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Send us a textIn this podcast episode, Ricardo Karam meets the Lebanese multimedia artist and poet living and working in  Beirut, Afaf Zurayk. Daughter of Constantin Zurayk, a prominent Syrian intellectual who was one of the first to pioneer and express the importance of Arab nationalism, Afaf studied Fine Arts at the American University of Beirut and continued her academic pursuit with a master's degree in Islamic Art from Harvard University.Her teaching career spanned prestigious institutions in Lebanon and the United States, including the Corcoran School of the Arts, and Georgetown University. Through her art, Afaf expresses her vision of the world as a "garden without walls", embodying freedom and openness shaped by her experiences of exile and separation.In this conversation, she shares her profound connection to art, describing it as a continuous journey of self-discovery and exploration. She also discusses the six books she has authored, which showcase her creative vision.Join Ricardo Karam and Afaf Zurayk in this captivating dialogue about art, freedom, and the ongoing quest to return to one's essence.في هذه الحلقة من البودكاست، يلتقي ريكاردو كرم بالفنانة متعددة الوسائط والشاعرة اللبنانية المقيمة والعاملة في بيروت، عفاف زريق. هي ابنة قسطنطين زريق، المفكر السوري البارز وأحد أوائل من روّجوا لأهمية القومية العربية. درست عفاف الفنون الجميلة في الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت، ثم واصلت مسيرتها الأكاديمية لتحصل على درجة الماجستير في الفنون الإسلامية من جامعة هارفارد. امتدّت مسيرتها التعليمية لتشمل مؤسسات مرموقة في لبنان والولايات المتحدة، منها مدرسة كوركوران للفنون وجامعة جورجتاون.تعكس أعمالها الفنية رؤيتها للعالم كـ"حديقة بلا سور"، حيث تتجلى قيم الحرية والانفتاح بعد سنوات من المنفى والانفصال.في هذا الحوار، تكشف عفاف زريق عن علاقتها العميقة بفنّها وكيف تحوّل هذا التعبير إلى وسيلة لاستكشاف العالم من حولها. كما تتحدث عن الكتب الستة التي ألفتها والتي تبرز رؤيتها الإبداعية. انضموا إلى ريكاردو كرم وعفاف زريق في حديث شيّق عن الفن، الحرية، والرحلة المستمرة للعودة إلى الذات.#podcast #art #artist #Beirut #washington #exploration #ricardokaram #afafzurayk #بودكاست #فن #فنانة #بيروت #واشنطن #استكشاف #ريكاردو_كرم #عفاف_زريق

Kit White is the author of the international best-selling book 101 Things To Learn In Art School, which is based on his experience as a professor of art for 21 years at the Pratt Institute in New York. Many of the original drawings from the book are in the collection of the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery at the Corcoran School of Art and Design, George Washington University. He's had more than 25 solo exhibitions of his artworks in galleries and museums. His artworks are in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and many others. He's frequently featured in magazines, newspapers, and television, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Nation. In addition to Pratt, he's taught at Vanderbilt, McGill, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Frick Collection. His work is the subject of a monograph by Carter Ratcliff, Line Into Form. For more information: 101 Things To Learn In Art School www.kitwhiteart.com Music by license from SoundStripe: "Uptown Lovers Instrumental" by AFTERNOONZ "Miss Missy" by AFTERNOONZ "What's the Big Deal" by Ryan Saranich Copyright (c) 2024 Keith Sawyer

On this week's episode of the Friends in Beauty podcast I welcome Jeffrey Wright to the Friends in Beauty guest chair. Jeff has been working as a professional Makeup Artist for the last 17 years in the Washington, DC (and surrounding) area.  A graduate from Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Corcoran School of Art and Design in Washington, DC, he lends an artistic eye to his approach to makeup and treats his subjects face as a three dimensional canvas.  His resume includes working and consulting for such prestigious cosmetic brands; including Bobbi Brown, Dior, Benefit, Smashbox, Laura Mercier and M.A.C. Cosmetics. Jeff's philosophy is to help women (and men) of all ages define their best features and build their self-esteem and confidence through the power of makeup.  “By refining someone's exterior, it allows them to be more confident and gives them the ability to open up and let their true personality radiate”. “Makeup is powerful! It can change one's demeanor, boost confidence and stop an admirer dead in his or her tracks”.  Jeff is a self taught Makeup Artist who has had the pleasure to be coached by a few well  respected industry legends such as: Sam Fine, Valente Frazier, Renny Vasquez and Danessa Myricks.  During our chat we talked about how we met, setting boundaries, client retention, learning from the greats, sustaining longevity and so much more. Enjoy this episode! Leave us a 5 star review and share this episode with a friend or 2 or 3. info@friendsinbeauty.com GET BOOKKEEPING & ACCOUNTING SERVICES - Tell Them Friends in Beauty Sent You https://kickstartaccountinginc.com TRAVEL SURVEY - TRAVEL WITH FRIENDS IN BEAUTY https://bit.ly/FIBTravelSurvey ENROLLMENT OPEN - TRAILBLAZERS CLUB MEMBERSHIP https://bit.ly/FIBTrailblazersClub ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS OF THE PODCAST https://www.friendsinbeauty.com/advertise LEARN HOW TO RECORD + EDIT A PODCAST IN 7 DAYS OR LESS:  https://bit.ly/DIYPodcasterCourse FRIENDS IN BEAUTY FACEBOOK COMMUNITY https://www.facebook.com/groups/friendsinbeauty Additional Resources: MUST HAVE BEAUTY, PODCASTING, CONTENT CREATION TOOLS, AND BOOKS https://www.amazon.com/shop/akuarobinson LEARN A NEW SKILL Skillshare - Use this link for 2 months free of the premium plan: https://skl.sh/30t352q SAVE 10% ON MENTED COSMETICS (I'M SHADE D10) Shop Mented Cosmetics - https://www.mentedcosmetics.com/?rfsn=1290937.f2481 Use Code “AKUAROBINSON” for 10% of your purchase  Join the Friends in Beauty Mailing List: https://www.bit.ly/FIBTribe Social Media Info: Jeffrey Wright (Instagram) - https://www.instagram.com/makeup_machine Friends in Beauty (Instagram) - https://www.instagram.com/friendsinbeauty Friends in Beauty (YouTube) - https://bit.ly/FIBTube Akua Robinson (Instagram) - https://www.instagram.com/akuarobinson Akua Robinson (Website) - https://www.akuarobinson.com NOTE: I am a Brand Ambassador and affiliate for certain businesses, products and services that I believe in. I may have referenced these and included links in this video, description or someplace else at this site. I hope you find the resources helpful. Copyright, Liability Waiver and Disclaimers. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act, and/or without the prior express written permission of Friends in Beauty, LLC, Akua Robinson Artistry, LLC and/or Akua Robinson. Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While all persons associated directly or indirectly with this site and video use their best efforts in preparing the content, there is no express or implied representations or warranty with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the content of the videos, including any content, links or resources shared, including those by third parties.

Discover the captivating and untold story of Ann Lowe, the brilliant designer behind Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress, as we delve into her legacy with fashion historian and author, Elizabeth Way.________Join the Patreon community for bonus features and video versions: patreon.com/womendesignersyoushouldknowCheck out the original reel / video this podcast was based on: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6EDEMrLDsn/Sources:Ann Lowe: American Couturier by Elizabeth WayMargaret Powell's master's thesis, The Life and Work of Ann Lowe, published in 2012 by the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design (Included in the book above)By Her Own Design by Piper Huguley (Fictional Novel based on her life)The Mike Douglas Show InterviewAbout Ann Lowe:Ann Lowe (1898-1981) was an influential African American fashion designer whose exquisite gowns were sought after by America's social elite. Born in Clayton, Alabama, she learned the art of dressmaking from her mother and grandmother, both skilled seamstresses. Despite facing significant racial barriers, Lowe's talent led her to design dresses for prominent families, including the Rockefellers, the du Ponts, and the Kennedys.Her most famous creation was Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding dress in 1953, a masterpiece completed under extraordinary circumstances. Lowe's work was known for its meticulous craftsmanship, hand-sewn details, and elegant designs, yet she received little recognition during her lifetime. Financial struggles and the racial discrimination she faced often overshadowed her achievements. Today, Ann Lowe is celebrated as a trailblazer in the fashion industry, whose contributions continue to inspire and influence designers around the world.About Elizabeth Way:Elizabeth Way is a curator who specializes in fashion history, particularly focusing on the intersection of fashion and African American culture. Elizabeth has curated several exhibitions, including "Black Fashion Designers" and "Fabric In Fashion," which highlight the contributions of Black designers and the significance of textiles in fashion. She also co-edited the book "Black Designers in American Fashion," contributing to scholarship and public understanding of the impact of Black designers in the fashion industry. AND authored a book that just came out in 2023 about Ann Lowe  ____View all the visually rich 1-min reels of each woman on IG below:Instagram: Amber AsayInstagram: Women Designers Pod

