By Yassi Jahanmir and Haddy Kreie
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The podcast currently has 38 episodes available.
In this minisode, we talk about the provocation from Tom Drakulich!
Listen to the episode here: https://anchor.fm/artifpodcast/episodes/Episode-17-Art-ifthats-a-dude-hugging-his-dog--With-Reno-City-Artist-and-figurative-abstractionist-Tom-Drakulich-ek7c7i
Provocation (#artifpodcast): Find a piece of abstract art that you don’t understand and use this simple checklist to interpret it. Describe, Analyze, Interpret, and then Judge the artwork.
Biography: Born and raised in Reno, NV, Tom Drakulich is a process based, figurative abstractionist whose art practice navigates the play between the unique and the familiar. Having grown up exploring the Nevada landscape, he is influenced by the ways in which the physicality and form of the desert can be connected to the aesthetics of the body and his relationship with human nature. Tom is an interdisciplinary artist working in ceramics, mixed media painting and drawing, and site-specific sculpture. Tom received his A.A. in Art History from Truckee Meadows Community College, his B.A. in Criminal Justice from the University of Nevada, Reno, and his M.F.A. from the University of Nevada, Reno. In 2019, he was selected as the City of Reno’s inaugural City Artist.
Find Tom online:
https://www.instagram.com/tomdrakulich/
In this episode, Haddy and Yassi talk about the provocation from Episode 16
Provocation (#ArtIfPodcast)
Take photos of anyone who see wearing Red and Black Plaid (“the shared fabric of humanity”) and tag us and Andy’s other instagram account: www.instagram.com/peoplewearingredandblackplaid
Andy Sarjahani (b. 1983, Richland, WA) is an American-Iranian documentary filmmaker and photographer raised in the Ozarks of Arkansas and currently based in East Tennessee. He is interested in people, our relationship to place and how that shapes our worldview.
He has a Masters of Science in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems from Montana State University and left his career in academia in 2012 to tell stories with a camera.
He worked on the critically acclaimed documentary Tower (Keith Maitland, 2016) and his work has been featured in Vice, Outside, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and numerous other festivals and universities.
Find Andy Online
WEBSITE/SOCIAL MEDIA
[email protected]
www.instagram.com/andysarjahani
Episode Summary: We brought some finesse into the gallery for our last full-length episode for Season One. Haddy talked pop culture, from Bruno Mars to 80s hip-hop and DJs, showing how finesse illuminates generational shifts in aesthetic culture. Yassi talks about the preciseness of finesse in painting on the world’s smallest canvas: a grain of rice. As always, we end with a provocation, this one asks you to dig into the role of art in your family history.
Gabby Roney is a scenic artist from Kansas City who is currently studying at the University of Kansas City Missouri (UMKC)’s Conservatory for her MFA in Design and Technology. Her studies include hand and digital drafting, dry and wet media rendering techniques, life drawing, scenic art, property construction and construction. She is navigating a practice of live theatre during a pandemic. She previously spent two years as Drury University’s Technical Director building and paint charging shows. Her favorite part of the job was mentoring students to tool proficiency.
Find Gabby online:
www.instagram.com/gabrielleidel
https://issuu.com/gabrielleidell?issuu_product=header&issuu_subproduct=publisher-home&issuu_context=link&issuu_cta=profile
Provocation (#artifpodcast):
Who in your circle of family or close friends has purchased art or made their own creation? Ask them about why they chose to make it or purchase it. Did they make it during a certain season in life? What do they love most about it? This project encourages you to raid your parent’s basement or old files to find it. It could be any size of any medium. Now for extra credit, re-create it.
Show Notes
Cardi B Wap
Brechtian
1980s hip hop dance moves
Uptown Funk
Bruno Mars “Finesse” feat. Cardi B
Sampling
Rice Writing
Topkapi Palace
Taj Mahal on Rice
Killing Commendatore
Las Vegas hotel art
Vectorworks
CAD
John Davis Caroll
Socially Distant Site Specific Theatre
Sleep No More
PSi
Coterie’s Electric Poe
Lining stick
In Minisode 15, Haddy and Yassi discuss their experiences with provocations from poet, Ed Mabrey.
Provocation (#artifpodcast) Once again we have TWO provocations this week! These artists are putting us to the test!
First: Say Yes! For one month to a year, say yes to everything that you can (that is safe and healthy for you to do) and see the world of opportunities open up before your eyes!
Second: find a group of friends and commit to renting a small space (as soon as the world opens up again!). With a space to call your own, see how your creativity can flourish!
About Ed Mabrey
Ed is the only 4 time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and the only 4 time Southern Fried Regional Poetry Slam Individual Champion. He tours the country professionally as a poet, comedian, and motivational speaker. A two-time InkSlam winner, multiple LEAF Slam Champion, an Emmy winner, Ed has been on Seasons 3, 5 and 6 of Verses and Flow (TV One), ABC, FOX, HBO All Def Digital, Write About Now Poetry and was a speaker at 2015 TEDx Dayton. He’s performed at over 100 colleges and universities around the country, teaching workshops and conducting seminars. On the comedy front, Ed has opened for DL Hughley, Ian Bagg, Rob Schneider, Roy Wood Jr., Charlie Murphy and many more. Ed is a two time finalist in The World Series Of Comedy, held in Las Vegas and he’s been the voice of companies ranging from the Ohio State Medical Center to Lexus.
Find Ed Online
https://artistecard.com/EdMabrey?fbclid=IwAR19oWHiYFg_uEOfQ7LLLvw3fu6lBEx-tTm2sBF-vFVxWRHypRJg1iBPjkQ
https://www.instagram.com/edmabrey/
Art if...the oboe is the mistress! With conductor Nolan Dresden.
