Podcast appearances and mentions of andrea carlson

Episode No. 703 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Dakota Mace and curator Claire Howard. SITE Santa Fe is showing "Dakota Mace: DAHODIYINII—SACRED PLACES," an investigation of an atrocity during which the United States expelled the Diné people from Dinétah, their ancestral homeland, and forced them to march as many as 400 miles to the Bosque Redondo in central-eastern New Mexico, where they were forced to remain in a concentration camp from 1864-68. The exhibition is organized into themes such as memory, land, and the stars; with each section of the show considering Diné cosmology. The exhibition, which is on view through May 19, was curated by Brandee Caoba. Mace is also featured in "Smoke in Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time" at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY. The exhibition examines how Native artists have explored memory and time, including how the past is continually remembered and reimagined. It was curated by Sháńdíín Brown and will remain on view through August 31, 2025. "Smoke in Our Hair" features previous MAN Podcast guests such as Saif Azzuz, Teresa Baker, and Andrea Carlson. Howard is the curator of one section of "In Creative Harmony: Three Artistic Partnerships" an exhibition that considers artistic discourse, at the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin. Howard's section considers the relationship between Arshile Gorky and Isamu Noguchi. Other sections present dialogue between Nora Naranjo Morse and her daughter Eliza Naranjo Morse and José Guadalupe Posada and Artemio Rodríguez. It's on view through July 20. Instagram: Dakota Mace, Claire Howard, Tyler Green.

Andrea Carlson is on the board of the Japan Minka Preservation Society and will join to share some of her passion for preserving old houses and rural traditions and culture in Japan. Andrea will also be introducing some exciting events and meet-ups, talks, experiences and more coming for the group for the enthusiastic Minka-loving community.https://www.minkasociety.com/

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Episode No. 677 features artist Andrea Carlson. As mentioned at the beginning of this week's program: Help Asheville and my friends and neighbors across the southern Appalachians! These are all local organizations helping people in western North Carolina: Southern Smoke Foundation; Asheville Food & Beverage United (also here); and Beloved Asheville. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is presenting "Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons," the latest exhibition in its "Chicago Works" series. Across painting, video, sculpture, and two billboards (along Interstate 94 between Illinois and Wisconsin), "Shimmer on Horizons" presents Carlson's investigation of how landscapes are constructed both politically and culturally. The exhibition was curated by Iris Colburn and is on view through February 2, 2025. Carlson's work may also be seen in "Andrea Carlson: Future Cache" at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, which features a 40-foot-tall memorial wall that towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Curated by Jennifer Friess, the presentation is on view through June 2025. Carlson is also included within "Scientia Sexualis" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles through March 2, 2025. The exhibition, realized as part of the Getty's "PST ART: Art & Science Collide" program, centers research-driven interventions into raced and gendered assumptions that structure scientific disciplines governing our sense of the sexual body. It was curated by Jennifer Doyle and Jeanne Vaccaro. Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe/European descent) typically addresses land and its history by foregrounding decolonization narratives. Museums that have featured solo exhibitions of her work include the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, New York, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Her work is in the collection of museums such as the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Denver Art Museum. She is also the co-founder of the Center for Native Futures in Chicago. Chicagoans: on Saturday Carlson and poet Heid E. Erdrich will be in conversation at the MCA at 2:30 pm. A program at the Center for Native Futures precedes the event. Instagram: Andrea Carlson, Tyler Green.

On todays podcast we have two of my oldest industry friends. Chef and Co Owner of Harvest Community Foods, Gabriella Meyer and Chef and Owner of Michelin starred Burdock and Co, Harvest Community Foods and Bar Gobo, Andrea Carlson. These two Chefs have been champions of local food and sustainability for a very long time. Their symbiotic approach to the farmer/ producer is what I consider the model for how those relationships should be cultivated. Because of these great relationships, they both produce incredibly delicious food that is good for you, the cook, the farmer and the planet. I hope you enjoy the listen. As always please DM your feedback on @cookscamp2024 on instagram. 