fWotD Episode 2623: DeLancey W. Gill Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia’s finest articles.The featured article for Wednesday, 10 July 2024 is DeLancey W. Gill.DeLancey Walker Gill (July 1, 1859 – August 31, 1940) was an American drafter, landscape painter, and photographer. Gill first became noted for his landscape illustrations and watercolors, featuring subjects such as Native American pueblos in addition to his main focus on Washington D. C. Characterized as detailed and meticulous in his landscapes, Gill captured views of working-class and rural areas of Washington not commonly depicted in art of the period. Despite his other work, he continued to paint throughout his life, and taught art classes at the Corcoran School.Gill was employed as an illustrator and draftsman for the Treasury, followed by similar work for the United States Geological Survey. He was director of the Division of Illustration at the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) from 1889 to 1932. Following the resignation of two of the Smithsonian's photographers in 1898, Gill, while not trained in photography, took over these duties at the BAE. In this role, he produced thousands of photographs of Native American delegations for the Bureau, including notable figures such as Geronimo and Chief Joseph. Gill's photographic work was showcased in Smithsonian publications, the Panama–Pacific Exposition and on a 1923 postage stamp. His portraiture has been praised for its pictorialist qualities and strength of design. He frequently gave clothing (at times outdated or misattributed) to Native American delegates. While Gill's costuming of delegates was considered salvage ethnography in the period, it has been critiqued in modern studies for reinforcing contemporary stereotypes and misrepresenting his subjects and their cultures.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:06 UTC on Wednesday, 10 July 2024.For the full current version of the article, see DeLancey W. Gill on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Gregory.

Hi Everyone! Today my guest is Erin K. Robinson, Illustrator of some fabulous books. Here is more about Erin: Erin K. Robinson is an Emmy-nominated illustrator in the News and Documentary category. Trained at the Parsons School of Design and the Corcoran School of Art, Erin's illustrations have been featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post, among others. She works in a variety of mediums that include watercolor, ink, markers, charcoal, stencil, collage as well as digital artistry. She is the illustrator of the A Library and the Magical Snowflake published by Union Square Kids. To see more of Erin's travels and art visit: https://www.instagram.com/brooklyndolly/?hl=en Thanks for listening!

Carol Barton is a painter, paper engineer, book artist and teacher who has published several editions and has organized both local and national shows, including the traveling Books and Bookends show and the Smithsonian Institution's Science and the Artist's Book exhibition. Her work is exhibited internationally and is in numerous collections, including the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She has taught at elementary, high school, and university levels, and has conducted adult workshops at art centers internationally. She was on the faculty at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia for 35 years and George Washington University's Corcoran School of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. for four years. She has had residencies at the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy and the Sacatar Foundation in Brazil, GilsfjordurArts in Iceland, and the VCCA residency in France. Her Pocket Paper Engineer workbooks in three volumes are how-to guides to making pop-up cards and pages. She is now producing a series of watercolor landscape paintings for exhibition.

In the latest episode of None But The Brave, co-hosts Hal Schwartz and Flynn McLean discuss Bruce Springsteen's latest record, a collection of soul covers titled Only The Strong Survive. They are joined by Lauren Onkey, the Director of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at George Washington University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S Edinom Selesković razgovaramo o njenim umjetničkim počecima u Washingtonu, razlozima zbog kojih se preselila u New York i bez ičije pomoći napravila sjajnu karijeru i pomogla stvaranje art scene u Williamsburghu. Objasnila nam je i pravila po kojima u New Yorku funkcionira sistem prodaje umjetnina galerijama, kolekcionarima i muzejima i zašto je umjetnost u Americi veliki biznis. Edina Selesković je rođena u Tuzli, a u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama 1991. godine je otišla u učeničku razmjenu i zbog rata bila primirana ostati tamo živjeti. Diplomirala je na čuvenoj likovnoj akademiji Corcoran School of Art u Washingtonu na odsjeku skulpture. Iz ateljea u Njujorku, njeni radovi su izloženi na preko 100 samostalnih i grupnih izložbi u galerijama širom Sjedinjenih Država, te u Europi i Aziji. Jedna je od osnivača umjetničke zajednice Williamsburg u New Yorku i umjetničkih kolaboracija The Stoodio i Anie Rexe. Osnovala je prvi program Artist in Residence u BiH u partnerstvu s Međunarodnom galerijom portreta Ismet Mujezinović u Tuzli. U svojoj karijeri je radila sa NASA-om, utemeljila je Festival savremene žene u Tuzli, učestvovala u rebrendiranju nacionalne košarkaške reprezentacije BiH. Dobitnica je brojnih nagrada uključujući Sculpture Space Fellowship, Sam i Adele Golden Foundation Fellowship u New Yorku. 2020. godine je dobila Svjetsku nagradu za vizuelne umjetnike (World Citizen Artists), a 2021. No Limit zlatne nagrade za ambijent u BiH. Redovna je članica je Internacionalne akademije nauka i umjetnosti u Bosni i Hercegovini. Bila je govornica na konferencijama od Weekend Media Festivala, OPEN FEST-a, STEPS i CEO konferencije, EPD konferencija u Pragu, Sarajevo Innovation Summit do AoMo u Liverpoolu. Gostujuća je profesorica na IEDC Bled School of Management. Edina živi i radi u New Yorku, Sarajevu i Tuzli. Hvala Radio Kameleonu, Zlatku Berbiću i Goranu Lončaru na realizaciji i produkciji ove epizode podcasta. Produkcija: Radio Kameleon Organizacija: Anisa Šerak Kamera, audio i video mix: Goran Lončar ___ Jednokratne donacije podcastu: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Kolek... --- Pratite nas na društvenim mrežama: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kolektivznanja Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kolektiv_zn... Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnisaSerak Slušajte nas na: Podcast rs: https://podcast.rs/show/kolektiv-znanja/ Apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1UY6dPu... Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/en/show/1994852 Google podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0... Captivate: https://kolektiv-znanja-a-serak.capti... Amazon podcast: https://www.amazon.com/Kolektiv-znanj…

Ashley VanGemeren is a mixed media artist from Laurel, Maryland. She knew she wanted to be an artist from an early age, developing a love for portraiture and acrylic painting in high school. She followed her dream by attending the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design earning her BFA in Fine Art in 2015. During her time at the Corcoran, Ashley became passionate about working with collage and abstraction. She started layering acrylic paint with found objects and unconventional materials to create pieces that were complex, visceral, and deeply personal. It was during this time of exploration she realized art making could be therapeutic, serving as a means to heal and connect with others who have struggled with mental illness and eating disorders. Her practice has expanded to include collage and wearable art, utilizing color and gestural brushwork to render the essence and celestial nature of her subjects. Ashley is a nationally exhibited artist, represented by Unruly Collective in Brooklyn since 2017 and is a returning artist to the FlatFile collection at Transformer Gallery in DC. In addition to her studio practice, she has taught dozens of painting and drawing classes to children grades 6-12 and adults of all ages. Check out her work at www.ashleyvangemeren.com Follow us on Instagram @Creativehabitspodcast you can donate at https://www.patreon.com/CreativeHabitsPodcast?fan_landing=true Become a Patron! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/creative-habits/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/creative-habits/support

Eric Lee, a photojournalist based in Washington DC, joins Jerry to share his unique Asian American journey, how he fell in love with using his camera to share stories, and what he has learned working on the McDonald's #WeAreAPA Series. Eric shared the photos and stories of Sumni, Kana Hatekeyama, Sapna Pandya, and Carolyn & Andrew Chin. Check out the entire series on our Instagram @DearAsianAmericansMeet EricEric Lee is a freelance photojournalist based in Washington, D.C. He is interested in covering stories revolving around identity, community, and resilience. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Bloomberg, The Intercept, National Geographic, New York Magazine, New Yorker, NPR, ProPublica, Reuters, The Washington Post, and more. A native New Yorker, earned his B.A. in film studies at Gettysburg College in 2015. Eric graduated with a master’s degree in new media photojournalism at the Corcoran School of Arts and Design during the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020. Eric is a member of NPPA, Diversify Photo, and AAJA. (Source: ericlee.co)Connect with EricWeb: ericlee.coInstagram: @itseleeTwitter: @erjleeCheck out Emanuel's #WeAreAPA Series featuring Sumni, Kana Hatekeyama, Sapna Pandya, and Carolyn & Andrew Chin!// Support Dear Asian Americans:Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/dearasianamericans/Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jerrywonLearn more about DAA Creator and Host Jerry Won:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrywon/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jerryjwon/// Listen to Dear Asian Americans on all major platforms:Transistor.fm: http://www.dearasianamericans.comApple: https://apple.dearasianamericans.comSpotify: https://spotify.dearasianamericans.comStitcher: https://stitcher.dearasianamericans.comGoogle: https://google.dearasianamericans.com  Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/dearasianamericans Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dearasianamericans Subscribe to our YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/dearasianamericans // Join the Asian Podcast Network:Web: https://asianpodcastnetwork.com/Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/asianpodcastnetwork/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asianpodcastnetwork/Dear Asian Americans is produced by Just Like Media:Web: http://www.justlikemedia.comInstagram.com: http://www.instagram.com/justlikemedia

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that it will be an early voting site for the upcoming New York State primary elections. The announcement came earlier this week and it marks the first time in 151 years that the Met will host voters, joining institutions like Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Museum of the Moving Image facilitating early voters in previous years. Kym Rice is Interim Director of Corcoran School of Arts and Design in Washington DC. We discuss the potential significance of the Met’s decision, and how it may influence how other cultural institutions engage with political happenings moving forward.

