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Rebecca here to share some big news!!! Join us on Monday June 9th for the 15th Anniversary Clive Barnes Awards!The Clive Barnes Foundation will honor outstanding theater and dance professionals at the 15th Anniversary Clive Barnes Awards, Monday, June 9 at 5:30pm at the National Arts Club in New York City. Carrying on the legacy of legendary dance and theater critic Clive Barnes and his encouragement of young artists, the annual Awards will recognize three theater performers and three dance performers as Honored Artists. This year, Conversations on Dance is proud to be the recipient of the inaugural Clive Barnes Award for Journalism and Media Achievement. Hosted by Budd Mishkin, the Awards will feature guest presenter Tiler Peck and a special performance by Clive Barnes Award alumnus Victor Abreu of New York City Ballet. For tickets and information, please visit clivebarnesfoundation.org. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
CATHERINE FILLOUX (BOOK) is an award-winning playwright who has been writing about human rights and social justice for twenty-five years. Filloux is the librettist for three produced operas, NEW ARRIVALS (Houston Grand Opera, composer John Glover), WHERE ELEPHANTS WEEP (Chenla Theatre, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, composer Him Sophy) and THE FLOATING BOX (Asia Society, New York City, composer Jason Kao Hwang). WHERE ELEPHANTS WEEP was also broadcast on national television in Cambodia, and THE FLOATING BOX was a Critic's Choice in Opera News and is released by New World Records. Catherine is the co-librettist with composer Olga Neuwirth for the opera ORLANDO, which premiered at Vienna State Opera. In development: Thresh's L'ORIENT (composer Kamala Sankaram, choreographer Preeti Vasudevan); MARY SHELLEY (composer Gerald Cohen, dramaturg Cori Ellison, Black Tea Music). Her plays have been produced around the U.S. and internationally. She has been honored with the 2019 Barry Lopez Visiting Writer in Ethics and Community Fellowship; the 2017 Otto René Castillo Award for Political Theatre; and the 2015 Planet Activist Award. JIMMY ROBERTS (MUSIC & LYRICS) composed the music for I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE, second longest running Off Broadway musical in New York theater history. Written with playwright Joe DiPietro, I LOVE YOU received both the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations as Best Musical. It has since played in fifty states, twenty-five countries around the world, and is a major motion picture in Hong Kong. His second Off Broadway musical, THE THING ABOUT MEN, won the 2003 New York Outer Critics Circle award for Best Musical. Jimmy's songs were featured in two other Off Broadway shows: A…MY NAME IS STILL ALICE and PETS! His children's musical, THE VELVETEEN RABBIT, toured the United States for well over a decade. Jimmy is also a sought-after performer. In entertaining programs that combine classical and popular music, he has appeared at Merkin Concert Hall, the Time Warner Center, the 92nd Street Y, Steinway Hall, and the National Arts Club. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with noted pianist, Constance Keene, Jimmy Roberts is also a poet, whose work has appeared often in the New York Times Metropolitan Diary, as well as TROLLEY, the journal of the NYS Writers Institute. JOHN DAGGETT (BOOK & ADD'L LYRICS) is a differently-abled actor who has starred Off-Broadway in the critically acclaimed plays LEMKIN'S HOUSE, TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON, and LOVE LEMMINGS. Other New York credits include: ROME, PORTRAIT OF A PRESIDENT, AN ARTIST'S LIFE, THE WITCHES TRIPTYCH, and his one-man show FLYING BY THE SEAT OF MY PANTS (Theatre Row). Regional: Guthrie, Merrimack Rep, Jewish Repertory Theatre, Portland Stage, Roxy Theatre, Odyssey Theater, Kavinoky Theatre and H.T.Y. Numerous roles for Pennsylvania Shakespeare, Orlando Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Delaware Park, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare and Sherwood Shakespeare. John served as a member of the Government Relations Committee of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Welcome to the Big Dipper What defines home, family, and identity? Joan Wilkes confronts these questions when she must sell The Big Dipper Inn, near Niagara Falls in upstate New York, known for its music and African American heritage. She's all set to sign the contract when a blizzard lands a group of Amish folks and a busload of men in dresses on her doorstep. For three days and nights, they wait out the storm. Cultures clash, romance crackles, and Joan struggles for answers, as a houseful of strangers becomes an unexpected community.
Richard Wilbur was born in New York City on March 1, 1921 and studied at Amherst College before serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. He later attended Harvard University.Wilbur's first book of poems, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems (Reynal & Hitchcock) was published in 1947. Since then, he has published several books of poems, including Anterooms: New Poems and Translations (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010); Collected Poems, 1943–2004 (Harvest Books, 2004); Mayflies: New Poems and Translations (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000); New and Collected Poems (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988), which won the Pulitzer Prize; The Mind-Reader: New Poems (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976); Walking to Sleep: New Poems and Translations (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969); Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961); Things of This World (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1956), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; and Ceremony and Other Poems (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1950).Wilbur also published numerous translations of French plays—specifically those of the seventeenth century French dramatists Molière and Jean Racine—as well as poetry by Paul Valéry, François Villon, Charles Baudelaire, Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, and others. Wilbur is also the author of several books for children and a few collections of prose pieces, and has edited such books as Poems of Shakespeare (Penguin Books, 1966) and The Complete Poems of Poe (Dell Publishing Company, 1959).About Wilbur's poems, one reviewer for the Washington Post said, “Throughout his career Wilbur has shown, within the compass of his classicism, enviable variety. His poems describe fountains and fire trucks, grasshoppers and toads, European cities and country pleasures. All of them are easy to read, while being suffused with an astonishing verbal music and a compacted thoughtfulness that invite sustained reflection.”Among Wilbur's honors are the Wallace Stevens Award, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Frost Medal, the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Bollingen Prizes, the T. S. Eliot Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Ford Foundation Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Memorial Award, the Harriet Monroe Poetry Award, the National Arts Club medal of honor for literature, two PEN translation awards, the Prix de Rome Fellowship, and the Shelley Memorial Award. He was elected a chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and is a former poet laureate of the United States.Wilbur served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1961 to 1995. He died on October 15, 2017 in Belmont, Massachusetts.-bio via Academy of American Poets Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
“Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey and special guest, Diana Byer, founding director of the New York Theater Ballet. In this episode of Dance Talk with Joanne Carey, join host Joanne Carey as she chats with Special Guest, Diana Byer, as she shares her life in dance which began from a suggestion made by her pediatrician to exercise. That first class lead to a lifetime career in dance, an art form on which she continues to leave her imprint and is creating a profound and exemplary legacy. Diana discusses her commitment to developing dance artists and her outreach program for homeless and at-risk children. Diana Byer received her principal dance training from Margaret Craske and Antony Tudor. She is the founder of New York Theater Ballet that stages works that are intimate in scale and able to touch audiences in deeply personal ways. Hailed by Dance Magazine as “a miniature American treasure,” NYTB is known for its theatrical inventiveness, high production quality, excellent technique, and accessibility to its audiences. She has been a guest instructor of the Cecchetti Society of America, the Cecchetti Society of Canada (Toronto), Cornell and New York Universities, State University of New York at Purchase, Martha Graham School, and other centers of dance. Ms. Byer conducts master classes in schools and performance settings across the USA and Europe. Ms. Byer received extensive media attention for her ongoing work with homeless and at-risk children, winning special citations from President George Bush, First Lady Hillary Clinton, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the President's Committee on the Arts & the Humanities. The LIFT Community Service program, which provides dance classes, performance opportunities, scholarships, and services for homeless and at-risk children in New York, was initiated at NYTB through her vision and commitment. In 1988, 1990, and 1993, Ms. Byer received the Helen Wieselberg Award of the National Arts Club in recognition for her ongoing work with LIFT. In 1992, Lincoln Center produced, at Alice Tully Hall, a one-hour presentation for children called Dreams On A Shoestring, featuring an original script based on Ms. Byer and LIFT. She received a Humanitarian Hero recognition from Good Housekeeping Magazine for her ongoing work with LIFT and was the 2023 Martha Hill Dance Fund Lifetime Achievement Awardee. The feature-length film LIFT, documenting Ms. Byer's journey of LIFT, was featured in the 2022 Tribeca Festival and recognized with a “Children's Resilience in Film Award” by Shine Global. In December 1996, she was again spotlighted in two features in Dance Magazine. Ms. Byer coached the principals in the Columbia Pictures film, Center Stage. She was a member of the Antony Tudor Centennial Celebration Committee and in 2008 staged Tudor's Judgment of Paris for the American Ballet Theatre Gala at The Metropolitan Opera House. She is a repetiteur for the Antony Tudor Trust and a member of the Board of Directors of the Dance Notation Bureau and The Clive and Valerie Barnes Foundation. In 2010 she assisted Kevin McKenzie in ABT's restaging of Antony Tudor's Jardin Aux Lilas (Lilac Garden) and staged Agnes de Mille's Three Virgins and a Devil for the Alabama Ballet. In 2011 Ms. Byer restaged Antony Tudor's Soiree Musicale and the dances from Agnes de Mille's Carousel, Oklahoma, and Brigadoon for American Ballet Theatre's Studio Company. She continues to direct the NYTB School which she established in 1978. Learn more about The Diana Byer Legacy Project https://www.dancio.com/dianabyerlegacyproject Learn more about New York Theater Ballet https://nytb.org/about Follow Joanne Carey on Instagram @westfieldschoolofdance Follow “Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey wherever you get your podcasts. Tune in. Follow. Like us. And Share. Please leave us review! “Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey "Where the Dance World Connects, the Conversations Inspire, and Where We Are Keeping Them Real."
Exploring Dance with Energy with guest Danielle Fusco Host Anna Harsh shares a conversation with dancer, choreographer, and healer Danielle Fusco about what life lessons she has gaind through dance as well as her healing gifts that bring energy to her work. This episode is packed with advice and great tips, you don't want to miss out! Subjects that we chat about: Reiki Healing Time management Travel with dance Dance Energy Journaling yoga visualization Modern Dance Danielle Marie Fusco is a native New Yorker. Her participation within the industry is extensive and diverse with over 20 years of professional experience. She was awarded “Best Dancer” for the Italian Dance Awards given by Antonio Fini of FINI Dance in Calabria, Italy. She was also awarded the Hupstate Residency for Circus Culture in partnership with Salstonstall Foundation and The PEACE Project for Patchogue Arts Council. Danielle is also senior company member for Dzul Dance where she serves as a dancer and aerialist throughout Mazatlan MX, Campeche City MX, NY, NJ. She also served administrative roles such as Festival Coordinator in Dzul International Dance Festival and is currently the Director of Outreach for DACO (Dzul Arts Community Outreach). Additional credits include: Off-Broadway Choreography: “The Anthem”,“The Vanity”(Theatre Row), “Tink!” (NY Musical Festival), National Arts Club, NY Innovative Theatre Awards, Night of 1000 Stevies. Concert Performances: Jazz Roots (NYC), Dzul Dance, Martha Graham Co (Sam Pott's Episode in American Document at the Joyce Theatre), Graham 2, Luigi Jazz “String of Pearls” and “L'uRhythmics”; soloist/choreographer for Rachel Klein, EAC GO! At STREB Lab for Action Mechanics in “Devaneio” by Marcela Duarte, Edgar Cortes Dance Theatre, Noemi LeFrance, Nejla Yatkin, Buglisi Table of Silence, Miriam Barbosa Dance (Transcending & Bliss, Oneness, Three for the World), Jazz Dance Legacy (Las Vegas), Fini Productions (Italy & NY). Teaching: Martha Graham School, Rioult NY, Luigi Jazz Technique, Peridance, Sceneindgangen (Denmark), NYU, PACE University, Kean University, Nazareth College, Eastern Suffolk BOCES etc. Education: Marymount Manhattan College (BA Dance & Education), Martha Graham School (Certificate of Teaching, Atelier Scholarship), Luigi Jazz Center, Circus Warehouse (LIC). https://www.daniellemariefusco.com Instragram: @American.strega Anna's websites: www.AnnaHarsh.com www.Allegrodancecompany.net #Reiki #Healing #DanceEnergy #Journaling #yoga #visualization #ModernDance #Podcast #TimeManagement #WomenSpeakers #Dancers #Visualize #meditation #ItalianAmericanWomen #Rituals --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anna-harsh/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anna-harsh/support
Why is creativity crucial to your career? What are 10x and living universally? How Anna Quindlen changed my life with a couple of sentences. Her words will change you too. This is a bonus episode where I go over what sparked in the current Broadway production of Cabaret. More importantly, I attended an event at the National Arts Club last night where the terrific Anna Quindlen was interviewed about her writing, banned books, and how an English major builds critical skills for career success, according to CEOs.
This weeks episode is definitely a special one!!! We have the one and only Joseph Abboud. Joseph is an American menswear fashion designer and author. I would put him on the top of the list right next to Ralph Lauren, Versaci, Tommy Hilfiger and any other mens fashion designer. The National Arts Club has been awarding its Medal of Honor to some of fashion's biggest names since 2003, starting with Geoffrey Beene and including Carolina Herrera, Betsey Johnson, Norma Kamali and Anna Sui. But it has never honored a menswear designer. That will change Friday night when Joseph Abboud is singled out for his illustrious career in the men's industry. Abboud joined Ralph Lauren in 1981, eventually becoming associate director of menswear design. He launched his own label in spring 1987. In 1988, JA Apparel was created as a joint venture between Abboud and GFT (Gruppo Finanziario Tessile) USA. The designer, who graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Boston and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, got his start in fashion at the Louis Boston men's store in his hometown before working for Ralph Lauren as a menswear designer. He launched his namesake brand in 1987.
