Seeking the way of the marble. View the photos as you listen.
Listen to the episode Listen to the overflow audio ‘This jar of marbles just beckoned to me.’ The center image, photos by Ben Michael, shows four views of a “Hybrid Caged-Cat’s Eye.” Find more of these close-up, back-lit beauties on Instagram at @bent-o-gram. The right-hand image is a contemporary model with dichroic glass. “There’s a … Continue reading →
Artists at the Barricades!
Listen to the episode So, here at Open Studio, we love art – art in galleries, art in museums, art in artist’s studios – but with summer just a little more than a week away, you know where we REALLY love art? You got it. Outdoors! Today’s episode is a leisurely stroll through West Hartford … Continue reading →
Molested at 10, raped at 13, at least there was legal abortion
Listen to the episode Tori Weston (@writergrrl76) then and now Tori and I knew each other in the ‘90s when she was a Woonsocket, RI< high school student and I was her so-called mentor at the Providence Journal Bulletin, where I was a reporter. Tori is 46 now, living and working, and writing and making … Continue reading →
Milton Avery at the Wadsworth Atheneum: a walk & talk with the curator
Listen to the episode Today, a walk through a monumental retrospective of the works of painter Milton Avery, whose career began in the late 19th century and continued into the mid 20th, and included some years in Hartford. His flattened forms and unusual color work prompted comparisons to Matisse and he inspired such younger painters … Continue reading →
‘Just me and the wreck’ — a deep dive into the art of breath-hold diver Kenny Martin
Listen to the episode Today, an encore episode of last fall’s talk with Kenny Martin, a teacher and artist who lives on the edge. Not only do his high school students wield blowtorches to do metalwork, but Kenny’s hobby is undersea diving – while holding his breath. The images below are from an exhibit of … Continue reading →
‘As They Saw It — Artists Witnessing War’
At the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA thru May 30 Listen to the episode Art about war. Weirdly coincidentally, the Clark Art Institute in the Berkshires was in the process of putting together an exhibit on that very subject when, boom, Russia invaded Ukraine. And so it is that the show, “As They Saw It: … Continue reading →
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Birder: View the Photos as You Listen
Listen to the episode Today, a celebration of spring. We’re being treated to a screenshot by screenshot portrait of the artist as a young birder. Jenny Kroik is a freelance painter, illustrator, conservationist, and, most recently, a fundraiser for humanitarian aid to Ukraine whose work appears in The New Yorker. She was the recent guest … Continue reading →
Outermost Artists Living and Working on Cape Cod
Listen to the episode OMG. Painting and Cape Cod. I hope I never have to choose between them, both are such soul food for me. Today I’m honored that my guests are two Cape Cod painters whose work I’ve been following for some years, Peter Hocking and Helen Grimm. Each lives in Truro and is … Continue reading →
Visions of Christ in Art
Listen to the episode Today, the face of Jesus. Author and previous radio show guest Bob Hudson has written a new book – one which won a rave review in the New Yorker, by the way. The book, Seeing Jesus: Visionary Encounters from the First Century to the Present, considers one of the most depicted … Continue reading →
Life After Art School: An Update
Listen to the episode Listen to last year’s episode One year later, how are those art school grads I interviewed doing? Well, bottom line: art isn’t easy. Since graduation, each of our five artists have surfed some steep ups and downs – the ups including one new baby, one nearly completed teaching certification, one sidestreet … Continue reading →
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