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On Tuesday, May 20, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews photographer and Rutgers University professor Leah DeVun about her show Resemblance, which runs through May 31 at Blue Sky Gallery.  DeVun talks by Zoom about her intimate domestic photos of her family, w... Read more

On Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews the Portland Art Museum’s chief conservator, Charlotte Ameringer. Charlotte talks about her work restoring Claude Monet’s famous 1914 painting “Waterlilies” which he painted at his home in Giverny in Fran... Read more

  On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist and professor Taravat Talepasand about the three student winners of the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize. Professor Talepasand talks about the social practice work of Olivia DelGandio, who ... Read more

  On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Carolyn Supinka about "Earthen Elegance: The Ceramic Art of Bizen," an exhibition currently on display at Portland Japanese Garden's Pavilion Gallery. This exceptional collection, on loan ... Read more

  On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist David Cohen about his show The Church Of Lepidoptera, which is on now through March 29 at Gallery 114 in the Pearl District. Cohen talks about using watercolors to make paintings that look l... Read more

  On Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Sima Familant about Breathing Room, a show on now at the Lobby Gallery in Southeast Portland. Sima talks about the importance of white space or negative space in the paintings and sculptures... Read more

  On Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews filmmaker and architect Yael Melamede about her documentary “Ada: My Mother The Architect.” Melamede talks about her mother Ada Karmi Melamede’s theories of grounded buildings and institutions that ... Read more

  On Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2024, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Christopher Marley, who will discuss his show Exquisite Creatures Revealed, at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry until Feb 17, 2025.    Marley talks about arranging insects, sea creat... Read more

This is a repeat of the  Dec. 24, 2024 show in which  Joseph Gallivan interviews Mary Weaver Chapin, the Curator of Graphic Arts at Portland Art Museum. She discusses the show “Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s,” which runs now until June 15, 2025.  http... Read more