ART TAP

On tap this week is Julia Muney Moore, Director of Public Art at the Arts Council of Indianapolis. Julia directs and manages all aspects of public art programs for the Arts Council of Indianapolis, including project development, execution, and maintenance of individual works of art. She talks about how artists can work with neighborhoods and communities to not just enhance shared spaces but to draw attention with the artwork to what makes those areas unique and important.

On tap this week is State Representative Sheila Klinker, who represents Indiana House District 27. Sheila was first elected to the Indiana House of Representatives in 1982 and she is a member of the Education, Veterans Affairs and Public Safety, and Ways and Means committees. Her personal arts background is in vocal music and she is a tireless supporter of, and very colorful presence in, the arts and education in this region.

On tap this week is Kate Walker, actor, director, and Director of Communications for the Office of the Provost at Purdue University. We discuss her work in telecommunications and theatre, her eventual turn as "big musical" director at Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette, and the current production of "Into the Woods."

On tap this week is a conversation with Michael Crowthers, Curator of Collections, Exhibitions, and Education at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette. We discuss his personal work with sculpture and his eventual turn to exhibition preparation and curating at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, http://www.artlafayette.org. Presenting artwork for audiences is a more challenging and thoughtful process than most might think, and we burrow in for an edition of "Gallery Guy Talk."

On tap this week is a conversation with Lisa Walsh, glass and metals artist and proprietor of Abednego Creations. We discuss her work with flameworked glass and metals, her recent work based upon topographical maps, and grants and residencies connected to parks and maps.

On tap this week is a conversation with Amy Long and Cindy Gerlach of the Live765arts section of the Lafayette Journal and Courier. We joined forces for a session of reviews of recent arts productions in the area, something we will revisit on a regular basis. And we enjoy some lovely mulled wine, and some good, snarky fun and diversions, in the process.

On tap this week are local artists Lorie Amick and LaDonna Vohar. Both are members of the Artists' Own artists cooperative in Lafayette, Indiana and work in a wide range of mediums. And they have collaborated on a new exhibition, The Un-limited Figure: Creating an Afterlife for Retail Mannequins, which opens Friday, December 14th and runs through March 3rd in the East Gallery at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette.

On tap this week is music educator, choral director, and keyboard artist Michael Bennett. Michael is Artistic Director of Lafayette Master Chorale, Music & Dance Department Chair at Lafayette Jefferson High School, and Director of Music at St. John's Episcopal Church in Lafayette. There's a lot of choral music happening this time of year, and Michael's at the heart of it!

On tap this week is a group of Master of Fine Arts candidates from Purdue University, which goes by the name of the Purdue Artist Collective. Their unifying thread is that they work and study with a friend of the ART TAP podcast, Sigrid Zahner. The artists with me are a diverse midwestern selection: Amanda Kendrick from DeWitt, Michigan, whose focus is oil painting. Jessica Peterson from Iroquois, Illinois, who is studying ceramics. Charmaine Renee is from Dayton, Ohio, and they are working in mixed media. And Tracy Smoll is from Waynetown, Indiana, and she is studying ceramics.

On tap this week are three guests who have been guests previously on the podcast and with whom I feel a great kinship, Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos, Steve Martin, and Rachel Lopez. Each is a produced and/or published playwright and a member of the greater Lafayette theatre community. I thought I'd get them all at the same table and conduct a session of "Playwright Talk." Along with thoughts on the current nature and themes of American theatre, each shares a notable new or reworked play they've seen recently.