Jennifer Levonian considers herself a feminist. Her animated videos — beautiful, handmade, surreal — portray quotidien material, often featuring women protagonists, who encounter weird experiences in the “normal” 21st Century urban environment. Libby and Roberta talked with Jennifer in 2011. Here is their podcast interview, 16 minutes long.
Read MoreLibby and Roberta talk with Jacque Liu and Mike Ellyson about their collective, Grizzly Grizzly, in the 319 N. 11th St. hub, alive with 5 arts collectives, and lots of experimental art and curating.
Read MoreLibby and Roberta speak with Andrew Jeffrey Wright, founding member of Space 1026! It’s a great talk, 16 and a half minutes long.
Read MoreClaes Gabriel (Claes is pronounced “Clays”) makes bright-colored totemic shapes from stretched canvas over wood armatures. The works show the artist’s attention to detail in crafting and painting. The artist, who was born in Port au Prince, Haiti in 1977 is not making “black art” but rather painting his feelings, he says. He’s the son of a famous Haitian artist, Jacques Gabriel, and yes, he was named after Claes Oldenburg. Claes came to the US in 1989 and studied at Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA 1999) and while right now he’s in Philadelphia, his long-range plans involve living in Europe.
Read MoreLibby and Roberta talk with artist/printmaker/educator, Amze Emmons, about the 50-artist exhibition he organized at Space 1026, called Refugee Reading Room. We find his works, which show depopulated and downtrodden urban spaces drenched in pastel shades suitable for Valentine’s Day “I love you” hearts to be more pertinent each day. The 12-minute podcast will fly by with all the amazing, smart things Amze says.
Read MoreKristen Neville Taylor talks about her glass art, which references digital technology. She also curated a show “Landscape Techne” which presents technology-influenced or tech-immersed landscapes. Taylor is a co-founder of Little Berlin, and she talks about creating that community and why she felt the need for it.
Read MoreDiedra Krieger is an artist whose work merges public art and science, especially when it comes to sustainability and the environment. This 9-minute audio podcast was recorded in Chinatown at Vietnam Palace restaurant.
Read MoreLibby and Roberta interview gallery owner and artists’ advocate, Sande Webster, whose eponymous gallery is home to many of the city’s top African American artists.
Read MoreWilliam Powhida and Jennifer Dalton were in town to jury the Vox Populi annual in July, 2018. They sat down with Libby and Roberta to discuss jurying the show (the first time either of them had undertaken a jurying gig) and what they were looking for (the unusual, the otherworldly, things they hadn’t seen before.) The episode was recorded in July, 2018 at Vietnam Restaurant. It runs 13:33 minutes long.
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