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In this episode of The Texan Recap, Senior Audio Producer Jack Lewellyn chats about “Soon Moon," an eclipse-inspired art show hosted by UT's Visual Arts Center. Plus, UT and the City of Austin work to collect and donate used eclipse glasses. Reported by Analise Pickerrell and Erika Pernis. Hosted by Jack Lewellyn. Edited by Aislyn Gaddis. Cover art by Emma Berke. Music by Top Flow Productions.

On the pod, I am thrilled to be joined by Ariana Gomez. This episode continues our series of conversations with artists participating in VAST IS THE SEA is a series curated by @porchswingorchestra consisting of  8 presentations from artists whose diverse works are united by their explorations of images, sound, and community presented by co-lab projects in Austin, Texas. The next presentations will take place at 7 and 8 pm on Saturday, February 17 and our final presentations and performances will take place the following Saturday at 7 and 8 pm, the 24th. Ariana will present a sound and video workOn Saturday, February 17th at 7 pmYou can purchase tickets on a sliding scale starting at $5 at https://withfriends.co/event/17182339/vast_is_the_seaAriana Gomez (she/her) is a visual artist based in Austin, TX. She spent the last twelve years in New York City working commercially and recently returned home to Austin, to pursue a graduate degree from the University of Texas. This transition has become a catalyst for her most recent ruminations on the concepts of home, family, and identity. Working primarily with photography, text, and sound, Gomez's practice examines our notions of the ‘home' as a myth through reflections on her parent's relationship to the land. Her interest lies in the meeting of this trinity of images, text, and sound and how the three can work together as a spiritual triad to create an experiential memory-scape of place.Gomez has exhibited both in the U.S. and internationally most recently showing at Women and Their Work as a Red Dot Artist in Austin, TX, sTudio 7 for the Rockaway Artists' Alliance in Fort Tilden, NY, and for The Print Space Gallery in London, UK. Recent awards include a 2024 University Residency Fellowship from Studios at MASS MoCA, and she was honored to be mentioned as a photographer to watch in Glass Tire's Best of 2022. Her work has appeared online and in publications such as The New York Times Opinion, Lux Magazine, PhMuseum, Booooooom, and Ain't Bad.Co-Lab Projects is a legendary art space whose current configuration is a 40 x 10 x 10-foot concrete culvert sitting on an open plot of land just east of the city. The culvert will be awash in projections and stereo sounds on either end of the ceiling. The floor is covered in a sea of moving blankets.Viewers/listeners are invited to lay next to the performers occupying the center to become a raft in an ocean of sounds gazing at a visionary sky.ARIANA GOMEZ'S CURRENT AND UPCOMING SHOWSSomos Recuerdos at Visual Arts Center, UT Austin until March 2nd. https://utvac.org/Mix N Mash at the Mexic-Arte Museumhttps://mexic-artemuseum.org/ICOSA Window Dressing Feb 19-26 with the reception on Feb. 23rd from 6-8pm.https://www.icosacollective.com/MFA Thesis Show at the Visual Arts Center will open on April 19th.https://utvac.org/LINKS and REFERENCESPORCH SWING ORCHESTRAhttps://porchswingorchestra.org/Tickets to VAST IS THE SEA https://withfriends.co/event/17182339/vast_is_the_seaCO-LAB PROJECTShttps://www.co-labprojects.org/ARIANA GOMEZ'S WEBSITEhttps://www.arianagomez.com/ARIANA GOMEZ ON IG_arianagomezVAST IS THE SEA is supported in part by grants from the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department, Texas Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and H-E-B. Get full access to Porch Swing Orchestra at porchswingorchestra.substack.com/subscribe

Ricardo Resende nasceu em Guaranésia, São Paulo, Brasil, em 1962. Possui mestrado em História da Arte pela ECA-USP. Desde 1988, desempenha funções de educação, curadoria e direção em instituições como o MAC-USP, o MAM São Paulo, o MAC Dragão do Mar, o Centro de Artes Visuais da Funarte, o Centro Cultural São Paulo e o Museu Bispo do Rosário. [Ricardo Resende was born in Guaranésia, São Paulo, Brazil, in 1962. He has a master degree in art history from the University of São Paulo. Since 1988, he works in the fields of education, curating, and directing of cultural institutions like the Contemporary Art Museum of the University of São Paulo, the Modern Art Museum of São Paulo, Contemporary Art Museum Dragão do Mar, the Visual Arts Center at Funarte, Centro Cultural São Paulo, and the Bispo do Rosário Museum] ///imagens selecionadas|selected images: Clovis Aparecido filmado por (recorded by) Petra Costa + Museu Rietberg, Zurique, Suíça)(Rietberg Museum, Zurich, Switzerland) + Kunsthalle de Berna, Suíça (Bern Kunsthalle, Switzerland)/// [entrevista realizada em 25 de outubro de 2020|interview recorded on october 25th, 2020] [link para YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d44qihMsktk]

I thought I had Artist Alberto Aguilar all figured out, and I was wrong. LOL, I mean, not at all. Alberto Aguilar is a Chicago-based artist who works wherever he is, with whatever material is at hand, collaborating with whoever is near. It's a way of living and making that allows him to be more present in all his roles. He teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois in Chicago, regularly exchanging with his students. He runs Mayfield, an independent art space from his home/studio, with his daughter and fellow artist, Madeleine Aguilar. He has exhibited at museums, street corners, highway rest stops, storefronts, galleries, and people's homes worldwide.  In this special episode, I speak to Alberto Aguilar about his art practice and his family, and Alberto gives me some advice too. Suppose you are reading this in August of 2023. In that case, Alberto will be on residency at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, where he will have a house and produce work for an upcoming traveling group exhibition titled Self Adjacent. In September, I will have a solo exhibition/project at Centro Romero, a community-based organization that serves the refugee immigrant population on the northeast side of Chicago. Yall, Alberto is booked and busy. I appreciated how open he was about his process, family, and art world dreams, and I hope you will enjoy this conversation with him. Follow Alberto on Instagram See his work at: albertoaguilar.org Connect with me on the social meeds!! Follow me on: Instagram See my art, photography, and films at www.missgraham.com Check out our website at www.noseyaf.com   Credits: Thanks to Amanda at Cassiopeia Studio for producing this episode    

Markus Linnenbrink is an artist from Dortmund, Germany who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany and the Gesamthochschule Kassel, Germany. His recent solo exhibitions include Galería Max Estrella in Madrid, the Fundación DIDAC, in Spain, the Museum of New Art in Portsmouth, NH, Miles McEnery Gallery in New York, Taubert Contemporary in Berlin, Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, and Maurizio Caldiorola Gallery, Monza, Italy. Markus has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Borusan Contemporary in Istanbul, Daegu National Museum in South Korea, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Kunstmuseum Bonn, the San José Museum of Art, the Tucson Museum of Art and the Visual Arts Center of Richmond in VA. His work may be found in the collections of the Clemens Sels Museum, in Germany, El Espacio 23 in Miami, the Hammer Museum, in LA, the Ministry of Culture at the Hague in the Netherlands, Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to just name a few. His current show EVERYTHINGBETWEENTHESUNANDTHEDIRT is on view at Miles McEnery Gallery through 22 July 2023 at 511 West 22nd Street.

