Podcasts about blanton museum

The ALL NEW Big Wakeup Call with Ryan Gatenby

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2023 76:44

Natalie Frank was born in Austin, TX and received her Master of Fine Arts in 2006 from Columbia University, New York, NY and her Bachelor of Arts in 2002 from Yale University, New Haven, CT. In 2004, Frank was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo, Norway. Natalie has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; Salon 94, New York, NY; Lyles & King, New York, NY; Half Gallery, New York, NY; Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY; ACME., Los Angeles, CA; Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and The Drawing Center, New York, NY. She has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, VT; The Corcoran, Washington, D.C.; FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; London Museum of Design, London, United Kingdom; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; National Academy Museum, New York, NY; New York Academy of Art, New York, NY; Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, among others. Her work may be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; The Bunker, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Palm Beach, FL; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, and elsewhere.

Kathy Valentine

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2023 6:46

From April 2, 2020: Go-Go's bassist Kathy Valentine visited the show to promote her memoir, All I Ever Wanted.KATHY VALENTINE BIO Kathy Valentine is a well known musician and songwriter. She has toured nationally and internationally, recorded both major and indie self-produced records, and written or co-written countless songs, including the hit singles "Vacation" and "Head Over Heels" with the Go-Go's, the band she joined at age 22, with whom she made music history.She has recently entered into public speaking engagements, giving thoughtful and lively keynote speeches for The American Heart Association's Women's Circle of Red annual summit and for the Musicians for Equal Opportunities for Women Music conference, as well as speaking on music business panels and giving educational talks to high school students and adult classes.As a musical director, she orchestrated and organized an all-star all-woman band to kick-off the Seattle's Experience Music Project Museum "Women In Rock" exhibit, and has worked with the Grammy's Musician's Assistance Program, Austin's Blanton Museum of Art, and ASCAP's Songwriting Expo to perform and implement music entertainment for a variety of events.Kathy is a frequent contributor to "The Talkhouse," writing about newly released music in a deeply personal and entertaining fashion. She lives in Austin, Texas with her daughter where she enjoys playing guitar in her "Texas-garage-glam" band the BlueBonnets, serving as mentor and producer for aspiring female artists, writing a book and a screenplay, and working on her college degree in Fine Arts/English.

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Alexandra Grant

The Modern Art Notes Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2023

Alexandra Grant is a Los Angeles-based artist who through an exploration of the use of text and language in various media—painting, drawing, sculpture, film, and photography—probes ideas of translation, identity, dis/location, and social responsibility. Grant frequently collaborates with other artists, writers, and philosophers, often going so far as to have specific texts written as the impetus to her intricate paintings and sculptures. She has collaborated with author Michael Joyce, actor Keanu Reeves, artist Channing Hansen, and the philosopher Hélène Cixous, amongst others. Alexandra has exhibited widely at galleries including Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Lelong, New York City; Galerie Gradiva, Paris; and Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York City; and at institutions such as Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA; The Broad Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been written about in the Los Angeles Times, White Hot Magazine, Frieze, Art in America, and Artforum amongst others. Awards include the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her works are included in museum collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA; and the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX. She is the creator of the grantLOVE project, which has raised funds for arts-based non-profits including; Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), Project Angel Food, Art of Elysium, 18th Street Arts Center, and LAXART. In 2017, Grant cofounded X Artists' Books, a publishing house for artist-centered books. Publications have included collaborations with Diane di Prima, George Herms, Eve Wood, Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby among others, and are available online and in bookstores throughout Los Angeles, New York, and Paris. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors, Fulcrum Coffee and the New York Studio School. Why I Make Art: Contemporary Artists' Stories About Life & Work: From the Sound & Vision Podcast by Brian Alfred by Atelier Éditions Available here: https://atelier-editions.com/products/why-i-make-art

Juan de Pareja, "Day Jobs"

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2023 69:54

Episode No. 599 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators David Pullins and Veronica Roberts. With Vanessa K. Valdés, Pullins is the co-curator of "Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The exhibition is the first examination of the life and oeuvre of Pareja, who was enslaved in Velázquez's studio before developing his own independent practice. The Met's exhibition features works by Velázquez and Pareja, as well as examinations of how Spanish painters presented Black and Morisco populations. It is on view through July 16. A superb exhibition catalogue was published by the Met. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for about $46. Roberts discusses "Day Jobs" at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas. The exhibition explores how artists have taken jobs beyond their studios, and how those jobs have informed their work. "Day Jobs" is on view through July 23.

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Daryl Howard - Printmaker: I Become What I'm Doing

The Unfinished Print

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2023 94:06

Ambition and confidence are two concepts that make an artist. These ideas can take different forms and trajectories, but artists can accomplish anything with talent and a supportive community. In this episode of The Unfinished Print, I speak with one artist who exudes ambition and confidence. Daryl Howard is a mokuhanga printmaker and artist who lives and works in Austin, Texas. What drew me to Daryl's work is her desire to maintain the mokuhanga tradition, putting both body and soul into her mokuhanga. Daryl speaks with me about her evolution as a mokuhanga printmaker, her travels, her community, and her time with Hodaka Yoshida. Please follow The Unfinished Print and my own mokuhanga work on Instagram @andrezadoroznyprints or email me at theunfinishedprint@gmail.com Notes: may contain a hyperlink. Simply click on the highlighted word or phrase. Artists works follow after the note. Pieces are mokuhanga unless otherwise noted. Daryl Howard - website, Instagram Time Of Smoke That Thunders (2022) Sam Houston State University - is a public research university located in Huntsville, Texas, USA. Established in 1879 to educate teachers for Texas public schools, SHSU has evolved into a school which offers subjects in criminal justice, Texas studies, and is known for its athletics. intaglio printing - is a printing method, also called etching, using metal plates such as zinc, and copper, creating “recessed” areas which are printed with ink on the surface of these "recesses.” More info, here. The MET has info, here. lithography - is a printing process which requires a stone or aluminum plate, and was invented in the 18th Century. More info, here from the Tate. serigraphy - is another word for the art of silk screen printing. Silk screen printing can be in on various materials, silk, canvas, paper. Stanley Lea (1930-2017) - was a Texas printmaker and teacher of printmaking at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Texas A&M - established in 1876 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, Texas A&M is a research University in College Station, Texas which has a variety of subjects and programs, more info here. Yokota Airbase, Tōkyō (横田飛行場,) - established in 1940 as Tama Airbase for the Japanese Air Force, converted in 1945 as an American military base used in the Korean War and the Cold War. Dr. Richard Lane (1926-2002) - was a collector of Japanese prints. He was also an author and dealer in Japanese art. Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 1839-1892 (月岡芳年) was a mokuhanga designer who is famous for his prints depicting violence and gore. His work is powerful, colourful, and one of the last vibrant moments of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock prints. More information about Yoshitoshi's life and his copious amount of work can be found, here. Yūten Shami - Fudō Myōō threatening the priest Yūten Shami (1867) shin hanga - is a style of Japanese woodblock printmaking which began during the end of the ukiyo-e period of Japanese printmaking, in the early 20th Century. Focusing on the foreign demand for “traditional” Japanese imagery and motifs such as castles, bridges, famous landscapes, bamboo forests, to name just a few. Shin hanga was born in 1915 by Watanabe Shōzaburō (1885-1962) when he found Austrian artist Frtiz Capelari (1884-1950) and commissioned Capelari to design some prints for Watanabe's feldgling printing house . From there shin-hanga evolved into its own distinct “new” style of Japanese woodblock printing. It lasted as this distinct style until its innevitable decline after the Second World War (1939-1945). Tachikawa, Tōkyō - 立川市 - is a city located in the metropolis of Tōkyō. It had an American military presence until 1977. For some tourist info, you can find it here. surimono (摺物)- are privately commissioned woodblock prints, usually containing specialty techniques such as mica, and blind embossing. Below is Heron and Iris, (ca. 1770's) by Andō Hiroshige (1797-1858). This print is from David Bull's reproduction of that work. You can find more info about that project, here. Kunitachi - 国立市 - is a city located within the metropolis of Tōkyō. Originally a part of the 44 stations Kōshū Kaidō (甲州街道), a road which connected Edo to Kai Prefecture (Yamanashi). Hodaka Yoshida (1926-1995) - was the second son of woodblock printmaker and designer Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950). Hodaka Yoshida's work was abstract, beginning with painting and evolving into printmaking. His inspirations varied as his career continued throughout his life, but Hodaka Yoshida's work generally focused on nature, "primitive" art, Buddhism, the elements, and landscapes. Hodaka Yoshida's print work used woodcut, photo etching, collage, and lithography, collaborating with many of these mediums and making original and fantastic works. Outside of prints Hodaka Yoshida also painted and created sculptures. White House O.J. From My Collection (1980) lithograph Fujio Yoshida (1887-1997) - the wife of Hiroshi Yoshida and the mother of Tōshi Yoshida (1911-1995) and Hodaka Yoshida. Fujio was so much more than a mother and wife. She had a long and storied career as a painter and printmaker. Fujio's work used her travels and personal experiences to make her work. Subjects such as Japan during The Pacific War, abstraction, portraits, landscapes, still life, and nature were some of her themes. Her painting mediums were watercolour and oil. Her print work was designed by her and carved by Fujio. Red Canna (1954) Chizuko Yoshida (1924-2017) - was the wife of painter and printmaker Hodaka Yoshida. Beginning as an abstract painter, Chizuko, after a meeting with sōsaku hanga printmaker Onchi Kōshirō (1891-1955), Chizuko became interested in printmaking. Chizuko enjoyed the abstraction of art, and this was her central theme of expression. Like all Yoshida artists, travel greatly inspired Chizuko's work. She incorporated the colours and flavours of the world into her prints. Butterfly Dance (1985) zinc plate and mokuhanga Ayomi Yoshida - is the daughter of Chizuko and Hodaka Yoshida. She is a visual artist who works in mokuhanga, installations and commercial design. Ayomi's subject matter is colour, lines, water, and shape. She teaches printmaking and art. You can find more info here. Spring Rain (2018) University of Texas at Austin - is a public research university in Austin, Texas, USA. Founded in 1883, the University of Texas at Austin has undergraduate and graduate programs. You can find more information here. Lee Roy Chesney III (1945-2021) - was a printmaker and professor at the Universitty of Texas at Austin. William Kelly Fearing (1918-2011) - was an award winning painter, printmaker, and artist who was professor Emiritus at the University of Texas at Austin. His work focused on landscapes, religious imagery, and the human figure. Abstract Figure in Oil (1947) oil on canvas Ban Hua: Chinese woodblock prints - There is a lot of information regarding Chinese woodblock printing. The history of Chinese woodblock goes back centuries, longer than the Japanese method. Modern Chinese printmaking began after Mao's Cultural Revolution, strongly connected by the writings and work of philosopher, academic, and artist Lu Xun (1881-1936), who established the Modern Woodcut Movement. First, check out the work of the Muban Educational Trust based in England. More info can be found here and here at Artelino; for Lu Xun's history, you can find more information here. Victoria Falls - is a large waterfall located on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe in South Africa. It is also known as Mosi-oa-Tunya or "The Smoke That Thunders" in the Bantu language of Sotho. The falls are 1,708 meters and 108 meters high. Wacom -Wacom - is a Japanese company that began in 1983. It produces intuitive touch screen display tablets. It has offices in the US and Europe. Photoshop - is a raster graphics editor created by Adobe. It allows the user to create and edit images for graphic design, typography, and graphic design. Akua - are water-based pigments used in intaglio, mokuhanga, and monotype. Winsor & Newton - is a British artist supply company, started in 1832, which sells artist materials such as pigments, brushes, paper, etc. You can find more info, here. Guerra & Paint Pigment Corp. - is a brick and mortar store located in Brooklyn, New York that sells artists pigments. More info, here. Dallas Museum of Art - is an art museum established in 1903 and contains art collections from all over the world and from many periods of history. Some of the collections on the DMA are African, American, Asian, European, Contemporary, and Pre-Columbian/Pacific Rim. More info can be found here. Impressionism - is an art movement founded by Claude Monet (1840-1926), Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and other artists in France. The movement was from 1874-1886 and focused on suburban leisure outside Paris. The Impressionist movement launched into the public consciousness in 1874 at the Anonymous Society of Sculptors and Painters and Printmakers exhibition. More information about the Impressionist movement can be found here at The Met. Blanton Museum of Art - founded in 1963 at the University of Texas at Austin. It houses collections of European, modern, contemporary, Latin American, and Western American Art. You can find more information here. Albrecht Dührer (1471-1528) was a painter and author famous for making detailed devotional works with woodcuts. You can find out more from The Met here for more information about his life and work. The Great Wave off Kanagawa - is a woodblock print designed by Katsushika Hokusai in 1831. It is very famous. Pop Wave Orange by Daryl Howard (2021) Bridge In The Rain (After Hiroshige) - was a painting painted by Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) in the style of woodblock print designer Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). baren - is a Japanese word used to describe a flat, round-shaped disc, predominantly used in creating Japanese woodblock prints. It is traditionally made of a cord of various types and a bamboo sheath, although the baren has many variations. Sharpening brushes on shark skin are traditionally used on mokuhanga brushes that were “sharpened” or softening the brushes bristles rubbing up and down on the shark skin. But today, you can use very fine sandpaper made of silicon carbide (dragon skin). Mokuhanga printmaker John Amoss has a beautiful write-up about using shark skin and its uses here. Echizen - is a region in Fukui Prefecture, Japan associated with Japanese paper making. It has a long history of paper making. There are many paper artisans in the area. One famous paper maker is Iwano Ichibei. He is a Living National Treasure in paper making, and the ninth generation of his family still making paper today. You can find more information in English, and in Japanese. kizuki kozo - is a handmade Japanese paper with many uses. Of a moderate weight and cooked with caustic soda. It is widely available. Shōzaburō Watanabe (1885-1962) - was one of the most important print publishers in Japan in the early 20th Century. His business acumen and desire to preserve the ukiyo-e tradition were incredibly influential for the artists and collectors in Japan and those around the world. Watanabe influenced other publishers, but his work in the genre is unparalleled. The shin-hanga (new print) movement is Watanabe's, collecting some of the best printers, carvers and designers to work for him. A great article by The Japan Times in 2022 discusses a touring exhibition of Watanabe's work called Shin Hanga: New Prints of Japan, which can be found here. Itoya - is a stationary store in the Ginza district of Tōkyō. It has been in business for over 100 years. They have stores in Yokohama, in various malls throughout Japan and at Haneda and Narita airports. More info can be found on their web page (Japanese) and their Instagram. Bunpodo - is a stationery store located in the Jinbōchō district of Tōkyō. It was established in 1887 and is considered the first art store in Japan. More info here. Matcha Japan has a walkthrough of the store here. McClains Woodblock Print Supply Co. - based in Portland, Oregon, McClain's is the go-to supplier of woodblock print tools in the United States. Their website can be found here. The Unfinished Print interview with Daniel Jasa of McClain's can be found here. Wood Like Matsumura - is an online and brick and mortar store, for woodblock printmaking, located in Nerima City, Tōkyō. Cocker-Weber - is a brush manufacturing company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It was established in 1892. You can find more information here. Philadelphia Museum of Art - originating with the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, the PMA has over 200,000 pieces of art and objects and is one of the preeminent museums in the US. James A Michener (1907-1997) - a Pulitzer Prize winning writer, scholar and academic who wrote on Japanese prints, amongst many more topics. Mokuhanga Artists Using Laser - many mokuhnaga printmakers today are exploring using laser engraving for their woodblocks rather than hand cutting. Printmakers who use this method are Cal Carlisle, Endi Poskovich, Shinjji Tsuchimochi, and Benjamin Selby. If you know of others, please let me know! Illustrator - is an Adobe product which creates two-dimensional pieces for artists and illustrators. James A McGrath - is an educator and artist who served as Director of Arts for American Schools in Europe; he taught design, painting and poetry at the Institute of American Indian Arts and was the Arts and Humanities Coordinator for the US Department of Defence School in Southeast Asia. He also worked on the Hopi Indian Reservation and returned to the Institute of American Indian Art as dean of the college and Museum Director. He is now retired. You can find some of his work and writings here at The Smithsonian. Hopi Mesa - is the spiritual and physical home of the Hopi tribe in Arizona. It is a group of villages (pueblos) on three mesas. Mesa are flat-topped ridges surrounded by escarpments. More information can be found on Visit Arizona here. National Endowment For The Arts - was established by the US Congress in 1965 and created to fund arts and education in the United States. You can find more information here. Dawson's Springs Museum - is an art museum located in an old bank and was established in 1986 in Dawson's Springs, Kentucky. Karoo Desert - is a semi-desert located in South America and distinguished by the Great Karoo and the Little Karoo. A great article about the Karoo Desert by The Guardian can be found, here Chobe River - also known as the Kwando, is a river which flows from Angola and Namibia. It is known for its wildlife and runs through various National Parks. Kachina - these are the religious beliefs of the Hopi, Zuni, Hopi-Tewa, and Kerasan. It incorporates the supernatural, dancing, and dolls through Ancestor worship. bas relief - is a sculptural technique where figures and designs are carved or moulded onto a flat surface, only slightly raised above the background. Bas relief has been used in art and architecture for thousands of years and is found in various cultures, such as the Egyptians, and Assyrians, during The Rennaisance, until today. Bas relief is used today to decorate buildings, monuments, tombs, and decorative objects such as plaques, medals, and coins. In bas-relief, the figures and designs are typically carved or moulded in shallow relief, with only a few millimetres of depth, creating a subtle, three-dimensional effect that is less dramatic than the more deeply carved high relief. Bas relief can be made from various materials, including stone, wood, metal, and plaster. sepia - is a reddish brown colour. Can be found in various pigments. Duomo di Firenze - is the Florence Cathedral, finished in the 15th Century, using some of the finest architects from Italy. It is associated with the Italian Renaissance. Boston Printmakers - is an organization of international printmakers started in 1947. It holds a Biennial every two years. You can find more information here. The National Gallery of Art - is a free art gallery in Washington D.C. Founded by financier Andrew W. Mellon. The gallery houses more than 150,000 pieces dedicated to education and culture. Construction finished for the West building in 1941. More info can be found here. © Popular Wheat Productions opening and closing musical credit - I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good by The Oscar Peterson Trio (1963) on Verve Records. logo designed and produced by Douglas Batchelor and André Zadorozny Disclaimer: Please do not reproduce or use anything from this podcast without shooting me an email and getting my express written or verbal consent. 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Simone Wicha - Blanton Museum of Art

