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The Mosaic of Art radio show explores the making and distribution of visual art by talking with artists, curators, webmasters, dealers, coaches, publishers, about their creative processes. We go into their studios, offices and galleries, but also into their minds, their memories, travels and stories. The show is for anyone who’s interested in learning how imagination is cultivated and fed and how it translates itself into tangible objects. We talk with creative people around the world who are involved with the plastic arts; we showcase their work – using the visual tools of the internet – and learn what motivates them.
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 44 - May 28,2011 | Performance Artist PABLO CANO transforms antiques, junk and household items into vivacious, mysterious and provocative marionettes. Seven Wonders of the Modern World, a collaboration with writer CARMEN PELAEZ and dancer/choreographer KATHERINE KRAMER currently in performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (www.Mocanomi.org). The interview describes their collaborative process with images from a recent studio/home gallery visit and the from the premiere. Final performances are at 2:00 and 4:00 ET on Sunday, May 29, 2011 at MOCA. | 5/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 42; May 22, 2011 - May 22,2011 | VANESSA SOMERS and LILLIAN SIZEMORE share a passion for the mosaics of antiquity, but each is intrigued by different aspects of the remarkable Roman-era Lod mosaic that is on loan at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Their scholarship and passion come forth, and each relates the connection of ancient mosaics to her own contemporary studio practice. Tune in Sunday 3pm ET. Be sure to open the image galleries before the show starts. | 5/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 42; May 8, 2011 - May 08,2011 | Artist Ellen Harvey is in great demand for exhibitions in galleries and museums worldwide. She is a highly skilled realist painter and draftsman, with a strong command of art history and a penetrating sense of humor. Much of her work engages the connection between past and contemporary art images and ideas. Arcadia, a large installation of her work on engraved mirrors creates an intersection between William Turners world and that of contemporary Margate outside of London where she is exhibiting. Ellen has also designed large scale mosaic murals and worked with fabrication studios to realize these projects. But it was her "Nudist Museum" intervention at the Bass Museum that first caught my attention. Well explore all of these projects. | 5/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 41; April 24, 2011 - Apr 25,2011 | Bass Museum of Art Education Director, ADRIENNE VON LATES, is todays guest. In speaking about the artist whose work is featured in the exhibition, Nudist Museum, she says, "ELLEN HARVEY started out as a lawyer at Yale and decided she wanted to indulge her passion for painting. She remembers that when she was 10 years old, going to a museum with her parents, she was fascinated by all the nudity. She just fixated on all the flesh and she knew she was being naughty... The Bass Museum has a substantial collection that features work from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, but they like to give contemporary artists the opportunity to create new work in response to the old. "...so we gave her mostly black and white photographs or jpegs of low resolution... she started working in grisaille or grayscale and only highlighted the fleshy parts that she loved." Learn more about this intriguing project in todays recorded conversation. | 4/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 40, April 10, 2011 - Apr 10,2011 | This Sunday, we meet Charles Stainback. He is Norton Museum of Art curator of photography and provides a "backstage" account of the pleasures and challenges of the curatorial profession - and eloquently presents his particular style of practice "Thats the great thing about museum work, and thats the great thing about this museum. They really do allow the curators to make their statement, to sort of say heres what I think is significant; heres what I think we should be thinking about." In Stainbacks view theres a prevalent misconception about the role and power of the art Establishment. "People think that curators and museums define the art world and define the art, and it really is the artists. Artists show us and tell us what is significant, and our job is just to respond honestly to what the artists are doing." | 4/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 39; April 3, 2011 - Apr 03,2011 | A fateful series of fruitful sessions with Andy Warhol and other illustrious Pop artists at the brink of their fame has served as a calling card for WILLIAM JOHN KENNEDY's photographic production, but he has been a prolific, highly talented and successful artist before and since. In this episode of the Mosaic of Art, Kennedy shares stories from this fertile period of his life. LOUIS CANALES, creative director of Miami's Kiwi Arts Group, agents for Bill Kennedy and publishers of a major new collection of work from the 1960s, joins us with his expertise on the forces at work during this critical "changing of the guard." Also on Sunday's show, pastel artist, TOM WEINKLE. I think that one of the things that makes pastels unique is the way that the color reacts with the surface you're working. While if you're painting, you're usually holding a brush or some other implement between you, and it's basically just a bigger distance... I felt like pastel gave me a much greater connection with what I wanted to do and say and record." One of the fun things about being an artist is... Often you're recording, making pictures of things, but at the same time there's a point in every piece of artwork where it sort of takes off and becomes art and not just a recording of what you saw. - T. W. | 4/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 38 - Mar 20,2011 | Maybe you have a worthy cause you would like to assist through an arts event. Are you considering an auction? If so, what's involved? How do you go about recruiting