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The multimillion dollar agreement between Chesterfield County and Competitive Racing Investments ushers in a new era of racing for the longtime stock car racetrack that's been closed since 2020; The JXN Project was recently awarded $75,000 through the Virginia Museum of History and Culture's Commonwealth History Fund to assist in its effort to rebuild the Skipwith-Roper Cottage; The Hadad family is putting its namesake-lake and popular recreational space up for sale; and co-founders Carlisle Bannister and Christy Dobrucky opened a second Supper Club location at the Promenade at Winterfield mixed-use development.

Judith Fox is an award-winning fine art photographer, poet, public speaker, and business leader. The temporary service she founded in Richmond, Virginia in 1978 was purchased by a NYSE firm in 1996. During her business career, Fox served on many for-profit and non-profit boards, was a public speaker and consultant. After selling her company, Judith devoted herself full-time to photography and writing. Fox's award-winning photographs are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA), the Southeast Museum of Photography (SMP), the Harry Ransom Center, the Haggerty Museum of Art, and the Harn Museum; her work is in private and corporate collections throughout the world. Fox's photographs have been exhibited in solo and group shows in the United States and Europe. After her book I Still Do: Loving and Living with Alzheimer's was released, Fox became a global advocate for Alzheimer's awareness and education. She's been a speaker and consultant on Alzheimer's and family caregiving for corporations, non-profit associations and universities. I Still Do was named “one of the best photography books of 2009” by Photo-Eye Magazine. Judith Fox lives and works in Southern California and is currently working on a collection of poetry. Find more information at: https://www.judithfox.com/ As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a poem about the happiest place on earth. Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem about a time that you carried more than you ever thought possible, and include a reference to temperature. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger -- previously a three-term member of Congress and CIA officer -- on Trump II vs. Washington; foreign affairs; culture wars; and the Democrats' messaging problem. Taped before an audience at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.

Katie and Steve speak with their colleague Eden Burgess and guest Dr. Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba, Curator of African Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art and an expert in Benin Bronzes, about the artistic history of Benin City in current day Nigeria, the fate of the Benin Bronzes that dispersed around the world after the British invasion and looting of Benin Kingdom in 1897, and how we should think about ownership and possession of these valuable objects today.   Notes for this episode: https://artlawpodcast.com/2025/01/13/who-should-control-the-benin-bronzes/   Follow the Art Law Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artlawpodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@artlawpodcast Katie and Steve discuss topics based on news and magazine articles and court filings and not based on original research unless specifically noted.

James Little (b. 1952, Memphis, TN) holds a BFA from the Memphis Academy of Art and an MFA from Syracuse University. He is a 2009 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Painting. In addition to being featured prominently in the 2022 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, his work has been exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions around the world, including at MoMA P.S.1, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. In 2022, Little participated in a historic collaboration for Duke Ellington's conceptual Sacred Concerts series at the Lincoln Center, New York, with the New York Choral Society at the New School for Social Research and the Schomburg Center in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: Petzel, New York (2024); Kavi Gupta, Chicago (2022); Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis (2022); Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood (2020); and June Kelly Gallery, New York (2018). His paintings are represented in the collections of numerous public and private collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond; The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York; The Menil Collection, Houston; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis; Maatschappij Arti Et Amicitiae, Amsterdam; Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton; Tennessee State Museum, Nashville; and the Newark Museum, Newark. James Little Trophy Wives, 2024 Photo: Thomas Barratt Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York James Little The Problem with Segregation, 2024 Photo: Thomas Barratt Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York James Little Mahalia's Wings, 2024 Photo: Thomas Barratt Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York

Send us a textTo learn more, please visit Frances Liddell's site.Show Notes:0:00 Frances Liddell on justice and technology1:30 Liddell's background2:50 CryptoKitties 3:50 NFTs5:20 ORAgen & DECaDE research centre 7:20 C2PA 8:15 tokenized rights9:45 ORA use cases10:30 themes from ORA interviews12:15 YouTube as a supportive platform v. TikTok13:00 smart contracts and licensing15:00 perspectives on attribution 16:30 Emily Gould question on attribution24:50 animation sector with stronger preference for attribution not open source 26:45 interviews revealed uncertainty on data scraping29:50 lack of awareness about the environmental impact of blockchain31:50 repatriation and blockchain and her work as associate research fellow with Art & Antiquities Blockchain Consortium34:50 Balot NFT - Balot sculpture in Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 37:30 ORA project status38:15 ORAgen Fables39:00 recommendations for creatives: to review C2PA & Content Credentials41:00 Gould: responses during interviews about copyright concerns 45:30 location of individuals interviewed47:20 impact of tech on issues of injustice - benefits/concerns surrounding decentralization 50:40 current work with ORA51:30 Oluwatobi AlukoPlease share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.comTo hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.Music by Toulme.To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com. Thanks so much for listening!© Stephanie Drawdy [2024]

In this episode, Janet Michael, the host of 'Valley Today', welcomes Martha Reynolds, the Executive Director at the Barns of Rose Hill. The focus is on the exciting events and activities happening at the Barns of Rose Hill, particularly as the fall and holiday season approach. Martha shares detailed information about the diverse range of events scheduled, including new art exhibitions opening on November 1st. She highlights two simultaneous exhibitions: one by local mosaic artist Christy Dunkle, who will be retiring from the town of Berryville, and another by photographer Sharon Fisher, featuring a visual documentary on a remote tribe in Kenya. Listeners learn about the VMFA Artmobile's visit on November 22nd and 23rd, which offers a free, immersive art experience from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Janet and Martha discuss the wide array of activities at the Barns, from musical concerts to holiday-themed events. Martha mentions notable upcoming concerts, including performances by David Wilcox, Kathy Fink, and Marcy Marxer in October and November, as well as the annual Celtic Christmas concert by John Doyle and Mick McAuley in December. She encourages listeners to purchase tickets in advance due to high demand. Holiday events are abundant at the Barns, with activities like free ornament-making for kids, a holiday paint and sip, music bingo, and the return of the Eric Byrd Trio performing 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' soundtrack. The Barns is also collaborating with Winchester Little Theatre for a radio play adaptation of Truman Capote's stories, adding to the festive celebrations. Martha emphasizes the importance of community support for the nonprofit Barns of Rose Hill, especially through individual donations and memberships, which sustain their diverse programming year-round. Learn more on their website: https://www.barnsofrosehill.org/ and follow them on Facebook.

Dr. Sterling Nesbitt is an Assistant Professor of Geosciences at Virginia Tech, as well as a  research associate/affiliate of the American Museum of Natural History, the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab at The University of Texas at Austin, the Virginia Museum of Natural History, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and the National Museum of Natural History. Sterling is a vertebrate paleontologist who leverages his training in biology to understand how animals are related, how they evolved certain features, and how they have diversified over time. He is working to improve our knowledge of how life on earth has evolved over the past hundreds of millions of years. Outside of science, Sterling is passionate about travel. He loves visiting new places to experience other cultures, learn about their traditions, and discover fantastic places off the beaten path. He received his BA in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley and went on to complete his MA, MPhil, and PhD in Geosciences at Columbia University. Afterwards, Sterling conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Washington, and the Field Museum before joining the faculty at Virginia Tech where he is today. Sterling is the recipient of the 2016 Virginia Tech College Award for Outreach Excellence from the College of Science. Sterling is here with us today to speak to us about his life and science.

