Beyond the Paint podcast is shaking up our format for this episode! Please join me for a conversation with the writer and historian John Launius. Our talk encompasses his writings (he wrote a book about the philanthropist and art collector Charles Parsons), but also our shared interest and enthusiasm for women, female artists like Harriet Hosmer, featured in his book, and other women who break through societal and cultural norms. This episode is dedicated to Harry Sparks. :)
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Learn more about John's Book, "The Life and Times of Missouri's Charles Parsons: Between Art and War" -- www.parsonsbook.com
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Follow John:
https://twitter.com/johnlaun1
IG: @john_launius
Youtube: @Charles Parsons: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Sow5RvI3TVaW_c1G3GfgQ
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Go to my website www.beyondthepaint.net to view images discussed in the show. This includes crypto artist Nanu Berks (www.nanuberks.com) and photographer Renee Cox (www.reneecox.org)

Discover the abstract, monumental sculptures of artist Barbara Chase-Riboud. Her works incorporate bronze, paint, and the textile component, wool. Her dynamic bronze, figural works are "flexible as silk." --their raw beauty is contained yet flowing.
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Resources for this episode are listed at my website: www.beyondthepaint.net
In this episode I mention artist Alice Neel and my celebration of her paintings of pregnant nudes. You can listen to the full episode--#117: Alice Neel: Pregnant Nude Figures.

Experience the ways women artists employ "allegory" and portraiture to demand their place in art history.
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Resources for this podcast episode are listed on my website at www.beyondthepaint.net
Image credit: New Britain Museum of American Art
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Figurative artist Amy Chaiklin is a "storyteller." Her female imagery, ranging from witches, goddesses, superwomen and the women who have supported and inspired Chaiklin, reveals a wide range of women's experiences.
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This episode includes a conversation with Amy and includes the "true" story behind her 1983 mural "Beauties on the Bowery" in the context as a working, woman artist.
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Resources for this episode are listed on my website: www.beyondthepaint.net
Amy Chaiklin: www.amychaiklin.com - IG @amychaiklin
Image Credit: Amy Chaiklin: Femme Goddess "She Releases Butterflies for World Healing"

Painter Agnes Martin derived her "restrained yet evocative" paintings from inspiration. Her large non-representational works transport the viewer from the familiar in nature, like a tree or sky, into a new state of awareness.
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Resources and the images highlighted in this episode are listed on my website: www.beyondthepaint.net
Image credit: "Night Sea" SFMOMA
Follow me on Instagram @beyondthepaintwbernadine

Journey with me through the portraits of women, pregnant, nude women through the lens of figurative painter Alice Neel. She captures theri bodies at their most extremes--her images are riveting!
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Amy Chaiklin website: https://www.amychaiklin.com/ IG handle: @amychaiklin
Resources and images discussed for this episode are listed at my website: beyondthepaint.net

Beyond the Paint with Bernadine is on a short sabbatical this week--going to chase the sublime with hikes and exploring you the exhibition "Alice Neel: People Come First" at the Met Museum--I will share more about my visit and Neel in an upcoming episode.
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For now, enjoy one of my favorite episodes celebrating the painter Laurence de Valmy #Storiesinart. This episode include an engaging conversation with the artist.:)
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Follow Laurence @laurencedevalmy on IG and www.laurencedevalmy.com

Nanu Berks is a trailblazer and female pioneer in the Crypto Art market--Journey with me through her "channeled" paintings that are transformed into an original digital asset.
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Nanu joins me on the show for a lively conversation. She shares the ways her nomadic life informs her work, how the crypto art market eliminates the gallery system, and how an NFT (non-fugible token) is a mode of being visually (and spiritually) transported.
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Explore Nanu Berks:
www.nanuberks.com
@IG: nanu_berks
@Twitter: nanuberks
Nanu created a course on Crypto Art-Enroll at https://podcastfarm.mykajabi.com/sales-page-f22627c0-2fe0-49e5-826a-8726bccb411b
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All works discussed can be viewed at www.beyondthepaint.net

Each month I dedicate one episode of an excerpt of a book I am writing. Writing is the vehicle I want to use; to bring into my reader the ways art has transported me and shaped me into the woman I want to be, and into the life I want to live. My hope is for you to be open to the ways art can shape and bring meaning to your life.
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The excerpt I highlight is from the chapter "Louise Nevelson: Head Wraps and Scarves."
Resources and images discussed are at my website--www.beyondthepaint.net