participants, and what are the next steps? If you've been approached by an organization and asked to donate artwork, how do you know they're legit? These are among the issues we'll explore with artist MARCELO HOLZINGER, T.E.A.M. administrator, NELSON DELGADO and CHERYL MOODY, partner in see pr services. Also on the show, NOELLE THEARD, co-founder of FotoKonbit, an organization that leads photo workshops in Haiti and the Diaspora. They provide tools for self-expression and provide a means to create and present an alternative vision of the country and its citizens. | 3/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 37; March 6, 2011 - Mar 06,2011 | Last week's show was ALL about mosaic art. This time we feature a range of artistic endeavors. DINORAH de JESUS RODRIGUEZ creates animation the old fashioned way: painting and scratching on film, cell by cell. Hours of painstaking work are required to create a few seconds of screen time. French born artist, ULTRA VIOLET reveled in the juiced-up atmosphere of Andy Warhol's Factory scene during her youth, but will also describe how her orientation toward life and art took a sudden turn. We won't leave mosaics out of the mix, however. Two distinctive snippets from the SAMA conference convey the rewards of participation. Artist CAROL SHELKIN describes the challenges of teaching a workshop in stained glass mosaic portraiture within a compressed time frame. Then JESSE WOZNIAK relates the experience of staffing the booth for his family's mosaic supply companies, Wits End Mosaic and meeting their customers face to face. Please tune in to www.blogtalkradio.com/MosaicOfArt -3-4pm on Sunday. (register if you like, so you can join the chat room). These conversations that I will air Sunday are pre-recorded, but if you would like to phone in during the show to comment on the interviews or your experience at the mosaic conference in Austin, please do so. The number is 646-721-9843 | 3/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 36; Feb. 27, 2011 - Feb 27,2011 | The 2011 Society of American Mosaic Artists conference in Austin, Texas has recently concluded, and there's lots to review. This Sunday, SAMA exhbition committee head, KAREN AMI will join me to talk especially about this vital aspect of the organization's mission. Featured conference presenter, Pamela Irving will share the perspective from "The Antipodes" (look it up) - and more. Mosaic artist of the opus sectile persuasion, Brooks Tower will bring his passion and analytical skills to discuss just what is a mosaic - and why should we care. Brooks certainly cares. If you have opinions and questions, you're welcome to call in during 2nd half of the show. 646-721-9843 | 2/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 35; Feb. 20, 2011 - Feb 13,2011 | Art History department chair at the University of Mary Washington, JEAN ANN DABB is an enthusiast of mosaics - past and present. But her sense of the medium is evolving. "If my working definition now includes a composition of separate distinct elements which having been combined into a larger matrix, then I've given up the notion of some kind of adhesive element and permanence and stability, so I think it's whatever the artist may want to use as their defining definition..." AMY KUPFERBERG began as a metal sculptor. "While fabricating an armature for another sculpture, I became intoxicated by the beauty and grace created from arc welding. In order to fabricate the armature to an exact likeness, I bent the steel and clamped it down directly on top of a drawing of the armature and welded the steel at the cross points. When I lifted the armature up and saw the marks that were left on the paper, I knew that something important had happened." A.K. LISA SILVERA and CHERYL MOODY help Amy - as well as many other artists - find the appreciative audience of collectors and institutions that provide the "air" in which AMY can take flight. "So we do PR, branding and marketing for the contemporary artists whose work we're passionate about." DINORAH DE JESUS RAMIREZ creates animation the old fashioned way: marking on film, frame by frame. "When you hold a film in your hand it has a head and a tail. I can look at this (strip of film) and see movement in the same way that a composer can look at a sheet of music and hear notes - a symphony. ." D.R. After 30 years behind the camera and cultivating his market, PAUL MORRIS has the commercial side down: the corporate portrait, the romantic backlit smoke coming off a cigar, the money shot of golden light on a downtown high-rise, but his heart is in the landscape aesthetic of his early 20th-century heroes, captured on film - not digitally. Stone sentinels in a remote Scottish meadow. He'll talk about it all. | 2/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 34 - Feb 06,2011 | Enjoy JENNIFER LEWIS' eloquent account of managing glass artist Dale Chihuly's international exhibitions for more than a decade. She provides a capsule history of American blown glass' evolution - and acceptance - as an artistic medium. "You have to have a Peter Voulkos and a Dale Chihuly to move a mundane material into the transformative." J.L. Sales director PETER DOLAN of Andrea Schwartz Gallery in San Francisco discusses the dynamics of selecting artists for gallery representation and maintaining that professional relationship in the age of the internet. Popular British artist MARTIN CHEEK, also takes flight on the internet; in his case it's in support of his international teaching program and in promotion of the glass fusions he creates - and his books. Martin describes his unusual pathway to mosaics, the essentials of his distinctive design approach and the lessons to be learned from other mediums. Please tune in on Sunday, 3-4pm EST to the Mosaic of Art. | 2/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 33; Jan. 30, 2011 - Jan 30,2011 | The MOSAIC OF ART is occupied with an installation this week that precludes proper preparation and promotion of a new show. (apologies to those who are awaiting my interview with PETER DOLAN of Andrea Schwartz Gallery and with JENNIFER LEWIS, who will describe her management of glass artist Dale Chihuly's exhibitions. They'll soon come!) Sunday's stand-in show will