Historian Brenda J. Child stares at a buttery yellow sky framed by converging treelines reflected upon a lake. The scene is a painting by Duluth-based artist Jonathan Thunder and it's called “On the Grave of the Giant.” Below the sky's glow is a couple harvesting wild rice from a canoe. On the lake bottom are the skeletal remains of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox.The painting is on public view for the first time as part of the new exhibition “Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers” at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota. Child is a Northrop Professor of American Studies and former chair of the Departments of American Studies and the Department of American Indian Studies, co-curated the exhibition with gallery director Howard Oransky. It features paintings by 29 mid-century and contemporary Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Dakota and Lakota) artists from, or connected to, the region. It is the inaugural exhibition of the George Morrison Center for Indigenous Arts, an “interdepartmental study center to support the creation, presentation and interpretation of Indigenous art in all its forms.” Child is the founder of the new center, which was sparked by the success of the 2016 Nash gallery exhibition that she curated, “Singing Our History: People and Places of the Red Lake Nation.” The center is named in honor of the internationally renowned abstract expressionist, a member of the Grand Portage Ojibwe from Minnesota, who died in 2000. Morrison also taught art at the University of Minnesota in the 1970s and 1980s.“We tend to think in Minnesota, ‘Oh, George Morrison. He's like a local guy who's done well in the art world,'” Child says. “But he's a very important figure in American abstract expressionism.”Back in the gallery, Child is focused on that yellow sky. “What I really like about this work, and I wouldn't have known this unless Jonathan had told me,” Child begins. She pauses and walks to the opposite gallery wall, which features a string of paintings by the famous mid-century painter Patrick DesJarlait. Like Child and Thunder, DesJarlait was from the Red Lake Nation in northern Minnesota. DesJarlait is one of their heroes, she says.In addition to paintings like “Red Lake Fisherman” (also on view), DesJarlait is also famous for his 1950s redesign of the Land O'Lakes maiden, adding an Ojibwe floral pattern to her attire. “So Jonathan's nod to Patrick is the bright butter yellow that he used in this painting,” Child says. Over the phone from his Duluth studio, Thunder says Land O'Lakes discontinued DesJarlait's design, and the maiden, in 2020, soon before he began working on the painting in 2021.“With the yellow sky in that painting and the two points of land that come together, that's obviously a nod to the Land O'Lakes butter box,” Thunder says. “From what I understand, the two points of land that come together, they can be seen in Red Lake where the upper and lower Red Lake kind of join.”That year, Thunder had gone to see the Red Lake vista.“It was like seeing a cartoon come to life or something,” Thunder says. “It's very much a tribally significant image with or without the butter maiden.”Thunder says the painting was also inspired by the time when he and his wife decided to learn how to harvest wild rice around Walker, Minn. In the painting, a pipeline takes the shape of a tentacle reaching into the canoe above the watery grave of Bunyan and Babe.“At the time, the Line Three protests were happening across Minnesota and I was starting to see some of the division it was creating in the communities there,” Thunder explains. ”You see statues of Paul Bunyan kind of littered throughout the landscape, which is significant of a time when they were coming through clearing forests. Paul Bunyan was the noble face of that cause. In the wake of all that, it's nice to see that people can still go out and rice and practice those traditional ways.”Thunder says he's excited to be placed in the gallery next to DesJarlait, an artist “I've seen my whole life.” He adds that, when he was growing up in the Twin Cities, he used to play basketball at the Minneapolis American Indian Center. It was there he discovered the 94-foot-long wood mural “Turning the Feather Around” that Morrison created in 1974 (and which was recently restored and reinstalled).“That's a huge development for the campus,” Thunder says of the new center.“Dreaming Our Futures” is a web of these overt and covert dialogues and relationships between artworks, artists and generations.On view, of course, are the abstracted rainbow-colored canvases of Morrison himself, as well as the paintings of other blue chip artists such as Dyani White Hawk, Frank Big Bear, Jim Denomie, Oscar Howe and Andrea Carlson.“This exhibit shows the history of American Indian art, fine art, in the United States and where it's been in the last half-century, especially with Howe, Morrison and DesJarlait,” Child explains.“Dreaming Our Futures” acts as an important marker in time, too: Fifty years ago, Morrison, DesJarlait and Howe participated in an exhibition of contemporary Indian painting in Washington, D.C.Child says that “Dreaming Our Futures” also shows how contemporary artists “have been very influenced by those foundational figures.”These include artists like Thunder and Dakota artist Holly Young, of Bismarck, N.D. Young uses the mediums of beadwork, quillwork, and ledger art, an art form that originated in cave and hide painting that has evolved to also use parchment and actual historical “ledger” documents as a canvas. Young also created the illustration for the cover of “The Seed Keeper,” the 2021 novel by Minnesota Native writer Diane Wilson, the wife of Denomie. Denomie died in 2022. Wilson wrote an essay, “Jim Denomie at Home,” for the exhibition catalog.Four of Young's ledger-style watercolor paintings are on view, featuring Native women dressed in a combination of historical regalia and contemporary attire.“A lot of what I draw is kind of based off of real life,” Young says. “I enjoy the look of the old things, but I'm also living in today's world as a contemporary artist.”Young is self-taught. Many of her artist influences — White Hawk, Bobby Wilson, Francis J. Yellow, Thomasina TopBear — have work on display in the same room. The ledger art of Yellow, a Minneapolis-based Lakota artist who died in August, hangs right next to Young's.“He was also somebody that I looked up to as a ledger artist. His work was very emotional,” Young says. “I always wanted to meet him, and I've been in the Minnesota area over the years, but we never crossed paths.”Flanking the other side of her paintings is a large spray-painted canvas by TopBear. In 2022, Young and TopBear painted a mural together in Young's hometown of Fort Yates, S.D.“I really gravitate towards Thomasina's work,” Young says. “She does a lot of nature-inspired work: Flowers, the prairie and the plant helpers, as I call them, like insects and bugs, things that I really enjoy myself.”In another room, three paintings by St. Paul figurative painter and muralist Steven Premo, of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, hang facing three surrealist and spiritual paintings by fellow Ojibwe artist Joe Geshick, who died in 2009. Premo is the husband of Child, and was a good friend of Geshick, she says. Premo inherited Geshick's easel, which Child says will be on display with a list of artists who have died in recent years. Another Minnesota Native author, Louise Erdrich, will be speaking about Geshick's art at the gallery on Feb. 4.“Each of these individuals takes their place in a lineage of Indigenous painters that stretches back centuries,” Oransky, the gallery director and curator writes in his essay, “A Vast Field of Feathers,” for the exhibition catalog. He also points to the Jeffers Petroglyphs, the 7,000-year-old sacred rock carvings Native people made in southwestern Minnesota.“This exhibition of paintings, like all the exhibitions that came before it and will come after it, beautifully and forcefully demonstrates that the need for drawn and painted images is a universal need,” Oransky writes.At the end of a gallery tour, Child pauses again, pondering the timing of the exhibition. The pandemic set back its original opening date years.“We need to show American Indian art every year and all the time,” Child says. ”But thinking as I do, as a historian, I've been thinking about the anniversary of American Indian citizenship in the United States 100 years ago.”President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act on June 2, 1924. Morrison, Howe and DesJarlait were all born years before they were legal citizens of the U.S.They were working in a different era, Child says. “And that's why I particularly wanted to include these figures like Oscar Howe, Patrick Desjarlait and George Morrison in the exhibit.” There will be “Dreaming Our Futures: Art and American Indian Citizenship, 1924 – 2024” panel discussions Feb. 2 at the Regis Center for Art.“Dreaming Our Futures” runs through March 16. The opening reception is Feb. 3 at the Regis Center for Art. Speakers include Child, Erdrich, Wilson, Minnesota Museum of Art executive director Kate Beane and Harvard professor Christopher Pexa.On Feb. 15, Patricia Marroquin Norby, the inaugural associate curator of Native American art at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, will read her catalog essay “Painting Medicine: George Morrison's Big Water Magic.”On March 14, artist Fern Cloud will present “The Spirit of My People: Traditional Dakota Hide Painting.”

