Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture Podcasts: Spokane, Washington

Doug Safranek on "Gridlock", Part 2

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:04:00 GMT

You are listening to an interview with artist Doug Safranek recorded on July 1, 2009 at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture. The interview is divided into two sections. In section two, Art Educator Heidi Arbogast asks Safranek about his piece, "Gridlock", which is on display in the Museum's "Stories Within" exhibit.

Doug Safranek on "Gridlock", Part 1

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:38:00 GMT

Artist Doug Safranek was interviewed July1, 2009 by Art Educator Heidi Arbogast at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture. The interview has been divided into two sections. In section one, Safranek talks about his connections to Spokane, his background as an artist, and his work using egg tempera.

Artist Richard Vander Wende at the opening of Out of This World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film & Television

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:50:00 GMT

You are listening to a podcast produced by the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. In this program you will hear from conceptual artist Richard Vander Wende whose work has been featured in animated films and popular video games. Jon Snyder interviews Richard who takes us through his career with Disney, Lucasfilm, Blue Sky, and Cyan. The program was recorded June 13, 2009 and was part of the grand opening events for the MAC’s summer exhibit, Out of This World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film & Television.

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Between the Silences by Artist Gerri Sayler at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:47:00 GMT

BETWEEN SILENCES
A Collaborative Installation of Sculpture and Sound
by Gerri Sayler and Robert Dickow

Creation myths often begin with a murky formlessness, which slowly coalesce into forms we know as bodies, trees and planets. These tales echo or mirror the life of a caterpillar, dissolving into a viscous stew of disembodied parts before emerging from its chrysalis to begin anew as a butterfly. Nature’s endless, undulating continuum—birth and death, order and chaos, form and formlessness—encompasses all times of being. In the words of the poet Archibald MacLeish:

There is no dusk to be
there is no dawn that was.

Like the body of Earth, we grow and decay simultaneously as each instant of time passes through us. Human existence itself is a mere speck etched into infinity. Abstract and ambiguous, these timescapes reside in a metaphysical territory that is both ancient and modern, strange yet familiar, not known but remembered. The work might read as a story we know—the miracle of eternity.

—Gerri Sayler, Moscow, Idaho

Stories From Within

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:02:00 GMT

Welcome to another Podcast produced by the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. This program features registrar Valerie Wahl and art educator Heidi Arbogast who co-curated the MAC exhibit, Stories From Within.

In section one of this program, you will hear both talk about the exhibit’s background and their hopes of using the narrative nature of the works of art to engage viewers. In section two, you can listen to a group discussion about one of the exhibit paintings using the Visual Thinking Strategies model, one of the guiding principals for the exhibit’s content.

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Stories from Within: VTS Discussion

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:29:00 GMT

You can hear a VTS group discussion in section 2 of this program. Click on the link provided to hear the viewer’s comments as they study the painting, Life While you Wait by Maxine Martell.

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Marie Watt: Forget-me-Not

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:40:00 GMT

In this Podcast, you will hear from artist Marie Watt whose exhibit, Marie Watt: Forget-me-Not opened at the MAC on April 24, 2009. Watt’s comments were recorded at the opening events that day. This audio program has been divided into four sections. The first addresses Watt’s background and the elements that influence all her work. Sections two, three, and four specifically relate to individual pieces of work in the exhibit. Images of those pieces can be viewed as you listen to the artist’s own words.

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Marie Watt: Forget-me-not: Mothers and Sons.

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:29:00 GMT

Marie Watt describes, Forget-me-not: Mothers and Sons.

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Marie Watt: Forget-me-Not: Blossom

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:29:15 GMT

Listen as Marie Watt talks about, Forget-me-not: Blossom.

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Marie Watt: Forget-me-Not: Catastrophe

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:13:00 GMT

In this session, Marie Watts talks about, Catastrophe, and about the tactile nature of her work.

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George Longfish: A Retrospective

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:15:00 GMT

In this program you will listen to art historian Molly McGlennen whose talk,
Text-Messaging Prayers: George Longfish and His Art of Communicating was recorded at the MAC on January 29th, 2009. Dr. McGlennen’s talk describes the work of contemporary American Indian artist George Longfish whose work is on display at the MAC through April 5, 2009.

Dr. McGlennen is introduced by Ben Mitchell, MAC Senior Curator of Art.

