Fresh Art International

Nato Thompson, curator and critical writer, talks about his new book Culture as Weapon, and how politicians, corporations and artists use cultural aesthetics to channel their agendas and motivate collective actions.

Come with us to explore creativity in the public realm through the lens of Miami’s Public Space Challenge, an annual grant opportunity that invites residents to propose creative projects for their neighborhoods. You’ll hear how art installations, architectural interventions, and inventive public performance projects can transform a parking space, a building, a park, and more.

Joining us in the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami: The Miami Foundation’s Stuart Kennedy, Principal of Plusurbia Design Juan Mullerat, Buskerfest Miami founders Amy C. San Pedro and Justin Trieger. Call-in: Dejha Carrington.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Related Episodes: The Private Life of Public Art, Amanda Sanfilippo on Public Art and Fringe Projects, Red Swing Project

Related Links: Miami’s Public Space Challenge, Plusurbia Design, Buskerfest Miami 

Occupy Museums is the artist collective behind Debtfair, a project in the 2017 Whitney Biennial. In a national call, they invited artists to answer the question: "How does your economic reality affect your art?" Their 30-foot wall installation exposes the complex and obscure financial systems that lie just beneath the surface of the art scene in the United States. 

Join our 21st century radio show adventure as we hear from Roman Mars about what inspired him to create 99% Invisible, a radio show and podcast series featuring architecture and design. In this episode of our live streaming radio show, meet the players presenting The Wolfsonian-FIU‘s first RadioFest, sharing the voices of local radio journalism, playwriting, and rehearsals for two of the radio plays to be featured at The Wolf.

With us in the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami: WLRN Public Radio and Television‘s Christine DiMattei, The Wolfsonian-FIU’s Heather Cook Gonzalez, and playwrights William Hector and Vanessa Garcia. Call-in: Kenny Finkle, master playwright.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Join our 21st century radio show adventure as we hear from Roman Mars about what inspired him to create 99% Invisible, a radio show and podcast series featuring architecture and design. In this episode of our live streaming radio show, meet the players presenting The Wolfsonian-FIU‘s first RadioFest, sharing the voices of local radio journalism, playwriting, and rehearsals for two of the radio plays to be featured at The Wolf.

With us in the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami: WLRN Public Radio and Television‘s Christine DiMattei, The Wolfsonian-FIU’s Heather Cook Gonzalez, and playwrights William Hector and Vanessa Garcia. Call-in: Kenny Finkle, master playwright.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Sharon Louden artist and educator and Hrag Vartanian, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the online art publication Hyperallergic, talk about Louden's newest book project: The Artist as Culture Producer. Forty visual artists contributed essays to the four hundred page publication. These individuals model some of the ways that culture makers of the 21st century are enriching creative economies around the world. Their first-hand stories may inspire more of us to take on new roles in the public realm, to engage more deeply in our communities.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Our radio show on contemporary black portraiture explores The Dandy Lion Project, a traveling exhibition project featuring the images of emerging photographers and filmmakers from various regions around the African Diaspora. You’ll hear from Amy Sherald on Black Art and New Racial Narratives before a live audience at moniquemeloche gallery in Chicago. In studio, The Dandy Lion Project Founder and CuratorShantrelle Patrice Lewis and visual artist Kia Dyson talk about the Dandy Lion exhibition now on view at the Lowe Museum, Miami. Calling in from Atlanta, artist and scholar Fahamu Pecou joins our conversation about black portraiture.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Brazilian artist Jorge Menna Barreto created Restauro, or Restoration, an eco-sensitive café within the pavilion that houses the 32nd São Paulo Biennial in Brazil. In partnership with local chefs and farmers, he encourages awareness about the way we use our land and the global consequences of how we eat. The entire project is an environmental sculpture.

Sound editor: Guney Ozsan

Join us as we explore South Florida residency programs. We begin with conversations recorded during our 2015 visit to the Studios of Key West. Learn about the Knight Arts Challenge grants for residency programs and more, from Director of Arts Bahia Ramos. Executive Director Deborah Mitchell introduces Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE). Meet past fellow and musician Jose Elias and hear our field recording with photographer Adam Nadel, co-creator of the exhibition Getting the Water Right.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Related Episodes: Live From the Everglades Part Two, Live From the Everglades Part One, Robert Chambers on Art, Ancient Plants and New Technologies, Deborah Mitchell: The Artist as Guide to the Everglades, Adam Nadel on Getting the Water Right, The Studios of Key West

Related Links: Studios of Key West, Knight Arts Challenge, Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE), Jose Elias, Adam Nadel

Iranian born, New York based artist Bahar Behbahani talks about the layers of poetry and politics she discovered while researching the legendary Persian garden. Her solo exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College reveals how the idyllic refuge became entangled with American espionage and a 1953 political coup in Iran. Highly relevant considering the mounting intensity of today's global tensions, the hidden agendas and coded behaviors exposed in Bahar Behbahani's work might well be the blueprint for a new political barrier erected this week: the executive order of a restrictive, anti-Muslim United States immigration policy.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan | Sound Effects: Bahar Behbahani, Visiting you in summer, 2015