Now, more than ever, culture transcends geographic boundaries. In this episode, we explore the impact of that global phenomenon on the visibility of contemporary diaspora art. From Jamaica, Rosie Gordon-Wallace is a globally recognized curator, arts advocate, and community leader based in Miami, Florida, since the 1970s. In 1996, Gordon-Wallace launched a transformative enterprise, now known as Diaspora Vibe Culture Arts Incubator. DVCAI is a creative laboratory—promoting, nurturing, and cultivating the vision and diverse talents of artists from the Caribbean Diaspora, artists of color, and immigrant artists through public programs, residencies, exhibitions and more. In 2021, the organization will be 25 years old. We sit down with Gordon-Wallace to contemplate the significance of this moment.  Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio | Special Sound from The Philosopher's Stone, with permission of artist Asser Saint-Val Related Episodes: Diaspora Vibe: Art with Caribbean Roots, Mapping Caribbean Cultural Ecologies, New Caribbean Cinema, Miami's Caribbean Arts Remix Related Links: Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inter|Sectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City, Donette Francis, Rosa Naday Garmendia, Evelyn Politzer, Chantal James, Asser Saint-Val, Michael Elliott, The Windrush Generation, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture, Miami Design District A traveling exhibition that celebrates DVCAI’s 25th year, Inter | Sectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City is a multidisciplinary curatorial collaboration and exploration of the emergence of the “Creole City” as a local, regional and global phenomenon. Internationally recognized curators Sanjit Sethi, President, Minneapolis College of Art and Design and former director of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, and Rosie Gordon-Wallace, founder and curator of Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI), designed this collaboration to provide a lens through which communities and community leaders internationally can begin to better understand themselves, their diversity and their unlimited possibilities. In 2019, Inter | Sectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City was presented in our nation’s capital at a time when diaspora artists and voices were challenging social justice, celebrating identities—reactivating and bridging communities through contemporary art and scholarship. The complexities and diversities represented in this exhibition are emergent and, in many cases, ascendant across the world. In 2020, the exhibition travelled to the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2021, Inter | Sectionality came home to the Design District, in Miami, Florida.

Episode 9: Creative Cultural Leadership with Sanjit Sethi Sanjit Sethi has been an artist and cultural academic leader for the past twenty years and is currently the President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He has also served in leadership roles at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University, Memphis College of Art, the California College of the Arts and the Santa Fe Art Institute – among others. Additionally, he has taught at prestigious art schools such as the Srishti School of Art, Design, and Technology in India, MIT; and the Art Institute of Chicago. As an artist and curator, his work has spanned different media and geographies. Past works include the Kuni Wada Bakery Remembrance; Richmond Voting Stories; and the Gypsy Bridge project. Recent curatorial projects have included Spiked: The Unpublished Political Cartoons of Rob Rogers and 6.13.89 The Cancelling of the Mapplethorpe Exhibition.  Creative Cultural Leadership Creative Cultural Leadership is a philosophy that embraces artistry, innovation and empathy as fundamental to understanding and working with individuals and communities. The words creativity and innovation have taken on definitions which are too limiting. Creativity, experimentation and collaboration involves listening and decisiveness but also an embrace and an elevation of your own voice alongside the voice of others; it's not a solitary activity. All problems have a cultural aspect to it. The creative and the poetic mindset go hand in hand when building communities. Imperfection is OK Failure is an iterative process: Try, Fail, Learn – this is easier to see in art than it is in leadership. The world is asymmetrical in nature; very few things actually fit in neat tidy boxes. Our focus on symmetry allows us to avoid the real issues that exist in the world; oftentimes we're stymied thinking the system has to be perfect before being able to fix something. Leading a Team During a Crisis It's powerful to check in with your team about how they are doing – and yet be surgically efficient in how we use our time. Make space for visioning because you can't simply turn it on; inspire vision, create a visual palette cleanse to prepare the mind to vision. Push your team to not just solve current problems, but also to think about the future. Keep the team motivated: give credit, celebrate accomplishments, thank people in surprising ways, also there is no such thing as a dumb idea. Leadership Is… Leadership is how someone is able to judge when to leap from one moving freight train to another moving freight train and how to keep your hat during that leap. You have to know when to leap and when to wait. Leadership is asking what you know to be true that you think no one else in your field believes in; because you've got an idea everyone else thinks is absolutely bonkers. Leadership is being ok with the unease everyone feels which can be isolating. Leadership is showing empathy by showing a little bit of yourself. Leadership is vulnerability and contemplation which are two leadership qualities that are overlooked. Leading with Panic Check out Sanjit's article called Leading with Panic. Why Leaders Need to Talk More Openly About Anxiety. How do you take a disability or how do you take what seems like a disability and reframe it as an asset for communication and for greater empathy? Code Switching Working through leadership as a person of color Code switching can be exhausting and it's ok to acknowledge that Navigating white privilege Microaggressions can still exist even when have similar political perspectives Other References Jamie Bennett the Executive Director at ArtPlace America Ken Strickland who was the Dean at the Memphis College of Art Jean-Pierre Larocque a ceramicists and Associate Professor at Concordia University Ben Vinson, Provost and Executive Vice President at Case Western Reserve University Association for Independent Colleges of Art and Design To learn more about my work in executive coaching, leadership development and team effectiveness check out my website, connect with me on LinkedIn or email me at winnie@winnifred.org. Reach out and tell me what was helpful about today's episode or any suggestions you have for my show. Please leave a review and tell someone else about this show.  I look forward to sharing another transformative conversation with you next week!  

Matt Eich joins the Perfect Bound podcast to share his thoughts on classifying his work, the broken editorial model, finding a home for his images in photobooks, and using his wife's student loan money to produce his first limited-edition book. Listen to hear this artist's journey and where he's heading next.Matt Eich is a photographic essayist working on long-form projects related to memory, family, community, and the American condition. Matt teaches at Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University. He is the author of four monographs and also self-publishes under the imprint Little Oak Press.

Matthew Langley received his BFA from Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC in 1985. Since then, Langley’s work has been shown extensively in the United States and Europe through numerous group and solo exhibitions. Recent exhibitions include; Big Circle at M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kiev, In Color at Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA and The Unified Field at Blank Space, New York, NY. Langley’s artworks have also been included in various public and corporate collections including; the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage, and Construction, The Doris Patz Collection at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities, Ernest and Young, PNC Bank, Saks Fifth Avenue, Norwegian Cruise Lines, MacAndrews & Forbes and the State Department of the United States. He currently lives and works in New York. Books mentioned in the interview were White by Kenya Hara. Hara has been the art director of Muji since 2001. Also mentioned were the books of John le Carré Photo of studio with the large painting in process that is mentioned in the interview; Unfinished, 2020, 60 x 96 inches Marine Drive, 2019, 38 x 31 inches, acrylic on paper Zine by Matthew Langley and book by J Saltz

Guest Description: Kristen Mallia is a multimedia artist, a graphic designer, and a college lecturer for Boston University, MassArt, Suffolk University and School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Kristen is also a founder of her own creative studio called Mallia Design where she consults creative advice and provides multiple design services to a wide range of clientele in the Greater Boston area. The Paris Bar + Creperie, The Stone Gallery at Boston University, and the Humanist Hub at Harvard and MIT, to name a few, are her outstanding work collection. She graduated from Boston University with an MFA in 2018. Prior to that, she earned her BFA in Graphic Design from Corcoran School of Art + Design at George Washington University. Kristen has won several awards throughout her education in the art as well as professional life. That includes her Senior Graphic Design Thesis Project Award while attending Corcoran school, a project on typographic revolution. She is also often invited as a high-profile Thesis panelist at Suffolk University where she shares her experience and advice on students' design work.   Disclaimer: In the last couple of months, we have continued to interview guests and we had been saving it up until the time is right. It appears the time is right now to share this with the world! We are so excited!    In late 2019, the @pixelperfecttalk team had been planning on starting this podcast where we interviewed creatives about how they learn from their mistakes and how it helped with their success. But then the pandemic hit, and we created this Instagram account with the following podcast.   Social Media Links: Visit us at pixelperfect.blog Follow us @pixelperfecttalk on Instagram Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts + Spotify — Season 1: Pixel Perfect with Kristen Malia