On May 30, James River Writers will partner with We Need Diverse Books to host an online panel discussion about the issue of diverse representation in literature. Part of JRW's annual advocacy series, the event will take place May 30 from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m., during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Featured panelists will include three authors: We Need Diverse Books board member Minh Lê, We Need Diverse Books Executive Director Caroline Tung Richmond, and Kaitlyn Sage Patterson, fundraiser for We Need Diverse Books. Poet Rosa Castellano, who spearheads writing programs at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond,...Article LinkSupport the show

Susan Hankla Poet has s long history with Artemis. Back in 1977, as a young writer, Susan's poetry appeared in the very first edition of Artemis Journal. VA. For many years she worked as a traveling poet-in-the-schools working with underserved communities in Virginia, through generous grants from The Virginia Commission on the Arts. This made her love of teaching creative writing grow into reaching out to the Richmond community offering adult writing classes at the VMFA Studio School, The Visual Arts Center, & The University of Richmond. Her debut collection of poems, Clinch River, was released in 2017 and her second poetry book was just released, titled I'm not Evelyn published by Groundhog Press.

Partnership For The Arts Group Podcast Show #91 “Where We Talk Art … with Artist Instructor Lisa Oliver In this episode The “Flower Lady,” Lisa Oliver, joins Victor in the Library studio at the VAC. Listen in and learn how a little girl's love of colors led her on a life journey to becoming a horticulturist that traveled the world. This “yoga for the brain” passion then turned to photography, and various art media until Lisa found Watercolor and Alcohol Ink and fell in love! Her much sought after style has turned into her next highly successful career. So successful that she's a facilitator for Water Media and Alcohol Ink classes at the Visual Arts Center, a teacher of many Arts & Crafts camps, and a member of the AuSable Artisan Village in her home town in Grayling Michigan, where her revolving art is shown year round. What's her secret? Well you'll find out when you enjoy this entertaining talk with Lisa and Victor as they discuss her success and her highly acclaimed stylistic ways of painting. Make sure to check out her art at https://www.artisanvillage.org/ Where We talk Art is based in Punta Gorda FL. at The Visual Art Center. https://visualartcenter.org/

Comprised of hundreds of objects fabricated using multiple glass processes, Between Seeing and Knowing is a large-scale, site-specific installation by artists Anna Boothe and Nancy Cohen. The installation is on view now through February 5, 2023 at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, Wisconsin. Created as part of a collaborative residency that took place at the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) in 2012, the artwork has been previously exhibited at Accola Griefen Gallery, New York, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and Philadelphia's International Airport. At its core, Between Seeing and Knowing is the result of both artists' long-standing interest in and in-depth study of Tibetan Buddhist thangka paintings and the integration of their otherwise very separate studio practices. Thangkas are ordered cosmological paintings, often scrolls, created for the purpose of meditation and composed of numerous visual elements. This installation reinterprets the symbolism in the paintings to create new work that reflects the organizational structure and palette of the paintings, as well as the sense of expansiveness and lack of hard resolution characteristic of Buddhist ideology.  Boothe and Cohen state: “Overall, through this collaboration, its subject matter, and our chosen methodology, we seek to understand, both visually and viscerally, another cultural perspective or expression unlike our own, through our dissection and re-assemblage of elements unique to that culture. Just as collaboration brings forth the opportunity for a deep exchange of ideas and the development of sympathetic approaches to doing what one does, pragmatically and metaphorically, this is our attempt at bridging gaps between cultural approaches to explain the unexplainable.” With degrees in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design and glass from Tyler School of Art/Temple University, Boothe has worked with glass since 1980. Included in the permanent collections of CMoG, Racine Art Museum and Tacoma Museum of Art, her cast glass work has been exhibited widely, including recently at the Albuquerque Art Museum, Fuller Craft Museum, Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts and the Hotel Nani Mocenigo Palace in Venice, as well as at several villas in Italy's Veneto Region. Boothe taught in Tyler's glass program for 16 years, helped develop and chaired Salem Community College's glass art program and has exhibited and/or lectured internationally in Australia, Belgium, Israel, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, Taiwan and Turkey, as well as at numerous US universities and glass-focused schools. She served on the Board and as President of the Glass Art Society from 1998-2006 and is a former Director of Glass at Philadelphia's National Liberty Museum.     With an MFA in Sculpture from Columbia University and a BFA in Ceramics from Rochester Institute of Technology, Cohen has been working with glass (among other materials) since 1990. Her work examines resiliency in relation to the environment and the human body. Cohen's work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States and is represented in collections such as The Montclair Museum, The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, and The Zimmerli Museum. She has completed large-scale, site-specific projects for The Staten Island Botanical Garden, The Noyes Museum of Art, The Katonah Museum, Howard University, and others. Recent solo exhibitions include Walking a Line at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Chelsea, New York, and Nancy Cohen: Atlas of Impermanence at the Visual Arts Center in Summit, New Jersey. Group exhibitions include All We Can Save: Climate Conversations at the Nurture Nature Center in Easton, Pennsylvania, and ReVision and Respond at The Newark Museum. Cohen is a 2022 recipient of a Mid-Atlantic Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She currently teaches drawing and sculpture at Queens College. In a review of Boothe and Cohen's collaborative project, Elizabeth Crawford of N.Y Arts Magazine, wrote: : “Intuitively proximate to Buddhist philosophy, the piece is about the inter-relatedness of things. Each glass part appears sentient and in direct communication with the others. In a Thangka painting, none of the forms are meant to be isolated but work together to invite the viewer to take the painting in at once, as a whole. Similarly, all of the pieces in Boothe and Cohen's installation contribute to a sense of continuous breath or movement which is enhanced by light reflecting through the glass.” For this innovative work the artists used an astounding range of glass processes including kiln-casting, slumping, fusing, blowing, hot-sculpting and sand-casting.  