This very special episode of Broken Boxes Podcast marked our first ever conversation in front of a live studio audience. Recurring host Cannupa Hanska Luger was joined by Matika Wilbur and Andrea Carlon on October 28th 2023 as part of the University of Michigan Museum of Art's Memory & Monuments program. The artist's drew from a hat of pre-considered topics to speak to and expand upon, including: Ancestral trade routes or sharing knowledge within a cultural continuum such as how culture, language and goods traveled precontact; Indigenous memory in relation to the American Myth; Recognition of Indigenous complexity; Indigenous futures including shared histories and futures; and Institutional critique or a generative airing of problematic power structures impact on Native people. Broken Boxes would like to thank UMMA staff and curators and Monument Lab for being present for this generative and complex conversation to take place. We would like to especially thank the students of the Native American Student Association at the University of Michigan, who welcomed Broken Boxes and the artists and helped make this live audience recording a wonderful experience. More about the artists: Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) is one of the nation's leading photographers, based in the Pacific Northwest. She earned her BFA from Brooks Institute of Photography where she double majored in Advertising and Digital Imaging. Her most recent endeavor, Project 562, has brought Matika to over 300 tribal nations dispersed throughout 40 U.S. states where she has taken thousands of portraits, and collected hundreds of contemporary narratives from the breadth of Indian Country all in the pursuit of one goal: To Change The Way We See Native America. Andrea Carlson is a visual artist who maintains a studio practice in northern Minnesota. Carlson works primarily on paper, creating painted and drawn surfaces with many mediums. Her work addresses land and institutional spaces, decolonization narratives, and assimilation metaphors in film. Her work has been acquired by institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Denver Art Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada. Carlson was a recipient of a 2008 McKnight Fellow, a 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors award, a 2021 Chicago Artadia Award, and a 2022 United States Artists Fellowship. Carlson is a co-founder of the Center for Native Futures in Chicago. Multidisciplinary artist Cannupa Hanska Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara), and Lakota. Through monumental installations and social collaborations that reflect a deep engagement and respect for materials, the environment, and community, Luger activates speculative fiction and communicates stories about 21st century Indigeneity. Luger is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, recipient of the 2021 United States Artists Fellowship Award for Craft, and was named a Grist 50 Fixer for 2021, a list that includes emerging leaders in climate, sustainability, and equity from across the nation. Music featured: Move, I'm Indigenous by Uyarakq BBP intro track by India Sky

Get ready to join me, your host Cray Bauxmont Flynn, as I engage in an enlightening discussion with the multifaceted artist Debra Yepa Pappan. Debra opens up about her dual heritage, being Korean and Hamis Pueblo, and the immense impact it has had on her art. Her artwork serves as a mirror to her identity, drawing heavily from her personal experiences, her pride in being a mother, and her rich cultural background. We also delve into how her urban upbringing in Chicago influences her work and how her art connects her to her culture.Our conversation takes an exciting turn as we explore the journey Debra embarked on to establish her dream project, the Center for Native Futures. Discover the struggles, challenges, and the triumphant moments she faced while turning her vision into a reality. We touch on the significance of financial resources, collaborations, and partnerships with organizations and funders. We also shed light on the influential roles of Monica Rickard Bolter, Andrea Carlson, Patrick Del Percio, River Kirstetter, and Heather Miller in the construction of the Center for Native Futures.Finally, listen in as Debra shares her experiences as the Native Community Engagement Coordinator at the Field Museum. Learn how her role is facilitating accessibility to the Native community, and how she ensures accurate representation of Native people throughout the museum. We also touch upon the Art Native Truths exhibit, a captivating showcase currently on display at the Field Museum. So, don't miss out on this intriguing episode as we conclude with Debra expressing her gratitude for the support she has received and her excitement for the future of the Center for Native Futures.

