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Albert Bierstadt’s story runs counter to the romanticized idea of a passionate starving artist. He was strategic in his career, selecting imagery that he knew would appeal to U.S. audiences, and monetizing his art outside of selling paintings. Research: Appman, Sarah Bean. “How One Building Turned Greenwich Village Into an Artists’ Mecca.” Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. August 6, 2019. https://www.villagepreservation.org/2019/08/06/how-one-building-turned-greenwich-village-into-an-artists-mecca/ “Albert Bierstadt Dead.” Indianapolis News. Feb. 19, 1902. https://www.newspapers.com/image/37784929/?match=1&terms=Albert%20Bierstadt Avery, Kevin J. “Hudson River School.” The Met. Oct. 1, 2004. https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-hudson-river-school “Bierstadt Painting Surfaces After 100 Years.” Greenville News. June 7, 1990. https://www.newspapers.com/image/192068392/?match=1&terms=Albert%20Bierstadt%20Lucerne “Dealer Gets Bargain on Lost Art.” The News Tribune. Oct. 14, 1990. https://www.newspapers.com/image/738127494/?match=1&terms=Albert%20Bierstadt%20Lucerne The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Düsseldorf school". Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Mar. 2016, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dusseldorf-school “Fine Paintings.” Boston Evening Transcript. May 26, 1857. https://www.newspapers.com/image/734940677/?match=1&terms=Albert%20Bierstadt Hassrick, Peter H., et al. “Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West.” University of Oklahoma Press. 2018. “Jan. 7, 1830, Albert Bierstadt was born.” Boston Evening Transcript. Jan. 7, 1902. https://www.newspapers.com/image/735167933/?match=1&terms=Albert%20Bierstadt “Look at This.” Boston Evening Transcript. Dec. 19, 1850. https://www.newspapers.com/image/735037015/?match=1&terms=Albert%20Bierstadt “Meet the artists of the Hudson River School and visit the places in nature that they painted and made famous.” Hudson River School Art Trail. https://www.hudsonriverschool.org/artists “Albert Bierstadt.” The Art Story. https://www.theartstory.org/artist/bierstadt-albert/ “Mission.” National Academy of Design. https://nationalacademy.org/the-academy/about-us Quinn, Karen. “American Landscape Painting: Albert Bierstadt and the American Land.” Museum of Fine Arts Boston. February 13, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phAETFErwRU&t=9s “Roman Fish Market. Arch of Octavius.” Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. De Young Museum. https://www.famsf.org/artworks/roman-fish-market-arch-of-octavius See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“Eyes of the Storm” features 250 behind-the-scenes photos along with other items from Paul McCartney's personal archive. They were all collected from the Beatles' tour in Europe and the U.S. from 1963-1964. And now, Bay Area fans can see some of those photos in an exhibit at the de Young museum in San Francisco. Check out more from Sights + Sounds here!

On this week's episode of "The Sights + Sounds Show with Jeneé Darden": Oakland cartoonist Wahab Algarmi, talks about his graphic novel "Almost Sunset," Paul McCartney's "Eye of the Storm" photo exhibit at the de Young Museum, and the Oakland Gay Men's Chorus' upcoming concert

Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, Emily chats with Ranu Mukherjee, a painter, textile, and film installation artist, who was recently appointed as Dean of the Film and Video School at CalArts in Los Angeles. Ranu discusses her background, her collaborative work with choreographers, and her latest project designing a curtain for the San Francisco Ballet's 'Cool Britannia'. She shares insights into her inspirations, including forests and their literary forms, and her early experiences that led her to become an artist. The episode concludes with Emily's regular segment, 'Three Questions', discussing influential works and inspiring places.About Artist Ranu Mukherjee:Ranu Mukherjee's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles (2022-2023) de Young Museum, San Francisco (2018-2019); the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design (2017);  the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2016); the Tarble Art Center, Charleston, IL (2016) and the San Jose Museum of Art, CA (2012), among others. Her most recent immersive video installations have been was presented in Natasha, Singapore Biennale 2022-2023, the 2019 Karachi Biennale (2019) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2016) as well as in numerous international group exhibitions. Mukherjee has been awarded a 2023 Artadia Award,a Pollock Krasner Grant (2020); a Lucas Visual Arts Fellowship at Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA (2019-2024); an 18th Street Arts Center Residency, Los Angeles (2022); Facebook Artist in Residence (2020);  de Young Museum Artist Studio Program (2017); the Space 118 Residency, Mumbai (2014); and a Kala Fellowship Award and Residency, Berkeley (2009). Her work is in the permanent collection of the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; de Young Museum, San Francisco; the Escallete Collection at Chapman University; the JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York; the Kadist Foundation, San Francisco and Paris; the Oakland Museum of California; the San Jose Museum of Art; and the San Francisco International Airport, among others. In 2021 Gallery Wendi Norris released Shadowtime, a major monograph on Mukherjee's work over the past decade featuring a conversation with author and climate activist Amitav Ghosh, and an essay by Jodi Throckmorton, curator of Mukherjee's first solo museum exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art. Mukherjee co-created Orphan Drift, a London-based cyber-feminist collective and avatar making combined media works since 1994. They have participated in numerous exhibitions and screenings internationally including in London, Oslo, Berlin, Oberhausen, Glasgow, Istanbul, Vancouver, Santiago, Capetown, and the Bay Area.Mukherjee received her B.F.A. in Painting, from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA in 1988, and her MFA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London, UK in 1993.  She serves on the Board of Trustees at the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Board of Directors at Bridge Live Arts. She is a Professor and Chair of Film at California College of the Arts, San Francisco. Visit Ranu's Website:  RanuMukherjee.comFollow  on Instagram:  @RanuMukherjeeFor more on 'Cool Britannia' at the San Francisco Ballet - CLICK HERE.For more on Ranu's book, 'Shadowtime' - CLICK HERE--About Podcast Host Emily Wilson:Emily a writer in San Francisco, with work in outlets including Hyperallergic, Artforum, 48 Hills, the Daily Beast, California Magazine, Latino USA, and Women's Media Center. She often writes about the arts. For years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.Follow Emily on Instagram: @PureEWilFollow Art Is Awesome on Instagram: @ArtIsAwesome_Podcast--CREDITS:Art Is Awesome is Hosted, Created & Executive Produced by Emily Wilson. Theme Music "Loopster" Courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 LicenseThe Podcast is Co-Produced, Developed & Edited by Charlene Goto of @GoToProductions. For more info, visit Go-ToProductions.com

Nicole and Drew uncover the history of an infamous art heist at the de Young Museum on Christmas Eve in 1978. Was the stolen Rembrandt painting returned? Was it even a real Rembrandt? Tune into this special holiday episode to find out.

Episode Notes At the deYoung Museum, San Francisco. Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co

Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. In this episode Emily features Lorraine Woodruff-Long, a textile artist from San Francisco who turned to quilting after losing her job during the pandemic. Lorraine's work, rich in cultural heritage and social commentary, gained recognition when her piece was featured in the deYoung Open. She discusses her inspiration, including the iconic 'Quilts of Gee's Bend,' her use of text in quilts, and her focus on issues like gun violence and climate change. Lorraine's journey to becoming a quilter and her passion for teaching are also highlighted.  Lorraine also shares her thoughts on being an artist, influential works, and her favorite creative spot in San Francisco.About Artist Lorraine Woodruff-Long:Lorraine Woodruff-Long is a self-taught San Francisco quilter with a primary focus on color, improvisation, and recycled/repurposed fabrics. Raised in Houston, and educated at University of Texas/Austin, Lorraine served in Peace Corps Kenya and afterwards moved to California as a “bucket list” dream to temporarily experience living in a progressive urban city.  She fell in love with San Francisco and never left.  After a career in marketing and advertising, Lorraine later worked in the nonprofit sector while raising two city kids with her architect husband before spring boarding into a fiber art practice prompted by the pandemic.Lorraine's work has been juried into art exhibitions at the de Young Museum/San Francisco, the California Heritage Museum/Santa Monica, the Sanchez Art Center/Pacifica, Muzeo Museum & Cultural Center/Anaheim, TAG Gallery/Los Angeles the Drawing Room/San Francisco, and the San Francisco Women Artists Network Gallery.  She has received numerous awards for her quilts at local, national and international quilt shows. Quilt exhibitions include the International Quilt Festival/Houston, QuiltCon, the Pacific International Quilt Festival, Visions in Cloth, and Quilt San Francisco among others. Lorraine is a member of the Modern Quilt Guild, San Francisco Quilt Guild, Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), East Bay Heritage Quilters, ArtSpanSF, Northern California Women's Caucus for Art, and a volunteer with the Social Justice Sewing Academy Remembrance Project. Her work is included in the 2021 book, “Stitching Stolen Lives: The Social Justice Sewing Academy Remembrance Project.”She currently teaches quilting at City College of San Francisco Extension and SCRAP-SF and teaches quilting workshops online and to guilds around the country.Visit Lorraine's  Website:  QuiltingInTheFog.comFollow Lorraine on Instagram:  @QuiltingInTheFogAnd for more on Lorraine's Exhibit at St Joseph's Arts Society, CLICK HERE. --About Podcast Host Emily Wilson:Emily a writer in San Francisco, with work in outlets including Hyperallergic, Artforum, 48 Hills, the Daily Beast, California Magazine, Latino USA, and Women's Media Center. She often writes about the arts. For years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.Follow Emily on Instagram: @PureEWilFollow Art Is Awesome on Instagram: @ArtIsAwesome_Podcast--CREDITS:Art Is Awesome is Hosted, Created & Executive Produced by Emily Wilson. Theme Music "Loopster" Courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 LicenseThe Podcast is Co-Produced, Developed & Edited by Charlene Goto of @GoToProductions. For more info, visit Go-ToProductions.com

The Adventures of Sheila and Gaston the Cat is a true story about the travels of the Tracey family and Gaston, their cat. They travel to and explore Mexico, Canada, France, and Germany from 1966 to 1967, which takes eighteen months. Both parents are artists and teachers, and the children are also artists. Their mother, Francoise M. Tanguy, is the favorite niece of her uncle, Yves Tanguy, famous French-American Surrealist painter of the 20th century and member of the Surrealist Movement. About the Author Sheila Tanguy Tracey's artist and writing training started at a very young age. She started painting when she was seven years old and started writing poems in junior high school. She started exhibiting paintings and ceramics with her brother in the Deyoung Museum in San Francisco, California. Both she and her brother, Brendan, entered the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade contest at ages seven and eight, in which they both won second place. Sheila graduated from Monterey Peninsula College in 1997, took Women's Studies, and wrote three books. She was also a student senator and graduated from CSU Monterey Bay in 2000. She took Painting with muralist Johana Poethic, and Stephanie Anne Johnson, Amalia Mesa-Bains, and Statistics with Ken Nashita. She has also painted five murals and written five books since then. It has been an incredible journey. For more info on the book click HERE

Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) speaks with Dan Taulapapa McMullin — an artist and poet from Sāmoa i Sasa'e (American Samoa) and an expert on the subject of the colonization of Pacific cultures. Keala and Dan spend time talking about American exploitation via tiki bars, a subject that Dan explored in his film, “100 Tikis.” “100 Tikis” is a 45-minute film/video appropriation art piece, part of an ongoing installation of works on the intersection of tiki kitsch and indigenous sovereignty. “100 Tikis” looks at Hollywood, colonialism, gender, militarism, and activism, through films, cartoons, songs, paintings, photographs, television shows, tourist ads, military propaganda, pornography, tiki bars, activist videos, home movies, and social media. Dan's artist book “The Healer's Wound: A Queer Theirstory of Polynesia” (2022) was published by Pu'uhonua Society and Tropic Editions of Honolulu for HT22 the Hawai'i Triennial. Their artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Metropolitan Museum, De Young Museum, Musée du quai Branly, Auckland Art Gallery and Bishop Museum. Their film “Sinalela” (2001) won the 2002 Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival Best Short Film Award. “100 Tikis” was the opening night film selection of the 2016 Présence Autochtone in Montreal and was an Official Selection in the Fifo Tahiti Film Festival. Dan's art studio and writing practice is based in Muhheaconneock lands / Hudson, NY, where they live with their partner, and Lenape lands in Hopoghan Hackingh / Hoboken, NJ. More about Dan and links to his writing, films (including “100 Tikis”), paintings and sculpture/performance works: https://www.taulapapa.com/. For copies of “The Healer's Wound” (2024 2nd Edition) go to: https://tropiceditions.org/The-Healer-s-Wound-2 Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Guest Host Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor Music Selections: 1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song) Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters Album: Tahi (1993) Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand) 2. Song Title: Pe A E Silva Artist: Pacific Soul CD: Pacific Soul (2012) Label: Pacific Dream Records AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

Join us for an insightful episode with Ani Williams, a celebrated harpist and sound therapist. Ani shares her journey into sound medicine, explaining how sound and voice can aid in healing and diagnosis. She discusses her experiences with indigenous cultures, voice diagnostics, and the use of sound frequencies in therapy. This episode also explores how sound therapy connects with homeopathy and its potential benefits for people, including children with autism, highlighting the significant effects of sound on emotional and physical health.   Episode Highlights: 01:31 - Ani's Background in Sound Medicine 05:36 - Connection Between Sound and Emotion 07:01 - The Role of Missing Frequencies 12:36 - Singing Planets and Sound Healing 21:01 - Sound Healing for Autism 24:37 - Integration of Natal Charts and Voice Analysis 27:41 - Trusting Natural Sounds 31:12 - Online Course Overview 34:21 - Introduction to "Guardians of the Dragon Path"  37:06 - Mary Magdalene and Healing Sites 42:54 - Voice Analysis for Children 45:49 - Case History Success Story  47:48 - Final Message of Hope   About my guest: Ani Williams is a world-renowned harpist and vocalist acclaimed for her innovative work in sacred music and sound healing. Since 1981, she has recorded over two dozen albums that blend ancient spiritual traditions with her distinctive style, with releases on prominent labels such as Music Design and White Swan, and distribution across Europe, England, Australia, and Mexico. Williams has collaborated with notable artists like Lisa Thiel and Brooke Medicine Eagle, and her work includes a featured recording at George Lucas' Skywalker Studios for Jim Berenholtz's "The Psalms of Ra." Her Egyptian harp music was selected for the soundtrack of the Hatshepsut exhibit at the De Young Museum and the Metropolitan Museum, and her original soundtrack for the film Andromeda earned acclaim at the Chicago International Film Festival. Williams has been featured on numerous television and radio programs, including Music From the Hearts of Space, and her contributions have been recognized in Billboard Magazine and international reviews. She has also been honored for her music's impact in prisons and children's hospitals, receiving certificates from Fundacion de Milagros and recognition for her work with the Children's Hospice of Poland.   Find out more about Ani Website: https://aniwilliams.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV9aKL71A1MIguisSMj27-A Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/songaiasound   If you would like to support the Homeopathy Hangout Podcast, please consider making a donation by visiting www.EugenieKruger.com and click the DONATE button at the top of the site. Every donation about $10 will receive a shout-out on a future episode.   Join my Homeopathy Hangout Podcast Facebook community here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HelloHomies   Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/eugeniekrugerhomeopathy/   Here is the link to my free 30-minute Homeopathy@Home online course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqBUpxO4pZQ&t=438s Upon completion of the course - and if you live in Australia - you can join my Facebook group for free acute advice (you'll need to answer a couple of questions about the course upon request to join): www.facebook.com/groups/eughom