Putting Artists First in Curatorial Projects with Melissa Messina Today's conversation on The Art Biz is packed with tips and insider info. In my conversation with independent curator Melissa Messina, we discuss what an independent curator does, how Melissa finds and works with artists, and what happens during a studio visit to an artist she is (or might be) working with. You won't want to miss the insights she shares about common mistakes she sees artists making, as well as how to correct them. Above all, Melissa shares the empowering reminder that the artist is at the center of all a curator, a museum, or a gallery does. First posted: https://artbizsuccess.com/curator-messina-podcast Highlights “I think that curator gene has always been in me.” (1:55) Melissa's work as an independent curator. (5:32) How does a curator find their artists? (9:00) The importance of your network. (14:37) Insights from the details of Melissa's standard project. (18:46) Scheduling projects and finding funding with fellowships. (23:55) Curating an artist's estate is the joy of Melissa's life. (26:53) What piquesMelissa's interest in the artists she encounters? (32:01) The cities, websites, publications, and galleries where Melissa looks for artists. (35:00) Working with galleries as an independent curator. (38:04) The role that studio visits play in a curator-artist relationship. (40:54) What curators are looking for from a studio visit. (48:51) Correcting the mistakes that too many artists make. (50:54) This Week's Assignment Research my guest Melissa Messina and start following her on social media. Then start researching independent curators in your area and start following them. Consider inviting them into your studio for a low-stress visit—and don't forget to offer them a drink. Mentioned ArtBizAccelerator.com Brooklyn Museum Art Papers Hyperallergic Valerie Cassel Oliver Tyson Scholars of American Art Program at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Melissa Messina Melissa Messina on Instagram Resources Show notes, images, and listener comments How to Price Your Art free report Art Biz Connection artist membership Quotes “I'm constantly making calculations to see where an exhibition or project might percolate out of my experiences and relationships.” — Melissa Messina “Your network is everything.” — Melissa Messina “There are some really good artists with bad attitudes, and I would much rather give the opportunity to someone who is a joy to work with.” — Melissa Messina “I think artists would do better to let go of their expectations in a studio visit.” — Melissa Messina “Without the artist and their work, there wouldn't be anything for us to do.” — Melissa Messina About My Guest Melissa Messina is a nationally recognized arts professional who has developed thought-provoking exhibitions, dynamic site-responsive projects and engaging educational public programming both independently and in leadership positions at museums and non-profit arts organizations. For 20 years, her work with regional, national, and international artists has been presented in the U.S. in Atlanta, Kansas City, Miami, New York, New Orleans, Richmond, Savannah, and Washington, D.C., as well as in Bermuda, France, and Hong Kong. She has lectured extensively and published widely, and her research has been funded by Creative Time and The Andy Warhol Foundation, as well as by fellowships at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Library, Atlanta, GA, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR. In addition to serving select public and private clients, she is the curator of the Mildred Thompson Estate. She has also recently served as guest curator at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, and the New Orleans Museum of Art, and was the co-curator of the 2018 and 2020 Bermuda Biennials. In 2017, she co-created Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, an intergenerational exhibition highlighting 21 Black female abstract practitioners that traveled from Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City to The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Partnership For The Arts Group Podcast “Where We Talk Art …with Lisa Gallucci, Executive Director of the Visual Arts Center (VAC). Victor catches up with Lisa Gallucci, the new Executive Director of the Visual Arts Center (VAC) in Punta Gorda, FL. Lisa took over this leadership position in July of this year and she will tell you “WOW” what few months it's been! This multi-faceted, talented, business woman just experienced her first hurricane!! This mother of twins life's journey includes careers in human resources, finance, consultant and coach guiding small companies. But Lisa is no stranger to non-profit organizations or the arts. She's an author of 15 books, (did we mention she's multi-talented?) who grew up in the performing arts of dance at her grandma's family business. Plus you'll also get a glimpse into what's happening at the Visual Arts Center as she sets the VAC back on track for the holidays and the upcoming year as the vast numbers of visitors (and students) descend on SWFL once again. “Where We Talk Art” is recorded in the Library at the Visual Art Center in Punta Gorda, FL. https://visualartcenter.org/

What are the benefits and challenges of researching and publishing about ceramics from both an art and science perspective? Ryan Coppage, director of introductory and inorganic laboratories at the University of Richmond, shares how he became involved in both the art and science side of ceramics, describes his research on ceramic glazes, and talks about the new book he just published with The American Ceramic Society's International Ceramic Artists Network.View the transcript for this episode here.About the guestRyan Coppage is director of introductory and inorganic laboratories at the University of Richmond in Virginia—and also a ceramic artist! He is drawn to the Venn diagram overlap between science and art, and he currently works on research projects that are frequently split between the University of Richmond and the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, developing low metal-loading color alternatives for ceramic surfaces. He just a book published with The American Ceramic Society's International Ceramic Artists Network titled “The Anatomy of a Good Pot.”About ACerSFounded in 1898, The American Ceramic Society is the leading professional membership organization for scientists, engineers, researchers, manufacturers, plant personnel, educators, and students working with ceramics and related materials. 

For Partnership The ARTS Talk Show #80 “Where We Talk Art with…” Award Winning Fused Glass Instructor Janie Duke Victor talks with award winning Fused Glass Instructor Janie Duke, owner of Glass Duchess Studio and instructor at the Visual Arts Center in Punta Gorda FL. Her award winning journey into this medium began by chance and now this highly successful, internationally known artist has avid collectors throughout the United States, Canada, and even as far away as the Czech Republic. Janie's many styles, including the unique Pâte de Verre, a French approach to glass making, allows for subtle gradations of color, something Victor describes amazingly well to Janie's surprise and laughter. Never heard of Fused Glass? Well you'll want to listen in as these two cover all that, including other techniques and mediums Janie uses besides the kilns such as welding, a wet saw and soon a glass lathe to create her pieces. You can find her work for sale in the Visual Art Center gift shop and online at https:glassduchess.com “Where We Talk Art” is recorded at the Visual Art Center of Punta Gorda FL

What's it like to be a “non-traditional” art student at age 55? For Texas-based portrait painter CLIFFORD BUNN, seeking a BFA in Studio Art after a career in law enforcement with the Oakland PD was both cathartic and the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.  As a police officer, Cliff worked among “the layers of lives existing around us” that most of us don't see, but he often felt like his own voice was not being heard either. Initially turning to art as a therapeutic way of dealing with grief for  loss of his son and other family members, Cliff eventually decided to seek a degree in Studio Art at the University of Texas. Cliff shares his fascinating journey from the streets of Oakland to art school critiques, as he begins the next phase of life as a working artist. His perspective is unique, current and inspiring for artists at all stages of their own art exploration. Find Cliff: Instagram: @tcbunzz2018   Mentioned:The Space in Between: 2021 Senior Art Exhibition, University of Texas, Visual Arts Center (explore)  The Russell J. Efros Foundation, 2021 Sprout Fund Recipient (learn) Find Me, Kristy Darnell Battani: Website:    https://www.kristybattani.com Instagram:  kristybattaniart Facebook:  kristybattaniart Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please take a moment to leave a rating and a comment: https://lovethepodcast.com/artishplunge   Music:"Surf Guitar Madness," Alexis Messier, Licensed by PremiumBeat.comSupport the show

