Verve Seattle
By SEATTLE CHANNEL
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Podcast Description
Verve is a showcase of local artists -- those already known and those yet to be discovered. Viewers will get a look inside the artists' worlds -- their creative processes, studio and work environments, and thoughts on inspiration. The Verve video podcast is part of the SEATTLE CHANNEL'S Art Zone, an innovative, first-in-the-nation TV project that creates programming celebrating local arts and culture and encourages people to go out and take part in the region's rich cultural life in person.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoFeatured Artist: Laura Yeats | Designer and woodworker, Laura Yeats uses domestic woods and steel to create sculptural and functional works of art. The designs are simple, modern, and timeless. | 12/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoFeatured Artist: Ree Brown | Ree paints his delicate paintings onto scraps of paper, cardboard, bits of matting, brown paper bags, and just about anything else that will hold paint. | 12/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoFeatured Artist: Johanna Kunin | Her thoughtful, minimalist piano parts form the strong sonic backbone around which her melodies are built. | 12/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoFeatured Artist: Evan Flory-Barnes | A composer, bassist, thinker, and kind human. Evan's passion for life and learning translates into amazing music. | 12/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoFeatured Artist: Maija Fiebig | Harnessing a spectrum of rich color, a strong sense of depth, and repetition of forms, Maija Fiebig creates paintings that transport and move the viewer with their beauty and the other-worldly environments she creates. | 11/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoFeatured Artist: Robert Hardgrave | Robert Hardgrave is a self-developed artist, who creates work both highly intricate and abundant with personal symbols. | 11/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoFeatured Artist: Dufon Smith | Dufon Smith, a.k.a. Orb/Orbit/Orbitron, is a free-style dance expressionist, as well as an MC and rapper. Dufon's crew, Circle of Fire, has been together for ten years, and can be seen and heard every Monday night at the War Room. More information about Dufon can be found on his myspace page: myspace.com/orbcircleoffirecrew | 9/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoCharles Mudede | Charles Mudede is presently the Associate Editor for the Seattle-based weekly The Stranger as well as lecturer in English Humanities at the Pacific Lutheran University, located near Tacoma, Washington. The column he writes in that paper, Police Beat, was turned into a film of the same name in 2004. Police Beat the movie was selected for competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2005. In 2003, Mudede published a short book called Last Seen with Diana George. Mudede was also a member of the defunct Seattle Research Institute, a Marxist circle inspired by the Frankfurt School and the work of Hardt and Negri. SRI published two books, Politics Without The State and Experimental Theology. (Mudede and George edited the former.) Mudede has also published essays and articles with Nic Veroli, a French American Marxist philosopher, and is on the editorial board for Arcade, an architectural journal. Mudede's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and C Theory, which published one of his most popular pieces of writing, The Turntable, a theory of the hiphop practice of scratching and sampling. Charles Mudede is also the writer of Zoo, a movie about the Enumclaw Horse Case, and he played a priest in The Naked Proof, released in 2003. He and the director Robinson Devor run a film company called The Cook Ding Institute of Imagination which is presently producing The Cloud Room, a movie about a society of cloud lovers. | 7/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoVis-a-Vis Society | The Vis-a-Vis Society was founded in a year that felt like 1957 by Drs. Ink and Owning (aka Sierra Nelson and Rachel Kessler, of the literary performance group The Typing Explosion). Gathering data from audiences using original poem-surveys, the Vis-a-Vis Society presents its findings in humorous and informative multi-media performances which include song, dance, and live graphs. The Vis-a-Vis Society has performed across the nation (including at the NW Film Forum, Wave Books Poetry Bus, Henry Art Gallery, Bumbershoot, Galapagos Art Space) - building installations, teaching the polka, crying into telephones, rapping equations, and tenderly taking the poetic pulse of every audience they meet. | 7/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoDante Marioni | Dante Marioni's reinterpretations of classical vessel forms are intensely individual, and instantly recognized as his creations, combining a deep reverence for the history and tradition of glass as a craft, with a sleek, modern design sense. While the exaggerated scale and flawless execution of the pieces give them an architectural, even monumental quality, Marioni's work is more concerned with color and skill than making a conceptual statement - it has always been about the process, the experience of blowing glass, and he continues to design pieces that push his skills to their limits. | 7/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoJim Rittimann | Like a mad scientist with an insatiable appetite for invention and discovery, Jim Rittimann is a benevolent Dr. Frankenstein of sorts, using the natural world both as his raw material and subject matter. Insects and bugs, bones, plant seeds and other organic parts are taken apart and put back together, altered, reassembled, added, and subtracted. By merging a genuine interest in science with an aesthetic sensibility, Rittimann is the embodiment of both the curious child and the Renaissance man, merging the real and the fantastic into new and impossible creatures, both mesmerizing and ambiguous. | 6/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoHaruko Nishimura | Since co-founding Degenerate Art Ensemble (formerly The Young Composers Collective) in 1993, Haruko has produced a consistent stream of original and adventurous works combining physical theater and butoh dance with live experimental music. | 6/21/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoCharles Krafft | CHARLES KRAFFT is considered a pioneer of the 'low brow' or Pop Surrealism movement. This is an alternative visual arts universe with roots in California custom car culture, surfing culture and '60s era underground comix. | 6/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoJuan Alonso, painter | Alonso's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the U.S., Canada, and Latin-America. | 5/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoAnna Lange | Anna Lange, a.k.a. Anna Banana, loves color, fashion and, most of all, people. | 5/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoMarya Sea Kaminski, performer/writer/director | She is one of the founding members of the Washington Ensemble Theater. | 5/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoScott Trimble, sculptor | Scott always had a fascination for fusing a variety of materials and processes together. The contrast between industry, nature, figure, and machine, have long been sources of his imagery. | 4/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoAllen Johnson, writer/performer | As a performer, Johnson draws from his experience as a visual artist, poet, truck driver and boiler mechanic to create solo performances exploring the recklessness and vulnerability needed for an intimate encounter with God, a lover, or oneself. | 4/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoNorman Courteny, public artist | Norman Courteny's primary work for many years now has been in the arena of public art. Norman says, Making artworks that are seen by a vast and diverse audience in a public place is rewarding and challenging at the same time. | 4/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoPaul Rucker, interdisciplinary artist | Paul Rucker is an Interdisciplinary artist with an emphasis on musical composition. Cellist, Bassist, Composer, Visual Artist moved to Seattle in 1998. | 2/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoZoe Scofield, choreographer | Zoe Scofield is a Seattle based choreographer. Her signature modern dance style has been watched at Bumbershoot, Spectrum Dance Theater, Velocity Dance Center and On The Boards. | 2/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoIole Alessandrini, architect/sculptor | Born and raised in Italy, Iole Alessandrini is an artist who has been living in Seattle since 1994. It is in the intersection of art and architecture through which her work moves. | 2/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 22 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
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I loved these artists profiles. They are fascinating and beautifully done. Watch this show. You will be pleasantly surprised.
