Art Focus

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Airs at: Tue, 11/26/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Hosted by:

Joseph Gallivan

Produced by:

KBOO

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A radio show about visual art. You get it.

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.

Please send inquiries and questions to

kbooartfocus@gmail.com

Topic tags:

Arts/Culture

Genre(s):

Arts and Culture

Streams:

KBOO Stream 1

Program status:

Current

Museum of Contemporary Craft Collection

Airs at: Tue, 11/22/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday, November 22, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Hannah Bakken Morris, co-curator of the show, “Commonly Uncommon - Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft Collection” which runs now through Dec 10 at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Bakken Morris tal... Read more

Oscar Howe

Airs at: Tue, 11/08/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday, November 8, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Kathleen Ash-Milby about “Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe” which is on now at the Portland Art Museum through May 14, 2023. Ash-Milby is the curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum, and she talk... Read more

Elizabeth Leach Gallery at 40

Airs at: Tue, 11/01/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday, November 1, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Elizabeth Leach and Bruce Guenther for the 40th anniversary of the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. They talk about the maturing of the art scene in Portland since the 1970s, the relationship to museums, and the work that hap... Read more

Harley Gaber’s “Die Plage"

Airs at: Tue, 10/25/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday, Oct 25, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan talks to curator Melissa Martens Yaverbaum about Harley Gaber’s collage, “Die Plage,” on now at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, Portland, through Jan. 29, 2023. Yaverbaum talks about Gaber’s diff... Read more

Portland Textile Month Oct 2022

Airs at: Tue, 10/18/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday, October 18, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews artists Kindra Crick, Limei Lai [PRONOUNCED LEE-may LIE] and Charlie Wilcox, as part of Portland Textile Month. Their group show is on now at the landscape architecture company PLACE in Northwest Portland, through Oct... Read more

Jun Kaneko

Airs at: Tue, 10/11/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday, October 11, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Sarah Kate Nomura, Director of Exhibitions at Portland Japanese Garden. Nomura talks about Jun Kaneko’s ceramic sculptures which have been carefully placed around the garden, in a rare display of art amongst the plant... Read more

“The Art of Food”

Airs at: Tue, 09/27/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday, September 27, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Olivia Miller about “The Art of Food” which runs at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University now through Dec. 3. Miller talks about how artists can suggest the sensuous properties of f... Read more

Matthew Picton

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at 11.30a.m., Joseph Gallivan interviews sculptor Matthew Picton about his show The Age of Kali, age of Belief, which is at Elizabeth Leach Gallery through Oct. 29. Picton talks about apocalyptic religious belief, imperial history, his lov... Read more

“Forces of Nature: Ecology in Japanese Prints” at PAM

Airs at: Tue, 09/13/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday, September 13, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Jeannie Kenmotsu , Curator of Asian art at the Portland Art Museum, about the new show “Forces of Nature: Ecology in Japanese Prints.” Kenmotsu talks about woodblock printing and the Superflat movement, how Japanes... Read more

Philip Krohn

Airs at: Tue, 09/06/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday, September 6, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Philip Krohn about his sculpture To The River, which is viewable on weekends in Portland’s South Waterfront through Sept 25, 2022. Krohn talks about lashing long strips of wood together with bicycle inner tubes, work... Read more