In early 2022, Jim Denomie, the internationally acclaimed painter, was in the thick of planning a mid-career exhibition with the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Then, cancer struck. Denomie died two weeks after his diagnosis. He was 66.That exhibition, “The Lyrical Artwork of Jim Denomie,” opened this summer, transformed into a posthumous survey of the latter half of the famous colorist's career — a career that skewered mainstream histories and purveyors of injustice, from Fort Snelling to Standing Rock, while championing the joy and resilience of Native communities.“It's a very bittersweet exhibition,” says Nicole Soukup, an assistant curator of contemporary art at Mia. Soukup had been planning the show closely with Denomie since 2019, up until the Ojibwe artist's death in 2022.“He was so beloved, not only in Minneapolis and St. Paul and Minnesota, but across the country and across the world. Words fail when you talk about somebody with such kindness and generosity and such a clear vision as an artist, and my words have failed me quite a bit in creating this exhibition,” she adds.Truth-tellerSoukup and Denomie's community say that the exhibition is just the beginning of building a legacy. As is the Jim Denomie Memorial Scholarship, created to help rising Native artists who embody what Denomie valued: truth and community.“I hope that he continues to inspire artists to do work that also speaks to what's going on in the world — artists as truth-tellers,” says author Diane Wilson, Denomie's wife of several decades. “That's a lot of what Jim was doing — speaking truth, both historically and in the present, about what has happened to and within Native communities, and that I hope will continue. I hope that's his legacy”At the entry of the exhibition, a 2016 video interview with Denomie loops.“My art reflects my identity and experience as a contemporary Native American male in the 21st century,” he says. Soukup says it was important to include Denomie's voice first. To allow Denomie to define himself, his art, in his own terms.“And also it reflects some of the government campaigns that affected Native culture in Minnesota and around the country to how it ultimately affected me through the assimilation campaign and the Relocation Act,” Denomie continues in the video. “And all of these issues defined or shaped my identity, and it's my identity that shapes my art." Todd Bockley, of the Minneapolis gallery that represents Denomie, says the artist brought to light difficult histories that many would prefer to keep hidden.“He was both humble and courageous to create and make public his interpretations of significant historical events of the past and present while also depicting his innermost thoughts and fantasies,” Bockley said.Denomie's artSoukup walks the galleries, surrounded by Denomie's paintings and totem-like sculptures. There are dreamy paintings of him and Wilson relaxing on a couch; of sensual landscapes with anthropomorphized animals on horseback; of spirituality and sexuality; as well as sculptures made from found objects — shells and plastic thingamabobs, feathers, buttons and bones.In his most iconoclastic paintings, Denomie, like the 15th-century artist Hieronymus Bosch, packs characters into every inch, collapsing time by pulling them from history, pop culture and current events. Several make repeat appearances: blue bunnies, a recurring motif that Denomie called “protectors,” the Dakota 38+2, American Indian Movement activists, “Wizard of Oz” characters, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, the Mona Lisa and figures representing Minneapolis police officers infamous for abusing two Native men with “rough rides” in the early 90s.All of his paintings swirl with his signature palette: violet, indigo, fuschia, turquoise, lime green, mustard yellow. The vibrant colors disarm, inviting in tough stories like a rainbow Trojan horse. These are Denomie's correctives to the historical record. Soukup and others have said Denomie paints the “ancestral present.”“These are paintings that you laugh at, and you also want to cry, you don't know which way you should react to it, but you're probably going to react both ways,” Soukup said.Take “Eminent Domain,” a 10-foot-wide canvas with a sort of pictographic map of the U.S.“Flying high above the scene in the sky, we have an eagle carrying away a dachshund and right next to them, you see Evel Knievel jumping his bike across the church,” Soukup says. “But directly below that you see depictions of sexual abuse by boarding schools and the Catholic Church; you see a depiction of the Ghost Dance from Wounded Knee and the reality of Wounded Knee, both in the 19th century and in the 1970s.”Across from it hangs “A Beautiful Hero, Woody Keeble.” Denomie has depicted, on horseback in a mountain range, the World War II and Korean War veteran Woodrow Wilson Keeble of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate. Taking fire at him are anthropomorphized birds and dogs with machine guns, while blue rabbits dot the snow-covered slopes. “The works in this room are centered around the theme of a beautiful hero and who determines a hero?” Soukup explains. “The question is who gets to write about history, who gets to learn about history, and what can we learn from questioning our sources about history? That is something that Jim did from the moment he started painting.”A righteous angerDenomie was an enrolled member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band. Born in Hayward, Wis., he grew up in south Minneapolis. In many interviews and talks, he recalls how he knew he wanted to be an artist since he was a little kid, but he dropped out of high school when a counselor discouraged him from pursuing art. For decades, he did drywall and fell into a life of what he called “partying and addiction.” He returned to art in the 1990s, as well as American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota.“I went back to drywall, but it became a vehicle that allowed me to paint what I wanted to paint and not necessarily what I needed to sell,” Denomie says in the video. “And so I was able to develop more challenging, more witty, political, social commentary, which is probably what I'm most known for today.”He went on to paint with what Wilson calls a righteous anger, rooted in the government's treatment of Native people. This included his own family — his grandparents were taken and placed in Native boarding schools. When Jim was sick with cancer the first time, Wilson, their son, and some friends went to the pipeline protests at Standing Rock in South Dakota. Their son, she says, stayed for months, sending home stories to Denomie about the violent treatment of nonviolent activists. Denomie turned these stories into a series of paintings on Standing Rock, depicting ferocious dogs and fire hoses used on protesters in the dead of winter.In his paintings, that righteous anger mixed with wit and whimsy to create what Denomie called a “metaphorical realism.”  Put another way, his friend, the poet Heid E. Erdrich, wrote in the exhibition catalog that Denomie employed a “postmodern Anishinaabe mapping of events.”But Denomie's legacy isn't only in his art, says Soukup.“His legacy is going to be a lot of things, and things that we won't even know about, because we're only 16 months after his passing,” Soukup says. “But hand in hand with all of it is mentorship and care for community, friends, family. The amount of people who have stories, the amount of people who Jim gave undivided attention to, is profound.”Another longtime friend, mentee and fellow Ojibwe artist Andrea Carlson, agrees. She calls him her “art dad.” They first met when Carlson was an MFA student in the early 2000s and he visited her studio.“I didn't know what I was doing, but he was like, ‘Keep doing it,'” says Carlson, who is now based in Grand Marais, Minn. “I feel like I need to do that for other artists now, kind of take the Jim Denomie mandate, and apply it to other artists that are just starting out, because I needed that.”The two would go on to exhibit together at Mia in the 2007 “New Skins” show. And a few of Carlson's paintings are currently on display at Mia, just around the corner from Denomie's show.Leaving a voidDenomie's work held a particular place for Indigenous viewers.“Jim was always saving the last laugh for Native people,” Carlson says. “We have these very hard histories, but he wasn't going to just replay the hard histories, he was going to reserve healing and joy for Native people in his work.”Like Carlson, textile artist Maggie Thompson recalls always seeing Denomie show up at exhibition openings, whether the artist was just starting out or established.“I think because of his position in the art world, it was just like really cool to see him show up regardless of who or where,” Thompson says.Thompson is Ojibwe from the Fond du Lac Band and is based in Minneapolis. She was recently awarded the 2023 Jim Denomie Memorial Scholarship, an award that was created soon after his passing by the Denomie and Wilson Family, and the Minneapolis-based All My Relations Arts, the Native American Community Development Institute, and Bockley Gallery.Thompson is the second to receive the $10,000 award, after the 2022 inaugural recipient, Duluth artist Jonathan Thunder. She says the award has given her a boost at a moment when she was struggling, both emotionally and financially.“I was feeling a little lost and a little defeated,” Thompson said. “So I felt like receiving the award kind of gave me the motivation and gave me a reminder of why I do what I do.”Like Denomie, Thompson has demonstrated great commitment to the community. She mentors and employs young artists, both Native and non-Native, and even toured the Denomie exhibition with them. Thompson also often offers her northeast Minneapolis studio for community events.“I think art can be an important vehicle to keep that momentum and that engagement and give people another place to feel at home and welcome,” she says.What's left behindDiane Wilson says his community was shocked at Denomie's quick passing, which sparked the scholarship.“There was just this outpouring of ‘What can we do? How can we help?'” Wilson says. “That's why we set up that scholarship, because people needed to do something, so they poured their grief into donations.”In the wooded hills of Shafer, Minn., Wilson walks the grounds of the home and studios she long shared with Denomie.She points to a line of old carousel horses lying in tall grass.“He had this idea that eventually he was going to do an installation because he had flying horses in a lot of his paintings,” Wilson says.Behind them is a cut tree stump on a sawhorse.“That was going to be a next sculpture,” Wilson says. “He got sick so suddenly, that it's like he just left in the middle of a lot of projects.”Denomie's studio above their garage has remained much the same since his death, save for some paintings and drawings that were removed for the exhibition and archiving. Every surface is covered with materials and inspirations, from photos of friends and globs of paint to figurines of the California Raisins and the masks he collected from around the world.Wilson recalls coming up here from her writing studio next door. Music would be blasting — he always had his 60-CD player going while he worked, she says — and they would dance and joke around.“I wish he was here, But now that some time has passed I'm thinking about, well, how can we continue his legacy?” Wilson says. “I've been thinking about his space. It'd be nice to have creative energy in here again.”Wilson sits in their living room, beneath one of his paintings hanging over the fireplace. She says there will also be more exhibitions to follow — a group show at the University of Minnesota Nash Gallery in early 2024, and Wilson and others are planning another for his recent painting series of the Dakota 38+2 — some of his “best work,” she says.In the meantime, Wilson wants to return to the Mia exhibition, which she finds “poignant” because “he got to choose what people would see.”“What lingers really of his spirit in this plane is in his artwork. So when you see Jim's paintings, that's still where he resides,” Wilson says.“The Lyrical Art of Jim Denomie” is on view through March 2024. 