On this Artalaap episode, I, Kamayani Sharma, speak to artist Pritika Chowdhry, whose solo exhibition 'Unbearable Memories, Unspeakable Histories' featuring her anti-memorials to the Partition is currently on view at the South Asia Institute, Chicago. We talk about the politics of memorialising the 1947 South Asian Partition, the aesthetic challenge of representing collective trauma and the influence of feminist historiography on understanding the Partition. We also touch upon drawing parallels with other colonial divisions of territory as well as ongoing civil conflict in the global south, and the limits of testimony in the contemporary period. You can learn more about the exhibition here: https://www.saichicago.org/exhibition/pritika-chowdhry-unbearable-memories-unspeakable-histories or at the South Asia Institute, Chicago's Instagram page @southasiainstitute. Click here to access the Image+ Guide & view the material being discussed in the podcast: https://sites.google.com/view/artalaap-podcast-resources/episode-18. For a time-stamped list of Contents, click here: http:/bit.ly/3CeUTWz LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR GUEST HERE: Pritika Chowdhry is a feminist and postcolonial artist, curator, and writer whose work is in both public and private collections. Chowdhry has exhibited nationally and internationally in group and solo exhibitions in the Weisman Art Museum, Queens Museum, Hunterdon Museum, Islip Art Museum, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, DoVA Temporary, Brodsky Center, and Cambridge Art Gallery. Her work has been written up in various scholarly publications, including the journals GeoHumanities, Social Transformations Journal of the Global South, and Progress in Human Geography, in addition to news outlets such as CBS, NBC, and Hindustan Times. She is the recipient of Vilas International Travel Fellowship, Edith and Sinaiko Frank Fellowship for a Woman in the Arts, Wisconsin Arts Board grant, and Minnesota State Arts Board grant. She has presented her studio research projects at various national conferences, such as International Arts Symposium at NYU, The Contested Terrains of Globalization at UC-Irvine, and the South Asian Conference at UW-Madison. Chowdhry holds an MFA in Studio Art and an MA in Visual Culture and Gender Studies from UW-Madison and has taught at Macalester College and the College of Visual Arts. Born and raised in India, Chowdhry is currently based in Chicago. Credits: Producer: Squarewave Studios, New Delhi Executive Producer: Kanishka Sharma Intern: Priya Thakur Images courtesy Pritika Chowdhry Design & artwork: Mohini Mukherjee Marketing: Dipalie Mehta Additional support: Raghav Sagar Patreon support: Shalmoli Halder Audio courtesy: Vernouillet by Blue Dot Sessions [CC BY-NC 4.0]

Partnership For The ARTS Talk Show #75 Where we talk art with… Pottery Instructor Steve Strunk It's our 75th show !! Host Victor Gartner talks with The Visual Arts Center's Pottery Instructor, Steve Strunk. Steve is one of three pottery instructors at the V.A.C. that mainly teaches introductory classes for beginners and people with disabilities. In fact, 7 years ago he was first introduced to the medium through the Visual Arts Center Pottery Studio where he found his passion and is now he is a multi-award winning potter. Thinking of trying your hand at making some pottery but not quite sure what's involved? Well this show is for you! Listen in and you'll learn a lot about the basics to get you started. In fact, Steve has a very high success rate with beginners with no experience as well as those that have been challenged by the potter's wheel. Steve has such a high success rate with students that they go on to more advanced classes with the other instructors learning to make all kinds of pottery with all kinds of techniques. You can learn more about the classes Steve teaches and the all about Visual Arts Center by going to their website or Facebook page. There you can register for classes and check out their gift shop and art supply store. https://visualartcenter.org/

Partnership For The ARTS Talk Show # 72 "Where We Talk Art" with… Artist Dean Mitchell Join show Host Victor Gartner for the second episode in this new season as he talks with Dean which was this year's Juror for the International Arts Exhibit held at the Visual Arts Center in Punta Gorda FL. Listen in and hear this incredible story of Dean's journey from meager beginnings to becoming a celebrated national artist - and he shares lots of insights as to why he's so successful. It's a show you'll enjoy as these two guys keep you entertained all along the way. Dean is well known for his figurative works, landscapes and still lifes. In addition to watercolors, he is accomplished in other mediums, including egg temperas, oils and pastels. Mitchell has been featured in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, American Artist, Artist Magazine, Fine Art International, and Art News. His art can be found in corporate and museum collections across the country, including the Library of Congress. You can find Deans art work at https://deanmitchellstudio.com/

A Confederate time capsule found 20 feet under the pedestal that once held a statue of Robert E. Lee was opened yesterday; The Visual Arts Center of Richmond is filled with pieces of pottery that look like they just left a tattoo shop as part of the "Of Mud and Blood" exhibit; The state is spending more than 700 million dollars to bring broadband access to rural Chesapeake, Suffolk and other localities; and other local news stories.

Partnership For the Arts Where We Talk Art with Executive Director Janet Watermeier. It's that time of the year again as the Visual Arts Center of Punta Gorda prepares for their Open House September 9th and starts their new season of Classes and Events. So listen in and learn all about what the VAC has to offer its members and the public. There's some exciting new agendas they have added which extend into 2022. So don't be left out; this is one episode you don't want to miss!! Make sure you check out their website for registration of classes and special events before they sell out. https://visualartcenter.org

With 23 years of experience as a nonprofit business administrator, Kelly McHugh-White specializes in the advancement of conservation, arts and cultural programs that leverage community engagement in order to strengthen visibility, credibility, and investment. A New York native, she joined the Maui community in 2008 to administer the marketing, fundraising and youth arts programs at Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center followed by a 5-year tenure as Public Information Specialist for the State of Hawaiʻi, Kahoʻolawe Island Reserve Commission and an additional 2 years as Director of Marketing & Development for Pacific Whale Foundation. She has consulted for the County of Maui, Maui Redevelopment Agency, Spellbound Theatre, Coral Reef Alliance, Edible Hawaiian Islands, the National Guild for Community Arts Education, Merwin Conservancy and Art Maui, among others. She currently serves as Board Member for Adaptations Dance Theater and Nā Koa Manu Conservation, Inc.; Manager of County of Maui's SMALL TOWN * BIG ART creative placemaking program; Principal of Little Rhinoceros LLC; and Founding Director of Maui Public Art Corps. Her work in outreach and fund development earned her a fellowship with the Ka Ipu Kukui program in 2016 and nomination as one of Hawaii's most influential leaders, awarded a 40 Under 40 designation in 2018.