In episode 124 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering the charity print sale and the photographic road trip. He also allows this week's contributor to go way over time!  Plus this week photographer Nicholas Syracuse takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Nicholas Syracuse, was born in Arizona and raised in the Washington DC area, where he studied photography at the Corcoran School of Art before studying at The Northwest Photographic Center in Seattle. His largest series of photographs is his ongoing Highway project, with photographs from Seattle, San Francisco, Phoenix, Texas, South Carolina, Indiana, and many points in between taken. He has been working on this project for the past twenty years. Film Director's Sam Roden and Nick Hartanto made a feature documentary film Traveller featu his work, that premiered at the Ashland Independent Film Festival in Ashland Oregon in 2015. www.roadphoto.com You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 on Player FM https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-life and Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Taylor Francis 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Taylor Francis 2019). His next book What Does Photography Mean to You? will be published in 2021. His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s. © Grant Scott 2020

We discuss: How he got gallery representation, Hemphill Fine Arts, Corcoran School of Art, St. Mary's College of Maryland, The negative parts of tenure, The 'golden handcuffs' of teaching, The annoyance of committees in academia, New definitions of studio practice, The importance of living where you are inspired, not where the art world exists, Transitioning from physical to virtual cultural experiences, Online portfolio reviews, Virtual art experiences shouldn't try to replicate real life but be something new, Using a scanner as a camera, Photography is the manipulation of time and light People and places we discuss: George Hemphill Kathleen Ewing Claudia Smigrod Frank DiPerna David Adamson Chris Foley, Old Town Editions Sally Mann Torpedo Factory Art Center The RAMP Studios Denise Carbonell + Derek Dominy The Media Arts project Bernard Welt Six Feet photography project Tracey Morgan Gallery Anne Rowland Josef Sudek Jan Saudek   http://www.revolveavl.org/ http://colbycaldwell.com/   Hosted by Matthew Dols http://www.matthewdols.com

We discuss: How he got gallery representation, Hemphill Fine Arts, Corcoran School of Art, St. Mary's College of Maryland, The negative parts of tenure, The 'golden handcuffs' of teaching, The annoyance of committees in academia, New definitions of studio practice, The importance of living where you are inspired, not where the art world exists, Transitioning from physical to virtual cultural experiences, Online portfolio reviews, Virtual art experiences shouldn't try to replicate real life but be something new, Using a scanner as a camera, Photography is the manipulation of time and light People and places we discuss: George Hemphill Kathleen Ewing Claudia Smigrod Frank DiPerna David Adamson Chris Foley, Old Town Editions Sally Mann Torpedo Factory Art Center The RAMP Studios Denise Carbonell + Derek Dominy The Media Arts project Bernard Welt Six Feet photography project Tracey Morgan Gallery Anne Rowland Josef Sudek Jan Saudek   http://www.revolveavl.org/ http://colbycaldwell.com/   Hosted by Matthew Dols http://www.matthewdols.com

  Asha Elana Casey’s a contemporary painter and mixed media artist. She began her artistic training at Duke Ellington school of the Art in Washington DC . Casey is a graduate of the Corcoran School of Art and an Anderson Ranch residency recipient. She currently live and works in DC.   Asha took us on her journey as a creative, and when she decided to become an artist. She discusses the opportunities that have come her way that have shaped her into an artist and educator. Asha spoke about the underlying message that she wanted to portray in her work, and what inspired her. Instagram : @Creative_Habits_Podcast Twitter : @HabitsCreative Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Creative-Habits-Podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/creative-habits/support

When music departments focus exclusively on classical music, are they also being racially exclusionary? How can the academy move beyond its history of racism and embrace other musical genres? A conversation with Loren Kajikawa, Associate Professor of Music at George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts & Design.Show notes and more over at soundexpertise.org

Adjoa Burrowes has had several successful careers and it was such an honor to talk with her about her art practice, teaching, and children’s books. She spoke about narrative and the importance of telling your own story and ensuring that students have opportunities to tell their own stories. I was so moved and inspired by this conversation. I hope you feel the same as you listen. Her discussion of the empowerment telling your own story provides reminded me of this talk by the acclaimed author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "The Danger of a Single Story." Adjoa’s words at the end about standing in the footprints of great artists are so powerful. Her story and her grit provide such motivation. To hear how she kept pushing to become a children’s book illustrator and then author by continuing despite hearing “no” again and again. “Keep pushing at it until the door opens.” She said. Yes!! Force those doors to open for you! I also loved her response to creative block - just sitting in that stuckness and letting it be time for incubation of an idea. She talked about how that pause, that slowing down is part of the creative process. Soak up her wisdom! Adjoa Burrowes is a mixed media artist and educator. Her multifaceted career includes decades as a graphic designer for major corporations, and illustrating over a dozen picture books - including Grandma’s Purple Flowers which she also authored. Her journey as a teaching artist includes years teaching in the National Museum of Women in the Art’s Bridging Communities and Arts, Books, and Communities (ABC) program in 12 schools, and 11 years developing art residencies as a teaching artist with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in dozens of schools in the DC metropolitan area. Burrowes has a BFA from Howard University in printmaking and an MA in art education from the Corcoran School of Art at The George Washington University. In her current art practice she creates abstract mixed media prints, collages, and sculpture from reclaimed cardboard that address issues of consumerism, decay, and rebirth. She lives and maintains a studio in northern Virginia and is an elementary art teacher at The Flint Hill School in Oakton, Virginia. Blog post with more links and images www.adjoaburrowes.com Adjoa Burrowes' fine art blog Adjoa Burrowes on Fine Art America @burrowesadjoa on instagram Interview on The Studio Visit Book: Grandma's Purple Flowers Book: Everybody Wears Braids Book: My Steps Book: Destiny's Gift South Side Community Art Center The Kennedy Center Africobra . . . Support this podcast. Subscribe, leave a review, or see more ways to support here. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/teachingartistpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachingartistpodcast/support

Artist and Curator Mary Welch Higgins talks about her single-minded focus on the arts and how it started from an early age. Mary Higgins is a fourth-generation Washington DC native who grew up continually visiting the local area museums and galleries. She has a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art and an MA in Visual Information Technologies from George Mason University. Her professional experience includes work as an adjunct professor, a creative director in the computer graphics industry, and most recently as gallery director and curate for the Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center. In addition, to her various work experiences, she has maintained her professional practice as an artist. Listen in while we chat about best advice and 3 things artists can do today to get more visibility. Favorite Contemporary Artist: Kyujin Lee https://www.kyujinlee.com/ Books Read Recently: More Than a Muse by Kate McCabe & Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership by Whitney Chadwick Find Mary here: https://www.instagram.com/distinctstudios/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/fisherartgallery/?hl=en http://marywelchhiggins.com/ https://www.facebook.com/people/Mary-Welch-Higgins/100007130714923

- Season 2, Episode 7 - The American Painters of the Great Depression: The Example of Thomas Donnelly                     (Thesis written by Cathy Mahon and narrated by Stephen Sniffin)Thomas Donnelly was born of Irish descent on February 25th 1893 and grew up in Washington D.C where he obtained his bachelor's degree from the Corcoran School of Art. In 1915, he moved to New York City to launch his career as an artist. He studied at the Art Students League of NY, and later on became a member of the Board. In 1917, Donnelly was drafted to the armed services under the Artists of the War Commando and joined World War I until the armistice. Back in NY, Donnelly rapidly became a well-known regionalist artist among the art connoisseurs of the city for his landscapes, coastal scenes, portraits and still life paintings. He was exhibited in museums, fairs and cultural events, all around the city. His responsibility as a painter was to pay tribute to nature and to bring the rural neighbourhoods into the cities. On a summer day of 1923, the artist drove through Westchester County; he stopped near a Welcome to Valhalla sign, he carefully sharpened his lithographic crayons and slowly immortalized the village on a piece of paper. On this very same day, Thomas Donnelly fell in love with the little village of Valhalla. Today, his sketch Overlooking Valhalla is part of the Whitney Museum of American Art's permanent collections. In 1925, Thomas met Eve Kollgen, a 23-year old young English lady aspiring to become an artist. After dating for a few months, they got married and built their home in Valhalla. The four-bedroom house was located less than an hour away from NY, right next to the dam, on 44 Howard Avenue. They built it big enough to welcome a family. Donnelly had it all planned; he would commute to the city for his exhibits, would come home each night to his family, and would continue painting the countryside. Little did the know that he had invested in a house that would soon become a financial burden. The Roaring 20s were about to come to an end and the stock market was about to crash. On 29 October 1929, the biggest financial crisis in US history abruptly hit the country, driving Donnelly's artwork to remain unsold, his bills to accumulate, and his quality of life to collapse. Because of the depression, Donnelly's clients could no longer pay for his artwork. Within a few months, the rising star became a distant celebrity, with scarcer visits to NY City, and with exhibits more locally based. In June 1934, Donnelly wrote a desperate letter to Forbes Watson, the director in charge of the art program of the Works Progress Administration and to President Roosevelt himself, begging them to implement a strong Federal project that would replace the local programs, and would truly help the struggling artists. His letters did not remain unread, and when the Federal Art Project of the Work Progress Administration was finally launched in August 1935, Thomas Donnelly immediately became a proud federal employee. For $40 a month, his job was to embellish America and paint “the American Scene” on public buildings. On September 16th 1948, Eve, Thomas Donnelly's beloved bride of 22 years, died at the early age of 45 years old, leaving the artist devastated. From then on, he refused all invitations from the major institutions and became a part-time schoolteacher in Valhalla public school and a jury in the local art contests. He finally remarried 18 years later. But at last, on April 24th 1971, after a long and full life, Thomas Donnelly, the World War I veteran, the talented New Yorker, the artist of the Great Depression, and the local resident of Valhalla, died peacefully at the age of 78 years old in his home. 

