, articles, interviews, and more. Social: Give us a shout out! Use #accession #accessionhomeward and #aroundtheframe! Twitter - Instagram - Facebook www.accession.fm  

Description and Notes: We've got so many incredible pieces of art to see, museums to visit, people to meet, and stories to hear on this, the second season of Accession, which we're calling Homeward. We have a long journey ahead, but the road trip starts next Thursday January 16th, right here on this feed. We can't wait to see you on the road, and in the meantime, Welcome to Accession. The transcript for this episode can be found on our website here. Special thanks to Ana O'Daniel, V Silverman, Amanda McColgan, Charles Gustine, Jeff Van Dreason, Alexander Danner, Leslie Gideon, Christina Friel, Pip Thorne, Sean Howard, Hannah Wright, Wil Williams, Allyson Healy, Erin M Speckley, and Julia Drachman. Support: Pledge to Accession on Patreon for exclusive essays, bonus mini-sodes, and behind the scenes extras. Newsletter: Get the latest on all the Accession episodes, articles, interviews, and more. Social: Give us a shout out! Use #accession #accessionhomeward and #aroundtheframe! Twitter - Instagram - Facebook www.accession.fm

Description and Notes: An unfinished piece, two types of silence, an unfinished peace. The original tweet can be found here. The transcript for this episode can be found on our website here. Support: Pledge to Accession on Patreon for exclusive essays, bonus mini-sodes, and behind the scenes extras. Newsletter: Get the latest on all the Accession episodes, articles, interviews, and more. Social: Give us a shout out! Use #accession #accessionhomeward and #aroundtheframe! Twitter - Instagram - Facebook www.accession.fm  

Description and Notes: Art contains exactly half of an old and powerful magic. It can build entire worlds from nothing but paint and canvas, tell epic stories inside a single frozen moment, and transport us across time, space, and ourselves. This show is about making that magic.  Welcome to Accession. The transcript for this episode can be found on our website here. Support: Pledge to Accession on Patreon for exclusive essays, bonus mini-sodes, and behind the scenes extras. Newsletter: Get the latest on all the Accession episodes, articles, interviews, and more. Give us a shout out! Use #accession #accessionhomeward and #aroundtheframe! Twitter - Instagram - Facebook www.accession.fm Peace to my full show notes readers. Send me a tweet with the red backpack emoji. I'll know. -Ponders

T.H. Ponders sits down with Regina Merson, founder and creator of the makeup company Reina Rebelde to talk about starting a business, the art of makeup, Frida Kahlo and the intersection of makeup and Latinx culture. Images, the transcript, the sources for this episode can be found on our website here. SUPPORT: Get 20% off your order from Reina Rebelde with the offer code ACCESSION through 12/31. Pledge to Accession on Patreon for exclusive essays, bonus mini-sodes, and behind the scenes extras. NEWSLETTER: Get the latest on all the Accession episodes, articles, interviews, and more. Give us a shout out! Use #accession #accessionhomeward and #aroundtheframe! Twitter - Instagram - Facebook www.accession.fm Peace to my full show notes readers. Send me a tweet with the red backpack emoji. I'll know. -Ponders

Support the Accession: Homeward IndieGoGo Campaign Today! This episode features recordings collected from the attendees of our live event at the Chihuly Gardens in Seattle, Washington at Podcon 2! Featuring Jamie Price, Hannah Wright, Erin Sellers, Ollie Morris, Gavin Gaddis, Elena Fernández Collins, V Silverman, Amber Rose, and Wil Williams. For links to their work and images of the art they were reacting to, head over to accession.fm. Support the Accession: Homeward IndieGoGo Campaign Today!

I want to share a secret with you. But you cannot tell anyone... This episode looks at Night by Aristide Maillol from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 1950.100. You can find the transcripts and show notes here.  You can support the Season Two IndieGoGo here. Twitter - Instagram - Website - Email

Join us at a juke joint just around the corner from Hopper's Nighthawks, as we take a look at Archibald Motley's joyous, yet poignant reaction to World War Two. Transcript, show notes, and the full credits are up on the website. Please check out and support TK in the AM and Weeksvile by Keisha TK Dutes and Conscious, the voices of the patron and James the Bouncer Flyest Fables by Morgan Givens, the voice of Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks Time Well Spent by Ronald Young Jr., the voice of Alain Locke

The first in our series from 1943, this episode looks at the classic image of the American Thanksgiving, that has been reinterpreted and reimagined time and time again. Only this time, we dig into precisely why this is such a replicable image, and what it has to share with us today. Guest hosted by Charles Gustine of Iconography Podcast.    You can find the notes to the show, links to the art and social media, and a few other goodies on our website at accession.fm. You can support the show through our Patreon at patreon.com/accessionfm

In this episode, we are looking at the most iconic work in American Art. But we are going to take it out of its larger cultural context to focus on the context of when it was first created. We're going back to January of 1942, exactly one month after Pearl Harbor. You can find the notes to the show, links to the art and social media, and a few other goodies on our website at accession.fm. You can support the show through our Patreon at patreon.com/accessionfm

Today, we look at a familiar ghost from three different angles; a poem, a play, and a song. You can find the images for this episode and the notes for the show on accession.fm.