Principally a sculptor who employs cast glass and drawing as primary methodologies, Clifford Rainey creates work that is interdisciplinary, incorporating a wide spectrum of materials and processes. A passionate traveler, his work is full of references to the things he has seen and experienced. Celtic mythologies, classical Greek architecture, the blue of the Turkish Aegean, globalization and the iconic American Coca-Cola bottle, the red of the African earth, and the human figure combine with cultural diversity to provide sculptural imagery charged with emotion.  A British artist whose work has been exhibited internationally for 50 years, Rainey was born in Whitehead, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, in 1948. He began his career as a linen damask designer and worked in William Ewarts linen manufacturers from 1965 to 1968. Later, the artist studied at Hornsey College of Art, the Walthamstow School of Art, where he specialized in bronze casting, and the Royal College of Art, where he received his MA and specialized in glass. Between 1973 and 1975, Rainey ran his own glass studio in London and won a commission for a small sculpture to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II. In 1984, the artist moved to New York and established additional studios there. Rainey's sculptural work has been exhibited internationally including: The Ulster Museum in Northern Ireland, The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The Kunstmuseum in Dusseldorf, Germany, The Millennium Museum in Beijing, China, and the Museo de Arts Contemporaneo in Monterrey, Mexico. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including:  The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, The DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, California, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, New York, The Fine Arts Museum of Boston, and The Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Canada. Rainey has realized a number of public art commissions including: The Lime Street Railway Station in Liverpool, England, the Jeddah Monument in Saudi Arabia, and the 911 Communication Center in San Francisco. He is a recipient of the Virginia A. Groot Foundation Award, Chicago, and the 2009 UrbanGlass Outstanding Achievement Award, New York. Balancing his commitment to studio practice with his desire to share knowledge, Rainey has lectured extensively around the world. He lectured at The Royal College of Art in London for seven years and was a Professor of Fine Art and Chair of the Glass Program at The California College of the Arts from 1991 through 2022.  On October 8, 2017 at 10:30 p.m., Rainey and his partner, Rachel Riser, were awakened by a neighbor's frantic telephone call warning them that a wind-driven wildfire had kicked up and was blazing toward their shared Napa, California, residence. They needed to get out immediately. Far more devastating than the destruction of his home and studio was the complete loss of all the artwork on the property — not only two year's worth of work for an upcoming exhibition, but the artist's archive of drawings of every project he'd ever done, as well as a collection of his strongest work he was planning to donate to a museum.  Rainey still resides in Napa, California, and in March 2024 took time away from rebuilding his studio to participate in an artist residency at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma. There, he advanced ideas and processes originally seen in works he lost to fire.    

Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, Emily chats with East Bay Artist David Huffman, a painter, installation artist and educator. About Artist David Huffman:David Huffman studied at the New York Studio School, New York, NY and the California College of the Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA. He received his MFA at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 1999. Huffman has had solo shows at venues including, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (2019); Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2018); Worlds in Collision, Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Culver City, CA (2016). Recent group exhibitions include To the Hoop, Basketball and Contemporary Art, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, NC (upcoming); Ordinary Objects / Wild Things, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (2019); and Sidelined, Curated by Samuel Levi Jones, Galerie Lelong & Co, New York, NY (2018).‍In 2019, Huffman completed permanent commissions in Oakland and San Francisco at the Chase Center in collaboration with SFMOMA.‍His work may be found in the permanent collections of Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe Campus, Tempe, AZ; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of; California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, among others.‍Visit David's Website: David-Huffman.comFollow David on Instagram: @DavidHuffmanStudioSee David's work through the Jessica Silverman Gallery--About Podcast Host Emily Wilson:Emily a writer in San Francisco, with work in outlets including Hyperallergic, Artforum, 48 Hills, the Daily Beast, California Magazine, Latino USA, and Women's Media Center. She often writes about the arts. For years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.Follow Emily on Instagram: @PureEWilFollow Art Is Awesome on Instagram: @ArtIsAwesome_Podcast--CREDITS:Art Is Awesome is Hosted, Created & Executive Produced by Emily Wilson. Theme Music "Loopster" Courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 LicenseThe Podcast is Co-Produced, Developed & Edited by Charlene Goto of @GoToProductions. For more info, visit Go-ToProductions.com

Born in Salinas Kansas and eventually raised in Oklahoma, Kenneth knew at a very young age who he was and what he wanted to do. He just didn't understand the road he would travel to get there.He earned a BS in fashion merchandising from Central State University in Wilberforce, OH and learned pattern making in San Francisco from Paris trained Simmin SethnaKenneth has sold to boutiques across the country such as Maxfield, Wilkes Bashford, and Ultimo. His work has appeared in music videos and television commercials…he designed for Geena Davis, Cloris Leachman, Bernie Taupin and Elton John He's also been featured on the red carpet for the Oscars.  His creations are in the permanent collections of the De Young Museum in San Francisco, the L.A. County Museum of Art, The Oakland Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Fashion Institute of New York and teaches around the United States and online. He's a Contributing Editor and author to Threads Magazine, has courses on Craftsy and Burda, and has written many books on couture sewing techniques.Kenneth currently lives in New York with his husband Andrew Marley.(2:19) Kenneth takes us back to his childhood, talks of his parents and the people who have powerful influences in his life. He tells us when he started and what he liked to sew. His move to Oklahoma was traumatic, but he used this to fuel his resolve. (6:44) Why did Kenneth choose to sew as an outlet? He explains… And he introduces us to Estelle.(7:55) His grandmother was his champion in his finding himself. He introduces us to her.(9:55) Who is Norma and how did she influence Kenneth? He talks us back to their meeting in 1983 and shares this story…(13:36) Kenneth expounds on the influence that San Francisco's Beaux Arts architecture had had on his work. (15:00) How does Kenneth feels about beauty in creativity in today's modern design? Pretty strongly as he explains. And don't use the word “edgy”! As part of this, he takes us inside San Francisco's famous Opera house and describes the reopening gala performance. (19:12) Kenneth's creations are not just worn, they are a part of the whole experience. He explains what this means…the person wearing it is the star! (20:14) He has developed several techniques to make his creations more wearable and comfortable…he shares a few of these secrets. (21:40) And what took Kenneth to San Francisco…? He takes us on this fortuitous journey. (22:55) Mariano Fortuny www.fortuny.com had a technique that greatly influenced Kenneth as did Swarovski www.swarovski.com. Hear about these influences and how he created a chair slipcover for Swarovski. (26:32) And how did Elton John get one of Kenneth's footstools? This is quite a story…hear it here! Elton John also owns a lot of “the good stuff” See several of Elton's videos featuring Kenneth's creations https://www.kennethdking.com/copy-of-what-s-new. (30:52) Now a part of pop culture…he has created for red carpets and many A List stars. He shares a few of the stories of how this came to be. And how does it work today…he shares the process and why is doesn't work for him now. (32:29) The Orchid Broach which he created in 1987…but didn't wear until his wedding day in 2016 is an important part of his life. Learn why. And hear the story of how he met his now husband. And…then there's the famous evening embellishment vests – a signature style of his. (40:36) Doll Couture: The Story of Lolawww.lolatheshowgirl124.com is Kenneth's upcoming new book. The story of how this tome came to be is a wonderful as the book itself. Kenneth shares the backstory and gives us a sneak peek at the book's plot. (44:06) And what's the best decision he ever made?! His answer to a pointed question steered the course of his life. (47:10) What's his dream and what's next? Well spy clothes and his Screen Play. (50:50) To reach out to him go to www.kennethdking.com and at Instagram @KennethdkingIf you know someone who has an outstanding story that should be shared on this podcast, drop Meg a note to Meg@sewandsopodcast.com or complete the form on our website.

Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, Emily chats with watercolor artist Kelly Inouye. About Artist Kelly Inouye:Kelly Falzone Inouye uses watercolor to explore contemporary culture.She has presented solo exhibitions at venues including Marrow Gallery in San Francisco, SPRING/BREAK Art Show LA in Culver City, and Interface Gallery in Oakland. Notable group exhibitions include “The de Young Open” at The de Young Museum and “Contemporary Watercolor” at Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York City. Kelly has been awarded public art projects by the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.Kelly also founded and ran Irving Street Projects, a San Francisco-based residency program that provided project development and exhibition opportunities to fellow Bay Area artists from 2015-2020.She is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA 2008) and UC San Diego (BA 1998). She lives and works in San Francisco with her family and tiny dog.Her work is represented by Marrow Gallery in San Francisco.Visit Kelly's Website: www.KellyInouye.comFollow Kelly on Instagram: @KellyInouye--About Podcast Host Emily Wilson:Emily a writer in San Francisco, with work in outlets including Hyperallergic, Artforum, 48 Hills, the Daily Beast, California Magazine, Latino USA, and Women's Media Center. She often writes about the arts. For years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.Follow Emily on Instagram: @PureEWilFollow Art Is Awesome on Instagram: @ArtIsAwesome_Podcast--CREDITS:Art Is Awesome is Hosted, Created & Executive Produced by Emily Wilson. Theme Music "Loopster" Courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 LicenseThe Podcast is Co-Produced, Developed & Edited by Charlene Goto of @GoToProductions. For more info, visit Go-ToProductions.com

This is the first #BasicBitch that we've recorded since March, and clearly we have a lot of shit to catch up on!We talk major changes in the Bitch Talk universe (including celebrating our 10 year anniversary!), highlights from CAAMFest (the Center for Asian American Media Film Festival), our favorite movies of the summer, fancy dinners, live music/art, dicks and menopause, our favorite guests of the summer, and a chaotic pub crawl that included a dirty twist. This episode is loaded and bloated just like us...enjoy!Bitch Talk Recommendations (as referenced in the episode)Restaurant:Old Skool CafeBooks:Wannabe: Reckonings With The Pop Culture That Shapes Meanything by Samantha IrbyFilm:JoyrideJeanette Lee Vs.Fanny: The Right To RockArt/Science:Kehinde Wiley exhibit @ the de Young MuseumThe ExploratoriumMusic:The Lost ChurchFleetwood MacrameStern Grove Festival--Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 10 years, 700 episodes or Best of The Bay Best Podcast without your help! --Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AAPI Lives Matter, and abortion is normal.--SUPPORT US HERE!Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage!Rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts!Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.comFollow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.Listen every Tuesday at 9 - 10 am on BFF.FM 

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Kyle and Mary went to the deYoung Museum for a first date. Wow... fancy. So why then, is Mary ignoring him now that he's asking to see her again.

In this episode of Profiles with Maggie LePique, we discuss a new Art Exhibit  that is happening now through July 2023 : Jean-Michel Basquiat: King PleasureOpening in Downtown LA Friday March 31st at the Grand LA. Jean-Michel Basquiat's contributions to the history of art and his explorations of multifaceted cultural phenomena––including music, the Black experience, pop culture, Black American sports figures, literature, and other sources––will be showcased through immersive environments providing unique insight into the late artist's creative life and his singular voice that propelled a social and cultural narrative that continues to this day. Organized and curated by the family of Jean-Michel Basquiat, this exhibition of over 200 never-before-seen and rarely shown paintings, drawings, multimedia presentations, ephemera, and artifacts tell the story of Jean-Michel from an intimate perspective, intertwining his artistic endeavors with his personal life, influences, and the times in which he lived. My guest is Ileen Sheppard Gallagher has been helping organizations tell their stories for thirty years. She began as a young curator at the De Young Museum in San Francisco before going on to assume top curatorial posts at the Queens Museum of Art in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington DC, and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota. For five years before establishing her own company, she served as Director of Exhibitions for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. There she guided all aspects of the inaugural galleries leading up to and following the public opening. Ileen taught exhibition planning and design for over 20 years at New York University in the graduate Museum Studies Program. Today, she heads ISG Productions.Source: http://sheppardgallagher.comSource: https://kingpleasure.basquiat.comSource: https://www.thegrandla.comHost Maggie LePique, a radio veteran since the 1980's at NPR in Kansas City Mo. She began her radio career in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and has worked for Pacifica station KPFK Radio in Los Angeles since 1994.Support the show

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"Some of What I Learned on My Sabbatical: Reclaiming Time and Empathy" Sunday, February 26, 10:50 am The gift of sabbatical is supposed to be about time -- fallow time, time "on the balcony" of your own life, time to rekindle flames that burn low. What I found was a new thread in an ongoing tapestry I have been weaving about time and my struggles with and against it; and about empathy. The two are related. Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern, Senior Minister; Rev. Laura Shennum, Minister of Congregational Life; Mari Magaloni Ramos, Worship Associate; Reiko Oda Lane, Organist; UUSF Choir led by Mark Sumner, Music Director Shulee Ong, Camera; Jackson Munn, Camera; Jonathan Silk, Communications Director; Joe Chapot, Live Chat Moderator; Thomas Brown, Sexton; Carrie Steere-Salazar, Flowers; Linda Messner, Head Usher