Fun In Fundraising

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2023 34:25

Simone Wicha is the Director of the Blanton Museum of Art, which is celebrates its 60th anniversary with a series of fantastic events highlighting this great milestone. The festivities kick-off with the biennial 2023 Blanton Gala - Celebrating 60: A New Landscape, which will feature the unveiling of the Blanton Museum of Art's new grounds. In this fun and informative segment, Simone offers a sneak peek into this year's gala, as well as her expert insights on successfully carrying out a vision for long-term projects, and the importance of using perspective when engaging with donors and high-profile individuals.

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↓ Episode 120 – Does Your Travel Trailer Suspension Suck?

RV Maintenance Tips and Information for the DIY

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2023 32:36

This is Eric Stark with The Smart RV'er Podcast Delivering the smarts you need to enjoy the freedom of the RV Lifestyle without the fear of breaking down! Living the RV Life: Eric and Alexis talk about the FMCA Rally. From its beginning, FMCA (Family Motor Coach Association) has been centered on bringing people together. To make friends. Learn about their RVs. Travel to parts unknown. Have fun. While much has changed since those early days, FMCA continues to unite RV enthusiasts through its conventions, area rallies, and chapter gatherings. FMCA's biannual international conventions unite thousands of people for four days of everything RVing – education, shopping, entertainment, and camaraderie. There are also regional events. Each of FMCAs' 10 areas generally holds an area rally annually, where members gather to socialize, view exhibits, attend seminars, and enjoy quality entertainment. Area rallies are organized by FMCA and area associations. Be sure to check out more at TheSmartRverPodcast! Staying On The Road: Eric discusses how most trailers come with the most basic suspension, leaf springs, and that is it. It is the same old suspension that has been used for hundreds of years. Then he talks about each of the below brands! Dexter Red EZ Flex Equalizers Equaflex - Lippert Center Point Air Ride System Moreryde SRE & CREA Lippert Shocks Roadmaster Comfort Ride System Add-On Shocks Slipper Springs 5K, 7k, 8k Tandem axles, Triple axel system available The Next Stop: There are many reasons why The Smart RVer should think about visiting Austin, Texas is worth it. Here are a few that Eric and Alexis discuss: Music Scene: Austin is known as the "Live Music Capital of the World" and for good reason. The city has a thriving music scene with over 250 live music venues and hosts two major music festivals each year, South by Southwest (SXSW) and Austin City Limits (ACL). Food: Austin has a diverse and delicious food scene, with a range of options from traditional Texas BBQ to innovative fusion cuisine. You can find food trucks, food halls, and restaurants that serve everything from tacos to sushi. Outdoor Activities: Austin is surrounded by beautiful natural areas, including several parks, lakes, and hiking trails. You can take a dip in Barton Springs Pool, hike up Mount Bonnell for a stunning view of the city, or go kayaking on Lady Bird Lake. Art and Culture: Austin is home to numerous museums, galleries, and cultural institutions, including the Blanton Museum of Art and the Harry Ransom Center. The city also hosts a variety of cultural events and festivals throughout the year, such as the Texas Book Festival and the Fusebox Festival. Nightlife: Austin's nightlife is just as lively as its music scene,...

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Tony Ortega: Regional Perspectives on Healing Through Chicano/Latinx Art: Focus on Colorado

Healing with Dr. George: The Power of Chicano/Latinx Art

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2022 32:57

This podcast will interview Tony Ortega, MFA, art professor and artist from Denver, CO. This podcast guest will discuss the respective development of Chicano/Latinx art in Colorado and the status of Chicano art in this state to date. Tony will also share his life experiences and process as an artist today.Tony Ortega holds a Master of Fine Arts in drawing and painting from the University of Colorado and is currently a professor for Regis University in Denver Colorado. Tony has been a professor of art for the past 19 years and a professional artist for 39 years. Tony's lifelong goal is to contribute to a better understanding of cultural diversity by addressing the culture, history, and experiences of Chicano/Latinos through his art.In 1998, he was given the Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. In 1999, he was the recipient of the Governor's Award for Excellence in Arts. In 2018, he was acknowledged as the faculty lecturer of the year at Regis University. His art can be found in can found at the Denver Art Museum, the Los Angeles County of Museum, and Blanton Museum of Art. He has exhibited extensively in the Southwestern United States, Latin America, and other parts of world.

Nate Lewis

Light Work Presents: Everything Is Connected - Season 1

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2022 40:15

On this episode were joined by Nate Lewis. Nate is a visual artist, most well knwn for his layered works on paper where he explores history, time and movement through the body. He engage in practice that incorporates photography, sculpture, drawing and painting. Lewis's work is in the public collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Blanton Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Grinnell College Museum of Art, and 21c Museum Hotels,Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, International African-American Museum, Charleston, SC, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA , and more.

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Wednesday 31 August

Monocle 24: The Briefing

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2022 30:00

Russia analyst Stephen Dalziel on the legacy of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died at the age of 91. Plus: Taiwan shoots at a Chinese drone, the latest business headlines and Tomos Lewis takes us to the Blanton Museum of Art in Texas.