This week we are joined by Ben Fisher! Ben is a comedian, actor, and producer. His credits include SF Sketchfest, D.C. Comedy Fest, The National Arts Club, Peacock Show LA, New York Comedy Club, and his Jimmy Fallon impression has been seen at ‘Schtick or Treat,' City Winery, and The Rainbow Room at 30 Rock. He hosts a monthly show ‘Comedy at Gotham West Market' and co-hosts ‘Celebrity Drop-In' with Anna Roisman. As an actor he's been featured in NBC Universal's Comedy Scene Showcase, the New York Film Festival, and on stage in numerous plays and musicals. Make sure to check him out!In this episode, we discuss growing up in Central Connecticut, having a dad who's an umpire, the horniess of band and theater kids, wanting attention, coming out as gay, looking like Jimmy Fallon, and so much more. You don't want to miss our discussion about Ben processing the recent passing of his father. Give this episode a listen! Recommendations from this episode: A League Of Their OwnThe Guncle - Steven RowleyFollow Ben Fisher: @benfishercomedy / benfishercomedy.comFollow Carly: @carlyjmontagFollow Emily: @thefunnywalshFollow the podcast: @aloneatlunchpodPlease rate and review the podcast! Spread the word! Tell your friends! Email us: aloneatlunch@gmail.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Jimmy Roberts is the composer of the second longest-running Off-Broadway musical in New York theater history, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, which ran for over 5000 performances. It's been produced around the world in languages as diverse as French, Spanish, German, Finnish, Mandarin and Cantonese. Jimmy's second Off-Broadway show The Thing About Men, won the New York Outer Critics Circle award for Best Musical. His latest show, Welcome to the Big Dipper, co-written with John Daggett and one of my favorite StoryBeat guests, Cat Filloux, is set to open at the York Theatre in Manhattan in November 2024. Jimmy's also a sought-after performer, presenting entertaining programs that combine classical and popular music. Recent engagements include: Merkin Concert Hall, the 92nd Street Y, Steinway Hall, and the National Arts Club. The New York Times called Jimmy's performances, “Brilliant.” He's a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with noted pianist, Constance Keene. He's also a published poet, with several of his poems appearing in the New York Times Metropolitan Diary. Jimmy reads two of his poems during the show. He's also a collector of historic letters and interesting people. Please stick around at the end of the show because Jimmy has generously lent us a wonderful song sampler from Welcome to the Big Dipper for your enjoyment.
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A panel discussion Craig led on December 12, 2023 which was hosted by the National Arts Club. The topic of the discussion was “The Art of Digital Manipulation”. In particular, the use of large data sets and custom programs in the development of fine art and the ever-evolving influence of artificial intelligence. Craig was lucky to be joined by pioneering artist Jason Salavon who has spent decades working in the field of generative art and the use of complex systems of data mining to create works that are an uncanny reflection of our society. The National Arts ClubJason Salavon
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We talk with the fantastically talented, warm-hearted Jeanette Hayes about commonalities for women in history, looking at stuff, where Bratz intersects with Picasso, and the fact that sometimes hard drives just die. Jeanette Hayes (b. 1988) is a painter/multimedia artist based in New York. Originally from Chicago, Hayes moved to NYC and received a BFA from Pratt Institute. Her work addresses the traditional preservation of non-traditional technological and pop imagery through painting, video, digital manipulation, and Internet collages. Hayes' interests include cultural phenomena and the confrontation of conventionality and subject matter. Her fascination with the imagery we each navigate through everyday and their correlations to civilization and ownership. With international solo shows in Italy, France and Belgium, Hayes has also been included in an exhibition at the Spirit Museum in Stockholm and shown at various galleries in New York and Los Angeles including: Half Gallery, M+B Gallery, Allouche Gallery, The Hole, The National Arts Club and more. In 2019, Hayes was curated by the Culture Corps to create a public art installation at the Hudson Yards in New York, which was on view for one year. Jeanette Hayes has made animated GIFs and videos for Proenza Schouler, CHANEL, Alexander Wang, Cynthia Rowley, Vogue and Opening Ceremony. She has won artist sponsorships from BlackBerry and Blick Art and was chosen by Purple magazine to create their artist book in 2016, which she titled "five". Hayes has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue Japan, i-D, Complex Magazine, Interview Magazine, Dazed, Purple Magazine, Paper Magazine, Playboy and TimeOut New York chose Hayes as one of the “5 most important new artists in New York City.” Jeanette Hayes lives and works in New York City.
Join Tamara for an interview with Faran Riley - local artist, geology enthusiast, fine jewelry connoisseur, and aspiring surfer. A Savannah native, she was one of the first classes to go through Savannah Arts Academy. After living in both Boston and NYC, she returned to town in 2020 and now works out of Sulfur Studios, exhibiting her drawings, paintings, and rock collections. Faran begins her paintings with abstract imagery in Sumi ink (and sometimes acrylic paint), then "carves the image out," adding backlighting and moments of realism and surrealism using colored pencils. Her fantastical landscapes are inspired by a combination of her Night Walks around Savannah, and time spent at her family home in coastal Maine. Check out Faran's work and follow her here: https://www.instagram.com/faranriley/ https://www.faranriley.com/ Topics in their chat include: Working on performance art and installation while attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, including a diner in her studio made of cardboard, operating 24 hours a day; the emotional turmoil of her college critiques and review boards; her post-college years living in NYC and working as a studio assistant to Yunhee Min; Faran's thoughts about the contemporary versions of the Old Masters artists who subcontracted parts of their painting work to assistants; her interest in gemstones and diamonds, stemming from working for years in a high-end jewelry boutique; getting back into art by taking drawing classes at the 1898 NYC institution, The National Arts Club; how she moved back home to Savannah at the start of Covid; using materials to experiment with markmaking in order to depict textures in her landscapes; the well-loved NYC art model Madeline; Savannah's new gallery space Ology Gallery near Bonaventure Cemetery; her current pieces merging the foliage and landscape of Savannah with her family's home in Maine; and her final words about Savannah feeling like such a supportive community because there are enough artist opportunities to go around without us competing. Tune in and get all the details!
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Page Turner, an acclaimed artist, recently showed her art at the "Affiliation Show" at the National Arts Club in New York City. Page has worked with Artemis Journal for three years, and her ability to pair art and poetry is phenomenal! In this interview, Jeri Rogers explores how the layout comes into being with her creative skills. "This year's theme is "transformative nature"Change is the only constant, as they say, and to begin envisioning a more equitable, weird, and wonderful future for all, our journal encourages work that moves beyond narrow conceptions of both gender and environment. The Greek Lunar Goddess, Artemis, is our journal's perpetual muse. She protects wild animals, the wilderness, women, and children. This year, allow Artemis' light to illuminate new pathways prioritizing the wild over the well-tread.Artemis Journal has many artists and writers, some first published, and others are well-known in their fields. We are honored to include the work of former US Poet laureate Natasha Trethewey, Virginia Poet Laureates Ron Smith and Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, and artists Betty Branch, Steven Kenny, Michele Sons, Starroot, Sam Krisch, and Susan Saandholland. Artemis donates 10% of journal sales earnings to a women's shelter for abused women in Southwest Virginia.
Live from The Gospel According To Heather press event, I interviewed Director & Choreographer, Rachel Klein.In this interview, Rachel pulled back the curtain to reveal:How The Gospel According To Heather found its way to herWhat she related to most about the showOne rule she lives byVisit my website, Call Me Adam dot com, for behind-the-curtain story you won't hear in the interview!In The Gospel According To Heather, Heather Krebs just wants a boyfriend. But how can she even navigate her way through high school if she might be the New Messiah? A small town in Ohio grapples with politics, religion and teenage romance in this eclectic pop musical.The Gospel According To Heather plays at Theater 555 in NYC through the newly extended date of July 16, 2023.*At The Gospel According To Heather press event, members of the media were given a sneak peak of this new Off-Broadway Musical. More on Rachel Klein:Rachel Klein is a NYC based director, coined "Endlessly Clever," (The New York Post), "Nothing short of brilliant," (Broadway World) and of whose work The New York Times has stated: "What makes this show pop is the bracing vision of its director, Rachel Klein."Rachel's direction and choreography have been seen all over New York City including at the House of Yes, (le) Poisson Rouge, the Highline Ballroom, the National Arts Club, La MaMa, Night of 1000 Stevies, the Hiro Ballroom, Dumbo Dance Festival, the Kitchen, and the Slipper Room. Some of Rachel's credits include: Red Roses, Green Gold, Coming: A Rock Musical of Biblical Proportions, The Anthem, Around the World in 80 Days, Gay Bride of Frankenstein, & Symphony of Shadows.Rachel holds a degree in Theatrical Direction from Columbia College, is a member of the SDC, a member of Musical Theatre Factory, and attended The Actor's Gymnasium School of Circus Arts, as well as The International Directors Symposium in Spoleto, Italy.Special Thanks:Richard Hillman PRTheme Song by Bobby CroninPodcast Logo by Liam O'DonnellEdited by Adam RothenbergMore Call Me Adam:Website: www.callmeadam.comFacebook: @CallMeAdamNYCInstagram: @CallMeAdamNYC
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On Season 3, Episode 2, of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews Los Angeles based artist Caris Reid. Reid's paintings are a symbolic world of blooming flowers, floating lips, and penetrating stares. Influenced by her interest in Tarot and Hypnosis, the paintings feel both familiar and mysterious, every detail is coded and ripe with meaning. Reid has shown her paintings in solo exhibitions at Over the Influence Gallery in Los Angeles, Denny Gallery in New York, Ochi Projects in Los Angeles as well as exhibiting in two person shows with Elise Ferguson at Monya Rowe Gallery, and with Amanda Valdez at Denny Gallery in New York and Cicuit12 Gallery in Dallas. Her work has been exhibited at the Untitled Art Fair in Miami, Art Central Art Fair in Hong Kong, Intersect Art Fair in Palm Springs, The Dallas Art Fair, Expo Chicago, and The Spring Break Art Fair in both New York and Los Angeles. She's been included in group exhibitions at The Landing Gallery in Los Angeles, Sargents Daughters in New York, Over The Influence Gallery in Hong Kong, Leo Koenig in New York, Longhouse Projects in New York, O-O in Los Angeles, SEASON in Seattle, Ochi Gallery in Idaho, and The National Arts Club in New York among others. Caris has led painting and meditation workshops at The Palm Springs Museum of Art and at Maha Rose in New York. In 2016 she completed a 40 foot mural in downtown Los Angeles titled Grace and Grit. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Observer, Artsy, Vogue Japan, Vogue Mexico, W Magazine, Architectural Digest, Forbes Magazine, LALA magazine and The New York Times as well as the book “Plant Magick” from the Taschen Library of Esoterica. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. theartcareer.com Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Caris Reid: @carisr Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Social Media: @lilap3arl Music: Chase Johnson Editing: Zach Worden
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For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HoICdC7LFU&t=50s Today, I'll be wrapping up the week with five artists making a difference. Grab some coffee cake and join us! Celia Berk is an award-winning vocalist whose recordings have attracted listeners around the world. She has made memorable appearances at Carnegie Hall, Jazz At Lincoln Center, Birdland Theater, The Town Hall and the National Arts Club. https://celiaberk.com Dana P. Rowe is an American musical theater composer whose works have been performed internationally with productions in London's West End (Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Prince of Wales, The Donmar Warehouse), Russia, Czech Republic, Japan (including Tokyo's Imperial Garden Theatre), Germany, Australia, New York City, São Paulo, Brazil and Slovenia. A native New Yorker, Deborah Stone began studying ballet at age eight at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School. She became smitten by the stage when cast as a supernumerary in Met Opera productions from that time forward into her late teens. While there, she studied with Margaret Craske, Alfredo Corvino, and Antony Tudor. Mark Nadler is an internationally acclaimed singer, pianist, tap-dancer and comedian. He is the recipient of the 2015 Broadway World Editor's Choice Award for Entertainer of the Year. His recent off-Broadway hit, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, has been honored with the 2013 Nightlife Award Mark Nadlerand was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and two Broadway World Awards. The show was presented at The Adelaide Cabaret Festival in Adelaide, Australia, where it was nominated for the prestigious Helpmann Award.
