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New York-based artist Ethan Cook engages with materialism and minimalism through his two primary media, woven canvas and handmade paper. Cook's paintings are composed of colored fabric panels that have been hand woven on a four-harness loom, stitched together, and stretched on bars. Foregoing the notion that in order to paint one must apply pigment to canvas in some way – be it by brush, by knife, or by hand – Cook instead uses a loom to weave large swaths of colored fabric that make up his surfaces. For Cook, the performance of artmaking is at once meditative and intensely rhythmic. The grandness of the loom, with its thousands of moving processes and parts, generates a symphony of action that is both quick and unpredictable, developing a variety of idiosyncrasies like a pulled thread or skipped knot, producing a variety of textures that reveal that the works are indeed, handmade. Cook has had solo exhibitions at Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, Brussels, Marfa and New York; Megan Mulrooney Gallery, Los Angeles; Half Gallery, New York; Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen; Galerie Philipp Zollinger, Zurich; T293, Rome; Loyal Gallery, Stockholm; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; Noire Chapel, Torino; Bill Brady, Miami; Sunday-S Gallery, Copenhagen; American Contemporary, New York; Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris; Rod Barton, London; Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke; and Gana Art Hannam, Seoul.  Public collections include The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Voorlinden, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Fondation CAB, and Juan Carlos Maldonado Art Collection. His work has been covered in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Brooklyn Rail, Interview Magazine, Architectural Digest, among other publications. Ethan Cook, Battement, 2025 Signed and dated on verso Hand-woven cotton 45 x 55 in (framed) Ethan Cook, Sauter, 2025, Signed and dated on verso, Hand-woven cotton, 66 x 77 in (framed) Ethan Cook, Beam Bathing Broken Circle, 2025 Steel 80 x 48 x 12 in 203.2 x 121.9 x 30.5 cm

In this episode, Kim Conaty, Anne Rose Kitagawa, and Rory Padeken talk to the host Magdalena Moskalewicz about everyday challenges of curatorial work inside collecting institutions such as university museums, art museums, and large, encyclopedic institutions. The curators share their own career paths and address the profession's current aspirations and needs. The Museum Worker is a subseries of CAA Conversations about pathways to careers in museums, featuring candid conversations with professionals in the field. Museum workers share how they got where they are today, what they do, and the role of diversity, equity, access, and inclusion in day-to-day work as well as hopes for the future of the field. Anne Rose Kitagawa is Chief Curator of Collections & Asian Art and Director of Academic Programs at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon. Kim Conaty is the Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Rory Padeken is the Vicki and Kent Logan Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, at Denver Art Museum, Colorado. Magdalena Moskalewicz is a member of the CAA Museum Committee.

Necroarchivos de las Americas: An Unrelenting Search for Justice is a group exhibition on display at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon in Eugene. The exhibition features art that examines political violence. We learn more about the exhibit and the artists behind the work from Adriana Miramontes Olivas, curator of academic programs and Latin American and Caribbean art at the museum. 

The Museum Worker is a subseries of CAA Conversations about pathways to careers in museums, featuring candid conversations with professionals in the field. Museum workers share how they got where they are today, what they do, and the role of diversity, equity, access, and inclusion in day-to-day work, as well as hopes for the future of the field. In this episode, Lisa Abia-Smith, Erica Hubbard, and Nenette Luarca-Shoaf discuss challenges facing those working in museum education, engagement, and outreach, as well as their dedication to making museums more accessible. Lisa Abia-Smith is the Director of Education at the University of Oregon's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and Senior Instructor in the College of Design (School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management). Erica Hubbard is the Director of Chicago Programs at the Obama Foundation in Chicago. Nenette Luarca-Shoaf is the Managing Director for Learning and Engagement at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. Erica Warren is a member of CAA's Museum Committee, former curator and currently assistant instructional professor in the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities at the University of Chicago.

Cynthia Lahti (b. 1963) lives and works in her birthplace of Portland, Oregon. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Lahti has presented solo exhibitions in Oregon at CEI Artworks Gallery (2019), Ditch Projects (2017), Imogen Gallery (2017), Passages Bookshop (2016), and PDX Contemporary Art (2016), among others. Her work is in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, Boise Art Museum, Columbia University Library, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Reed College, Stanford University's Bowes Art and Architecture Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, Library, and Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, among others. In 2023, the artist's drawings and sculptures were featured in Kelly Reichardt's film Showing Up. CYNTHIA LAHTI , White Phone, 2023 Signed and dated Ceramic figure 12 x 12 x 11 inches CYNTHIA LAHTI, Red Girl, 2023 Signed and dated Ceramic figure, wood base 17 x 8 x 7 inches CYNTHIA LAHTI, Sock, 2009 Signed and dated Ceramic figure, wood base 19 x 6 x 5 inches

Jordan D. Schnitzer (UO BA 1973) is president of Schnitzer Properties and Director of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. Schnitzer began collecting contemporary prints in 1988. Today, the collection exceeds 20,000 works and includes many of today's most important contemporary artists. He discusses his philanthropy and art collection. The interview is in Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art with the new exhibition “Strange Weather: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation” which is on view through April 7, 2024.