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Jorge Macchi

Interviews by Brainard Carey

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2022 23:34

Photo portrait by Kicca Tommasi Jorge Macchi is a visual artist. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1963. Lives and works in Buenos Aires. In 2001 he was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He had three major retrospectives of his work: Perspectiva at MALBA Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires, in 2016, Music Stand Still at S.M.A.K the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium in 2011, and The anatomy of melancholy at Santander Cultural, 2007, Blanton Museum, 2007 and CGAC, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, 2008, He represented Argentina at the Venice Biennial in 2005. He took part in the Biennials of Liverpool 2012, Lyon 2011, Yokohama 2008, Porto Alegre 2007, Venezia 2005, San Pablo 2004, Estambul 2003, Porto Alegre 2003. Parallel lives, Jorge Macchi. Courtesy the artist. All the words of the world, Edouard Fraipont. Courtesy Galeria Luisa Srina, Sao Paulo. Bone exposed, Joerg Lohse. Courtesy Alexander and Bonin Gallery, NY

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Veronica Roberts - Cantor Arts Center

Art Life Stories with Sarah Story

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2022 36:55

Veronica Roberts - the new Executive Director of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford!Veronica has had an incredible curatorial career. She was working the Blanton in Austin since 2013 as the curator of modern and contemporary art. At the Blanton, she put on a number of notable exhibitions: national touring displays of “Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser” and “Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt”; work uplifting Texan artists like Vincent Valdez and Donald Moffett; and a collaboration with the UT Austin's Black Studies program to bring Charles White's work on campus. Roberts also worked with Ellsworth Kelly to create “Austin,” a 2,715-square-foot stone chapel-sculpture with colored glass windows that opened in early 2018. Before the Blanton Museum, Roberts held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum. She also served as Director of Research for the Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Catalogue Raisonné. Roberts earned her master's from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her bachelor's in art history from Williams College.

MARIA IZQUIERDO, UNA MUJER QUE TE VA A SORPRENDER

Historias de Arte en Podcast

Play Episode Play 40 sec Highlight Listen Later Nov 4, 2021 21:43 Transcription Available

En este episodio les presentamos a una pintora que amó y respetó las tradiciones de su cultura, al mismo tiempo que rompió todas las normas acerca de lo que se suponía que debían ser y hacer las mujeres de su época. Una mujer que a pesar de haber sido educada en un ambiente estrictamente religioso, fue excepcionalmente adelantada en su modo de pensar y en su forma de vivir. Una mujer que les prometemos los va a sorprender. BIENVENIDOSLas imágenes relacionadas con este y todos nuestros episodios las pueden encontrar en nuestro sitio web: https://www.historiasdearte.com en Instagram @historiasdearte.enpodcast, en Facebook Historias de Arte en Podcast y en twitter @Historias de Art1BIBLIOGRAFIACotter, Holland May 30 1997, Painter on a Pendulum, Swinging From Innocent to Elegiac and Back, The New York Times.Geis, T. (2005). Arte Moderno de México. Colección Andrés Blaisten, Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.Guillen, B. (7 mar 2021). “Maria Izquierdo: una pintora tapada por los muralistas.” Las Olvidadas de America. El Pais. Mexico (28 sept 2021).Navarrete, S. (1998). "María Izquierdo," in María Izquierdo, Mexico, D.F., Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo, A.C.Paz, O. "María Izquierdo. (1993). Seen in Her Surroundings and Set in Her Proper Place," in Essays on Mexican Art, New York, Harcourt Brace & Company, 257-258. https://www.admagazine.com/cultura/maria-izquierdo-lo-que-no-sabias-de-la-pintora-surrealista-20200406-6229-articulos.htmlhttp://warp.la/el-feminismo-de-maria-izquiero-199835https://www.jornada.com.mx/2013/10/06/sem-germaine.htmlhttps://www.jornada.com.mx/2012/11/23/politica/021n1polhttps://historia-arte.com/obras/sueno-y-presentimientohttps://veme.digital/el-mural-que-sera/https://museoblaisten.com/Artista/240/Maria-Izquierdohttps://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5897427https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-5897428https://www.artnexus.com/en/magazines/article-magazine-artnexus/5efbab91e566a87dd8a8ea0e/27/maria-izquierdohttps://elpais.com/mexico/2021-03-07/maria-izquierdo-una-pintora-tapada-por-los-muralistas.htmlMaría Izquierdo, “Amazona blanca [White Horsewoman], also known as Caballista del circo [Circus Bareback Rider],” Blanton Museum of Art Collections, accessed September 27, 2021). https://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2662.

Suzanne McFayden

Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2021 25:45

Episode 80 features Suzanne McFayden. Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, she is a writer, and leading collector of contemporary art. Ms. McFayden holds a BA in French Literature from Cornell University and an MFA in Writing from Mills College. Her philanthropic investments beyond the art world address food insecurity. Ms. McFayden is the current Board Chair of The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a Trustee of the Studio Museum of Harlem in NYC and also serves on Pratt Institute's DEIA Committee. As a black female art collector, McFayden's collection focuses on works that reflect who she is: woman, black, mother, immigrant, traveler, survivor, writer, other. Photo credit: Kara Marie Collective Website https://www.suzannemcfayden.com/ Artnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/suzanne-macfayden-collector-to-watch-1234607370/ https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/suzanne-mcfayden-board-chair-blanton-museum-1234604601/ Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/5e4503d7-aabf-4461-bdbe-b587eff662a7 Culture Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/cultured-collections-with-suzanne-mcfayden/ Architectural Digest https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/suzanne-mcfayden-austin-home Art Austin https://artaustin.org/reviews/ Anthea Missy https://www.antheamissy.com/collector-to-watch-suzanne-macfayden-is-building-a-collection-centered-on-black-joy/

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Ep98. The Shape of Sex, Leah DeVun

Love Rinse Repeat

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2021 39:13

I sat down with Leah DeVun to discuss her book, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance. We talk about how widespread thinking and writing about non-binary individuals was during the first centuries of the CE and again in the C12th-14th, and the way non-binary bodies actually shaped the way a host of categories and boundaries (not just gender) were demarcated. We talk in detail about the shift in the C12th/13th and the way non-binary sex shaped the project of establishing a non-human other, justifying violence towards Jews and Muslims, and determining who could live in a Christian territory. We also talk about the figures of "Adam androgyne" and the "Jesus hermaphrodite", and how they function as "anchors of eschatological time." Finally, Leah discusses how this study can inform our present, not only by showing that the consideration of non-binary, trans*, and intersex bodies are not novel to our period, but how this consideration cuts through claims of 'natural and immutable' in our own day. Buy the book.Leah DeVun is Associate Professor of History and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Education at Rutgers University. Leah DeVun focuses on the history of gender, sexuality, science, and medicine in pre-modern Europe, as well as on contemporary queer and transgender studies. DeVun's new book, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press (in spring 2021). DeVun is also the author of Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time, winner of the 2013 John Nicholas Brown Prize, and co-editor (with Zeb Tortorici) of Trans*historicities, a special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (2018) devoted to transgender history before the advent of current categories and terminologies of gender. DeVun has also written articles for GLQ, WSQ, Osiris, Journal of the History of Ideas, postmedieval, and Radical History Review, among other publications. DeVun is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Science Foundation, Huntington Library, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, American Philosophical Society, and Stanford Humanities Center. DeVun is also a multi-media artist and curator whose work explores queer, feminist, and gender nonconforming history. DeVun's artwork has been featured in Artforum, People, Huffington Post, Slate, Art Papers, Hyperallergic, and Modern Painters, and at venues including the ONE Archives Gallery and Museum at the University of Southern California, Houston Center for Photography, Blanton Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum, and Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College. DeVun has curated exhibitions and programs at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, NYU's Fales Library and Special Collections, and other venues. Find More episodes: www.loverinserepeat.com/podcast Follow the show on Twitter: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow me: @liammiller87 Love Rinse Repeat is supported by Uniting Mission and Education, part of the Uniting Church in Australia Synod of NSW/ACT

Snohetta's Blanton Museum Expansion

Coffee Sketch Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2021 13:09

Podcast Episode: 079Date: 03-13-2021Theme: Snohetta's Blanton ExpansionThank you for listening. We both hope that you enjoyed this episode of Coffee Sketch Podcast. Our Theme music is provided by my brother who goes by @c_0ldfashioned on Instagram and Twitter. Our podcast is hosted at coffeesketchpodcast.com find more show notes and information from this episode. And finally, if you liked this episode please rate us on iTunes and share us with your friends! Thank you!Sketch https://www.instagram.com/p/CLAlEyoF8-A/Follow Jamie on Instagram Jamie’s Instagram

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Thomas Echols, Guitarist and Composer

Creative Peacemeal

Play Episode Play 55 sec Highlight Listen Later May 10, 2021 80:07

The brilliant Thomas Echols joins the show today to talk about musical barriers in his life, various philosophies, current trends in electronic music (hint it's quite a surprise), his diverse career, and more. To find out more about Thomas Echols, follow his websites below.http://www.thomasechols.com/http://www.manwomanfriendcomputer.com/Thomas Echols’s work is an amalgam of classical, modernist, and pop music forays.As visiting artistic director for Austin Classical Guitar, Thomas curated programs including traditional instrumental recitalists, experimental electronics, newly commissioned works, and interactive visual projections. I have recorded and performed with the GrammyNominated choral ensemble Conspirare and the Houston Symphony Orchestra (our recording of Wozzeck recently won a Grammy and the prestigious Echo Klassik award for best operatic recording), and have had major engagements at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Palazzo Chigi (Siena, Italy), The Whittier Bach Festival (LA, The Blanton Museum of Art (Austin), Jones Hall (Houston), and other venues around the world.His experimental-pop alter ego, Man, Woman, Friend, Computer, creates simple songs that unfold into meandering compositions, analogue synth fetishism, conspiracy pop, polyrhythmic laments, somnambulist visions, and process music. MWFC’s debut album has garnered rave reviews from Austin Monthly and The Austin Chronicle, which calls it “Meditative and fetching . . . he ventures into a complex amalgam of analog and synth. Wistful, romantic. . . Echols’ vocals sooth to surrender.” As a classical guitarist, music technologist, composer, and song writer, Thomas is a mainstay in the thriving classical guitar and experimental music scenes in Austin. Thomas is active as a performer and lecturer, and he has contributed scholarly articles to Soundboard Magazine. Thomas Echols holds degrees from the University of Southern California (Doctor of Musical Arts), the University of Texas (Master of Music), the University of Colorado (Bachelor of Music), and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy (Diploma di Merito).To stream other episodes of Creative Peacemeal Podcast, click here.To learn more about host Tammy Takaishi, or to check out the corresponding creative arts blog or the merch store, click here!

Episode 17: Teaching Growth Mindset through the Art Gallery Experience with Siobhán McCusker

The Other Side of Campus

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2021 40:08

From the Blanton Museum of Art, Siobhán McCusker, an artist and innovative educator with a unique background, joins Jen, Stephanie, and Dixie to talk about the creative ways in which she uses the art gallery experience as a microcosm for teaching growth mindset to classrooms (and faculty) of all disciplines. We really enjoyed this wonderful and uplifting conversation and we hope you do as well. Thanks for joining us on The Other Side of Campus! ABOUT THE GUEST https://blantonmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image005.jpg Siobhán McCusker is the museum educator for the university audience at the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin. She is an artist and educator with a diverse background — from working with artists in South African contemporary gallery spaces and printmaking studios, to mentoring painting and new media students as well as lecturing in art history at the Wits School of Art, University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on March 05th, 2021 via Zoom. CREDITS Assistant Producers/Hosts: Dixie Stanforth, Jen Moon, and Stephanie Seidel Holmsten (Intro theme features additional PTF fellows Patrick Davis, Keith Brown, David Vanden Bout Music and Sound Design by Charlie Harper (www.charlieharpermusic.com) Produced by Michelle S. Daniel Creator & Executive Producer: Mary C. Neuburger Connect with us! Facebook: /texasptf Twitter: @TexasPTF Website: https://texasptf.org DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/1/1ed1b736-a1fa-4ae4-b346-90d58dfbc8a4/4GSxOOOU.png Special Guest: Siobhán McCusker.