Louise P. Sloane (b. 1952) has been active as an abstract painter since 1974, infusing her works with personal text that motivates her own experimentation. The visual language of her paintings continues the legacy of reductive and minimalist ideologies, while celebrating color and the human inclination towards mark making. Sloane's detail-oriented works are typically divided into rectangles or squares. The quadrangle has become a repetitive motif, often centrally featured within the context of a grid. In contrast with her iterative geometries, it is important to Sloane that the works present themselves as human made objects. Thick paint constructs repetitive handmade patterns, the physical motion of her brush strokes revealing the humanity of her practice. The surface holds Sloane's signature extrusions. Painstakingly written and overwritten, Sloane's inscribed text is a form of private meditation. Turned into a relief, and abstracted through color blocking, the text is interpreted through its physicality, not its meaning. Contrasting color choices intensify the dimensionality of the surface texture. Sloane uses color straight-up, without mixing. Blending takes place optically, as one color reacts to the other, red against green, or blue against yellow. The elements of mark-making, color, and geometry compete for the viewer's focus, keeping the eyes and mind in constant motion, unifying her interests in the form of the square. Sloane's work has been featured in numerous institutional collections, including the Hunterdon Museum of Art, Coral Springs Museum of Art, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, and Cornell Museum of Art and History. Sloane's works are in the permanent collections of the Heckscher Museum of Art, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Nassau County Museum of Art, Yeshiva University Museum, the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (the Sidney and Francis Lewis Collection). Louise P. Sloane Hot House, 2013 Signed, titled, and dated on the verso Acrylic paint and paste on aluminum panel 56 x 48 inches. Louise P. Sloane Patrician Blue, 1999 Signed, titled, and dated on the verso Acrylic paint and paste on panel 32 x 32 inches. Cool Tones, 1976, Signed, titled, and dated on the verso, Oil, paraffin, and pure pigment powders on, canvas, 54 x 48 inches.

The Shepherd's Center of Richmond will host an open house Friday, Sept. 13, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at its new location, 5101 Monument Avenue in Henrico (across from Willow Lawn). Visitors will be able to meet existing volunteers, learn about programs and volunteer opportunities available, and drawings for a one-year family membership to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will be held. Light refreshments will be served. The center is dedicated to older adults and will offer a variety of programs, including lifelong learning and volunteer opportunities.Article LinkSupport the show

Episode 438 / Sarah Boyts Yoder is a painter based in Charlottesville, VA. She received an MFA in painting from James Madison University in 2006. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, exhibitions, and corporate and private collections throughout the United States and abroad, including the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. Sarah has been the recipient of a professional fellowship in painting from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and has been a fellow multiple times at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and 100W Corsicana in Corsicana, TX.

Construction on the facility should be completed in time for Virginia MOCA to start exhibiting art in early 2026.

Restaurant owner, entrepreneur, media personality, and community cheerleader Kelli Lemon wears many hats in Richmond, Virginia. On this episode of "Eat It, Virginia," Kelli shared why she decided to open Urban Hang Suite in downtown Richmond and what that experience has taught her about life, business, and the city she calls home. "Kendra [Feather] is the reason Hang Suite is open," Lemon said. "Creative Mornings, I think it was January 2017. My topic was a question mark, it was like a mystery. I was like, I'm looking for this thing, that's kind of a hangout, where people could talk to each other, but it's not a restaurant, it could be a cafe. And I think it was Anne Marie that yelled out, "Do it!" It was either Kendra or Anne Marie. And then the next day, Kendra called me. It was like, I want to show you this space." In addition to Urban Hang Suite, Kelli talked about her roles at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Virginia Black Restaurant Experience, the Art of Noise, and the birth of her podcast Coffee with Strangers. Here are some links to other things mentioned in this episode: Learn more about RVA Wing Wars here. Learn more about the Art of Noise here. This episode is sponsored by the Virginia Museum of History & Culture and its new exhibit Julia Child: A Recipe For Life. This episode is sponsored by Project Birdie.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Step into the vaults of history with "Treasures of Virginia," a podcast series that delves deep into the stories behind the remarkable objects on display at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture's (VMHC). Each episode is a journey through time, guided by the artifacts that have shaped Virginia's rich and diverse history. Interviews with expert historians and curators offer listeners a comprehensive understanding of Virginia's past and its enduring impact on the present. Join us on a voyage of discovery as we unlock the secrets of Virginia's past, one artifact at a time. "Treasures of Virginia" invites you to explore history in a whole new light and gain a profound appreciation for the enduring legacy of the Commonwealth.

Step into the vaults of history with "Treasures of Virginia," a podcast series that delves deep into the stories behind the remarkable objects on display at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture's (VMHC). Each episode is a journey through time, guided by the artifacts that have shaped Virginia's rich and diverse history. Interviews with expert historians and curators offer listeners a comprehensive understanding of Virginia's past and its enduring impact on the present. Join us on a voyage of discovery as we unlock the secrets of Virginia's past, one artifact at a time. "Treasures of Virginia" invites you to explore history in a whole new light and gain a profound appreciation for the enduring legacy of the Commonwealth.

Ty Walker and his wife Shannon own and operate Smoke in Chimneys trout farm in New Castle, Virginia. In this Eat It, Virginia episode, Walker joined Scott and Robey and shared his experience revitalizing a 1930s trout hatchery. He discussed the challenges of starting and running a sustainable fish farm, including public perception, infrastructure limitations, and high start-up costs. (22:45) Walker also touched on the big role faith has played in his business. (50:05) Other topics discussed in this episode include: The restaurants Robey included on the July 2024 Hot List (1:58) The situation with Brittanny Anderson and the Pink Room (8:22) An update on the whereabouts of Richmond chef Bobo Catoe (11:20) The mystery and annoyance surrounding the lack of prices on menus (13:05) The best ways to reach the podcast are through Instagram DMs and email. This episode is sponsored by the Virginia Museum of History & Culture and its new exhibit Julia Child: A Recipe For Life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

HRBT Expansion Project Communications Director Paula Miller is joined by Project Director Ryan Banas for an update on the project, along with archeological experts David Lewes, Co-Director of William and Mary's Center for Archeological Research, Adam Pritchard, Virginia Museum of Natural History's Assistant Curator of Paleontology, and Will Moore, Virginia Department of Transportation's Lead Archeologist. Learn about the historic and prehistoric finds, from shipwrecks to mastadon bones.

In this episode of PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf, Sasha and Dr. Sarah Kennel, the Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography at the VMFA, discuss in detail the acquisition process at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. They also delve into the collaborative efforts required to produce a large traveling exhibition, specifically A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, which is coming to the VMFA in October 2024. This episode reveals many of the inner workings of museum operations and helps to demystify the various processes through which artwork is acquired and shown. https://vmfa.museum | https://www.instagram.com/sarah_kennel/ Dr. Sarah Kennel joined VMFA in 2021 as the inaugural Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and Director of the Raysor Center for Works on Paper. A specialist in nineteenth and twentieth-century photography, Kennel has curated, published, and presented widely on topics ranging from nineteenth-century French photography and historic photographic processes to European modernism and understudied women photographers. She has written extensively on the relationship between painting and photography in nineteenth-century France and, more recently, Kennel has focused on photography in the American South. This podcast is sponsored by picturehouse + thesmalldarkroom. https://phtsdr.com