Discover the compelling journey of our guest, Aunia Kahn, the dynamic CEO of Rise Visible, who overcame debilitating and undiagnosed illnesses. Aunia's story is far from ordinary, as she turned her personal trials into a powerful force that propelled her business to heights unimaginable. Her remarkable transformation, from undercharging as a self-employed business owner to understanding her worth and the market rates, is a vital lesson for every entrepreneur. We also chat about building connections, striking a balance between providing value and authenticity, and the criticality of separating work from personal life - an enlightening and enriching conversation that you wouldn't want to miss. Who is Aunia Kahn?   Aunia Kahn is a multi-faceted entrepreneur and a globally awarded and collected artist/photographer, published author, curator, and inspirational speaker.   Kahn's artistic journey started as a therapeutic response to a challenging upbringing and her enduring battle with chronic illnesses like Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Dysautonomia, and POTS. Art became a way to express herself and a survival mechanism, rather than an initial career pursuit.   Her artwork and photography weave together human and animal subjects, blending symbolism, nature, anatomy, and the profound themes of mortality and rebirth. Her chosen mediums include watercolor, colored pencil, ink, gouache, collage and a Nikon   Her work has been in over 300+ exhibitions in 10+ countries; at institutions such as San Diego Art Institute, iMOCA, St. Louis Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. She has lectured at colleges and universities, and has been featured in Yahoo, Prevention Magazine, Authority Magazine, and Entrepreneur on Fire.   Kahn's influence extends beyond her own work; she's honored to have served as both gallerist and curator for internationally recognized books and projects. She is also the owner of Rise Visible, a web design and digital marketing agency, as well as the founder of Create for Healing. Connect with Aunia: Website: https://www.risevisible.com                 http://auniakahn.com                 https://createforhealing.com/ ———— I love connecting with Work at Home RockStars! Reach out on LinkedIn, Instagram, or via email  Website

Season 18 begins!!! We meet GUS VAN SANT, iconic American film director, producer, painter, photographer and musician. We discuss his deconstructed Mona Lisa series, his friendship with Derek Jarman and how he became a painter in his teens, the lasting influence of his art teacher, and how painting informed his filmmaking!!!Gus Van Sant (b. 1952, Louisville, Kentucky), admired internationally as a filmmaker, painter, photographer, and musician, received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in 1975. Since that time his studio painting practice has moved in and out of the foreground of a multi-disciplinary career, becoming a priority again over recent years. Van Sant's work in different mediums is united by a single overarching interest in portraying people on the fringes of society.Van Sant's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, Le Case d'Arte in Milan, Italy, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon in Eugene, among others. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions since the 1980s, presenting drawings, paintings, photographs, video works, and writing. Among Van Sant's many internationally acclaimed feature films are Milk (2008); Elephant (2003); Good Will Hunting (1997); My Own Private Idaho (1991); and Drugstore Cowboy (1989).Van Sant lives and works in Los Angeles.Follow @Gus_Van_SantVisit Gus' gallery @VitoSchnabelGallery: https://www.vitoschnabel.com/projects/gus-van-santFeud: Capote's Women forthcoming TV series will air later this year (starring Talk Art's very own Russell Tovey as John O'Shea, longtime boyfriend of Truman Capote). @RyanMurphyProductions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anne Rose Kitagawa is the Chief Curator of Collections & Asian Art and the Director of Academic Programs at the University of Oregon's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Kitagawa discusses the exhibition she curated “Framing the Revolution: Contemporary Chinese Photographs from the Jack and Susy Wadsworth Collection” which is on view through August 27, 2023.

Lisa Abia-Smith, Director of Education at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and Senior Instructor in the School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management. Her research interests include Arts and Healthcare, Marginalized Communities, Art Education, Disability Studies, Museum Studies, and Arts Management. Abia-Smith discusses the numerous education programs offered by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.

Adriana Miramontes Olivas is the new curator of Academic Programs and Latin American and Caribbean Art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Miramontes Olivas oversees the JSMA's Latinx collection, which has been one of the fastest growing areas of art in the museum. She talks about some upcoming exhibits.

Ka'ila Farrell-Smith is a Klamath Modoc visual artist, writer, and activist. Utilizing painting and traditional Indigenous art practices, her work explores space in between the Indigenous and western paradigms. Her painting Enrollment is featured in the exhibition Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art through December 18, 2022.

