The Oscar Roundup
Listen to the episode Open Studio borrows the first hour of Wonderland to consider the Best Picture nominees in advance of the Sunday 3/10 Oscar telecast. With critics Rand Richards Cooper and Richard Alleva. Listen to the episode
On Loving and Not Loving God — and Where Art Comes In
Listen to the episode Today, a chat with the brilliant and prolific Bob Hudson, formerly a book editor at Zondervan/Harper Collins, who has another book out, a novel this time, titled The Beautiful Madness of Martin Bonham. As do most of Bob’s other books, this one has a spiritual theme running through it, the question…
She wants your drama! A playwriting festival invites your submission!
Listen to the episode Today, we take up a new topic: theater. A visual art if ever there was one. Are you a writer or want to be one? Do you have a one-act play you want produced? Lenore Skomal is the award-winning author of 20 books and, most recently, a playwright whose work has…
A Guard’s-Eye View
Listen to the episode Today, we go behind the scenes of the august Metropolitan Museum of Art. Patrick Bringley is the author of All the Beauty in the World: the Metropolitan Museum of Art & Me, a highly well-received new book about his 10 years as a museum guard – and more than that, about…
Seduced by Paper — a group show of collage
Listen to the episode Today, a new exhibit at the Simsbury Public Library, up through Nov 30th, provides the opportunity to explore collage. Nancy Jensen has been making art with the same group of women – they call themselves The Paper Dolls – for nearly 20 years. Nancy was a guest on the show nearly…
On animal portraiture & fear of watercolor: a tutorial
Listen to the episode Today, an episode that contains more than I bargained for – not only an interview with pet portraitist and art teacher Bivenne Staiger, but a bonus, some instruction by Bivenne in the handling of her preferred medium, watercolor, a medium I’d never adopted. It seemed to require mental gymnastics that my…
An Academy-trained Impressionist
Listen to the episode You know, I think I’ve yet to meet an artist who wasn’t interesting but Dmitri Wright takes interesting to a whole ‘nother level. As a young man growing up in Newark, NJ, he discovered art by way of a teacher who noticed and encouraged his talent. He was classically trained in…
Pricing art: It’s an art in itself
Listen to the episode Today, pricing art. For me, this is one of the hardest parts of getting art out into the world, probably cuz I’m still new at it. I don’t know what this painting is worth, and anyway who would be crazy enough to buy it at any price? (I know. Get help,…
Wesleyan Potters at 75
Listen to the episode Interviewed in the episode: longtime Pottery people Gary O’Neil (shown here with his daughter Kyle) and Melissa Schilke Potters at their wheels in the 1970s. The instructor is master potter Adele Firshein. Photo courtesy of Russell Library’s Middletown collection. Today, clay. Seventy-five years ago, a small but mighty group of Wesleyan…
A Venetian Adventure: art, food, friendship and getting lost
Listen to the episode Today, Venice. I spent two weeks there recently and the experience was too yummy not to share – as I suppose I knew it would be because I brought along my portable recorder. Always thinking of you, dear listeners. When I reflect back on the experience, after my usual astonishment that…
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