provide a slew of snippets - a brief conversation with a quilter from Gee's Bend, soundbites from Chicago's Society of American Mosaic Artists conference, bits of conversation from stages of a Malaysian mosaic collaboration this past spring interview segments with artists and art patrons from along the way. This is how the MOSAIC OF ART began. I hope you enjoy and then join me again for a "normal" broadcast next week. | 1/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 32; Jan. 23, 2011 - Jan 23,2011 | JOANN LOCKTOV is known to her friends as an avid but gentle exponent of beautiful mosaic and tile surfaces, and maybe even better known as passionate about things Italian - especially Venetian. (her twitter profile says, Venetophile!) She runs a boutique PR firm in Mill Valley, CA - Bellafigura Communications. She gives promotional guidance - especially for designers and artists - in the course of our conversation. A "teaser" is available in the form of a 5-minute takeout section of www.MosaicOfArt.com JoAnn is a maestra of synergy among activities, interactions, products and attitudes. JoAnn has immersed herself in social media and offers lots of do's and don't's - recognizing that everyone needs to find their own style. Also on the show: While managing international exhibitions for the Dale Chihuly Studio, independent curator JENNIFER LEWIS has witnessed the medium of hot glass undergo major transformations of character and gain a critical measure of visibility - if not total acceptance - in the fine arts establishment. Here are a few quotations from our conversation: Chihuly was an early student of Harvey Littleton, and his thought process was informed by the early studio glass movement - heroic in intention but not very interesting to look at. ... it was not until 80s when Chihuly brought Italian maestros from Venice to show secrets of technique that the Americans were able to incorporate technique into all that expression and risk-taking. It was the meeting of Italian bravura technique and American bravado. You have to have a Peter Voulkos and a Dale Chihuly to move a mundane material into the transformative. BTW, one of JoAnn's clients, the architect, Alberto Alfonso, designed the The Chihuly Collection in Saint Petersburg, Florida - the only building designed specifically for Chihuly’s art. Bit of synergy there! | 1/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 31; Jan. 16, 2011 - Jan 16,2011 | SONIA KING needs no introduction to the mosaic community. She has touched thousands of mosaic enthusiasts through the inspiration of her work, her teaching, writing and leadership in mosaic organizations. Tune in Sunday for a recently recorded conversation and hear her story. *UPDATE: Sonia will join the show LIVE. If you would like to call in with a question at about 3:20 EST or near the end of the show, the number is 646-721-9843. If you register here with Blogtalkradio you can join the chat room and comment or pose questions there. Additional interviews include Steve Dolan of Andrea Schwartz gallery's discussion of artist Gugger Petter. Also, collector MARTY WATSON discusses his and his wife Tippi's collecting approach and strategy. For a teaser, here's an excerpt from Sonia's interview http://mosaicofart.com/new-5-minute-takeout/sonia-king-on-finding-her-p.html | 1/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 30A; Jan. 10, 2011 - Jan 10,2011 | EMMA BIGGS is featured mosaic artist. NANCIE MILLS PIPGRAS saved the bacon by dropping everything to run the show switchboard last minute on Sunday when I couldn't log in from my computer. Thanks, Nancie! So... with this talent on board, with EMMA BIGGS' interview cued up and with JIM BOWEN scheduled to call in to discuss the National Mosaic Exhibition on Cape Cod, it turned into an all-mosaic show. Consequently, I've deferred interviews with PETER DOLAN of Andrea Schwartz Gallery and collector, MARTY WATSON until Sunday the 16th. EMMA BIGGS works at the forefront of mosaic art - in great demand to create features for public settings of all sorts: pavement inserts, fountains, park furnishings, as well as original designs for commercial and residential settings. She's been working, writing and teaching since the late 1980s. In a conversation I will air on Sunday's show, she speaks about her artistic evolution and how she views contemporary mosaic practice in the broader arts community - among other things! | 1/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 29; Jan. 2, 2011 - Jan 02,2011 | ART BASEL; 18 RABBIT GALLERY. Thanks for your kind support during 2010. This first New Year's episode is a pot pourri of diverse interviews, mostly from early December and associated with the Art Basel constellation of exhibitions in South Florida. Brooklyn's "No Agenda" arts collective exhibited at Fountain in Miami, where I spoke with two of the artists, ROSS BRODAR and KIMYON HUGGINS. "...just be creative and expressive with no particular aim in mind and just doing good work. That's no agenda". - KIMYON HUGGINS. LEAH BROWN of 18 Rabbit Gallery in Fort Lauderdale describes a couple of pieces from the show, "Madame," curated by Jackie Tufford. HALLIE HARRISBURG of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents one of the few mosaics on view in the main exhibition hall of Art Basel. She gives some historical context for LEE KRASNER's table, made in 1947. Is it akin to "women's work?" Harrisburg says No! I ran into XAVIER CORTADA at the Hardcore Contemporary Space Gallery. His 80.15W is the name of a series of drawings of endangered animals that dramatizes critical environmental issues. He uses dot matrix and carbon papers - nearly extinct technologies - to echo the condition of these imperiled species. BORKUR ARNARSON came all the way from Iceland to exhibit the i8 Gallery's stable of artists at Art Miami. The gallery director provides the connecting thread to understanding the conceptual works of featured artist HREINN FRIDFINNSON. It's more of a poetic connection than a logical one. Collector, MARTY WATSON: ?When you get into an artist's studio you're really in the inner sanctum, and it's kind of like you're walking around in their brain a little bit. And you just have great conversations. CHRIS DORLAND