Art has long been a lever for working class solidarity and social justice. It's also a collaborative form of labor that props up some workers and devalues others. This week, we're taking a long, hard look at two works of art: Rodrigo Valenzuela: New Works for a Post Worker's World, an exhibition on view at BRIC House through December 23rd, and 7 MINUTES, a play produced by Waterwell that premiered at HERE Arts Center last spring. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi, Charlie Hoxie, Khyriel Palmer, and Mayumi Sato. If you have something to say and want us to share it on the show, here's how you can send us a message: https://bit.ly/2Z3pfaW• Thank you to Justin Bryant, Elizabeth Ferrer, Marc Enette, Waterwell, Lee Sunday Evans, Arian Moayed, Andrew Tilson, and Matthew Munroe aka Superlative Sain. • LINKSBorn in 1982, Santiago, Chile; based in Los Angeles, CA Rodrigo Valenzuela has presented solo exhibitions at the New Museum and Asya Geisberg Gallery, both NY; Light Work, Syracuse, NY; University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, CA; Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA; Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; Luis de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR; and the Portland Art Museum and UPFOR, both Portland, OR. He has participated in group exhibitions at The Kitchen, The Drawing Center, Wave Hill, and CUE Art Foundation, all NY; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, among others. He has also exhibited his work in solo shows internationally at Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Peana Projects, Monterrey, NL, Mexico; Galería Patricia Ready and Museo de Arte Contemporàneo, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile; and Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria. Valenzuela has participated in residencies at Dora Maar, Fountainhead, Light Work, MacDowell, Glassell School of Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Kala Art Institute, Vermont Studio Center, Center for Photography at Woodstock, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He is the recipient of the 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography, the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, and the Joan Mitchell Fellowship. His work is included in numerous public and private collections, including those of the Whitney Museum of American Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Frye Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, and The Center for Photography at Woodstock. He is an Associate Professor and Head of the Photography Department at UCLA. Valenzuela received his BFA in Art History and Photography from the University of Chile, his BA in Philosophy from Evergreen State College, and his MFA in Photo/Media from the University of Washington.Ebony Marshall-Oliver is an actress, singer, and storyteller. She began singing in church as a little girl. After being cast in her first musical- Bubbling Brown Sugar- in her mid twenties, she decided that acting would be her career. She enrolled in the Integrated Program at AMDA NY. Her first professional job after graduating was Seussical the Musical with TheatreWorksUSA. With this role, she became a member of Actors Equity Association. Broadway credits include Ain't No Mo' and Chicken and Biscuits. Off Broadway theaters she's worked at are Waterwell, Clubbed Thumb, The Public Theater, to name a few. She can be seen on season 2 of The Ms. Pat Show (BET+) and season 3 of Evil (Paramount+).Mei Ann Teo (they/she) is a queer immigrant from Singapore making theatre & film at the intersection of artistic/civic/contemplative practice. Their critically-acclaimed work has been seen at The Bushwick Starr, Waterwell, The Shed, Shakespeare's Globe, Woolly Mammoth, Theaterworks Hartford, Belgium's Festival de Liege, the Edinburgh Fringe, Beijing Int'l Festival, among others. Awards include LPTW Josephine Abady award and the inaugural Lily Fan Director Lilly Awards. They are an Associate Artistic Director and Director of New Work at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.Sarah Hughes has played many roles in her short time in the labor movement, including steward, officer, organizer, and workshop facilitator. She has worked for the National Education Association (NEA), the Professional Staff Congress at the City University of New York (AFT), and university labor studies programs, including CUNY's NY Union Semester. She has also taught a variety of workshops to city workers, electricians, women workers, and others. She holds a masters in labor studies from UMass Amherst. Prior to joining the Labor Notes staff in 2021, Sarah had been a long time fan, subscriber, volunteer trainer and donor. She attended her first Labor Notes conference in 2008, and is excited for many more. She lives in Flatbush with her labor lawyer husband and their toddler, who also loves picket lines. Waterwell is a group of artists, educators and producers dedicated to telling engrossing stories in unexpected ways that deliberately wrestle with complex civic questions. Founded by Andrew Tilson, the Workers Unite Film Festival, now in its 11th season, is a celebration of Global Labor Solidarity.  The Festival aims to showcase student and professional films from the United States and around the world which publicize and highlight the struggles, successes and daily lives of all workers in their efforts to unite and organize for better living conditions and social justice.Superlative, meaning the best of, and Sain meaning to bless, is a multi-talented creative, born in the UK (United Kingdom, England) and raised in Hollis Queens, New York. Born Matthew Munroe, Sain always connected with music by singing with his mother, a vocalist in a church choir who grew up singing. As a child, art was always a passion of Sain's life. Art was always a staple in his life, from drawing full-length comic books to designing logos. Picking up the art of rapping in his early college years, Sain continued with his love of the arts and always wanted to bring his friends with Him wherever he went. Co-creating the creative collective group OGWN with long-time friend Diverze Koncept, he began expanding his ever-growing catalog simply because he loved making music. While pursuing music, he also manages his visual company MMunroeMedia, directing, filming, and editing music videos for other artists, capturing the moment and enhancing the vision with graphics and photography. Superlative Sain takes the term "Artist" to an entirely new level by designing his merch/clothing line, "Be|SUPERLATIVE," Check out this talented artist and be a part of his Rise.• MUSIC and CLIPSThis episode featured clips from “Why Work?” (1996) by Bill Moyers.• TRANSCRIPT: ~coming soon~• Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BRICTV Visit us online at bricartsmedia.org/Brooklyn-USA

Can experiencing art improve your wellbeing? What better way to answer that question than to visit an art museum at Washington State University.Ryan Hardesty, executive director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, takes Washington State Magazine editor Larry Clark on a tour of the museum in WSU Pullman's Crimson Cube. They have plenty to discuss about how people benefit from seeing, hearing, and experiencing art as they visit the exhibits—including Trimpin's sound sculpture, Keiko Hara's works of landscapes and dreams, Juventino Aranda's powerful explorations of identity and home, and Irwin Nash's photographs of Latino lives in migrant worker communities of the Yakima Valley.See the exhibits and find out how to visit the museum at museum.wsu.edu.Read more about art and happiness in “The joy of handiwork” in the Fall 2022 issue of the magazine.Support the show