Today's Pet Game Changer is Dr. Andrea Carlson, owner of Southlake Animal Hospital in Merrillville, IN, which offers integrative veterinary medicine with a focus on healing the whole pet through good nutrition, a great immune system, and a combination of traditional and holistic therapies.

Sharing History for the Future: A Convening with Jaune Quick-to-See Smith The Whitney Museum of American Art Friday, May 19, 2023 11 am-8pm In celebration of Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith: Memory Map, a major retrospective surveying five decades of the groundbreaking artist's work, this convening gathers an intergenerational group of Native American artists, curators, and scholars for conversations about the ongoing and overarching concerns in Smith's work, including land, sovereignty, and Indigenous knowledge and identity. The program takes inspiration from Smith's work as an artist and as an educator and curator by bringing together many communities that she has been in dialogue with throughout her career. AGENDA Welcome Education Curating Aesthetics Closing Reading More Info: https://whitney.org/events/convening-jqtss

The 2nd annual Minka Summit Event will be held in Aichi on April 21-23 at the Aichi Prefectural Citizens' Forest in Shinishiro. #minkasummit #japan #rural #japanesehouse #oldhouserenovation In this talk, Stuart Galbraith IV, Lauren Scharf, and Andrea Carlson join Seek Sustainable Japan talkshow to give us an overview of the speakers and schedule of events over the 3-day summit.* Make sure to buy your tickets for the event in advance to reserve your place (only ¥5000 for 3-days): https://minkasummit2023.peatix.com/About Kominka Japan- from the Kominka Japan Website:Kominka Japan is non-profit organization (application-pending) whose aim is to raise awareness and appreciation for traditional Japanese architecture throughout Japan and around the world. Website: https://kominkajapan.org/

Anya has a joyous, hilarious and heartfelt conversation with Michelin-starred chef Andrea Carlson, chef and instructor Hamid Salimian, and food writer and judge Joie Alvaro Kent about the hospitality industry and an upcoming event that supports Canadian chefs, athletes and musicians. It just might be the coolest kitchen party you've ever been to.

In today's Pet Game Changer interview Dr. Becker talks with Dr. Andrea Carlson, owner of Southlake Animal Hospital in Merrillville, IN, which offers integrative veterinary medicine with a focus on healing the whole pet through good nutrition, a great immune system, and a combination of traditional and holistic therapies.