Architectural glass artist Elizabeth Devereaux traveled across the globe looking for an international education in art and architecture, from San Rafael to Vienna, then Munich. She founded her California studio in 1969, and more than 50 years later is an accomplished architectural glass artist with works installed all over the US and Canada.  Devereaux states: “In an architectural setting, I always like to work in a site-specific way, noting the place and region itself, as well as the architectural style the artwork is in, the light, the interior and exterior environment. I work collaboratively, which then requires me to listen to the client/committee's story, to define their identity and understand what has meaning for them, and then to synthesize all of the information within my own style and artistic vision.” One of Devereaux's most notable liturgical commissions, Christ Cathedral Memorial Gardens, Garden Grove, California, is located at an architectural pilgrimage destination. The Cathedral buildings are designed by three of the 20th century's most significant architects – Philip Johnson, Richard Neutra, and Richard Meier. The new Memorial Gardens' focus was to be “The Risen Christ” worshiped by two angels. It needed to be highly visible from the exterior, giving reference to life's journey and connecting Baptism (in the Cathedral) to death and resurrection (in the Mausoleum). Relying on reflective light, 24-carat gold luster paint allowed the windows to be clearly seen from the Cathedral opposite, as well as in the Mausoleum, which was flanked by 12 large panels of amber stained and shaded clear glass. These 12 panels were fabricated by Derix Studio in Germany; the rest of the commission was fabricated in Devereaux's Chico studio. Forty-four clerestory windows created in mouthblown cobalt streaky on clear German Lamberts glass link the interior rooms. Between each are prisms referring to the tower at the Cathedral. In another major liturgical project, at Our Lady of New Clairvaux Abbey, Vina, California, Devereaux expressed The Cistercian charism of simplicity in a contemporary style with a reference to its ancient history. The new monastery at New Clairvaux was originally a 12th-century monastery in Northern Spain. In the early 1930s William Randolph Hearst bought the monastery and imported it to California. Shortly afterwards, the Great Depression and World War II made it impossible for Hearst to build it, and he deeded it to the City of San Francisco. There it languished for 40 years behind the De Young Museum until Father Thomas Davis, a young monk newly arrived to the New Clairvaux Monastery, heard the story and had a vision of acquiring the stones for the new Abbey. The Abbey consulted with British and Spanish historians, and hired German stone carvers to re-form and recut the missing stones. The art glass in 12-century European Cistercian monasteries is abstract, simple, and often soft amber and white in color. Devereaux's windows appear simple at first glance, but in fact, are complex in their fabrication. The Fremont Antique glass was custom mouthblown to shade from white opak to clear, allowing the exterior landscape to be part of the design. It was also painted and kiln-fired with amber stain, then intersected vertically with handmade prisms. Since the monks worship during the day and night, the artist painted and fired a reflective 24-carat gold luster pattern onto the surface, bringing the translation of New Clairvaux or “Valley of Light” to life. In San Francisco, for Noe Valley Ministry's Coming to the Center window, Devereaux selected triple-flashed, mouth-blown glass, which was etched to the clear layer to portray the constellations. The transition from “sky” to “center” was accomplished by selecting custom blown rose to clear and purple to aqua glass. This allowed the glass to be sprayed and fired with orange luster, creating the subtle transition from lavender to amber. The amber “center” was leaded and laminated front and back with lead “overlay” “branches” to reference beloved artist Ruth Azawa's twig-like cross in the sanctuary. The center spiral links to the labyrinth in the space. Devereaux explains: “I always loved transparency—working with watercolor, silkscreen, overlaying color. When I discovered glass, I realized the incredible aspects of painting with light. Mouth-blown textures and color can be designed to meet direct sunlight and be projected in mysterious ways across the interior space. Or if the window is facing an unwanted view, it is possible to use translucent glass, allowing light in, but not the view or the glare. I also love the use of reflective materials, polished metals, in conjunction with glass, but sometimes mirror, and 24-carat gold, silver, and platinum lusters sprayed and fired onto glass. This allows the window to have a nightlife, different from the day. I also love pattern, making a “logo” or distillation of the meaning of the commission, then repeating it into a fabric woven into the artwork.” Devereaux has always been active in her architectural and liturgical communities, serving on the National Advisory Board of Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art, and Architecture (IFRAA), a Knowledge Community of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) from 2009- 2014 and as a Juror for Faith & Forum/ IFRAA Religious Art & Awards, Seattle, WA, 2005. Her own IFRAA and Faith and Form awards include: 2018 Honor Award for Religious Art in New Clairvaux Abbey, Vina, CA; 2018 Codaworx Liturgical Art Award, Holy Family Catholic Church, Fond du Lac, WI.; 2008 Design Merit Award, St. Maximilian Kolbe, Westlake Village, CA; 2006 Design Honor Award, Blessed Trinity, Frankenmuth, MI; 1992 Visual Arts Award, St. Joseph Cathedral, San Jose, CA. She has also been presented with Ministry & Liturgy Annual Visual Art Awards, Bene & Best of Show in 2008, 2005, 2003, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1994, 1992.  Devereaux's non-liturgical commissions are numerous and include New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute, Las Vegas, New Mexico, for which she won a Public Art Award; George Sim Community Center, Sacramento, California, Public Art Award; and Chico City Plaza, Chico, California, Design consultant team and Public Art Award. Her present commission is Dignity French Hospital Swanson Chapel in San Luis Obispo, CA, and includes 700 square feet of laminated art glass. Devereaux and her studio crew – Owen Gabbert, longtime project manager, Marie Swanson, Devereaux's son, Chris Tallant, and nephew, Abraham Devereaux – are responsible for many public art, hospital, and corporate commissions. Though her studio's main focus remains liturgical commissions, every window designed is site specific and custom made for that specific place. Devereaux knows how to listen and let inspiration find her, in a melding of her talent with the soul of each location.  

"Mourning and Celebrating" Sunday, February 19, 10:50 am At a recent trip to the DeYoung Museum, to see the exhibit by Black South African artist Lhola Amira, I was made aware of (at least) two parts of the righting of the heart and mind around our shared human history. Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern, Senior Minister; Sam King, Worship Associate; Shawnette Sulker, Soprano; Mark Sumner, Songleader; Jon Silk, Drummer; Wm. García Ganz, Pianist Shulee Ong, Camera; Eric Shackelford, Camera; Jonathan Silk, Communications Director; Joe Chapot, Live Chat Moderator; Thomas Brown, Sexton; Carrie Steere-Salazar, Flowers; Linda Messner, Head Usher; Ralph Fenn, Les James, Tom Brookshire, Zoom Coffee Hour

"Mourning and Celebrating" Sunday, February 19, 10:50 am At a recent trip to the DeYoung Museum, to see the exhibit by Black South African artist Lhola Amira, I was made aware of (at least) two parts of the righting of the heart and mind around our shared human history. Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern, Senior Minister; Sam King, Worship Associate; Shawnette Sulker, Soprano; Mark Sumner, Songleader; Jon Silk, Drummer; Wm. García Ganz, Pianist Shulee Ong, Camera; Eric Shackelford, Camera; Jonathan Silk, Communications Director; Joe Chapot, Live Chat Moderator; Thomas Brown, Sexton; Carrie Steere-Salazar, Flowers; Linda Messner, Head Usher; Ralph Fenn, Les James, Tom Brookshire, Zoom Coffee Hour

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!  Professor Ampim has taken educational tours to North Africa and Central America. In addition, he has conducted an extensive 13-country research tour to all of the major museums, institutes and libraries throughout America, Europe and Canada, which house ancient Egyptian and Nubian artifacts. Since the 1990s, he has completed several field research projects in Egypt, Nubia, and the Sudan to continue his primary research at dozens of field sites to study ancient African social organization and spiritual culture, document modern forgeries, and to record the vanishing evidence of classical African civilizations in the Nile Valley. After visiting the King Ramses II exhibit at the deYoung Museum, I had to speak to Professor Ampim to get the truth about King Ramses and clarity on what I saw at the museum. Visit wandaspicks.com (January-February 2023) for a review.   

IT CAME FROM AQUARIUS RECORDS is a feature-length documentary about the SF-based independent record store, Aquarius Records. Having closed in 2016 after 47 years, this small apartment-sized store championed local, underground, independent, and challenging music to the masses - most memorably with their infamous bi-weekly, college essay-length, new-release lists.This doc has interviews with the aQ owners dating back to 1970, other record store owners from around the world, musicians, label heads, music journalists, and INTENSE music collectors. Interviewees include Matt Groening (The Simpsons), Wayne Coyne (Flaming Lips), Bruce Ackley, John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats), Ty Segall, and Liz Harris (Grouper).Aquarius Records influenced and enriched countless peoples' musical tastes with their curated selections - but this film also shows the realities of an indie record store trying to survive in an increasingly difficult market of brick-and-mortar music shops, especially in the ever-changing and price-gouging Mission District of SF. Six years in the making, the film has a very personal angle, with lots of behind-the-scenes footage (and drama) that shows both the joy and excruciating stress that comes with running — and closing — a store like this.Upcoming screenings:Oct 4th 6 pm Los Angeles City College w Howie KleinOct 6th Tucson Film and Music FestivalNovember 1st, 7pm Nitehawk Cinema, Williamsburg BrooklynFilm screening, followed by a moderated Q+A, with:Kenneth ThomasBrian Turner (The Brian Turner Show, WFMU)Jeremy DeVine (Founder / President of Temporary Residence Records)Jon Fine (Bitch Magnet, Author of Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (but Can No Longer Hear))Emil Amos (Grails, Om, Holy Sons)Moderated by Anna Lopez (Temporary Residence Records, Union Pool)Nov 4th & 5th Doc Utah St. George, UtahKenneth Thomas is a teacher and filmmaker from Arcata, California. He has consistently worked in some aspect of news or documentary production. After graduating with his Bachelor's Degree in 16mm Film Production from Boston University, he moved back to his hometown to work at the local CBS television station, where he quickly became the Technical Director, and then the Live News Director. He also served as their News Videographer, documenting stories on the front lines, like Earth First's controversial fight to save the old-growth redwood forests.After receiving his MFA in Film at San Francisco Art Institute, Kenneth completed his 5-year long film project, a feature-length music documentary called Blood, Sweat + Vinyl: DIY in the 21st Century. Featuring over a dozen multi-camera live concert shoots and 20 interviews about independent heavy metal music culture, the film has screened in over two dozen film and music festivals on every continent (except Antarctica) and is currently being independently distributed. This documentary led to him directing two music videos for bands in the film, one of which aired on MTV's Headbanger's Ball.Kenneth currently teaches Live TV Production and Audio Production at Los Angeles City College, with occasional freelance stints as a key camera operator for live multi-camera streams of LA Philharmonic concerts, and directing live multi-camera streams of heavy metal concerts in Boston and Los Angeles.Artist Windy Chien is best known for her 2016 work, The Year of Knots, in which she learned a new knot every day for a year. Her work ranges in size from a knot that can fit in the palm of a child's hand to room-sized installations that are sought after by private collectors. Following long careers at Apple and as owner of legendary music shop Aquarius Records, she launched her studio in 2015. Select clients include the National Geographic Society, the De Young Museum, Nobu Hotels, Google, and the Kering Group, and her work has been covered by Wired, The New York Times and Martha Stewart. Windy's book about her work was published by Abrams in 2019.Andee Connors is a drummer, musician, artist, DJ, music curator, photographer, former record store owner, former record label owner. He ran a record store called aQuarius recOrds in San Francisco from 1994 - 2016. He also ran tUMULt, a record label that existed for close to 20 years, with more than 50 releases. He's been playing drums since 9 years old, touring and recording since 19. Bands included math rock / post rock band called A Minor Forest, a grind pop / noise-pop band called P.E.E., a SF punk band called J-Church, a stoner metal band called High Tone Son Of A Bitch, and an experimental post rock band called Lumen. He played drums in two Boadrum performances with Japanese experimental outfit The Boredoms: with 77 drummers in 2007 in Brooklyn, NY, and then 88 drummers in 2008 in Los Angeles as well as extra drums with noise rock outfit Shit And Shine.Currently in Common Eider, King Eider, a ritualistic doom/drone duo, and My Heart, An Inverted Flame, another duo, heavy, droney, repetitive and shoegazey - only synths and drums!He has radio shows on Gimmeradio.com called Battleflutes & Sideways Skulls, and Castle Weather on Repeater Radio in the UK. He shares his house (and life) with three cats called Tony Harrison, Lugburz and Tungsten.Allan Horrocks did not get us a bio in time.https://battleflutesandsidewaysskulls.comBy This Wax I Rulehttps://www.instagram.com/aquariusrecordsrip/Bill Kopp's book on 415 Records, Disturbing the Peace.George's new podcast https://pi-cast.simplecast.com/Follow:Instagram: @aquariusdocInstagram: @mool_systemsInstagram: @windychienInstagram: @mbibendumFollow Sup Doc on:Twitter: @supdocpodcastInstagram: @supdocpodcastFacebook: @supdocpodcastsign up for our mailing listAnd you can show your support to Sup Doc by donating on Patreon.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

After following California artist, Bibby Gignilliat on Instagram, Val reached out to her for a possible interview. We were thrilled when she agreed! During the afternoon conversation-morning for her- we had a complete discussion of her creative art process, her studio in the ICB Building in Sausalito, California and her mentors. Bibby (rhymes with Libby) Gignilliat (sounds like Gin a lot!) is a thoughtful enthusiastic artist who is generous with her knowledge and sources. Bibby is fun loving in spirit and all business when it comes to her art. Her background in marketing is a gift and we learned a lot from her in this taping. She teaches mixed media workshops in her studio and also online. Go to her instagram page at @bibbygart to see her wonderful abstract artworks. About Bibby Turning her adult creative talents toward cooking, Bibby became a marketing manager for Williams-Sonoma, and then decided to go to culinary school. From there she offered interactive cooking classes which evolved into the company, Parties That Cook, with satellite office in Chicago, Seattle and Portland. The business was successful, but Bibby had an epiphany when, as a panelist at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. She heard her company described as a “lifestyle business.” I realized I had been pushing so hard, that I had left my own lifestyle behind. And I had forgotten what I liked to do.” And what she liked to do was paint. Coming full circle, Bibby sold the business and shifted her focus to becoming a full-time mixed media artist, living and working in Sausalito, CA. She is unconstrained by the formal training of art school and has studied with Nicholas Wilton, Michael Cutlip, Michael Shemchuk, Mark Eanes, Heather Wilcoxon, Leslie Allen, Louise Victor and Carl Heyward. Artist Statement Each day as I step into my studio, I am entering a playground – a workout for taking risks, letting go of attachments, and experimenting with new ideas. The materials are guiding me. A letter to the tooth fairy, a One Way road sign, or a billboard scrap foraged in San Francisco all make their way into the work and are a reflection of my interior life. My spirit laughs out loud at the freedom of breaking the rules and drawing outside of the lines. I'm not sure who is in charge – my art or me. The process is alchemical, magical, and joyful. The maverick/rebel is encouraged while the perfectionist is given a time-out. The result is a pure reflection of my heart. In 2021, my work was chosen for the DeYoung Open at the DeYoung Museum. It is available through my studio, Sloan Miyasato Fine Art, through Slate Contemporary in Oakland and through the Portland Art Gallery in Portland, Maine. Here are some links for you to explore: Bibby Gignilliat Website: Bibbyart.com Bibby's Instagram Page ICB Building in Sausalito, California Bibby's online class Anderson Ranch Bibby has attended artist residencies and mentorships with the following artists: Nicholas Wilton Mark Eanes Carl Heyward Rico Gatson Michael Shemchuk Thank you, Bibby, for sharing your art journey with us on Art Ladders Podcast.

