Art Focus

On Tuesday Oct 19, 2021, at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Christine

A. Richardson, the Costume Director for Portland Opera. Richardson talks

about designing and sewing the costumes for Puccini’s opera “Tosca”

which opens on October 29, 2021 and plays for three perfo...

On Tuesday Oct 12, 2021, at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Ilknur

Demirkoparan [PRONOUNCED Eelk-noor Deh-meer-koh-pah-run] about a new show

called “1989.” Demirkoparan runs the MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and

Culture, a gallery and think tank in the Ford Center wit...

On Tuesday, Sept 28, 2021, at 11:30 a.m. Aurora Josephson interviews ceramic

artist and author Baba Wagué Diakité. [PRONOUNCED BABBa WAG-ay JAK-itay] He

talks about Black Lives Matter and Pan Africanism, the family vegetable

garden, Amílcar Cabral and being an educator and ...

On Tuesday, Sept 21, 2021, at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist

Julian Voss-Andreae [PRONOUNCED Voss-andRAY] about his segmented sculptures

of human forms which seem to disappear as you look at them from different

angles. Voss-Andreae talks about trying to visual...

On Tuesday, Sept 14, 2021, at 11:30 a.m. Aurora Josephson chats with Renée

Zangara in her studio about working during the pandemic, her new animal

Oracle, and, "Joyful Broadcasting."

 

From the website

 

Aurora Josephson is a musician and visual artist who currently res...

On Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021, at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Amy

Dotson about Venice Virtual Reality Expanded ‘21, which is a sampling of VR

entries to this year’s Venice Biennial Film Festival.  

Dotson is the Curator of Film & New Media at the Portland Art Museum a...

On Tuesday, August 31, 2021, at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist

Intisar Abioto about her family’s residency at Building 5 in Northwest

Portland. Abioto talks about her photo portraits of Black people which hang

in the large warehouse space, printed on transluce...

On Tuesday, August 24, 2021, at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Mark

Powell, the director of early music choir Cappella Romana. Powell talks about

how the company expanded its reach during the pandemic, about its upcoming

tour of Europe and its new live performance se...

On Tuesday, August 17, 2021, at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews

Cassandra Swan, Ruban Lawrence, Asa Wright and Kyra Watkins about the new

Pride NW mural at 8th and Couch in Old Town.  They talk about the eight

LGBTQ community members or heroes pictured on the mural, c...