Emi Winter was born and grew up in Oaxaca, Mexico. She holds a BA in visual arts from Oberlin College and a MFA in painting from Bard College. Her work includes painting, printmaking and textiles which she makes in collaboration with master artisans in Mexico and the United States. She was an artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas and Ateliers Hoeherweg in Dusseldorf. In 2011 she was awarded the acquisition prize for the XV edition of the Rufino Tamayo painting biennial in Mexico. Her work has been shown at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; LACMA; High Museum, Atlanta; Parker Gallery, Los Angeles; V1 Gallery, Copenhagen; Ulterior Gallery, New York; Maine College of Art, Portland; The Suburban, Milwaukee and is included in the collections of the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico; Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio and the Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. She currently lives in New Jersey and teaches bilingual art classes to Latino immigrants for the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey. Her exhibition “Afternoon Formations” is on view at Minus Space in Brooklyn through the end of July. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Fulcrum Coffee and Golden Artist Colors.

Amy Guidry (b. 1976, Jacksonville, N.C.) is an American artist residing in Lafayette, Louisiana. She grew up in Slidell, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. Guidry comes from a family of artists including the late painter Eleanor Norcross. She studied at Loyola University of New Orleans where she received her Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts in 1998. She was the recipient of the Loyola University Art Scholarship, which is awarded to only one student per graduating class. Guidry’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationwide including the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Aljira a Center for Contemporary Art, Brandeis University, the PhilaMOCA, the Paul & Lulu Hilliard Art Museum, and the Acadiana Center for the Arts. Her work is present in public and private collections throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia; including the Alexandria Museum of Art, The City of Slidell, and the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Guidry’s paintings have been featured in publications such as American Artist, Adbusters, and American Art Collector as well as online features such as Hi-Fructose and the Huffington Post. Her work has also been featured on MTV’s The Real World, Season 20: Hollywood. She is represented in New Orleans by LeMieux Galleries. www.amyguidry.com

Sequoyah Regional Library System users can now borrow a Google Chromebook; #Reinhardt University professor published a book on nineteenth-century #Georgia; The Reeves House Visual Arts Center in #WoodstockGA is open #CherokeeCounty #LocalNews - - - - - The Cherokee Tribune-Ledger Podcast is local news for Woodstock, Canton, and all of Cherokee County.   Cherokee Tribune-Ledger   Register Here for your essential digital news.    This podcast was produced and published for the Cherokee Tribune-Ledger and TribuneLedgerNews.com by BG Ad Group on 5-17-2021   For advertising inquiries, please email j.southerland@bgadgroup.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

L.A. based artists Amanda Ross-Ho and Erik Frydenborg talk about shifting focus and priorities after a year of the pandemic. As teachers, the two discuss what it's been like to work with students over the last year, and they also find common threads across their art practices: attention to detail, engaging with time and archival material, and inviting the viewer into an open-ended dialogue. "The craft element was not just about a well-made object, but a way to see other objects with precision and close attention to form. Like reading the contexts in which objects come into the world, and where they've been—I think of craft as being not just a tool, but a way to respect materiality. It's a respectful ceremony for objecthood, so thereby it entends to other things in the world that you have not made... For us it's also like a church of—it's devotional. It's totally ritual, devotional, it's reverence, it's a world view." –Amanda Ross-Ho and Erik FrydenborgAmanda Ross-Ho holds a BFA from the School of the Art institute of Chicago and an MFA from the University of Southern California. She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. Solo exhibitions include Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, Hoet Bekaert, Belgium,The Pomona Museum of Art, Mitchell-Innes and Nash New York, The Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, Netherlands, the Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, The Approach, London, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, and Mary Mary, Glasgow, and Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway. Group exhibitions include Artists Space, New York, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, The Orange County Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The New Museum, New York, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, and the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, curated by Slavs and Tatars. She has presented commissioned public works at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, City Hall Park, New York City, the Parcours Sector of Art Basel Switzerland, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Ross-Ho's work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times, ArtReview, Modern Painters, Art in America, Flash Art, Art + Auction, and Frieze among others. She is Professor of Sculpture at the University of California, Irvine and lives and works in Los Angeles.Erik Frydenborg was born in 1977 in Miami, Florida. He holds a BFA from MICA in Baltimore, MD, and an MFA from the University of Southern California. Frydenborg has held solo exhibitions at The Pit, Glendale, CA, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL, Albert Baronian, Brussels, BE, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL, and Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA. Previous group exhibitions include NADA House, New Art Dealers Alliance, Governor's Island, New York, NY, 100 Sculptures, Anonymous Gallery, Paris, FR, Divided Brain, LAVA Projects, Alhambra, CA, Real Shapes, Dateline, Denver, CO, Skip Tracer, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL, Knowledges, Mount Wilson Observatory, Los Angeles, CA, Re-Planetizer, Regina Rex, New York, NY, TRAUMA SAUNA, ASHES/ASHES, Los Angeles, CA, Full House, Shanaynay, Paris, FR, BAD BOYS BAIL BONDS ADOPT A HIGHWAY, Team Gallery, New York, NY, Trains, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Set Pieces, Cardi Black Box, Milan, IT, and The Stand In (Or A Glass of Milk), Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA. Frydenborg's work has been reviewed in Artforum, FlashArt, and The Los Angeles Times, among other publications. From 2017 through 2019, Frydenborg was a partner in the cooperative artist-run Los Angeles gallery AWHRHWAR. Erik Frydenborg lives and works in Los Angeles.

This week Margo is joined by artist, illustrator, and teacher, Sarah Hand. Sarah teaches at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, art retreats, and online. Her work has been featured in Somerset Studio magazine, and she has had many solo exhibits of her art. She is the author and illustrator of the book, Art Makers - Papier Mache: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating More Than a Dozen Adorable Projects!, from Quarto Creates.   Margo and Sarah discuss: How Sarah got into papier mache Why she finds paper mache to be a soothing art & craft The difference between the children and adults she teaches paper mache to Letting go of perfectionism Things that have kept her going throughout the pandemic Not being afraid to take time off or away And much more!   When she's not elbows deep in paste and paper, you can find Sarah painting, drawing, and dreaming up stories and images for picture books. Sarah lives and creates in Richmond, Virginia with her husband and their three-legged cat, Roger.   Connect with Sarah:  http://www.sarah-hand.com/ https://www.instagram.com/sarah.hand_art.and.wonder/

Episode No. 483 features artists Alison Saar and Maria Antelman. The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. and the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, Calif. are presenting "Alison Saar: Of Aether and Earthe" through May 16. The exhibition, which was curated by Rebecca McGrew and Irene Tsatsos, surveys Saar's work related to myths and hidden histories and archetypes. Neither institution is presently open due to the pandemic; the shows are currently scheduled to remain installed through May 16. The catalogue for the exhibition was published by the Benton. Indiebound and Amazon offer it for about $45. The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento is also presenting Saar's work in "Legends from Los Angeles." The exhibition spotlights the work of Betye, Lezley and Alison Saar. The Crocker is presently closed due to the pandemic; "Legends" is scheduled to be on view through August 15. On the second segment, Maria Antelman discusses her work on the occasion of "Soft Interface" at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha. The exhibition was curated by Rachel Adams and will remain on view through April 24. Antelman was also selected for the Museum of Modern Art's New Photography 2020, which was (and is) presented digitally due to the pandemic. Antelman's pictures, sculptures and video installations explore the relationship between the body and stone, flesh and mineral, past and present and geologic time and human temporality. Antelman has been the subject of a solo exhibition at the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas, Austin, and she's been in many group shows in Greece, Chile, the United States, and in Germany.

