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.
Katie Dillon Low sees an exhibit at the Painted Bride Art Center presenting the collective work of a community collective, ‘Hook&Loop,’ whose members are ‘Disabled, Neurodivergent, Chronically Ill, Mad, and Sick people, based in Philadelphia.’
Read MoreJanyce talks with the late Betty Blayton’s younger brother, Oscar, who is working with the artist’s archive and shares much of Betty’s history of an artist in New York from 1960-2016, where she was friends with many Black artists and founding director of the Harlem-based Children’s Art Carnival.
Read MoreRoberta sat down with artist and gallerist Nancy Herman to talk about her multi-faceted art, her gallery and her quest to make art that is musical, to make the colors be music itself. Enjoy this wide-ranging chat that took place a while ago but is fresh and topical today!
Read MorePete Sparber sits down with the Kindred Collaborative to discuss the group’s collaborative paintings, debuting at PII Gallery on Oct. 4, 2024.
Read MoreArtblog contributor Joyce Chung talks with Rachel Hsu about the artist’s new temporary public art in Maja Park on the Ben Franklin Parkway. In this wide-ranging, poetic discussion, they cover issues of how a body interacts in space; and with others, raising issues of community as well as individual experience.
Read MoreSusan Isaacs writes about a historic farmhouse in Delaware that was save by some artists who have created a non-profit organization, fundraised, and renovated the farmhouse into an art space for the community. It’s a great story of art and historic preservation.
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