is one of the artists Watson and his wife, Tippi, collect. Their collecting approach, strategy and emotional connections to the work emerge in our conversation. | 1/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 28A Dec. 26, 2010 - Dec 26,2010 | Last week, technical difficulties resulted in a long period of silence where mellifluous voices were supposed to be calling forth. So, this Sunday, the day after Christmas, let's listen again. The previous week, NANCIE MILLS PIPGRAS was my live call-in guest, and she spoke about the making of the Exhibition in Print in Mosaic Art Now magazine and began to describe how that process – and the feedback from jurors BERNICE STEINBAUM and the team of MATT COLLINGS and EMMA BIGGS - stimulated her thinking about what is and isn’t a mosaic. And doesn't this lead right into consideration of one of the EIP winners, JO BRAUN? In the second half of the show, we go on a field trip to the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida with staff and artists as our guides. | 12/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 28. Dec. 19th 3-4pm EST - Dec 20,2010 | Last week, NANCIE MILLS PIPGRAS was my live call-in guest, and she spoke about the making of the Exhibition in Print in Mosaic Art Now magazine. Doesn't this just lead right into consideration of one of the EIP winners, JO BRAUN? Her interview starts the show. I’m again taking up my mission of looking inside arts institutions. “Creating exhibitions that are conceptually stimulating, well executed, challenging to the audience, but also accessible,” these are the goals that JANE HART pursues as chief curator of the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. She and her associate curator MISAEL SOTO speak about what that means, while describing the work of the exhibitions on view – one by SINISA KUKEC, another by STEPHAN TUGRUL and a third in the South Florida projects room by sculptor, LUIS ALONZO BARKIGIA. BARKIGIA describes both the conceptual nature of his work and the challenge of actually installing it. While in Hollywood, I‘m airing an interview with Development Director, JEFFREY RUSNAK. He talks about the NATHAN SAWAYA exhibition of wall-mounted and sculptural works executed in the material of Legos. I also speak with MAURICIO GARCON, who brought his family to see the show and to participate in a family activity – creating sculptures in the art center’s project room. JO BRAUN doesn’t call herself a "mosaic artist," but rather a visual artist who often works with the materials that others call mosaic. Too fine a distinction? Listen to her reasoning and her creative method: setting up a system of rules and following them. (like for instance making a mosaic with no tesserae). Some would call this rigid and confining, but she asserts it helps her follow her muse. At the least, you’ll be provoked to re-consider some of your assumptions - and to join the discussion at the SAMA conference in Austin. | 12/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 27. Dec. 12th, 2010 3-4pm EST - Dec 12,2010 | Readers and fans of Mosaic Art Now - the magazine, web site & blog will want to mark their calendars for a "date" with Nancie Mills Pipgras, this Sunday's LIVE guest. She will join me in the second half of the show to discuss MAN's newly-released publication plans - and most notably the winners of the Exhibition in Print. She will also share her perspective on "What's the definition of Mosaic - who cares and why?" This will be the topic of a panel discussion at the SAMA conference in Austin in February. Would you like to call in while the show's on? The number is 646.721.8943. First, I'm airing interviews with guests from Art Basel to discuss art/craft issues - and just begin to highlight some notable work from among the thousands on view in Miami at the beginning of the month. One of my lines of inquiry was unusual materials - what are leaves, and push pins and dominoes doing in prestigious galleries. Does it make no difference what the medium is, so long as the message is compelling? Is YOUR favorite medium rope, phone books, basketry, sugar, Plastilene, tar, leaves.... Is there a significant distinction to be made between "medium" and "material?" Witness Mondongo collective: Juliana Laffitte, Manuel Mendanha, and Agustina Picasso take on dark subjects - abuse, pollution, pormography etc. with convoluted imagery and unexpected combinations of materials: string, cheese, stickers, tar. We spoke with their gallery rep. Alex Queral carves phone books into bas reliefs of noted personalities. Philadelphia's Projects Gallery directer Peter Hyder tells the story. Leslie Ferrin is director of Ferrin Gallery in Western MA. One of her featured artists last week was Chris Antemann, whose porcelain figurines hearken to your grandmother's Meissen ware, but bring them delightfully into the 21st century. We'll hear how image and presentation play out in different venues. Lots to view and talk about. Please join the conversation. Sunday 3-4pm EST. | 12/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 26 - Dec 05,2010 | Norton Museum. This week's show begins in the calm of the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, where I speak with chief curator, DR. ROGER WARD and communications director, LEXI DAVIS about their roles in making the museum a vibrant and attractive venue. Then we go to Art Basel and its accompanying events and venues. Mosaic artist, instructor and exhibitor, GINA HUBLER will join me live for a de-briefing of the week. | 12/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 25 - Nov 28,2010 | As a proud Jewish grandmother, NAOMI WILZIG may seem an unlikely figurehead for a museum of erotic art, but it's her welcoming face on taxi cab ads that invites visitors to WEAM, the World Erotic Art Museum, with its collection of over 4,000 pieces - and counting. This Sunday on the Mosaic of Art, "Miss Naomi" will "reveal all" about how her passion for collecting came about. She'll also present her collecting criteria (artists' submissions are welcome), WEAM's mission and challenges - and she'll speak about a few faves from the collection. In this "teaser," a Five Minute Takeout on the MOA you'll learn her ultimate arousal factor - not