Join Dave and Michelle, as they talk with Kathy Wood, an emerging mixed-media artist at the upcoming Annual Peace River Art Festival hosted by the Visual Arts Center this December 5 & 6, 2020. Known mainly for her one of a kind, hand constructed journals, Kathy discusses the very successful and unique version of that mixed media. Listen in and discover her process all about producing functional art. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Kent State University. Kathy's artwork is available in the Visual Art Center gift shop. You can also check out her art on Facebook, Instagram and her website at the links below.

Jowarnise is a visual artist and designer who explores the human condition with themes involving race, social class, and culture through her naturalistic portraits of women in eloquent poses. She often focuses on the female African American experience. Her work has been exhibited at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, the Meredith Gallery at Virginia State University, the medical campus of Virginia Commonwealth University, and the Virginia Museum of History and Culture. She was awarded in 2012 by the National Arts Program and in 2019 by the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. She is based in Richmond, VA.   In this episode Jowarnise and I sit down and talk about her journey from following the path that she was “supposed” to take to following the path that she was truly meant to be on - living her passion and following her curiosity. She’s charming, inspiring, and wonderfully honest and I know you will thoroughly enjoy listening to her talk about how she gave herself permission to boldly become the person she is meant to be. Check out her website and follow her on Facebook and Instagram! In this episode we discussed: Listening to your inner voice Being open and trusting the journey Finding the courage to say “Yes” If this episode lights you up in some way or inspires you to question something, I’d LOVE to hear about it! Take a screenshot of your listening on your device, post in to your stories on FB or IG and tag Boldly Becoming You @boldlybecomingyou or @TashaSkillin. Snag the 11 Questions to gain massive clarity in your vision for Boldly Becoming You. Are you part of our community yet? Come check out the conversations about purpose, impact and self discovery in the Boldly Becoming You village online.  Download the free Boldly Becoming You Jumpstart Checklist to fast track your journey to your truest self.  

Steven Holl discusses his firm’s recently completed project at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., and reflects on how the COVID-19 pandemic will influence the design of future educational, institutional, and arts spaces.

Where We Talk Art... with Artist Lori Potts Join Dave and Michelle, your new Co-Host, as they kick off the new season. First up ~ Lori Potts, one of the emerging artists at the upcoming Annual Peace River Art Festival hosted by the Visual Arts Center this December 5th & 6th 2020. She was an “art kid” growing up in Kansas City, MO, but didn't really get into the art scene until moving to Punta Gorda, where she met people like the V.A.C.'s Stacy Calvino and Artist Instructor Jill Lindsay who inspired her to get that art career up and going. So enjoy as Lori talks about her bold journey as a newly established and commissioned artist. Learn what she recommends to other artists, new or seasoned to, ensure they continue to grow and expand their talents and careers. You can check out Lori Potts art on these links below. Visual Art Center.org Lorrie Potts Facebook Instagram loripottsart Website loripottsart.com

Partnership For The ARTS Talk Show 52 We are back, So we thought we'd pick up where we left off.... our show from March.... Where We Talk Art... with N.A.E. Judge Dawn Emerson Join Dave and Judy as they vover the 12th bi-annual National Art Exhibit (N.A.E.) at the Visual Arts Center in Punta Gorda. As Judy wraps up her series as Guest Co-host, it's all about the N.A.E. Dawn, a signature member of the National Pastel Society of America and Author, joins Dave and Judy along with N.A.E. Co -Chairs Mary Harbor and Jill Lindsay to talk about her journey and discoveries of pastels as a multi-medium artist. So you're asking these questions: How does one judge for only 13 awards from the 150 finalist pieces of art representing 39 states from over 590 entries? How does the N.A.E. Committee pull all of this together and choose the next Juror to judge that show? Well, you will find out as you laugh along and enjoy this lively bunch as they cover all that. You can check out the N.A.E. show at https://visualartcenter.org/ See Dawn's art work - visit her site at https://dawnemerson.com/

Partnership For The ARTS Talk Show 49 Where We Talk Art... with Artist Sue Kransy. A world traveling Visual artist. Continuing our series on the artist co-owned Sea Grape Gallery now celebrating its 32nd year we sit down with Artist Sue Kransy. Art has been a passion since childhood, Susan studied in Illinois at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Suburban Fine Arts Center, and at Roosevelt University. Upon retirement to Florida, Susan continued her art studies with prestigious artists at the Visual Arts Center of Punta Gorda, the Lee County Alliance of Art, and at workshops in France, Italy, Maine, and throughout the United States. Susan's paintings are meant to communicate a unique sense of place through the bold use of color and light. Susan's strong desire to give back to the art community includes being a Trustee on the Visual Arts Center Endowment Trust Board and heads their Development Committee. She is also Director of Marketing for Sea Grape Gallery. See more of Sue's paintings at https://seagrapegallery.com/

Adriane Dalton is an artist, writer, and educator based in Richmond, Virginia. She is the Editor of Metalsmith and Metalsmith Tech magazines, and the annual Jewelry and Metals Survey (JaMS) published by the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG). She received her MA in History of Decorative Arts and Design (now the History of Design and Curatorial Studies) from Parsons The New School for Design in partnership with the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and her BFA in Craft & Material Studies from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia.She was formerly the Assistant Curator and Exhibitions Manager at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) in Logan, Utah where she co-curated ARTsySTEM: The Changing Climate of the Arts and Sciences and taught History of American Studio Craft, among many other curatorial and educational projects. She is a past contributor to Art Jewelry Forum and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Object of the Day blog.Over the past fifteen years, her studio practice has evolved from traditional metalsmithing and enameling techniques to incorporate alternative and recycled materials. Lately, she is using disused and discarded materials to engage with intersections of labor, class, gender, and consumption. She brings her appreciation for creative reuse into her role as lead instructor for Teen Stylin’—a twelve-week wearable arts program at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She also teaches recycled materials jewelry and enameling at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, and is a past Program Leader at ART 180, a non-profit providing art-related programming for young people in Richmond.APPLY TO THE NEW VOICES WRITING CONTESTIn celebration of its 40th year of publication, Metalsmith magazine invites new and aspiring writers to submit proposals to the New Voices Writing Contest. Do you have a research topic that feels congruent with the varieties of content featured in Metalsmith? Are you interested in broadening the discourse within the fields of jewelry, metalworking, adornment, design, and craft? Do you have a fresh perspective, unique voice, or a radical idea? We want to hear about it!New Voices: https://www.snagmetalsmith.org/metalsmith-magazine/new-voices-writing-contest/Application: https://www.snagmetalsmith.org/metalsmith-magazine/new-voices-writing-contest/