VERSAR #057 - Claudia Del Rio por ela mesma

VER.SAR - práticas artísticas, maternidades e feminismos

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2021 19:32

No episódio de Nº 057 Claudia Del Rio lê vários textos autorais do livro Ikebana político. 12 de outubro “Quando você trabalha como artista e faz coisas que ocupam espaço, a morte está muito presente, para onde isso vai, que lugar isso vai ocupar, para onde esse outro vai.” Claudia del Río (Argentina) Artista visual, poeta, y educadora. Formada en pintura en la Universidad Nacional de Rosario, donde enseña. En los 80 formó parte de circuitos de performance, arte-correo y ediciones múltiples. Integró el grupo APA Artistas Plásticos Asociados, de Rosario. En los 90 fue parte del Programa de Clínica de Obra a cargo de Guillermo Kuitca, organizado por Fundación Proa. En 2000 y 2001 participó como tutora y artista del Programa Independiente de Cooperación entre Artistas Trama, Rain Artists Initiatives Network. En 2002 cofundó el Club del Dibujo, un espacio de pensamiento y acción; desde el 2006 el proyecto Pieza Pizarrón (Lehrstücke), dispositivo de dibujo, performance y pedagogía. En 2007 inició RUSA: Residencia para Un Solo Artista, en su casa taller. Fue invitada como representante argentina a las Bienales de La Habana (Cuba), la del Mercosur en Porto Alegre (Brasil), la de Medellín (Colombia) y la de Salto (Uruguay); y a las residencias EV Largo das Artes, Río de Janeiro (Brasil), Apotheke, Udesc, Florianópolis (Brasil), Casa B, Museu Bispo do Rosário, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), Espacio Recombinante y Dobradiça, Santa María (Brasil), Taller 7 y Museo de Antioquia, Medellín (Colombia), Kiosko, Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia), Fundación Valparaíso, Mojácar (España), RIAA, Ostende (Argentina), Arteleku, San Sebastián (España). Sus piezas se encuentran en colecciones privadas, museos e instituciones del país y del extranjero: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Museo Municipal “Juan B. Castagnino-Macro” de Rosario (Argentina), Colección Osde, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Colección Banco Supervielle, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Museo Provincial Timoteo Navarro, Tucumán(Argentina), Museo de Bellas Artes, Salta(Argentina), Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas(USA), Karno Books, Los Angeles (USA), Centro Wifredo Lam, La Habana (Cuba), Museu Bispo do Rosário, Río de Janeiro (Brasil), MACBA, Barcelona (España), Fundação Vera Chaves Barcellos, FVCB, Porto Alegre (Brasil). Colabora escribiendo reseñas sobre arte contemporáneo, para algunos medios. Publicó Litoral y Cocacola (Ivan Rosado, 2012), Pieza Pizarrón (Club del Dibujo, 2013) e Ikebana política (Ivan Rosado, 2016). En 2017-2018 es invitada al Festival de Teatro de Cali junto a Enrique Lozano, autor de Las Esferas, dramaturgia para la Pieza Pizarrón. En 2019 Peter Lang UK publicó Ikebana política. Notas, cuadernos y ejercicios (2005-2015). E-mail: delrioqueen@gmail.com Instagram: @delrioqueen Você escuta esse e outros episódios em www.podcastversar.com E nas plataformas spotify, deezer, google podcasts, apple podcasts, anchor e castbox. Gostou? Envia um comentário por texto ou áudio. E Para quem se interessou pela escrita da Claudia aqui os links para adquirir o livro e conhecer mais dos trabalhos da artista. Pontos de venda: https://ivanrosado.com.ar/Puntos-de-venta/ Editora: https://ivanrosado.com.ar/ Produção e Curadoria: @priscilacostaoliveira Apresentação: Priscila Costa Oliveira e Maria Flor Música: @vineschmitt --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podcastversar/message

Season 3 - Episode 1

Sounds Of Earth

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2021 2:57

Sounds from: 1. Gazebo Park, Fort Davis - USA (Amar) 2. La Palagina Farm, Florence - Italy (Helen) 3. 20th St & Alabama St, San Francisco - USA (Helen) 4. Unknown, Sydney - Australia (Rajashree) 5. Macquarie Shopping Centre, Sydney - Australia (Abhishek) 6. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin - USA (Amar) More at soundsof.earth Submit sounds at submit@soundsof.earth

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Episode 46: Veronica Roberts

Art Scoping

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2021

Art museum directors are caught up in competing travails, from financial shortfalls to racial reckoning to ill-advised deaccessioning. But talented curators across the U.S. are still managing to bring artistic talent to the fore, and Veronica Roberts, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art, is among the museum field's most imaginative, capable, and humane. We retrace her steps at the leading museums in New York to her adopted state of Texas, with detours to artists' studios, including those of Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, and Diedrick Brackens. And we touch on her use of Instagram to champion emerging artists as well as flora, fauna, and architecture.

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Episode 46: Veronica Roberts

Art Scoping

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2021 32:51

Art museum directors are caught up in competing travails, from financial shortfalls to racial reckoning to ill-advised deaccessioning. But talented curators across the U.S. are still managing to bring artistic talent to the fore, and Veronica Roberts, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art, is among the museum field’s most imaginative, capable, and humane. We retrace her steps at the leading museums in New York to her adopted state of Texas, with detours to artists’ studios, including those of Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, and Diedrick Brackens. And we touch on her use of Instagram to champion emerging artists as well as flora, fauna, and architecture.

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Ep. 19: Stacy Hock, Philanthropist, Public Policy Activist, and Private Investor

Seay the Future Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2021 45:12

Stacy Hock is a philanthropist, public policy activist, and private investor. Stacy serves as Chair of the Board of Texans for Education Opportunity, President of Texans First, and on the boards of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Aminex Therapeutics, the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas McCombs School of Business, and The African Dream Initiative. Ms. Hock is a gubernatorial appointee, serving as Vice Chair of the Texas Commission on Next Generation Assessment and Accountability, serves on Lt. Governor Patrick’s Education Advisory Council, and on TEA Commissioner Morath’s Philanthropic Council.Previously, Ms. Hock served as the Texas GOP 2020 Victory Chairwoman. Additionally, she served on the boards of City Harvest and The Bowery Mission in New York City. Also, Ms. Hock held senior management positions in the software industry, including running IBM’s WebSphere Software Services business for the Wall Street territory. Ms. Hock received her B.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from M.I.T., and her M.B.A. from the University of Texas.Stacy and her husband, Joel, have been married for seventeen years, have four boys, and reside in Austin, TX. Stacy is a 6th generation Texan.

Episode 22 Art, Vulnerability and Canaries

Secret Sauce

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2020 60:50

Hello Creative friends, In this episode I tell the story of my art education thesis research at the University of Texas in 2010-12. I partnered with the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX to lead a summer art-making workshop with public school art teachers. During this workshop I led a study that wanted to answer the question: "How can art-making help art teachers reflect on their professional life?' The answers... like most Science... was not what I expected. SUPPORT THE PODCAST We have been overwhelmed with wonderful messages from you all about the future of this relatively new baby podcast. She was endeavored during the beginning of the pandemic, and I'm excited to say that my work is mostly back to it's pre-quarantine levels. For that reason, we decided to make a Patreon that you might consider to support if you feel called. $3 a month might not sound like much, but will make a world of difference in this podcast. We realize the invitation isn't for everyone. If you would like to support us in other ways, please consider leaving a five star review, or click subscribe. Secret Sauce Patreon *** ABOUT THIS PODCAST Welcome to Secret Sauce, a podcast about the secret ingredients in life and work, hosted by Becca Borrelli.Secret Sauce explores artistry as a helpful framework for inspiring meaning and understanding in our everyday lives. ABOUT BECCA Becca is an illustrator-educator and part founder of Austin-based female maker collective: Lemon House. She spends most of her time designing adult coloring books, interactive murals, and speaking to organizations about mindfulness, meditation and the benefits of art-making. Clients include Visa, Dell Children’s Hospital, Austin Independent School District, University Hospital- Cleveland, the Austin Downtown Alliance and the Anti-Defamation League. Becca is most inspired by the invisible connections between all things. Her work aims to be a playful, bright, and hopeful interpretation of the world's whimsical and magical sides. She has fallen in love with her hometown in Austin, where she spends free time exploring nature and hunting for breakfast tacos with her husband and their super-pups Layla and Rose. Website: beccajborrelli.com Instagram: @beccaborrelliart

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Episode 44: Well Versed: Reading & Writing Poetry

Writers' League of Texas Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2020 83:08

In this panel discussion, we'll discuss poetry and its many forms. Our panelists will share poems and poets they've been reading of late, as well as sharing some of their own work with us and discussing their approach to writing right now, whether revisiting works in progress or starting something new. Usha Akella has authored four books of poetry, one chapbook, and scripted/produced one musical drama. She recently earned an MSt. in Creative Writing from Cambridge University, UK. Her latest poetry book, The Waiting was published by Sahitya Akademi, India’s highest Literary authority in 2019 followed by the Mantis Editores, Mexico edition in Spanish translated by Elsa Cross. She was selected as a Creative Ambassador for the City of Austin for 2019 & 2015. She read with a group of eminent South Asian Diaspora poets at the House of Lords in June 2016. Her work has been included in the Harper Collins, India Anthology of English Poets. She is the founder of ‘Matwaala’ the first South Asian Diaspora Poets Festival in the US (www.matwaala.com), and co-directs the festival with Pramila Venkateswaran. The festival is seriously dedicated to increasing the visibility of South Asian poets in the mainstream. She is also the founder of the Poetry Caravan in New York and Austin which takes poetry readings to the disadvantaged in women’s shelters, senior homes, and hospitals. Several hundreds of readings have reached these venues via this medium. The City of Austin proclaimed January 7th as Poetry Caravan Day. She has won literary prizes (Nazim Hikmet award, Open Road Review Prize and Egan Memorial Prize and earned finalist status in a few US based contests), and enjoys interviewing artists, scholars and poets for reputed magazines. She has been invited as a keynote speaker to TLAN’s Power of Words conference 2019 and the Turkish Center in Austin. She has written a few quixotic nonfiction prose pieces published in The Statesman and India Currents. Her work ranges from feminist/activist to Spiritual and all things in-between. Carlotta Eike Stankiewicz is a poet, photographer and punster who landed in Austin 25 years ago by way of Michigan, Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D.C. During her tenure as an award-winning creative director at GSD&M Advertising, she led national campaigns for brands such as Zales, John Deere, Texas Tourism and Hallmark. She is now the Director of Marketing and Communications for the Blanton Museum of Art. In 2016, she published Haiku Austin, a book of poetry and photography that pays tribute to the Texas capital through witty, 17-syllable poems and vivid pictures. She's currently working on two new titles in her haiku series, Hill Country Haiku and Haiku 'Hooville, a tribute to Charlottesville, Virginia, where she earned a B.A. in English at UVA. In 2003, Carlotta won the O. Henry Pun Off World Championship, much to the delight or chagrin of her two daughters. She is also a fervent Instagrammer -- follow her at @HaikuAustin and @lottapalooza. Sasha West’s first book, Failure and I Bury the Body (Harper Perennial), was a winner of the National Poetry Series, the Texas Institute of Letters First Book of Poetry Award, and a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review Online, Agni, Georgia Review, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at St. Edward’s University, where she received the Distinguished Teaching Award.