Lauren Bergman, a painter working in Jersey City, NJ. As a figurative narrative artist Lauren Bergman creates stories in paint that reside at the juncture of myth and social realism. Through her personal language of symbols, the paintings explore both female identity and comment on our shifting political and cultural landscape. Beginning as a high school student, Lauren Bergman was involved in art classes at the Corcoran School of Art. Her talents and mature narratives quickly landed her gallery exhibitions in Washington, D.C. at Capricorn Gallery, exhibiting among renowned American realists, including Burton Silverman and Sondra Freckelton. Bergman’s work has been featured in publications ranging from The New York Times to Juxtapoz Magazine. She has had three solo exhibitions at the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York, which represented her for a decade. Other solo and two-person exhibitions include the Makor Gallery and Tria Gallery in New York and the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles. Her many group shows include Plus One Gallery in London, Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, and Jonathan Levine Gallery and Claire Oliver Fine Art in New York. Bergman grew up in the Washington metro area, where she studied at the Corcoran School of Art. She earned her bachelor’s degree in fine arts and education from the Univeristy of Massachusets at Amherst, graduating summa cum laude, and her master’s degree at Smith College before relocating to Manhattan to study painting and design at FIT and The Art Students League. Bergman now lives in a converted pickled herring factory in the West Village and has a studio at Mana Contemporary. www.laurenbergman.net @i.m.lauren Tip N' Tell tipntellpodcast@gmail.com Host & Cover Art: Cydney Williams @cydneywilliamsstudio Sound & Music: Ian Eckstein @ian_eckstein Listen on Breaker, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radiopublic, Spotify, Copy RSS, Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, & IGTV Recorded at Mana Contemporary, 888 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306 (pre covid-19 pandemic, 2019) Tip N' Tell™ Cydney Williams Studio LLC

Matthew Langley received his BFA from Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC in 1985. Since then, Langley’s work has been shown extensively in the United States and Europe through numerous group and solo exhibitions. Recent exhibitions include; Big Circle at M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kiev, In Color at Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA and The Unified Field at Blank Space, New York, NY. Langley’s artworks have also been included in various public and corporate collections including; the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage, and Construction, The Doris Patz Collection at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities, Ernest and Young, PNC Bank, Saks Fifth Avenue, Norwegian Cruise Lines, MacAndrews & Forbes and the State Department of the United States. He currently lives and works in New York. The Inky Blue, 2020, 48 x 48 inches, acrylic on canvas Death / Life, 2019, One color screen print, edition of 15, 25 x 19 inches

Work. Shouldn't. Suck. LIVE: The Morning(ish) Show with special guests Mica Scalin & Noah Scalin, Another Limited Rebellion. [Live show recorded: April 21, 2020.] NOAH SCALIN is an artist, author, and activist. He founded Another Limited Rebellion in 2001 with the idea that he could make a living doing what he enjoyed and effect positive change in the world. Since then, Noah has traveled the world bringing his message of creative practice to everyone from incarcerated teenagers to Fortune 500 executives. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of The Arts, Noah started his career as the Art Director for Troma Entertainment and Avirex Clothing. Noah's artwork is collected internationally and has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries, including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Mütter Museum and NYC’s Times Square. He is the author of six books — most recently Creative Sprint which he co-wrote with his sister/business partner Mica. Noah is also one of the co-hosts of the VPM PBS television program The Art Scene. In 2016 Noah was chosen as the first ever artist-in-residence at the Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Business and was named the "The Region's Most Creative Individual" by Richmond magazine in 2017. MICA SCALIN is an innovator in the use of art and media for community engagement and creative development. She was among the first producers hired by NBC Universal Digital Studios, she launched social media strategy at Showtime Networks and consulted on CBS Interactive marketing. She was VP of Communications for the groundbreaking non-profit JDub and has produced documentary films, art exhibitions and cultural events. From grassroots to broadcast, her passion lies in creating cultural experiences that make meaningful connections between people. She has a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC and studied with Douglas Rushkoff at The New School in NYC. She is the co-author of Creative Sprint: Six 30-day Challenges to Jumpstart Your Creativity. She is also one of the humans behind dOGUMENTA: America’s First Art Show For Dogs.

November 1 – December 14, 2017Kathleen O. Ellis GalleryGallery Talk: Thursday, November 30, 6pmReception: Thursday, November 30, 5-7pmIn his exhibition, Anonymous, John Edmonds combines two distinct series of portraits, both of which conceal the identities of their subjects. The first series comprises striking formal studies of individuals wearing hoods on the street, photographed from behind. We can quickly read this suite of images as a statement on the unjust death of Trayvon Martin and how individuals of color face issues of racism, safety, and injustice in systemic ways. “All the work that I make is from a very personal place,” says Edmonds of his process. “It starts with me.” Edmonds further embeds himself in this work by photographing his subjects wearing his own hoodies and jackets. With little visual clues to guide us, we may only learn from the artist that the obscured individuals in fact vary in race, gender, and age.In contrast to the charged public space that Edmonds considers with these pictures, a second series of portraits celebrates blackness and beauty through private and sensual pictures of men wearing du-rags. Once again, Edmonds photographs his subjects from directly behind them. We can trace the du-rag’s origin to the head-wraps worn by female slaves during the antebellum period, and later used to preserve hairstyles, but today both men and women wear du-rags as a symbol asserting cultural pride. A melancholy underlies these portraits, though a majestic and spiritual quality also comes forward, calling to mind totems and religious iconography. A softness and warmth emanates from the colors and folds of the cloth. Edmonds exhibits these portraits on a larger-than-life, monumental scale, implying both nobility and strength, while also subtly undermining the grandiosity by printing on delicate, flowing silk.Edmonds takes an intimate approach to portraiture as a means of exploring symbols of black culture and the body, and through his pictures he poses larger questions about viewership, desire, and power today. Through concealment, he leaves much to the viewer’s imagination, revealing both the complexity of images themselves and the significance of the preconceptions that we bring to them. “At the heart of all of my work,” says Edmonds, “I want to leave people with something that is more human—despite the facade—and to open up feeling and empathy.”lg.ht/JohnEdmonds—John Edmonds is an artist working in photography whose practice includes fabric, video, and text. He received his MFA in Photography from Yale University School of Art and his BFA in Photography at the Corcoran School of Arts and Design. Most recognized for his projects in which he focused on the performative gestures and self-fashioning of young black men on the streets of America, he has also made evocative portraits of lovers, close friends, and strangers. In addition to his residency here at Light Work, he has participated in residencies at the Center of Photography at Woodstock in Woodstock, New York, FABRICA: The United Colors of Benneton’s Research Center in Treviso, Italy, and The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. Edmonds lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.johnedmondsphoto.com—Special thanks to Daylight Blue Mediadaylightblue.comLight Worklightwork.orgMusic: "Quasi-Stable State" by MonopoleMusic: "Vela Vela" by Blue Dot Sessionssessions.blue See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The new President of MCAD (Minneapolis College of Art & Design), Sanjit Sethi, joined us on Legacy Matters to talk higher education and acclimating to the Midwest. A New Yorker by birth, Sanjit previously directed the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington D.C. Sanjit brings a fresh perspective to higher education, exploring the emergent ideas around cultural and social viability. How best can we prepare students as resilient problem-solvers? Art education need not be focused solely on the craft, but offers an opportunity for students to “cross-pollinate” across seemingly disparate disciplines. We also explore “hidden history”; the stories not brought to light and the trauma attached to certain events and places. A bigger discussion than we can adequately cover in our talk, but an important one to continue in the future. Thank you, Sanjit, for sharing your thoughts with us!Learn more about MCAD here._________________________Learn how the Andelin App helps preserve, prepare and share life’s most precious memories. Available now on Google Play and the App Store for smartphones and tablets.Discover Kinetic Legacy’s proprietary platform to help businesses, brands and institutions streamline and coalesce networking data, communication and legacy building endeavors. Re-think how you engage your employees, consumers and alumni with crowd-sourced data management.Visit EarthEd to book your next wilderness adventure with Sam.Art consultant and abstract painter James Holmberg offers a wealth of knowledge for art connoisseurs. Visit his work today.Packing for a trip? Let Pack Simply take the stress out of packing with our completely customizable travel toiletry kits._________________________Want to get in touch with Sam, Jim or Sarah? Email us at: info@legacymatterspodcast.com.