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis.   On today's show: § Apero is the delicious little Georgetown champagne and caviar bar -- and a restaurant that's the brainchild of Advanced Sommelier Elli Benchimol. We love it there. It's now added La Bohème, an intimate tasting room upstairs. Elli is in with her exec chef, Jenn Castaneda-Jones, formerly of the celebrated and dearly departed Marcel's. We definitely should mention that the RAMMYS are coming up at the end of July -- and Jenn is a 2024 finalist for the Rising Culinary Star of the Year award, and Apéro is a finalist for Wine Program of the Year. Not too shabby;                                                                                                                         § Silvan Kraemer and David Fritsche owned Stable DC, a traditional Swiss restaurant in the H Street Corridor. Stable closed this spring, and Silvan and David are ready to unveil their new concept, Steak Frites DC. David joins us to treat us to the new restaurant's signature item, which is… steak frites, Geneva-style!   § If you want to know anything about sake, Reiko Hirai is your go-to. She founded and runs the DC Sake Co. It's way more than a beverage company. It's an experience! Reiko us tastes  of sake and she's here to announce a very cool  Japanese spirits tasting soiree to be held July 20;   § David Wizenberg, the chief operation officer at Hospitality Consulting Services, is now working on optimizing the customer's experience through the renovation and reorientation at Executive Chef Chris Clime's PassionFish in Reston. Davis is also here to tell us about his new food truck concept;   § L. Paige Newman is the curator at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond. The museum is hosting a fascinating interactive exhibit on the life of Julia Child. “A Recipe for Life” celebrates – and makes you a part of - Julia's lasting impact on American cuisine and food culture.

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis.  On today's show:§ Apero is the delicious little Georgetown champagne and caviar bar -- and a restaurant that's the brainchild of Advanced Sommelier Elli Benchimol. We love it there. It's now added La Bohème, an intimate tasting room upstairs. Elli is in with her exec chef, Jenn Castaneda-Jones, formerly of the celebrated and dearly departed Marcel's. We definitely should mention that the RAMMYS are coming up at the end of July -- and Jenn is a 2024 finalist for the Rising Culinary Star of the Year award, and Apéro is a finalist for Wine Program of the Year. Not too shabby;                                                                                                                       § Silvan Kraemer and David Fritsche owned Stable DC, a traditional Swiss restaurant in the H Street Corridor. Stable closed this spring, and Silvan and David are ready to unveil their new concept, Steak Frites DC. David joins us to treat us to the new restaurant's signature item, which is… steak frites, Geneva-style! § If you want to know anything about sake, Reiko Hirai is your go-to. She founded and runs the DC Sake Co. It's way more than a beverage company. It's an experience! Reiko us tastes  of sake and she's here to announce a very cool  Japanese spirits tasting soiree to be held July 20; § David Wizenberg, the chief operation officer at Hospitality Consulting Services, is now working on optimizing the customer's experience through the renovation and reorientation at Executive Chef Chris Clime's PassionFish in Reston. Davis is also here to tell us about his new food truck concept; § L. Paige Newman is the curator at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond. The museum is hosting a fascinating interactive exhibit on the life of Julia Child. “A Recipe for Life” celebrates – and makes you a part of - Julia's lasting impact on American cuisine and food culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The James Beard Awards, the food world's equivalent to the Oscars in Hollywood, snubbed Richmond restaurants and chefs for the third year in a row, Richmond Times-Dispatch restaurant critic Justin Lo (who appeared way back on Ep. 8) wrote in a recent article that appeared in the city paper. Lo laid out his reasoning behind the so-called snubs and later called his article a conversation starter on the topic. Well, consider the conversation continued. On this episode of "Eat It, Virginia!" co-host Robey Martin shares her beliefs about why no Richmond chefs nor restaurants have been honored by James Beard since the pandemic. She also lays out what Richmond restaurants and their fans should do to help Richmond get back on the James Beard map (15:15). Before that, Scott shares some recent breakfast and coffee experiences (2:45) at Rise and Shine Diner in Ashland and Café y Sabor, Brecotea, and Brick Road Coffee Co. all along various parts of West Broad Street in Henrico County. Robey also wants you yo know about a special Juneteenth Celebration dinner (8:40) with Dr. Leni Sorensen at The Roosevelt in Richmond. Tickets are available here. This episode is sponsored by the Virginia Museum of History & Culture and its new exhibit Julia Child: A Recipe For Life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  This week on “Out of Office: A Travel Podcast,” we revisit the November 2022 episode on Richmond, Virginia. It was Ryan and Kiernan's first overnight trip together (staying in separate hotels, of course)! They discuss museums, historic homes, graves, Presidents, and plenty about the Civil War. They also share their restaurant recommendations and uncover a standout hidden treasure in a National Park! The American Civil War Museum https://acwm.org/  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts https://vmfa.museum John Marshall House https://preservationvirginia.org/historic-sites/john-marshall-house/ Hollywood Cemetery https://www.hollywoodcemetery.org/ Maggie Walker House https://www.nps.gov/mawa/index.htm  Society of Cincinnati https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_the_Cincinnati  Virginia State Capitol http://virginiacapitol.gov/index.php/tours/  Statue of George Washington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_George_Washington_(Houdon)  James Madison's Montpelier https://www.montpelier.org/  Paul Jennings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jennings_(slave)   Eater's Richmond List https://dc.eater.com/maps/best-bars-restaurants-bakeries-richmond-dining-guide  Barcode https://www.barcoderva.com/  Triple Crossing Brewery https://triplecrossing.com/  Emily Dickinson's House https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/arts/design/emily-dickinson-museum-renovation.html 

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will be receiving almost $350-thousand dollars thanks to a federal grant, to help construct an expansion; Are you ready to get hooked…on fishing? ; The Ashland Theatre is hosting a  community meeting to discuss the approval of a possible data center split between Hanover County and Ashland.

Virginia Museum of History and Culture curator Paige Newman and her team spent months diving into the life and cultural impact of celebrity chef and icon Julia Child. Her mission was to season Julia Child: A Recipe for Life, a national touring exhibit, to a Virginia audience. "At first I was like, what are those? But as you delve in, in the exhibit we have five sections and we call them Virginia  à la carte," Newman said. "My first thought was, of course, James Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's enslaved chef. He had to learn the art of French cookery when Jefferson became Minister of France. And that was my first thought, we have to include James Hemings. Then doing a little more research, I'm like, oh, Julia Child was in Richmond in 1976, promoting her fourth book and she did a demo and a book signing down at Thalheimer's department store. Another was, of course, Patrick O'Connell." Learn more about the Julia Child: A Recipe for Life exhibit here. Before the interview with Paige, Scott and Robey discussed new exciting updates involving past guests Keya Wingfield (2:32) and Brittanny Anderson (3:51). Plus we jump into the Eat It, Virginia mailbag to answer your questions (6:20). This episode is sponsored by the Virginia Museum of History & Culture and its new exhibit Julia Child: A Recipe For Life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Happy Friday, listening family!!!  Today brings us another edition of "Reid on the Road" -- and with that being the case, first up among our guests for the day is Paige Newman, Curator at John's destination for the day, The Virginia Museum of History & Culture.  John and Paige discuss the museum's latest exhibit, dedicated to late chef and cultural phenom Julia Child!

