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Airs at: Tue, 04/02/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Every 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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Art Focus on 10/04/11

Airs at: Tue, 10/04/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Guest host Wendy Webb interviews photographer Jim Lommasson about the show What We Carried at Launchpad Gallery. The show is a collaborative project conceived by Jim Lommasson and Oregon Iraqi Refugees. The exhibit will include photographs and writing and paintings by Faroo... Read more

David Eckard

Airs at: Tue, 09/27/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Our guest on Art Focus was David Eckard. The Art Gym is giving him a mid-career survey which opens on October 2nd. David Eckard: Deployment will present approximately 40 artworks, including new paintings, sculpture and performances, and a selection of past sculptures, drawi... Read more

Grace Weston

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Currently Augen Gallery is showing Grace Weston's Angles of Incidents. Weston was our guest on Art Focus. We were fortunate enough to visit her studio once. She's making magic from a very small set with all kinds of wild parts. Read more

Whoop Dee Doo

Airs at: Tue, 09/13/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Whoop Dee Doo are a part of the PICA TBA 2011 Festival. They were our guests on Art Focus  September 13th. About the group: An all-ages, anything-goes variety show, Whoop Dee Doo enlists diverse participants and collaborates with a wild range of performers—from science teac... Read more

Kristan Kennedy of PICA's TBA Festival

Airs at: Tue, 09/06/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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PICA's TBA Festival is coming up and Art Focus will devout 2 episodes to it. This week our guest will be Kristan Kennedy, PICA's Visual Art Curator (who is also an artist). The PICA Resource Room online will give you all the details about the festival.   Read more

Joshua Berger and Tiffany Lee Brown of Plazm

Airs at: Tue, 08/30/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Joshua Berger and Tiffany Lee Brown of Plazm talk about 20 years in which Plazm has been in print.    Plazm, an annual publication of art, design, literary and cultural works is based in Portland. Read more

Pacific NW Art Program with Ben Dye, Jen Fuller and William Rihel

Airs at: Tue, 08/23/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Now there is a Recology Program where artists go to the dump and make work from it. Some of them joined us on Art Focus. The artists involved are: Ben Dye, Jen Fuller, William Rihel, Mike Suri, and Leslie Vigeant. Rihel, Dye and Fuller will joined us here.     Read more

Lynda Ater

Airs at: Tue, 08/16/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Lynda Ater has a show at Blackfish right now called Inside Out: Embelling Albers' Square. She talks about Joseph Albers, Hommage to the Square, color, patterns she made from cancer cell shapes and past exhibitions in which she investigates color.  Ater has embellished the s... Read more

C.O.P.S.

Airs at: Tue, 08/09/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Four artists here in Portland are offering for the summer - C.O.P.S - Conceptual Oregon Performance School. From the statement: The Conceptual Oregon Performance School (C.O.P.S.) is a free, artist-run, experimental summer school, with a focus on contemporary performance s... Read more

Lisa Radon, writer and curator

Airs at: Tue, 08/02/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Lisa Radon is our guest - a writer and poet turned curator. The group show she curated is called Reading. Writing. Reading.Writing. is an exhibition about the intersections between the practices of reading and writing and art making. It is the möbius strip where writing is... Read more