From his studio in Richmond, Artist S. Ross Browne joins Todd B. Waldo to share the journey with family and loved ones that shapes his work. And the deep convictions and passion that motivate him through struggle. They talk about the impact of art on the community and how it can be used to help heal after difficult and tragic moments in our lives. S. Ross Browne studied Communication Art and Design at Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, VA and Photography at The Corcoran School of the Arts in Washington, DC. He is also an alumnus of The Miller School of Albemarle in Charlottesville, Virginia. Browne is a professional studio artist with over 23 years experience. With an emphasis on painting, he has exhibited domestically and internationally in over 70 gallery and museum exhibitions and is in multifarious private and public collections including the permanent collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. As an educator Ross was the Art Specialist for the VCU Health System where he practiced art therapy for and taught art to his various patients with an emphasis on pediatric hematology/oncology, infectious disease, brain injury and elder care. He was also an art educator for various support groups including Living Well for pediatric cancer support and the Richmond Brain Tumor Support Group. Browne was also an instructor for the Resident Associate Program at the The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. and has taught art and design for inner city and at risk youth for the Fresh Air Fund of New York City, Weed and Seed, Project Ready and Art 180 of Richmond, VA. Learn more at srossbrowne.com The spotlight for this episode is the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia. The Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia celebrates the rich culture and moving histories of African American people in Virginia and their contributions to our magnificent country. They endeavor to tell a more complete and inclusive story about America. Their mission is to preserve stories that inspire. Their new exhibition, The Paradox of Liberty: Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello, gives voice to the many enslaved families who built and maintained Monticello. It highlights the stories of six families who, along with others, lived in slavery at Jefferson’s home and plantation for generations. Learn more at blackhistorymuseum.org. 40 Lessons is a podcast about the lessons we've learned about family, career, community and the lessons we are still learning. Listen to all episodes on Spotify, iTunes, Soundcloud, Google Play, TuneIn and Stitcher at toddbwaldo.com/podcast. Send your feedback, questions and comments to todd@toddbwaldo.com #40Lessons #podcast #storytelling #family #career #community #art #therapy #healing #trauma

Jamaican-born artist Nadine Hall introduces Diaspora Vibe: Art with Caribbean Roots, a personally significant episode from her Fresh Art playlist. First published on July 26, 2017, this segment reveals the complex and diverse influence of the Caribbean on contemporary art. Franklin Sirmans, director of the Perez Art Museum, Miami, talks about the pivotal role of art from the Global South in the triennial art exhibition known as Prospect New Orleans. Prospect returns to the Crescent City in November 2020. Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator founder and curator Rosie Gordon Wallace and Miami-affiliated artists describe how the Caribbean is embedded in their work. In November 2019, DVCAI spotlights the region’s cultural impact in the collaborative exhibition Inter | Sectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City, at George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, in Washington, DC. Nadine Hall writes: The Diaspora Vibe episode from the Fresh Art archive is my favorite—a dream-come-true story to share. Cathy Byrd recorded a conversation with me in summer 2017, just before I traveled outside my homeland Jamaica for the first time. Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator had invited me to Miami, to spend one month at Fountainhead Residency. Two years later, I’ve returned to South Florida. I’m here to pursue an MFA in sculpture at the University of Miami, with a three-year scholarship. In this episode, you’ll hear my voice, and the story behind the first step in my incredible journey.   Sound Editor: 2019 Anamnesis Audio, 2017 Guney Ozsan | Special Audio: Los Jaichackers, Jorge Martillo, Ashley Teamer   Related Episodes: Mapping Caribbean Cultural Ecologies, Live from Trinidad: Where Digital Culture Thrives, Live from Dominican Republic with Tilting Axis, Miami’s Caribbean Arts Remix, Art of the Everyday, Diaspora Vibe: Art with Caribbean Roots   Related Links: Franklin Sirmans, Perez Art Museum, Miami, Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Asser Saint-Val, Gerard Caliste, Ashley Teamer, Nadine Hall, Los Jaichackers, Jorge Martillo  

[0:00 – 1:30] Intro [1:31 – 2:31] How drawing became a respite from family disputes [2:32 – 3:59] Getting inspiration from beatnik counter-culture at the Corcoran School of Art in D.C. and using artistic inclination to make social connections in teen suburbia [3:59 – 5:33] Linking her talent to the field of graphic design [5: 34– 6:56] Embracing time and failure as the greatest teachers, “For me, finding what I'm good at is an ever-evolving playing field.” [6:57 – 8:13] The importance of pissing off the older generations. “To discover something you have to make errors. Discoveries look weird when they're new. Then someone comes along and does it better. Discoveries may not be recognized, but they're necessary.” [8:14 – 19:42] The no-formula formula for rule breaking. “Be a brat, break the norm,” and how Helvetica became a symbol of corporate culture and the Vietnam War. [8:14 – 23: 20] The benefits of smoking cigarettes in a cubicle with your boss [23: 20 – 27:01] Becoming an Art Director at Atlantic Records and designing iconic album covers [27:01 – 29: 02] Being “dead serious” about designing album covers, moving into freelance work, magazines, running a design firm, then finally joining Pentagram [29: 02 – 32:34]  The benefits of learning through failure, what she's most proud of, being unable to pick favorites, and always moving on to the next piece [32:35 – 35: 04]  Teaching clients “how to see” and the benefit of taking the time to explain ideas [35: 05 -- 36: 49] Working at Pentagram for 28 years and their unique shared work structure [36: 50 – 44:40] Advice for young designers, how time constraints have changed the industry's portfolio review system, and the consequences of large tech companies on creativity “The A-List” is a podcast produced by DiMassimo Goldstein, an inspiring action agency, recorded at the Gramercy Post, and sponsored by the Adhouse Advertising School, New York's newest, smallest, and hippest ad school. You can subscribe and rate the show on iTunes or listen along on SoundCloud. For updates on upcoming episodes and guests, be sure to like the A-List Podcast on Facebook and follow host Tom Christmann on Twitter.

“I’ve worked with kids all my life, but when I became a mother myself, I realized how babies, that’s the first thing they do before they even talk, you know, they just play and tinker. And that’s how they understand the world and how they learn. And then as, we grow older, play is our favorite way of coming up with new ideas, and… play often becomes social. So you start playing with others. And it’s a key way, actually, for us to develop empathy, and connect with the people who we play with. Because the thing that happens with play is that, when you’re playing, you’re in what we call this ‘magic circle.’ So it’s this invisible boundary set by the rules of the play and you’re present, you’re connected, you’re equalized, you’re kind of ready to listen and learn from each other.” Chloe Varelidi is the founder of humans who play, a new design firm with offices in Washington and (soon Nairobi) that uses play as a force for good. Prior to starting her own practice she was part of the early teams at the Institute of Play, Quest to Learn, the Mozilla Foundation and littleBits where as a play designer she launched everything from top rated apps, to franchise products for Marvel & Disney, to a public school featured on the cover of the NYT Magazine. Chloe has won multiple awards for her work along the way, including some from ISTE, TOTY (toy of the year) and Common Sense Media. She is recognized as one of the GOOD100 for shaping the world in meaningful and creative ways and frequently lectures about harnessing play as a force for innovation and doing good. Chloe is an Adjunct Professor at The Corcoran School of Art & Design where she teaches Interaction Design. To learn more about Chloe and her work, check out her website humans who play and follow her on Instagram at @humanswhoplay. You can also view some of her previous work at varelidi.com.