Today is Indigenous People's Day. However, this week also marks the 122nd anniversary of the day a group of white folks burned down a village on the northern tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, violently forcing the Cheboiganing Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians to flee for their lives. A memorial at the University of Michigan Museum of Art commemorates the homes that were lost that day at Burt Lake. Directly across from the memorial wall, two paintings depict portals into an imagined future - one where Indigenous land is reclaimed.  Andrea Carlson is the Ojibwe artist behind “Future Cache,” which will be on display at UMMA through June 2024. She joined the show to share her experience in implementing decolonization with institutions that so often fail to acknowledge Indigenous lives. GUEST: Andrea Carlson, painter of "Future Cache" from the Turtle Clan, descended from Grand Portage Ojibwe ___ Looking for more conversations from Stateside? Right this way. If you like what you hear on the pod, consider supporting our work. Music in this episode by Blue Dot Sessions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andrea Carlson, PhD, works in the International Relations Department at Aichi Prefectural University and is involved in not-for-profit groups that are working to protect kominka and revitalize rural communities. #traditionaljapanesehouses #kominka #andreacarlson Andrea is the representative of the Japan Kominka Association's US Office and the Kominka Forum, the group's international events arm, and is a member of the Kominka Japan Board. She also supports the work of the Kominka Collective and Toda Komuten, for profit organizations which aim to protect old houses by making owning and restoring kominka more straightforward for Japan's multicultural community and people living overseas. Andrea has a background in Social Psychology and organizes workshops and other events related to mental health support for young people with diverse backgrounds in Japan. In the future she hopes to restore kominka in rural areas as places to hold retreats for children and young people from LGBTQ+ and other marginalized communities. The Japan Kominka Association's US Office (Representative) https://kominka-us.com (https://kominka-us.com) The Kominka Forum (Representative) https://www.kominkaforum.com (https://www.kominkaforum.com) Kominka Japan (Board member) https://kominkajapan.org (https://kominkajapan.org) The Connections Forum (Lead Organizer) https://www.multiculturaljapan.com (https://www.multiculturaljapan.com) ** About JJWalsh - InboundAmbassador ** Seek Sustainable Japan talkshow-podcast is LIVE every week: talks with "Good People Doing Great Things" to inspire ideas for your work, life and travel in Japan and beyond. JOIN on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbjRdeieOLGes008y_I9y5Q/join Please Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/JJWalshInboundAmbassador?sub_confirmation=1 Listen to the SeekingSustainability LIVE Talkshow on Podcast [AUDIO] http://www.inboundambassador.com/ssl-podcasts/ ALL Talks in Seek Sustainable Japan (April 2020~) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcyYXjRuE20GsvS0rEOgSiQVAyKbEFSRP JJWalsh Official InboundAmbassador Websites: https://www.inboundambassador.com/ https://www.seeksustainablejapan.com Please join, become a monthly sponsor or a 1-time donation supporter on YouTube / Patreon / BuyMeACoffee / or KoFi - every little bit helps keep Seek Sustainable Japan going, thank you! Joy is also doing regular walking tours around Hiroshima and other parts of Japan on HeyGo - free to join and tip if you like it! All Links: https://linktr.ee/jjwalsh (https://linktr.ee/jjwalsh) ** Get in Touch!! ** Doing something great in Japan or beyond with a connection to Japan? Or know someone who would be great to interview? Please get in touch! I'd love to hear from you! ~~~ Music by Hana Victoria Music rights to "Won't you See" purchased for Seek Sustainable Japan 2022 Hana Victoria Short Bio My name is Hana Victoria, and I am a Japanese-American singer songwriter who dreams of inspiring, encouraging and empowering others through my music. Every word, melody, and visual comes straight from my heart, and I hope they influence you in some positive way :) YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/HanaVictoria (https://www.youtube.com/c/HanaVictoria) INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/hanavictoria_cozycorner/ (https://www.instagram.com/hanavictoria_cozycorner/) SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3CHm2w1lJWuiu9txD1wYyq?si=oF7shMElTiid46ZZerCbIg (https://open.spotify.com/artist/3CHm2w1lJWuiu9txD1wYyq?si=oF7shMElTiid46ZZerCbIg) APPLE MUSIC: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/hana-victoria/1550597954 (https://music.apple.com/us/artist/hana-victoria/1550597954)

Happy Golden Week Everyone! In this episode of Short-Takes: May14 Event | Craft Beer Paper | Circular Yokohama | Ekolokal Events | Seek Sustainable Japan Talks | Book: Japan the Sustainable Society by John Lie Great Seek Sustainable Japan talkshow Updates: Talks about Minka with Ed Stathum (5/5) and Andrea Carlson (5/6 5pm). Talks next week with Stefan Le Du (5/10 5pm) about his Codo Advisory- Low Carbon Solutions Consulting in Fukuoka, Dr.Meng Qu (5/11 1pm) about his Island Revitalization Documentary Films and projects at Hiroshima University, Simona Zollet (5/12 9am) - one of the speakers in Hiroshima's Women to Inspire a Sustainable Japan event- about her Island Newcomer Tour documentary and rural area new possibilities. == Women to Inspire a Sustainable Japan - May 14th == Join us in person in Hiroshima, Tokyo (or online). Find out more about the 5/14/2022 Event: https://sites.google.com/globalperspectives.biz/wisj/home TICKETS Tokyo: https://wisj-tokyo.peatix.com/ TICKETS Hiroshima: https://peatix.com/event/3232757 Seek Sustainable Japan Interviews Mentioned: Ed Statham's Kominka in Nozawa - Nagano : https://youtu.be/Sw0bcd-ZMjU Andrea Carlson Kominka Japan & USA : https://youtu.be/thQqw4iz1lk Satoko & Peo Ekberg of One-World Cafe about Banana Paper: https://youtu.be/4Kpq40VUxvY Ekolokal Founders talk: https://youtu.be/1FzvIlFKf64 Kasamatsu Farms (Byron & Kaori) May Event: https://www.instagram.com/kasamatsufarms/ Byron & Kaori of Kasamatsu Farms talk: https://youtu.be/6wfcRhIsSdM #sustainableshorttakes #sustainable #sustainability #sdgs #japan #womenempowered #womenentrepreneurs #womenleaders #sustainablebusiness #sustainablebrand About Tove Kinooka - Global Perspectives KK http://www.globalperspectives.biz/ ~~~~ About the Seek-Sustainable-Japan Host, JJWalsh JJWalsh is the founder of Inbound Ambassador - a Hiroshima-based sustainability-focused consultancy, strategy, advising & content creation business. JJ is the producer, host, editor and marketer of Seek Sustainable Japan (previously Seeking Sustainability Live) talkshow & podcast - interviews with "Good People doing Great Things to keep People-Planet-Profit in balance." https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbjNoTTFPQ19rakltdldVN3ZaeVhSbGVjTU9OUXxBQ3Jtc0tsanVfVUZpeEkweTAtRGhESUhqNFhETHdUQ1lOQmRTdFNERi1ER0dVSkxzbTEzaGx1UzB4REMwNklkSzUxS09mSHdPYTJxaXRkdXBtdm5zeGVVeEFPUXJOQ0ZFdmZsVVB0WGFlQ1lJcE4tUlhGZkozVQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.inboundambassador.com&v=xnKGZAeDMvI (https://www.inboundambassador.com) | https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbGxvMU9QVWExQ3pYMVVEYjFOaVVoM243MElxUXxBQ3Jtc0ttdHM2R0ItNUE0cUZtcmpsWldDLW9OdTNqRGkwb05wbmFBOHBXVzRHcXNJZDJhdmVTNVFGX2RQTUdlR1FfNHJISHVXTHpxQXAwdEgtQ0lDay1DSi05MnhaWWxhZjYwdU9JMGZVYkxuTUttal9adUJrYw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.SeekSustainableJapan.com&v=xnKGZAeDMvI (https://www.SeekSustainableJapan.com) All Links for JJWalsh: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa21IdWd4Qzg4MmNkTHZxbENFTUd3eFBmcFFXd3xBQ3Jtc0tubV8tVjlaa215bFh3MF95ZS1qeExVUWVRdTlSVDc2M3Mxa2FvRkk1TGV3R2Q1bnRiczZzN3ZOazZ1RG1CQ2VrRWtybWlyZUdrcER6dFhHMFhYSTg2bU02dFFrVlp5NXQ0Qnc0MDYzUmVLczc0Zi1DZw&q=https%3A%2F%2Flinktr.ee%2Fjjwalsh&v=xnKGZAeDMvI (https://linktr.ee/jjwalsh) ~~~ Listen to the SeekingSustainability LIVE Talkshow on Podcast [AUDIO] http://www.inboundambassador.com/ssl-podcasts/ (http://www.inboundambassador.com/ssl-podcasts/) ALL Talks in Seek Sustainable Japan (April 2020~) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcyYXjRuE20GsvS0rEOgSiQVAyKbEFSRP (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcyYXjRuE20GsvS0rEOgSiQVAyKbEFSRP) JJWalsh Official InboundAmbassador Website: https://www.inboundambassador.com/ (https://www.inboundambassador.com/) Please join, become a monthly sponsor or a 1-time donation supporter on YouTube / Patreon / BuyMeACoffee / or KoFi - every...