While Leonardo da Vinci was an apprentice in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio, what exactly did Leonardo learn from Andrea? What did Andrea have to teach him? You can find the images for this episode and the notes for the show on accession.fm.

With so many pieces of art that share the name Venus, what is it that makes a Venus a Venus? You can find the images for this episode and the notes for the show on accession.fm.

Amongst all the sitters in art history, the people who sit to have their portrait painted, only a few possess this remarkable skill: to cast the most beautifully perplexing smile, that, with a simple curve of the lips, writes novels of emotional expression. This is one such smile. You can find the images for this episode and the notes for the show on accession.fm. 

This week, we take look and listens from many different angles at one of the most beloved gods in Hinduism, and we may even get to touch something. To see the art and read the transcript, head over to accession.fm.

This is one small step for artist, one giant leap for artist kind. This question is: did it ever happen? Is there a secret museum on the moon? To see the art and read the transcript, visit accession.fm. Content Warning: One of the images in the moon museum may be perceived as sexual in nature, it is suggested, but no explicit reference of it is messaged. Parental digression is advised.

In this special episode of Accession for Kids, we take a look at a landscape painting of a place that may be familiar, even if it doesn't look the same today. For a map and worksheet, a full transcript and a version of the story without music, visit accession.fm.

It's just the story of a young man, barely more than a boy, and a small piece of wood that he may or may not have painted. You can find the notes to the show, links to the art, and maybe a few other goodies on our website at accession.fm.

In this week's episode, we dive into Gene Davis' Lemon Look to explore why we are fascinated by illusions, and what illusions can teach us about ourselves. The transcript and notes for this episode can be found at accession.fm. 

This week's episode is the famous story of the Messon Frogs, the brother’s who came to be known as the Tuxtla Two, and the act of courage that saved the game. The transcript and notes for this episode can be found at accession.fm. 

Just the simple story of a person falling in love with a painting told over five letters.  The transcript and notes for this episode can be found at accession.fm. Instagram - Twitter - Facebook - Tumblr

This story isn't about a painting, or a sculpture, or a vase, or a váse, or a photograph. It's about... well, I'll let you listen for yourself. The transcription and notes for this episode can be found at accession.fm. Instagram - Twitter - Facebook - Tumblr

This week, we talk about Hubert Robert's The Shipwreck, accession number 1927.34 at the Worcester Art Museum. It's such an incredible piece, you might think that the artist spent his entire life painting naval landscapes and shipwrecks. But he didn't. So why did he paint this one? The notes for the show can be found online at accession.fm. Follow the show @accessionfm Instagram Twitter Facebook Tumblr   

On this week's episode, I talk about Worcester Art Museum accession number 2014.1151, Carrie Moyer’s Rapa Nui Smashup. Follow the show on Instagram and Twitter @accessionfm. Our website is under development, but will be going live at accession.fm. Our show art was made by V Silverman. You can hire them to make art for you at their website. Our theme was recorded and engineered by Casey Dawson. You can hire him to make music for you at his website. The music in this episode is from the album Azalai by Blue Dot Session. This episode was written, recorded, and edited by me, T.H. Ponders. You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter @thponders, and read my writing at muchadoabout.net. Thank you for listening!

On this week's episode, I talk about Worcester Art Museum accession number 1937.91, Statuette of a Man, a Sumerian sculpture from about 3000-2500 B.C.E. and one of the oldest pieces in the WAM. Follow the show on Instagram and Twitter @accessionfm. Our website is under development, but will be going live at accession.fm. Our show art was made by V Silverman. You can hire them to make art for you at their website. Our theme was recorded and engineered by Casey Dawson. You can hire him to make music for you at his website. This episode was written, recorded, and edited by me, T.H. Ponders. You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter @thponders, and read my writing at muchadoabout.net. Thank you for listening!

Have you ever looked at art in a museum and felt lost and alone, but captured and curious? This is the show for you. Welcome to Accession. In this, the introduction to the show, I talk about the way art museums often make us feel, and why I think it's important to provide context to piece of art.  For more information, you can visit us at www.accession.fm, or follow us on Twitter and Instagram @accessionfm.