Susie Ganch is an artist and educator living in Richmond, VA where she is Interim Chair for the Department of Craft/Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. She received her MFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Part of her practice is Directing Radical Jewelry Makeover, an international jewelry mining and recycling project that continues to travel across the country and abroad. Recent solo exhibitions: How Soon is Now?, MS State University, TIED, an ArtForum Critics’ pick, Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA, Land and Sea, Sienna Patti Contemporary, Lenox, MA. Her work has been included nationally and internationally in museum exhibitions including: Smithsonian National Museum for Women in the Arts, MFA Boston, the Design Museum, London, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI, Milwaukee Art Museum. Public collections: LACMA, CA, Asheville Art Museum, NC, MFA Boston, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, Quirk Hotel, Richmond, VA. Grants include: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant, Theresa Pollack Fine Art Award, a VA Commission for the Arts Grant, and multiple VCU Faculty Research Grants. She is represented by Sienna Patti Contemporary Gallery.You can find out more: www.susieganch.com and www.radicaljewelrymakeover.org.

"As an artist you have to remember that you are always working. And you’re not just working when you are in the studio actually making something. You are working when you’re sleeping, dreaming, reading, looking at other peoples art, having conversations, and tripping over a rock. It’s all a part of your practice. To be able to embrace every element of your life as being a part of your practice takes the pressure off of going to the studio and the blank page. Just think of your studio as another tool." Bio courtesy of Alyssa's website Alyssa Taylor Wendt (http://alyssataylorwendt.com/projects/) is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and curator that works in Austin, Texas and Detroit, Michigan. Her recent projects reference themes of ritual, animism, monuments, mysticism, the primordial, architecture, gender and mortality using video, sculpture, staged photographs, sound and performance. The work tends to provoke questions in the viewer with dark and evocative aesthetics and multiple layers of perceived truth. She earned her BA from NYU and her MFA from Bard College. Transplanted from New York City, she has shown in numerous national and international exhibitions and performed at The Museum of Art and Design in New York, envoy gallery, The Fusebox Festival and Deitch Projects and completed residencies in Iceland and Norway. She is currently finishing her opus multi-channel video work HAINT and just curated an epic exhibition about death and transformation with over 60 artists at DEMO Gallery in Austin. She enjoys darkness, gospel blues and bad jokes. The following text courtesy of the Visual Arts Center website Alyssa Taylor Wendt: HAINT (https://sites.utexas.edu/utvac/alyssa-taylor-wendt-haint/) January 25 – February 22, 2019 HAINT is an immersive, three-channel video installation by Austin-based artist and curator Alyssa Taylor Wendt. Filmed over the course of three years in Croatia, Detroit, and Texas, the individual channels unfold in counterpoint with one another to create a haunting meditation on the ways we process history, both as individuals and as a culture. The piece draws on motifs from Wendt’s personal cosmology and explores the associative powers of perception, cycles of history and ruination, and the spiritual energy that objects, the landscape, and architectural spaces carry with them. Using Eastern European songs, voiceover, opera, black metal drones, and ambient sound, HAINT combines images of post-war architecture, monuments, and ruins to create a poetic investigation of war, memory, and storytelling. In addition to the video, the exhibition includes sculptural elements and a collection of staged production photographs that intersect with the video’s multifaceted narrative. This exhibition is organized by MacKenzie Stevens, Director, Visual Arts Center, with Clare Donnelly, Gallery Manager, Visual Arts Center and Robin K. Williams, Ph.D. candidate in Art History at The University of Texas at Austin. Visual Arts Center The University of Texas at Austin Art Building 2300 Trinity St (directly north of DKR – Texas Memorial Stadium) 512-471–3713 Hours Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm Saturday Noon – 5pm Sunday / Monday Closed HAINT Viewing and Q&A with Alyssa Taylor Wendt Tuesday, January 29, 2019 12 PM Visual Arts Center Artist Talk: Alyssa Taylor Wendt Tuesday, February 5, 2019 4 PM Art Building, Rm. 1.120 HAINT Viewing and Q&A with Alyssa Taylor Wendt Tuesday, February 19, 2019 5:30 PM Visual Arts Center Some of the subjects we discuss: Intro Project based Bard college MFA Starting with photography Nayland Blake Using all her skills Artistic origins/childhood Getting into music The punk scene New York/NYU San Francisco Acting in movies Back to NYC Studying acting Dilettante? ICP photo program Thesis project Highlights Move to TX Austin career Current practice Vulnerability Listening/animism Communication Art fairs/zeigeist Collaboration Filmmaking Utilizing skills Everything Too polite/pleasing Embracing darkness Personality vs work Haint details Drone metal Singing & Music Inter-editing Narrative film Fathers stories Ruins/cycles VAC event details Film/photography Thanks! This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Intro music generously provided by Stan Killian (http://stankillian.com/main/) Support this podcast. (http://www.austinarttalk.com/supportpodcast)

It's an exciting day! Join us in welcoming the newest cast member of PFTA Talk Show Guest, Co-host and Art Instructor, Catherine Lucas. You met her last time as we celebrated our 25th Episode! So Join Dave and Catherine as they Talk Art... with Kimberly Phillips, Programs Manger at the Visual Art Center (VAC) in Punta Gorda, FL. Listen in as these two catch up with Kim this year for some fun stories with the close of the 2018 summer camp. Then learn about what's in store for the continuing 2018-2019 season right before the doors reopen in September with their Open House where you meet the Instructors. There's all kinds of new events like “Battle of the Brushes,” Art exhibits, Art classes and workshops... and you get the inside scoop here before it all begins! There's so much more to look forward to. Are you ready? Listen in as they inform, educate, and entertain you through a variety of vivacious and illuminating interviews with guests that share their love of the arts. So, join this arts duo on a new adventure as we all “Explore The Worlds of Art”.

Join Dave and Nanette as they talk with Steven J. Levin, juror of the 11th Biennial National Art Exhibition at the Visual Arts Center in Punta Gorda, FL. Steven is an atelier-trained classical oil painter working in the realist tradition. He is an Art Renewal Center living master whose work has been featured in group shows in New York, Chicago, Beijing and Barcelona. In their conversation, Steven talks about everything from finding your own voice as an artist, to the "Portrait of Darth Vader" he created for George Lucas. And of course he shares his thoughts about judging the outstanding National Art Exhibition, on display through March 20. For more about Steven and his work, go to www.stevenjlevin.com.

