John Leventhal: In Service of the Song
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John Leventhal has established himself as one of the most influential guitar players in contemporary music today. A six-time Grammy Award-winning musician, producer, songwriter, and recording engineer who has produced albums for: Rosanne Cash, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Shawn Colvin, Joan Osborne, Loudon Wainwright III, and many others. He brings his unique vision of the American soul to everything he does. This includes his first solo album in 2024, Rumble Strip. Using his guitar as a vehicle for discovery he creates elegant tunes that reflect our history and longings. ...
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Nicholas Harris - Drawn to Nature
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Nicholas James Harris - a realist painter, and plein air master, can spend months on a single painting. Meticulous by nature, he combines old world painterly practices with contemporary technology, to create masterful paintings with impeccable attention to detail. Spending hours on the banks of the Wissahickon River in Philadelphia, he immerses himself in the subject matter of the landscape. This includes documenting the light and tracking the shadows as they change throughout the day. It is a slow process that is the antithesis of our modern-day world. He also focuses on architecture,...
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Syd Carpenter: Place, Time and Memory.
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Syd Carpenter, known primarily as a Ceramicist/scluptor, investigates the intersection of art and gardens, African American history, agriculture ,the land, and the human form. The scope and extraordinary range of her 50 year art career is being celebrated in an unprecedented retrospective that is being exhibited in 3 different museums….Woodmere Art Museum, the Maguire Art Museum at Saint Joseph’s University, and the Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College. She is also the recipient of multiple fellowships including United States Artist Fellowship,Anonymous Was A Woman grant,...
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Jeremiah Zagar: Everyone's Life Is an Epic Story
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Filmmaker Jeremiah Zagar is interested in telling stories, and getting personal. Known for both his intimate documentaries such as "In a Dream”, a film about his father, and his Hollywood feature films “We the Animals” and “Hustle”, he has put together a career in filmmaking that is independent, authentic and original. His work has won major awards at Sundance, Doville, and South by Southwest, to name a few. “In A Dream” was shortlisted for an Academy Award and received two 2010 Emmy nominations, including Best Documentary. His latest success is the gritty HBO American crime...
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Larry Spaid: Exploration and Travel
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Philadelphia artist Larry Spaid has spent over 12 years of his artistic life travelling the planet,living and teaching in different countries and experiencing different cultures. His expansive output of art includes painting, printing and various experiments with mixed media. He taught at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University for thirty-seven years. This included teaching in Rome, Italy and Tokyo, Japan, for seven years, and was awarded three major sabbaticals allowing him to return and travel extensively in South East Asia. He retired in 2010 as Professor Emeritus. He has...
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Adebunmi Gbadebo: Exploration of Heritage
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Gbadebo’s use of materials centers on her family history of enslavement in the American South, while her ceramics draw inspiration from traditional African pottery techniques, calling on her Nigerian ancestry. Fueled by research and a commitment to the archival record, Gbadebo’s multidisciplinary approach investigates the complex relationships between land, matter, and memory.Grounded in historically and culturally significant materials such as indigo dye, human hair collected throughout the African diaspora and soil hand-dug from the True Blue plantation grounds in South Carolina,...
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Odili Donald Odita - Songs Of Life
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Nigerian born but living in America since the age of one, Odili Donald Odita's work explores color on the grand scale and his hard-edge large paintings and mural installations have redefined abstract painting in the context of sociopolitical concerns. Most of Odita's work is inspired by the vibrant textiles of his home country, Nigeria, mixed with patterns from Western modernity. He has exhibited his work prolifically in important museums and galleries around the world including a recent large installation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He has also been an important critic,...
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Phyllis Bramson. The Ornate and Theatrical
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A Chicago painter with an endless amount of surprises that unfold inside her landscapes of the Rococo and fantastical. Her work represents a continuation of the Chicago Imagists of the 60’s with an interest in combining eccentric figuration with abstraction. “Bramson incorporates the passionate complexity of eastern mythology, the sexual innuendos of soap operas, and sometimes the happy endings of cartoons” said critic Miranda McClintic She has shown her work prolifically in prestigious galleries and Museums internationally and her work is included in over 100 major collections including...
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Henry Bermudez - Reinvention and Creativity in an Ever Changing World.
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My guest today is Henry Burmudez. He became a major artist in his home country of Venezuela in the 70’s through the early 2000’s. He made a good living and prospered as a creative force in his home town of Caracas. Among his other accomplishments, he represented Venezuela at the 1986 Venice Biennale. In 1998 , with the election of Cesar Chavez, his world began to fall apart. With the collapse of the economy, his collector base evaporated and left the artist with no way of making a living and support his family. With the help of artist Frank Hyder, he was invited to show in Miami...
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Chip Thomas, aka “jetsonorama”: A CONSTELLATION OF MURALS
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Chip is a photographer, an international public street artist and activist who worked as a physician on the Navajo nation between Monument Valley and The Grand Canyon in Arizona for 36 years retiring in 2023. In 2012 he formed the Painted Desert Project – a community project which resulted in a constellation of murals across the Navajo Nation painted by reservation artists and artists from all over the world. As an artist, a doctor and community activist he has committed himself to the vital health of the Navajo nation and the planet earth in general. Thomas was a 2018 recipient...
info_outlineHost Tom Judd speaks with Eileen Neff about how literature has influenced her work, including the poetry of Wallace Stevens.
Neff, a Philadelphia based artist, began as a painter until she discovered photography was the pathway to her expression as an artist in the early 80s. Known also as a sought after art critic and writer, she went on to develop an astounding body of work over a 40 year period.
You can learn more about her on her website eileenneff.com