Jennie Thwing on artblog radio – a new podcast

By libby and roberta

April 4, 2011   ·   1 Comments

Jennie Thwing‘s whimsical stop-action animations have tickled our visual funnybone for years — at the same time that they’ve made us think about issues like the environment and our culture of waste.  The artist and educator (she teaches at Rowan University in New Jersey) is also a member of Nexus, one of Philly’s oldest alternative membership spaces.  Thwing, who was born in Alberta, Canada, tells us about her religious upbringing and about starting out as a painter but never being satisfied with her paintings. Her videos — elliptical narritives in which she and others perform — are imbued with humor as well as an abashed sense of awe about the world.  Here’s a short clip from the interview and below that is the full 13-minute episode.

Jennie Thwing, speaking with us about her videos. We recorded the podcast at WHYY

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This episode is edited by Peter Crimmins. The music is by Eric Biondo. Thanks to the Knight Foundation for helping us get the ball rolling on this project. Thanks to J-Lab and William Penn Foundation for additional support and to our partner WHYY NewsWorks for their ongoing support and for sharing artblog radio episodes on the arts & culture page of their community news site NewsWorks.org. You can subscribe to artblog radio on iTunes.

Tags: artblog radio, Jennie Thwing, podcast, stop action animation, video

One Response to “Jennie Thwing on artblog radio – a new podcast”

1. WCThwing says:

   April 10, 2011 at 11:17 pm

   Thanks, Jen. You are indeed an interesting talented, lovable person and your art likewise is very original, fresh, inovative, insiteful, lovable and …interesting. Blessings on you and your work.