what you think! Next, Naomi introduces artist ROSEMARIE ROMERO and compares her own political stances regarding to those of her guest, whose war protest campaign takes the form of photomontages that juxtapose fashion, sex ads and military images. Rosemarie describes her methods, goals and motivations. DAVID TAMARGO, assistant art director at WEAM, gives the "back stories" of several pieces, including Herman Makkink's notorious rocking sculpture from Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange, Dieter Sporleder's Kama Sutra bed and Wally Wood's playful take on the Disney pantheon. | 11/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 24 - Nov 21,2010 | LAUREL TRUE and GEORGES METELLUS are back to describe the creation of Phase Two of an extraordinary mosaic mural in Jacmel, Haiti. Laurel also speaks about filtering the influence of folkloric cultures on her own work. RANDY BURMAN is an assemblage sculptor, who capitalizes on his packrat tendencies to provide inspiration. He describes his artistic evolution working process. For a current show/performance event at Artformz Alternative Gallery in Wynwood (Miami), he encourages the destruction of existing artwork. "Old Art Must Die In Order For New Art To Be Born" reads a neon sign. | 11/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 23 - Nov 07,2010 | This first episode of the fall season (Sunday, November 7, 3-4pm EDT) features a potpourri of brief interviews: a gallery director and two visitors, an art event organizer, a mosaicist, sculptor, two amateurs and an art center development director. | 11/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 22 - Jul 04,2010 | LYNNE CHINN will be Sunday's MOSAIC OF ART guest. From her Plano, Texas studio, she creates award-winning fine art mosaics, fully exploiting the medium with her experimental substrates, layering, color blends and textures. Please tune in and tell your friends too! MOSAIC OF ART 3-4pm EDT on Sundays. After airing live, the show archives for listening any time. If you're already a fan of the show, please help sustain it by telling friends on facebook, forwarding this email and marking the show a favorite on BlogTalkRadio. (click the little red heart to the right of my picture). Thanks so much for your support! | 7/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 21 - Jun 27,2010 | DAVID CSICSKO will be one of Sunday's MOSAIC OF ART guests. From his Chicago design studio, he creates the engaging graphic images that grace event posters, assorted publications and fine arts productions. David takes us on a tour of the studio and describes his process, working across various media, such as this stained glass window. Collaborating with ERIN ADAMS of Albuquerque, he produces ceramic and glass mosaics for schools, liturgical spaces and metro systems. View a slideshow of their Belmont Station installation. In the second half of the show, photographer, public speaker and educator, ALYX KELLINGTON will present her collection of so-called "Outsider" art, but her approach is to always first establish a personal connection to the artists who've created that work. Among her favorites: Mose Tolliver, Miss Ruby, Purvis Young and Lamar Sorrento. Please tune in and tell your friends too! MOSAIC OF ART 3-4pm EDT on Sundays. After airing live, the show archives for listening any time. If you're already a fan of the show, please help sustain it by telling friends on facebook, forwarding this email and marking the show a favorite on BlogTalkRadio. (click the little red heart to the right of my picture). Thanks so much for your support! George Fishman, producer/host | 6/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 20 - Jun 20,2010 | London-based artist, GARY DROSTLE, has designed and created public commissions for 25 years. In his latest project, nearing completion in Iowa City, he has enjoyed the assistance of colleagues from England, Italy and the U.S.. This Sunday from 3-4pm EDT, Gary will speak about his design approach and provide a mini-workshop in the details of organizing and producing a 500 square foot mosaic floor mosaic. He will be joined by mosaicist, JULIE RICHEY, who has taken part both in both the London and Iowa City phases of the "River of Life." I catch them on a break from the grueling installation process. So, please tune in to the MOSAIC OF ART for professional insights into all phases of mosaic mural-making. Please tune in and tell your friends too! MOSAIC OF ART 3-4pm EDT on Sundays. | 6/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 19 - Jun 13,2010 | Whether she's creating a family portrait, a personal city, a representation of heaven or hell or commemorating the heroism of firefighters, BEATRICE CORON utilizes a technique of complex silhouette cutting to create what she calls cut stories. The materials may be simply paper cut with an Exacto knife, or they might be laser-cut stainless steel for an airport, library, transit system or fire station, but there's an emotional immediacy, intelligence and liveliness in her work that is unique. This Sunday on the MOSAIC OF ART Beatrice Coron, will engage with me in a conversation about her artistic evolution, her techniques and her range of formats of expression. So, please tune in to the MOSAIC OF ART at 3pm EDT and join us! After airing live, the show archives for listening any time. If you're already a fan of the show, please help sustain it by telling friends on facebook, forwarding this email and marking the show a favorite here on BlogTalkRadio. (click the little red heart to the right of my picture). Thanks so much for your support! George Fishman, producer/host | 6/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 18 Laurel True & Nancie Mills Pipgras - Jun 06,2010 | On January 24, JUDY HOFFMAN, co-founder of the Art Creation Foundation For Children in Jacmel, Haiti was a guest and spoke about the organization's founding, mission and survival of the earthquake. This Sunday We'll have a LIVE conversation from the site of the MEMORIAL MOSAIC MURAL at 3pm EDT LAUREL TRUE, ERIN ROGERS, NANCY JOSEPHSON and friends are hard at work in collaboration with the staff and children of ACFFC. The mosaic mural is a gift to the community and will serve as a memorial