Aunia Kahn's work in trauma and mental health has grown over the years and has created a launching pad for the Healing Art Creatively Program. Art and trauma-related work first came together as a passion and purpose with her career's first exhibition Voices Within Surviving Through the Arts (St. Louis Artist Guild 2005) where her art took on subjects of abuse and trauma and was awarded for her endeavors. Later, she was invited for consecutive years as a panelist for the Washington University School of Medicine's MOHOP (Mental Health Outreach Program) and has regularly been a guest lecturer at Southwestern Illinois College speaking abuse, trauma and medical trauma. With her interest to create a supportive and interactive tool to support people working through trauma and adversity, she authored the “Inspirations for Survivors” deck. She has also worked as a mentor at OSLP Art & Culture Program, collaborating one-on-one with students who have developmental disabilities on projects and assisted the program in building their student's portfolios. As a curator, she has curated exhibitions focusing on trauma and mental health such as Darkest Dreams a Lighted Way (2008) and Empathic: A Mental Health Awareness Exhibition (2016) and Touch By Violence (2013). She continues her work in the field teaching courses, offering free resources, and providing tools to those that need. Her work has been in over 300+ exhibitions in over 10 countries; at places such as San Diego Art Institute, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, iMOCA, St. Louis Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Mitchell Museum, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. She has also been on podcasts like Entrepreneur on Fire, with 70 million downloads & 1 million monthly listens. Aunia has curated several internationally recognized books and projects.https://auniakahn.com/Ace Score:The Body Keeps the ScoreAunia Kahn's InstagramAunia's FacebookAunia's YouTubeAunia's Pinterest If you feel this Podcast is beneficial, I encourage you to share it, and I invite you to leave a 5-Star Review. It does so much for putting this podcast in the hands of those that may need it.Connect with me!Bettina@intherising.comPinterest:  Facebook

Ron Jude is a professor of Photography at the University of Oregon. His recent project 12 Hertz is on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art through March 13, 2022. He discusses the exhibition and his other work and teaching.

A new art exhibit at Portland State University showcases 20 artists exploring themes of Black identity, resistance and resilience. The individual exhibits span varied media — from augmented reality comic book panels to vibrantly colored canvases. Amid the racial justice protests catalyzed by the murder of George Floyd in 2020, philanthropist Jordan Schnitzer created a program to award grants of $2,500 each to 60 artists in Oregon and Washington. We talk with J'reyesha Brannon and Steven Christian, two of the artists selected for the Black Lives Matter Artist Grant exhibit at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University. The exhibit is free to attend and runs through April.

In this episode of The Artist Business Plan, we sit down with award winning artist/photographer Aunia Kahn. She leads an amazing masterclass on using mind tricks to keep yourself fresh and creative as an artist. Practice healing and be kind to yourself. Guest: Aunia Kahn is a globally awarded and exhibited figurative artist/photographer, a published author, a mental health and trauma researcher, as well as an instructor and an inspirational speaker. Her work in trauma and mental health has grown over the years and has created a launching pad for the Healing Art Creatively Program.  Her work has been in over 300+ exhibitions in over 10 countries; at places such as San Diego Art Institute, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, iMOCA, St. Louis Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Mitchell Museum, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. https://auniakahn.com/ (https://auniakahn.com/) For more information on applying to Superfine Art Fair as well as recordings of this and all of our past podcasts, just visit http://www.superfine.world/ (www.superfine.world ) IG: https://www.instagram.com/superfineartfair/?hl=en (@superfineartfair) IG: https://www.instagram.com/auniakahn/?hl=en (@auniakahn) | https://www.instagram.com/healingtraumacreatively/?hl=en (@healingtraumacreatively) If you want to submit a listener question you can email it to kelsey@superfine.world for a chance of it being answered by Alex, James, and our guest! Hosted and Executive Produced by James Miille and Alexander Mitow Executive Producer/Producer : Kelsey Susino Written by: Kelsey Susino, Alexander Mitow, and James Miille Audio Edited by: Federico Solar Fernandez

Episode 76 features New York based David Shrobe. He creates multi-layered portraits and assemblage paintings made in part from everyday materials that he finds in multiple geographies, and especially from around his familial home. He disassembles furniture, separating wood from fabric and recombines them as supports for collage, painting, and drawing. Through these various modes of production his work brings notions of identity, history, and memory into question, while challenging conventions of classical portraiture. Shrobe produces new narratives, fragmented and nonlinear, that feel intimate and personal without being anchored to a specific time or place. David Shrobe (b.1974, New York) lives and works in New York. He holds an MFA and a BFA in painting from Hunter College. He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was a Joan Mitchell Artist Teaching Fellow. His work was recently included in group shows such as, PUNCH at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, and New York; Embody at Mandeville Gallery at Union College, New York; Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial, at the Bronx Museum, and in Harlem Postcards at the Studio Museum in Harlem. He has had solo exhibitions at Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York; Jenkins Johnson Gallery in San Francisco, and The Sugar Hill Children's Museum in New York, among others. He has shown at numerous art fairs including EXPO Chicago, Untitled Miami Beach, and most recently, a solo booth at The Armory Show. Shrobe's work is held in the Permanent Collections of The Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Block Museum, Evanston, Illinois; Union College, Schenectady, New York; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon; and NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale. Monique Meloche Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by New York born artist David Shrobe. Riding the Wind's Back, meticulously carved and painted assemblage structures investigate the coexistence of hybrid identities and notions of a collective remembrance reimagined. This is the artist's first exhibition with the gallery and first in Chicago thru October 30th. Artist website https://www.davidshrobe.com/ Monique Meloche Gallery https://www.moniquemeloche.com/exhibitions/192-david-shrobe-riding-the-winds-back/press_release_text/ Art of Choice https://www.artofchoice.co/david-shrobe-repurposes-detritus-to-reimagine-history/ Art Market Monitor https://www.artmarketmonitor.com/2020/09/24/david-shrobes-new-pandemic-era-assemblage-works-draw-buyers-museum-interest/ Brooklyn Museum https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/224550 Fountainhead | Artist Statement https://www.fountainheadresidency.com/dave-shrobe Photo credit: Michael Palma