Ep.198 Allison Janae Hamilton (b. 1984 in Kentucky, raised in Florida) has exhibited widely across the U.S. and abroad. Her work has been the subject of institutional solo exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art, the Joslyn Art Museum, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), and Atlanta Contemporary, as well as a commissioned solo project with Creative Time. Her sculpture, Love is like the sea… (2023) is currently on view in the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition, presented by The Helis Foundation in New Orleans, LA. Select recent group exhibitions include The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Shifting Horizons, Nevada Museum of Art; Enunciated Life, California African Art Museum; More, More, More, TANK Shanghai; and Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, Storm King Art Center. Work by the artist is held in public collections such as the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Hood Museum of Art, The Menil Collection, Nasher Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, and Speed Museum of Art, among others. Hamilton has participated in a range of fellowships and residencies, including at the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; and Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain. She is the recipient of the Creative Capital Award and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant. Hamilton holds a PhD in American Studies from New York University and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. She lives and works in New York. Portrait: Heather Sten Artist https://www.allisonjanaehamilton.com/ Marianne Boesky Gallery https://marianneboeskygallery.com/artists/60-allison-janae-hamilton/press/ Storm King Art Center https://indicators.stormking.org/allison-janae-hamilton/ Georgia Museum of Art https://georgiamuseum.org/exhibit/allison-janae-hamilton-between-life-and-landscape/ University of Georgia https://www.wuga.org/show/museum-minute/2022-10-28/museum-minute-allison-janae-hamilton Nasher Museum of Art https://nasher.duke.edu/stories/allison-janae-hamilton-floridawater-ii-sisters-wakulla-county-fl-and-when-the-wind-has-teeth/ Helis Foundation https://www.thehelisfoundation.org/pcse/love-is-like-the-sea... Pippy HouldsworthGallery https://www.houldsworth.co.uk/exhibitions/140-tales-of-soil-and-concrete-brett-goodroad-allison-janae-hamilton-yun-fei-ji-arturo/works/ The Highline https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/allison-janae-hamilton/ Contemporary Art Library https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/artist/allison-janae-hamilton-6327 Artpil https://artpil.com/allison-janae-hamilton/ The Clark https://www.clarkart.edu/microsites/humane-ecology/about-the-artists/allison-janae-hamilton UGA Today https://news.uga.edu/nature-is-at-the-center-of-allison-janae-hamiltons-work/ Rema Hort Mann Foundation https://www.remahortmannfoundation.org/allison-janae-hamilton/ Ogden Museum https://ogdenmuseum.org/event/florida-stories-a-conversation-with-author-lauren-groff-and-visual-artist-allison-janae-hamilton/ Kids Kiddle https://kids.kiddle.co/Allison_Janae_Hamilton WWD https://wwd.com/feature/allison-janae-hamilton-marianne-boesky-gallery-art-exhibition-1234792142/ Whitewall Art https://whitewall.art/art/allison-janae-hamilton-interrogates-myths-around-landscape-and-stories-of-paradise/ Whitewall Art https://whitewall.art/whitewaller/allison-janae-hamilton-a-romance-of-paradise/ Where y'at https://www.whereyat.com/allison-janae-hamilton-lauren-groff-florida-new-orleans The Bitter Southerner https://bittersoutherner.com/summer-voices/aunjanue-ellis/allison-janae-hamilton C& https://contemporaryand.com/exhibition/allison-janae-hamilton-a-romance-of-paradise/ The University of Texas at Austin https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/3f37e356-f2a7-4f3b-a9d4-7614ddfac848 Urban Milwaukee https://urbanmilwaukee.com/people/allison-janae-hamilton/

Robey Martin and Scott Wise are joined by James Beard-nominated chef Travis Milton. Milton discussed the cultural significance of Appalachian cuisine and its role as an economic driver in Bristol, Virginia, where his restaurant Hickory, at Nicewonder Farm & Vineyards, is located.  He emphasized the importance of investing in local talent and building a strong team with diverse skills and experiences to create a unique and elevated dining experience for customers. Milton also discussed his mentors, his time cooking in Richmond restaurants, and mental health struggles in the hospitality industry. (Jump straight to interview 18:15) Before the interview, Scott and Robey talked about new restaurants opening in Richmond (2:07), Scott shared details of his epic Spring Break trip to Buc-ee's and Graceland in Memphis (4:32), Robey has issues with some restaurants near her home (10:21), and Scott and Robey made new friends while having a night out on the town (16:05). This episode is sponsored by the Virginia Museum of History & Culture and its new exhibit Julia Child: A Recipe For Life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hump Day has arrived!  First up on the show this morning is Beth Vann-Turnbull, Executive Director of Housing Families First.  She talks to John about the organization -- and its annual fundraiser, featuring local artists/art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, on Thursday, April 18.

Cou Cou Rachou bakery owner Rachel De Jong grew up in a large family in Charlottesville, Virginia. She credited her family with helping her discover her passion in the kitchen. "I'm one of five children, so food was around a lot. When you're feeding seven people in the house, I was always in the kitchen, I was always watching my mom. But I had a huge sweet tooth," she said. "And of course, all my brothers always wanted cookies around. My mom preferred to do the cooking, baking not quite, so I just assumed the role and started baking all the time." Her love of baking eventually landed her in school at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, France.  Stints at Baker's Palette and Gearharts Fine Chocolates in Charlottesville came next followed by the opportunity to work with Chef Patrick O'Connell at The Inn at Little Washington. Over her four years at the Inn, De Jong's kitchen experience grew. "The pastry department was baking for the gift shop, it was baking the cookie boxes for favor, the little cute Inn boxes, doing things for room service. Very often, we had VIPs in the kitchen and dessert was one of chef's go-to's to make them feel welcome and special and change up their dinner," she said. "He never liked for people to get the same thing every time, he liked to surprise them. So dessert was often one of those ways that he would do that." Then, after launching her baking concept during the pandemic, De Jong opened Cou Cou Rachou in November 2021. Listen to Eat It, Virginia to hear Rachel De Jong share how she chooses ingredients for her croissants and pastries, what it's like working before the sun rises, and how Julia Child inspires her to this day. This episode is sponsored by the Virginia Museum of History & Culture and its new exhibit Julia Child: A Recipe For Life. Cou Cou Rachou 917 Preston Ave Suite B Charlottesville, VA 22903  434-270-0583See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On February 8, 2024, historian Marvin T. Chiles discussed the subject of his new book The Struggle to Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond. Much is known about the City of Richmond's troubled past with race and race relations. Richmond was one of the largest entrepot for the transatlantic slave trade, the capital of the Confederacy, a foundational city for Jim Crow segregation, the sacred home of Confederate memorialization, and the hotbed of Massive Resistance to school desegregation. Less talked about, however, is that Richmond was a national leader in racial reconciliation efforts after the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Residents, business leaders, and public history organizations spent the last three decades of the twentieth century seeking to fix Richmond's economy and public history scene to overcome its reputation and reality of racial strife, a conundrum created by the city's troubled history. Yet, Richmond's reconciliation movement unintendedly exacerbated the vestiges of past discrimination, that being racial gaps in wealth building, housing stability, and educational achievement. This lecture, based on The Struggle for Change, implores Richmonders and those interested in urban affairs, race relations, and southern history to not see current racial disparities as a continuum of past discrimination. Rather, Richmond's recent history shows that progressive actions and actors exacerbated systemic issues through making positive changes in their city, the South, and nation. Dr. Marvin T. Chiles is the Assistant Professor of African American History at Old Dominion University. The Struggle for Change is his first book. He has also published several articles, including “A Period of Misunderstanding: Reforming Jim Crow in Richmond, Virginia, 1930–1954,” which won the William M. E. Rachal Award from the Virginia Museum of History & Culture in 2021.

