Binder Podcast

Binder is en plein air this month as Ray catches up with Jackie Adams about the CMA's latest exhibitions and their relationship with the natural world, and artist Amanda McCavour stops by to talk about her  latest series of installation work, Bright Little Day Stars. After the break, Ray chats with writer and naturalist John Lane about rivers, roadkill, and the real outdoors.

Binder is a production of the Columbia Museum of Art. Produced and edited by Drew Baron.

Enjoy this bonus conversation with host and ethnomusicologist Dr. Birgitta Johnson, guest musician Mimi Jones, and assistant professor of jazz at UofSC Dr. Colleen Clark. Recorded live during last April's More Than Rhythm concert.

Birgitta is back, and this time she is joined by jazz musician,  educator, and filmmaker Mimi Jones. They explore the history, present, and future of jazz music set to the soundtrack of Mimi Jones' Black Madonna Project live in concert.

More Than Rhythm: A Black Music Series is presented by the Baker & Baker Foundation. This program has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. This program is supported by Richland County Government.

The Binder Podcast is a production of the Columbia Museum of Art. Edited and recorded by Drew Baron.

Art for your ears. Hosted by CMA writer-in-residence Ray McManus and produced by the Columbia Museum of art, Binder brings you audio storytelling with writers, artists, scholars, curators, and more. 

Host Ray McManus returns to get a feel for the current exhibition, Rodin: Contemplation in Dreams, with CMA's Curator of Education Glenna Barlow before hitting the galleries to check out the new museum touch tours. After the break Ray is joined by poet Ann Chadwell-Humphries to talk about her process, inspiration, and senses as she navigates the world as a person with a visual disability. 

Binder is a production of the Columbia Museum of Art. Produced and edited by Drew Baron. 

In this special presentation of Binder podcast, More Than Rhythm  host and ethnomusicologist Dr. Birgitta Johnson interviews Dr. Tony  McNeill, leader of the Heritage Celebration Chorale, an aggregation of  choral music educators, enthusiasts, and vocal artists from the Carolinas and Georgia. They discuss the history of the Black sacred  music tradition and its role in American music culture today.

More  Than Rhythm: A Black Music Series is presented by the Baker & Baker  Foundation with programmatic support provided by the Friends of African American Art & Culture. This program has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.

Music in order of appearance:

"Ezekiel Saw De Wheel" - Fisk University Singers

"The New York Glide" - Ethel Waters with Albury's Blue and Jazz Seven

Performed by the Heritage Celebration Chorale:

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" - James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson

"Nia" (Purpose) from The Nguzo Saba Suite, Op. 14, No. 5 - Glenn Edward Burleigh

"The Beatitudes" - Arr. Gale Jones Murphy

"Our God Who Art in Heaven" - Tune: NETTLETON, Text: Tony McNeil

"I Done Done What You Told Me to Do" - Arr. Uzee Brown

"We Shall Overcome" - Arr. Uzee Brown

"Amazing Grace" - Tune: NEW BRITAIN, Arr. Evelyn Simpson Curenton

Bonus material from the latest episode of Binder: Ray interviews Chase Heatherly of the Contemporaries in the Upper Atrium. Following the break, Ray's interview with CMA Executive Director Della Watkins picks up where it left off in this previously unreleased second half of their conversation.

Host Ray McManus seeks out answers on how art makes it into the collection with help from CMA affinity groups and the museum's executive director, Della Watkins. Featuring interviews with Chase Heatherly of the Contemporaries, Adrienne Montare of the Columbia Design League, and Therese Griffin of the Friends of African American Art and Culture.

Columbia’s poet laureate Dr. Ed Madden joins host Ray McManus to  share some poetry and talk about growing up in the South, coming out to his family, and more in this extended interview.

Photo credit: Forrest Clonts

Binder is a production of the Columbia Museum of Art

Host Ray McManus and producer Drew chat about being the new guy and the  CMA’s upcoming exhibition Anila Quayyum Agha: Let A Million Flowers  Bloom, before being joined by the artist herself to talk about identity,  religion, gender politics, and her massive, illuminated sculptures. In  the second half, Ray catches up with his good friend, poet, and Director  of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina, Dr.  Ed Madden.