In this episode of HappyTalks, we interview Aunia Kahn and discuss her life with chronic illness and how she was able to overcome it. Aunia Kahn is a multi-faceted creative entrepreneur and a globally awarded, collected, and exhibited figurative artist/photographer, graphic/web designer at Auxilium Haus Design, the host of the Create & Inspire Podcast, a published author, as well as a teacher and an inspirational speaker. Her work has been in over 300+ exhibitions in over 10 countries; at places such as San Diego Art Institute, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, iMOCA, St. Louis Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Mitchell Museum, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. From her entrepreneurial beginnings at five selling bags of glitter-water to her neighbors, to becoming an award-winning screenwriter, certified Pilates instructor, Miss Congeniality, and six-time WEGO Health Activist Award nominee, Kimberly is proof that it's better to make your own mold than to conform to someone else's. She's also the former executive of a national e-commerce startup and was the owner of the private Pilates studio, Fitness with Kim in Los Angeles, CA. Her journey into the world of mompreneurship with her husband was featured in the 2017 Netflix docuseries, Being Dad. Her work has been featured on The CW, ESPN, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and NPR, and in Thrive Global, CNBC, and Forbes. Dr. Alice Fong is a naturopathic doctor, known as the “Virtual Stress Doc,” and she helps busy professionals break free from stress, anxiety, and burnout without having to quit their jobs using a 5-step holistic approach. She is the founder of Amour de Soi Wellness and her mission is to help people discover self-love and happiness. She has given several talks around the country for healthcare providers, corporations, women's conferences and for the general public. Donovon Jenson is a software engineer in the Bay Area and the founder of howtohappy.com. He is a Utah native who has long been interested in human development and health. He double majored in psychology and health policy, and graduated Magna Cum Laude through the Honors College at the University of Utah. How to Happy strives to provide thoughtful and actionable insights on living a happier life. We believe happiness is the result of self-awareness, balance and a positive mindset, among a myriad of other things. Our goal is to inspire you to see life through a new lens by adding strategies and exercises to your toolbox, then encouraging you to take action. We are all capable of being happier, let's work together to find the best pathways to get there. Together we're out to cause more happiness in the world! Aunia Kahn Website: https://auniakahn.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/auniakahn/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/auniakahn/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/auniakahn Dr. Alice Fong http://www.dralicefong.com https://www.facebook.com/DrAliceFong/ https://www.instagram.com/dralicefong/ https://twitter.com/DrAliceFong https://www.youtube.com/dralicefong https://ios.joinclubhouse.com/@dralicefong Donovon Jenson https://howtohappy.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TheHowToHappy/ https://www.instagram.com/thehowtohappy/ https://twitter.com/TheHowToHappy https://www.youtube.com/HowtoHappy Michael Lira, Voice Actor Opening Credits Voice https://www.michaelapollolira.com/ Information on this video is provided for general educational purposes only and is not intended to constitute medical advice or counseling. #chronicillness --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/happytalks/support

Katherine Kelp-Stebbins is an Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Comics Studies Program at the University of Oregon. She is also an affiliated faculty member in New Media and Culture Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her monograph "How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies" is under contract with The Ohio State University Press. Kelp-Stebbins (with Ben Saunders) is co-curating “The Art of the News: Comics Journalism” an exhibition at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art that will be on view during Fall 2021.

Episode No. 482 features curator Shawnya L. Harris and artist Marie Watt. Harris is the curator of "Emma Amos: Color Odyssey," a retrospective of Amos's career that opens Saturday, Jan. 30 at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia. Amos was important in bringing second-wave feminism into American art, in addressing many American and art histories within her work, and in making work that synthesized her interest in printmaking, weaving and painting. "Emma Amos" will remain on view in Athens through April 25, when it will travel to the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The show features about 60 paintings, prints and woven works. The show's outstanding catalogue, which features essays by Lisa Farrington, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Laurel Garber, Kay Walkingstick, and Phoebe Wolfskill, was published by the Georgia Museum of Art. It's available from GMOA for $40, and should be on Indiebound and Amazon soon. On the second segment, Marie Watt discusses her work on the occasion of  "Companion Species" at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Museum of Native American History, both in Bentonville, Ark. (As of show-posting, Crystal Bridges is open; "Companion Species" will be on view there through May 24. MONAH has yet to announce its re-opening plans.) The exhibition spotlights and builds upon Watt's Companion Species (Speech Bubble), which Crystal Bridges recently acquired. Watt is a citizen of the Seneca Nation whose work often explores ideas related to community, history, storytelling. She often works in textile, including in works that are partially sewed by community-embracing sewing circles. She has had solo exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian, the Boise Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Missoula Art Museum, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University. She sits on the board of the Portland (Ore.) Art Museum.