We're celebrating Black History Month, so in this special Inclusion-Forward episode of the Small Business Matters podcast, our first segment focuses on generational entrepreneurship — the idea of following in your family's footsteps by going into business for yourself. Keewa Nurullah owns kids' boutique Kido in Chicago, Illinois. She's a fourth-generation entrepreneur and a direct descendant of a Black Wall Street Business Owner from Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she's been featured by CNN and NBC. She was also recently named Black Entrepreneur of the Year for 2021, an award presented by Officially Black Wall street, Clover, and Snapchat. She shares what it's like extending a family legacy in Chicago as a successful business owner. In our second segment we sit down with Andrea Carlson from  Farmers and Merchants Bank in Long Beach, California to discuss the success of their successful small business grant program, and to hear from the businesses they are helping.   

I want to introduce you to Andrea Carlson. She’s a citizen of the Grand Portage Ojibwe, and is a painter & screen printer based in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota, though currently lives in Chicago Illinois. She received her bachelor of arts at the University of Minnesota in 2003 and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2005. I think what makes Andrea so interesting is her ability to address the relationships of Indigenous artists and museums. She recognizes and addresses the historic problems that institutions like museums with their colonial roots and their detrimental effects on Indigenous people, but also how Indigenous artists are now taking control of the narrative and reshaping the art landscape. She also talks about the concept of Indigenous Futurism, which I find so absolutely incredible. You can find a link to her current works and representation at Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Link: http://www.bockleygallery.com/artist_carlson/index.html

This week Chef of the Year, Andrea Carlson discusses Burdock restaurant, Bar Gobo and the growth of Harvest Community Foods; author Luke Whittall joins us from the Okanagan to talk about his latest book, Valleys of Wine; Paul Grunberg, proprietor of Pepino’s, Savio Volpe and Caffe La Tana gives us the lowdown on take-out Italian and we discover a bargain chianti from the CEO of Select Wines.

Check out Andrea's website here.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8D9vjJ7R-cLooking for the perfect gift for the singer or musician in your life? Check out The Private Music Studio and gift your loved one a musical experience they'll remember and benefit from for years to come.Follow us on social media:Instagram: @gretapopeFacebook: The Private Music StudioTwitter:  @gretapope

For the final episode of Season One of Mise-en-Place, chef/host Robert Belcham looks back on the extraordinary Year That Was with the help of some returning guests. They include: from Episode 1, professor Bruce McAdams of the University of Guelph (ONT); Andrea Carlson, the award-winning chef-owner of Vancouver's Burdock & Co.: Todd Perrin, chef-owner of Mallard Cottage in St,Johns (NFLD) and chef Carl Heinrich of Richmond Station in Toronto. Mise-en-Place returns for Season Two in early 2021.

Esteemed poets Heid E. Erdrich and Eric Gansworth join visual artist Andrea Carlson in conversation to celebrate the release of Heid E. Erdrich’s latest, Little Big Bully (Penguin Group, 2020), and Eric Gansworth’s Apple: (skin to the Core) (Levine Querido, 2020), both out on October 6th, 2020. The longtime friends talk procrastination, expectations to act as cultural informants, and much more.Interspersed throughout the discussion are readings from Little Big Bully and Apple: (skin to the Core).**Heid E. Erdrich is the author of seven collections of poetry. Her writing has won fellowships and awards from the National Poetry Series, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, McKnight Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, Bush Foundation, Loft Literary Center, First People’s Fund, and other honors. She has twice won a Minnesota Book Award for poetry. Heid edited the 2018 anthology New Poets of Native Nations from Graywolf Press (2018). Heid grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota and is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain. Eric Gansworth,  Sˑha-weñ na-saeˀ, (Onondaga, Eel Clan) is a writer and visual artist, born and raised at Tuscarora Nation. The author of twelve books, he has been widely published and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions. Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College, he has also been an NEH Distinguished Visiting Professor at Colgate University. Winner of a PEN Oakland Award and American Book Award, he is currently Longlisted for the National Book Award. Gansworth’s work has been also supported by the Library of Congress, the Saltonstall and Lannan Foundations, the Arne Nixon Center, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Seaside Institute. Andrea Carlson is a visual artist currently living in Chicago, Illinois. Through painting and drawing, Carlson cites entangled cultural narratives and institutional authority relating to objects based on the merit of possession and display. Current research activities include Indigenous Futurism and assimilation metaphors in film. Her work has been acquired by institutions such as the British Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada. Carlson was a 2008 McKnight Fellow and a 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors grant recipient. 

