GYST Radio Podcasts

GYST DO IT! With Elephant

Elephant is a contemporary artist-run space in Glassell Park, Los Angeles, started in 2010. Elephant houses six working studios, a central exhibition space and an outdoor event area. The studio artists collaborate to provide outside curators and artists a location for monthly exhibitions, events and gatherings. 

Current resident artists are Astri Swendsrud, Jason Kunke, Matt Macfarland, David P. Earle, Bianca D'Amico and Quinn Gomez-Heitzeberg.

http://www.elephantartspace.com/

Hosted by Kara W. Tomé

GYST DO IT! With Sail Cloth Art Project

Heather Hertel is a cross-disciplinary artist and professor at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.  She created the Sailcloth Art Project to combine her art practice with her love of sailing and she collaborates with visual artists, dancers, performance artists, and musicians.

Heather is also committed to educating her art students about professional  and DIY practices and uses GYST materials and resources to do so. 

hhertel.com

Hosted by Kara Tomé

GYST DO IT! With Community-Based Art

Annie Buckley's multidisciplinary practice embraces digital media, photography, collage, fiction, criticism, curation, and collaborative, participatory, and community-based art with an emphasis on art and social justice.

She is the co-founder of the web publication Radical Actions a project exploring issues and questions surrounding current social practices in contemporary art, education and teaching.

Annie is an Associate Professor of Visual Studies at California State University, San Bernardino, where she is also the Founding Director of Community-Based Art, an initiative in which students, alumni, and volunteers facilitate art at underserved sites that otherwise have no access to art, and the Prison Arts Collective, dedicated to facilitating art in prisons. 

She is the author of two books of fiction, several non-fiction books for youth on topics including racism, homelessness, and the arts, and over 200 articles, reviews, and essays in publications including Artforum, Art in America, The Huffington Post, Artillery, and KCET Artbound.

http://www.anniebuckley.com

Hosted by Kara Tomé

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GYST DO IT! With CERF+ The Artists Safety Net

Today’s guest is Cornelia Carey, Director of CERF+ The Artist Safety Net, started by artists for artists over 30 years ago in the craft community as a grassroots mutual aid effort.

CERF+ has since emerged as the leading nonprofit organization that uniquely focuses on safeguarding artists’ livelihoods nationwide, through education, resources, grants and loans. CERF+ has provided close to two million dollars to more than one thousand craft-based artists in need of emergency financial assistance because of a major setback in their studio practice due to illness, accident, fire, or natural disaster.

The CERF+ website www.cerfplus.org has information on protecting one’s studio through preparedness and insurance, relief programs, peer advice, practical how-to advice related to fixing damaged art works and how to apply for assistance, and more.

Hosted by Kara Tomé

GYST DO IT! With AWOL

Guest is artist Jim Ovelmen, co-founder of AWOL, an event and exhibition space in El Sereno, CA. AWOL is dedicated to artist projects, events, ideas, and irregular connections. Since 2015, AWOL has presented art exhibitions and a music series in its space and on its rooftop. AWOL was also co-founded by media veteran Nicole Wang.

artawol.com

Hosted by Kara W. Tomé

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GYST DO IT! With ARK Arts

ARK Arts inhabits a mulit-use building with an art gallery, four artists' studios and a concert/performance space, located in Altadena, CA. Artist Kira Vollman and her husband Robert Deblasis purchased and rennovated the building and began programming events in spring of 2015. 

Kira converses about the challenges and satisfactions of being an artist who creates in a multi-disciplinary mode, about running a creative business, and about engaging the Los Angeles community.

ARK web site: http://www.ark-arts.com/

ARK facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ark.gallery.studios/?pnref=lhc

Hosted by Kara W. Tome

GYST DO IT! With the Museum of Broken Relationships

Guest is Alex Hyde, Director of The Museum of Broken Relationships. 

The Museum of Broken Relationships grew from a traveling exhibition revolving around the concept of failed relationships and their ruins. Unlike 'destructive' self-help instructions for recovery from failed loves, the Museum offers a chance to overcome an emotional collapse through creation: by contribution to the Museum's collection. Conceptualized in Croatia in 2010, the Museum has since toured internationally in 20 cities so far, amassing an amazing collection.

The Los Angeles location on Hollywood Boulevard was openend in May of 2016 by John B. Quinn. 

The Museum of Broken Relationships puts the stories of real people on display with an item related to their failed relationships. These personal stories reflect the entire spectrum of break-ups, from the devilishly funny to the traumatic tales of lost love. The collection shows how we all share the same problems, no matter our nationality or background.

GYST DO IT! With JAUS

Our guest is artist, curator and educator Ichiro Irie, who runs JAUS gallery in Los Angeles. 

Opening its doors in September of 2009, JAUS continues its mission towards delivering curatorial projects, by both in-house and outside curators, with an ample range of themes, genres, and media by artists from around the world in diverse stages of their careers. From 2014, JAUS has focused primarily on solo and two-person exhibitions.

www.jausart.com

Hosted by Kara Tomé

GYST DO IT! With Ms. Barbers

Ms Barbers is an artist-run gallery in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles, co-founded by Anton Leiberman, Becky Kolsrud, Kiki Johnson and Dustin Metz, and includes artists Alida Berden, Catherine Fairbanks and Conner Fields.

Guests on the show Kiki and Dustin talk about how and why the space was started one year ago, as well as the shared curatorial vision of the group. 

msbarbers.com

Hosted by Kara Tome

GYST DO IT! With Nevermore Metro Immersive Arts Festival

Our guest is Brian Sonia-Wallace, the artistic director and co-producer of the NEVERMORE METRO Immersive Arts Festival, an all-day event on Oct 29, 2016 exploring the East San Fernando Valley along METRO’s Orange Line. Through the Festival, registered audience members travel on METRO, either as a guided tour or a choose-your-own-adventure, to literary performance spaces throughout the day. 30 of LA's best diverse voices, including Los Angeles Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez, will participate.

In the world of NEVERMORE, special sites off the Orange Line are transformed by poets and the escaped works of Edgar Allan Poe, which have mingled with local legends and Mexican folklore. It is up to the audience to lay these poems to rest and release Poe’s spirit.

NEVERMORE is a project of Theatre Magnet, a subsidiary of Artist Magnet, and RENT Poet, in partnership with the Eclectic Company Theatre. 

Hosted by Kara Tomé