Celebrated Chicana poet Naomi Helena Quinoñez reads and discusses poems that thematize divine feminine power, women's spirituality, racial oppression, social justice, and more. Naomi Helena Quiñonez is a poet, educator and activist, and author of three collections of poetry, Exiled Moon, The Smoking Mirror, and Hummingbird Dream/Sueño de Colibri. Quiñonez edited several critical and literary publications including Invocation L.A: Urban Multicultural Poetry Anthology, which won the American Book Award, Decolonial Voices, and Caminos Magazine. She holds a Ph.D. in American History and contributes to the scholarship of Latino/as and women of color. Quiñonez has been featured throughout the country, including the Los Angeles Writers Festival, the Nuyrican Café, the De Young Museum, and the Miami Book Festival. She has shared the mic with Quincy Troupe, Octavia Butler, Luis Rodriguez, and Ana Castillo. Her work has appeared in the Colorado Review, Infinite Divisions, Voices of our Ancestors, and Maestrapeace. Recently Quiñonez received the Teyolia Community Award from the San Francisco International Flor Y Canto Festival. She's also an honoree of the San Francisco Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Award in poetry, a Rockefeller Fellowship, the American Book Award, and a California Arts Grant. She is featured in Notable Hispanic Women and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. She currently lives in Oakland. For more information about the author's books or to purchase copies, contact Naomi Helena Quiñonez at naomiquinonez@yahoo.com

July 11, 2022 — The Middletown Art Center in Lake County was packed on Saturday night. Visitors from several counties were there to look at work by 31 Native American artists, including traditional baskets, digital art and paintings, woodcut prints, bobbleheads, and a short film about the historical context of Jules Tavernier's paintings. “Tonight, we are at the opening of Earth, Sky, and Everything in Between, which is actually the first time that a Native American has curated art by Native Americans. Ever,” said curator Corine Pearce, just as visitors began to arrive. She's from the Little River Band of Pomo Indians in Redwood Valley, but she also claims ancestry from people indigenous to Lake County. Pearce said the show is a culmination of a year-long project that involved teaching basket-making to Native and non-Native people as a way to build cultural bridges. She emphasized the variety of styles and approaches on display. “While we were setting this up, the owner of the gallery, Lisa Kaplan, said she'd never had as many mediums in at one time. So we have acrylic on canvas, we have three-dimensional baskets of lots of kinds, including electrical cable…if you are alive, and you are Indigenous, no matter what art you're making, it is contemporary art.” That includes commemorating recent achievements and memorializing ongoing tragedy. In one small room, there are a pair of mannequins in a mix of modern and traditional regalia, and a haunting empty skirt covered with red handprints. One piece celebrates a young woman's recent graduation, while the other is a reminder of how many Indigenous women are missing and murdered. According to statistics that are part of the installation, Indian women are murdered at a rate of ten times the national average, though only 2% of the known number are included in the Department of Justice database. The mannequins, notes Pearce, “are a cool thing.” A young woman from the Pinola family of Kashia graduated from school this year. “The school she goes to allows them to wear a traditional outfit to one graduation, and then a contemporary cap and gown. And she broke the mold. She made a little feather topknot. And the white beads that go down (across the forehead), that's a Pomo thing, representing wealth. So she brought both of them. Also, where that room is, there's a display for the Missing Murdered Indigenous Women that has statistics. Because that sad statistic is part of our culture.” Many of the artists are displaying their work for the first time, from twelve-year-old Sarah Franklin, who made a small red basket, to 75-year-old Wanda Quitiquit, who created a special technique for burning designs onto gourds. But some of the artwork has been on tour. The video about Jules Tavernier's paintings of the Elem people, which includes local experts discussing the mercury mining that began at that time, was recently at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. “It was actually at the Met first, and then it came to the De Young,” Pearce said. “When it came to the De Young Museum, they incorporated more representations of living artists. I happened to be one of those artists. So they had my baskets, they had baskets of Susan Billy, they had baskets of Clint McKay, and they had tule dolls made by Meyo Marruffo. That exhibit just ended, and they sent the stuff back to me, and then I brought that stuff here to exhibit here for a little while, and then it's going to go to the Grace Hudson Museum (in Ukiah). So we have some really ‘fine art' art here.” Wanda Quitiquit, who is Eastern Pomo from Robinson Rancheria, debuted her work at the Middletown Art Center, wearing a multi-strand shell necklace made by her late sister. She took a seat on a hay bale next to a garden full of basket-weaving plants to talk about her artistic approach. She is partly inspired by her own tradition, and partly by Indigenous Peruvian artists who carve elaborate designs onto tiny gourds. “What I like to do is I make big, large gourd bowls,” she said. “I have to draw the design first, and then I wood-burn the design in. And then I use dye for color. I only do Pomo basketry designs, old designs…But they all come out different on the gourd. It just depends on the gourd, and my feeling. I think the most important thing is that these designs that I use are gifts to us Pomos who use them in our artwork. I just stick with Pomo basket designs, because I'm a Pomo. It's done by a Pomo, and it's Pomo art.” Jacob Meders, who is Mechoopda Maidu, takes a different historical approach. In addition to making sculpture and woodcut prints, he is an associate professor of an interdisciplinary art and performance program at Arizona State University. He's also the founder of a printmaking company called War Bird Press. His woodcut, “Divided Lines,” is a mixture of Socratic line theory, illustrations from accounts of first contact between Indigenous and European people, and pop-culture satirical riffs. One design features a figure wearing a cross and a crown, sitting cross-legged on a tree stump. “I was thinking more of the British crown in that,” Meders said. “What he's sitting on is the largest stump in all of those woodcuts. It's this very large tree that was cut down, so he's using that as a throne in some way. And he's referencing Manifest Destiny…the idea that God has given him the right, as the king, and chose him to be royalty, but also the idea of Manifest Destiny, that God has given him the right to take from us, as Indigenous people. So there's that reference to that spiritual power that is a colonial spiritual power, that is used as a weapon, really.” Jacqueline Graumann, of the Redwood Valley Little River Band of Pomo Indians, melded a personal fascination with the “Everything” part of the exhibit's title. “During the pandemic, I got kind of a fixation on anatomical hearts,” she said. “So I have drawn probably 20 different anatomical hearts. I try to pull out, what people's hearts are about, what their lives are about. My sister is a basket-weaver, so I did a basket-weaver's heart. I was a traditional dancer when I was younger. I had a death in my family and I stopped dancing, so I try to find my way back to that by doing a dancer's heart.” As a labor and delivery nurse, Graumann brings a medical understanding of anatomical features to her artwork. “I'm there at the very beginning of life, and a lot of it starts with hearing the heartbeats of babies,” she said. “Hearing the heartbeats of mamas. So it's a connection throughout generations, and listening to the Earth. It's the beginning of everything.” As she spoke, an Elem elder inside the gallery clacked a stick sharply, twice. It was a call to go in and hear a blessing for a historical show, equal parts ancient, the first of its kind, and not necessarily confined to a gallery. “They are museum quality,” Pearce said of the pieces on display. “But we are not people who live in museums. So it's important for us to share, in community, that we're still here.”

Kanyon Sayers-Roods is Costanoan Ohlone-Mutsun and Chumash; she also goes by her given Native name, “Coyote Woman”. She is proud of her heritage and her native name (though it comes with its own back story), and is very active in the Native Community. She is an Artist, Poet, Published Author, Activist, Student and Teacher. The daughter of Ann-Marie Sayers, she was raised in Indian Canyon, trust land of her family, which currently is one of the few spaces in Central California available for the Indigenous community for ceremony. Kanyon's art has been featured at the De Young Museum, The Somarts Gallery, Gathering Tribes, Snag Magazine, and numerous Powwows and Indigenous Gatherings. She is a recent graduate of the Art Institute of California, Sunnyvale, obtaining her Associate and Bachelor of Science degrees in Web Design and Interactive Media. She is motivated to learn, teach, start conversations around decolonization and reinidgenization, permaculture and to continue doing what she loves, Art.For the show notes, visit: https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/kanyonSubscribe to Next Economy Now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you find podcasts.---LIFT Economy NewsletterJoin 7000+ subscribers and get our free 60 point business design checklist—plus monthly tips, advice, and resources to help you build the Next Economy: https://lifteconomy.com/newsletter---Next Economy MBAThis episode is brought to you by the Next Economy MBA.What would a business education look like if it was completely redesigned for the benefit of all life? This is why the team at LIFT Economy created the Next Economy MBA (https://lifteconomy.com/mba).The Next Economy MBA is a nine month online course for folks who want to learn key business fundamentals (e.g., vision, culture, strategy, and operations) from an equitable, inclusive, and regenerative perspective.Join the growing network of 250+ alumni who have been exposed to new solutions, learned essential business skills, and joined a lifelong peer group that is catalyzing a global shift towards an economy that works for all life.Learn more at https://lifteconomy.com/mba.---Show Notes + Other LinksFor detailed show notes and interviews with past guests, please visit https://lifteconomy.com/podcastIf you enjoy the podcast, please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts by visiting:  https://bit.ly/nexteconomynowTwitter: https://twitter.com/LIFTEconomyInstagram: https://instagram.com/lifteconomy/Facebook: https://facebook.com/LIFTEconomy/YouTube: The spring cohort of the Next Economy MBA is officially open! Save 20% when you register before 1/29 with our early-bird sale ➡️ https://lifteconomy.com/mba

Future Knowing: A Discussion with Artists and Untitled Art Miami Beach guest curator Natasha Becker. Participants include: Ana Teresa Fernández (Catharine Clark Gallery), Alexander Lee (Marisa Newman Projects), Phyllis Stephens (Richard Beavers Gallery), Adébayo Boljai showing with BEERS London, Natasha Becker (Curator of African Art at the De Young Museum who is our moderator)

The Director of galleries in central London and Miami, Rebecca Hossack was born in Melbourne in 1955. Following degrees in Law and in History of Art, Hossack studied at Christie's and at The Guggenheim in Venice. She set up her own gallery in Windmill Street, Fitzrovia, in March 1988. From 1993-7, Hossack served as the Australian cultural attaché in London. Hossack was the first Conservative Councillor in Bloomsbury for over 20 years, during which time she ran the New York Marathon to raise £20,000 to plant trees in central London. She also writes regularly in the national press and lectures internationally on Aboriginal art. She has worked closely with the British Museum, the Barbican Centre, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Horniman Museum and the De Young Museum in San Francisco. Hossack also campaigns to preserve rock art in Western Australia's Burrup peninsula. 

After graduating with a B.A. Degree in Fashion & Textiles design in San Francisco and Business Administration studies at San Diego State, Mr. Galon began his creative career in marketing, public relations & special events in the fashion industry, producing high profile fashion shows which allowed him the opportunity to establish new product launches, public relations, design sets, choreograph shows and work exclusively with top couture designers and their collections, including many well known super models.  In addition to fashion show presentations, Mr. Galon contributed his creative eye doing event planning & visual displays for such renown retail companies as I.Magnin, Neiman Marcus, Escada & Armani.  He is known for contributing vast amounts of energy, creativity and talent toward the success of special events such as Macy's Passport Fashion Show, Sausilito Art Festival and has worked exclusively on esteemed companies such as Bob Mackie Fashions, Thierry Mugler, Oscar de la Renta, Hubert de Givenchy(with the late Audrey Hepburn), San Francisco Opera & Ballet Fashion shows, De Young Museum & Asian Art Museum featuring various haute couture designers.Combining his educational and professional career with fashion, Mr. Galon has been a beauty pageant aficionado. He started as staff member with pageants in the early 80's with Miss Philippines USA Pageant, a preliminary to the Miss Philippines Universe, World & International Pageant in Manila, Philippines. He designed his first pageant gowns in 1983, which was the catalyst to study fashion design in college.  He has since been Executive Director for local pageants in the Miss America program, worked as staff member for Miss USA, Miss Universe, coached countless pageant delegates and has judged numerous pageants across the country and internationally. 20+ years in fashion and with pageant involvements, plus 20+ years in personal development and public speaking has lead him to open an additional business called ‘Runway4Life' (www.runway4life.com), a personal development, pageant & life coaching and wardrobe styling organization. His clothing line: ‘Joey Galon Atelier' was officially launched at Miss USA 2010 in Las Vegas, showcasing his collections of evening gowns to the pageant world.  His gowns have been seen on national and international pageant stages.He was featured on the TLC networks reality show 'Vegas Brides' as the fashion & wedding consultant, was a principle on the reality TV show series: ‘Model Latina' as the official Model and filmed in NYC for the Lifetime network in a fashion reality TV show called '24 Hour Catwalk' (same producers as ‘Project Runway')   featuring him as one the nation's up and coming new designers competing for the grand prize of full sponsorship and marketing of his burgeoning new clothing line company.www.joeygalon.com  website www.ruthbyjoeygalon.com  masksFacebookInstagram Support the show (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/authentic-voice-with-janice-mcqueen/id1462542236)

Host: Alex CrowGuest: Liv FergusonRecorded in Los Angeles, CA and Washington, D.C. via Zoom.Bruce Springsteen down and out in the 'One Step Up' video.Music by Hideout HillThanks to our episode sponsor TeamPeople. For more information, visit - https://www.teampeople.tvFor the latest employment opportunities, visit the TeamPeople Job Board - https://teampeople.secure.force.com/careers/

The Frida Kahlo Exhibit is a collection of the artist's most personal artifacts including clothing, photographs, prosthetics, paintings, and jewelry which was stored at her home in Mexico City from the time of her death, 1954, until 2004. The Exhibit also draws on her time in San Francisco and how it influenced her life and art. It is open through May 2, 2021. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/james-herlihy/message

As we bring this series to a close, Jude sends us out on a high note. After explaining to the church what we need to lookout for and how our enemies have already put themselves in position all around us in the church. Jude is short and to the point. He turns our focus back to building up ourselves and our relationship with God. This closing doxology should be in the De Young Museum. 

