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Airs at: Tue, 04/02/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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A radio show about visual art. You get it.

 

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Every 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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Waterstone Gallery at 30

Airs at: Tue, 12/13/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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At 11.30a.m. On Tuesday, December 13, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Dave Haslett [PRONOUNCED HAZE-let] about the 30th anniversary group show at Waterstone Gallery. Haslett discusses some of his fellow artist-members’ pieces in the show, the history of Waterstone, ... Read more

Sima Familant, curator of The Earth Laughs

Airs at: Tue, 12/06/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, December 6, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Sima Familant, curator of The Earth Laughs, a show at The Lobby Gallery at Southeast 28th and Division in Portland. The Earth Laughs focuses on flower art from the collection of Molly McCabe, who owns the Ellen Browni... Read more

Blackfish Gallery new location

Airs at: Tue, 11/29/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, November 29, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Blackfish Gallery artists Alice Christine Walker, Barbara Black and Christopher Shotola-Hardt [PRONOUNCED SHAD-OLA HART] about Blackfish’s new space at Northwest Nonth and Flanders. The artist owners talk about the l... Read more

Museum of Contemporary Craft Collection

Airs at: Tue, 11/22/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, November 22, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Hannah Bakken Morris, co-curator of the show, “Commonly Uncommon - Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft Collection” which runs now through Dec 10 at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Bakken Morris tal... Read more

Oscar Howe

Airs at: Tue, 11/08/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, November 8, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Kathleen Ash-Milby about “Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe” which is on now at the Portland Art Museum through May 14, 2023. Ash-Milby is the curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum, and she talk... Read more

Elizabeth Leach Gallery at 40

Airs at: Tue, 11/01/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, November 1, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Elizabeth Leach and Bruce Guenther for the 40th anniversary of the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. They talk about the maturing of the art scene in Portland since the 1970s, the relationship to museums, and the work that hap... Read more

Harley Gaber’s “Die Plage"

Airs at: Tue, 10/25/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, Oct 25, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan talks to curator Melissa Martens Yaverbaum about Harley Gaber’s collage, “Die Plage,” on now at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, Portland, through Jan. 29, 2023. Yaverbaum talks about Gaber’s diff... Read more

Portland Textile Month Oct 2022

Airs at: Tue, 10/18/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, October 18, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews artists Kindra Crick, Limei Lai [PRONOUNCED LEE-may LIE] and Charlie Wilcox, as part of Portland Textile Month. Their group show is on now at the landscape architecture company PLACE in Northwest Portland, through Oct... Read more

Jun Kaneko

Airs at: Tue, 10/11/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, October 11, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Sarah Kate Nomura, Director of Exhibitions at Portland Japanese Garden. Nomura talks about Jun Kaneko’s ceramic sculptures which have been carefully placed around the garden, in a rare display of art amongst the plant... Read more

“The Art of Food”

Airs at: Tue, 09/27/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, September 27, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Olivia Miller about “The Art of Food” which runs at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University now through Dec. 3. Miller talks about how artists can suggest the sensuous properties of f... Read more