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Visit Amazon's Diana Bellerose Page My mother's book of poems https://amzn.to/3eoy8Sp Spotify Dianna Bellerose Music Bio Kathryn Leigh Scott is an author and actress who has written the novels September Girl, Jinxed, Down and Out in Beverly Heels and Dark Passages. Nonfiction includes the Lobby Card books on film art, Last Dance at the Savoy, The Bunny Years and a trilogy of books on caregiving: Now With You, Now Without, The Happy Hours and A Welcome Respite. She played Maggie Evans/Josette DuPres in the original Dark Shadows, and appears in feature films The Eleventh Green, Three Christs and A Rainy Day in New York. Kathryn resides in New York and Los Angeles. www.kathrynleighscott.com. The National Arts Club —15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003, USA Contact: Kathryn Leigh Scott 1-310-526-3636, kathrynleighscott@gmail.com
Diana Byer This week Ivy Slater, host of Her Success Story, chats with her guest, Diana Byer. The two talk about the lessons and life skills that New York Theatre Ballet School offers, why she is such an advocate for the arts, and the impact they have seen in all of their students. In this episode, we discuss: Diana's background and her journey from performer to businesswoman and advocate for the arts How a 3-month project turned into a 44-year career What compelled the scholarship program, LIFT, to begin What makes this more than a dance class Lessons and life skills New York Theatre Ballet School offers How they navigated through the pandemic The impact Diana has seen in the students What surprises she has found along the way How the idea for the LIFT movie started and when it will release Diana's vision for the future and how she hopes to relieve the problem of homelessness in communities everywhere Diana Byer is the founder and Artistic Director Emerita of New York Theatre Ballet (NYTB) and Director of New York Theatre Ballet School. A former professional dancer, she was a long-time pupil and colleague of Margaret Craske, who was Director of Ballet Instruction at New York Theatre Ballet School until her retirement. Byer is a répétiteur for The Antony Tudor Trust, a member of the Board of Directors of the Dance Notation Bureau and the Clive and Valerie Barnes Foundation, an Education Ambassador for The New York Pops. She has also served on the Dance Portal Advisory Board of The Children's Museum of Manhattan. She has staged the ballets of Antony Tudor for American Ballet Theatre (ABT) and The Hartt School, and the ballets of Agnes de Mille for the Alabama Ballet and ABT. She also coached the principals for the Columbia Pictures film, Center Stage. In 1988, Ms. Byer founded NYTB's community LIFT program, providing dance classes, scholarships, and services to homeless and at-risk New York City children. (She has received the Helen Wieselberg Award from the National Arts Club and a Humanitarian Hero recognition from Good Housekeeping Magazine for her ongoing work with LIFT.) A feature-length film, documenting Byer's journey of LIFT was featured at the 2022 Tribeca Festival. Website: https://nytb.org/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NYTheatreBallet/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYTheatreBallet Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user5961657 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheNYTB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nytheatreballet/
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The boundary between digital and analog, between novel and nostalgic, is an ever-evolving realm explored in the work of artist Anne Vieux. Having received her BFA in painting and art history from the Kansas City Art Institute and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Vieux's process merges traditional painting with an experimental approach all her own. Using the refracted light patterns of an optical scanner as a jumping off point, Anne mines the depths of digital imagery to look at the patterns and flows behind an image. Appearing at times both metallic and aqueous, her abstract paintings capture something not possible in an analog world, but give warmth and even soul to the randomized data. This marriage of virtual image, physical materiality, and painterly finesse ultimately seeks the tension between the physical and digital realms. With over a decade of work, Vieux has expanded her repertoire to include painting, sculpture, installation, video, artist books, and nfts. in a time when technology rapidly evolves and transforms our experience of life along with it, Vieux's ability to find beauty and meaning in the flux has garnered her widespread acclaim and a stream of international exhibitions, including solo shows at The Hole, The Journal, NY, NY; County Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; as well as group shows with König Galerie, Berlin, DE; Cranbrook art museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Hunter College Art Gallery, National Arts Club, NY, NY; and Newcomb Art Museum, New Orlean's, LA. Vieux's work has been added to notable collections, such as the Newcomb Art Museum, the libraries the Moma, the Met, Virginia Commonwealth, Reed college. Vieux has been commissioned for numerous public art works across the country, including a site-specific installation at the Facebook HQ in San Francisco, CA. Vieux currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Mirror Proxies, installation image at The Hole {{verdure}}, 2022. acrylic and ink on canvas, 86 x 72 inches ~~##_, 2022, digital video h264, 30fps mp4 (2min loop), 3840 x 2160 px
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You may have heard about the messy, chaotic and truly horrible presidential election of 1876 -- pitting Democrat Samuel Tilden and Republican Rutherford B Hayes -- but did you know that New York City plays a huge role in this moment in American history?Tilden, the governor of New York, was a political superstar, a reformer famous for taking down Boss Tweed and the corrupt machinations of Tammany Hall. From his home in Gramercy Park, the extremely wealthy governor could kept himself updated on the election by a personal telegraph line.In a way, the presidential election came to him -- or at least to his neighborhood. The Democratic national headquarters sat only a few blocks south, while the Republican national headquarters made the Fifth Avenue Hotel (off Madison Square) its home.All this would have made the 1876 national election somewhat unusual already -- New York City seemed to be at the center of it -- but the strange series of events spawned by a most contentious Election Day would send the entire country into pandemonium.Not only was democracy itself on the line, but the fate of Reconstruction was also at stake. As were the rights of thousands of Black Southerners.How did shadowy events which occurred at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in the early morning hours of November 8, 1876, change the course of American history? How did a flurry of telegrams and months of political chicanery cause an end to the country's post-Civil War ambitions?FEATURING: A visit to Tilden's mansion on Gramercy Park, now the home of the National Arts Club!PLUS: How was Daniel Sickles involved here? RECOMMENDED LISTENINGRECOMMENDED READING
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How can we keep our lives interesting and creative? In our final episode this season, host Mitch Case introduces you to art therapist Megan Tuttle and artist and author Laurie Rosenwald. Tuttle shares her experiences providing therapy through art and the mental benefits of being creative. Afterwards, Rosenwald discusses her workshop series and book, How to Make Mistakes on Purpose, which helps participants/readers celebrate creativity and randomness. Finally, our summer intern Sydney heads outside the National Arts Club to ask passersby about their routines and how they stay creative. This is the final episode of our season. If you have been enjoying The Arts in Conversation, please subscribe and leave a review. Stay tuned for more! Links for this episode: Learn more about https://rosenworld.com/ (Laurie Rosenwald) Learn more about https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-tuttle-51132a15b/ (Megan Tuttle)
We are excited to welcome Elizabeth Block, Senior Editor at Met Museum, art historian and author of Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion to The Style That Binds Us podcast! Delia first met Elizabeth after attending a lecture she gave at The National Arts Club. We cannot wait to learn all about Elizabeth's book, where she got the idea, what she learned while researching and more. Enjoy! Link to Elizabeth's book: https://rstyle.me/cz-n/gp7qv4ckf47 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/delia-folk8/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delia-folk8/support
https://www.michaelshaneneal.com Since beginning a full time career as an artist at the age of 21, Michael Shane Neal has completed more than 500 commissioned portraits on display around the world. His portraits include Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, former Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne, former President George H.W. Bush, 9th Baronet and Laird of Luss, Scotland Sir Malcolm Colquhoun, former U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Rivkin, U.S. Senators Arlen Specter, Robert C. Byrd, and Bill Frist, Federal Chief Judge Anthony Scirica, and actor Morgan Freeman. Receiving his B.A. from Lipscomb University, Neal also studied at the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, The Scottsdale Artist School, Lyme Academy of Art, and he is a protégé of America's most celebrated figurative and portrait painter, Everett Raymond Kinstler. Neal's work has been featured in publications such as American Artist, International Artist, The Artist's Magazine, Art News, Fine Art Connoisseur, and Nashville Arts Magazine. He has received numerous awards for landscape and figurative paintings as well as the Grand Prize Award from the Portrait Society of America in 2001. Neal is the chairman of the board of the Portrait Society of America. He has also served on the board of directors of the American Patrons for the National Library and Galleries of Scotland (APNLGS), the board of trustees for The Andrew Jackson Foundation, the Executive Board of Trustees for Cheekwood Museum of Art, and as a member of the Norman Rockwell Museum's National Council. He is a member of the Allied Artists of New York, the Artist Fellowship of New York, the Salmagundi Club, the Lotos Club, the Century Association, the Sloane Club of London, the Cumberland Society of Painters, the Economic Club of Nashville, and an Exhibiting Artist member of the National Arts Club in New York, among others. Neal, the father of two daughters, enjoys church and community outreach, golf, plein-air painting, travel, and reading with a particular interest in history.
https://www.marioarobinson.com Mario Andres Robinson was born in Altus, Oklahoma, where he resided with his family before relocating to New Jersey at the age of twelve. Robinson studied at the prestigious Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. In 2014, Robinson was chosen to be a Brand Ambassador for Winsor and Newton art materials. He is the author of "Lessons in Realistic Watercolor," a comprehensive guide of the artist's watercolor techniques (Monacelli Press). The work of Mario Andres Robinson fits squarely within the tradition of American painting. Robinson's finished works bear a close affinity to the masters of the realist tradition, Andrew Wyeth and Thomas Eakins. Containing few references to modern life, Robinson's work has a timeless and universal quality, and exhibits a distinct turn-of-the-century stylistic aesthetic. The images he chooses, which refer to a bygone era where solitude and reflection were abundant, also provoke frequent allusions to the paintings of Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper. Mario Andres Robinson is an Exhibiting Artist Member (EAM) of The National Arts Club, an Artist Member of The Salmagundi Club and a Signature Member of The Pastel Society of America. His work has been featured several times in The Artist's Magazine, The Pastel Journal, Watercolor Magic, American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur and on the cover of American Artist magazine. In the February, 2006 issue of The Artist's Magazine, Mario was selected as one of the top 20 realist artists under the age of 40.
Since beginning a full time career as an artist at the age of 21, Michael Shane Neal has completed more than 500 commissioned portraits on display around the world. His portraits include Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, former Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne, former President George H.W. Bush, 9th Baronet and Laird of Luss, Scotland Sir Malcolm Colquhoun, former U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Rivkin, U.S. Senators Arlen Specter, Robert C. Byrd, and Bill Frist, Federal Chief Judge Anthony Scirica, and actor Morgan Freeman. https://www.michaelshaneneal.com/ Receiving his B.A. from Lipscomb University, Neal also studied at the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, The Scottsdale Artist School, Lyme Academy of Art, and he is a protégé of America's most celebrated figurative and portrait painter, Everett Raymond Kinstler. Neal's work has been featured in publications such as American Artist, International Artist, The Artist's Magazine, Art News, Fine Art Connoisseur, and Nashville Arts Magazine. He has received numerous awards for landscape and figurative paintings as well as the Grand Prize Award from the Portrait Society of America in 2001. Neal is the chairman of the board of the Portrait Society of America. He has also served on the board of directors of the American Patrons for the National Library and Galleries of Scotland (APNLGS), the board of trustees for The Andrew Jackson Foundation, the Executive Board of Trustees for Cheekwood Museum of Art, and as a member of the Norman Rockwell Museum's National Council. He is a member of the Allied Artists of New York, the Artist Fellowship of New York, the Salmagundi Club, the Lotos Club, the Century Association, the Sloane Club of London, the Cumberland Society of Painters, the Economic Club of Nashville, and an Exhibiting Artist member of the National Arts Club in New York, among others. Neal, the father of two daughters, enjoys church and community outreach, golf, plein-air painting, travel, and reading with a particular interest in history.
https://www.marioarobinson.com Mario Andres Robinson was born in Altus, Oklahoma, where he resided with his family before relocating to New Jersey at the age of twelve. Robinson studied at the prestigious Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. In 2014, Robinson was chosen to be a Brand Ambassador for Winsor and Newton art materials. He is the author of "Lessons in Realistic Watercolor," a comprehensive guide of the artist's watercolor techniques (Monacelli Press). The work of Mario Andres Robinson fits squarely within the tradition of American painting. Robinson's finished works bear a close affinity to the masters of the realist tradition, Andrew Wyeth and Thomas Eakins. Containing few references to modern life, Robinson's work has a timeless and universal quality, and exhibits a distinct turn-of-the-century stylistic aesthetic. The images he chooses, which refer to a bygone era where solitude and reflection were abundant, also provoke frequent allusions to the paintings of Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper. Mario Andres Robinson is an Exhibiting Artist Member (EAM) of The National Arts Club, an Artist Member of The Salmagundi Club and a Signature Member of The Pastel Society of America. His work has been featured several times in The Artist's Magazine, The Pastel Journal, Watercolor Magic, American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur and on the cover of American Artist magazine. In the February, 2006 issue of The Artist's Magazine, Mario was selected as one of the top 20 realist artists under the age of 40.
Mona Monsour ( Playwright) THE VAGRANT TRILOGY will make its New York City debut in April 2022 at the Public Theater, directed by Mark Wing-Davey; the production was in technical rehearsals in March 2020 and was postponed due to Covid-19. UNSEEN will have its West Coast debut at Oregon Shakespeare Festival in spring 2022, directed by Evren Odcikin. WE SWIM, WE TALK, WE GO TO WAR premiered at SF's Golden Thread in 2018 (dir. Odcikin). THE VAGRANT TRILOGY was presented at Mosaic Theater in June 2018, (dir. Wing-Davey.) Of the trilogy: THE HOUR OF FEELING (dir. Wing-Davey) premiered at the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and an Arabic translation was presented at NYU Abu Dhabi, as part of its Arab Voices Festival in 2016. URGE FOR GOING: productions at the Public Theater (dir. Hal Brooks) and Golden Thread (dir. Odcikin). THE VAGRANT was commissioned by the Public and workshopped at the 2013 Sundance Theater Institute. THE WAY WEST: Labyrinth (dir. Mimi O'Donnell); Village Theater (dir. Christina Myatt); Steppenwolf (dir. Amy Morton); and Marin Theatre Company (dir. Hayley Finn). Other credits: IN THE OPEN, for Waterwell, directed by James Dean Palmer, and ACROSS THE WATER, written for third-year MFAs at NYU (dir. Scott Illingworth). Mona was a member of the Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group. With Tala Manassah she has written FALLING DOWN THE STAIRS, an EST/Sloan commission. Their play DRESSING is part OF FACING OUR TRUTHS: SHORT PLAYS ABOUT TRAYVON, RACE AND PRIVILEGE, commissioned by the New Black Festival. Commissions include Playwrights Horizons and La Jolla Playhouse. 2020 Helen Merrill Award, 2012 Whiting Award. 2014 Middle East America Playwright Award, MacDowell Colony 2018, New Dramatists Class of 2020. Mona writes for NBC's New Amsterdam and is creating series for FlipNarrative and AMC International. BEGINNING DAYS OF TRUE JUBILATION, directed by Scott Illingworth and conceived with her company SOCIETY, was part of New Ohio's Ice Factory Digital Festival in summer 2020. In September 2020, Mona received the prestigious Kesselring Prize, awarded by the National Arts Club to one playwright a year. She was nominated by Seattle Rep for her play THE HOUR OF FEELING. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this episode, host Ben Hartley takes you inside the world of photography. You'll hear from celebrated photographer Charles Johnstone about his recent works and what he considers to be “great photography.” Later on, we celebrate the life and works of legendary photographer Gordon Parks by sitting down with John Maggio, director and producer of the HBO film “A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks.” Maggio also discusses the continued work of the Gordon Parks Foundation. Finally, we finish this episode with a trip uptown, to visit National Arts Club member and illustrious photography collector Dr. Stanley B. Burns at the Burns Archive, home of more than a million historic and early photographs. Show links Learn more about https://www.artsy.net/artist/charles-johnstone (Charles Johnstone) Learn more about https://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/ (The Gordon Parks Foundation) Learn more about https://www.burnsarchive.com/ (The Burns Archive)
In this episode, host Ben Hartley introduces you to the people who make theatre great. You'll hear from recent National Arts Club lecturer Motl Didner, Associate Creative Director of the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, about the importance of dramatizing the jewish experience. Later, you'll hear a conversation with playwright Matthew Freeman, who discusses how his plays grow from an idea to a full scale production being performed live on stage. After, we tune in to a recent National Arts Club author talk with the legendary Alan Cumming. Finally, this episode finishes with Tony Award-winning actress Lena Hall on her Broadway career.