Episode 58, the fourth during Women’s History Month, features Lava Thomas, an American artist and arts advocate who tackles issues of race, gender and representation through a multidisciplinary practice that spans drawing, painting, and site-specific installations. Drawing from her family's southern roots, intersectional feminism, and current and historical sociopolitical events, Thomas's practice amplifies visibility, resilience, and empowerment in the face of erasure, trauma, and oppression. Thomas is a recipient of the 2020 San Francisco Artadia Award, the Joan Mitchell Grant for Painters and Sculptors, and the Lucas Artist Fellowship in Visual Arts. She was recently awarded the commission to create a sculpture to honor Dr. Maya Angelou for the San Francisco Main Library. She has participated in residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, Facebook LA, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Venues where Thomas's work has been exhibited nationally include the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; the International Print Center, NY, NY; the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; the CA African American Museum in Los Angeles, CA, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the United States Consulate General in Johannesburg, South Africa; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; the M.H. De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, and the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. Her work has been written about in Artforum, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, The Guardian, SF Chronicle and LA Weekly. Thomas studied at UCLA's School of Art and received a BFA from California College of the Arts. She is represented by Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco. Photo Credit: Drew Altzier ARTIST WEBSITE http://www.lavathomas.com/ ARTADIA https://artadia.org/artist/lava-thomas/ RENA BRANSTEN GALLERY https://renabranstengallery.com/artists/lava-thomas/ AMERICAN ART https://americanart.si.edu/artist/lava-thomas-31178 NEW YORK TIMES https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/arts/design/san-francisco-maya-angelou-monument.html? HYPERALLERGIC https://hyperallergic.com/524415/in-san-francisco-a-design-for-maya-angelou-monument-is-approved-then-suddenly-scrapped/ https://hyperallergic.com/tag/lava-thomas/

Aw YEAH! Episode 21 of Been Doin' This is real good! My guest is Rafael Bustamante Sarria from the might La Gente SF. We had an awesome conversation about his musical journey, his San Francisco roots and you'll hear how what influenced him at an early age led to exactly what he's become: A creator, collaborator, co-conspirator and comrade. PLUS at the end the episode you will get to hear kind of an EXCLUSIVE new track from his band 'SUAVATONA"! Not a bad deal at all, eh? Here are some Links: -LA GENTE SF WEBSITE- https://lagentemusicsf.com/ -NEW MUSIC VIDEO TRAILER- https://youtu.be/Zfoe65hlR6Y -MORENA MUSIC VIDEO- https://youtu.be/fYMS1ScHVwI -FACEBOOK- https://www.facebook.com/La-Gente-SF-122028065926/ -INSTAGRAM- https://instagram.com/lagentesf/ -SPOTIFY- https://open.spotify.com/album/57xrRvT7Ki0cbjHd4wpsox?highlight=spotify:track:2T74WgRLNYtwbw7fSsMQGo -SOUNDCLOUD- https://soundcloud.com/la-gente-music -TWITTER- https://twitter.com/RafaelSarria -NEW ALBUM- https://ps.onerpm.com/borderless Bio: Rafael Bustamante Sarria is a Colombian-Nicaraguan singer songwriter, activist and leader of the group LA GENTE SF. Rafa and LA GENTE SF have created their own unique blend of World Music, Cumbia, Reggaeton, Salsa, Hip-Hop, Reggae and Champeta. LA GENTE SF was created in the city of San Francisco. Their music and live shows fuses together rhythms, dances and cultural influences from all over the Caribbean with a distinct San Francisco flavor to create an infectious, high energy dance party. Rafael has collaborated with many organizations in the Bay Area and all over the world creating music art and cultural events. He is one of the main organizers for MAPP (Mission Arts Performance Project) a supervisor and organizer for The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, was a booker and stage manager for Carnaval San Francisco, one of the founders for The Arte & Tapas Performance Series, and was curator and an event coordinator for Friday Nights at the De Young Museum. After years of touring and releasing new music, Rafa & LA GENTE SF have built a large and loyal following all over the US and around the globe. LA GENTE SF was founded in 2007, since then they have performed numerous festivals, universities, radio stations, museums, art galleries and major venues all over the US and the world. For example: Los Angeles, New Orleans, Austin, Portland and New York as well as Spain, Italy, France, Mexico, Great Britain, Brazil, Chile, Nicaragua, and Colombia. Their notoriety and showmanship had found them sharing the stage with other recognized recording artists such as George Clinton and The P-Funk All Stars, E-40, La Santa Cecilia, Quantic, The Digital Underground, Oscar De Leon, Hyro-Glyphics, Digable Planets, Pato Banton, Lyrics Born, Pete Escovedo, and MALO. Rafael is currently in a three month residency in Cartagena Colombia hard at work on LA GENTE SF's 5th studio album building collaborations and connections between the vibrant music scene of the Caribbean with the Bay Area. Prior to lockdown the group had just returned from tours in Mexico and Spain. Once this album is completed and civilization returns they are planning on hitting the road returning to Europe and South & Central America and venues across the US.

Darius Mirshahzadeh is a recovering CEO and Founder of The Real Darius. is a dad, husband, twin, brother, and son who was born and raised in California and now lives in Austin Texas. He is a serial entrepreneur, author, conscious capitalist, speaker and entertainer. Darius’s passion is to make the world a better place using his talents and engagement. He is all about the P’s: Passion, Pizza, Puzzles and Pink Unicorns. If you’re more into traditionally braggy vanity metrics around success, he was ranked #40 in Inc 500 CEO’s in 2007 with 2500% plus revenue growth in three years of his business at Twin Capital Mortgage. He was ranked #9 in Glassdoor’s Top Ranked CEOs in American for small to medium businesses. Darius has participated in many prestigious programs including Birthing of Giants at MIT and graduated from the world-renowned Stagen Integral Leadership Program. He was a TEDx curator for the TEDx Golden Gate Park in 2011 and 2012 at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. The theme was The Pursuit of Passion.

  Darius Mirshahzadeh is a dad, husband, twin, brother, and son who was born and raised in California and now lives in Austin Texas.  He is a serial entrepreneur, author, conscious capitalist, speaker and entertainer.  Darius’s passion is to make the world a better place using his talents and engagement.  He is all about the P’s:  Passion, Pizza, Puzzles and Pink Unicorns.  If you’re more into traditionally braggy vanity metrics around success, he was ranked #40 in Inc 500 CEO’s in 2007 with 2500% plus revenue growth in three years of his business at Twin Capital Mortgage.  He was ranked #9 in Glassdoor’s Top Ranked CEOs in American for small to medium businesses.  Darius has participated in many prestigious programs including Birthing of Giants at MIT and graduated from the world-renowned Stagen Integral Leadership Program.  He was a TEDx curator for the TEDx Golden Gate Park in 2011 and 2012 at the De Young Museum in San Francisco.  The theme was The Pursuit of Passion.  Darius joins me today to talk about finding his core values and building a life around them. He shares how running a successful business and chasing money never brought him true satisfaction. Darius talks about how he developed his core passions and how they continue to shape his life and work. He shares how even businesses can benefit from having core values in terms of leadership and growth, and how companies that do create values rarely follow them. “If you treated your product the way you treated your values, how successful would your product be?” – Darius Mirshahzadeh This week on Rebel Souls: Rebelling FOR everyone to live in an intentionally designed life around the fundamental beliefs for themselves or the organization they live for. The definition of core values and how rarely people follow them The Stagan Program and the teachings of conscious leadership What is the Platinum Rule and how it improves leadership Why our core values are based in our own language Darius’s 6 core values and why he recommends developing 3-6 values of your own Why Businesses develop core values, and how they are overlooked How core values relate to growth, decision making, and more for a business Creating Sensory experiences around your values Why Darius developed The Pursuit of Passion from TEDx The Fulfilment Formula The significance of the Pink Unicorn Mentioned Resources: The Money Source Book: Scaling UP by Verne Harnish Book: Built to Last, by Jim Collins Birthing of Giants Program Stagan Integral Leadership Program TEDx GoldenGatePark: The Pursuit of Passion   Connect with Darius: Website Darius on Twitter Darius on Facebook Darius on Instagram Darius on Youtube Darius on LinkedIn Book: The Core Value Equation Podcast: The Greatness Machine Liberate Your Soul & Join the Rebelution Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of Rebel Souls with your host, Shelley Paxton, the podcast dedicated to helping leaders reject the status quo, liberate their soul, and become a lifelong rebel. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe to the show and leave a review. Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram and share your favorite episodes across social media. And for more great content and information, visit our website and grab your copy of Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel’s Guide to Finding Your Best Life.

Now, if you're more into the traditional braggy vanity metrics around success, I'm an Inc. 500 CEO, ranked number 40 in Inc. 500 in 2007, with 2500% plus revenue growth in three years of my business, Twin Capital Mortgage. I was ranked #9 in Glassdoor's Top Ranked CEO's in America for small to medium businesses. I have participated in many great programs, such as Birthing of Giants at MIT, Gathering of Titans at MIT, and I am a graduate of the World Renowned Stagen Integral Leadership Program.I've spoken on some big stages. I was a TEDx curator. I did TEDx Golden Gate Park in 2011 and 2012 at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. I'm a crazy mad scientist CEO. I've grown companies from startup to just under a thousand employees in under three years, and I'm an expert at core values. I am very proud of my book, The Core Value Equation. If none of that impresses you, so be it.I can make a damn good pizza, and my last meal on earth will be a pepperoni pizza from Pizzetta 211 in San Francisco with a cheese board salad, a slice of flourless chocolate cake, hand-whipped cream and with a Blue Moon beer. Peace. I love you.My purpose is to live a poetic life – a life of true engagement that helps others learn and reach their potential.What do you want to know about me? I'm a dad, husband, twin, brother, and son. I am grateful to have such an amazing family who loves me despite my loco craziness—born and raised in Cali. Now I live in Austin, Texas. I'm a serial entrepreneur, author, conscious capitalist, speaker, and entertainer. I'm all about the P's: Passion, Pizza, Puzzles, and especially Pink Unicorns. I am all about creating greatness in the world.My passion is to make the world a better place, using my talents and engagement. My top six core values are happiness, which I call heart. Love, which I call Besos. Passion, which I call "Eye of the Tiger. Curiosity, which I call Cinco. Creativity, which I call BOOM. Last but not least, balance, which I call Movie Night. The reason I call it that is because my family and I watch movies together every Friday night.Book:The Core Value EquationLinks:WebsiteInstagramFacebookYouTube

Ruby Ibarra is a rapper and spoken word artist from the Bay Area, CA.Ruby released her debut album, CIRCA91 at the end of 2017 and has since toured across the United States at universities, empowerment conferences, music venues, and spaces such as - the National Mall in DC, The Getty Center, and the De Young Museum.Ruby has been featured on notable publications such as NPR, Huffington Post, South China Morning Post, Buzzfeed, XXL Magazine and was featured in a Grammys/MasterCard commercial and campaign with R&B singer SZA.Ruby's music is available on all digital platforms and can be heard in several museum exhibits, films and television features. Ruby is also a KUMU ambassador with weekly shows that empowers music, life and inspiring people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Darius Mirshahzadeh is a dad, husband, twin, brother and son who was born and raised in California and now lives in Austin Texas. He is a serial entrepreneur, author, conscious capitalist, speaker, and entertainer. Darius's passion is to make the world a better place using his talents and engagement. He is all about the P's: Passion, Pizza, Puzzles, and Pink Unicorns. If you're more into traditional braggy vanity metrics around success, he was ranked #40 in Inc 500 CEO's in 2007 with 2500% plus revenue growth in three years of his business at Twin Capital Mortgage. He was ranked #9 in Glassdoor's Top Ranked CEOs in America for small to medium businesses. Darius has participated in many prestigious programs including Birthing of Giants at MIT and graduated from the world-renowned Stagen Integral Leadership Program. He was a TEDx curator for the TEDx Golden Gate Park in 2011 and 2012 at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. The theme was The Pursuit of Passion.Darius is a mad scientist CEO who has grown companies from start-up to just under 1,000 employees in three years. He is an expert on core values. His top six core values are happiness named Heart, love named Besos, passion named Eye of the Tiger, curiosity named Cinco, creativity named BOOM, and balance named Movie Night. He explains in his new book, The Core Value Equation, being released to the world on September 15, 2020.Darius can make a damn good pizza and his last meal on earth will be a pepperoni pizza from Pizzetta 211 in San Francisco with a cheese board salad, a slice of flourless chocolate cake, hand-whipped cream and a Blue Moon beer.www.therealdarius.com https://therealdarius.com/the-greatness-machine-series/https://www.amazon.com/Core-Value-Equation-Framework-Limitless/dp/1544506708

AhSa-Ti Nu meets with queer multidisciplinary artist/performer, film and theater director, Beatrice Thomas aka Black Benatar. Beatrice comes from a family lineage of pastors, performers, doctors and healers. A maker of objects, installations and theater, Mx. Thomas reveals, revises and constructs alternate realities. They use the artifice of drag to inhabit Black Benatar, an exaggerated black femme alter ego creature that challenges blackness, whiteness, oppression & convention. Thomas is a featured drag queen for RADAR Productions “Drag Queen Story Hour” a program that brings drag queens to read stories at public libraries. Beatrice’s work has graced the stages of the deYoung Museum, SF PRIDE Mainstage, CounterPulse, SOMArts Cultural Center and the Institute of Advanced Uncertainty and has shown in galleries across the United States. Thomas works nationally consulting and advocating for equity and the inclusion of queer arts on national mainstream stages.   This sister stays working and so I was glad for the chance to meet with her. This was an amazing conversation to have and I thoroughly enjoy the opportunity to hear more about her personal story.  Social Stuff: FB: https://www.facebook.com/AuthenticArtsandMedia/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AArts_n_Media FB: https://www.facebook.com/beatrice.l.thomas  

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! We rebroadcast the Tuesday, March 10 interview with the co-curator of Soul of a Movement at the DeYoung Museum. Also on this show is a rebroadcast of the Feb. 14, interviews with Black Joy founder and founders of Black Choreographer Festival, Here and Now. Music: Kahil El Zabar, Black is Back.    