On February 22, 2024, historians Cassandra Good and Carolyn Eastman presented a lecture on the Washington family, celebrity, and the development of the new United States. While it's widely known that George and Martha Washington never had children of their own, few are aware that they raised children together. In Good's book First Family, we see Washington as a father figure and are introduced to the children he helped raise, tracing their complicated roles in American history. The children of Martha Washington's son by her first marriage—Eliza, Patty, Nelly and Wash Custis—were born into life in the public eye, well-known as George Washington's family and keepers of his legacy. By turns petty and powerful, glamorous and cruel, the Custises used Washington as a means to enhance their own power and status. As enslavers committed to the American empire, the Custis family embodied the failures of the American experiment that finally exploded into civil war—all the while being celebrities in a soap opera of their own making. Cassandra Good is a writer and historian focused on gender and politics in early America who currently serves as Associate Professor of History at Marymount University. She is the author of the prize-winning Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic and her newest book, First Family: George Washington's Heirs and the Making of America. Carolyn Eastman is an historian of early America with special interest in eighteenth and nineteenth-century histories of political culture, the media, and gender. She is Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author most recently of the award-winning The Strange Genius of Mr. O: The United States' First Forgotten Celebrity. The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.

On March 7, 2024, biographer Rebecca Boggs Roberts provided an unflinching look at First Lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. While this nation has yet to elect its first female president—and though history has downplayed her role—just over a century ago a woman became the nation's first acting president. In fact, she was born in 1872, and her name was Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. She climbed her way out of Appalachian poverty and into the highest echelons of American power and in 1919 effectively acted as the first female president of the United States when her husband, Woodrow Wilson, was incapacitated. Beautiful, brilliant, charismatic, catty, and calculating, she was a complicated figure whose personal quest for influence reshaped the position of First Lady into one of political prominence forever. Rebecca Boggs Roberts offered an unflinching look at the woman whose ascent mirrors that of many powerful American women before and since, one full of the compromises and complicities women have undertaken throughout time in order to find security for themselves and make their mark on history. Rebecca Boggs Roberts is an award-winning educator, author, and speaker, and a leading historian of American women's suffrage and civic participation. She is currently deputy director of events at the Library of Congress and serves on the board of the National Archives Foundation, on the Council of Advisors of the Women's Suffrage National Monument Foundation, and on the Editorial Advisory Committee of the White House Historical Association. Her books include the award-winning The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World; Suffragists in Washington, D.C.: The 1913 Parade and the Fight for the Vote; and Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson. The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.

Zach and Claire catch up between episodes to talk about Zach's recent visit to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to see Dawoud Bey's solo exhibition, "Elegy" -  and Claire wants to know what happened to the Salvator Mundi, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece that mysteriously disappeared after it was sold at auction. What happens when art investing and collecting collides with the public's opportunity to experience these amazing works.  Check us out on Instagram and follow along. Drop us a line if you enjoyed listening!

Shepard Fairey was drawn to making art since he was young. A curious mind, a strong work ethic, an inspired creative spirit, a growing compassion for the situations of others, and a deepening understanding of the intricacies of how our world works (and yes, more than a touch of a 'rebel spirit' nurtured by skateboard culture and punk rock) has shaped the work of that young artist into some of the most powerful, most well known, and most consequential art of our time.  Art that matters! Do you know his work? Yes, absolutely you do, although you may not know it, because for Fairey - pronounced as you would the "tooth-_____" (no relation) - the goal has never been acclaim or notoriety. His effort always leans - and more often, strides - toward problem solving, commentary, action, and urging, more often pushing us to think and care about others, to care about democracy, and justice, to care about the growing privilege of some often at the expense of others. Is there more to say?  Yes, of course! Here's what Wikipedia begins with "Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is an American contemporary artist, activist and founder of OBEY Clothing who emerged from the skateboarding scene. In 1989 he designed the "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" (...OBEY...) sticker campaign while attending the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).""Fairey designed the Barack Obama "Hope" poster for the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, has described him as one of the best known and most influential street artists. His work is included in the collections at The Smithsonian; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond; and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London."But that barely scratches the surface.I had a wonderful conversation with Shepard. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.https://obeygiant.com/https://obeyclothing.com/

On this week's episode, hosts Ben Davis and Kate Brown are joined by the newly-minted Artnet Pro editor and veteran art journalist and critic Andrew Russeth. We're thrilled to have him as a part of our team, and he's making his Art Angle debut with another edition of the Round Up, where we discuss three topics making headlines and sparking conversation in and around the art world. The first subject is the opening of The Dean Collection at the Brooklyn Museum, a show featuring the collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys titled "Giants," which is generating a lot of buzz for championing the works of Black artists including Kehinde Wiley, Ebony G. Patterson, Jordan Casteel, Henry Taylor, and Hank Willis Thomas, among many, many others. But that's not the only reason it's in the news. Andrew edited a piece by resident Art Detective Katya Kazakina titled "Should Museums Show Art Owned by Patrons? It's Tempting. It Can Also Blow Up" that investigates the fraught history of institutions doing just that. Though Swizz Beatz resigned as a trustee of the Brooklyn Museum three months before the show opened, "Public museums, critics argue, need to guard their curatorial independence and should not be used by wealthy patrons to boost the value of their holdings." The next topic of conversation is about a long-standing issue of ownership and repatriation surrounding an ancestral sculpture from Africa that was bought and sold to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where it has resided since 2015. A recent push by the art collective Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC) has resulted in a temporary loan agreement in which the sculpture will be shown at a local gallery in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and simultaneously live-streamed to the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Finally, on a lighter note, we turn to the recent news of Jeff Koons's art making its lunar landing after hitching a ride on the Odysseus Lander. Koons set a record in 2019 when his mirrored sculpture Rabbit fetched a total of $538.9 million, the most expensive price for a living artist at auction. In recent years though, his market has faltered, and the trio discusses if his moonshot will help send his prices back into the stratosphere.

EPISODE 105 | Capitol Assets: Weird DC (Travelogue 4) Guest: Fayge Horesh, co-creator, writer and host of the D Listers of History podcast, and licensed tour guide Washington D.C. is an interesting place and, like many cities, has some oddities. We take a look at some of the things around town that might not be obvious at first glance, like (not-so secret) tunnels, ghost cats, strange clocks, hollow domes, street plans, statues, snipers, protected trees, food trucks and more. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 03:42 - Making the past accessible, Daniel of Beccles, Father Divine, traces of history, Deep Throat in Rosslyn 06:35 - Pierre L'Enfant's plans, Masonic symbols, quadrants, a hidden pentagram, Benjamin Banneker's thighs, DC once had canals (gross ones) 14:03 - Street plan as weather control machine yet the weather is terrible, underground tunnels (one open to the public), the Ghost Cat, no sitting on the floor, the Capitol Dome is hollow 21:37 - The Women's Portrait Monument, so many statues 23:43 - Snipers and other security, food truck a-go-go 28:33 - The NIST Newton Apple Tree in International Park, don't linger in front of the former Iran Embassy, clocks and time in Friendship Heights, conspiracy theories are distractions, Chinatown has very few Chinese people 36:55 - Explore your city and embrace the weirdness Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info D Listers of History podcast 'Merican Monuments (Travelogue 2) episode The world of Daniel of Beccles D Listers episode Book of the Civilized Man by Daniel of Beccles article A Brief History of Pierre L'Enfant and Washington, D.C. in Smithsonian Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant on the Virginia Museum of History & Culture Benjamin Banneker: The Black Tobacco Farmer Who the Presidents Couldn't Ignore on the White House Historical Association Capitol Building Tunnel System What lies beneath DC? Many more tunnels than you might think! The D.C. Underground Atlas Demon Cat: the tale of a wanderlust feline ghost Make America Ghostly Again: The Demon Cat of Washington D.C.  Does The Demon Cat Still Haunt Washington's Capitol Hill? Bells, Buzzers, Clicks and Clocks Congressional Clocks Have a Secret Code on Atlas Obscura Capitol Illumination Inside the Capitol Dome Hidden Congress: An Alternative Tour of the U.S. Capitol Apotheosis of Washington Leaders in Equality: The Portrait Monument Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony The Suffragist Statue Trapped in a Broom Closet for 75 Years How Security Measures In Washington, D.C., Have Changed Since 9/11  12 Best Washington DC Food Trucks on Female Foodie Find food trucks in DC on Roaming Hunger What happened to D.C.'s food trucks? The answer says much about the ‘new normal.' NIST Newton Apple Tree Where To Find The Most Unusual Trees In D.C. After the arena came, the Asian population of Washington's Chinatown shrank 269 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Washington, D.C. Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it's a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it's going. It's Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER