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more About Andrea Chalupa: I was born and raised in Davis, California, and currently live in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from the University of California, at Davis with High Honors in History, with a focus on Soviet History, I studied Ukrainian at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the International School of Ukrainian Studies in L'viv, Ukraine. As a journalist, I cut my teeth in the newsrooms of Conde Nast Portfolio and AOL Money & Finance, and have written articles and columns for The Daily Beast, Forbes, TIME, and The Atlantic. Since 2004, while finishing my History thesis on the role of religion in Ukraine's independence movement at the fall of the Soviet Union, I began dreaming up a screenplay that would take me fifteen years to research, write, and produce. That screenplay became MR. JONES, directed by three-time Academy Award-nominee Agnieszka Holland and starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joseph Mawle as George Orwell. Much of the research for the film was compiled into my book Orwell and The Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm, which has been taught in classrooms in Canada and Ukraine through the genocide education program Orwell Art. When I was growing up in Northern California, my grandfather Olexji was the world to me. Born in Donbas, a region in eastern Ukraine currently being invaded by Russia, my grandfather witnessed the Russian Revolution fought on his family farm as a small boy; survived the Holodomor, Stalin's genocide famine that killed an estimated 4 to 7 million people; and as a young father was arrested and tortured by the Soviet secret police during Stalin's purges. Shortly before he passed away at the age of 83, my grandfather wrote down his life story, showing the events Orwell allegorized in Animal Farm through the eyes of a survivor. It was for my grandfather and the countless others who suffered under the Soviet regime that I wrote and produced MR. JONES. The idea first came to me in my final year of university and followed me to Ukraine after college and to a road trip through Wales shortly before my wedding, and many research trips for several years after. I wanted to tell a story that would honor the millions of victims of Stalin, who has been resurrected under Putinism as a great hero, and expose how Kremlin propaganda works - sometimes with the help of corrupt Western journalists and political leaders. The history of Stalin's genocide is told through this short documentary I was asked to write, director, and produce for genocide education by the Holodomor Research and Education Consoritum at the University of Alberta. It features interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine and Gulag: A History; Yale University's Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century; Harvard University's Serhii Plokhy, author of The Gates of Europe: A History and The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, Stanford University's Norman Naimark, author of Stalin's Genocides, and other leading historians on this period. You can watch the documentary, called Stalin's Secret Genocide. As surreal as this journey has been against the backdrop of growing authoritarianism around the world, I met along the way brave human rights activists and journalists who continuously restored my faith. In January 2014, I helped launch #DigitalMaidan, a hashtag of the revolution in Ukraine; #MarchForTruth, a nationwide protest on June 3rd, 2017 demanding transparency and accountability in the Russia investigation, and helped lead a crowdfunding campaign to turn an oligarch's abandoned private zoo in Ukraine into an animal refuge. Over the years, I have spoken about Ukraine and Russia in the World Forum for Democracy at the Council of Europe, the Personal Democracy Forum at New York University, the National Press Club in Washington, DC, the National Arts Club in New York City, and went on a two-week university lecture tour of Canada, including McGill University, Carleton University, and the University of Toronto. And yes, I have a sister, Alexandra Chalupa, called one of the most influential people of the 2016 election by the investigative journalist Michael Isikoff who, along with David Corn, the first journalist to publish an interview with Christopher Steele, features my sister in their bestselling book Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump. The first three episodes of Gaslit Nation, recapping the 2016 election like a crime scene, explain how my sister was harassed and risked her life and career to alert the media about Paul Manafort and the Kremlin's attack on our democracy as it was happening. I've known Tim Wise for over 10 years and I have tried to showcase his work wherever I go from siriusxm to CNN to this podcast. I always learn so much when I read or talk to him. Today Tim and I talked about his latest writing Get all of his books 35 mins Tim Wise, whom scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls, “A vanilla brother in the tradition of (abolitionist) John Brown,” is among the nation's most prominent antiracist essayists and educators. He has spent the past 25 years speaking to audiences in all 50 states, on over 1000 college and high school campuses, at hundreds of professional and academic conferences, and to community groups across the nation. He has also lectured internationally in Canada and Bermuda, and has trained corporate, government, law enforcement and medical industry professionals on methods for dismantling racism in their institutions. Wise's antiracism work traces back to his days as a college activist in the 1980s, fighting for divestment from (and economic sanctions against) apartheid South Africa. After graduation, he threw himself into social justice efforts full-time, as a Youth Coordinator and Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism: the largest of the many groups organized in the early 1990s to defeat the political candidacies of white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. From there, he became a community organizer in New Orleans' public housing, and a policy analyst for a children's advocacy group focused on combatting poverty and economic inequity. He has served as an adjunct professor at the Smith College School of Social Work, in Northampton, MA., and from 1999-2003 was an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute in Nashville, TN. Wise is the author of seven books, including his highly-acclaimed memoir, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, as well as Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority, and Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America. His forthcoming book, White LIES Matter: Race, Crime and the Politics of Fear in America, will be released in 2018. His essays have appeared on Alternet, Salon, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, Black Commentator, BK Nation, Z Magazine and The Root, which recently named Wise one of the “8 Wokest White People We Know.” Wise has been featured in several documentaries, including “The Great White Hoax: Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America,” and “White Like Me: Race, Racism and White Privilege in America,” both from the Media Education Foundation. He also appeared alongside legendary scholar and activist, Angela Davis, in the 2011 documentary, “Vocabulary of Change.” In this public dialogue between the two activists, Davis and Wise discussed the connections between issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and militarism, as well as inter-generational movement building and the prospects for social change. Wise is also one of five persons—including President Barack Obama—interviewed for a video exhibition on race relations in America, featured at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC. Additionally, his media presence includes dozens of appearances on CNN, MSNBC and NPR, feature interviews on ABC's 20/20 and CBS's 48 Hours, as well as videos posted on YouTube, Facebook and other social media platforms that have received over 20 million views. His podcast, “Speak Out with Tim Wise,” launched this fall and features weekly interviews with activists, scholars and artists about movement building and strategies for social change. Wise graduated from Tulane University in 1990 and received antiracism training from the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, in New Orleans. Check out all things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Phil Round Music Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page
In our premiere episode, host Ben Hartley introduces you to the National Arts Club. He then takes you to a recent spectacular evening at the Club. Hear sounds from the glamorous Medal of Honor ceremony and later, we meet the honoree of the event, Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist Christian McBride. McBride shares how his career has shifted over the years, defines “jawn” for all you non-Philadelphians, and breaks down how bass serves a song. A special thank you to Arthur Barnes for making the event and this episode possible.
Murray Hidary is a multi-disciplinary artist and tech pioneer. His stories are fascinating and his work is inspiring. Always pushing boundaries and guided by a strong desire to help people find their purpose, Murray is touring the acclaimed immersive musical experience MindTravel across the globe. Over the past five years, he's created over 500 MindTravel experiences for over 100,000 people in cities from Los Angeles to London, Paris to Pittsburgh, Berlin to Boulder; in venues such as Lincoln Center, The Theater at the Ace Hotel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Cathedral, and The National Arts Club. Listen to learn more about MindTravel and hear Murray's fascinating life stories.
Welcome to The Arts in Conversation, presented by the National Arts Club! Here is a preview of what you can expect this season.
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more Trae Crowder grew up in Celina, TN, a town sometimes described as having “more liquor stores than traffic lights” (2-0 as of the last count). Like most people from the deep rural south, Trae grew up with an affinity for literature, film, blacks, and gays. In 1998, at the age of 12, and after seeing Chris Rock on HBO, he decided he wanted to be a comedian. Trae first gained national attention (or notoriety, depending on your viewpoint) for his “Liberal Redneck” series of viral videos. He has been performing his particular brand of Southern-fried intellectual comedy in the Southeast for the past nine years and now, of course, tours nationally with his writing and drinking partners, Corey and Drew. Listen to his podcast https://www.traecrowder.com/podcast Follow him on Twitter About Andrea Chalupa: I was born and raised in Davis, California, and currently live in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from the University of California, at Davis with High Honors in History, with a focus on Soviet History, I studied Ukrainian at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the International School of Ukrainian Studies in L'viv, Ukraine. As a journalist, I cut my teeth in the newsrooms of Conde Nast Portfolio and AOL Money & Finance, and have written articles and columns for The Daily Beast, Forbes, TIME, and The Atlantic. Since 2004, while finishing my History thesis on the role of religion in Ukraine's independence movement at the fall of the Soviet Union, I began dreaming up a screenplay that would take me fifteen years to research, write, and produce. That screenplay became MR. JONES, directed by three-time Academy Award-nominee Agnieszka Holland and starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joseph Mawle as George Orwell. Much of the research for the film was compiled into my book Orwell and The Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm, which has been taught in classrooms in Canada and Ukraine through the genocide education program Orwell Art. When I was growing up in Northern California, my grandfather Olexji was the world to me. Born in Donbas, a region in eastern Ukraine currently being invaded by Russia, my grandfather witnessed the Russian Revolution fought on his family farm as a small boy; survived the Holodomor, Stalin's genocide famine that killed an estimated 4 to 7 million people; and as a young father was arrested and tortured by the Soviet secret police during Stalin's purges. Shortly before he passed away at the age of 83, my grandfather wrote down his life story, showing the events Orwell allegorized in Animal Farm through the eyes of a survivor. It was for my grandfather and the countless others who suffered under the Soviet regime that I wrote and produced MR. JONES. The idea first came to me in my final year of university and followed me to Ukraine after college and to a road trip through Wales shortly before my wedding, and many research trips for several years after. I wanted to tell a story that would honor the millions of victims of Stalin, who has been resurrected under Putinism as a great hero, and expose how Kremlin propaganda works - sometimes with the help of corrupt Western journalists and political leaders. The history of Stalin's genocide is told through this short documentary I was asked to write, director, and produce for genocide education by the Holodomor Research and Education Consoritum at the University of Alberta. It features interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine and Gulag: A History; Yale University's Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century; Harvard University's Serhii Plokhy, author of The Gates of Europe: A History and The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, Stanford University's Norman Naimark, author of Stalin's Genocides, and other leading historians on this period. You can watch the documentary, called Stalin's Secret Genocide. As surreal as this journey has been against the backdrop of growing authoritarianism around the world, I met along the way brave human rights activists and journalists who continuously restored my faith. In January 2014, I helped launch #DigitalMaidan, a hashtag of the revolution in Ukraine; #MarchForTruth, a nationwide protest on June 3rd, 2017 demanding transparency and accountability in the Russia investigation, and helped lead a crowdfunding campaign to turn an oligarch's abandoned private zoo in Ukraine into an animal refuge. Over the years, I have spoken about Ukraine and Russia in the World Forum for Democracy at the Council of Europe, the Personal Democracy Forum at New York University, the National Press Club in Washington, DC, the National Arts Club in New York City, and went on a two-week university lecture tour of Canada, including McGill University, Carleton University, and the University of Toronto. And yes, I have a sister, Alexandra Chalupa, called one of the most influential people of the 2016 election by the investigative journalist Michael Isikoff who, along with David Corn, the first journalist to publish an interview with Christopher Steele, features my sister in their bestselling book Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump. The first three episodes of Gaslit Nation, recapping the 2016 election like a crime scene, explain how my sister was harassed and risked her life and career to alert the media about Paul Manafort and the Kremlin's attack on our democracy as it was happening. Check out all things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page
DTR Modern GalleriesHalim FlowersAutodidact, Halim A. Flowers (b. 1980, Washington, DC) visual artist, spoken word performer, businessman, and author of eleven published non-fiction works, is married to L. Patrice McKinney, raising a family in Washington, DC. A Member of the Board of Directors of The Frederick Douglass Project for Justice and Cultural DC, he is an ardent advocate for human rights and is best known for his quote, “Love is the Antibody”. In the short time since the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act of 2016 effectuated his 2019 release from prison, he has created a stunning spectrum of paintings and spoken word comprised of a benevolent mission forged and galvanized over decades in a pressure cooker.In 1997, as a minor, Halim A. Flowers was arrested and wrongfully sentenced to two life sentences in Washington, DC. His experiences aired on HBO in the Emmy award-winning documentary “Thug Life in DC”. Released under a new juvenile lifer resentencing law, Flowers' 2019 freedom was documented by Kim Kardashian-West's “The Justice Project” film. Upon release, he was awarded the Halcyon Arts Lab and Echoing Green fellowship awards. In 2020, Flowers' TEDx Talk, “Criminal Justice Reform”, and his prolific production and exhibition of his visual art, e.g., The Museum of Modern Art's “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration” exhibit, continue to advance his mission to promote love among all humans. A beneficiary of Georgetown University's Prison and Justice Initiative, Flowers studied Government, Philosophy, Reparations: African-American Literature, and English 101 in a mentorship with academic advisor, Professor Marc Morjé Howard (2018-2019). More recently, as a grant recipient from the Art for Justice Fund, Flowers was featured as a “Justice Ambassador” in the film “Halim's Hope” (2020).Elizabeth Howard is the host and producer of the Short Fuse Podcast. Elizabeth has never had barriers between her life, work, art and writing. Experience, sense of place and exploration define the choices she makes, seeking collaboration, flexibility, spontaneity and responsiveness in the projects she designs and engages with. As the host and producer of the Short Fuse Podcast, she engages individuals in lively and provocative conversations around how the arts can affect social change.Music for the Short Fuse PodcastJeannine Otis recorded the music for this episode of the Short Fuse Podcast. Music has always been a part of Jeannine's life. Her mother was a musical director and her family includes the Jones Brothers, Hank, Thad, and Elvin who formed the basis of exposure to music that began a career that started with Jeannine's debut as a vocalist with the Detroit Symphony with American Youth Performs at age 12.She has shared the stage with great musicians of every genre (especially jazz) who have served as mentors including Grover Washington Jr., Arthur Prysock, Kool and the Gang, Joe Chambers and Donald Byrd, Rudy Mwangozi, Saul Ruin, Stanley Banks bassist, Finnish Jazz composer Heikki Sarmanto and Vishnu Wood, bassist, and his band Safari East.She has been a featured vocalist at many jazz festivals including the Pori Jazz Festival in Finland, JazzMobile with Safari East, and the Universal Temple of the Arts yearly jazz festival and trombonist Art Baron and Friends. Jeannine has also appeared on Broadway in THIS JOINT IS JUMPIN' at the Supper Club in the Edison Hotel with Larry Marshall and the Michael E Smith Big Band and the New York Big Band at Tavern on the Green.She has toured extensively worldwide as a featured vocalist, in theater, and with her own ensemble. Anthony Tomassini of the New York Times labeled Jeannine a “show-stopper” in a review of a Downtown Music Production's version of THE CRADLE WILL ROCK. As the STRAWBERRY WOMAN in Porgy and Bess, Jeannine toured extensively in Europe singing in many of the great opera houses in Europe including those in Rome, Cologne, Venice, and Modena—home of Luciano Pavorotti.Her “little” book THE GATHERING was made into a Musical Theater piece entitled WHO AM I, and debuted at The La MaMa Theater in 2014. She is an honors graduate of Wellesley College (BA) and of Emerson College (MA) and the Director of Music at Saint Marks Church, known for its progressive outreach programming through the arts. Alex Waters is a technical producer for the Short Fuse Podcast. He is a music producer and a student at the Berklee College of Music. He has written and produced music and edited for podcasts such as The Faith and Chai Podcast and Con Confianza. He writes, produces and records music for independent artists, including The Living. Alex lives in Brooklyn. You can reach him with inquiries by emailing alexwatersmusic12@gmail.com.