Kanyon Sayers-Roods "Coyote Woman"  (Mutsun-Ohlone, Chumash, EuroMutt) is a two-spirit steward of Indian Canyon, an artist, activist and educator. Kanyon teaches truth in history and envisioning indigenous futures to diverse audiences. Kanyon's work has been featured at the De Young Museum, SOMArts Gallery, Gathering Tribes and many indigenous powwows and gatherings. Episode Highlights Kanyon shares how she first started her business, Kanyon Konsulting, to provide education on decolonization and reindigenization for non-native people, particularly in the Ohlone territory (San Francisco Bay Area, California). Kanyon helps us understand what it means to do the work of decolonization and reindiginization. She shares about the practice and importance of land acknowledgement and recognition. We also talk about the practice of offering “land tax” donations to help native peoples get land back. Kanyon shares why it is important and helpful to get familiar with the native peoples in your own territory. We break down the label of “two-spirit” and other labels native folks use to talk about their queer experience. Web links Find more at KanyonKonsulting.com You can also find Kanyon on Instagram, Twitter & FaceBook Weaving Spirits Festival of Two Spirits Performance - Yelamu (San Francisco), March 6-8th, 2020 All My Relations podcast Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits Two Spirit Society of Indian Canyon Native Land map website | Mobile app If you are not Indigenous to the place you live, please consider paying your land tax/offer a gift to the people whose land you are on. - NYC: mannahattafund.org - Seattle: realrentduwamish.org - SF Bay Area: sogoreate-landtrust.com/shuumi-land-tax    Grab your FREE Guide - Needs, Boundaries & Self-Care for Queer Folks.  Download it here. Join the Queer Spirit Community Facebook group to continue the conversation and stay up to date on new episodes.  And follow us on Instagram!  Join our mailing list  to get news and podcast updates sent directly to you.

We first took notice of the minimally styled paper flowers of Yang Liu in her blue phase. This blue phase turned out to be her artistic collaboration with Anna Chedid at the VSCO studio. Influenced by her Chinese heritage, her dual Canadian-American nationalities, and her current hometown of San Francisco, Yang's work strives to sit somewhere between dreams and reality. Her paper flowers are showcased in a consistently clean and modern way. She does not shy away from creating various types of botanical objects, from dahlias to pear branches to dumpling boxes. Listen to Yang as she shares her love for paper flowers. Let's first get to know Yang: 1. Who is Yang Liu? I was born in Shanghai (hence my Instagram name, @shanghai.1984). I am currently a dual Canadian-American citizen residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Besides flowers and paper art, I also love having tea with friends! 2. How did you get started making paper flowers? What drew you to this art form? I first came across paper flowers at the De Young Museum, where I saw Tiffanie Turner's show and was amazed by what you could achieve in paper. From there I ended up taking classes with Tiffanie Turner and Lynn Dolan, both of whom are just amazing artists and teachers. I just fell in love with the medium and found crepe paper so intuitive for the way I wanted to express myself in flowers. 3. How would you define the style of your flowers? How did you find your style? How has your creative style evolved to what it is today? I think my style continues to evolve, but I would say that my current style is introverted, romantic, and a little moody. It's influenced by my Chinese heritage and my desire to create work that sits somewhere between dreams and reality. I definitely have a natural “messiness” to my artwork - it took some time for me to embrace this as part of my natural artistic style and not something that I needed to control. I like asymmetry in my petals and leaves. I also enjoy creating intentional flaws in my work like bug bites or bruising to reflect that life is not perfect. I honestly think that I found my current style just through making a lot of art and being willing to experiment. Sometimes my experiments do not work out and I start over, but this is a natural part of the creative process and something which I have learned to embrace. 4. How have you made your paper flower voice stand out in the crowd? Mostly by being willing to experiment. I try to choose colors, papers, and materials that not everybody is using in their work. You are forced to create your own technique this way. Naturally, that can help your final product look different from the crowd. 5. What are your ideal clients and/or ideal projects? I've really enjoyed my collaborative projects with fellow paper artist Anna Chedid, also known as @floresdaannita. We shot our first project, “Botanical Impossibilities,” focused on the colour blue at VSCO Open Studios, which was just an amazing space to work in. Our second project “Motherland Flora” focused on flora from our respective homelands and we used both Brazilian and Chinese papers in our work. I hope to do more collaborative projects as I feel it's a great way to push yourself beyond your normal work as well as get to learn from another artist in a fun way. More recently I've enjoyed working with an art gallery as my work was featured in “tiny,” a group show at STUDIO gallery in San Francisco. This is definitely an area I'd like to explore more. 6. What are some of the challenges you've faced in your business and/or art? I think there's always the natural feeling of disappointment when you submit your artwork to an organization and it doesn't get chosen. However, I try to take this in stride and just continue submitting my work to as many different places as much as possible. 7. What advice would you give to a paper florist who is starting out today? Just try to learn as much as you can and don't be afraid to experiment with techniques, materials, composition - the sky is the limit! I think having fun is pretty key to wanting to make paper flowers are they are time-consuming - so it's ideal for people who really enjoy the process. 8. What advice would you give to a paper florist who is about to give up? I would say take a break and try something new, whether it be a new medium, an art class you've been meaning to take, or just walk around outside and explore what nature has to offer. I think we get creatively exhausted if we are doing the same thing over and over again. I also love yoga when I need to just mentally reset. 9. Do you have any paper flower tips to share with our listeners? Take time to really observe and look at real flowers and leaves as much as possible before you start your work and while you are building out your artwork. Observation really helps me figure out things like petal placement and how to join the leaves to the main stem that mimics reality. Also, I would say try freehand cutting to get a more natural look! 10. What is your favourite tool? I have to say once I got my own set of pink Kai scissors, it was pretty life-changing. Want to learn more about Yang? Follow her on social media: INSTAGRAM | @shanghai.1984 WEBSITE | https://www.shanghai1984.com/

LISTEN TO PAPER TALK - EPISODE 34: Between Dreams & Reality with Yang Liu We first took notice of the minimally styled paper flowers of Yang Liu in her blue phase. This blue phase turned out to be her artistic collaboration with Anna Chedid at the VSCO studio. Influenced by her Chinese heritage, her dual Canadian-American nationalities, and her current hometown of San Francisco, Yang’s work strives to sit somewhere between dreams and reality. Her paper flowers are showcased in a consistently clean and modern way. She does not shy away from creating various types of botanical objects, from dahlias to pear branches to dumpling boxes. Listen to Yang as she shares her love for paper flowers. 1. Who is Yang Liu? I was born in Shanghai (hence my Instagram name, @shanghai.1984). I am currently a dual Canadian-American citizen residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Besides flowers and paper art, I also love having tea with friends!2. How did you get started making paper flowers? What drew you to this art form?I first came across paper flowers at the De Young Museum, where I saw Tiffanie Turner’s show and was amazed by what you could achieve in paper. From there I ended up taking classes with Tiffanie Turner and Lynn Dolan, both of whom are just amazing artists and teachers. I just fell in love with the medium and found crepe paper so intuitive for the way I wanted to express myself in flowers.3. How would you define the style of your flowers? How did you find your style? How has your creative style evolved to what it is today?I think my style continues to evolve, but I would say that my current style is introverted, romantic and a little moody. It’s influenced by my Chinese heritage and my desire to create work that sits somewhere between dreams and reality. I definitely have a natural “messiness” to my artwork - it took some time for me to embrace this as part of my natural artistic style and not something that I needed to control. I like asymmetry in my petals and leaves. I also enjoy creating intentional flaws in my work like bug bites or bruising to reflect that life is not perfect. I honestly think that I found my current style just through making a lot of art and being willing to experiment. Sometimes my experiments do not work out and I start over, but this is a natural part of the creative process and something which I have learned to embrace. 4. How have you made your paper flower voice stand out in the crowd?Mostly by being willing to experiment. I try to choose colors, papers and materials that not everybody is using in their work. You are forced to create your own technique this way. Naturally that can help your final product look different from the crowd.5. What are your ideal clients and/or ideal projects?I’ve really enjoyed my collaborative projects with fellow paper artist Anna Chedid, also known as @floresdaannita. We shot our first project, “Botanical Impossibilities,” focused on the colour blue at VSCO Open Studios, which was just an amazing space to work in. Our second project “Motherland Flora” focused on flora from our respective homelands and we used both Brazilian and Chinese papers in our work. I hope to do more collaborative projects as I feel it’s a great way to push yourself beyond your normal work as well as get to learn from another artist in a fun way. More recently I’ve enjoyed working with an art gallery as my work was featured in “tiny,” a group show at STUDIO gallery in San Francisco. This is definitely an area I’d like to explore more. 6. What are some of the challenges you've faced in your business and/or art?I think there’s always the natural feeling of disappointment when you submit your artwork to an organization and it doesn’t get chosen. However, I try to take this in stride and just continue submitting my work to as many different places as much as possible.7. What advice would you give to a paper florist who is starting out today?Just try to learn as much as you can and don’t be afraid to experiment with techniques, materials, composition - the sky is the limit! I think having fun is pretty key to wanting to make paper flowers are they are time consuming - so it’s ideal for people who really enjoy the process.8. What advice would you give to a paper florist who is about to give up?I would say take a break and try something new, whether it be a new medium, an art class you’ve been meaning to take or just walk around outside and explore what nature has to offer. I think we get creatively exhausted if we are doing the same thing over and over again. I also love yoga when I need to just mentally reset. 9. Do you have any paper flower tips to share with our listeners?Take time to really observe and look at real flowers and leaves as much as possible before you start your work and while you are building out your artwork. Observation really helps me figure out things like petal placement and how to join the leaves to the main stem that mimics reality. Also I would say try freehand cutting to get a more natural look!10. What is your favourite tool?I have to say once I got my own set of pink Kai scissors, it was pretty life changing.Want to learn more about Yang? Follow her on her on social media:INSTAGRAM:@shanghai.1984 WEBSITE:https://www.shanghai1984.com/VSCO:https://vsco.co/shanghai1984/images

Mutant: Narcissus Quagliata’s New Book of Poetry and Sketches   “Divested of the illusion that art matters, divested of the illusion that it is meaningful and worthwhile to have a successful life as an artist, the irrational love for the creative process itself is all that I have left. It all boils down to my addiction to entering over and over in the magical moment and mysterious space when an idea forms inside of you and becomes itself by traveling from the dark cave of my soul to the outside reality, be it a huge glass dome or a small watercolor.” Narcissus Quagliata,     October 2019 marks the release of Narcissus Quagliata’s fourth book, Mutant, a collection of poetry and sketches created from 1968 to 2018 and inspired by the life and times of this internationally acclaimed artist. The book intimately explores the relationship between dreams, words and images on 216 pages with 13 full-color photographs of Quagliata's glass and watercolor work.   Born and raised in Rome, Quagliata later lived in San Francisco for 30 years where he began his journey of redefining stained glass as an artistic medium. He made a name for himself by addressing subjects and issues in his glass that were typically handled by painters. Reversely, his work in glass made him an outlier in the world of painting. Still, the artist managed to cultivate a successful career without ever definitively fitting in anywhere.   With the introduction of new technologies in glass fusing, Quagliata set about reinventing the glass panel as a painting, spontaneous and free. He developed new attitudes and methods to rethink what could be done with glass using the kiln. Through his Painting with Light techniques, the artist pioneered a second area of the glass arts.   In both stained and fused glass, Quagliata devoted 50 years to the exploration of the human figure as a gateway to the strangeness of life in an incomprehensible universe. His work has been exhibited in museum collections worldwide including the Metropolitan Museum, New York City; De Young Museum, San Francisco, California; Museum of Light, Mexico City, Mexico; Museum of Glass San Ildefonso, Segovia, Spain; and many more.   Major public works by Quagliata include Wind, Fire and Time, a 6700- square-foot, public commissioned, fused and stained glass dome in the Central Station of Taiwan’s metro system in Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2008); Divinity in Light, a dome of glass over the entry Rotunda of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome, Italy (1999); Return to the Cosmos, a 360-square-foot backlit glass mural in an office tower lobby at Reforma 115, Mexico City, Mexico, (2004); and most recently The Resurrection Window in Leawood Kansas, a 3440-square-foot fused glass window designed by Tim Carey and created in collaboration with Judson Studios (2017). Quagliata has twice received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for his work in the U.S.   At 76, Quagliata continues to be much in demand professionally, dividing time between his studio in Mexico City, Mexico, and an ongoing residency at Judson Studios, Los Angeles, California, in his role as Director of Innovation. At Judson, Quagliata works to further develop the studio’s fusing capabilities while also helping to guide its artist development program, introducing artists in other mediums to stained and fused glass and successfully executing their concepts in glass.   This fall, Quagliata will present lectures at Bullseye Glass Co. in the Bay Area on October 11, and Bullseye in Portland, Oregon, on November 1. Sponsored by D&L Art Glass Supply in Denver, Colorado, Quagliata will also lecture at the Lakewood Cultural Center, Lakewood, Colorado, on October 23, and present a workshop at D&L Art Glass Supply in Denver on October 24.     LINKS TO UPCOMING QUAGLIATA LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS:   Bullseye Glass Co. Bay Area, Lecture, October 11, 2019   http://www.bullseyeglass.com/kilnforming/artist-lecture-show-your-true-face-with-narcissus-quagliata-bay-area-1985.html   Bullseye Glass Co., Portland, Oregon, Lecture, November 1, 2019   http://www.bullseyeglass.com/kilnforming/artist-lecture-show-your-true-face-with-narcissus-quagliata-portland-1986.html   D&L Art Glass Supply, Lakewood, Colorado, Lecture, October 23, 2019   https://dlartglass.com/education/classes/1695   D&L Art Glass Supply, Lakewood, Colorado, Workshop, October 24, 2019   https://www.dlartglass.com/education/classes/1696     QUAGLIATA’S BOOKS   Mutant, and Quagliata’s previous book, Archetypes and Visions in Light & Glass, are available at dlartglass.com or order by phone (303) 449- 8737. Both titles will be available for purchase at the October 23 lecture in Lakewood, Colorado. Have your copy signed by the author!          