I consider myself lucky - I'm lucky because I have the pleasure of working with Aunia Kahn. She has been given a very special gift of creating the most spectacular art. She also has a gift of giving ideas life - in art - by designing websites (ahem, like mine). When I met her we spent an hour talking about books. We barely even talked about design. But I loved her from the start. She is kind, she is humble and she opens up in this interview about her experience with not so nice leaders and those that left a positive impact on her life. Please listen to Aunia's podcasts: https://auniakahn.com/press/ Please check out her work: https://auniakahn.com/portfolio/ And finally sign for her newsletter: https://auniakahn.com/write-me/ Aunia Kahn is a multi-faceted creative entrepreneur and a globally awarded, collected, and exhibited figurative artist/photographer, graphic/web designer at Auxilium Haus Design, a podcast host at the Auxilium Haus Podcast/Create & Inspire Podcast, a published author (view projects), as well as a teacher and an inspirational speaker. Her work has been in over 300+ exhibitions in over 10 countries; at places such as San Diego Art Institute, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, iMOCA, St. Louis Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Mitchell Museum, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. She has also been a guest on podcasts like Entrepreneur on Fire, with 70 million downloads & 1 million monthly listens. Aunia has curated several internationally recognized books and projects, including Silver Era Tarot, Inspirations for Survivors, Obvious Remote Chaos, Minding the Sea: Inviting the Muses Over for Tea, Avalanche of White Reason, XIII: The Art of Aunia Kahn, Witch's Oracle and the Witch's Oracle 2nd Edition, Moon Goddess (Modern Eden Gallery) exhibit, Tarot Under Oath (Last Rites Gallery), Lowbrow Tarot Project (La Luz De Jesus Gallery), etc. Her forthcoming projects include; An Epidemic of Retrospective, Disintegrating Stars, and the Ethereal Realms Tarot. She loves Animals, Prussian blue, Psychology, Design, Miracles, Hummingbirds & Life.

Cougar Crew, a scrappy and resilient group of rowers at Washington State University, recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. They had to cancel a banquet and other events due to COVID-19, but former coach Ken Struckmeyer and rower Doug “Doc” Engle reminisce about the team, catching a crab, and rowing on the Snake River near Pullman. Also in this episode:Seattle-based artist, composer and inventor Trimpin created Ambiente432, an innovative sound installation at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at WSU. Visitors to the museum activate the artwork by walking around the entry pavilion and talking, which creates sounds that have calming effects. WSU engineering professor Noel Schulz talks about her experiences as a woman in engineering. She shares ways to encourage girls and women to enter and stay in the science and engineering fields. Read more about Cougar Crew, Ambiente432, and women in STEM.Support the show (https://magazine.wsu.edu/give/)

Cheryl Hartup, Curator of Academic Programs and Latin American and Caribbean Art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; and Danielle Knapp, the McCosh Curator at the Jordan Schnitzer of Art, discuss the museum's Common Seeing collaboration with the UO's Common Reading program. This year the exhibit responds to Helena Maria Viramontes's novel, Under the Feet of Jesus. The curators describe the works of art on view. "Resistance as Power: A Curatorial Response to Under the Feet of Jesus" is on view through February 23rd, 2020.

John Weber, Executive Director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, discusses his Oregon roots and his aspirations for the museum. Weber took over as Executive Director on October 1, 2019 after Jill Hartz retired.

Artist and filmmaker Philip Haas discusses his performance installation "Sculpture Breathes Life into Painting and Music" which had a world premiere exhibition at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art May 29 through June 9, 2019. He presents excerpts from the performance. Interview begins at 02:50.

Jill Hartz, Executive Director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art since 2008 will retire in 2019. She discusses how the museum established an academic mission during her tenure as well as enhanced its many public programs. In addition Hartz talks about how programs have broadened to serve diverse communities.

Philip Scher, professor of Anthropology and Folklore and Public Culture, organized the exhibition "Visual Clave: The Expression of the Latino/a Experience through Album Cover Art, 1940-1990" at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Scher discusses the social and cultural influences that have shaped Latin music and the iconography used by the album cover artists. The exhibition is on view through April 21st, 2019.

Artist Matthew Picton discusses his cartographic sculptures in the Artist Project Space at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The "Cultural Mapping" exhibition is on view through January 20, 2019.

Artist and activist, Dianna Cohen is one of 30 artists featured in the exhibit "Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials" on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art through December 30, 2018. Cohen is also the co-founder and CEO of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, a global alliance of hundreds of individuals, organizations, and businesses working to stop plastic pollution. Cohen gave a lecture titled "Plastic Pollution: Art to Action" on October 17, 2018 as the Oregon Humanities Center's 2018-19 O'Fallon Memorial Lecturer in Art and American Culture.

Eugene artist Keith Achepohl and Jill Hartz, Executive Director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, discuss "Vision of Nature | Vessel of Beauty," an exhibition of work by Achepohl. Achepohl created the work with inspiration from his experiences at the Morris Graves Foundation Artist Residency, The Lake, in Loleta, California. Achepohl discusses his residency at The Lake and his intimate relationship with the flora in his work. "Vision of Nature | Vessel of Beauty" is on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art through April 29th, 2018.

Artist Margaret Coe and McCosh Associate Curator Danielle Knapp discuss "Mark Clarke and Margaret Coe: Our Lives in Paint," a retrospective exhibition in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Eugene painters Margaret Coe and the late Mark Clarke shared a remarkable partnership in life and art. Coe talks about Clarke's approach to painting the Oregon landscape, as well as how her own work has evolved throughout her career. The exhibition is on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art through April 1st, 2018.

James Harper, associate professor in the UO Department of the History of Art and Architecture, discusses "The Barberini Tapestries: Woven Monuments of Baroque Rome" exhibition. Harper, a specialist in 16th- and 17th-century Italian art, curated the exhibition. It is on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art through January 21st, 2018.

Irish-born artist Barbara MacCallum discusses her exhibit of mixed-media sculptural work at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. "Barbara MacCallum: Appropriating Science" is on view through January 28, 2018.