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On December 14, 2023, historian John Ragosta gave a lecture on Patrick Henry's final political battles. In a democracy, how do you disagree with government policy? What is a loyal opposition? In the 1790s, hyper-partisan political battles threatened to tear the new nation apart. Under the Sedition Act, a person criticizing the government could be jailed; opposition newspaper editors were targeted. In response, the Kentucky Resolutions, drafted by Thomas Jefferson, declared that Kentucky could proclaim federal laws unconstitutional and “nullify” them—secession, state versus state, and against the federal government, loomed. Newspapers warned of “Civil War!” George Washington begged Patrick Henry to come out of retirement, oppose these dangerous policies, and save the union. Though Henry had been the leading antifederalist, arguing against ratification of the Constitution, in 1799, he rebuked Jefferson and insisted that since “we the people” adopted the Constitution—even though Henry had opposed it—anyone contesting federal policy must seek reform “in a constitutional way.” Henry helped to define a loyal opposition. Unfortunately, that story was suppressed by Jeffersonians throughout the 19th century. John Ragosta discussed this story—recounted in For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry's Final Political Battle—a story of how a democracy must work if it is to survive. John A. Ragosta is a historian at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. He is the author of Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Legacy, America's Creed and For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry's Final Political Battle. This program, part of the VMHC's multi-year initiative to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the U.S., is presented by the John Marshall Center for Constitutional History & Civics. The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.

On January 11, 2024, historian John Reeves gave a lecture on the rise of Ulysses S. Grant during an extraordinary decade. Captain Ulysses S. Grant, an obscure army officer who resigned his commission in 1854, rose to become general-in-chief of the United States Army in 1864. What accounts for this astonishing turn-around? Was it destiny? Or was he just an ordinary man, opportunistically benefiting from the turmoil of the Civil War to advance to the highest military rank? Grant's life story is an almost inconceivable tale of redemption within the context of his fraught relationships with his antislavery father and his slaveholding wife. His connection to the institution of slavery, before and during the war, will be reconsidered in this talk. John Reeves has been a teacher, editor, and writer for more than thirty years. The Civil War, in particular, has been his passion since he first read Bruce Catton's The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War as an elementary school student in the 1960s. He is the author of The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon, A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, and Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant. The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.

This week Sarah is in San Francisco and gets the chance to talk with artist Jason Hanasik about his career as a photographer and filmmaker. Jason talks about creating GAP's contribution to the It Gets Better Campaign, losing a sister to mental health challenges and what personal liberation can look like. Sarah shares some personal news. About Jason Jason Hanasik is a filmmaker, artist, journalist, and curator. His work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, screened at various international film festivals, and featured on the BBC, The Guardian and in The Los Angeles Times. He has curated exhibitions for the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and his scholarship has been published in the academic journal “Critical Military Studies.” Hanasik's photography monograph, "I slowly watched him disappear," is in the research collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA NYC, and other institutions. Show Notes: Personal Website: www.jasonhanasik.com "A Great Gay Book: Stories of Growth, Belonging and Other Queer Possibilities": https://agreatgaybook.com "How to Make a Pearl": https://vimeo.com/255561801 “A Childhood on Fire” http://theguardian.com/childhood-on-fire “Tomorrow Will Be A Better Day In an Unknown World:" https://youtu.be/_ptvmahVE-s --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thesidewoo/message

On October 24, 2023, Maj. Gen. Jason Q. Bohm, USMC, gave a lecture on the formation of the Marine Corps and its role in the American Revolution. The fighting prowess of united states marines is second to none, but few know of the Corps' humble beginnings and what it achieved during the early years of the American Revolution. Jason Bohm rectifies this oversight with his eye-opening Washington's Marines: The Origins of the Corps and the American Revolution, 1775–1777. Bohm artfully tells the story of the creation of the Continental Marines and the men who led them during the parallel paths followed by the Army and Marines in the opening years of the war and through the early successes and failures at Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Canada, Boston, Charleston, and more. Washington's Marines is the first complete study of its kind to weave the men, strategy, performance, and personalities of the Corps' formative early years into a single compelling account. Maj. Gen. Jason Q. Bohm is a Marine with more than 30 years of service. An infantryman by trade, he has commanded at every level from platoon commander to commanding general in peacetime and war. Bohm also served in several key staff positions, including as a strategic planner with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Director of the Marine Corps Expeditionary Warfare School, House Director, Marine Corps Office of Legislative Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, and Chief of Staff of U.S. Naval Striking and Support Forces, NATO. Bohm has a bachelor's degree in marketing, a master's degree in military studies, and a master's degree in national security studies. Jason has written several articles for the Marine Corps Gazette and won various writing awards from the Marine Corps Association. He is the author of From the Cold War to ISIL: One Marine's Journey and Washington's Marines: The Origins of the Corps and the American Revolution, 1775–1777. The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.

On November 30, 2023, historian Jessica Taylor discussed the subject of her new book, Plain Paths and Dividing Lines: Navigating Native Land and Water in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake. It is one thing to draw a line in the sand but another to enforce it. This talk will follow the Native peoples and the newcomers who, in pursuit of freedom or profit, crossed emerging boundaries—fortifications, law, property lines—surrounding developing English plantations in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake Bay. Algonquians had cultivated ties to one another and others beyond the region by canoe and road for centuries. Their networks continued to define the watery Chesapeake landscape, even as Virginia and Maryland planters erected fences, policed unfree laborers and Native neighbors, and dispatched land surveyors. Using Native trade routes and places, and sometimes with the help of Native people themselves, escaping indentured and enslaved people absconded fueled by their own developing, alternate ideas about freedom and connection. Taylor will talk about how Native land provided the perfect setting for early resistance to colonialism, and about exciting new efforts to document their escapades. Dr. Jessica Taylor is an assistant professor in the history department at Virginia Tech. As a public historian, she collaborates on projects across the Southeast as diverse as oral histories with boatbuilders, augmented reality tours of historic sites, and reconstructed maps of precolonial landscapes. Her current work connects graduate and undergraduate students to history firsthand through fieldwork experiences in oral history, and an ongoing project documenting escape attempts of indentured servants and enslaved people in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake. She is the author of Plain Paths and Dividing Lines: Navigating Native Land and Water in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake. The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.