Rev up those fryers, it's the Ask Me Another Food Show! The Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain (Nadiya's Time to Eat, Nadiya Bakes) dishes about baking for the Queen and digs up the truth in a game about plant family trees. Plus, James Beard Award-winning chef Gabrielle Hamilton (Blood, Bones and Butter, Prune) & Top Chef alum and National Arts Club head chef Ashley Merriman play a saucy music parody game, and Food Network hosts and judges Carla Hall (Carla and the Christmas Cornbread, Best Baker in America) & Nancy Fuller (Farmhouse Rules) are visited by a quizzical honey bee.
Guests: Nadiya Hussain; Gabrielle Hamilton & Ashley Merriman; Carla Hall & Nancy Fuller Rev up those fryers, it's the Ask Me Another Food Show! The Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain (Nadiya's Time to Eat, Nadiya Bakes) dishes about baking for the Queen and digs up the truth in a game about plant family trees. Plus, James Beard Award-winning chef Gabrielle Hamilton (Blood, Bones and Butter, Prune) & Top Chef alum and National Arts Club head chef Ashley Merriman play a saucy music parody game, and Food Network hosts and judges Carla Hall (Carla and the Christmas Cornbread, Best Baker in America) & Nancy Fuller (Farmhouse Rules) are visited by a quizzical honey bee.
Milbry C. Polk (BA, honors) Radcliffe College, Harvard University, has lectured in more 150 schools, universities and public affairs organizations. She co-founded and was executive director of Wings WorldQuest, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting women at the leading edge of science and discovery. She also founded and directed programs for the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum of the American Indian. She was Vice-Chair of the Conference on Affordable World Security (Newseum, March 27-28, 2012). Among her writings are Women of Discovery (Library Journal award Best Books of 2001 and School Library Journal, Best Books); Egyptian Mummies (Margaret A. Edwards Award best books); editor, The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad; and Reviews and Contributing Editor of The Explorers Journal, 1998-the present. She co-founded with Imagination Celebration, and wrote yearly curriculum for nine years for The Art of Exploration, a program for the Public Schools of Ft. Worth, Texas. She led or participated in expeditions to Prince William Sound, Alaska; the Western Desert of Egypt (National Geographic); Yemen; Southern Sudan; Saudi Arabia; Iran; Pakistan; John River, Alaska; Nepal; Brazilian coast; Greenland; Baffin Island; Devon Island; India (American Museum of Natural History); Chinese Tibet; NW Greenland, and the Andaman Sea. Ms. Polk's honors include: The Sweeney Medal, The Explorers Club, Capt. J-E Bernier Medal, Royal Canadian Geographic Society (2015), Anne Morrow Lindbergh Award (2011); Alumnae of the Year, Madeira School (2011), Environmental Leadership Award, Unity College; Womens' ENews “Leader of the 21st Century”, Who's Who, Women of the Year Award; Honorary Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellow of The Explorers Club and Fellow of Wings WorldQuest. She is on the Board of The Explorers Club, serves on numerous Advisory Boards and served for ten years on the Board of Governors of the National Arts Club. New episodes of the Tough Girl Podcast go live every Tuesday and Thursday at 7am UK time - Make sure you hit the subscribe button so you don't miss out. The Tough Girl Podcast is sponsorship and ad free thanks to the monthly financial support of patrons. To find out more about supporting your favourite podcast and becoming a patron please check out www.patreon.com/toughgirlpodcast. Show notes Introduction Her background Being born in Oxford, UK and growing up between Europe, Egypt and America Becoming a photo journalist in the 70s & 80s Working with Margaret Mead Thinking of doing a PHD at Oxford Figuring out what she truly wanted to do Following the route of Alexander the Great Starting to put together expeditions and selling them to magazines Working in the Middle East & Asia Wanting to be an explorer from a young age Using her initials to apply for a guiding expedition course Life as a photojournalist Respecting the local culture Taking photos of Yemen How exploration has changed over the past 40/50 years The importance of curiosity Getting married and getting pregnant How life changed after having a baby Being introduced to women explorers Nicole Maxwell Book: Witch Doctor's Apprentice, Maxwell, Nicole, 1990 Having a library of 1,500 books on women explorers and adventurers Going to find women explorers from India Wanting to create a Women Explorers Library Wanting to keep the collection of books together The importance of learning women's stories Being driven by your passion Reading everything and being fascinated by history How Wings WorldQuest was started How it evolved Starting to focus more on education Women of the Deep, Explorers Club Why it's an exciting time to be a young woman Joining the Explorers Club in 1994 as a Fellow and now being on the board Working with Adventure Canada Going outside her comfort zone Doing adventures/expeditions without technology Needing to be careful Keeping positive during tough situations Building a fellowship of women Women supporting women Future expeditions Adventure Science - #domorewithyourfitness Writing book reviews and writing a book on her great grandmother New book - Women of the Arctic Babes & Death Women on pilgrimages Going back to Oxford to do her PhD Needing to update her website Final words of advice Figuring out your passion Why there is no such thing as failure Listen to your inner self Kristin Gates Social Media Website milbrypolk.com Wing WorldQuest - WINGS was formed in 2003 to identify and support the discoveries and accomplishments of women explorers and scientists and to inspire the next generation of problem solvers. Website - www.wingsworldquest.org Instagram - @wingsworldquest Facebook - @WINGSWorldQuest Twitter - @wingsworldquest
With Murray Hidary, a multi-disciplinary artist and tech pioneer. His purpose-driven approach is at the heart of his business success, acclaim as a visual artist, and global recognition as a musician. Ever pushing boundaries and guided by a strong desire to help people find their purpose, Murray is now focused on touring his immersive musical experience MindTravel across the globe. Over the past five years, Murray has created over 500 MindTravel experiences for over 100,000 people in cities from Los Angeles to London, Paris to Pittsburgh, Berlin to Boulder; in venues such as Lincoln Center, The Theater at the Ace Hotel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Cathedral, and The National Arts Club. Join us for this powerful and deeply personal conversation where Murray shares his insights on the role of grief, the opportunity we have to transform through the experience of grief, and how to create purpose from deep, deep loss. Murray shares about a tragedy in his own life, the role that music played in the midst of his grief, and how music is unique in its ability to connect with our emotions and transmute pain. You will hear Murray describe how he creates uniquely personal experiences for individuals that are part of his event audiences, how he combines nature and music, and finally, in an extraordinarily touching moment, you will hear Murray thoughtfully describe how he hopes to die. This is a conversation unlike any other on the podcast. Join us to reconnect with your own grief, to gain some understanding of how to process that grief, and to explore what may come next for you. Murray created the first MindTravel experience in 2013. He invited a group to his living room for a live performance of his provocative, improvisational, real-time compositions at the piano and then asked them what they thought of the experience. Moved by their emotional response and the power of music to take the group on a deep inner journey, he moved forward to bring it to the world. MindTravel brings together Murray's passions for contemporary classical music, visual art, theoretical physics and wisdom traditions. They are the four pillars of an integrated experience that seeks to explore an understanding of the universe at both the visible and hidden levels. In addition to the above, Murray is a Certified Meditation Teacher through the Vedic Center and a Certified Grief Counselor through Our House Grief Support Center.
Inspiring talk with brilliant painter, Hollis Dunlap. In this Episode, Mental health as an artist, especially during these challenging times. Testing out 20 different tubes of red oil paint to get it just right. Painting palettes, compositions and designs, where do ideas come from, and can you nail Jello to a wall? Inquiring minds want to know. "Hollis Dunlap was born in 1977 in Northern Vermont in the USA. He became interested in drawing and painting the human figure around the age of 14. After studying painting in high school, he went on to study at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, graduating in 1999 after painting and drawing the figure extensively for four years. While an undergraduate, he was the first painter to be awarded First Prize at New York's National Arts Club student exhibition for two consecutive years. Hollis was the recipient of the John Stobart Fellowship, awarded each year to a graduating student in recognition of outstanding work, and he is also a 2 time grantee of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. More recently, he has become interested in a mix of modern and classical elements in his work. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Miami, and currently paints and teaches painting in Southeastern CT." Please enjoy and remember to smash that like and subscribe button! Check out Hollis's links here: Instagram @hollisdunlap https://www.hollisdunlap.com/ https://www.jasonseiler.com/ INSTAGRAM-seilerpaints #facethetruthpodcast #hollisdunlap #jasonseiler
It has been said that photographer and educator Gregory Heisler possesses “the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist.” Renowned for his technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness over a career spanning more than 35 years, his enthusiasm, curiosity, and drive are manifested in his hands-on approach to all aspects of the image making process. Having photographed luminaries ranging from Bill Clinton to Bruce Springsteen, he is perhaps best known for his more than 70 cover portraits for TIME magazine. His iconic portraits and innovative visual essays have graced the covers and pages of many other magazines, including LIFE, ESQUIRE, FORTUNE, GQ, GEO, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, ESPN, and THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE. He has also photographed major advertising campaigns for such clients as American Express, Benson & Hedges, Dewar’s, Ford, Guinness, Marlboro, Merrill Lynch, Nike, Pfizer, Reebok, and United Technologies. Private portrait commissions are another important focus of Gregory’s work.The first photographic portrait for New York’s City Hall was his lithographic print of Mayor Edward I. Koch. He has also completed a suite of large-scale portraits of noted authors and actors for the National Arts Club in New York. Among the kudos he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. Gregory has been profiled in AMERICAN PHOTO, COMMUNICATION ARTS, ESQUIRE, LIFE, and numerous industry periodicals. Having been a founding member of the elite Canon Explorers of Light, he has just been chosen to be a Canon Legend, and is also an Ilford Master. As a sought-after speaker and educator, he has taught at scores of workshops and seminars throughout the country and overseas. He is currently focused on personal projects and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students as Distinguished Professor of Photography at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. His widely acclaimed book, /Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, with a foreword by Michael R. Bloomberg, New York City Mayor (and Presidential candidate),/published by Random House/Amphoto in October 2013, and in its third printing.