This is a recording of the panel conversation from Textile Society of America’s New Professionals Convening: Envisioning Textiles Futures, held on July 27, 2019 at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Panelists include Joy Davis, Regan de Loggans, Lynnette Miranda and Karen Hampton. The panel was moderated and organized by Caroline Hayes Charuk. Program Description: At the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, TSA presented a panel discussion devoted to envisioning a field that approaches cultural production with justice and equity, and to examine the ways that structures within museums, universities, and informal spaces can support or hinder movement towards a vibrant future in line with these goals. Panelists: Karen Hampton has shown her woven and stitched narrative artwork nationally since 1994 and has been teaching college since 2008. Her specialties are surface design, embroidery, weaving and courses that address Art and the African Diaspora. Karen is currently an Assistant Professor of Fiber at MassArt, and a board member of the Textile Society of America. Pronouns: she/her Regan de Loggans (Mississippi Choctaw/ Ki’Che’ Maya) is an art historian, curator, and educator based in Brooklyn on Lenape land. Their work relates to decolonizing, indigenizing, and queering institutions and curatorial practices. They are also one of the founders of the Indigenous Womxn’s Collective: NYC. Pronouns: they/themme Lynnette Miranda’s ongoing research focuses on the social and cultural impact of contemporary art and media, critically examining social practice, contemporary craft, performance, new media and video work. She is passionate about centering artists and practitioners of color, not only through representation, but through building support systems and redistributing resources. Lynnette is currently the Program Manager at United States Artists in Chicago. She has worked at leading arts institutions including Creative Time, ART21, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Pronouns: she/her Joy Davis is an independent scholar of fashion and cultural studies. She has B.A.s in History and Media Theory from University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). She is a pending Masters candidate at FIT’s Fashion Studies program. In 2016 she joined Unravel Podcast as a host and producer. In 2018 she launched her own contemporary gallery in Baltimore, MD that has a majority focus on artists of color. She writes about subject matter that is underdeveloped in academia and with the public. Her work transcends many fields of study which includes: fashion, history, art, media, and performance among people of color through history. Her current research focuses on fashion and race analysis in Spanish colonial paintings. www.wallergallery.com www.unravelpodcast.com Moderator: Caroline Hayes Charuk approaches sculpture, printmaking and video from a background in textiles, ceramics, and hobbyist craft materials. She is a former member of CTRL+SHFT Collective in Oakland, CA, a studio and exhibition space focused on supporting women, nonbinary and trans-spectrum artists. She has taught workshops at the Berkeley Arts Museum, the De Young Museum, Richmond Art Center, and numerous other community arts organizations. She is currently the General Manager of the Textile Society of America. Pronouns: she/her

Joy and Jasmine discuss their summers, self care as fashion scholars and Joy's experience on the TSA panel "New Professionals ConVening: Envisioning Textiles Futures." Image: textilesocietyofamerica.org For more information about the panel and the TSA: https://textilesocietyofamerica.org/community/event-list/#!event/2019/7/27/tsa-new-professionals-convening-envisioning-textiles-futures Panelists: Karen Hampton has shown her woven and stitched narrative artwork nationally since 1994 and has been teaching college since 2008. Her specialties are surface design, embroidery, weaving and courses that address Art and the African Diaspora. Karen is currently an Assistant Professor of Fiber at MassArt, and a board member of the Textile Society of America. Pronouns: she/her Regan de Loggans (Mississippi Choctaw/ Ki'Che' Maya) is an art historian, curator, and educator based in Brooklyn on Lenape land. Their work relates to decolonizing, indigenizing, and queering institutions and curatorial practices. They are also one of the founders of the Indigenous Womxn's Collective: NYC. Pronouns: they/themme Lynnette Miranda’s ongoing research focuses on the social and cultural impact of contemporary art and media, critically examining social practice, contemporary craft, performance, new media and video work. She is passionate about centering artists and practitioners of color, not only through representation, but through building support systems and redistributing resources. Lynnette is currently the Program Manager at United States Artists in Chicago. She has worked at leading arts institutions including Creative Time, ART21, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Pronouns: she/her Joy Davis is an independent scholar of fashion and cultural studies. She has B.A.s in History and Media Theory from University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). She is a pending Masters candidate at FIT's Fashion Studies program. In 2016 she joined Unravel Podcast as a host and producer. In 2018 she launched her own contemporary gallery in Baltimore, MD that has a majority focus on artists of color. She writes about subject matter that is underdeveloped in academia and with the public. Her work transcends many fields of study which includes: fashion, history, art, media, and performance among people of color through history. Her current research focuses on fashion and race analysis in Spanish colonial paintings. www.wallergallery.com www.unravelpodcast.com Moderator: Caroline Hayes Charuk approaches sculpture, printmaking and video from a background in textiles, ceramics, and hobbyist craft materials. She is a former member of CTRL+SHFT Collective in Oakland, CA, a studio and exhibition space focused on supporting women, nonbinary and trans-spectrum artists. She has taught workshops at the Berkeley Arts Museum, the De Young Museum, Richmond Art Center, and numerous other community arts organizations. She is currently the General Manager of the Textile Society of America. Pronouns: she/her Find us here: Website: www.unravelpodcast.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/unravelpodcast PayPal: www.paypal.me/unravelpodcast Instagram: @unravelpodcast Twitter:@unravelpodcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/unravelpodcast/ Pinterest: Unravel: A Fashion Podcast www.pinterest.com/afashionpodcast/ Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/unravel-podcastWaller Gallery Website www.wallergallery.com/ Waller Gallery Instagram: @wallergallery Jasmine's Nicaragua Instagram: @recuerdosdenicaragua

Seven-time Academy Award winner Gary Rydstrom has created some of the most memorable sound designs in modern cinema (Jurassic Park, Toy Story, and Saving Private Ryan, to name a few). He has also brought his audio storytelling outside traditional film, designing the sound for theme park Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge in Disneyland and an installation at San Francisco’s deYoung Museum called The Companions, an audio-only cinematic experience that guided visitors through immersive and directional sound. Listen as Gary takes us through the creative process behind The Companions, and the power of using audio in storytelling.

artoonist MariNaomi is an award-winning author and illustrator whose works include "Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume"; "Ages 0 to 22"; "Turning Japanese"; "I Thought YOU Hated ME"; and the "Life on Earth" trilogy. Her work has appeared in more that 60 print publications and been featured at the Smithsonian, De Young Museum, Cartoon Art Museum, Asian Art Museum, and Japanese American Museum, She is the founder of the Cartoonists of Color Database and the Queer Cartoonists Database, has toured with the literary roadshow Sister Spit, and cohosts the podcast "Ask BiGrlz" with Myriam Gurba. Cosponsored by SMC Global Citizenship.

The one where Zahra heists a remote as Scrooge McDuck and Taz plans to hide a billion-dollar fortune from her dad.

Dr. James Ricker is an instructor at Southern New Hampshire University and the owner of JCR Cultural Resources. In this episode of Filibustering History we talk about Dr. Ricker’s academic and professional background, the history of the cultural resource management profession in Oklahoma and across the country, and his action-packed adventures in archaeology. This episode’s recommendations: Plato, The Republic, http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html - especially the cave allegory “Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire” exhibit at the De Young Museum : https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/teotihuacan-city-water-city-fire Brian Alexander, Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2017), https://us.macmillan.com/glasshouse/brianalexander/9781250085801/ Dr. Ricker can be reached at j.ricker@snhu.edu. Rob Denning can be reached at snhuhistory@gmail.com or r.denning@snhu.edu. James Fennessy can be reached at j.fennessy@snhu.edu. Follow us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/FilibusterHist.

Dr. Thomas Leary IV is an instructional designer and former Dean of Faculty and Manager of Instructional Design Quality at SNHU. Here we discuss his educational and professional background and innovations in learning science and course design. This episode’s recommendations: Affairs of Honor by Joanne B. Freeman (Yale, 2012): https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300097559/affairs-honor The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and Rock & Roll at the De Young Museum: https://deyoung.famsf.org/summer-love-art-fashion-and-rock-roll Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History: http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ Dr. Leary can be reached at t.leary1@snhu.edu. Rob Denning can be reached at snhuhistory@gmail.com or r.denning@snhu.edu. James Fennessy can be reached at j.fennessy@snhu.edu. Follow us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/FilibusterHist.

  This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. Karla M. Wynn Diouf has served as ADACI's Director of Public Relations since 1994; Francisco J. Tovar B.,Venezuelan scholar and activist, also director and Founder of the Institute of Afro-Diasporic Studies (IEA); Luther Gray, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, with Danys “LaMora” Perez-Prades, dir. Oyu Oro Experimental Dance Ensemble from Cuba and Francisco Mores (musician).  2. Trevor R. Getz & Soumyaa Behrens join us to talk about Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History, the film having its world premiere as a part of the SF Black Film Festival, free screening at the deYoung Museum, 6 p.m., Fri., June 16.  3. L. Peter Callender, Artistic Director, African American Shakespeare Company joins us to talk about The Winter's Tale opening, June 9 and continuing through June 17.     

  Lino Tagliapietra’s visit to Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, in the late 1970s was a game-changer. His willingness to share glassblowing techniques regarded as Muranese secrets with American artists hungry for knowledge was one of the most important seeds of the Studio Glass movement’s growth. For Tagliapietra, the Americans planted a seed also, one that would encourage him to leave his career working in Italian glass factories and transform himself into an independent glassblower and artist. Since 1990, the Maestro has created some of the world’s most recognizable blown glass, represented by prestigious museums including the De Young Museum, San Francisco, California; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; the Metropolitan Museum, New York, New York, as well as by numerous galleries and private collections. Tagliapietra’s awards and honors are innumerable and include his 2006 Distinguished Educator Award presented by the James Renwick Alliance of Washington D.C. In 2011, the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti in Venice held an exhibition Lino Tagliapietra from Murano to Studio Glass, and in 2015 bestowed upon him the coveted Career Award. Tagliapietra holds two honorary degrees and the title PhD of Fine Arts from Ohio State University. In 2012 the Maestro was chosen for the renowned Phoenix Award. In 2014 he was presented with the Visionary Award at Art Palm Beach, Florida, followed by the Best Glass Work Award, Masterpiece exhibition, London, UK. Tagliapietra is widely revered as the Maestro of glassblowing, an inspiring teacher, and the elder statesman linking the glass centers of Venice, Italy, and the Pacific Northwest. Vessels, installations, panels, and Avventurina comprise his current body of work. His 2017 exhibition schedule includes Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, from May 13 through August 6; and Lino Tagliapietra, Master of a Glass Renaissance, Morris Museum, Morristown, now through June 18. The New Jersey exhibition will showcase approximately 30 Tagliapietra masterpieces in collaboration with Schantz Galleries.

Chef Katie Button is a Southern chef with a scientific mind who honed her craft at some of the world’s best restaurants, including elBulli. She is the executive chef and co-owner of Cúrate Tapas Bar and Nightbell in Asheville, North Carolina, where she has earned world-wide recognition and accolades. Chef Button is devoted to high-quality, sustainable cuisine and excellent service. Born in London and raised, chef Preeti Mistry’s innovative cooking is inspired by her multicultural background, Indian heritage and world travels. With almost 12 years in the industry, Preeti’s culinary adventure began at the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Academy in London where she studied culinary arts. After moving back to the US she went on to hold Executive Chef roles at the deYoung Museum, the Legion of Honor in San Francisco and Google HQ in Mountain View, CA. She was also a contestant on season six of Bravo’s Top Chef in the U.S. Preeti is currently working on a cookbook set to be published by Running Press in Spring 2018.

Come along on a field trip to the Oscar De La Renta Exhibit at the De Young Museum in San Francisco

With origins from the 1894 Midwinter Fair in Golden Gate Park, the evolution of San Francisco's fine arts museum

Kanyon Sayers-Roods is Costanoan Ohlone and Chumash; she also goes by her given Native name, Hahashkani, which in Chumash means "Coyote Woman". She is proud of her heritage and her native name and is very active in the Native Community. She is an Artist, Poet, Published Author, Activist, Student and Teacher. Kanyon's art has been featured at the De Young Museum, The Somarts Gallery, Snag Magazine, and numerous school projects. She is a recent graduate of the Art Institute of California. DeMareon Gipson is the author of "Looking Forward" and creator of the short film: "The Plan."

Joseph Mallord William Turner has been the subject of a number of projects recently, from the 2014 biopic Mr. Turner to the exhibition J. M. W. Turner: Painting Set Free (currently on view at the De Young Museum in San Francisco). For today's episode, we discuss Turner's depictions of the sea, a subject he represented throughout his career and which helps us understand the complexity of his art and ideas: the picturesque, sublime, engraving, etching, Immanuel Kant, Goethe’s color theory, Isaac Newton—we’ve got it all in here!

After closing its doors for three years, the de Young Museum reopened in a spectacular new building in October 2005. Since then, the museum, located in Golden Gate Park, has been host to more than 100,000 visitors a month. Spark pays a visit to the museum to find out what's new at the new de Young.