Images of Longfish’s work referred to in this podcast are provided here. Please click on the text below an image to view a larger image as you listen to Dr. McGlennen’s comments.
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        Modern Times           Modern Times            Modern Times           I is for Indian


             Winter Still Life, South Dakota       Looking for the Supreme Buffalo Burger


                                                Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses


                                                      The End of the Innocence



        Blood Line or Accepted Federal Government Standard for Blood Quantum

Stories of Italian Americans in the Pacific Northwest - Journey of the Italians in America

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:15:00 GMT

Welcome to a Podcast produced by the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture. In this program author and historian Vincenza Scarpaci talks about her new book, Journey of the Italians in America. For several decades, Dr. Scarpaci has pored through documents and gathered together photographs and personal reminisces that tell the story of Italian immigrants in America. This talk focused more specifically on those stories of Italian Americans in the Pacific Northwest. The program was recorded at the MAC on December 11, 2008.

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Quiltscapes

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:49:00 GMT

Welcome to another Podcast produced by the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture. This program focuses on the MAC’s exhibit Quiltscapes which opened December 6, 2008 and runs through May 17, 2009. The exhibit features forty-three quilts from the MAC’s permanent collection and tells a story of textile preservation and conservation as well as quilt history. At the exhibit’s opening festivities on December 7th, Senior Curators Marsha Rooney and Laura Thayer’s talk focused on eight individual quilts. As you listen to the curators’ comments, view those eight quilts as a whole, or click on the titles beneath each thumbnail for a closer look.

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       Crosby                  Bordello             Celtic Ring             Pineapple


      Mosaic                 Log Cabin          Lone Star            Tree of Life

Meditations on the Landscape - Introduction by Ben Mitchell

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:47:00 GMT

Welcome to a series of short Podcasts produced by the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture. This series features the curator and the three contributing artists to the MAC’s contemporary art exhibit, Meditations on the Landscape, which closed November 30, 2008.

Remarks by Ben Mitchell, MAC Senior Curator of Art, were recorded at two different events; the first from an exhibit walkthrough that took place on September 10 just after the public opening of the exhibit. The second set of remarks was recorded in the gallery on September 19th at a special reception for the artists.

The remarks of artists Joseph Goldberg, Susan Skilling, and Stephen Hayes were recorded at that same September 19th event. Each of their opening remarks and their subsequent answers to questions were combined into one recording for each which can be listened to while viewing their work in the accompanying slide show.

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Meditations on the Landscape - Artist Joseph Goldberg

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:42:00 GMT

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Meditations on the Landscape - Artist Susan Skilling

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:37:00 GMT

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Meditations on the Landscape - Artist Stephen Hayes

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:27:00 GMT

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Living Legacy: The American Indian Collection

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:57:00 GMT

This Podcast was recorded on September 10, 2008 in the MAC’s exhibit, Living Legacy: The American Indian Collection. The speaker is Michael Holloman, the Director for the Center of Plateau Studies who was a lead staff member in the conceptual design of the exhibit. Michael talks about the exhibit design, the historic struggle with sensitively displaying Native American material, and his hope that this exhibit will show that the Plateau culture is alive and vibrant.   Living Legacy is up at the museum through July, 2010.

                             Audio production for this podcast was funded by a grant from the
                                    Bonneville Power Administration Tribal Affairs Program.

What David Douglas Saw in the Pacific Northwest

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:54:00 GMT

In this Podcast recorded at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture you will hear a lecture by author and naturalist Jack Nisbet. Jack’s talk, What David Douglas Saw in the Pacific Northwest, was the keynote address for a teacher workshop titled, The Individual in History. The workshop took place at the MAC on September 20th, 2008. The workshop and Jack’s talk were sponsored by a Teaching American History grant administered by Educational Service District 101 and Eastern Washington University.

           Jack Nisbet

John Buck: Iconography

NW Museum of Arts and Culture — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:28:00 GMT

In this Podcast, you will learn about print maker John Buck and his exhibit Iconography. Iconography closed November 16, 2008. Ben Mitchell who curated the exhibit begins the program by describing Buck’s work generally as well as focusing on key works in the exhibit. His comments are followed by those of Jordan Schnitzer whose private collection makes up the majority of Iconography and through whose generosity the exhibit is made possible. Mr. Schnitzer’s comments were recorded at the exhibit opening on May 17, 2008.