Barbara Campbell Thomas is a North Carolina based painter who has exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States, including the Weatherspoon Art Museum (NC), the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, The Painting Center (NY), the Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (NC), the North Carolina Museum of Art, Ortega Y Gasset Projects (NY), Maake Projects (PA), Wavelength Space (TN) and Hidell Brooks Gallery (NC).  Currently, her work is in a two-person exhibition at the Columbus College of Art and Design's Beeler Gallery, and in March she will have a two-person show at James May Gallery in Milwaukee.   Her work has been written about in Two Coats of Paint, Art Papers, The Coastal Post and BURNAWAY.   Barbara Campbell Thomas attended Skowhegan, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency and Hambidge Center for Creative Arts.  She is a Professor of Art and the Director of the School of Art at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.   

On November 8, 2023, award-winning author Edward Ayers delivered a lecture about his book, "American Visions: The United States, 1800–1860." The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native dispossession, and wars with Canada and Mexico. Mass immigration and powerful religious movements sent tremors through American society. But even as the powerful defended the status quo, others defied it: voices from the margins moved the center; eccentric visions altered the accepted wisdom, and acts of empathy questioned self-interest. Edward L. Ayers's rich history examines the visions that moved Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, the Native American activist William Apess, and others to challenge entrenched practices and beliefs. Lydia Maria Child condemned the racism of her fellow northerners at great personal cost. Melville and Thoreau, Joseph Smith and Samuel Morse all charted new paths for America in the realms of art, nature, belief, and technology. Ayers turns his distinctive historical sensibility to a period when bold visionaries and critics built vigorous traditions of dissent and innovation into the foundation of the nation. Those traditions remain alive for us today. Edward Ayers is university professor of the humanities and president emeritus at the University of Richmond. He has received the Bancroft and Lincoln Prizes for his scholarship, been named National Professor of the Year, received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama at the White House, served as president of the Organization of American Historians, and was the founding board chair of the American Civil War Museum in Richmond. He is executive director of New American History and Bunk, dedicated to making the nation's history more visible and useful for a broad range of audiences. This lecture was co-hosted by American Civil War Museum, Black HIstory Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia, and The Valentine. The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.

Ep.178 features Deborah Roberts (American, b. 1962) a mixed media artist whose work challenges the notion of ideal beauty. Her work has been exhibited internationally across the USA and Europe. Roberts' work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles, California; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, among several other institutions. She was selected to participate in the Robert Rauschenberg Residency (2019) and was a finalist for the 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, as well as the recipient of the Anonymous Was A Woman Grant (2018), and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2016). Texas Metal of Arts Award (2023) Roberts received her MFA from Syracuse University, New York. She lives and works in Austin, Texas. Roberts is represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA. Photo by Moyo Oyelola Artist https://www.deborahrobertsart.com/ Current Book https://www.radiusbooks.org/all-books/p/deborah-roberts-twenty-years-of-art-work Stephen Friedman Gallery https://www.stephenfriedman.com/artists/51-deborah-roberts/ Vielmetter https://vielmetter.com/artists/deborah-roberts/ The Contemporary Austin https://thecontemporaryaustin.org/exhibitions/deborah-roberts/ MCA Denver https://mcadenver.org/exhibitions/deborah-roberts Galerie Mitterrand  https://galeriemitterrand.com/en/exhibitions/189-deborah-roberts-niki-de-saint-phalle-the-conversation-continues/ Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2023/10/16/on-view-deborah-roberts-is-presenting-mixed-media-collages-that-consider-black-boyhood-at-site-santa-fe/ The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/06/black-kids-collage-legend-deborah-roberts-tyre-nichols Essence https://www.essence.com/art/deborah-roberts-artist/ University of Texas https://www.galleriesatut.org/gallery-showings/blog-post-title-one-nh7cz-ph2z8-efkhg-6gsdp-f2emz-r4g45-djdhw-28dfc-74hc7-x8z3h-jd46n Ampersand Art https://ampersandart.com/blog-full-article/featured-artist-deborah-roberts 27East https://www.27east.com/arts/artist-talk-with-deborah-roberts-2175350/ Artnews https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/deborah-roberts-collage-defiance-black-children-1234591645/ Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/deborah-roberts-artist Texas Monthly https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/deborah-roberts-has-exhibited-art-worldwide-she-hasnt-had-a-solo-museum-show-in-her-hometown-until-now/ Artnet News https://news.artnet.com/news/anti-trump-art-us-elections-1918311 Harpers Bazaar https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/bazaar-art/a34244410/bazaar-art-covers-2020/ Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Roberts_(visual_artist) Sightline shttps://sightlinesmag.org/seeing-and-being-seen-in-a-solo-museum-deborah-roberts-asks-us-to-look

In this episode of PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf, Sasha and Michael travelled to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA to speak with Keough Family Curator of Photography​, Gregory Harris and photographer, Rahim Fortune about the amazing show, A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, up through January 14, 2024. Greg talks about how he and Sarah Kennel --curator of Photography at Virginia Museum of Art-- collaborated on the curation of the exhibition, some of the history behind the work, and the practical and curatorial decisions needed in order to narrow down the breadth of work made in the south from 1845 to today. Rahim shares his process of writing the afterword to the exhibition catalog, with Dr. Shakira Smith, published by Aperture, and shares his response to the work in the show along with its historical significance to the history of Black photographers in the American South. https://high.org/exhibition/a-long-arc/ https://aperture.org/books/a-long-arc-photography-and-the-american-south/ https://high.org/person/gregory-harris/ https://www.rahimfortune.com Rahim Fortune uses photography to ask fundamental questions about American identity. Focusing on the narratives of individual families and communities, he explores shifting geographies of migration and resettlement, and the way that these histories are written on the landscapes of Texas and the American South. Rahim has published two books of his photographs. His work has been featured in exhibitions worldwide and is included in many permanent collections, including those of the High Museum in Atlanta GA, The LUMA Arles, Nelson Atkins Museum and The Boston Museum of Fine Art. “Fortune's calm and striking photographs provide a compelling glimpse into the daily rhythms of the community, revealing its deep humanity and dignity, at a time when his own personal pain resonated with the experience of the nation. But his images also capture the pain, tensions and relentless everyday reality that have influenced the lives of these people. His portraits are so grippingly engaging because he finds the necessary balance between thoughtful compassion and hard truth.” - Collector Daily Gregory J. Harris is the High Museum of Art's Donald and Marilyn Keough Family Curator of Photography. He is a specialist in contemporary photography with a particular interest in documentary practice. Since joining the Museum in 2016, Harris has curated over a dozen exhibitions including Mark Steinmetz: Terminus (2018), Paul Graham: The Whiteness of the Whale (2017), and Amy Elkins: Black is the Day, Black is the Night (2017). For the Museum's 2018 collection reinstallation, he surveyed a broad sweep of the history of photography through prints from the High's holdings in Look Again: 45 Years of Collecting Photography. His collaborative projects have included Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads (2019), a joint exhibition with the High's folk and self-taught art department. Harris was previously the Assistant Curator at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, where he curated exhibitions including Sonja Thomsen: Glowing Wavelengths in Between (2015), The Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus (2014), and Studio Malick: Portraits from Mali (2012). He also organized and authored catalogues for the exhibitions We Shall: Photographs by Paul D'Amato (2013), Matt Siber: Idol Structures (2015), and Liminal Infrastructure (2015). Harris also held curatorial positions at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he organized the exhibitions In the Vernacular (2010) and Of National Interest (2008). His essay “Photographs Still and Unfolding” was published in Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography (McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, 2016). Harris has contributed essays to monographs by Amy Elkins, Matthew Brandt, Jill Frank, and Mark Steinmetz. He earned a BFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago and an MA in art history from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This podcast is sponsored by picturehouse + thesmalldarkroom. https://phtsdr.com

Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter!   Check out our merch here Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode. Join the Black Women Stitch PatreonAmazon Store Lisa WoolforkLisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English specializing in African American literature and culture. Her teaching and research explore Black women writers, Black identity, trauma theory, and American slavery. She is the founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black lives matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast that centers on Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. In the summer of 2017, she actively resisted the white supremacist marches in her community, Charlottesville, Virginia. The city became a symbol of lethal resurging white supremacist violence. She remains active in a variety of university and community initiatives, including the Community Engaged Scholars program. She believes in the power of creative liberation.Sahara ClemonsSahara Clemons is a multimedia artist and designer born in Washington D.C and based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Clemons revels in the fluidity of artistic mediums and interweaves painting, textiles, and dance in her creative process. Her work explores the intersection of race and gender and provides commentary on the socio-political forces that shape identity. Her work has been shown at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Second Street Gallery, The Bridge Progressive Arts Institute, and McGuffey Art Center. Clemons is a YoungArts alumni and is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Rhode Island School of Design.Insights from this episode:How to go from ‘sketch' to ‘stitch'The techniques behind textile manipulationThe importance of defining your purpose when doing creative workTips for overcoming your fear of making mistakes and taking chancesBeing creative when you don't have a lot of resourcesQuotes from the show:“I feel like I'm a very conceptual person when it comes to making, and I think it always starts off with the story. Mainly I think the core aspect of that is making it personal and authentic to my journey as not just an artist, but as a person.” – Sahara Clemons, Stitch Please, Episode #202 [05:53]“I think too often we think about sewing or fashion and manufacturing, but that's not all that you're doing and this is one of the reasons I think that fashion is art. The same things that we see in art, or the things that go into making art, go into making the garments that we ultimately see.” – Lisa Woolfork, Stitch Please, Episode #202 [08:51]“What I appreciate about fashion is that idea of community-building and bringing people into the clothing.” – Sahara Clemons, Stitch Please, Episode #202 [11:35]“I wanted the collection to go through the transition of a person's mindset when it comes to body exploration… knowing that it is a healing process rather than, ‘this is okay, my scars are okay.' With all of society and you yourself, it's hard to feel that way and it's really challenging to go through that process, and that's what I wanted to share. That it's more about this healing and embracing a new perspective of yourself rather than an immediate dopamine rush of what it is, because it is hard sometimes to let go.” – Sahara Clemons, Stitch Please, Episode #202 [25:40]“I paralleled [pearls] with this idea of feeling like your body is an antagonizing force. Seeing how you can turn that around and how that creates in yourself this beauty and thing you have to overcome with yourself is a powerful journey that ends up being very beautiful.” – Sahara Clemons, Stitch Please, Episode #202 [35:40]Resources Mentioned:Sahara's first appearance on the Stitch Please podcastSupima Design CompetitionCLO computer-assisted 3D design programThis week's episode is sponsored by AccuQuiltStay Connected:YouTube: Black Women StitchInstagram: Black Women StitchFacebook: Stitch Please PodcastLisa WoolforkInstagram: Lisa WoolforkTwitter: Lisa WoolforkSahara ClemonsWebsite: Sahara ClemonsInstagram: sgcoriginalsSubscribe to our podcast + download each episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.This episode was produced and managed by Podcast Laundry.

Ep.172 features Leslie Smith. He lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin. | He was a 2022 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellow and earned a BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA at the Yale School of Art. | Smith's interests lie in our conscious effort to alter personal perception. | Recent works explore Abstraction's inherent personal and political properties as they relate to broadening notions of Black representation, with a mindset that it's possible to present a new interpretation of contemporary abstraction. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond; the Birmingham Museum of Art; the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham; and the FRAC Auvergne, France. Smith is a Full Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Photo by Jim Escalante Artist http://www.lesliesmith3.com/ Chart Gallery https://chart-gallery.com/exhibitions/49-leslie-smith-iii-reaching-for-something-high/ Joan Mitchell 2022 https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/leslie-smith-iii Joan Mitchell 2023 https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/journal/in-the-studio-leslie-smith-iii University Wisconsin–Madison https://art.wisc.edu/2022/09/23/leslie-smith-iii-wins-joan-mitchell-fellowship/ Two Coats of Paint https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2023/10/leslie-smith-iii-poignantly-off-balance.html Maus Contemporary https://mauscontemporary.com/artists/leslie-smith-iii/ Art Daily https://artdaily.com/news/162053/-Leslie-Smith-III--Reaching-for-Something-High--solo-exhibition-opening-at-CHART- Art New City https://art.newcity.com/2021/01/08/abstracting-lived-experience-a-review-of-leslie-smith-iii-at-hawthorn-contemporary/ M+B Photo https://www.mbphoto.com/artworks/17654/ Wide Walls https://www.widewalls.ch/maus-contemporary-expo-chicago-2019-leslie-smith-iii-interview/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Smith_III

Episode No. 620 features artists Stacy Kranitz and Kristine Potter. Kranitz and Potter are included in "A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845" at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. The exhibition considers the South as a forger of American identity and examines how Southern photographers have contributed to both the advance of their medium, and the US project. "A Long Arc" was curated by Gregory J. Harris and Sarah Kennel, and will be on view through January 14, 2024 before traveling to the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass., and to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. The catalogue was published by Aperture. Bookshop and Amazon offer it for about $70. Kranitz's work, primarily made in the southern Appalachian Mountains, presents the complexity and instability of a rugged region on which industry has preyed. Her work is in the collection of museums such as the Harvard Art Museums and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her 2022 book As it Was Give(n) to Me was published by Twin Palms and was shortlisted for a Paris Photo-Aperture First Photobook Award. Bookshop and Amazon offer it for about $75-80. Aperture has just published Potter's second monograph, Dark Waters. The book extends Potter's interest in using the US landscape as an ideological site by exploring how nineteenth and twentieth-century 'murder ballads' marry site to misogynistic violence. Bookshop and Amazon offer it for about $43-61. Instagram: Stacy Kranitz, Kristine Potter, Tyler Green.

Episode No. 616 features artist Gary Simmons and curator Sarah L. Eckhardt. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is presenting "Gary Simmons: Public Enemy," a survey of Simmons' 35-year career. The exhibition reveals how Simmons has addressed race, class and US history in ways that have remained persistently au courant. It was curated by René Morales and Jadine Collingwood, with Jack Schneider. After closing on October 1, the exhibition will be on view at the Pérez Art Museum Miami from December 5 through April 24, 2024. The MCA Chicago and DelMonico Books have published an outstanding catalogue. Bookshop and Amazon offer it for $56-60. Along with Drew Thompson, Eckhardt is the co-curator of "Benjamin Wigfall & Communications Village." It's at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond through September 10. The exhibition is a survey of Richmond-native Wigfall's work, and a historicization of Communications Village, the interdisciplinary artist-run project that Wigfall instigated while teaching at the State University of New York, New Paltz in the early 1970s, as the instigator of what we now call social practice. The excellent catalogue was published by the VMFA, which offers it for $40. Instagram: Gary Simmons, Tyler Green.