Michael Smith: Room Tone

She’s A Talker

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2020 25:06

BONUS EPISODE In this bonus live episode, artist Michael Smith talks about how to get creative with bad teaching evaluations. Season 3 coming soon! ABOUT THE GUEST Michael Smith’s recent solo exhibitions and performances include Museo Jumex, Mexico City; Yale Union, Portland, Oregon; Tate Modern, London; and Greene Naftali, New York; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. His work is in the collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin; Inhotim Institute, Brumadinho; LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich; Mumok, Vienna; Museion, Bolzano; Paley Center for Media, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. ABOUT THE HOST Neil Goldberg is an artist in NYC who makes work that The New York Times has described as “tender, moving and sad but also deeply funny.” His work is in the permanent collection of MoMA, he’s a Guggenheim Fellow, and teaches at the Yale School of Art. More information at neilgoldberg.com. ABOUT THE TITLE SHE'S A TALKER was the name of Neil’s first video project. “One night in the early 90s I was combing my roommate’s cat and found myself saying the words ‘She’s a talker.’ I wondered how many other other gay men in NYC might be doing the exact same thing at that very moment. With that, I set out on a project in which I videotaped over 80 gay men in their living room all over NYC, combing their cats and saying ‘She’s a talker.’” A similar spirit of NYC-centric curiosity and absurdity animates the podcast. CREDITS This series is made possible with generous support from Stillpoint Fund. Producer: Devon Guinn Creative Consultants: Aaron Dalton, Molly Donahue Mixer: Andrew Litton Visuals and Sounds: Joshua Graver Theme Song: Jeff Hiller Website: Itai Almor Media: Justine Lee Interns: Alara Degirmenci, Jonathan Jalbert, Jesse Kimotho Thanks: Jennifer Callahan, Nick Rymer, Sue Simon, Maddy Sinnock TRANSCRIPTION NEIL GOLDBERG: Hello, I'm Neil Goldberg, and this is She's A Talker. We recently finished our second season, and we'll be launching Season Three very soon. In the meantime, we thought as a bonus we'd share a live episode that was recorded with artist Mike Smith way back in the good old days of February, 2020. The event happened at the New York headquarters of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Skowhegan's primary program is an intensive summer residency up in Maine for sixty-five emerging visual artists from all over the world. And in 2015, I had the good fortune of being faculty there, and it was actually there that I took the first steps for what would become this podcast. I was inspired by all the experimentation happening, and I decided to play around with this collection of thoughts I'd jotted down on index cards for the past twenty years as the basis for some sort of performance work. So here we are. My guest, Mike Smith, was also faculty at Skowhegan a couple of years before me and has been a favorite artist of mine for years. He's recently shown work at the Tate Modern in London, and his work is also in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Walker Center, the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris, and many other places. Here it goes. NEIL: Hi everybody. Thank you so much for coming. So, the premise of the podcast is I typically start with some recent cards, uh, before I bring on a guest. And I thought, uh, this is a recent one: seeing an unflushed toilet at an art school. Now, um, I teach at Yale and, uh, I try to like use the bathroom as far away from where I teach as possible. And I also like to try and mix it up a little bit. So, you know, every now and then I'll go into the basement. Other times I'll go to the second floor. Uh, keep them guessing. And there was a while, very recently at Yale, where every time I walked into a bathroom stall, there was an unflushed toilet full of shit. And I started to think like, okay, is this like a student's like art project? Um, but then beyond that, I really was cognizant of the impact it had on the crits I did later in the day, which is like, I found myself sort of evaluating everything I was seeing in relationship to the impact that seeing a unflushed toilet unexpectedly will have on you. Because think about it, that moment where you're kind of like, you open the stall door and there is the unflushed toilet. That is, I think, what we're all going for as artists. Um. Anyhow. With all that in mind, I am so happy to have, as my guest, Michael Smith, who I have been a fan of for a very long time. I have actually had the experience, Michael, of going to your shows, and I will say that its impact on me was not unlike that of an unflushed toilet encountered by surprise. So, please welcome Michael Smith. NEIL: Hi, Michael, how are you? MICHAEL SMITH: I'm okay. I guess I, I don't know if I should be flattered or - what I'm following in terms of the conversation or - NEIL: when in doubt, be flattered. MICHAEL: Yeah. I have so much to say. I don't know if we'll be able to get to another card. NEIL: I know, right? Well, what's your elevator pitch for yourself when you? When you encounter someone who doesn't know what it is you do, how do you succinctly describe what it is? MICHAEL: Well, it's usually layered. I usually, I mean, if it's a total stranger, I'll say I'm an artist. And then they say, "Oh, are you a painter?" And I say, no. And then sometimes I'll just cut to the chase and say I'm a performance artist. And then it doesn't go any further. NEIL: Do you feel like that's accurate though? I mean, that doesn't feel to me like it encompasses the breadth of what you uh, do. MICHAEL: Well, when I first started performing or thinking about performing, I would tell people I was a comic. Because it was, I dunno, it was a little more interesting at parties or whatever. And also performance artist wasn't really part of the vocabulary then. Usually I'd say I'm a comic, and then they'd look at me and they said, "You haven't said anything funny." So, it was like, well, I didn't say I was funny, you know? So. NEIL: Um, are your parents alive? MICHAEL: No. NEIL: When, when they were alive, what would they say that you did? MICHAEL: My mother probably would say, Michael is Michael. And Michael - NEIL: That is a full-time job, isn't it? MICHAEL: Michael had such a sweet voice when he was a child. And my father said, I don't know what the hell he does, you know, he didn't know what it, yeah. NEIL: Right. I didn't know you were Jewish until quite recently. You're like one of those stealth Jews, you know, Smith. Okay. MICHAEL: I asked my father once what it was before Smith, and he, he said, Sutton. NEIL: Sutton? That's like a wall that's been painted multiple times, like, okay, and what was it before Sutton? That's where it gets into like Schmulowitz or whatever. MICHAEL: That got too deep. NEIL: Yeah, exactly. MICHAEL: It was, yeah. It's opaque. NEIL: And what's something on you - today, what's something you've found yourself thinking about? MICHAEL: Well, you know that card you first - NEIL: Oh yeah. MICHAEL: That card you first brought up. I actually, I've been in my studio for, since '99. And I actually cleaned the toilet in the public bathroom for the, the building because it was just getting a little gross, so I thought I'd clean it. NEIL: You just took that on yourself? MICHAEL: I took it on. NEIL: Wow. MICHAEL: Yeah. I should also say that when I first came to New York, I was a professional cleaner. NEIL: Really? MICHAEL: Yeah. I was very good. NEIL: I bet. MICHAEL: Mike the Wipe. I was originally I, I was, I originally was going to be a house - well, I was going to, I advertised in the New York Times, "Mr. Smith will cook and clean." And no one wanted me to cook, you know, just wanted me to clean. NEIL: So many follow-up questions, Mike. Um, shall we move on to the cards? You don't have a choice at this point. We're all in. Uh, this card says: There are no friendly reminders. You know, like, I feel like, is there anything more passive aggressive than someone's like, just a friendly reminder. MICHAEL: That's like, if they, if they preface what they're going to say with that, yeah. That would be horrible. NEIL: But they do all the time. MICHAEL: Really? NEIL: Yeah. Or in an email - friendly reminder. How many, I mean, haven't you? I've probably gotten a friendly reminder in the last week. MICHAEL: I guess FYI is not a friendly reminder, huh? NEIL: No, FYI can be pretty passive aggressive too, but I use it a lot MICHAEL: BTW? NEIL: That's fine. Yeah. I dunno. MICHAEL: So, I have a feeling I probably do it, but I'm not aware of it. NEIL: Of a friendly reminder? MICHAEL: Yeah. NEIL: Hmm. So you're not bothered by it? MICHAEL: Probably, yeah. NEIL: Probably not bothered by it? MICHAEL: Probably bothered by it. Yeah, I am. I get bothered by people easily. And I had something really good to say, but I've, I've already forgotten it. NEIL: I'm excited for the rest of this conversation, Mike. This is, um. MICHAEL: I'm still thinking about that dirty toilet. NEIL: We could go back to that anytime you want. NEIL: Uh, this card says: Things that are lost but you know will turn up. Talk to me. MICHAEL: Well, I, I was with a friend the other day, and, um, I, I said, Oh, I don't, I don't recognize that person. I said, I'm not good with faces. And then she mentioned the name and I said, no, I'm, I don't recognize the name. I'm not good with names. And she said. Mike, what else is there besides faces and names? So anyways, I just wait until it comes, you know, it just till, the name comes, I just wait and wait. And in the morning, I figure, after looking at all those places for the keys or whatever, I'll eventually find it. And then I'll look in the unlikely places and I find it. NEIL: What are the unlikely places in your life for keys? MICHAEL: You know where I've been to keeping them lately? On my front door. So I go outside and they're always there now, so yeah. That's where I seem to keep them. NEIL: That is really, why don't we all just keep them there? MICHAEL: Right. I trust my neighbors, evidently. NEIL: We just very recently got a knock on the door from our neighbor Arlene. A shout out to Arlene if you're listening, and I know you're not, but, um, bless Arlene who very aggressively knocked on our door. She kind of is like policing the hall in a very loving way, but authoritative. And I left the keys in the door. And um, you could tell Arlene lived for this moment. The keys, they're in the door! You know, it's like, and uh, and then of course I have to like reciprocate with like, um, thank you so much. Oh God. Wow. How did we do that? Thank you, Arlene. MICHAEL: I have - the person that polices our place, uh, has a Trump hat. NEIL: Oh no. I don't know if I could deal with that. MICHAEL: He is taking over the recycling, which is great, but he's got it under lock and key, literally under lock and key. So you go downstairs to get rid of your bottles and stuff. And it takes a lot longer. So then everybody just leaves it down there. NEIL: Every now and then, forgive me, is there like a, an immigrant child in there as well? MICHAEL: Oh, there's not an immigrant child, but there is something I think it, I realized it bothers him, that people pick through the garbage and it's mostly like, you know... NEIL: The people who shouldn't be here. From the shithole countries. MICHAEL: Yeah. So I thought about that later and then I just didn't want to think about it anymore cause I was getting all upset. NEIL: Um, have you had a political conversation with him or? MICHAEL: I don't go there. Yeah, he's on, he's a little unstable and he asked, one time he asked me if I wanted to take something outside. NEIL: Oh, he asked you if you want to, I thought, take something outside like garbage. MICHAEL: Right. NEIL: But no, he wanted to take a discussion outside. MICHAEL: Yeah. NEIL: Wow. I'm gay enough that I have never had that conversation, you know? Uh, or if it is, it's like, it's nasty and it's happened a long time ago and it wasn't a fight. Um, wow. Okay. I'm glad that worked out okay. Uh, this card says: Read my - MICHAEL: Can I be, can I, I had a hard time reading that, kind of, reading them. NEIL: Yeah. Well. MICHAEL: Your penmanship is like... NEIL: Well, I always say if my, if my handwriting were a font, it would be called Suicide Note, so I'm... MICHAEL: Not judging. I just said I had a hard time, you know, deciphering it at times. NEIL: Yeah. Read my course evaluations at my funeral. That's what that says. MICHAEL: Oh, well, I was thinking that when, when I do pass, I would like to get ahead of the thing and have people send out a, uh, an announcement saying, if you happen to be in the neighborhood, you know, come to my show, I'll be like, you know - NEIL: I'll be here for eternity. MICHAEL: Um, class evaluations. Yeah. I love my class evaluations and I save them and I, I find them very funny. One, I actually made a poster and it was, uh, it was, "I'm not sure if I agree with the way Professor Smith teaches this class. He called my work crap and he called us idiots. This is a waste of my time and money." I was very happy with that. NEIL: And you made that into a poster? MICHAEL: I made it into a poster. NEIL: Do you, do you have any other ones that come to mind? I bet you get great course evaluations. MICHAEL: Some are good. But like I, I forget them, you know, um, I get them, I still get them handwritten. You're supposed to, a lot of people just go online, but I always, I always hand them out and, and I, I have to leave the room and I always say to them, before, "My livelihood and my future is dependent on how you judge me. And I'm so sorry, I meant to bring the donuts. We'll get to that." NEIL: Huh? See, I try to be real coy about it. Like, you know, they make me do this and, you know, try and like keep it open to, um, other than positive feedback. But obviously it's a desperate wish for approval. MICHAEL: Yeah. I, I always tell them I care deeply for them too, when I'm, yeah. You know, I care deeply for all of you. NEIL: See, you can, MICHAEL: One thing - I, one of my students who I happen to, like, he- NEIL: Happen to like. Whatever. MICHAEL: He came up to me and he said, you know, Mike, even when we're watching videos in the dark, we always know what you're thinking. We can always read you. NEIL: Wow. That's a scary thought. MICHAEL: It is. Cause I'm, I have no filter with, you know, I, I just, it, it comes out, I just sort of convey it with my face. NEIL: See, I find you, because there is a kind of like genial neutrality, you know, like the, the idea of like quote unquote resting bitch face. You have kind of like resting, mm, bemused face. Um, I find it actually kind of opaque. I wish I knew what you were thinking. MICHAEL: You know what? A lot of times nothing. I get the feeling I'm not answering the, I'm not answering these cards very, uh. NEIL: Do you need me to take care of you a little bit right now in terms of - I think you're doing a phenomenal job. You know, this is a fucked up, um, project, by the way, because everyone, like I, I once was doing an iteration of it and this kind of high powered curator said to me, did I do okay, or did I do it right? And I wanted to say like, you did, there's no way of not doing this right, but let's talk about why you've never put me in a show. But that's a different story. The faces of spectators at art world performances. The dutifulness and absence of pleasure. We've all seen this like documentation of a performance at an art event and you see like the spectators, like- MICHAEL: I often say to my, uh, um, to myself and sometimes my students, where's the joy? Looking for the joy. You're talking about pleasure. I'm looking for the - all the time, I'm wondering about that. NEIL: Where's the joy? Yeah. I'm stealing the hell out of that for any teaching I do. And also, that would be my teaching evaluation for like 95% of the art I see. I mean, it can be art about, um, Auschwitz and you can still appropriately ask the question, where's the joy? Don't you think? Provocative question. MICHAEL: Um. NEIL: What was the question? MICHAEL: No, no, no. I thought I'd get some room tone. You know, we start with the toilet and then we put, where's the joy with Auschwitz. You know, this is- NEIL: This is like a balanced meal or something. I'll take the toilet, joy, and Auschwitz. Well, we'll have to talk about what constitutes dessert within that. NEIL: Uh, okay. Let's try this: The brutality of a memorial service having a duration. MICHAEL: All right. Are you, a duration, like a time limit or like, um, it doesn't end? NEIL: You answer it however you want. MICHAEL: Well, I, I, I think brevity can be good, you know, um, and I don't think I need to go to a durational memorial. I may have misunderstood the question or, not the question, the card. I have been in position where I've, I've helped organize them in a, you know, like emceed them. So you get a little nervous, you know, so you want to keep it like, it becomes like a fucking variety show. NEIL: Exactly. That is so true. Memorial services are a variety show. MICHAEL: I don't know if that's appropriate. You know? NEIL: What should it be instead? MICHAEL: Well, it can, I guess it, it should be kind of free-flowing and with me at the helm, it's not going to be free-flowing. NEIL: Because you keep it, you keep it moving? MICHAEL: I try to, yeah. NEIL: That's a lot of responsibility. I've never, I, I've done, I, I seem to be the person who you will call to do the slide show for your loved one's memorial. I've done a number of them. MICHAEL: That's a lot of work. NEIL: It is. And you can't complain about it. Uh, you know. MICHAEL: And also you have to be in touch with people to get that material. NEIL: That I - that I have subcontracted and, you know, but even so, it's a lot of work. And you do not want to fuck that one up. Um. But see, for me, I love the idea of durational, like for those of our listeners who don't know, there's a terminology within the art world of durational art, and to me that is like the height of decadence. Like we have such a surplus of time, you know, that we're going to make art from that surplus or something. You know what I mean? MICHAEL: I have a, getting back to my students, I have a, um, a three-hand rule. NEIL: Oh, let's hear it. MICHAEL: Um, well, if some of the, when I'm covering some work like early seventies, you know, and you kind of get the idea after like five minutes and it goes on. If, if one person, three people raised their hand, we'd go onto the next video. NEIL: I am learning so much today. MICHAEL: But I don't think you can do that in memorial service. I don't think that'll, I don't think that'll work, no. NEIL: Oh, that's funny. MICHAEL: How surprised would they be if you, you mentioned that in the beginning of the memorial? NEIL: Yeah, listen, not to create pressure, but it's kind of like the Apollo where you get the hook. MICHAEL: How am I doing, how am I doing? Yeah. Right. NEIL: Okay. A bad X you would take over a good Y. So, for me, perpetually, my example is I would take a bad episode of RuPaul's Drag Race over a good Godard movie. So, what's a bad X you would take over a good Y? MICHAEL: Well, I'm of the school that something bad can have lots of charm. There's something redeeming about it. Where there's something is overly so good, like a certain kind of Broadway kind of, um... NEIL: Careful. MICHAEL: Yeah. Well, you understand a certain kind of large delivery or something. A certain styling, a certain song-styling. Um, oh, I'm going to lose the whole audience on this reference. NEIL: Go for it. You have me. MICHAEL: Okay. The, the, the Bobby Short commercial singing Charlie. I would, I will always cringe at that one. And then I would much rather take a bad public access, uh, commercial than that. NEIL: There's a fragrance that's here to stay and they call it Charlie. NEIL: Um, so Mike, uh, what is it that keeps you going? MICHAEL: Uh. Hm. I don't know what's keeping me going right now. Um, that's a big one. Um, I, you know, when I was lot younger and doing my work, I, you know, and reinventing the wheel, you know, reinventing the wheel and stuff, I was very excited. But I don't, I wonder what, what keeps me going? No one knows. No one knows. Looking for the joy. NEIL: On that note, thank you to all of you for being here. Thank you, Mike, for coming to this live taping. Thank you to everyone at Skowhegan. Sarah, Katie, Kris, Carrie, Paige, everyone else. Um, now, this series is made possible with generous support - thank you Jesus - for Still Point Fund. Oh, Siri, something set Siri off. That's, that's my husband, Jeff. Um, oh, sorry. I know, you know, it's interesting. One of the cards I have is every time I stub my toe, I look for someone to blame. And it's often Jeff. And, um, so. Uh, the calls are coming from inside the house. The house being my subjectivity. Let's do that again cause this is important. This series is made possible with generous support from Still Point Fund. Devon Guinn is our producer. Molly Donahue and Aaron Dalton are our consulting producers. Justine Lee handles social media. Our interns are Alara Degirmenci, Jonathan Jalbert, Jesse Kimotho, and Rachel Wang. Our card-flip beats come from Josh Graver. And my husband, Jeff, sings the theme song you're about to hear. And he's going to perform it live. He's a professional. JEFF HILLER: She's a talker with Neil Goldberg. She's A Talker at Skowhegan. She's A Talker, it's better than it sounds. NEIL: Thank you, everybody. Thanks everyone for listening to this bonus episode. Keep your eyes open for She's A Talker, Season Three, coming soon. And in the meantime, be well.

