Podcast appearances and mentions of katherine westerhout

Instead of glamorous hotspots, famous faces and iconic structures, Oakland-based photographer Katherine Westerhout prefers just the opposite. Rather than the latest and greatest venues du jour and the throngs that flock to them, Westerhout has built a career on creating large-scale images which capture the empty places long since forgotten by the general public -- including abandoned hospitals, churches, and theaters. "I've been photographing in abandoned buildings for about 12 years now, and what I am so drawn to is the way the light enters these buildings and the way it carries color, from the outside, depending on the time of day," Westerhout explains to Spark during a photo shoot at the train depot at 16th and Wood streets in West Oakland.

In January 2010 Gallery Crawl visited Michael Rosenthal Gallery in San Francisco to see Ohio artist Amy Caseyʹs latest self‐titled exhibition, then headed to Electric Works Gallery to interview photographer Katherine Westerhout and learn more about her new exhibition, Rust Belt. This guide provides resources for educators to support the utilization of this online virtual visit to the galleries to teach about contemporary art. The Gallery Crawl videos can be found at www.KQED.org/gallerycrawl.

In January 2010 Gallery Crawl interviewed photographer Katherine Westerhout and her collaborator, digital printmaker Kris Shapiro-Lang to learn more about the process behind the works in Westerhout's exhibition, Rust Belt, at Electric Works Gallery in San Francisco. Known for exploring inaccessible territory, Westerhout's latest subjects are forgotten buildings in Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Detroit.

Follow photographer Katherine Westerhout inside a forgotten West Oakland landmark: the 16th Street Station. Original air date: April 2009.

In January 2010 GALLERY CRAWL interviewed photographer Katherine Westerhout and her collaborator, Electric Works' digital printmaker Kris Shapiro-Lang to learn more about the process behind Westerhout's latest work in her new exhibition RUST BELT at Electric Works Gallery. Known for exploring inaccessible territory, Westerhout's latest subjects are forgotten buildings in Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Detroit.