We talked with people and we listened. (Artblog 2003-2025)
Sometimes we recorded the conversations for Artblog Radio. Sometimes interviews worked better as written stories. In all events, we loved talking with artists, arts administrators, gallerists, museum workers. We loved to learn and to share with you the joy in our discoveries.
Roberta talks with artist and longtime curator at both Moore College of Art and Design and Arcadia University, Richard Torchia. They cover Torchia’s early post-college experience working for architects and an early artist collective in Newark, NJ, and his recurring fascination with and use of photocopier machines to make art and books.
Read MoreOli Knowles, artist and comics artist, sits down with Gina Dawson and Tom Marquet to talk about their shop, Partners and Son, which opened in 2020 after they moved to Philadelphia, and which specializes on comics, zines, graphic novels and related materials, along with art made by comic artists, which is hung on a dedicated gallery wall in the shop.
Read MoreBrigid O’Brien interviews Phoebe Bachman about her creation, The People’s Budget Office, a community art project established to help raise awareness of the Philadelphia budget and how the departments that serve the city (and its citizens) are funded. The PBO Operates for part of the year from a shipping container in Love Park that is open to the public and distributes pamphlets and collects information from people about their city budget priorities.
Read MoreArtblog’s new contributor Brigid O’Brien sits down with Kiki Aranita for a chat about food and crochet. The chef, food writer, fiber artist, sauce entrepreneur, and recipe developer tells her food story and her crafting story.
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