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Re-imagining Museums for Healing

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2020 60:04

Join KUT’s Rebecca McInroy along with Annette Juba from AGE of Central Texas, Dr. Valerie Rosen, and Ray Williams and Monique O’Neil from The Blanton Museum to talk about how the Blanton is partnering with schools, hospitals, and other organizations to create groundbreaking programs that help patients, families, and caregivers navigate social, reparative experiences. Monique...

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Re-imagining Museums for Healing

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2020 60:04

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Episode 80: Annalise Gratovich

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2020 65:48

"I have a huge interest in empathy and compassion and humanizing people. That’s been a big part of my work and my life." Annalise Gratovich is a Texas printmaker who uses a lot of different tools and a supportive community to create small to sometimes very large prints. She can often be found carving carefully and meditatively out of wood, scribing into metal, or hand dying paper, the goal being to breathe life into the various beings, objects, and plants that inhabit the totemic and endearing world she has created. A world inspired by her family heritage and a desire to engender empathy and wonder. Everything is revealed when the paper is pulled from the intricately crafted and inked matrix. All of the hard work culminates in a print that will live on the walls of art lovers and collectors who appreciate the care and compassion that comes through in her work. She also travels to many other print shops as a guest artist and lecturer, is on the board of directors for Print Austin, and works the Blanton Museum of Art. Annalise Gratovich – Through the Dusk, a Light Recspec Gallery (https://recspec-gallery.com/) 4825 Weidemar Lane #700, Austin, Texas 78745 (map) (Facebook Event) (https://www.facebook.com/events/861446307640715/?active_tab=discussion) Opening Reception Saturday, January 25th – 5-9pm On view through March 7th and for PrintAustin Works on paper about the places for which the heart yearns by printmaker and artist Annalise Gratovich. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/4/41335247-836c-4f4a-8a8b-aeca55f3227a/M-tsJ8L_.JPG https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/4/41335247-836c-4f4a-8a8b-aeca55f3227a/fLXgE9lm.jpg About text courtesy of Annalise's website Annalise creates her finely crafted prints by hand from start to finish, carving wood, etching metal, dyeing paper, and using manual printing presses to create multiple originals. Each piece is printed on the finest archival papers using oil based inks and hand dyed papers she produces in her studio. Annalise operates as a self publisher out of Austin, Texas and travels frequently across the country as a visiting artist and speaker and to publish prints with highly esteemed print shops. Annalise begins each of her pieces with a drawing and a love for technical and artistic experimentation. She meticulously carves wood blocks with hand tools or carefully scribes into wax on the surface of a copper plate that is then dipped into an acid bath. Once these matrices are complete, sometimes after months of carving or a dozen dips in the acid bath, she begins her color development. Starting from color swatches she dips and tests in her studio, she dyes in bulk sheets of thin yet strong mulberry paper in a wide variety of colors and patterns. These sheets of dyed paper are then carefully cut out and applied to the wet ink on each woodcut or etching during the printing process, at which time the ink, papers, and pressure all combine to create the prints you see here. Annalise Gratovich was awarded the title of Creative Ambassador of Visual Arts in 2019 by the City of Austin and exhibits extensively nationally and internationally, most recently in Buggenhagen, Germany, New York, NY, Dawson City, Youkon, San Antonio, TX and Austin, TX. She was most recently a guest artist and lecturer at Egress Press, Edinboro University, Pennsylvania, and a guest artist and juror at New Leaf Editions in Vancouver, B.C. Her most recent publications were produced by Mixed Grit in Denver, Colorado, at Egress Press in Pennsylvania, Evil Prints in St. Louis, Missouri, and Cannonball Press, Brooklyn, New York. She has work in numerous private and public collections, the most recent acquisition going to the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. She is a member of the Board of Directors of PrintAustin, a month-long, city-wide printmaking event for which she has helped organize exhibitions and special events, curate the PrintAustin Invitational, and has participated in artist and curator talks, and panel discussions. Annalise’s ongoing and largest series to date, Carrying Things From Home, is comprised of eight 3x5.5 foot hand-dyed chine collé woodcuts. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/4/41335247-836c-4f4a-8a8b-aeca55f3227a/f4zzPFmP.jpg Annalise at the 2018 PrintAustin Expo PRINTAUSTIN (https://printaustin.org/) January 15th - February 15th, 2020 PrintAustin’s mission to the Austin art community and galleries is to share our enthusiasm for printmaking by helping galleries curate, exhibit, and promote works on paper and to engage a wider audience through in-house artist talks, signings, panels, printmaking demonstrations, and print-focused art happenings. With several professional print shops, nationally recognized university printmaking programs, internationally acclaimed print collections, and a thriving printmaking community, Austin is a hub for printmaking in Texas. The PrintAustin team is working with organizations and individuals throughout the Austin visual arts community to showcase fine art prints during this annual event, January 15-February 15. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Intro music generously provided by Stan Killian (http://stankillian.com/main/) Support this podcast. (http://www.austinarttalk.com/supportpodcast)

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Odds & Ends: Behind the Curtain

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2019 20:13

Odds and Ends cobbles together every story big and small from UT and Austin. In this episode, Blaine Young talks to the team responsible for lighting UT Tower, Sophia Kontos learns about how exhibitions at the Blanton Museum of Art come to be, and Clark Dalton finds who is behind the anonymous positive messages in the WCP. Hosted by Sara Schleede. Produced by Harper Carlton, Sara Schleede and Divya Jagadeesh. Music by Pictures of the Floating World, Blue Dot Sessions and Alpha Hydrae.