to the devastation and lives lost, but it will also serve as a symbol of hope and a seed for a sustainable mosaic program at the ACFFC and for other arts groups, hopefully leading to commercially viable artistic enterprise. Also, Nancie Mills Pipgras will phone in from Santa Rosa, CA - both to speak with Laurel and to give an update on Mosaic Art Now's plans for 2010-2011. She's just back from a pow-wow with her co-editors. So, tune in to the MOSAIC OF ART at 3pm EDT and join us! | 6/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 17 - May 30,2010 | The MOSAIC OF ART radio show explores the making and distribution of myriad varieties of visual art by talking with curators, historians, dealers, publishers, collectors and artists of all stripes -- about their creative processes. These two popular interviews aired in March, but since there are so many new listeners now, I'm re-broadcasting them today, as I'm on the road this (U.S.) Memorial Day weekend. Enjoy!? DR. SCOTT SHIELDS is the Chief Curator and Assoc. Director of Sacramento's Crocker Art Museum. He speaks about his recent commission to jury the Exhibition in Print that is featured in MOSAIC ART NOW - the 2010 edition. It wasn't an easy selection process from among more than 500 submissions. He describes his methodology, highlights several of his favorite pieces and suggests what is needed for the mosaic medium to gain greater recognition. ELLEN BLAKELEY won the Best in Show award for her sculpture "Meredith" in the exhibition and she reveals her inspirations, work methods and personal history. Besides her distinctive one-of-a-kind mosaic artworks, Ellen has also developed a line of mosaic tiles for the national -- and even international -- design market. Afterward, please let me know what you think! If you like, mark the show as a favorite on BlogTalkRadio. Next week, as promised, LAUREL TRUE will call in from the Memorial Mosaic Mural work site in Jacmel Haiti with a field report. NANCIE MILLS PIPGRAS will join me live to speak with her and also give us an update following her recent pow-wow with fellow Mosaic Art Now editors. | 5/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - EPISODE 16 - May 23,2010 | On this Sunday's show: The SHYNESS OF TREES, a mosaic collaboration between Australian and American mosaic artists in George Town, Malaysia was supported by ANGELA HIJJAS and HIJJAS KASTURI whose home and thriving botanical garden, Rimbun Dahan, outside Kuala Lumpur is also the site of a private artist residency program of nearly 20 years standing. Angela will describe the goals, process and challenges in founding and running this program, whose primary participants are SE Asian and Australian artists. In the second segment, GLENN ROMANIS describes a series of recent site-specific works that he created in South Eastern Australia and relates the process of designing and creating these to the SHYNESS collaborative project at Hotel Penaga. Glenn's work integrates history, story-telling, topography, geography, geology and community-building. He has been commissioned by cities, museums, zoos, botanical gardens, religious organizations, and private collectors, resulting in a body of work comprising more than 100 installations. He considers much of the work to be part of a single "collage" of installations arrayed across the map of South Eastern Australia during the past 15 years. | 5/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mosaic of Art - Episode 15 - May 18,2010 | Due to technical problems, Episode 14 has been deleted, but will be re-broadcast this Sunday. Lee Modica is Manager for Florida’s Art in State Buildings program. On this Sunday's MOSAIC OF ART Radio Show (3pm DST) she gives her perspective on the evolution of the program and practical tips for artists who seek opportunities in the domain of public art. Also, Laurel True will be on in the second half of the show to speak about her extraordinary Memorial Mosaic Mural in Jacmel Haiti that will be under way next month. | 5/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - CHAPTER 13 - May 02,2010 | The MOSAIC OF ART has been on sabbatical, but now is back with the rewards of five weeks on the road, on the water and in the air. This first show will provide a slew of snippets - a brief conversation with a quilter from Gee's Bend , soundbites from Chicago's Society of American Mosaic Artists conference, bits of conversation from stages of the Malaysia mosaic collaboration and interview segments with artists and art patrons from along the way. This is how the MOSAIC OF ART began -- with short takes from Art Basel. It seems like a good way to get back into the game. Please tune in and get re-acquainted. | 5/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 12 - Mar 14,2010 | Please tune in for the show's 12th episode on Sunday March 14, 3-4 p.m. EST. And why not register so you can join the chat room! If you're busy Sunday, check in later; you can also download shows to another device and listen while driving or in your studio. The Little Haiti Cultural Center, designed by Bernard Zyscovich Architects, is a gem of a facility, featuring a stunningly beautiful gallery. The staff, including Manager RASHA CAMEAU and Media Specialist LORRAINE RENTZ, describe the center's inception and its mission to present Haitian culture to the community, offering a range of classes in both visual and performance arts. It also serves as a presentation venue. The exhibition, GLOBAL CARIBBEAN, was curated by noted artist EDOUARD DUVAL CARRIE, whose work is widely shown and collected, but is not part of this exhibition. He gathered striking works by both emerging and well-recognized artists from the Caribbean area, with the purpose of showcasing talent that breaks stereo- types of "folk" and "tourist-oriented" art and craft. “It’s real art based on very deep historical, psychological, social, economic upheavals and move- ments that make this region quite a fascinating one,” he said. The opening during Art Basel was very well attended by an international crowd, including a number of the French cultural representatives and other sponsors of the project. (image) RECENT COMMISSION by Edouard Duval Carrié In our interview, Edouard describes the curatorial