Joe Galliano (https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephgalliano) came up with the idea for Queer Britain (https://twitter.com/queer_britain), the UK’s national LGBTQ+ museum, during the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalization of homosexual acts in England and Wales (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_1967). Discouraged by the focus on male homosexuality and on legislation, he launched a bid to preserve histories that have been ignored or destroyed. If all goes well, the museum will open in London in a few years. In this episode, Galliano talks about the UK’s history of anti-gay legislation, how he is working to create a ‘catalytic space’ at Queer Britain, and why the medium of museums is right for this project. The word ‘queer’ was synonymous with ‘strange’ or ‘weird’, and a common slur thrown at LGBT individuals. Activists in the 1980s reclaimed the word and used it as an umbrella term for a wide range of sexual orientations and gender identities. Nowadays, queer is an increasingly popular way to identify within the community, but as historical traumas persist, and the word can still be found in hostile environments, it’s important to note that not everyone is in agreement. Joe Galliano and Queer Britain use the term as a proud self-identifier, and an intentional move away from using the word ‘gay’, and male homosexuality in general, as a stand-in for all identities. Museum Archipelago is a tiny show guiding you through the rocky landscape of museums. Subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/museum-archipelago/id1182755184), Google Podcasts (https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubXVzZXVtYXJjaGlwZWxhZ28uY29tL3Jzcw==), Overcast (https://overcast.fm/itunes1182755184/museum-archipelago), or Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/5ImpDQJqEypxGNslnImXZE) to never miss an epsiode. 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Topics and Links 00:00: Intro 00:15: Joseph Galliano 00:35: 50th anniversary of the Partial Decriminalization of Homosexuality in England and Wales 01:55: Legislation from the 'Buggery' Act to Today 02:58: Legislation Focusing on Male Homosexuality 04:00: "Rightful Place" 04:43: The Word Queer 05:28: The Plan for Queer Britain 06:20: Dan Vo at the V&A 07:25: Virtually Queer 08:45: Museums Asking Questions 10:40: Fundraising and Partnerships 12:09: Sponsor: Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, GW University 13:18: Outro | Join Club Archipelago Transcript Below is a transcript of Museum Archipelago episode 58. Museum Archipelago is produced for the ear and the only the audio of the episode is canonical. For more information on the people and ideas in the episode, refer to the links above. View Transcript [Intro] Joe Galliano: Turns out, in order to launch a museum, it’s a long, complicated, expensive process. Who knew? This is Joe Galliano, one of the co-founders of the Queer Britain Museum. Joe Galliano: Hello, my name is Joe Galliano, the co-founder and CEO of Queer Britain, the national LGBTQ+ museum for the UK. Galliano came up with the idea for a national LGBTQ+ museum in 2017, during the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalization of homosexual acts in the UK, an anniversary commemorated by cultural and heritage institutions across the country. Joe Galliano: I felt slightly conflicted because it’s an anniversary that’s focused around men. It’s an anniversary that was focused around criminality and victimhood. Some of the fairly familiar tropes that we get rolled out that we get when we start talking about gay men, largely, and it’s not very inclusive. We’re living in a world, thankfully, where there’s a rich and wildly diverse set of sexulaitlies and gender identities and it left me slightly sad that it wasn’t entirely recognized. And also the fact that it was hung on an anniversary, and I didn’t wanted it to be another 50 years before there was something major happening again and I wanted to make sure that we build on the momentum that was being gathered around that anniversary and that it didn’t just fizzle away: it turned into something with real lasting value. The emphasis on an anniversary of legislation could have come from the context of a long history of formal, legal repression of male homosexuality the UK, going all the way back to the Buggery Act of 1533. Joe Galliano: We had the Buggery Act, which was introduced under Henry VIII, which was very much around male sexuality, male same-sex attraction and policing that. And this all stayed on the books in various forms until 1967 when there was partial decriminalization. With partial decriminalization, the age of consent was set at 21, where it was 16 for everybody else. At that point, as well, prosecutions absolutely rocketed. As soon as there was some allowance for people to behave naturally, it then became a bigger stick to beat people with. The legislation only focused on male homosexuality, which is, of course, telling. Joe Galliano: It’s interesting that those laws were always about men. Women with same sex desire were almost rendered invisible to public life and the law. Yeah, I think there’s also, if we’re talking about that kind of legislation, there actually have been a prejudice, a lot of it is about patriarchy, about male views of sexualty and sex, who has an active sexuality, who has a passive sexuality. I think through a large portion of history, women’s sexuality was seen as in service to male sexuality, and so would you legislate against that? There are also some stories. When some of the later bills will brought to Queen Victoria, they were too embarrased to talk about lesbianisim or anything like that. How much truth there is in that, I don’t know. Of course, the focus of Queer Britain will not be legislation. But as Galliano says, the laws previously on the books, and the increasing number of violent homophobic and transphobic attacks in the UK today have distorted the country’s understanding of itself — and tie directly into the mission of the museum. Joe Galliano: We’re talking about a central hub that will visible globally and within the mainstream that will give a message that here is a catalytic space that will collect our stories and here’s a way of helping progress Britain’s understanding of itself by giving Queer stories their rightful place. So that means rightful place within the culture. And also a rightful place. A place that can be their own. The word ‘Queer’ has a complicated history. It wassynonymous with ‘strange’ or ‘weird’, and a common slur thrown at LGBT people. Activists in the 1980s reclaimed the word and used it as an umbrella term for a wide range of sexual orientations and gender identities. Today, Queer is an increasingly popular way to identify within the community, but as historical traumas persist, and the word can still be found in hostile environments, it’s important to note that not everyone is in agreement. Galliano and the Queer Britain Museum use the term as a proud self-identifier and as an intentional move away from using the word ‘gay’, and male homosexuality in general, as a stand-in for all identities. The plan is for Queer Britain to have a physical space in London, opening sometime in the next few years. Although the UK is full of museums, some of which are have Queer artifacts and Queer stories, Galliano is conscious of how backsliding can happen. In legislation and culture, the laws and norms of today don’t guarantee that the future will look the same. Institutions like museums are a part of maintaining today’s momentum — and can give people who have had their stories told by others a chance to narrate their own history. Joe Galliano: I think there’s fantastic movement within the museum communities now to Queer those spaces, to make sure they are unearthing those stories and seeing how they can weave them through the main of their collections. Are they there yet? No. Some places have gotten further than others. Some aren’t doing anything. But there’s some really really good work. I would look at a volunteer like Dan Vo at the V&A who is conducting really good museum tours, LGBT museum tours and is a great volunteer activist. I think that part of my fear is that much of the movement forward relies on activist curators and really excited volunteers and it doesn’t take too many people to leave the sector, and that’s lost. The other thing I think is really important is that there’s such a rich and wildly diverse set of stories to tell. That those museums are never going to be able to tell all of those stories. Whereas what we have the ability to do is to create a catalytic space, where we can pour all of those stories in and where we can keep telling different stories and we can change the exhibitions all the time. And that LGBT people can be in control of telling their own stories as well. Over history, so often, it has been other people who have told our stories. When these other people and institutions tell the Queer community’s stories, they often become the de facto intergenerational gatekeepers — if they decide to keep and organize the information at all. This can have devastating consequences. Galliano is acutely aware that stories are being lost every day. Joe Galliano: That’s about making sure that we’ve gathered the stories of people who are with us now. They can add their voices into the archives and become part of that. It’s important really that we gather the stories now while people can actually talk to us. In terms of understanding where we’re gonna be headed with the archive to start with is that we are designing a national survey of museums around the country, which we’re doing with the assistance of the National Archives. What we really want to do is just get a proper sense of what is the nation’s holding of material that we would think of as LGBT focused. That will mean that it will give us steer as to where are the important gaps. How do we fill those gaps? That’s going to kind of give us a sense of where to focus our collecting activity. When a museum is still an idea, what the word museum means is still flexible. In addition to educational exhibits about Queer history and culture, the proposed museum is also a place for people to upload their own stories and The Whole projects serves as an antidote to the psychological damage of homophobic and transphobic attacks and oppression. Joe Galliano: Museum’s an interesting word, isn’t it, because it comes with all sorts of baggage. And actually, we’re talking about something very much broader than just a museum in the traditional sense. They show inherently show what a culture values and they’re a really good way of understanding what we are now, understand how we got there, and then take that understanding and use them to imagine the best of all possible futures. They ask questions. Who are we? How did we get here? Who do we want to be? It should be different every time you come to the museum when the physical space itself opens. Which we’re a few years off yet. What we’re looking at is a series of guest curators, a rolling series of guest curators so that each time we bring somebody in we’re like, “What is the story that you need to tell? What is the story that hasn’t been told? What’s the material that sits unexplored in other museums’ archives that we’re able to shine a light on?” Sometimes it’ll be about the blockbuster exhibition. What’s the exhibition that’s going to be bringing lines ‘round the block? Which of the exhibitions will there be telling community stories that haven’t been told? For example, it could be everything from - and I’m talking off the top of my head right this moment - It could be everything from, “What is Elton John’s stage costumes?” through to “What is the queer Bangladeshi experience of Birmingham in the 1950s?” It will be a space to tell a vast, endless set of experiences. Creating a new museum is no small task, but Galliano is ready for the challenge. As he goes through the process of collecting and fundraising, he’s also focused on building partnerships. His route to creating a robust institution begins with acknowledging that it’s a project bigger than just one person or one identity. Joe Galliano: There’s as many challenges as you want to look at and they’re all fascinating and exciting to step up to. I think the other thing is how do you carry the responsibility to make sure that something that there is such a need for and such a desire, certainly within the LGBTQ+ communities, how do you carry the weight and the responsibility of having said that you’re gonna this thing and making sure that you’ve delivered for those people. I want to create an organization that if I step away from it, we’ve got the right … There’s another person that will be able to take over that mantle. So that the organization isn’t about one person, but we’ve created a robust organization that will be able to delivery fabulously. It’s the most exciting thing I’ve ever worked on because it’s the thing that I’m most … I’ve never worked from something I feel so passionately is important. I’ve never picked up a project as brilliantly challenging as this in it’s scale, in the scope of all the different stakeholders we need to make sure are brought close and are doing the right things. And that we keep a laser focus on the strategy to make sure that it happens. [Sponsor] This has been Museum Archipelago [Outro]

Margaux Crump is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the slippery relationship between power and the body—specifically how it manifests in language, taxonomy, and intimacy. Currently, her practice examines the constructs of gender and nature, focusing on hunting and courting as a way to trace the complex movements of power between bodies. She has exhibited nationally, most notably at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis; The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington, DC; Women & Their Work, Austin, TX; and Artspace, Raleigh, NC. She received her BA from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX and her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Margaux was born in 1989 under a dark moon and is based in Houston, TX. She enjoys long walks, the smell of musky roses, playing with kittens, and perusing the grocery store for phallic produce. The book mentioned in the interview was Braiding Sweetgrass. Detail from Rock Hard, Sex-safe silicone, minerals historically consumed as aphrodisiacs, display table. 60 x 42 x 13 inches, 2016-18. The Lure, Gallery view, exhibited at Women & Their Work, Austin, TX, 2018.