Episode 71: Deborah Roberts

I Like Your Work: Conversations with Artists, Curators & Collectors

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2019 70:35

"I’m going to continue to push my work forward. The work has always come first. It has to be the work, because it’s no good if it’s not. That’s my philosophy. I don’t push that on anyone else. That’s just always been my thing. That the work has to do what it needs to do." In this highly anticipated followup to my first interview with Deborah from March of 2018, we sit down to talk about all of the wonderful and sometimes challenging aspects of her amazing career over the last year and a half since we last spoke. From grants to residencies to gallery representation in Los Angeles and London, it has been a will ride. But don’t think she is an overnight success. Her work ethic and passion have carried her though over four decades of pursing art to where she is now. As they say, luck is when opportunity meets preparation. Deborah shares how her work has been evolving and where it is headed, her studio practice, as well as giving us a peek into some ideas for her upcoming one women show at The Contemporary Austin a year from now. I think Deborah proves that hard work, integrity, and persistence can change your life and the lives of others in a positive way. She is even planning to start a foundation to help other artists get the help that she so dearly needed to grow her career early on. If you haven heard our first conversation that covers the history of her life and career before last year, have a listen to Episode 19. Artist statment and Bio courtesy of Deborah's website. ARTIST STATEMENT Whether I was aware of it or not, otherness has been at the center of my consciousness since the beginning of my artistic career. My early ideals of race and beauty were shaped by and linked through paintings of renaissance artists and photographs in fashion magazines. Those images were mythical, heroic, beautiful, and powerful and embodied a particular status that was not afforded equally to anyone I knew. Those images influenced the way I viewed myself and other African Americans, which led me to investigate the way our identities have been imagined and shaped by societal interpretations of beauty. Having one’s identity dismantled, marginalized and regulated to non-human status demands action. This led me to critically engage image-making in art history and pop-culture, and ultimately grapple with whatever power and authority these images have over the female figure. My art practice takes on social commentary, critiquing perceptions of ideal beauty. Stereotypes and myths are challenged in my work; I create a dialogue between the ideas of inclusion, dignity, consumption, and subjectivity by addressing beauty in the form of the ideal woman, the Venus. By challenging Venus, my work challenges the notion of universal beauty—making room for women of color who are not included in this definition. Wading through my work, you must look through multiple layers, double meanings and symbols. My process combines found and manipulated images with hand drawn and painted details to create hybrid figures. These figures often take the form of young girls. I’m interested in the way young girls symbolize vulnerability but also a naïve strength. The girls who populate my work, while subject to societal pressures and projected images, are still unfixed in their identity. Each girl has character and agency to find their own way amidst the complicated narratives of American, African American and art history. BIO Deborah Roberts (American, b. 1962) is a mixed media artist whose work challenges the notion of ideal beauty. Her work has been exhibited internationally across the USA and Europe. Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; The Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey; and The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York. Roberts is the recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Grant (2018), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2016) and a Ginsberg-Klaus Award Fellowship (2014). She received her MFA from Syracuse University, New York. She lives and works in Austin, Texas. Roberts is represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Some of the subjects we discuss: The first interview New studio Since the last interview Painting vs Collage Romantic/Americana Flat and fixed Work about boys George Stinney Where the work goes Tamir Rice shooting Evolving the work Boys with pink shirts Using fist imagery Do you see the subtlety Sculpture work/Books Lot’s of work to be done The first year/Car analogy Taking control/Staying true People working with her Keeping up the level Missing women Volta/Being prepared Having inventory Who gets the work Meeting new people Paying the bills Time to grow the work The work was fracturing Fear of changing Grants for artists A little bit of help Not an overnight success It’s not easy/Stress Hours a week Rauschenberg Residency Studio manager Contemporary installation Why not be preachy Getting back to people New book release Big Goals Talk at Blanton Upcoming Events October 4, 2019 6pm-8pm Book Release/Signing of "Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi" (https://www.facebook.com/events/704608353284801/) George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center 1165 Angelina St, Austin, Texas 78702 October 8th, 2019 6:30pm Artist Talk: Deborah Roberts and Robert A. Pruitt (https://54061.blackbaudhosting.com/54061/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=96ab230d-5226-4669-a7de-fa5c891fcb28&fbclid=IwAR3JJAPW80Xbd9gyo1rBtpgpzuqtJoe84HLKmIjM0U-Z9sqo4hAeg8-6_hc) This event is free to the public but pre-registration is recommended. Blanton Museum of Art The University of Texas at Austin 200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Austin, TX 78712 Banner image - Deborah Roberts LET THEM BE CHILDREN 120" x 45" Mixed Media Collage on Canvas 2018 This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Intro music generously provided by Stan Killian (http://stankillian.com/main/) Support this podcast. (http://www.austinarttalk.com/supportpodcast)

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Artist Kim Dorland: Going Somewhere- Life in the Studio and Painting the Psyche

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2019 50:17

I am excited to share this week's interview with the incredibly successful and talented painter, Kim Dorland! I have been a fan of Kim for a long time. His thick oil paintings depict the landscape and the psyche of the individuals in them. In this episode, we talk about Kim's background and overcoming hardships in Wainwright, Alberta Canada, meeting the person that is now his wife, how he started studying art, his studio practice, how his work has shifted, and the importance of his family life. Kim is funny, sharp and insightful. Kim has shown extensively nationally and internationally. He was born in Wainwright, Alberta, Canada and received his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and his MFA from York University. His work is featured in The Sander Collection (Berlin); Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (KS); Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Blanton Museum of Art (TX); Glenbow Museum (Calgary); Art Gallery of Alberta; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and numerous private collections. Dorland was recently the focus of a solo exhibition at the MCA Denver. Kim lives and works in Vancouver. LINKS Kim Dorland Kim Dorland Instagram Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Angell Gallery MCA Denver

Blind Contour: Marc Dennis

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2019 7:01

Marc Dennis is an American artist known for his hyperrealistic paintings that celebrate the subversive potential of beauty and explore the charged subjects of identity, pleasure, and power. His works have been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions in New York, London, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Boston, Houston, and Seattle, and included in numerous private and public collections, including those of JP Morgan Chase; The Neuberger Berman Collection, New York; The Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin; The Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio; and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, among others. https://marcdennis.com/ During ArtCrush 2019, we sat down with some of the attending artists for a new audio series called Blind Contour to discuss their current practices and happenings. This episode features painter Marc Dennis talking about the darkness in his paintings and his love of painting commissions, one of which was featured in the ArtCrush 2019 Live Auction. Music: Podington Bear via the Free Music Archive https://www.podingtonbear.com/

Episode 14: Punderball

Pun Intensive

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2019 45:38

Heads up: There's a touch of ribald humor in this episode. We try to be family friendly, but the occasional double on taun-taun slips in. We like to think that if your kids get them, that's on you, not us. Talk to us about this episode by sending an email to episode14@punintensive.com What was that woman's name, anyway? Do you like the new name of our panel, "The Punnel?" Can you come up with any movie titles we should have used in Schmovie? Like one for a movie about "a sloppy granny?" Mentioned in the podcast: If you thought the game Schmovie was fun in the podcast, you should play it in a party! On March 30th, the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX will be having a shindig that will include some of the punnelists! Graupel is a thing, oddly enough. Want more? Our web site is punintensive.com Play games at faceboook.com/punypage Social media where we reside:facebook.com/punintensive instagram.com/punintensive pinterest.com/punintensive twitter.com/punintesive youtube.com This week's panelists are: Aaron Fasel Gary Hallock David Gugenheim Andy Balinsky Geraldine or something And don't forget to remember that the next International O. Henry Pun-Off is in Austin on May 11th, 2019. We also want to give special thanks to the band Dark Meat, whose music ("When the Killers Came") we have come to love to use in our podcast. We'll see you next week!

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Polly Apfelbaum

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2018 89:08

Polly Apfelbaum is an artist living and working in NYC. In 2018, Polly had solo exhibitions at the Belvedere 21 in Vienna, Austria and Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK, which travels to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, in 2019. She has exhibited widely since the 1980s, including one-person exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA at Bepart in Waregem, Belgium, the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, MA, the lumber room in Portland, OR and at the Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India. A major mid-career survey of her work opened in 2003 at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA, and traveled to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, both in 2004. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Pattern and Decoration, Ornament as Promise, Ludwig Forum for Internationale Kunst in Aachen, Germany , An Irruption of the Rainbow at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wall to Wall at MOCA Cleveland in Cleveland, OH, Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler at the Rose Art Museum, , Three Graces at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY, Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today at the Museum of Art and Design in New York , AMERICANA: Formalizing Craft at the Perez Art Museum in Miami, FL, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, amongst many, many others.   Polly’s work is in numerous permanent collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Dallas Museum of Art; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; The Museum of Modern of Art, New York; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1987, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993, an Artist's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1995, an Anonymous Was a Woman Award in 1998, a Richard Diebenkorn Fellowship in 1999, a Joan Mitchell Fellowship in 1999, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2002, and the Rome Prize in 2012. Brian stopped by Polly’s loft in lower Manhattan where she’s lived and worked for the last 40 years for a talk about early influence, the Pennsylvania Dutch, Philadelphia funk, craft, design, endless drive and so much more.

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Episode 1. Madam C.J. Walker

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2018 45:32

Today we’re at the Blanton Museum on the University of Texas at Austin Campus, telling the story of a monumental figure in American history, Madam C.J. Walker, and her pursuit of the American dream.

Episode 1. Bonus Interview

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2018 19:25

Interview with Meredith Lehman, Educator at the Blanton Museum.

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Episode 43: Vincent Valdez - The Beginning is Near

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2018 78:32

"These images like murals are images that can speak to people and that people can identify with. You don’t have to be from a certain background or certain city or community or ethnicity or political belief or religious belief. These are my visual memorials to the epic and endless struggle of the human experience." From Vincent Valdez’s point of view we have a choice as to which way we want to go as a country. We can start again. It could be the beginning of a darker chapter in our history or a more enlightened and inclusive one. And art can sometimes be that guide to help tell us who we are, what we are made off, and where we can go from here. One of his biggest fears is that we are not learning from history, some of which is seemingly lost, and some of it ignored or manipulated to favor one group over another. Vincent has never wanted to be anything other than an artist and he vowed and pledged an oath to himself and his work right from the beginning. Never would he sway from what he felt in his heart that it was most important to say, no matter the consequences. He has stayed true to his vision for almost two decades and has used his struggles in life and in the studio as fuel to propel him forward. His integrity, clarity, and work ethic come from his parents and family who are the common people that have helped to build their communities and America while enduring discrimination and the systemic limitations built into our society that do not favor people of color. At the very beginning of his life as a small helpless baby in an incubator Vincent was holding on for life, but his grandmother saw then what is obvious now to the rest of us. He has something to say and he has the ability, the determination, and the courage to say it in his own visual way. As he developed his skills, discipline, and interest in art growing up, he really found his calling when he started to paint murals with his mentor Alex Rubio. That was his first real education about people, life, and how the world works. He vowed to never loose sight of or touch with the community that he was learning to portray and give a presence and a voice to in those murals. We see now in his works the truths and realties of life’s struggles and a mirror of ourselves and the human experience that we night not always recognize on our own or want to look at. Potential moments of truth and something greater than just one person or one artist. In his studio Vincent feels the most freedom in his life and the main limitation is having the time to manifest all of his ideas. Beyond painting and drawing he feels he is just a novice so there is much to learn. The work is an outlet to try to make sense of the world outside of the studio and success is simply having the ability to do what he wants to do. Be an artist and keep reinventing himself and keep exploring how to see and show things differently, or as they really are. When he has an intense feeling and idea for new work his biggest challenge is how to then translate that into a painting or drawing that will potentially give the viewer of that work a similar feeling. Vincent and I met in 2011 at The Serie Project thanks to the amazing Sam Coronado. Over the years our paths have crossed again but with the excitement around the inclusion of his paintings The City I & II at the Blanton Museum of Art, I knew the time was right for an interview. And what a great interview it is, not because of anything I did, but because of Vincent’s humble, generous, and wise perspectives on life, being an artist, and staying true to your ideals. Please enjoy and if this episode or any other I've produced have helped or added value to your life please consider supporting the podcast (http://www.austinarttalk.com/supportpodcast) so it can continue and grow. Thanks! Some of the subjects we discuss: Sam Coronado The Strangest Fruit Defining moments Visiting The Alamo Painting murals/community Getting held up at gun point Facing tough issues/truths Amnesia/looking in the mirror Influential artists Struggles/oath to work Capturing a feeling Challenges/bodily limits Source of integrity/parents Voices of the people The Beginning is Near Critical thinking The role of Art Travel outside US Origin story/childhood What is success? Doing the work Skill level/types of work Fortunate enough Teaching/corazón Adriana Corral Requiem sculpture Collaboration https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/4/41335247-836c-4f4a-8a8b-aeca55f3227a/7Efrx8jf.jpg Vincent in his studio with a painting of his grandparents. Current Local Exhibitions Vincent Valdez: The City The Beginning is Near (Part I) CLOSES →October 28, 2018 On view at The Blanton Museum of Art (https://blantonmuseum.org/) The University of Texas at Austin 200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Austin, TX 78712 512-471-5482 info@blantonmuseum.org Here's a link to the museum website dedicated to a discussion of The City. http://blantonmuseum.org/valdethecity https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/4/41335247-836c-4f4a-8a8b-aeca55f3227a/ifviXSTE.png Also on view in the permanent collection of the Blanton are two of Vincent's paintings from The Strangest Fruit (https://vincentvaldezstudio.com/the-strangest-fruit/)series. They are right across from two prints by previous podcast guest Deborah Roberts (http://www.austinarttalk.com/19). The photo below was taken by me on 9/29/13, the day he finished the series at his former firehouse studio in San Antonio, right before they came crate them up. https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/4/41335247-836c-4f4a-8a8b-aeca55f3227a/jZUFRktf.jpg Vincent Valdez: Dream Baby Dream The Beginning is Near (Part II) Fri, Sep 7, 2018 → Sat, Nov 10, 2018 David Shelton Gallery (http://davidsheltongallery.com/exhibitions/detail/vincent_valdez_dream_baby_dream_sep_2018) 4411 Montrose Blvd., Suite B Houston, Texas 77006 713 393-7319 info@davidsheltongallery.com https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/4/41335247-836c-4f4a-8a8b-aeca55f3227a/-gne7--k.jpeg The lights are on. The mics are live. The cameras are rolling, yet no one is sure where to begin. Gestural brushwork composes the scene. Moments of pause. Speakers at podiums, flanked by microphones and floral arrangements. Each is silent. Some mournful. Some pensive. Others meditative or distant. Collectively uncertain of where we go from here. Dream Baby Dream (2017–2018) is Part II of Vincent Valdez’s allegorical trilogy The Beginning Is Near. The series follows on from Part I (2015–2016), two large oil paintings, The City I and The City II, that address the structural oppression, hate and violence Valdez sees as inscribed into the sociocultural landscape of the United States. As he completed the final canvas of The City I, news broke of the death of Muhammad Ali (June 3, 2016). A week later, between bouts of painting, Valdez watched television coverage of people following the hearse carrying Ali’s body, the funeral service and the eulogies honoring “The Greatest.” The diversity of the speakers and the compassion and conviction of their words resonated with Valdez, but months later, during the culmination of the 2016 presidential campaign, he found new meaning in the spectacle surrounding Ali’s death. Returning to the footage, Valdez sought to reconcile Ali’s life and legacy with the dawning apprehension, anxiety, division and disillusionment that echoed across the country from screen to shining screen. From an essay by Ian Alden Russell, August, 2018 Banner Image - Dream Baby Dream (7), 2018 oil on paper 42 x 72 inches Photo: Peter Mollick This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Intro music generously provided by Stan Killian (http://stankillian.com/main/) Support this podcast. (http://www.austinarttalk.com/supportpodcast)