process, highlighting some notable examples and themes in a guided tour of the show. He is joined by Rasha and Lorraine who point out a few of their favorites. The exhibition runs through March and will be followed by a show featuring artwork by women of Haitian heritage. | 3/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 11 - Mar 07,2010 | DR. SCOTT SHIELDS is the Chief Curator and Associate Director of Sacramento's Crocker Art Museum. He has written books, catalogs and other scholarly articles -- especially about California painting movements and contemporary ceramics. He speaks about his recent commission to jury the Exhibition in Print that is featured in MOSAIC ART NOW - the 2010 edition. It wasn't an easy selection process from among more than 500 submissions. He describes his methodology, highlights several of his favorite pieces and suggests what is needed for the mosaic medium to gain greater recognition. ELLEN BLAKELEY won the Best in Show award for her sculpture "Meredith" in that exhibition and she reveals her inspirations, work methods and personal history. Besides her distinctive one-of-a-kind mosaic artworks, Ellen has also developed a line of mosaic tiles for the national -- and even international -- design market. Is this something you aspire to? Ellen shares the ins and outs of that endeavor as well. | 3/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 10 (SHORT INTRO REPEATS -- SORRY!) - Mar 01,2010 | The MOSAIC OF ART radio show explores the making and distribution of myriad varieties of visual art by talking with curators, historians, dealers, publishers, collectors and artists of all stripes -- about their creative processes. If this sounds like a conversation you would enjoy, tune in to www.MosaicOfArt.com for the show's 9th episode on Sunday from 3-4 p.m. EST. I hope you'll bring a drink with you and tune in. And why not register so you can join the chat room! Ken Knowlton is one of the pioneers of computer-based art. Hear the story of the passion behind the mathematics and the mathematics within the art. Ken says that he's "been there, done that": he has been a farmhand, student, teacher, advisor, speaker, reader, mathematician, physicist, electron microscopist, computer scientist, chimes player, mountain climber, researcher, inventor, author, artist, critic, son, sibling, father, husband, grandfather, peace and civil rights activist, agnostic, retiree, liberal, cynic and realistic pessimist. Retired from scientific/technical agitation, he is trying to spend the final quarter of his life doing no harm: writing essays and memoirs, and using his own computer-assisted methods for planning his artwork, most of which are mosaic portraits. During recent months he's been actively involved in development and refinement of a puzzle game that's currently on the market in Japan. His Jigazo puzzle may find its way to the U.S. market next year. Stay tuned! EXTRA EXTRA! Joining us LIVE is NANCIE MILLS PIPGRASS to preview MOSAIC ART NOW - Available! - and provide updates on her blog -- esp the enormous Hanoi mosaic mural. And who knows what else we may discuss? Feel free to call in 646.721.9843 | 3/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 9 - Feb 21,2010 | Xavier Cortada has worked with groups across the world to produce numerous large-scale collaborative art projects-- including eco-art installations on Miami Beach and in the South Pole (through a residency sponsored by the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program). In 2008 he brought his art installations to the North Pole. Xavier will join me live during the second half of the show to speak about art as an interactive medium to effect social change. To call in to the program, phone 646.721.9843 ------- On January 24, Judy Hoffman, co-founder of the Art Creation Foundation For Children was a guest and spoke about the organization's founding, mission and survival of the earthquake. (www.artforhaitianchildren.org). Meanwhile, Two Bay Area colleagues, Jen and Guy Pantaleon who run photo workshops at the ACFFC are there again now, helping deliver supplies and also using their art workshop skills to help the kids cope with trauma. I interviewed Jennifer Pantaleon about Zanmi Lakay, the organization she and her husband founded to assist street kids and about their most recent photo workshop at the ACFFC. | 2/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 8 - Feb 14,2010 | ------------KAREN AMI, provides a "State of the Union" of mosaic art domestically & abroad from her positions as both Director of the Chicago Mosaic School and President of the Society of American Mosaic Artists, (www.americanmosaics.org) which celebrates its 10th anniversary with it's Chicago conference March 17 to 21, 2010. Widely exhibited, with numerous commissions under her belt, Karen has a special perspective on what's happening in the world of mosaics. She shares recent travel experiences and gives a preview of the SAMA conference in her hometown of Chicago. Also a peek in her studio, Art Amiba. Karen will call in LIVE during second half of the show, SO why not join us! 646.721.9843. ------------ DOMENICA MOTTARELLA & SOLOMON BASSOFF are partners in art and in daily life. They share secrets from both - on Valentine's Day! Working side by side, they manipulate their chosen materials to generate unexpected forms that are whimsical, but much more than cute. Pooling their strengths and complementing each other, they've built a successful partnership called Faducci, creating sculptures and bas reliefs for public and private spaces. Check their web site www.faducci.com | 2/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 7 - Feb 07,2010 | PAM GIVENS came to her love for mosaics through early immersion. Her parents ran the "Mosaic Alcove" in Southern California during the 50s and 60s, when Pam was a teenager. Pam moved on to other pursuits, but eventually circled back and re-awakened an interest in mosaics. Besides her own studio work, she has created two major projects to share her passion with others: The social network web site Contemporary Mosaic Art and the workshop/tours with Giulio Menossi that she organizes. JEAN ANN DABB decided to forgo her family's plant business in Utah