Art Focus

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Art Focus
Hosted by: 
Joseph Gallivan
Produced by: 
KBOO
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A radio show about visual art. You get it.

 

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Every Second and Fourth Tuesday, from 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Art Focus features interviews by host Joseph Gallivan with artists, curators and critics. Lively voices talking about art, how it's made and sometimes even what it means. Page back through KBOO's schedule to find all the recordings, some of which were made on magnetic tape.   

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Amanda Clem and Zemie Barr on Master of Appropriation Found Photography in the Work of John Baldessari

Airs at: Tue, 08/18/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday Aug. 18 at 11.30 a.m. Amanda Clem talks to Zemie Barr of Blue Sky Gallery about the show Master of Appropriation Found Photography in the Work of John Baldessari. Read more

Dawson Carr of the Portland Art Museum on Volcano!

Airs at: Tue, 08/11/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Art Focus on Tuesday August 11, 2020, Joseph Gallivan interviews Dawson Carr of the Portland Art Museum about Volcano! the exhibit about the eruption of Mt. St Helens 40 years ago. Carr talks about the Romantic 19th century view of the volcano, then how the big blast of ... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews four designers about Design Week Portland 2020

Airs at: Tue, 08/04/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday August 4, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews four designers about Design Week Portland 2020. The annual festival of design is all-virtual in 2020 and run August 3 to 7 inclusive. Joseph interviews Abibat Durosimi of Bloom Beauty Collective, the founder... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews sculptor Jacob Hashimoto about his new works at the Portland International Airport

Airs at: Tue, 07/28/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday July 28, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews sculptor Jacob Hashimoto  about his new works “The City” and “The Sky” which hang from the ceiling on the expanded Concourse E at the Portland International Airport. Hashimoto talks about the inverted map per... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews three people about thousands of dollars of grants available to artists during the time of COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matters.

Airs at: Tue, 07/21/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday July 21, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews three people about thousands of dollars of grants available to artists during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matters. First he talks to Jaleesa Johnston and Sara Krajewski of the Portland A... Read more

Art Focus on 07/14/20

Airs at: Tue, 07/14/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Sherrie Wolf about her new show Memento

Airs at: Tue, 07/07/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday July 7, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Sherrie Wolf about her new show Memento, on now at Russo Lee Gallery in Portland. Wolf talks about her realistic still life paintings which often feature assemblages of richly textured drapery, shiny m... Read more

Amanda Clem interviews Steph Littlebird Fogel about the exhibition This IS Kalapuyan Land

Airs at: Tue, 06/30/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday June 30, 2020, Amanda Clem interviews Steph Littlebird Fogel about the exhibition This IS Kalapuyan Land, and its many iterations.  From the Five Oaks Museum: "What happens when a museum known for pioneer history turns over curatorial authority to a young Indige... Read more

Kristin Derryberry talks to Ariana Jacobs and Mac McFarland about Congress Yard Projects,

Airs at: Tue, 06/23/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday June 23 at 11.30 a.m. Kristin Derryberry talks to Ariana Jacobs and Mac McFarland about Congress Yard Projects, a community project.  This DIY exhibition space is focused on local artists in the time of COVID-19. The current show "emBEINGbodies" includes Onyx And... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Emma Berger who started the George Floyd memorial mural on the boarded up Apple Store in downtown Portland

Airs at: Wed, 06/17/2020 at 9:00am - 9:30am
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Sorry about the sideways photos: it's a content management system thing. On Tuesday June 16, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Emma Berger who started the George Floyd memorial mural on the boarded up Apple Store in downtown Portland which then became a ... Read more