Interviews

May 1, 2019 by Wit López

Shaking and Shouting, Arielle Julia Brown and Lela Aisha Jones on their roles in Reggie Wilson’s ‘Grounds That Shout! (and others merely shaking)’

Wit López speaks with Arielle Julia Brown and Lela Aisha Jones about their involvement in “Grounds that Shout! (and others merely shaking” curated by Reggie Willson. The series involves panels, performances, and more that will take place on May 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, and 11th, 2019.

April 29, 2019 by Roberta

Sifu Chik Mason and Rhashea Lynn Harmon-El talk the healing and educational strengths of Bagua

Roberta interviews Sifu Chik Mason and Rhashea Lynn Harmon-El about their practice of Pa Kua Chang (Bagua), a spiritual practice of movement and choreography that is more than 300 years old, with roots in Taoism.

April 25, 2019 by Morgan Nitz

Autumn Wallace talks expression, riddles, anthropology, and sexuality

Morgan Nitz sits down with Autumn Wallace to discuss their current exhibition, “How Could I Say No to You”, closing this Sunday, April 28th, 4-6 PM at HouseGallery1816!

April 24, 2019 by Wit López

Hot Bits Founders Open Up about Their Erotic Arts Fest Coming This Weekend

Wit López speaks with Hot Bits Film Festival founders Evie Snax and Hear Byrne about their upcoming festival at Lightbox Film Center, beginning this Friday, April 26th, 2019!

April 16, 2019 by Mandy Palasik

Backstage peek at The Shed, new Hudson Yards performance and art space with a mission

Our contributor Mandy Palasik visits The Shed, the new performance and art space in New York’s Hudson Yards area and speaks with Elizabeth Diller, one of the lead architects in The Shed’s design group.

April 12, 2019 by Wit López

A Festival Grows in Harlem, Black Web Fest, at the National Black Theater

Wit López met Victoria Coker recently in New York and followed up to interview her about her Black Web Fest, happening this weekend in Harlem.

April 8, 2019 by Wit López

Candy Alexandra González on creating ethnographic art about migration, identity, and healing

In this 31 minute long podcast, Wit speaks with artist and activist Candy Alexandra González about their artistic practice and upcoming exhibition, “Mirror Talk” at 40th street AIR on Saturday, April 13th, at 12 PM!

April 7, 2019 by Levi Bentley

Subverting mainstream writing on sex, ‘bedfellows’ journal co-founders carve out a space in the literary world for their contributors

Poet Levi Bentley interviews the executive editors of the journal bedfellows, Jackee Sadicario and Alina Pleskova, which provides space for written work about sex and intimacy from marginalized writers.

April 5, 2019 by Jessica Rizzo

Kate Tarker, playwright, talks mythology, comedy, tragedy, and trauma

In this podcast episode, Jessica Rizzo sits down with playwright Kate Tarker to discuss her original play “Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man,” which opens at The Wilma Theatre on April 23rd, 2019.

April 1, 2019 by Morgan Nitz

Jacob Chris Hammes on curating, art-making, capitalism, and comedy

Jacob Chris Hammes is an artist, curator, teacher, and founder of the gallery Pilot Projects. In this podcast Morgan Nitz and Roberta talk with Chris about funding, the importance of discourse, seasonal- (and capitalism fueled-) depression, pond theory, and hear a few jokes. Catch Jacob Chris Hammes’s upcoming solo show, at the new gallery, Information, 2024 E Westmoreland St, on April 13th, 2019. The interview was recorded at Pilot Projects and is 31:40 minutes.

March 29, 2019 by Roberta

Writers make books, gallery becomes library in ‘Writers Making Books’ at Arcadia University’s Spruance Gallery

Roberta speaks with Richard Torchia and Zachary See at Arcadia University’s Spruance Art Gallery. Richard and Zach curated the current exhibit, “Writers Making Books,” (in conjunction with the city-wide festival, “Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy”). The show closes on April 21, 2019. The interview is 28:54 minutes long.

March 27, 2019 by Roberta

Cecily Sherman, on collecting art and being honored at the Philadelphia Fine Art Fair

Roberta speaks with art collector, Cecily Sherman, whose large collection includes works from early 20th to early 21st Century, art amassed with her late husband Philip over 40 years of collecting. The interview is 20 minutes long and was recorded at Cecily’s home in Philadelphia on March 25, 2019.

March 24, 2019 by Roberta

Ask Artblog’s Beth Heinly on answering questions, writing essays and making art

Beth Heinly wears a lot of hats. (And sometimes funny noses, eyebrows and glasses.) In addition to being a performance artist (see her Friday, March 29 at Final Fridays at the PMA), Beth is one of Artblog’s “Ask Artblog” columnists. And, of course, she creates the weekly comics series, “The 3:00 Book,” now in its fifth year of continuous postings on Artblog! Morgan and Roberta caught up with Beth at the Blue Jay Diner recently and asked her how she does it all. The interview is 25:05 minutes long.

March 17, 2019 by Imani Roach

Institute of Contemporary Arts’s James Britt talks about public engagement

Imani Roach speaks with ICA’s new Director of Public Engagement about his various publics to serve: students at University of Pennsylvania (ICA’s parent institution); the neighborhood around Penn; community groups in Philadelphia. The interview was recorded this month at the TGMR studio and is 27:40 minutes long.