Guests: Jubilith Moore, Director & Eugenie Chan, Dramaturg, about Chiori Miyagawa's world premiere, This Lingering Life at Theatre of Yugen in San Francisco at Z Space, 450 Florida Street, June 5-14, 2014. www.theatreofyugen.org  Dana Ben-Ari, dir., speaks about Breastmilk, opening at The Roxie 5/23 & The New Parkway in Oakland, breastmilkthemovie.comLaurinda D. Brown, playwright and author's Walk Like a Man, dir, by John Fisher,opens at Theatre Rhinoceros May 28-June 15, 2014,at The Costume Shop in SF., www.therhino.org. We close with a conversation with Queen Regina Califa-Calloway about the 36th Annual SF Carnaval Celebration: May 23rd -25th, www.carnavalsf.com, with free events beginning this evening (5/23) at the DeYoung Museum. Brazilian Nights with SambaDA, 3 p.m. (5/24) on the Carnaval Stage (Harrison at 17th); Oakland Carnival (5/26): Memorial Day-Mosswood Park, MacArthur and Broadway, 10:30a-6:00p.     Call Send SMS Add to Skype You'll need Skype CreditFree via Skype

Ep 15 Kim Calder & Vanessa Place: The People Sunday, May 18, 2014 at 3 p.m. The People with Insert Blanc Press Editor and Publisher Mathew Timmons and Insert Blanc Artist Ben White. The People features the voices and ideas of The People that make up the cultural landscape of Los Angeles, the west coast, and beyond on KCHUNG 1630AM every 3rd Sunday at 3pm. The People is me, The People is you, The People is we, and You Can Too! … like a Broken Record magically repaired. The Boston Review called Vanessa Place “the spokesperson for the new cynical avant-garde,” the Huffington Post characterized her work as “ethically odious,” while philosopher and critic Avital Ronell said she is “a leading voice in contemporary thought.” Vanessa Place was the first poet to perform as part of the Whitney Biennial; a content advisory was posted. Exhibition work has appeared at MAK Center/Los Angeles; Denver Museum of Contemporary Art; the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; The Power Plant, Toronto; the Broad Museum, East Lansing; and Cage 83 Gallery, New York. Selected recent performance venues include Museum of Modern Art, New York; Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art; Andre Bely Center, St. Petersburg, Russia; Kunstverein, Cologne; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Frye Art Gallery, Seattle; the Sorbonne; and De Young Museum, San Francisco. Place also works as a critic and criminal defense attorney, and is CEO of VanessaPlace Inc, the world's first poetry corporation. Kim Calder lives in Los Angeles, where she studies contemporary literature and critical theory at the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her work has most recently appeared in Unsaid Literary Journal, Joyland Poetry, Jacket2, and The Volta.

Gregory Gavin is a visual artist with a social cause. His site specific project called "Riveropolis," was born out of his interest in bringing inner-city people together in a man-made environment reminiscent of nature. With this project, Gavin hopes to create a meeting place for people in much the same way as a watering hole found in nature is a meeting places for animals. Spark visits Gavin and "Riveropolis" while in progress at the De Young Museum. The unadorned structures for Gavin's riverscapes are constructed in his studio and then assembled in public spaces. The finishing work is done by people of all ages, who are invited to create riverside towns and attractions out of the materials Gavin provides. In this art-meets-culture installation, Gavin wants people to be reminded of the simple beauty of life, uncluttered by digital gadgetry.

We are joined in the studio for a special broadcast this afternoon to speak to Jenna Kozel, consumer security advocate at Lookout, a security technology company located in San Francisco and Anbu Anbalagapandian, Senior Software Engineer at Lookout, to talk about  Charity:water is a non-profit organization that's been bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations since 2006. Lookout is a company of hackers who create software that protects people and their most sensitive data from mobile threats. Lookout believes in "Hacking for Good" and is committed to supporting charitable projects, like Charity:Water that use technology to have an impact on the world. On Wed., May 22 at 9:00PM, Lookout is hosting a benefit concert for Charity:Water featuring Meklit Hadero. All proceeds will go to a Charity:Water project in Ethiopia. About Melkit Hadero: Born in Ethiopia and raised in San Francisco, Meklit's music influences range wide — from the jazz and soul favorites she grew up on; to the hip-hop and art-rock she loves; to folk traditions from the Americas to East Africa. Named a 2012 TED Senior Fellow, Meklit has served as an artist-in-residence at De Young Museum, New York University and Red Poppy Art House. The event will feature a live set from Meklit and her band, along with a full bar.  

8 AM: Ayana Labossiere, teacher, member, Haiti Action Committee is working with Alex Walker, Vagant Poetics, on a Benefit for Haiti--an open mic for activists at Goodbellies Cafe in Oakland; Robert Roth, teacher, is a co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee and a board member of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund. 8:30 AM: Jovelyn Richards, playwright, Ms. Pat's House, which is opening at La Pena, August 19; she is joined by director Stephanie Johnson. 9 AM: Kevin Epps, filmmaker, joins us to talk about his film, The Black Rock, a film about blacks incarcerated in the USA's first maxium security prison, and his year long artist residency through Feb. 2012. As a Fellow at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco, Epps is hosting a series of Filmmakers Lounge screenings. The next one is Friday, August 12, 2011, 5-8:45 PM, where he will show The Black Rock in the Koret at the deYoung. It is a part of Fiesta Friday nights. Black August screens Saturday, August 13, 1 PM followed by a Q&A with the director. Saturday, August 20, 1-3 PM is a special screening and conversation with the director and subjects on the film: Confessions of a Burning Man. "The experience shared by four first-timers demonstrates how Burning Man dissolves the barriers between races, nationalities, and economic classes." Kevin Epps is featured in the cast.  Tickets will be given out in front of the museum beginning at 12 noon. Visit http://deyoung.famsf.org/deyoung/calendar/filmmakers-lounge-kevin-epps-black-rock-black-august-confessions-burning-man-and-mo

In this ART OF HUSTLE podcast episode, we hear from Jenifer Wofford! Jenifer K Wofford is a Filipina-American artist and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Prague, Czech Republic. She was born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and her MFA from UC Berkeley. Her work has been exhibited in the Bay Area at the Berkeley Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure, Richmond Art Center, and Kearny Street Workshop, nationally at New Image Art (Los Angeles), Nora Eccles Harrison Museum (Salt Lake City), thirtynine hotel (Honolulu), and internationally at Future Prospects (Philippines), Galerie Blanche (France), and Osage Gallery Kwun Tong (Hong Kong). She is also 1/3 of the manic, brilliant, highly delusional artist trio Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. They have collaborated on a variety of shenanigans for venues including the DeYoung Museum, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure, the National Asian American Film Festival, The San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and the McColl Center for Visual Art. Wofford has worked in arts education for over a decade, with schools and organizations including the University of San Francisco, UC Berkeley, California College of the Arts, Diablo Valley College, SFMoMA, Casa De Los Jovenes, Leadership High School, First Graduate, City Arts and Tech High School, and Out Of Site. Her awards include the Eureka Fellowship, the Murphy Fellowship, and grants from the Art Matters Foundation, UCIRA, and the Pacific Rim Research Program. She has also undertaken artist residencies at The Living Room, Philippines, Solyst Artist in Residence Center, Denmark, and Chateau de la Napoule, France. Wofford was also honored with a 2007 “Goldie” (Guardian Local Discovery) Award from the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Thank you for subscribing! Please rate the podcast and leave comments. I look forward to building with you. More information and tons of free tips on marketing and management at: ArtOfHustle.com.

This Web extra discusses how the art is arranged at the de Young Museum. Original release: March 2006.

Spark visits the de Young Museum when it re-opened its doors in 2005. And we meet artist Sharon Virtue. Original air date: March 2006.

Kim Nalley with Houston Person, who will be at the Rrazz Room, June 30-July 4, at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco open this Friday's show. Recently named one of the "Ten Most Influential African Americans in the Bay Area," Kim Nalley has an international reputation as one of world's best jazz blues vocalists. Described as "jazz's working class hero, a true man of the people," Houston Person came to national attention with a series of soulful albums recorded for Prestige in the 1960s. Person's fame grew still more with his successful 30-year musical partnership with vocalist Etta Jones. A passionate tenor saxophonist, alternately tough and tender, Person is now recognized as one of today's leading instrumentalists. Rikki Beadle-Blair, director of "FIT" which is screening at the 34th Frameline Film Festival, 1 PM Sat., June 26, at the Castro theatre in San Francisco, is our second guest. Next: Kim Shuck is one of two artists-in-residence at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco. The project: "Over and Out Past the Lines" concludes this weekend, with a reception, Friday, June 25 from 6–8:30 p.m. in the Kimball Education Gallery. Shuck and Michael Horse's project is an exploration of ledger art, poetry and beadwork. Shuck writes poetry and creates beadwork. Last: Interviews with choreographers for two companies appearing this last weekend of the Ethnic Dance Festival: Imani's Dream and Las Bomberas, June 26-27, at the Palace of Fine Arts. This original hip-hop piece, "A Rose That Grows From the Concrete," based on the Tupac Shakur's poem, was created in 2009 as a collaboration by the dancers & Artistic director, Caprice Armstrong, in Imani's Dream. In "¡Hay bombazo en el batay!" Las Bomberas brings a contemporary Puerto Rican bombazo—a lively bomba gathering—to the stage.

Art and Power opened this weekend at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Curator, Constantine Petridis's exhibition looks at the linguistic and aesthetic and cultural linkages between the four distinct African civilizations stemming from Bantu origins: Luba, Songye, Chokwe, and Luluwa. In the exhibit featuring rare work from throughout the country and the world he proposes that the connection between art and spirit are often invisible, that there is no separation, that the power inherent in the nkisi or bearer of potions used to invoke or call the spirit into being to help or assist the community or person is more the rule rather than the exception. These 59 sculptures from the Central African Savanna show us images of the people who lived then, who centuries later, despite colonial enslavement, reflect us now in the dress, the perception of beauty and in the powerful spirit these art pieces, even robbed or emptied of their potions, still possess. Also joining us this morning is Muisi-kongo Malonga, Artistic Director of Fua Dia Congo, which has a new work premiering the final week, June 27-28 at the Ethnic Dance Festival at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. The dance which comes from Central Africa, the place where Dr.Petridis did field study for six months, and where many of these pieces originate, is in the news a lot for its decades long battle with international exploitation, bloodshed, rape as a weapon of war, and displacement of people trying to escape the terror. Kongo-Kintourari links, Muisi-kongo says, the ancient spelling of Kongo and the word kintouri, a Kikongo word meaning "unity." The dance is a symbolic call for unity in the region. Whether it is Muisi-kongo's work with the all women dance company she founded, Diata Diata, "KOngo Odysssey," at the company's 25th Anniversary Concert, or the annual Congolese Drum and Dance Camp in July, she always includes this element--unity, unity between Africans and African Americans, unity betwee

Today we'll be talking about the Remembrance Ritual, which occurs next week, June 13, worldwide. African Diaspora communities pour libations at the same time for departed ones, especially those who were not mourned during the period called the European Slave Trade. We'll be speaking to Osei Terry Chandler and William Jones. Chandler is founder of the "Remembrance" in Charleston, SC. Jones is one of the organizers for the Remembrance in New York on Coney Island @ Bay 18. Joining the discussion will be Oshunbumi Fernandez, host, of the Odunde Festival in Philadelphia. Odunde means in Yoruba: Happy New Year! All the Remembrance rituals occur June 13 at 12:00 noon, EST, which is 9 AM PST. Artisans from "Honor the Basket" follow. The demonstration and exhibit is a program sponsored by the deYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, 94118, Friday, June 12, 2009 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. The event is FREE after admission into the event Gallery Admission: Adults $10, Seniors 65 and over $7, Youth 13-17 $6, College Students with ID $6, Children 12 and under FREE. PUBLIC INFORMATION:(415) 750-7694 and www.deyoungmuseum.org or nschach@famsf.orgThe show will conclude with a conversation with choreographers: Caprice Armstrong and Naomi Diouf, both staging work in the 31st Annual Ethnic Dance Festival in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts (Week 2). The EDF is June 7-8, through June 27-28.

Sight Unseen speaks with artists of all different mediums looking at the underbelly of their work, exploring what drives them to make such public works about private curiosities and how their work reflects the human condition. In this show, curator of American Art ar the deYoung Museum in San Francisco, Tim Burgard, speaks about the museum's most recent exhibition, Warhol Live, which observes Wahol's vast influence by and effect on music, from Judy Garland to the Velevet Underground.

As you stand in front of the De Young Museum you can see the Academy of Sciences currently under construction. This installment explores the history of the Academy as a natural history museum and the green roof of its new building.

We speak to longtime artist Flo Oy Wong as well as radio producer Robynn Takayama on the commemoration of her 70th birthday and 30 years as an artist.  She has an upcoming exhibit at the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center that runs from May 1-25 at SomArts Main Gallery, 934 Brannan St. in San Francisco.  We also feature Korean American film director, Gina Kim and her latest release "Never Forever." And Samoan American artist, Rosanna Raymond will talk about her upcoming performance piece at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco on Friday, April 18th.  Plus, music and calendar on Apex Express… The post APEX Express – April 17, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.

Ruth Asawa is the artist featured this week on our Artist of the Week PodCast whose tied-wire sculpture "Untitled" recently came into our collection. For the episode, we traveled to San Francisco to speak with Curator of American Art and Director of Contemporary Programs, Daniell Cornell, at the De Young Museum. Daniell Cornell worked closely with Asawa to curate and plan her retrospective exhibition "Contours in the Air". In addition, we spoke by phone with Aiko Cuneo, Ruth Asawa's oldest daughter, who spoke with us about what life was like living with such a prolific and renowned artist. During the 8 week run of the exhibition "New Year, New Gifts", the San Jose Museum of Art will offer each week a podcast highlighting one of the artists in the show. The artist in the series are: Hung Liu, Jack Zajac, Rick Arnitz, Ruth Asawa, Richard Misrach, Amy Kaufman, Helen Lundeburg and Manuel Neri. We hope that visitors will download these podcasts and bring their iPods into the museum to experience the works first hand with the audio. However, these are enhanced podcasts and if you own an iPod that displays pictures or if you view the podcast in iTunes, you will be able to view images from the collection and images from the interviews. But you can also just listen to the audio and enjoy the insight that each podcast will provide. If you have any comments or questions please email: podcast@sjmusart.org The music from this podcast, “Oil Thumbprints”, is by the band Bekar Bekar and is from their album Tropism. Check them out at www.westernvinyl.com Image of Ruth Asawa provided by Laurence Cuneo and came from www.ruthasawa.com

Pushing Limits hosts Doyle Saylor and Gene Sharee will present a variety of topics and issues. They will describe important upcoming events impacting the disability community. Items to be covered include a rally on workers' rights, providing information on Workers' Compensation deregulation in addition to interviewing injured workers. The program will also cover the deYoung Museum arts and disability event. The post Pushing Limits – April 21, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.

A visit to the De Young Museum, from Bouquets to Art, challenging the creativity process

Almost live from the new de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA. Please visit our blog at www.artagogo.com/blog for full show notes and links that we discuss during the show. Thanks for listening! Kathleen & Doug / art, arts, artist, museum, entertainment, news