Guest Overview This week's guest is Sydney-born, New York-based Ben Hartley – Executive Director of The National Arts Club – what he describes as a 122-year-old startup.Ben recently invited us into the spectacular Gramercy Square location to record this fascinating interview.Ben recounts his early years and his parents' positive influence, his adventurous and analytical father, and his strong and emotionally engaged mother.Ben describes how his world view was expanded, and curiosity sparked as a result of being taken on a grand European canal boating tour when aged seven. Ben describes his embrace of discomfort as a means of pushing one's capabilities and his approach to seeking out serendipity. At 12 minutes – Ben describes his educational experience, how it opened a window to the world, the value of studying for a semester in Trenton, New Jersey, a decision that ultimately led him to return to NYC to study his Masters in Arts management. At 23 minutes – we discuss the common threads running through the career path he has taken. We discuss his journey to the National Arts Club and his experience of leading the international rollout of the Guggenheim to Bilbao and beyond. At 29 minutes – Ben explains the mission and structure of The National Arts Club. He provides a concise overview of The National Arts Club's history, being the first club to welcome women as members, events from its colorful history, the characters that defied this unique institution, and the recipients of its famed Medal of Honor. Ben describes how COVID has enabled him to apply his creativity to innovate and pivot the club's service, develop and vibrant digital program, and build community and connectivity. He describes the recent exhibitions curated in partnership with new art collectives that have emerged in New York during the Black Lives Matter protests displayed alongside the work of photographer Graham Macindoe We discuss the provocative role of art in today's society, the changing nature of distribution, the future role of The National Arts Club in the city and country's culture, and the innovative programs he has initiated connecting communities beyond the arts. Ben's refreshing perspectives will undoubtedly provide inspiration and provoke new ideas for anyone struggling to reimagine and reinvent their business or brand or deal with personal challenges in these changing times. Social Links The National Arts Club website Instagram TwitterFacebookLinksRoger Pilkington Tom CrenzGuggenheim Bilbao Richard Serra Frank Gehry Charles DeKay
I welcome Sean O’Leary, Senior Researcher with the Ohio River Valley Institute. We’re going to be talking about ORVI’s new report, “Appalachia’s Natural Gas Counties: The Natural Gas Fracking Boom and Appalachia’s Lost Economic Decade.” The report examines 22 counties in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia at the center of Appalachia’s natural gas boom. While the boom did wonders for the national GDP and fossil fuel companies bottom lines, those 22 counties did significantly worse. The promises of an economic rebirth for these economically strapped regions never came to pass. The Ohio River Valley Institute is an independent, nonprofit research and communications center—a think tank—founded in 2020 and based in Johnstown, PA. The Institute equips the region’s residents and decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools needed to advance long-term solutions to some of Appalachia’s most significant challenges. Their work includes in-depth research, commentary, and analysis, delivered online, by email, and in-person to policy champions, emerging leaders, and a range of community partners. And, they just released another report last week, “The Failure of Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Pennsylvania.” Looks like I’ll be reaching out again for a future Out d’Coup LIVE! O’Leary is a native of Wheeling, West Virginia and has written about coal, natural gas, and their role in the economies of Appalachia in a book, a newspaper column, and blog titled, “The State of My State”. Previously, Sean served as communications director at the NW Energy Coalition in Seattle, Washington. He is also a playwright who has won numerous awards presented by the National Endowment for The Arts, the National Arts Club, and the West Virginia Commission on the Arts among others. A special shout out to Jonathan Mann who wrote our intro song, “There Are No People in the Future.” Check out all is great stuff on his YouTube page and follow him on Twitter @songadaymann
We are so excited to have Carol Spencer, former designer for the Barbie doll on our podcast! We first learned about Carol when she participated in a webinar with National Arts Club. Carol is the author of “Dressing Barbie: A Celebration of the Clothes That Made America's Favorite Doll and the Incredible Woman Behind Them.” She started working at Mattel in 1963 and created the image we know of as Barbie. She worked there until 1999. We can't wait for you to learn all about her incredible career and book. National Arts Club webinar: https://youtu.be/-B_StYdRMas Link to Carol's book “Dressing Barbie: A Celebration of the Clothes That Made America's Favorite Doll and the Incredible Woman Behind Them”: https://rstyle.me/+cRtidxPlFaW3XR12KUhX3g Carol's website link: http://carolspencerdesigns.com Carol's Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/carol.spencer.923724 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delia-folk8/support
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. I have one sponsor which is an awesome nonprofit GiveWell.org/StandUp for more but Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls. Today I am joined by Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa who are the co hosts of a great podcast called Gaslit Nation My conversation with them begins at 36:29 Sarah Kendzior is a journalist with a Ph.D. in anthropology who lectures on politics, the economy, and the media. Since 2006, she has regularly given talks and keynotes at universities and policy forums around the world. She is the author of the best-selling book The View From Flyover Country, which was re-released in 2018 after originally being published as an eBook in 2015 and becoming a bestseller the following year, and her new book Hiding in Plain Sight. In 2017, Sarah gave dozens of talks in eight countries, mostly focusing on encroaching autocracy and what to expect in the Trump era. Sarah Kendzior received her Ph.D. studying the authoritarian states of the former Soviet Union and has since had to put that expertise to use in explaining what is happening to the United States. After receiving her Ph.D. in 2012, she became a columnist for Al Jazeera English, and also began freelancing for a number of publications including The Guardian, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and Quartz. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and spent much of 2014 and 2015 covering the Ferguson uprising and its aftermath. In 2016, Sarah became a columnist at the Globe and Mail, focusing on the US election, and also covered US affairs for the Dutch outlet De Correspondent. Today she continues to write regularly for the Globe and Mail, NBC News, and Fast Company. Sarah has over 350,000 followers on Twitter and is regularly interviewed by the media both in the US and abroad. In summer 2018, she launched the Gaslit Nation podcast with Andrea Chalupa. She is a recurring guest on the MSNBC show AM Joy, where she discusses corruption in the Trump administration as well as the Russian interference scandal. Sarah has a very large and diverse audience and has been an invited speaker at policy forums, grassroots activist groups, universities, film festivals, and think tanks. ANDREA CHALUPA (1ST PERSON BIO)I was born and raised in Davis, California, and currently live in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from the University of California, at Davis with High Honors in History, with a focus on Soviet History, I studied Ukrainian at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the International School of Ukrainian Studies in L’viv, Ukraine. As a journalist, I cut my teeth in the newsrooms of Conde Nast Portfolio and AOL Money & Finance, and have written articles and columns for The Daily Beast, Forbes, TIME, and The Atlantic. Since 2004, while finishing my History thesis on the role of religion in Ukraine’s independence movement at the fall of the Soviet Union, I began dreaming up a screenplay that would take me fifteen years to research, write, and produce. That screenplay became MR. JONES, directed by three-time Academy Award-nominee Agnieszka Holland and starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joseph Mawle as George Orwell. Much of the research for the film was compiled into my book Orwell and The Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm, which has been taught in classrooms in Canada and Ukraine through the genocide education program Orwell Art. Over the years, I have spoken about Ukraine and Russia in the World Forum for Democracy at the Council of Europe, the Personal Democracy Forum at New York University, the National Press Club in Washington, DC, the National Arts Club in New York City, and went on a two-week university lecture tour of Canada, including McGill University, Carleton University, and the University of Toronto. And yes, I have a sister, Alexandra Chalupa, called one of the most influential people of the 2016 election by the investigative journalist Michael Isikoff who, along with David Corn, the first journalist to publish an interview with Christopher Steele, features my sister in their bestselling book Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump. The first three episodes of Gaslit Nation, recapping the 2016 election like a crime scene, explain how my sister was harassed and risked her life and career to alert the media about Paul Manafort and the Kremlin’s attack on our democracy as it was happening. Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page Please consider a paid subscription to this daily podcast. Everyday I will interview 2 or more expert guests on a wide range of issues. I will continue to be transparent about my life, issues and vulnerabilities in hopes we can relate, connect and grow together. If you want to add something to the show email me StandUpwithPete@gmail.com Join the Stand Up Community Stand Up is also brought to you this month by GiveWell.org GiveWell is a nonprofit dedicated to finding outstanding giving opportunities and publishing the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give. GiveWell.org/Standup
Judi Mark was born in Chicago to a musical family who encouraged her to express herself creatively. Her dynamic range of training included ballet, modern dance, jazz, tap, acting, vocals and piano which set the stage for a successful performance career spanning over decades. She has appeared on concert stage, regional theater, cabaret, and the high seas. While studying acting with Bill Hickey, she performed in Off-Broadway productions, film and television. Her vocal studies with many world-renowned professionals prepared her for work at dinner theaters, cabarets and distinguished venues such as The Algonquin, The National Arts Club, The Triad, The Laurie Beechman Theater, Don’t Tell Mama, The Metropolitan Room, The Iridium, Sweetwater’s, Sign of the Dove, Judy’s Chelsea, Cabaret in the Museum and Florida nightclubs; Les Violins, The Copacabana, The Konover Hotel and the Boca Black Box Center for the Arts in Florida. She has shared the stage with Marilyn Maye and Anita Gillette in South Shore Theatrical’s “Showtune” at the Madison Theater and was a recent guest performer in Richard Skipper Celebrates “May Flowers” at the Laurie Beechman Theater. Performer/Producer Judi Mark has passionately written three one woman shows that played in NYC, Chicago, New Jersey, Connecticut and South Florida, ‘Judi Mark: Dancing Through Life’, singing songs made famous by the ladies who danced…a tribute to Miller, Miranda, MacLaine, McKechnie and more! ‘I Feel a Song Coming On’, a tribute to old Broadway and Hollywood nostalgia and most recently, ‘Laughing Through Life’…bites back at life in the Big Apple thru stories & songs from Hip to Hip replacement… featuring comedic backstage stories with song and dance. https://www.judimark.com/
Devon Rodriguez is an artist and painter from the South Bronx. He initially gained recognition for a series of realistic painted portraits of riders on the New York City Subway system, including a profile in the New York Times Style Magazine. He got his start doing graffiti with his friends, but he transitioned to portraits as a teenager. His work has been featured in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Students League of NY, and the National Arts Club. Devon has a passion for the details of everyday life, and his realistic style communicates life in the city with a keen eye for the small moments that make us human. Listen in as he talks about his artistic path and how he's staying busy with commissions and special projects.
1. Icli Zitella - Zona, for violin soloist and 10 string instrumentshttps://soundcloud.com/iclizitella/zona-for-violin-soloist-and-10-string-instruments2. Michael Abels - "Anthem," from the score to Jordan Peele's Ushttps://open.spotify.com/album/1gkLMuAnI8U5z2yhyhhRQk?si=4gDbAGb3Q2-m2eFUjGmcIw3.Nathalie Joachim - Suite pou Dantanhttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/1UfE5N84rXZzd8mWWqSwhG?si=VBC5-qKrQha3CJa2htJEigPanelists:Venezuelan violinist Natalie Calma, currently based in Boston, is an enthusiast of new music and improvisation. She is dedicated to promoting living, contemporary music in all of its forms. Natalie is a co-creator of Box Not Found, a violin and clarinet duo that seeks to build and cultivate the foundations for alternative streams of new music while also generating a positive impact on both the local and global communities. Natalie holds degrees from the Interlochen Arts Academy, The Boston Conservatory (BM), where she studied with Lynn Chang, and Boston University (MM), where she studied with Dana Mazurkevich. Natalie plays on a violin made by Venezuelan luthier Matias Herrera, and a bow made by Venezuelan luthier Eduardo “Guayo” Gonzales.Sugar Vendil is a composer, pianist, and interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Her artistic practice is strongly rooted in rigorous discipline as a musician and gradually expanded into performance that integrates music, movement, and unconventional approaches to the piano. She is a proud second generation Filipinx American. Vendil was recently awarded an ACF | Create commission to write a work for Boston-based duo Box Not Found (May 2020) and was awarded with 2020 Fellowships at the National Arts Club and Sokoloff Arts. She was a 2019 Artist in Residence at High Concept Labs in Chicago and was awarded a 2019 Chamber Music America commission to write a new work for her ensemble, The Nouveau Classical Project, which she founded in 2008. Vendil was a finalist in National Sawdust’s 2019 Hildegard Competition. ETHEL premiered her new string quartet in December 2019 as part of their Homebaked commissioning program. She was a 2019 resident artist at Mabou Mines and an artist in residence at Target Margin Theater. In 2016, she was a Fellow in the Target Margin Institute for Collaborative Theater Making, which encouraged her to further pursue composition and performance making. She holds a Master of Music degree in piano performance.Amanda Cook is a Boston-based editor, writer, and arts administrator with a background in flute performance and higher education. She is the Editor-in-Chief of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, an award-winning contemporary classical music magazine advocating for historically underrepresented artists and equitable programming. Her training as a performer coupled with her current work in music journalism and nonprofit administration provides a unique perspective from which to view the current state of classical music.More information at pauseandlisten.com. Pause and Listen was created by host John T.K. Scherch and co-creator/marketing manager Michele Mengel Scherch.
It's not often that you find an art critic—or anyone, for that matter—who can claim upwards of 400,000 Instagram followers, a Pulitzer Prize, and appearances on an original Bravo reality series as achievements of the past decade. But Jerry Saltz can. A look at his unlikely biography helps explain his ability to connect with a such wide audience through so many media: after leaving college without a degree, Saltz spent 10 years working as a long-haul truck driver before willing himself back into the art world by the power of the pen. From 2006 to the present day, he has held sway as senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine, where he passionately extols his belief that art can be for anyone. In March, just before galleries, museums, and newsrooms around the world were forced to shutter for safety's sake, Saltz published his fifth book, How to Be an Artist. Expanded from a mega-popular column he wrote for New York back in 2018, the handbook provides practical tips, memorable quotes, and plenty of motivation that you too can enjoy "a life lived in art." Shortly after the release of How to Be an Artist, Saltz joined the Art Angle's Andrew Goldstein for a frank discussion organized by the National Arts Club, about the book, the precarious state of the current art world, and the need to create its successor. For this week's episode, we're presenting an edited version of that talk. (You can find a recording of the full chat online, courtesy of the NAC.)
It's not often that you find an art critic—or anyone, for that matter—who can claim upwards of 400,000 Instagram followers, a Pulitzer Prize, and appearances on an original Bravo reality series as achievements of the past decade. But Jerry Saltz can. A look at his unlikely biography helps explain his ability to connect with a such wide audience through so many media: after leaving college without a degree, Saltz spent 10 years working as a long-haul truck driver before willing himself back into the art world by the power of the pen. From 2006 to the present day, he has held sway as senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine, where he passionately extols his belief that art can be for anyone. In March, just before galleries, museums, and newsrooms around the world were forced to shutter for safety's sake, Saltz published his fifth book, How to Be an Artist. Expanded from a mega-popular column he wrote for New York back in 2018, the handbook provides practical tips, memorable quotes, and plenty of motivation that you too can enjoy "a life lived in art." Shortly after the release of How to Be an Artist, Saltz joined the Art Angle's Andrew Goldstein for a frank discussion organized by the National Arts Club, about the book, the precarious state of the current art world, and the need to create its successor. For this week's episode, we're presenting an edited version of that talk. (You can find a recording of the full chat online, courtesy of the NAC.)
Happy Summer! In this episode, I share with you ONE TRIBE and how you can be a part! Race and Storytelling Youtube event with David White, SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director along with powerful beings in the Entertainment Industry. The National Arts Club hosted the Art of Voiceover, it was a really insightful chat with the famous Dee Bradley Baker! Gratefully Nicky Scorpio came on and shared with us his new song “No Justice, No Peace” It’s an empowering episode you do not want to miss! Lastly, I have a new monthly Creative Newsletter please sign up on my website CHONACAS Follow me at Instagram
Murray Hidary is a multi-disciplinary artist and tech pioneer. His purpose-driven approach is at the heart of his business success, acclaim as a visual artist and global recognition as a musician. Ever pushing boundaries and guided by a strong desire to help people find their purpose, Murray is now focused on touring his immersive musical experience MindTravel across the globe. Over the past five years, Murray has created over 500 MindTravel experiences for over 100,000 people in cities from Los Angeles to London, Paris to Pittsburgh, Berlin to Boulder; in venues such as Lincoln Center, The Theater at the Ace Hotel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Cathedral, and The National Arts Club. _____________________ Awakenings With Michele Meiche is Your place for tips and insight to live a more fulfilling life, and your relationships. Learn how to attract healthy relationships, and how to create a life you really love. Awakenings broadcasts live every Wed. 12pm -1:30 pm PT Call in for Intuitive Readings #347-539-5122 Michele also answers listener questions from email, twitter and facebook & Instagram On Air. Email awakeningspodcast@gmail.com to have your questions answered or to share your insights On Air.
