Art Focus

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Art Focus
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Joseph Gallivan
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A radio show about visual art. You get it.

 

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Every Second and Fourth Tuesday, from 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Art Focus features interviews by host Joseph Gallivan with artists, curators and critics. Lively voices talking about art, how it's made and sometimes even what it means. Page back through KBOO's schedule to find all the recordings, some of which were made on magnetic tape.   

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Arts/Culture
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Arts and Culture
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Andre Middleton interviews Melanie Stevens discuss art as the messenger.

Airs at: Tue, 03/21/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
Melanie Stevens is an artist and writer and is the creator of the webcomic and graphic novel, ‘Black Picket Fences.' She is one of the co-founders and editors of Miss Anthology, as well as the co-curator of Nat Turner Project, a mobile gallery space that allows artists ... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Luzene Hill and Brenda Mallory about their show Connecting Lines at the Portland Art Museum

Airs at: Tue, 03/14/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
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On Tuesday March 14, 2017, Joseph Gallivan interviews Luzene Hill and Brenda Mallory about their show Connecting Lines at the Portland Art Museum. They will talk about violence against native women and the destruction and rebirth of Cherokee culture.     From the pres... Read more

André Middleton interviews Akela Jaffi Auer about the new art event Black Sun

Airs at: Tue, 03/07/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
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Black sun is a collective of artists generating new images of blackness. based on their own stories and denouncing those handed out by mainstream media. Black sun collective is after regaining our freedom of sight by producing positive images of Black family, Black commu... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Judith Sobol, the Executive Director of the Cantor Foundation, about Rodin: The Human Experience

Airs at: Tue, 02/28/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday January 31 Joseph Gallivan interviews Judith Sobol, the Executive Director of the Cantor Foundation, about Rodin: The Human Experience, a new show at the Portland Art Museum which runs now through April 16, 2017.   Sobol will talk about Rodin as a businessman,... Read more

Andre Middleton interviews Berrisford Boothe, Curator of the Constructing Identity: Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African-American Art at the Portland Art Museum

Airs at: Tue, 02/21/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
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Accepted codes of race like “white” and “black” are constructed societal, political, and economic identities. They are used as the justifying principles for enslavement of Africans by Americans in order to build a new nation’s economy. Racial identity continues to permea... Read more

Art Focus on 02/14/17

Airs at: Tue, 02/14/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Andre Middleton interviews David Walker about the Portland Black Film Festival and the Cascade Festival of African Films

Airs at: Tue, 02/07/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
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David F. Walker is an award-winning comic book writer, author, filmmaker, journalist, and educator. His work in comic books includes Shaft (Dynamite Entertainment), winner of the 2015 Glyph Award for Story of the Year. Recognized as a leading scholar expert of African-Am... Read more

Andre Middleton Interviews Natalie Figueroa about Y.G.B and previews Reneé Lopez's Life Through my Lens solo show.

Airs at: Tue, 01/24/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
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Y.G.B is more than just a party it is a community. What is felt as you walk into the room is a sense of belonging and freedom that is supported by the music, people and burning sage the air. We call upon our roots and our ancestors to reconnect with each other and to our... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews painter and glass artist Alex Hirsch about her new show “Once Asunder,”

Airs at: Tue, 01/17/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday January 17 Joseph Gallivan interviews painter and glass artist Alex Hirsch about her new show “Once Asunder,” which is on now though January 28 at the Russo Lee Gallery in Northwest Portland.   Hirsch will talk about how she made glass that looks like thick, w... Read more

Andre Middleton Interviews Danielle Ross about the Cooper Albright workshop

Airs at: Tue, 01/10/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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How do we train for a political body – one that is responsive, resistant, and resilient? How do we engage our citizenship as dancers? Bridging the divide between political action and somatic instruction, this class draws on practices informed by Contact Improvisation and... Read more