and to become instead a "perpetual student." Good move. She has taught art history and mosaics at the Univ. of Mary Washington since 1992. She travels the world to see mosaics, documenting her visits with photography and notes, sharing both her casual observations and deeper study by writing for academic publications, for GROUTLINE, the SAMA (Society of American Mosaic Artists) newsletter and through her classes. Her studio work in mosaics is also informed by her study of ancient mosaics; she’ll talk about that influence, and we’ll look at some examples. | 2/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 6 - Jan 31,2010 | Besides creating his biting editorial cartoons that we heard about in last week's interview, JIM MORIN has a flourishing career as a painter. As he writes, My paintings are ultimately another form of journalism: that is, observing, analyzing and recording societal progression and our relationship to the changing world around us. We talk about the connection between these two streams of Jim's artistic life. I went to the Lowe Art Museum expecting to see a small exhibition of roman era mosaics from Tunisia. What I didn't expect was a smiling, but otherwise apocalyptic figure: a woman dressed in black astride a chopper made of a cow skeleton. BILLIE GRACE LYNN spoke with me about her "working" sculpture, then sounded the horn. You guessed it, "MOOOOOOO!" I want people to remember themselves, in much the same way that babies discover their fingers. When my work is successful, the piece is completed by the viewer-participant and she/he continues her/his journey more aware and delighted in being a body. And just back from an exciting trip to India, RICHARD DAVIS brings a report of his findings: indigenous mosaics adorning a multitude of structures and 19th century Italian figurative work. He'll take us on a guided tour. | 1/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 5 - Jan 25,2010 | Show features interviews with Pulitzer-prize winning Miami Herald editorial cartoonist JIM MORIN along with JUDY HOFFMAN, co-founder of Art Creation Foundation For Children (ACFFC) in Jacmel, Haiti. JIM MORIN describes his imaginative and working processes. The interview was updated with commentary about covering a crisis, such as the Haiti disaster. JUDY HOFFMAN recounts the inspiring, life-salvaging work of the ACFFC, which rescues street children and gives physical sustenance, community support and training in self-sufficiency through creating art -- mostly paper mache and paintings. Children, staff and facility have survived the earthquake. Judy tells the story of the founding and the mission of the organization. Calling in live, JULIE RICHEY will provide highlights of the June Mosaic Masterpieces Italian tour she will guide. | 1/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 4 - Jan 17,2010 | CARLOS ALVES is widely-known and loved for his lively and engaging ceramic and mosaic artwork, which adorns airports, visitor centers, hospitality settings and innumerable collections and residences. He will speak about his history, working method then give a tour of his exhibition in CAFEINA, a new Gallery and Lounge in Miami's Wynwood Arts District, where Ivette Naranjo is "The Boss" -- that's what her card reads! Fifteen percent of sales will benefit the Greater Miami-Dade Adopt-a-Pet program of the Humane Society. LAURIE HOFFMAN will talk about the program. TUNE IN THIS SUNDAY 3-4pm EST www.MosaicOfArt.com. Artists in your own communities may wish to hook up with local Adopt-a-Pet programs or other charities to benefit causes they believe in. Something to consider, especially as Haiti's disaster wrings our hearts and demands a response of generosity. My third guest, ARIANE GOODWIN, author and artist coach, helps practitioners in any art discipline or stage of their career to advance themselves in the art world, utilizing both logistical tools and mental/spiritual practice. She will speak about defining and cultivating your audience and describe her upcoming smARTist telesummit. Last, and equally important, I'll be speaking Live! with NANCIE MILLS PIPGRAS of Mosaic Art Now | 1/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The MOSAIC OF ART - Episode 3 - Jan 10,2010 | This week we have two eminent mosaicists, Eric Rattan and Brit Hammer. Eric describes both the design and technical sides of his unique profile-cut and assembled slate mosaics. Brit shares two current projects -- organizing international workshops and publishing books -- and she will recount the twisting path that led her here. BRIT WILL BE ON LIVE! in the second half hour, so visit her site and be ready with some questions. Register on this page before the show so you can access the chat room. To phone in during her segment call. (646) 721-9843 www.santafedesignstudio.com brithammer.com | 1/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - EPISODE 1, PART B - Jan 03,2010 | This followup show on Art Basel will air at the normal schedule for the show -- Sunday afternoon from 3 to 4 EST. This episode will also feature recorded interviews from Art Basel/Art Miami -- The chat room will be open for those who register as listeners with Blog Talk Radio (free) Please tell your friends, esp if you heard Friday's show! Also, check out the blog at www.MosaicOfArt.blogspot.com Intro music by Steve Zirkel of Austin, TX Check out www.stringsattached.org Sunday our guests are Carla Acevedo - Rica the Gallery, Lucia Schito - Bisazza Mosaics USA; Gala Kvachnina - Art Rouge; artists Mark Diamond, Ilya Schar, Susanna Caldwell and Laura Jacobs. | 1/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MOSAIC OF ART - EPISODE 1, PART A - Jan 01,2010 | Inaugural show features interviews connected to Art Basel Miami Beach, the enormous cluster of art exhibitions and related events that thousands fly in for at the beginning of December. I have the good fortune to live here and made the rounds of the main hall and as many of the satellite exhibitions (designmiami.com, artmiami.com, etc) as I could -- microphone in hand. Intro music by Steve Zirkel of Austin, TX Check out www.stringsattached.org | 1/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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