Carroll Baker's work in Elia Kazan's “Baby Doll” and Jack Garfein's “Something Wild” is just as impressive and valuable as any performance delivered by her legendary Actors Studio contemporaries Marlon Brando and James Dean. So why isn’t she talked about in the same way? After the simultaneous sensation and scandal of “Baby Doll” (it was condemned by the Legion of Decency), Baker became a star, but she spent most of her career either avoiding sex-symbol roles or begrudgingly accepting them. Despite a handful of other great performances (“Giant,” “Cheyenne Autumn,” “The Big County,” “Station Six-Sahara”), conflicts with studios, producers, and her husband (Garfein) marred her career. One can’t help but wonder what it would have looked like if she had her druthers. I sat down with Baker on the second floor of the National Arts Club in New York City to talk about her work as an actor, and also, with the publication of her new mystery novel “Who Killed Big Al?”, what she gets out of writing. Thanks to the esteemed author and historian Foster Hirsch for his invaluable assistance in bringing us together.
David Zyla of the Fashion Committee sits down with fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez. They discuss Rodriguez's career, inspirations, and many accolades, including a recent Medal of Honor from The National Arts Club.
Episode 114 - Andrea Chalupa. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Andrea Chalupa. Her bio: "I was born and raised in Davis, California, and currently live in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from the University of California, at Davis with High Honors in History, with a focus on Soviet History, I studied Ukrainian at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the International School of Ukrainian Studies in L'viv, Ukraine. As a journalist, I cut my teeth in the newsrooms of Conde Nast Portfolio and AOL Money & Finance, and have written articles and columns for The Daily Beast, Forbes, TIME, and The Atlantic. Since 2004, while finishing my History thesis on the role of religion in Ukraine's independence movement at the fall of the Soviet Union, I began dreaming up a screenplay that would take me fifteen years to research, write, and produce. That screenplay became MR. JONES, directed by three-time Academy Award-nominee Agnieszka Holland and starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joseph Mawle as George Orwell. Much of the research for the film was compiled into my book Orwell and The Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm, which has been taught in classrooms in Canada and Ukraine through the genocide education program Orwell Art. As surreal as this journey has been against the backdrop of growing authoritarianism around the world, I met along the way brave human rights activists and journalists who continuously restored my faith. In January 2014, I helped launch #DigitalMaidan, a hashtag of the revolution in Ukraine; #MarchForTruth, a nationwide protest on June 3rd, 2017 demanding transparency and accountability in the Russia investigation, and helped lead a crowdfunding campaign to turn an oligarch's abandoned private zoo in Ukraine into an animal refuge. Over the years, I have spoken about Ukraine and Russia in the World Forum for Democracy at the Council of Europe, the Personal Democracy Forum at New York University, the National Press Club in Washington, DC, the National Arts Club in New York City, and went on a two-week university lecture tour of Canada, including McGill University, Carleton University, and the University of Toronto. And yes, I have a sister, Alexandra Chalupa, called one of the most influential people of the 2016 election by the investigative journalist Michael Isikoff who, along with David Corn, the first journalist to publish an interview with Christopher Steele, features my sister in their bestselling book Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump. The first three episodes of Gaslit Nation, recapping the 2016 election like a crime scene, explain how my sister was harassed and risked her life and career to alert the media about Paul Manafort and the Kremlin's attack on our democracy as it was happening." Website: http://www.andreachalupa.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa Podcast: https://www.gaslitnationpod.com Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. Please visit our website for more information: thecuriosityhourpodcast.com The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! To donate, click here: thecuriosityhourpodcast.com/donate/ Please visit this page for information where you can listen to our podcast: thecuriosityhourpodcast.com/listen/ Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language.
Join us for an hour of mischief, laughter and master storytelling with one of the world's most prolific and best-loved writers, Alexander McCall Smith. Author of more than 100 books including the internationally bestselling No 1 Ladies Detective Agency, 44 Scotland Street and Corduroy Mansions series, McCall Smith was recently awarded the prestigious Medal of Honor for Achievement in Literature by The National Arts Club of America. This full festival session was recorded at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in 2018.
Coco Dolle is a French-American artist and curator whose work explores themes of the body, identity and feminism. She is the founder of the "Legacy Fatale" performance art project and the curator of “TRANS-Ville” series at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery. An avant-guard curator within the feminist conversations in New York, Miss Dolle has presented numerous concept exhibitions including at the SPRING/BREAK Art Show, The National Arts Club and The Untitled Space, while working with pioneer artists such as Betty Tompkins, Kembra Pfahler, Narcissister and the Guerrilla Girls. Her performance works have been presented widely including at The Queens Museum, Czech Center (NYC), Miami Art Basel, Deitch Projects and Manchester Art Gallery (UK). © Photo of Legacy Fatale performance art by Kim Doan Quoc, 2018 Music for this episode is generously provided by Leigh Celent and Castle Black. Check them out on www.castleblackmusic.com Coco will host an upcoming performance happening with her troupe Legacy Fatale that includes workshops and immersive performance happening in Rosekill, NY on Saturday, May 25. You are welcome to bring your tent and camp overnight and enjoy Sunday by the lake. PANATHENAIA FESTIVAL FB event PANATHENAIA TICKETS
Hello, and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host Rob Burgess. On this, our 139th episode, our guest is Andrea Chalupa. Here is her biography: “I was born and raised in Davis, California, and currently live in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from the University of California, at Davis with High Honors in History, with a focus on Soviet History, I studied Ukrainian at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the International School of Ukrainian Studies in L'viv, Ukraine. As a journalist, I cut my teeth in the newsrooms of Conde Nast Portfolio and AOL Money & Finance, and have written articles and columns for The Daily Beast, Forbes, TIME, and The Atlantic. Since 2004, while finishing my History thesis on the role of religion in Ukraine's independence movement at the fall of the Soviet Union, I began dreaming up a screenplay that would take me fifteen years to research, write, and produce. That screenplay became Mr. Jones, directed by three-time Academy Award-nominee Agnieszka Holland and starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joseph Mawle as George Orwell. Much of the research for the film was compiled into my book, Orwell and The Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm, which has been taught in classrooms in Canada and Ukraine through the genocide education program Orwell Art. “When I was growing up in Northern California, my grandfather Olexji was the world to me. Born in Donbas, a region in eastern Ukraine currently being invaded by Russia, my grandfather witnessed the Russian Revolution fought on his family farm as a small boy; survived the Holodomor, Stalin's genocide famine that killed an estimated 4 million to 7 million people; and as a young father was arrested and tortured by the Soviet secret police during Stalin's purges. Shortly before he passed away at the age of 83, my grandfather wrote down his life story, showing the events Orwell allegorized in Animal Farm through the eyes of a survivor. “The history of Stalin's genocide is told through this short documentary, Stalin's Secret Genocide, which I was asked to write, direct, and produce for genocide education by the Holodomor Research and Education Consoritum at the University of Alberta. “As surreal as this journey has been against the backdrop of growing authoritarianism around the world, I met along the way brave human rights activists and journalists who continuously restored my faith. In January 2014, I helped launch #DigitalMaidan, a hashtag of the revolution in Ukraine; #MarchForTruth, a nationwide protest on June 3, 2017 demanding transparency and accountability in the Russia investigation, and helped lead a crowdfunding campaign to turn an oligarch's abandoned private zoo in Ukraine into an animal refuge. “Over the years, I have spoken about Ukraine and Russia in the World Forum for Democracy at the Council of Europe, the Personal Democracy Forum at New York University, the National Press Club in Washington, DC, the National Arts Club in New York City, and went on a two-week university lecture tour of Canada, including McGill University, Carleton University, and the University of Toronto. “And yes, I have a sister, Alexandra Chalupa, called one of the most influential people of the 2016 election by the investigative journalist Michael Isikoff who, along with David Corn, the first journalist to publish an interview with Christopher Steele, features my sister in their bestselling book Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump. The first three episodes of Gaslit Nation, recapping the 2016 election like a crime scene, explain how my sister was harassed and risked her life and career to alert the media about Paul Manafort and the Kremlin's attack on our democracy as it was happening.”
[EPISODE] Gramercy Episode 12, a journey to Gramercy, and its famed Park. My guests will be Tim Miller, The Daytonian in Manhattan, and restaurateurs Carrie and Terry Morabito, who founded and operate Friend of a Farmer, a family business. Segment 1 Jeff welcomes Tom Miller to the show to discuss Gramercy Park. They trace Tom’s career and why he decided to write about New York City’s architectural history. Tom describes Gramercy’s origins as farm and describes the neighborhoods early urban development in the 1800's. Tom and Jeff list significant events such as the 1837 financial panic, building of the Croton Reservoir, and the Civil War Draft Riots in the 1800's to demonstrate their effects on the area. Segment 2 Jeff and Tom discuss various notable buildings in Gramercy Park including the Players Club and the National Arts Club. They touch on Gramercy Square, the Gramercy Park Hotel, and Pete's Tavern. Tom and Jeff describe the history of Baruch College in the area. They briefly mention the effect of the L train on Gramercy Park. Segment 3 Jeff is joined by the Morabito family, owners of Friend of A Farmer in Gramercy Park. Terry and Carrie discuss their early careers when their business was a bakery and how they grew Friend of A Farmer. The Morabitos describe why they decided to open in Gramercy Park. Terry and Carrie express their love for the charm and beauty in Gramercy Park. They weigh in on the demographic changes they've seen in their 32 years working in the neighborhood. Segment 4 Jeff and his guests describe how social media has influenced how they operate their business. Terry and Carrie offer advice for anyone looking to open a business in Gramercy Park. Terrie touches on the sense of community in Gramercy and how the businesses work together to improve the area. They conclude with a notable character from the neighborhood and what the future holds for Friend of A Farmer.
This week on NAC Chat, Charlotte sits down with legendary portrait artist Everett Raymond Kinstler to discuss his journey from inking comic books as a teen to painting the portraits of 8 Presidents. Kinstler is also a member of the National Arts Club and has has a studio in the building since the late 1940's where he has painted some of his most famous portraits. He is one of the foremost portrait painters in America and has been honored at The National Arts Club 120th Anniversary Gala for his a Lifetime Achievement in Art and Dedication to the NAC. His subjects include Tony Bennet, Carol Burnet, Katherine Hepburn, Paul Newman, John Wayne, and his portraits of President Gerald R. Ford and Ronald Raegan are the official White House Portraits. His work can be seen at The National Portrait Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Butler Institute of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, and of course The National Arts Club.
This week on NAC Chat, Charlotte Kent sits down with a sculptors couple Babette Bloch and Marc Mellon to discuss their lives together, their art practices, and how the National Arts Club has had an impact on both. Babette is a pioneer in the use of laser-cut and water jet-cut stainless steel in creating figurative works of art. Her sculptures explore form and the interplay between object and light, reflect their environments, and expand the ways in which stainless steel is used in contemporary art. Marc is one of America's foremost representational sculptors and medalists, well known for his portrait busts, commemorative statues, and works in bronze exploring the worlds of dance, sport, and family life. His works have been displayed from New York to Los Angeles to Tokyo and are in numerous corporate, private, and public collections worldwide.
This week on NAC Chat, Charlotte Kent sits down with Robert Yahner, the registrar and unofficial curator of The National Arts Club, to discuss the 120th Anniversary exhibition he recently curated, his work shaping the permanent collection into what it is today, and his introduction to New York City and the club.
David Zyla sits down with costume designer Lisa Padovani to discuss her design process, and her career designing costumes for shows like Boardwalk Empire and Gotham, which filmed at The National Arts Club. Lisa is a five time Primetime Emmy Award nominee, and a two time Costume Guild Award Winner. In addition to many film credits, her television credits include Madmen, Boardwalk Empire, Gotham, Dirty Dancing (The ABC Movie), and Sneaky Pete. You can follow Lisa on instagram @lisapadovani on twitter @lisapadovani1 and on her website www.lisapadovanicostumes.com
EP48 The “MindTraveler” with Murray Hidary. Murray Hidary, the man that “plagiarizes nature”, is a trailblazing composer and pianist. He is the visionary mind behind MindTravel. I met Murray last year in a home in Los Angeles where he was about to share MindTravel to a small audience. Through this uninterrupted, one-hour musical experience, which he creates, composes and performs in the moment, I felt transported and moved emotionally and mentally in ways I have never experienced. Since then I have been using his MindTravel music as part of my meditation practice as a way to open my mind, to express myself through writing and to create open quiet space in my day. What impresses me about Murray is his wisdom, and the way he approaches music, creativity and living his life. It was a pleasure and an honor to sit down with Murray, someone who's courage, brilliance, talent and generosity I deeply admire. MindTravel is a musical journey that Murray created from his own core spiritual practice. While Murray grew up Jewish in Brooklyn, he felt called to seek and understand other cultures, philosophies and spiritual practices. Through his curiosity of Eastern Philosophical and Mystical ideas and his study of Western Classical Music, his own musical language was born. This practice encouraged him to explore his emotions and subconscious creating the space for things within him to come to the surface and be released via musical composition - MindTravel. “Murray has brought MindTravel to famed venues including Lincoln Center, The Theater at the Ace Hotel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Cathedral, The National Arts Club and festivals including Wanderlust, Carlsbad and Burning Man. He has also pioneered a live ‘silent' piano headphone Mind Travel creating an immersive music experience. Mind Travel has been brought to audiences in theaters, beaches and parks including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Denver, New Orleans, London, Montauk, New Jersey, Miami, Aspen, Oxford, Malibu, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Germany, Italy and Croatia.” Murray and I discuss: His goal is to transport people through music; The bravery and experience of creating something new for the first time, every single time; Why great things only happen outside our comfort zone; Fear and the ways to step into and through it; Learning to relate to failure as an ally that supports our growth; Pushing boundaries physically and emotionally; The importance of having a coach or teacher when you are committed to improving or being your best; His vision of creating a life where no dream is left behind; The importance of making “space” for ourselves in each day and the magic that can be created in empty spaces. Thanks for listening. Please SHARE THIS EPISODE, TAG A FRIEND who needs to hear it, and SUBSCRIBE to The Dream Mason Podcast - so you don't miss an episode! You can connect with Murray Hidary here: Website: www.mindtravel.com Instagram: @MurrayHidary Twitter: @MurrayHidary You can connect with Alex Terranova here: Instagram:@InspirationalAlex Website: www.TheDreamMason.com Email: Alex@TheDreamMason.com YouTube: TheDreamMason Podcast. Remember, You are a DreamMason®… Because your Dreams Don't Build Themselves Alex Terranova is a DreamMason® and a Performance & Mindfulness Coach. He works with Leaders, Creators, and Innovators; those brave enough to build their dreams. If you're a high performer looking for an edge, with a desire to expand your leadership, generate more money, more time and feel more fulfilled, working with Alex will support you in making that life a reality.