Star Percussionist Colin Currie Plays Our Studio —The Oregon Symphony welcomes Colin Currie back to the stage Oct. 22–24. We talk with Curry about how he’s pushing the boundaries of contemporary classical music, as a soloist and through commissioning new works for percussion and orchestra. Then we give him an assortment of office goods (think recycling bin, bucket, vase, Dragon Boat oar) and ask him to play a tune.Bravo Youth Orchestra —Oregon Art Beat brings us this profile of the first Oregon program based on a world-famous Venezuelan method of music instruction. El Sistema is the program that has brought high-quality musical education to hundreds of thousands of kids in Venezuela. Bravo is replicating El Sistema in metro Portland’s underserved communities.Tin House Fiction Contest Plot Prompt #1 —Ready to grind out 500 words of flash fiction in Tin House’s Plotto: The Master Contest of All Plots? Without further ado, here is the first prompt:“Character A, proceeding about his business and caught in a crowd, is confronted suddenly by a strange person, character B, who thrusts a mysterious object, X, into his hand and, without a word, disappears.”How to Succeed on Broadway With Lake Oswego–Native Brisa Trinchero —What do the hit Broadway shows "Hamilton," "Matilda," "Hedwig and the Angry Itch," and "Pippin" have in common? Lake Oswego native Brisa Trinchero. After working her way up to running the Broadway Rose theater in Tigard by her mid-20s, she made the big jump to Broadway itself. Now she splits her time between Portland and New York, where she produces plays, runs a boutique publishing company, and is working on a ticketing start-up.State of Wonder’s Aaron Scott caught up with her during a recent trip to the Big Apple to talk the business they call show, including the hottest ticket on Broadway (#YayHamilton) and her involvement in the touring production of "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical."Beirut Wedding As A Model for Change —Local theater veterans Bobby Bermea and Jamie Rea talk about the company they founded to tell stories of women and people of color. Beirut Wedding World Theatre Project produces its first production Oct. 28–Nov. 10: Zayd Dorhn’s "Reborning” — a spooky-yet-sexy tale of a young doll maker who’s latest commission is pushing her over the edge.Between The World And Me: Artists Respond —A lot of northwest towns have community reading projects, but the University of Oregon is taking it one step further this year. Incoming undergrads were encouraged to read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ best-seller “Between The World And Me” — a meditation about being black in America. In tandem, the University’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is showing contemporary art that works in conversation with the book. Some real A-listers are represented: Kehinde Wiley, Theaster Gates, Kara Walker, and many others.Eastmoreland Controversy: Who Says It’s Historic? —Our columnist-in-residence Randy Gragg turns us on to an oddity of Oregon law that allows people to lobby for historic protections for whole areas, whether the people who live there want them or not. Catch is, once your house is designated historic, your abilities to change it become tightly restricted. The southeast Portland community of Eastmoreland has become the latest flashpoint for how this plays out. Woody Guthrie's Voyage through Oregon —In the spring of 1941, Woody Guthrie came to Portland to work on one of the most iconic public art projects of the West. The Bonneville Power Administration hired him to write songs for a movie about the virtues of dams, irrigated land and hydropower. Author Greg Vandy tells the story in his book, “26 Songs in 30 Days.”

This week on State of Wonder, the city's plans to enforce pot policy puts many marijuana-related events on hold, the comedian Curtis Cook on what it takes to be brave, writer Andi Zeisler on the commodification of feminism & more.Portland Just Says No To Many Marijuana-Related EventsSince the legalization of recreational marijuana in Oregon last year, there’s been an explosion or pot-related events: from big celebrations like Weed the People and the Cultivation Classic, to yoganja classes and house concerts. But now all these events are up in the air due to a confluence of clarifications from state and city authorities, including the city's pot officials saying they will begin to crack down on events that sell tickets and then give away marijuana, meaning a major buzz kill for a number of events already in the works.Tales of the Portland Jazz Scene: Lorna Bracken Baxter - 5:45Our friends at KMHD Jazz Radio have been working on a special series of stories you will want to check out: Tales of the Portland Jazz Scene. This is in connection with the great "Jazz Town" documentary recently broadcast on Oregon Experience. This week, we isten to a personal story from Portland vocalist Lorna Bracken Baxter, who offers up a window into the values identified with blackness in Portland during her childhood years.Writer Andi Zeisler on the Commodification of Feminism - 9:42As a founding editor of Bitch Media and an astute observer of popular culture, Andi Zeisler has noticed a curious trend over the past two decades: Feminism went from being ridiculed or reviled to being embraced, and it even turned into a kind of cottage industry. But what happens when a political and social movement becomes a brand? Just another way to sell a celebrity, a yogurt or a pair of underwear? Zeisler explores that question in her new book “We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement.” Listen to the full Think Out Loud interview here.Comedian Curtis Cook - 17:21The comedian Curtis Cook is not from Portland, but certain things about him seem made for this place: he excels at a kind of unassuming riff that doesn’t hit you so much as quietly steer you right where he wants you. He tells us why he didn't fit into the liberal crowd at Oberlin College, and how his view about what it takes to be brave in comedy has changed. Curtis performs in seven showcases at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival (June 1–5), including a special Earthquake Hurricane show on June 1 and New Negroes with Baron Vaughn on June 4.We Work on Comedy - 26:22In hanging around with Curtis Cook, we stumbled across a pretty interesting event he’s involved with: the Do What You Love Comedy Series at the We Work co-working space in the old U.S. Customs Building in downtown Portland. It's introducing a whole different crowd to comedy. The next show is June 16.Tour Managers: An Interview with the Unsung Heroes of Rock - 30:21With summer fast approaching, touring season is now in full swing with thousands of bands criss-crossing the continent. Out there, anything can go wrong: a van accident, broken gear, missing instrument, or sick band member. Something as basic as a simple lack of attention to detail can derail a tour. Often times, there’s only one person holding it all together: the tour manager. Here the extended interview at opbmusic.Subversive Comics at the University of Oregon - 44:45Ben Saunders has created the first in the nation academic minor program dedicated to comics and cartoon at the University of Oregon. Sanders stopped by Think Out Loud to talk with Dave Miller about why comics are worth studying academically, the early provocateurs at EC Comics and Mad Magazine, and "Aliens, Monsters and Madmen," the exhibition he curated at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art showcasing the comics that influenced the creative minds of Stephen King, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and others.