Episode Summary:
In this week’s gallery talk about art and journey! Yassi brings the work of performance artist Pope L. to the gallery to talk about how his journey is more important than the distance travelled and Haddy talks about the history of postcards, which takes her on a journey she didn’t expect!.Then we interview music conductor Nolan Dresden and talk about how music has the power to transport us to faraway places. This week’s provocation asks you to revisit your favorite music and see if it can take you somewhere new!
Nolan’s Bio:
After a successful two year battle with Leukemia and a Bone Marrow Transplant, I'm back and better than ever. #takethatcancer
After attending university, I performed professionally for six years in musical theater and opera, and a few seasons as Music Director of a theater company outside of Chicago. At this point I had come to a fork in the road; do I pursue a conducting career or a performance career? Feeling that I had more to offer as a conductor and feeling more artistic fulfillment in that field, the choice was clear.
In 2009, I started to make my way up the instrumental conducting ladder here in New York City. I have hit all the various marks, from standard orchestral works like Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 to lesser known pieces like Two Cine Pastrali by Toru Takemitsu. I pride myself in programing outside of the box, in order to create an experience for the audience to venture through with the ensemble.
Find Nolan online: http://www.nolandresden.com/
Provocation(#artifpodcast): Listen to something you’ve listened to a thousand times and find something new in it.
Mentions:
Pope. L
Theodore Hook postcard
Where Have all the Sheep Gone?
Pandemic postcards -- Quarantine: Our Darkest Hour
Carl Nielson
Dmitri Shotsakovich
Timber Lake Playhouse
Dale Clevenger
Gail Williams
Parade (Musical)
Toru Takemitso
Aaron Copeland, Symphony 3
Bright Sheng Postcards
Thomas Beecham
Episode Summary:
In this week’s unique gallery, Yassi and Haddy invite their good friend, Dan Boulus, to talk about “Art and the City” --how arts institutions shape the literal infrastructure and cultural feel of a city. Then to kick off our hometown series, they interview 2019 Reno City Artist and figurative abstractionist, Tom Drakulich. Finally, this week’s provocation asks you to confront a piece of abstraction and figure out what it means to you.
Dan Boulos received his PhD in Theater Studies from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2018. His dissertation examined the founding of the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center in New York City and Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles and situated their histories in the context of urban renewal during the Cold War in the United States. Earlier graduate research led to his Master’s thesis on the redevelopment of New York’s City’s Forty-Second Street and Times Square, reflecting a life-long fascination with American cities, the majority of which he got to see while spending nearly two years touring North America in a giant lizard costume in The Magic School Bus Live.
Biography: Born and raised in Reno, NV, Tom Drakulich is a process based, figurative abstractionist whose art practice navigates the play between the unique and the familiar. Having grown up exploring the Nevada landscape, he is influenced by the ways in which the physicality and form of the desert can be connected to the aesthetics of the body and his relationship with human nature. Tom is an interdisciplinary artist working in ceramics, mixed media painting and drawing, and site-specific sculpture. Tom received his A.A. in Art History from Truckee Meadows Community College, his B.A. in Criminal Justice from the University of Nevada, Reno, and his M.F.A. from the University of Nevada, Reno. In 2019, he was selected as the City of Reno’s inaugural City Artist.
Find Tom online:
https://www.instagram.com/tomdrakulich/
Provocation (#artifpodcast): Find a piece of abstract art that you don’t understand and use this simple checklist to interpret it. Describe, Analyze, Interpret, and then Judge the artwork.
Mentions:
Carnaby Street
Lincoln Center
Mark Taper Forum
The Public Theater
Joseph Papp
UNR
Kintsugi
Richard Jackson
Fred Reid
Lynda Yuroff
Walter McNamara
Kelsie Harder
Jim McCormick
Kiki Smith
Episode Summary: Reality bites in this week’s gallery chat as Haddy talks about the aesthetics of information visualization in graphs and charts and Yassi talks about the ways in which surveillance culture blur art and reality. Documentary filmmaker Andy Sarjahani, this week’s interview guest, joins in the conversation sharing his experiences in how visual storytelling works to convey deep truths and tackles existential questions.
Andy Sarjahani (b. 1983, Richland, WA) is an American-Iranian documentary filmmaker and photographer raised in the Ozarks of Arkansas and currently based in East Tennessee. He is interested in people, our relationship to place and how that shapes our worldview.
He has a Masters of Science in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems from Montana State University and left his career in academia in 2012 to tell stories with a camera.
He worked on the critically acclaimed documentary Tower (Keith Maitland, 2016) and his work has been featured in Vice, Outside, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and numerous other festivals and universities.
Find Andy Online
WEBSITE/SOCIAL MEDIA
www.andysarjahani.com
www.instagram.com/andysarjahani
WORK SAMPLES
LAST DAYS OF TOYS R US (photo essay): https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/438awm/depressing-photos-from-the-last-days-of-toys-r-us
HORNS OUT (short doc): https://rockandice.com/videos/climbing/horns-out-maurice-horn-reflects-lifetime-climbing/
DOWNSTREAM PEOPLE (short doc): https://vimeo.com/173096029
Provocation (#ArtIfPodcast)
Take photos of anyone who see wearing Red and Black Plaid (“the shared fabric of humanity”) and tag us and Andy’s other instagram account: www.instagram.com/peoplewearingredandblackplaid
Mentioned in the Show
Tangled Up in Blue
NYTimes Corona Virus Article
Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards
Light Map
Into Eternity (Swedish documentary about nuclear waste)
The Truman Show
Deepfakes
We Live in Public
You are Watching Me (Link to film no longer works)
Errol Morris
Cinema Verité
Maysles Brothers
1619 Podcast
The podcast currently has 38 episodes available.