An ex-corporate suit, ex-bartender, former United States Marine, road warrior, world traveler, image maker, educator, and storyteller, Matt Rose is changing perspectives by documenting and adding to the human narrative. He graduated cum laude from The Corcoran School of Art at George Washington University with a B.F.A. in Photojournalism and is currently enrolled in the M.F.A. program at Cal-State Northridge, with a focus on Photography/Photojournalism. He has worked on several video projects, including an ongoing investigation of Fetish, and was the DP for UNDER CONSTRUCTION, which premiered at Outfest in 2014. His photography has appeared in The Advocate, The Washington Post, ABC News, Colorado Wildlife Magazine, PUSH, Mascular Magazine, the Associated Press, and San Diego LGBT Weekly, among others. He volunteers as a photographer for many arts organizations, including WXPT, Outfest Outset, Outfest, ClockShop, and the Elden Street Players. He is a volunteer instructor with Hollywood Heart, an organization committed to arts outreach in Los Angeles public schools. His work has been shown as part of Empty Stretch Projection at FotoWeek DC, NEXT Exhibition, and was a selected artist for the Corcoran International Exhibition and (e)Merge 2011. He is the recipient of the Corcoran College of Art + Design Leadership Award and was a semifinalist for Innovation in Motion and Video in Education for the Adobe Design Achievement Awards.   Resources:   Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .    

Caitlin Faw is a graduate of the Corcoran School of Art and Design in DC. She lives in Baltimore and documents Erricka Bridgeford, creator of the Sacred7 and Baltimore Ceasefire movements. caitlinfaw.com @caitlinfaw CORRECTION: Caitlin said Baltimore's Ceasefires took place in May and August 2017. The ceasefires took place in August and November 2017.

Phillip Larrimore is a visual artist who explores that which is between painting and sculpture and realism and abstraction. His most recent work is creating multi-layered paintings on aluminum screens that he shapes into various forms. His paintings have been shown at many exhibits, including at The Gaston County Museum and CPCC Sensoria.  Phillip is also an essayist, an art critic and a poet. He has written extensively for Charlotte Viewpoint and the Charlotte Observer on literature, theater, music and opera. His poetry has been published in The New Yorker magazine. His artistry extends to botany and designing hundreds of gardens for clients of nurseries. He has co-owned a documentary video business on avant-garde dance performance and a retail cacti and orchid store. Phillip studied at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design. This episode is perfect for anyone interested in hearing an artist with an encyclopedic mind and prodigious memory talk about his life and work.  IN THIS EPISODE Phillip talks about how he thinks of himself, when he is happiest and what haunts him. He discusses what he and Osip Mandelstam, Paul Klee and Jean Arp have in common. He describes what we would see when we encounter his work, what holographic imagery has to do with it, and the construction and reconstruction of appearance. He connects 360 degree thinking to Sufism, Islam and 99 perforated aluminum boxes. He considers William Blake and the choreography of the placement of figure in painting. Phillip answers whether he cares about the viewers of his visual art. Phillip connects the Frieze of the Prophets by John Singer Sargent with being a Trotskyite Jewish boy raised by a Baptist minister. He references To Kill A Mockingbird, a Ouija board, Edgar Allen Poe and spending time in cemeteries. He talks about attending the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design and being a member of the Weather Undergound. Phillip discusses having a nom de guerre, Howard Moss, the  poetry editor of The New Yorker, the poet Elizabeth Bishop, and Alex Liberman, editorial director of Conde Nast. He shares stories about choreographers Elizabeth Streb, Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown, the musician John Cage, and the critic Edwin Denby. Phillip connects chance operations to the I Ching and sea urchins. He talks about recovering emotionally from being a caregiver during the AIDS crisis.  He discusses converting sorrow into beauty and whether art requires melancholy. After the conversation, host Mark Peres adds a personal word that begins this way, "Sometimes in an interview one misses the obvious because the obvious is hidden in plain site..." To learn more, visit On Life and Meaning.    

Dan Thompson is a painter and teacher who was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and graduated from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. He earned his M.F.A. from the Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art, and supplemented his training with several years of private study and studio apprenticeships along the east coast of the United States. He has been awarded two grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and has twice received the Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award for Excellence in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design. In 2001, he won Best of Show in the American Society of Portrait Artist’s International Portrait Competition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Since 2003, he has demonstrated portrait and figure drawing and served as a juror and board member for the Portrait Society of Canada’s International Portrait Conference in Toronto. He has also lectured at the Dahesh Museum of Art in New York and served as a speaker at Studio Incamminati’s Advanced Portrait Workshop and Symposium in Philadelphia. Dan's work can be found in public and private collections throughout the United States, and in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/danthompson In this episode, Dan discusses: -How he got to the point that he is at today as an artist and a teacher. -The advice he gives his students who are afraid to jump into the path of an artist with an unknown destination. -The importance of searching within to determine what success means to you. -How the technical side of things is such a vastly underappreciated aspect of what artists do. -How to deal with the unrealistic expectations of what it means to be a “real artist.” -Not allowing the constant “noise” to infiltrate into something as personal as the creative process. -Why you shouldn’t deal in abstractions, but rather set specific tasks to complete or skills to acquire and then move on to the next thing. -Grasping, maintaining, and extending a middle strategy. -His advice for when you get stuck in the middle stages of a piece. -Channeling your passion and keeping it as a positive force, rather than a destructive one. -His advice to take a break and completely disengage from something that is giving you particular difficulty. -The importance of notetaking. -The benefit of working on multiple pieces at the same time. -More about the Certificate of Fine Arts at the New York Academy of Art. -What it is like to be an ARC Living Master. Dan's Final Push will inspire you to bring the moments that you will never forget into your creativity.   Quotes: “Things have turned out so much better for me, precisely because of the fact that I did not have an exact sense of where I was going to be positioned in years to come.” “The fulfillment that you get out of life is so much more important than anything else.” “The human figure is the most mysterious thing ever.  We’re just completely mystified by ourselves.  By who we are, why we’re here, and what we do.  And I don’t think that’s going to end anytime soon.” “I think it’s hard for people to commit to abstracts.  I think people have to commit to tasks.  Tasks that are fun, by the way.” “We’re so driven by the passion for what we want to achieve, and that passion can turn on us and become not just a negative force, but a force which torpedoes the entire endeavor.” “You’ve got to try to channel your passion and keep it as a positive force.” “Exploration of what you want to do with those skills is just as important as mastering the skills themselves.” Links mentioned: Certificate of Fine Art from New York Academy of Art Art Renewal Center Museum Youngman Brown on The Idea Medic Podcast Connect with Dan: Website / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter On the next episode: Tara Roskell : Website / Facebook / Twitter Join the discussion in the Facebook group!

May 31, 2016. Mahnaz Rezaie represented the Afghan Women's Writing Project (AWWP) during a conversation where poetry and visual art was shared. Part of the Persian Book Lecture Series, presented in collaboration with the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland. Speaker Biography: Mahnaz Rezaie was born in western Afghanistan to a Shia family that placed a high value on education. When she was eight years old, the Taliban came to power, forcing her Shia family to flee the Sunni Taliban threat. Returning to Afghanistan years later, Rezaie won a scholarship to continue her education in the United States in 2009. She is a writer for the Afghan Women Writers Project and now mentors the online Dari workshop for women in Afghanistan who do not speak/write English. She is also a filmmaker who was honored at the recent Women in the World Summit in NYC for her short film that explores how wearing a hijab affected her relationships when she first came to the U.S. Currently, Rezaie is in the Master's program at the Corcoran School of Art and Design at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and is at work on a novel. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7425