Traditional and holistic veterinary care with Dr. Andrea Carlson. Dr. Carson believes in integrative medicine which combines traditional veterinary medicine with holistic veterinary care that allows her to focus on the whole patient and preventing illness. Nutritional counseling and natural allergy treatments are the primary ways she incorporates holistic medicine into our traditional veterinary practice. She is certified thru the CHI institute in Chinese veterinary food therapy, as a veterinary food therapist she uses the energetic properties of food to provide dietary therapy to patients. Her recommendations include store-bought pet foods and home-cooked recipes depending on what works best for you and your family. Additionally, Dr. Carlson is certified in Chinese herbal medicine, which can be used to treat chronic medical conditions and is often used to relieve pain, improve and restore proper organ function, and strengthen the immune system. Additionally, Dr. Carlson has become certified in Veterinary Acupuncture and she is going to school to become certified in Veterinary Medical Manipulation (chiropractic treatment for animals), she is expecting to be certified in Spring 2020. One day, Dr. Carlson hopes to build a training and rehabilitation center on the property behind Southlake Animal Hospital. The facility would include underwater treadmills, allowing pets to recover from surgical procedures with targeted and efficient physical therapy. Currently, Dr. Carlson and her husband live in Valparaiso with her four Bernese Mountain Dogs- Ayla, Rio, River, and Pepina; as well as, three cats, Honey Badger, Heathcliff, and Toops. All of their cats were rescued. Dr. Carlson has had multiple cockatiels, guinea pigs, rabbits, lizards, fish, and even a rooster!

Dyani White Hawk earned her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2008. She’s a recipient of the 2019 United States Artists Fellowship inVisual Art, 2018 Nancy Graves grant for Visual Artists among many other grants and fellowships. Most notibily, she recently received the Star Tribune’s 2019 Artists of the Year, in which she shares this recognition with five other Indigenous artists in Minnesota. A powerful lineup that includes: Julie Buffalohead, Andrea Carlson, Heid E. Erdrich, Louise Erdrich, and Delina White. What makes Dyani so interesting and worth listening to is her disciplined approach to intentional planning and mapping of her path. A powerful lesson young artists need to listen to.

For the final episode of Season 2, I'm joined by my mentor and friend Chef Andrea Carlson for a talk about her incredible new book. Detailed show notes for today’s episode are at the Cheftimony website.

How can you, the customer, improve your experience at a restaurant? One of the best ways I know is to become a regular at the places you love. In Episode 007, I speak to four regulars at the Vancouver restaurant closest to my heart, Chef Andrea Carlson's Burdock & Co. This episode is also my chance to say Happy 10th Anniversary to Chef as we mark a decade of cooking and laughing together. Detailed show notes are at the Cheftimony website.  

Chef Andrea Carlson will always be Chef with a capital “C” for me. Andrea gave me my start in the Vancouver culinary scene in 2008, and I seek her mentorship to this day. How else could I start the Cheftimony podcast but by talking to Chef Carlson? On Episode 001, I also speak with my friend Mark Tweedy, a Vancouver food enthusiast who balanced his love for restaurants with his work as a courtroom litigator for more than 30 years. Detailed show notes are at the Cheftimony website. 

Chef Andrea Carlson will always be Chef with a capital “C” for me. Andrea gave me my start in the Vancouver culinary scene in 2008, and I seek her mentorship to this day. How else could I start the Cheftimony podcast but by talking to Chef Carlson? On Episode 001, I also speak with my friend Mark Tweedy, a Vancouver food enthusiast who balanced his love for restaurants with his work as a courtroom litigator for more than 30 years. Detailed show notes for this episode are at the Cheftimony website.    

How can you , the customer, improve your experience at a restaurant? One of the best ways I know is to become a regular at the places you love. In Episode 007, I speak to four regulars at the Vancouver restaurant closest to my heart, Chef Andrea Carlson’s Burdock & Co. This episode is also my chance to say Happy 10th Anniversary to Chef as we mark a decade of cooking and laughing together. Detailed show notes for this episode are at the Cheftimony website.    

Congregation update by Pastor Rice and Blayne Watts, Psalm 23 read by Leah Moore, the Goapel reading by Andrea Carlson, and the sermon by Pastor Rice.

Singer and guitarist Andrea Carlson stops by with a preview performance ahead of her appearance at Germano’s Piattini tonight

Andrea CarlsonAndrea burst onto the Delaware Valley music scene in 2009, with her first award winning composition, "Cryin'". She followed with her first completely original CD, featuring another prize winner, "Mysterious Moon", and most recently by this year's CD "Love Can Be So Nice", showcasing standards and originals in English and French. For the past three summers, Andrea has gone on the road in Europe, playing a dozen countries and headlining at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Andrea CarlsonAndrea burst onto the Delaware Valley music scene in 2009, with her first award winning composition, "Cryin'". She followed with her first completely original CD, featuring another prize winner, "Mysterious Moon", and most recently by this year's CD "Love Can Be So Nice", showcasing standards and originals in English and French. For the past three summers, Andrea has gone on the road in Europe, playing a dozen countries and headlining at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.Her voice is sultry, sweet, and playful, infusing the music with elements of earthy blues, retro jazz, and romantic swing. Her guitar is classical, adding elegance and intimacy. And Andrea's repertoire is a mix of standards and originals in the vein of the Great American Songbook and Parisian Chanson; audiences and critics rave about her performances around the USA and in Europe.Although Andrea was born in Tennessee, her family moved to California, and Texas, then settled in Illinois. Still in high school, she began singing jazz professionally in small groups and with a big band. Performances then included opening for the great James Brown! She earned her degree in Classical Guitar at the Columbia Conservatory, before she left Chicago - first for Memphis and then the east coast. Today, she can often be heard with her Love Police, in the greater Philadelphia and mid-Atlantic region. Click here to view all the videos from her Podcast