Join Dave and Nanette as they talk with Steven J. Levin, juror of the 11th Biennial National Art Exhibition at the Visual Arts Center in Punta Gorda, FL. Steven is an atelier-trained classical oil painter working in the realist tradition. He is an Art Renewal Center living master whose work has been featured in group shows in New York, Chicago, Beijing and Barcelona. In their conversation, Steven talks about everything from finding your own voice as an artist, to the "Portrait of Darth Vader" he created for George Lucas. And of course he shares his thoughts about judging the outstanding National Art Exhibition, on display through March 20. For more about Steven and his work, go to www.stevenjlevin.com.

Listen in as Dave and Nanette talk with Janet Watermeier, Executive Director of the Visual Arts Center (V.A.C.) in Punta Gorda, Florida. Formerly the Executive Director of Economic Development in Lee County, Janet talks about getting immersed in the art world and some funny surprises along the way. With offerings from festivals and exhibits to classes and a gift shop, the Visual Arts Center provides opportunities for artists and non-artists alike to make art a part of their daily lives. So sit back, enjoy, and laugh along with these three as we get a glimpse of what the V.A.C is all about and Learn what's happening now and in 2018.

This fall's program at Boise State University's Visual Arts Center examines the juxtaposition of images from printed instructional manuals and their real-life counterparts and the space they share. We speak with the Center's director about the 'Swimming and Diving' and 'Pulped Under Pressure' exhibits showing now through the end of October.

The Patrick Lalley Show on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018. Guests include Jason Folkerts, Director of Exhibitions and Collections the Kirby Science and Discovery Center and the Visual Arts Center at the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science; The Smart Cyclist Michael Christensen on texting while driving law and Winter Bike to Work Day; and Phil Schreck of KSFY Severe Weather Center. I talk about the latest school shooting.

Nate Young is a Chicago-based artist who is best known for his exquisite work with wood. I think his work can best be called conceptually narrative. It is inspired by personal recollection, oral history, and family relics, among other things, but this story cannot be seen directly in Nate’s work. It’s more accurate to say that it can be felt, sensed, intuited. Recollection, an exhibition of Nate's newest work at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, is spare and ethereal. The objects in the show tell a story, about family and identity and memory, and they are also about myth and mysticism. You don’t see this work so much as feel it.

This week, we talked with Houston-based artist Natasha Bowdoin. Natasha grew up in coastal Maine, and love of the rhythms and patterns of nature courses through her work. But she is also inspired by the texts of surrealist and magical realist writers. She explores the idea of taking what is familiar, altering it in her work just enough to distance the viewer from it, and using the resulting ambiguity to open minds to new ways of looking. We were lucky to get to talk with Natasha as she was in the process of making a large-scale installation that now fully occupies the largest gallery at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond and is on view now.

All 3 of the poems on today’s episode were submitted by poet Brittney Scott.* The Abu Dhabi editors flagged Scott’s previous submissions—we wanted to publish them!—but we moved too slowly. Other publications nabbed them. So Scott sent us another batch of poems to consider and we discussed them on this special edition of “The Slush Pile,” the “all Abu Dhabi all the time edition,” featuring members of our Abu Dhabi editorial board.   All 3 of the poems on today’s episode were submitted by poet Brittney Scott.* The Abu Dhabi editors flagged Scott’s previous submissions—we wanted to publish them!—but we moved too slowly. Other publications nabbed them. So Scott sent us another batch of poems to consider and we discussed them on this special edition of “The Slush Pile,” the “all Abu Dhabi all the time edition,” featuring members of our Abu Dhabi editorial board. These poems set out to both delight and appall. We were transfixed by a dismembered body mauled by dogs in “After the Hunt”; fascinated by the relationship between a daughter and her mother, an “unstable gardener,” in “Daughter of Wild Lettuce.” Plus, Scott’s work stuck an inadvertent chord with our PBQ ex-pat crew. Listen as Scott’s poems help the Abu Dhabi editors make sense of being far flung, of being mildly Dazed & Confused. Brittney Scott received an MFA from Hollins University in Virginia. A finalist in the 2013 Narrative 30 Below Contest, she is also the 2012 recipient of the Joy Harjo Prize for Poetry and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. She teaches creative writing to adults, Girl Scouts, and high-risk youth at Richmond’s Visual Arts Center. Tell us what you think about Brittney Scott’s poems or anything else you’d like to share with us on our Facebook page event, Episode 9. Sign up for our e-mail list if you are in the area and even if you, too, are far flung! Send us a SASE and we’ll send you a podcast sticker! Follow us on Twitter @PaintedBrideQ and Instagram @paintedbridequarterly. Read on! --MW * You might notice that we posted only 2 of the 3 poems we discussed in this week’s episode in our show notes. This is the first time in 9 episodes we’ve had a poet ask us not to post anything we reject. You’ll have to listen to hear more! Don't forget to subscribe and rate us on our iTunes page!     Present at the Editorial Table: Marion Wrenn Anna Pedersen Ben Hackenberger Samantha Neugebauer   Production Engineer: Richard Lennon   PBQ Box Score: 2=3 -------------------------      After the Hunt Here’s the body the dogs robbed— the limbs strewn around the field like prophecy. She won’t make it, they say. They say the body found in her bed was eaten right through to the floral mattress. They had to shut her eyes because she would not stop blinking up at a bone marrow colored sky, enjoying her party, the confetti of her flayed body. The dogs got sick on her form, the remains of her last meal of steamed artichoke grapes, mercy, and rejection. Don’t they know What’s good for one will poison another? So they say. They say the dogs died in a circle and she rose the next day to bury them and bring flowers to their graves.     Daughter of Wild Lettuce My mother plants snow peas behind the garage. She works around the sink hole that takes dry leaves and garbage all summer.   In her memory, I am an almost abortion. She plants marigolds with the tomatoes, symbiotic bright suns   bursting between the rows. Sometimes she knows, love abounding, sometimes she overlooks   an entire season’s glut, and rot carries us through winter. In the cellar, plastic roses, night crawlers,   unfinished half-hearted projects, the potatoes’ all seeing eyes and me damp through my nightshirt.   No natural light filters in, so I only know the earth’s eternal hour.   My mother, an unstable gardener, tosses spare seeds into barren patches of the backyard. We won’t know until spring.   Sometimes new buds shoot up in the most unusual places, but more often, they don’t.      

(Uploaded on Jan 9, 2011) The 'Brick City' Exhibition at the Visual Arts Center of NJ in Summit showcases Newark artists. (August 2009)