Rick Bartow, one of the region's most striking and accomplished artists, died on Apr. 2 at the age of 69 from complications arising from congestive heart failure.Bartow's sculptures, paintings, and prints have shown everywhere from the White House to the Smithsonian, and they hang in museum collections around the country.His boldly colorful, emotive, and idiosyncratic works refuse to be contained by medium or style or even species. Inspired by his Native American heritage and travels to Mexico, Japan, and beyond, his works depict beings that blend the human and the animal. They are creatures on the cusp of the material and the spiritual world, like stories and myths made flesh."We all are given a gift," Bartow told Think Out Loud last year during a major retrospective of his work at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene. "My job is to be an artist. As I tell my son, who's a hip-hop artist — I told him early on that we were given a blessing, and we were given a curse. Because sometimes it's not much fun, but you have to do it."When we first heard Bartow was not well in February, we invited Bartow's longtime friend and gallerist, Charles Froelick, into the studio to talk about his legacy. You can hear the conversation above.Read the full story: http://www.opb.org/artsandlife/article/rick-bartow-stunning-nw-artist-dies-at-69

This week on State of Wonder: Oregonians mourn the death of a legend (including some who shared his stage), a Portland artist helps reboot DC Comics’ Dr. Fate, and a blind but colorful painter in Wallowa County.The Many Lives of Davie BowieDavid Bowie’s decades of recording, filmmaking and trendsetting led many to feel he was super-human, immortal, even alien. Of course, he was all too human, dying this week at age 69 after an 18-month struggle with cancer. The outpouring of love and grief online and across the world is staggering, and Oregon is no exception.[image: 011616_david-bowie-and-dandy-warhols,right,300x390,5698388dd073400035a111b3] We decided to go in search of how Bowie changed our small neck of the solar system. We talked with the Dandy Warhols about playing with Bowie; heard from Grandfather's Jason Lydle about finding out Bowie was a fan; caught up with Matt Sheehy, who covered "Let's Dance" on the "Late Show With Stephen Colbert"; spent some time with fans singing Bowie-oke; and learned about Bowie's impact on the gay community from filmmaker David Weissman.You can hear the Dandy Warhols' extended interview and watch their performance with Bowie here.Artist Ibrahim Moustafa - 22:13The Egyptian-American artist Ibrahim Moustafa has helped reboot the classic DC Comics series "Doctor Fate," with Dr. Fate as an Egyptian-American medical student. We talked with Moustafa about how his own dual heritage influenced the comic, which is out Jan. 20, as well as his own hit series, "High Crimes," about international intrigue on the slopes of Mt. Everest. Beat Connection - 29:42The Seattle electropop outfit Beat Connection mixes a stew of influences: pop, calypso, hip-hop, jazz, funk, and hatred of Matchbox 20. These disparate sounds are tied together by the soulful voice of lead singer Tom Eddy. Beat Connection stopped by the OPB studios to perform songs from their new album "Product 3."First Edition Shakespeare -35:24One of William Shakespeare's rare First Folios is on display at the University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene. Several of the so-called First Folios are touring the country, marking the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. The museum’s associate curator, Danielle Knapp, talked to Oregon Art Beat’s Katrina Sarson about the folio, which elevated the Bard from the low masses to high art. The Mostly Blind But Colorful Painter of Enterprise, Oregon - 36:32Bob Fergison has been compared to the Dos Equis commercial — y'know, the most interesting guy in the world. The 82-year-old marketing exec turned rural arts impresario turned fine artist continues to paint bold, expressionist nudes and fighters, despite having mostly lost his eyesight and repeatedly beaten back incurable cancer. Now the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph is exhibiting his work through Feb. 17. Producer Aaron Scott visited Fergison in his cluttered studio.Burke Jam's Natural Music - 42:52Sound artist Burke Jam uses landscapes as the raw material for new music. We're not talking simply taking inspiration from the national natural world. It’s more like a translation of the physical world into sound. It’s known as sonification. Burke Jam spoke with OPB’s Think Out Loud and shared one composition made in Iceland called “Within the Violence of Fractured Light,” using the dripping of melting icebergs.

00:40 A Wonderful tour through PLAYA - Summer Lake. it's a residency program for artists and scientists, the kind of place where time stops and ideas hit the ground running. 34:00 Revolution Hall, a new music venue that hits the sweet spot on Portland's music venue map. 43:50 Rick Bartow gets a retrospective at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 75th Anniversary with Jill Hartz, executive director, JSMA; Charles Lachman, curator of Asian Art; and Larry Fong, associate director and curator of American and Regional Art discussing the museum’s collections and history.