TempleArts - Saginaw Art Museum + The Temple Theatre

The Saginaw Art Museum podcast began almost 2 years ago at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. From artists to collectors we have hosted more than 30 guests on the program. With the new year, we are getting a new look and slightly expanding the scope of the program to include guests associated with the museum's sister institution, the historic Temple Theatre.

To give an update about the museum and the theatre, I sat down with executive director Mike Kolleth. Listen in here and be sure to subscribe to the podcast for great listening in the months ahead.

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John Bee is the singersong writer behind American Opera. Based out of Brooklyn-via-Michigan, Bee toured extensively with more than 300 North American shows in 2017 leading to the debut record Small Victories. Today, Bee shares more about his work as a songwriter and how he continues to make music that comes from the heart.

You can hear American Opera at the Leopard Lounge in the Temple Theatre on December 23. www.templetheatre.com/americanopera2021

American Opera Website: http://americanopera.net/

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Today’s guest is Riley Hupfer. He is the guitarist for the band Last Night Saved My Life who will be playing in the Leopard Lounge of the Temple Theatre in Saginaw MI on November 24. In our discussion today, Riley describes the origins of the group and the way they have evolved as they’ve become better musicians and started to have a leisure activity become oriented toward a career.

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Cara De Angelis was born and raised in the wilds of New England. She has been a recipient of the CT Office of the Arts Fellowship Grant, as well as the Barbara Deming/Money for Women Grant. She has had fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center, the Prairie Center of the Arts in Illinois, and the Contemporary Arts Center in Troy, New York. In 2010 she was awarded full residency at the Terra Foundation in Giverny, France, along with a Guggenheim travel grant. She is also a beneficiary of the Rudolph Zallinger Painting Award.

In our conversation today, we discuss her current exhibition at the Saginaw Art Museum, “Out of Eden”. from roadkill to golden glitter, let’s listen in.

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Kalysta grew up on the likes of Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, and Stevie Wonder. In our conversation today, Kalysta shares more about the confidence she's gained as an artist as she sets her sights on inspiring others to pursue their own dreams.

Learn more about Kalysta at https://kalystaofficial.com/

Cellist and vocalist Jordan Hamilton merges musical styles to tell stories of the human experience through a variety of musical genres. A member of Last Gasp Collective and the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Jordan can be found performing primarily in the Midwest where he has opened for national acts such as Eric Roberson and Nappy Roots. His most recent release "Vibrations" is a compilation of feelings expressed in sound with no words.

Listen to Jordan at http://www.jordanhamiltonmusic.com/

Today we host a conversation with poet Diane Seuss and artist John McKaig in association with the Saginaw Art Museum’s current exhibition The Art of Poetry: Visually Reimagining the poem. Through a unique collaboration which we will learn about in the discussion, Seuss and McKaig connect here for a conversation about the process of creation among other topics.

Diane Seuss was born in Indiana and raised in Michigan. She earned a BA from Kalamazoo College and an MSW from Western Michigan University. Seuss is the author of multiple poetry collections including Four-Legged Girl (2015) which made her a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent collection frank: Sonnets is available through Gray Wolf Press. Her work has appeared in multiple poetry publications including The Best American Poetry 2014. She taught at Kalamazoo College for nearly 30 years. https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/frank-sonnets

John McKaig received his BFA in printmaking from Miami University and MFA in printmaking from University of Syracuse. He is currently Adjunct professor of drawing at Lycoming College in Williamsport PA. McKraig’s work has been exhibited throughout the united states and is included in the permanent collections of Syracuse University, The College of New Jersey, Auckland Print Study/Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland New Zealand and many others. http://johnmurraymckaig.com/

Loren Kranz is a multi-instrumentalist with the Barbarossa Brothers and other groups. In our conversation Kranz speaks to the nature of collaboration in music and how this influences his approach to the creative process. 

You can hear the Barbarossa Brothers Tuesday June 15, 2021 at the Saginaw Art Museum

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The Saginaw Art Museum’s current exhibition The Art of Poetry: Visually Reimagining the poem displays the result of a collaboration between Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, poets, and visual artists. I spoke with Executive director Jeff Abshear and Studio Manager Katie Platte about the Poets in Print program to learn more about the story of how these pieces came to be.

Learn more about the Kalamzoo Book Arts Center at https://kalbookarts.org/

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In today’s podcast we talk with master collagist Erin Case. With more than a decade of work in collage, Case’s pieces have been used for book covers, album art, and other commissions. Her current exhibition Womanfolk, being hosted at the Saginaw Art Museum, is a retrospective collection paired with a new series of pieces that present femininity and its many forms over time.