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.
Pete Sparber sits down with a number of Philadelphia artists who are also administrators (executive directors, directors, gallery owners) and compiles nuggets from each of his conversations – subject, the Future.
Read MorePete Sparber visits Larry Francis at his home studio and talks with the artist about his quiet and light-filled urban landscapes.
Read MorePete Sparber sits down with Branche Coverdale to talk about his art, the process of making it and gets a great back-story about how the artist worked for artist, Takashi Murakami for five years.
Read MorePete Sparber interviews O’Neil Scott about his journey from birth in Jamaica and immigration to the U.S. at age five, and after that, college at Syracuse, where he played football(!) and to his rise as a portrait painter of exquisite beauty and delicacy.
Read MoreLane Speidel interviews Jim Strong, his friend and bandmate (Saggy) about Strong’s work, his spiritual life in Quakerism and other practices, and his music
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