"Fine" Art Podcast

Keegan Shiner

Hi, I'm host Keegan Shiner, and I love talking to fine artists about how they make it, do it, and what they're up to next. I want to have honest conversations with artists about their process, influences, interests and work. Each week I invite a new artist to the podcast and also invite a friend who is not a fine artist and has not taken an art class but they appreciate art and provide a friendly and curious "untrained eye" to the conversation. Don't forget to subscribe, and thanks for listening!

Episodes

  1. 10/20/2020

    Danielle Abrams

    This week's guest is performance artist and educator Danielle Abrams. Danielle often embodies a cast of characters in her work that represent cross-sections of races, ethnicities, genders, and cultures. This web (or quilt, or weave as eloquently stated in the episode introduction...) of personifications embody the complexity of her own identity. Danielle is the Professor of the Practice in performance art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She has performed across the country including the Detroit Institute of the Arts, ICA Boston, Jewish Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Queens Museum, University of Michigan Museum of Art. Along with her collaborator Mary Ellen Strom, Danielle was recently received a residency at the Boston Center for the Arts.  Every week this podcast includes a guest who is not a fine artist. This week's "Bridge to Outside of the Fine Art World" is Eric Schwartz. He is a Chicago based comedian, board member of The Playground Theater, and host of Dumb Comic Creators Podcast.  Some links:  http://www.danielleabrams.com/ Danielle's upcoming performance at the USC Live Artists Live III: Despair/Repair https://calendar.usc.edu/event/live_artists_live_iii_despairrepair#.X48GTUJKhR4 Danielle's performance of Great:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8a5FqD8cvM&feature=youtu.be The SMFA Art Sale:  https://smfa.tufts.edu/artsale  The Lemon Ice King of Corona: https://www.facebook.com/TheLemonIceKingOfCorona/   Thanks for listening! Remember to hit subscribe!

    1h 8m
  2. 09/22/2020

    Chantal Zakari

    Fine artist and designer Chantal Zakari is the guest on this week's episode of "Fine" Art Podcast!   Chantal Zakari is a professor at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts University. She operates a socially engaged practice that explores the complexities of the topics and subjects she pursues. She follows social phenomena and positions herself in relationship to a public or a sub-culture. She is a skilled designer and often publishes her projects as artists books in addition to installation work and other media. Her work is in the permanent collections at Yale University, The Getty Research Institute library, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. She has also had solo exhibitions in Boston, Baltimore, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Ankara, Turkey.    This was such a fun interview! Chantal talks about growing up in Turkey and her Turkish-Levantine heritage. She also talks about her adventurous move to Chicago for art school. She was kind enough to talk about some of her previous art works, including some that she made with her long-time collaborator and husband Mike Mandel. Finally, we wrap up by talking about her membership in the artist-run Kingston Gallery and her upcoming show later this year. Also there's a bird in this episode!   Her upcoming show at Kingston Gallery in SOWA opening on November 5th, 2020. http://www.kingstongallery.com/exhibitions/2020/november-chantal-zakari-work-in-progress.php   Her artists books can be found (and bought!) on her website https://thecorner.net.

    1 hr

Ratings & Reviews

5
out of 5
2 Ratings

About

Hi, I'm host Keegan Shiner, and I love talking to fine artists about how they make it, do it, and what they're up to next. I want to have honest conversations with artists about their process, influences, interests and work. Each week I invite a new artist to the podcast and also invite a friend who is not a fine artist and has not taken an art class but they appreciate art and provide a friendly and curious "untrained eye" to the conversation. Don't forget to subscribe, and thanks for listening!