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The City Within Our City

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2018 69:02

Listen back to a very special edition of KUT’s Views and Brews recorded live at the Blanton Museum on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin,“The City Within Our City.” KUT’s Rebecca McInroy hosts Dr. Rich Reddick, Dr. Cherise Smith, Rabbi Neil Blumofe, and Blanton Curator Veronica Roberts to talk about “The City,” […]

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The City Within Our City

University of Texas Press

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2018 69:02

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Leyla Aksu Interviews Artist Nina Katchadourian

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2018 49:04

Brooklyn-based artist Nina Katchadourian exhibited a mid-career survey of her work at the Blanton Museum of art, titled "Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser." The exhibition and accompanying book reveals the artist’s humor, ingenuity, and ability to unearth the creative potential that “lurks within the mundane,” to use her words. The diverse range of art it highlights includes Mended Spiderwebs, a series of photographs documenting the artist’s attempts to weave red string into dilapidated spiderwebs, and Under Pressure, a recent video that Katchadourian took of herself lip-synching to David Bowie and Freddie Mercury’s duet using her mobile phone in the cramped quarters of an airplane lavatory. We learn about art projects she has made with the assistance not only of arachnids and rock stars, but also United Nations translators, birdcall experts, librarians, sports announcers, parking lot attendants, an accent elimination coach, and even her own parents.

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Sarah Cain

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2018 57:35

Sarah Cain is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Sarah received a BFA in 2001 from The San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, CA and then received a MFA in 2006 from the University of California at Berkeley. That same year she attended Skowhegan. Sarah is a recipient of the 2011 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; the 2008 Durfee Grant; the 2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; and the 2006 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Sarah has had solo exhibitions at Adobe Books in San Francisco, CA; Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco, CA; a site-specific installation at Elk Camp, in collaboration with Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO; Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy; CTRL Gallery in Houston, TX; Five Thirty Three Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and many more. Recent group exhibitions include Holdings at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA, Contemporary Collection at the San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas, Surrogates at Griffin Art Projects in Vancouver, Variations: Conversations In And Around Abstract Painting at LACMA, Now-ism: Abstraction Today, at the Pizzuti Collection in Columbus, OH, Drawings & Works on Paper at Galerie Lelong and many more. Selected public collections include the Blanton Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA; the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; and The Margulies Collection in Miami, and more. Brian met Sarah at LeLong Gallery in Chelsea to talk about her early days in Kinderhook, mentors and music, moving out west and her many accomplishments. Sound & Vision is supported by Topo Designs. Based in Denver Colorado, Topo is committed to creating quality bags and clothing that stand the test of time. Check out their products at topodesigns.com Sound & Vision is sponsored by Kensington Stretchers & Panels. Kensington makes custom panels and stretchers that are high quality and durable supports for making artwork. Check them out at kensingtonpanels.com or email them at info@kensingtonpanels.com. You can also see some of their work on Instagram @kensingtonpanels Sound & Vision is also brought to you by Charter Coffeehouse. Charter is on Graham Avenue in East Williamsburg, just one block from the Graham L Stop. The serve great coffee, pastries, donuts and more. Find out more at www.chartercoffee.com, follow them on Instagram at @charter_bk

Season 1 - Episode 3

Sounds Of Earth

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2018 3:07

Sounds from: 1. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin - USA (Amar) 2. Donaustraße, Berlin - Germany 3. Indiranagar, Bangalore - India Varun (Varun) 4. Liberty St, Savannah - USA (Ester) 5. Pont des Arts, Paris - France (Alia) 6. Village Near Janjanbureh - Gambia (Lucy) More at soundsof.earth Submit sounds at submit@soundsof.earth

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On Canvas - Poet's Mixtape #6

Creative Nonsense

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2018 2:03

Inspired by art from the Blanton Museum at The University of Texas campus. Every Monday, 3 poems read for you. Available to stream on Anchor, here and on my Facebook page. I've been busy writing, so here's my voice for now. Hope you enjoy. Love, Ashley http://ko-fi.com/mzashleypie https://anchor.fm/ashley-robles https://twitter.com/mzashleypie http://mzashleypie.tumblr.com/ https://www.instagram.com/mzashleypie/ https://www.ashleyrobles.me/ https://www.twitch.tv/mzashleypie https://m.facebook.com/mzashleypie/ Music: Yellowline - Michael Aranda The Haze - Michael Aranda Snowplow - Michael Aranda https://www.youtube.com/user/WhatImDoingRightNow

Ep. 29: Bumble's Alex Williamson on improving your online dating odds

I Love You So Much: The Austin360 Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2018 50:14

With more than 20 million users, Bumble is one of the biggest dating apps in the U.S. The company's head of brand, Alex Williamson, who was part of the founding team at Bumble when it launched in 2014, gives advice on improving your chances of finding love online. Ellsworth Kelly was a noted artist and sculptor who died last year, but the Blanton Museum of Art is about to unveil what might be his greatest work. Deputy director for curatorial affairs Carter E. Foster tells us what's so special about this freestanding building, which opens to the public on Feb. 18. Michael J. Ryan, a UT biology professor and author of "A Taste for the Beautiful," talked with Tolly about the role that excitement plays in animal behavior and what humans can learn from mating rituals in nature. Avocados are as weird as they are delicious. For this week’s Webb Report, we brought in Eric Webb to explain what he uncovered while writing about cancer research in the Rio Grande Valley. Toast picks: "Ted Radio Hour" episode, "Can We Trust the Numbers?" "Caroline: Little House, Revisited" from historical fiction writer Sarah Miller and the #timesup movement. More info: austin360.com/loveaustin360

Episode 10: Claire Howard - Curating & The Open Road

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2017 56:40

This interview is with Claire Howard, the Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art here in Austin. The museum is currently hosting a traveling photography exhibit called The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip. Claire speaks about the content and images that make up the exhibit and shares what goes on behind the scenes to plan for and integrate an exhibition into a new space. She also had the chance to add elements to the original line up that enhance the conversation and relate to our location and it’s history for the benefit of a local audience. Don’t miss this great exhibition which will be on view from November 25th, 2017 until January 7th, 2018. It was organized by the Aperture Foundation in New York and curated by David Campany and Denise Wolf, supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Photographs by Robert Frank, Inge Morath, Ed Ruscha, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, William Eggleston, Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore, Victor Burgin, Bernard Plossu, Shinya Fujiwara, Eli Reed, Joel Sternfeld, Todd Hido, Alec Soth, Ryan McGinley, Justine Kurland, Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs. Blanton Museum of Art The University of Texas at Austin 200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Austin, TX 78712 PHONE: 512-471-5482 EMAIL: info@blantonmuseum.org Some of the subjects we discuss: The Blanton Claire’s previous work history Austin gallery spaces Prep for The Open Road Origins of the exhibition Hanging the show Photographing america Joel Sternfeld Lee Friedlander Alex Soth Inge Morath Justine Kurland Photography today Robert Frank Claire’s additions Eli Reed Road trip inspiration Walt Whitman quote Claire's Bio Claire Howard is the Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art. She was the 2016-2017 Vivian L. Smith Foundation Fellow at the Menil Collection in Houston, and from 2010 to 2013, she was a Graduate Research Assistant at the Blanton, where she worked on exhibitions including Through the Eyes of Texas: Masterworks from Alumni Collections, and curated the collection exhibition Cubism Beyond Borders (both 2013). Claire previously worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where, as a Research Assistant for Modern and Contemporary Art, she helped organize special exhibitions including Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés and Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective (both 2009). Claire has also worked and interned at the Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia), Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York), and Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center (Wellesley, MA). She is a PhD Candidate in Art History at The University of Texas at Austin, and is writing her dissertation on the Surrealist movement and its cultural context from 1950-1969. Claire earned an MA in Art History from The University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Art History and English from Wellesley College. She is a native of Philadelphia.

“Park Place Gallery: Founders and Friends, Then and Now” Gallery Talk with Artist Patsy Krebs and Curator David Eichholtz

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2017 65:12

David Richard Gallery is pleased to present “Park Place gallery: Founders and Friends, Then and Now”. The focus of the exhibition will be on paintings and drawings from the 1960s as well as later career works from founding members Dean Fleming, Edwin Ruda and Leo Valledor along with several of their friends and quest exhibitors at Park Place: Linda Fleming, Patsy Krebs, Ronnie Landsfield, Robert Swain, Neil Williams and Mario Yrisarry. The exhibition will be presented February 3 through March 25, 2017, with an opening reception and several of the artists present on Friday, February 3 from 5:00 - 7:00 PM. There will be a gallery talk with artist Patsy Krebs and curator David Eichholtz on Saturday, February 4 from 3:00 - 4:00 PM. David Richard Gallery is located at 1570 Pacheco Street, Suite A1, Santa Fe, NM 87505, P: 505-983-9555. The members of the Park Place Group and Gallery have been the subject of several important museum exhibitions that explored their contributions and importance in the then burgeoning, cutting edge art scene in Lower Manhattan during the 1960s. Curated by Linda Dalrymple Henderson, the Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, presented “Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York” from September 28, 2008 to January 18, 2009. Currently, on view through April 1, 2017 at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery is the exhibition, “Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965”, curated by Melissa Rachleff. This presentation includes several artworks by Park Place Gallery founding members Dean Fleming, Edwin Ruda and Leo Valledor.

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Ep 111: Walter's Party Tips | La La Land Review | Odd Duck Was a Bummer

The Nash Attack

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2017 27:38

It's Walter Wednesday and my brain is absolutely fried! Thankfully Walter is here with some awesome topics to keep the conversation moving. We talk about some Austin places like the Blanton Museum (thumbs up) and the restaurant Odd Duck (thumbs down). Walter also reviews La La Land and I wonder if you agree with him about the film... www.TheNashAttack.com/episode-111

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