Amy Hill and I have known each other for a long time, but like with so many artists, we mostly see each other circulating at openings. We use the occasion of her 3rd solo show at Front Room Gallery-https://www.frontroomles.com/ — open until Oct. 21 to sit down together in the RFB studio. It was particularly lovely to be able to sit down with her and grill her about whatever I was interested in knowing about her. She is a charming sport! See more of her incredible work HERE: http://www.amyhillpaintings.com/ So much to uncover about Amy — her childhood — her creative, intelligent family — scientist dad, artsy mom, talented sibling. Everyone had drawing talent. Amy's drawing talent and consistent hard work has definitely been the compass in her life and has opened more doors for her than she will likely admit to — she's way too modest:))Her stories about her early artist years in the lower east side stick in my head. Eventually she and I get to talking about how people have said she and I look alike, which inevitably lead to me asking about how is it that she is so thin! I am relatively thin but Amy is thinner! Amy just eats and doesn't gain wait—I am envious! More about Amy and her work: The Front Room Gallery is proud to present: “Back to Nature” a solo exhibition of new paintings by Amy Hill. This is the artist's third solo show at the gallery. Amy Hill's artistic career and developed style have been cultivated through her intense investigations of art historical references. Through portraiture, she relates common circumstances within cross relationships in time. The paintings in “Back to Nature” address not only the culture of the 1960's, but the fashion and political climate, the anxiety over the Vietnam War and the peace movement. Through comparative structures and subjects, Hill has masterfully relayed a parallel association of 19th century American folk art painting to 1960s era counterculture in the United States. Very much akin to the directive of the historical portraits she is referencing, Hill's paintings reveal much about ordinary people: how they lived, what they valued, and how they wished to be remembered. The paintings in this exhibition echo today's movement towards sustainable living as well as the back to land movement of the 1960s and 70s. "The worldly life has been rejected by peoples as far back as the Sadhu of India and the Ancient Greeks, so ours isn't the first culture to inspire a yearning for simpler times. In my paintings I try to create a more natural world. I draw on early American and 15th century Renaissance portraits where subjects are portrayed in naive or awkward poses with inaccurate anatomy against a landscape of questionable perspective. I dress my subjects in the clothing of the late 1960s, “hippy” fashion, when care for the environment, anti-consumerism, “flower power” and the desire for love and peace prevailed, a time essential in forming my own attitudes towards life." - Amy Hill Amy Hill is a New York based artist who received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and also studied at New York University. She has received grants from the Peter S. Reed Foundation and Art Matters, a studio grant from the Elizabeth Foundation, and nominations for the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting and for membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She received the Purchase Award from West Publishing Company, the Juror Award from the NYU Small Works Show and an honorable mention from the National Arts Club. Hill has exhibited both nationally and Internationally. Her work has been extensively reviewed in such publications as Harper's Magazine, Artnet Magazine and the New York Times.
Charlotte Kent of The National Arts Club sits down with digital artist Carla Gannis to discuss the intricacies of what it takes to be a digital artist and where she sees the market going. Gannis identifies as a visual storyteller. Her work examines the narrativity of 21st century representational technologies and reveals the hybrid nature of identity, where virtual and real embodiments of self diverge and intersect. Best known for her work 'The Garden of Emoji Delights', Gannis’s work has appeared in over 20 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. You can find her on Instagram and Twitter @carlagannis and at http://carlagannis.com/ NAC Chat is the official Podcast of The National Arts Club
David Zyla sits down with Rose Callahan and Natty Adams are the co-creators of the books 'I am Dandy' and 'We are Dandy' to discuss what exactly is a Dandy and the impact their books have had on a new generation. Around the world, dandies embrace style while respecting their local cultural traditions. Dandyism transcends fashion―it is a committed way of life and an obsession with elegance. It is fashion in the best sense, self-esteem through style. And, in every country, it takes a unique form as dandies draw on the local context and fashion culture to shape their looks. Through Callahans photos and Adams writing, the intricate world of each Dandy unfolds before our eyes in dazzling splendor. You can find Rose on Instagram and Twitter at @rcallahanphoto. You can find Natty on Instagram and Twitter @nattyadams. NAC Chat is the official podcast of The National Arts Club
Steve Kass sits down with Greg Young and Tom Meyers, the hosts and producers of the Bowery Boys: New York City History podcast to discuss their favorite architecture and history in NYC. Greg and Tom started the podcast on a whim as a fun project during the summer of 2007. Both had some amateur radio experience in our past (Greg in college in Missouri and Tom in high school in Ohio), and talked for years about producing some sort of fun New York-related radio show. Eleven years later they're having more fun than ever recording monthly episodes that help tell the fascinating story of New York. They have a quarter of a million listeners per month and, in 2016, have also produced a book -- The Bowery Boys: Adventures in Old New York." You can their podcast on iTunes, find them on Instagram @boweryboysnyc, and on Twitter @boweryboys. NAC Chat is the official podcast of The National Arts Club.
Julie Heffernan is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn. Julie earned her BFA from UC Santa Cruz and her MFA from Yale. She has had museum shows at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, The Palmer Museum, Mennello Museum, the LSU Museum of Art, the Witherspoon, the Mint and others. She’s has solo shows at PPOW, Mark Moore, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Megumo Ogita, just to name a few. She’s been in countless group shows from Forum Gallery, to Wave Hill, to the National Arts Club, to about hundreds more. She has received an NEA Grant, a NYFA grant, a McDowell Fellow and a Yaddo Fellow and her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Norton Museum, The Palmer Museum, the Nation Academy Museum and many others. Her work has been written about in any art publication you can think of. She also co-runs Painters on Paintings a blog that weekly features artists writing about a painting that informs or inspires them. She is also a Professor at Montclair University. Brian stopped by Julie’s studio as she prepares for her September show at PPOW and they spoke about emotional painting, Al Held, her son’s music, Corbet being braggy and so much more. Sound and Vision is supported by Golden Artist Colors, manufacturing in Upstate NY, GOLDEN Acrylics, Williamsburg Oils, and most recently, QoR Watercolors. An employee owned company committed to producing the highest quality materials, while maintaining a culture of stewardship and community involvement. For information about Golden Artist Colors, call 1-800-959-6543 or visit www.goldenpaints.com. Sound & Vision is supported by Topo Designs. Based in Denver Colorado. Check out their products at topodesigns.com Sound & Vision is also brought to you by Charter Coffeehouse. Charter is on Graham Avenue in East Williamsburg, just one block from the Graham L Stop. Find out more at www.chartercoffee.com, follow them on Instagram at @charter_bk
On this week’s B&H Photography Podcast, we welcome three members of the Kamoinge photography workshop and, through their collective eyes, we discuss African-American photography of the past sixty years and the role that Kamoinge has played in nurturing and presenting that photography. We also discuss the making of their current exhibition and the artists involved, called, “The Black Woman: Power and Grace,” which is at the National Arts Club through June 30, 2018. To speak on Kamoinge and the exhibit, we have with us photographers Russell Frederick, Delphine Diallo and Jules Allen. Mr. Frederick is the current vice-president of the collective and provides some historical context and a sense of the mission of the group, which was formed in 1963. Mr. Allen discusses a few of the important figures in the group’s history, including Beuford Smith, Roy DeCarava, and Ming Smith; and Ms. Diallo reflects upon the appeal the workshop held for her when she arrived in Brooklyn, as well as thoughts on the obstacles women photographers still face in our industry. Each brings to the table a personal insight on the range of topics that come up during this humorous, provocative, and historically informative conversation. Kamoinge has deep and significant roots, but it is ever-evolving, and the diverse work of Mr. Frederick, Ms. Diallo, and Mr. Allen is testimony to the wide range of photography that finds a home at Kamoinge. Join us for this lively episode and check out the “Power and Grace” exhibit, at the National Arts Club. Guests: Delphine Diallo, Jules Allen, and Russell Frederick Photograph © Delphine Diallo
It's Thursday, and our peripatetic theater critic, J. Wynn Rousuck joins us in the studio once again, today with her review of Count Down. play by The play by Dominique Cieri is being produced by The Strand Theater Company, the only Baltimore theater that presents works written exclusively by women artists.Cieri says the play is a composite of her experiences working for a New Jersey youth arts program, helping a group of at-risk teenage girls express themselves by creating an original musical stage production. Cieri says her work with the girls quickly became ----a labor of love, and an odyssey into the psyche of the adolescent girl.----Count Down -- directed at the Strand by Bari Hochwald -- portrays that revelation, and, in the words of the Strand's program, ----exposes the inherent dissonance between the child welfare system and the reality of the girls who have no choice but to spend their childhood and adolescence in its care.----Count Down was the recipient of the 2009 Mid Atlantic Individual Playwriting Fellowship, and Finalist for Playwrights First Award, the National Arts Club, NYC.The Strand's production of Count Down is presented as part of the DC region's 2018 Women's Voices Theatre Festival.Count Down continues through Sunday, March 4 at The Strand Theater, which is located at 5426 Harford Rd. Baltimore MD 21201. Ticket info at www.strand-theater.org.
I veckans Stil Special ska vi glänta på dörren och kika in i litteraturens garderob. Vi ska nämligen ägna oss åt kläder, böcker och författare. I litteraturens värld är kläder sällan något som bara håller folk varma eller får dem att se bra ut. De litterära kläderna bär ofta på en symbolisk betydelse och kan berätta en hel del om en romankaraktärs personlighet, status, drömmar och förhoppningar. Vad en litterär gestalt har på sig kan med andra ord vara en hel berättelse i sig. I dagens program träffar vi författarna Inger Edelfeldt, Kristofer Folkhammar och Karolina Ramqvist, som alla har skrivit böcker där just kläder spelar en alldeles särskild roll. Vi tittar också närmare på fenomenet med författaren som kändis och gör ett besök på The National Arts Club i New York, där modeskapare minglar med författare och konstnärer för att kulturen ska utvecklas. Veckans programledare är Erik Sjölin.
"Whats your lane? Is it sports? Its it portraits? Maybe its nature… Oh and thats just the overall genre. If you had to really specify what you shoot, what would it be? So not just sports… but which sport? Is it Hockey portraits? Maybe you have a passion for zoology and you've got a burning desire to document every living species of bird in North America. Now THATS a lane..." Website: www.BryonSummers.com www. Instagram.com/WereGettingBetter — Photographer Spotlight: Roy DeCarava. Born December 9th,1919 in Harlem, Roy DeCarava would grow up to be a renowned master photographer. He began his career as a painter and later turned to photography by the 1940s. His photographs were initially used as references for what would eventually end up on the canvas as paintings but by 1952, DeCarava was all in. He embraced photography as his new medium and was even the 9th photographer to receive the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. He considered his images artistic expressions - serious, artistic, and universally human. He worked for Columbia, Prestige, ABC Paramount, and Atlantic records as well as Sports Illustrated and Scientific American until the 1970s when he became a professor of art at Cooper Union. He's received several honorary degrees from Rhode Island School of Design, Maryland Institute of Art, The Parsons School of Design and the Art Institute of Boston for contributions to American Art. In addition to his many accolades, DeCarava was awarded the Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the National Arts Club and the Master of Photography Award of the International Center of Photography. In 2006, he was awarded the National Medal of Art from the National Endowment for the Arts, presented by President George W. Bush. Decarava died of natural caused October 27, 2009. For more of Roy DeCarava visit http://decarava.org/ — Music: KB @push-music --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bryonsummers/support
Dreams are a natural part of life, and throughout human history, people have tried to interpret their dreams. But dreaming, in many ways, still remains mysterious. On this week’s Please Explain, we’ll find out what happens in our brains while we dream, what causes nightmares and lucid dreaming, and why some of us talk and walk in our sleep. We’ll also learn about the many ways psychologists interpret dreams. Joining us is Dr. Michael Breus, a Clinical Psychologist, Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and a Fellow of The American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He's the author of several books, most recently, The Power of When: Discover Your Chronotype--and the Best Time to Eat Lunch, Ask for a Raise, Have Sex, Write a Novel, Take Your Meds, and More and Dr. Kelly Bulkeley, a dream researcher and Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, Senior Editor of the APA journal Dreaming and the author of Big Dreams: The Science of Dreaming and the Origins of Religion. Have questions about dreaming? Send us your questions in a comment below, or let us know on Twitter or Facebook! Events: Kelly Bulkeley will be part of a panel at the New York Academy of Sciences on December 7th, talking about dreams and new research on the unconscious. He'll be giving a talk at the National Arts Club on January 30th about the film "Pan's Labyrinth" and lucid dreaming in Guillermo del Toro's childhood.
Foster Hirsch, Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, is the author of 16 books on film and theater. Among his titles are LOVE, SEX, DEATH, AND THE MEANING OF LIFE: THE FILMS OF WOODY ALLEN; A METHOD TO THEIR MADNESS: THE HISTORY OF THE ACTORS STUDIO; and THE DARK SIDE OF THE SCREEN: FILM NOIR. Professor Hirsch is now at work on a history of Hollywood in the 1950s. He is a frequent host/moderator/interviewer at numerous venues, including the National Arts Club, the American Cinematheque, the Film Forum, the Loews Jersey, and the Harvard Club. He has lectured on film in Germany, Israel, India, China, Dubai, England, France, New Zealand, Italy, and Finland.
The life of West Hartfordâ€'s only Chinese kid changes when a Bruce Lee movie comes to town. Master Lee is the co-founder of Talkingstick, a monthly truth-based storytelling series at the Rubin Museum of Art. He has performed at The National Arts Club, Tibet House, and The Cathedral at St. John the Divine. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The artist will present a special lecture on the history of art in the Grand Gallery of the Tilden Mansion, home of the National Arts Club.
Frequent City Talk guest Grayson Dantzic, musician, videographer, archivist and son of the late Jerry Dantzic, visits to discuss his father’s latest exhibition of jazz photography at The National Arts Club.
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