SAVONA BAILEY-MCCLAIN's show

SAVONA BAILEY-MCCLAIN

State of the Arts NYC is a weekly radio show where various sectors of NYC’s arts worlds converge to report and analyze the dynamic state of the arts and its participants. Hosted by Savona Bailey-McClain, long-time Executive Director of the West Harlem Art Fund (WHAF), she confronts, analyzes and celebrates victories, challenges and changes in the country’s dynamic creative capital. Reports from the field; from the far-flung fringes; from center stage and from behind the scenes—the host Savona Bailey-McClain draws on her 20 years’ in the trenches to bring you snapshot after snapshot in living color. State of the Arts NYC can be heard on iTunes, Radio Public, Youtube, Mixcloud and BRIC Radio.

Episodes

  1. 01/09/2020

    State of the Arts NYC Prototype edition 1/9/2020

    This edition of State of the Arts NYC we have Juecheng Chen (singer) and Garrett Fisher (composer) for the opera Blood Moon and then Ricky Ian Gordon (composer) and Emma Griffin (director) for the opera Ellen West on our show. Both operas are apart of the Prototype Festival which starts tonight.

  2. 01/09/2020

    State of the Arts NYC APAP interview with Mario Durham

    This episode is a special interview with outgoing Executive Director Mario Garcia Durham. State of the Arts NYC has covered this industry festival for three years. We talk with Durham about this year's focus and his feelings about the organization he helped build.

  3. 11/27/2019

    State of the Arts NYC with host Savona Bailey-McClain 11_26_2019 episode

    This week on State of the Arts NYC we have the artist Swoon in the studio. She is the most successful female graffiti artist in America. We talk with Swoon whose real name is Caledonia Dance Curry about her practice and influence of Gordon Matta Clark; her new exhibition at the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery and an upcoming show at BRIC Media.

  4. 11/19/2019

    State of the Arts NYC with host Savona Bailey-McClain 11_19_2019

    FortGansevoort, in association with Pavel Zoubok Fine Arts present Vanessa German, TRAMPOLINE:Resilience & Black Body& Soul. We talk with Vanessa German about this exhibition in Meatpacking District on Ninth Avenue near Little 12th Street. State of the Arts NYC learns what inspire her current show and how her artistic practice involved.

  5. 11/13/2019

    State of the Arts NYC with host Savona Bailey-McClain 11/12/2019

    This week on State of the Arts NYC, we have Tiffany Rea-Fisher, Artistic Director for the Elisa Monte Dance Company (EMD) and Monique Martin, Director of Programming for Harlem Stage. We talk about EMD's new work H.E.R. that will premiere in 2020 honoring the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance and lesser known Black women writers.

  6. 10/22/2019

    State of the Arts NYC - IFDPA Edition

    This week State of the Arts NYC returns with David Tunick and Jenny Gibbs. We talk about the IFPDA Fair opening October 23rd at the Jacob Javitis Center. Jenny Gibbs is the Executive Director of the International Fine Print Dealers Association, the Fine Art Print Fair and the IFPDA Foundation. David Tunick is the President of the IFPDA. They share information on site specific installations, special programming, new partnerships and more.

  7. 07/11/2019

    State of the Arts NYC Bessie Ep

    This episode of State of the Arts NYC spotlights the Bessie Awards with Lucy Sexton, Executive Director and Heather Robles, Managing Director. Produced in partnership with Dance/NYC, the NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies have saluted outstanding and groundbreaking creative work by independent dance artists in NYC for 33 years. Known as “The Bessie” in honor of revered dance teacher Bessie Schönberg, the awards were established in 1983 by David White at Dance Theater Workshop. They recognize exceptional work in choreography, performance, music composition and visual design. We talk about their new developments and partnerships to make dance more accessible to the public not just in NYC but beyond. The Bessies will be held in October and is free to the general public.

  8. 07/11/2019

    State of the Arts NYC - Lenardo Drew Ep

    Gallery talk with Leonardo Drew, Savona Bailey-McClain, and Brooke Kamin Rapaport in conjunction with the artist's exhibitions on view at Galerie Lelong & Co., New York and at Madison Square Park Conservancy. Savona Bailey-McClain is Executive Director/Chief Curator of the West Harlem Art Fund, which has organized high-profile public arts exhibits throughout New York City for the past twenty years, including Times Square, DUMBO, Soho, Governors Island, and Harlem. She is also host/producer of the weekly radio program “State of the Arts NYC.” Brooke Kamin Rapaport is the Deputy Director and Martin Friedman Senior Curator at Madison Square Park Conservancy. She is responsible for the outdoor public sculpture program of commissioned work by contemporary artists. In addition to her work as a juror and moderator on issues surrounding contemporary art, Rapaport is a contributing editor and writer for Sculpture magazine, serves on the Board of Directors of Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, and as Vice President of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. She is also the curator and commissioner of the U.S. Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Drew spoke to The New York Times on the occasion of his new installation, City in the Grass, at Madison Square Park: “Brooke is daring, and that’s why she will ask artists to realize outdoor works when they’re not outdoor-work artists. It does take a leap of faith. She’s there before you’re there.” Leonardo Drew is known for creating contemplative abstract sculptural works that play upon a tension between order and chaos. At once monumental and intimate in scale, his work recalls post-Minimalist sculpture that alludes to America’s industrial past. He was born in 1961 in Tallahassee, Florida, and he grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

  9. 06/13/2019

    State of the Arts NYC Blue Note Edition 6/11/2019

    This edition of State of the Arts NYC we have Sophie Huber, Swiss filmmaker on the show to talk about her new documentary -- Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes. With Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Norah Jones, Robert Glasper, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Terrace Martin, and Don Was. This film marks the 75th anniversary of this record label and its impact on jazz and American music.

  10. 06/06/2019

    State of the Arts NYC on Governors Island 6/1/2019

    This is a special interview on-site on Governors Island with State of the Arts NYC host Savona Bailey-McClain. The West Harlem Art Fund and the Eli Klein Gallery kicked off the opening of the exhibition TRACES with an artist talk with Chinese artist Miao Xiaochun at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 1st in Nolan Park, Building 10 (NP/10). As the one of the foremost representatives of Chinese new media art, his extensive body of works parallel each other through the theme of technology as a representation of the present and classical artwork as the past. His use of contemporary photography is based on the “multiple view points” perspective to pioneer connections between history and the modern world.

  11. 04/17/2019

    State of the Arts NYC 4/16/2019 with host Savona Bailey-McClain

    On this episode of State of the Arts NYC we dancer/choreographers Stephanie Acosta and Remi Harris. Both are Brooklyn-based and we talk about the recent Dance NYC Symposium where the duo were guest curators. We also talk about the state of dance today both regionally and across the country. Hear our lively conversation.

  • 11 Episodes

About

State of the Arts NYC is a weekly radio show where various sectors of NYC’s arts worlds converge to report and analyze the dynamic state of the arts and its participants. Hosted by Savona Bailey-McClain, long-time Executive Director of the West Harlem Art Fund (WHAF), she confronts, analyzes and celebrates victories, challenges and changes in the country’s dynamic creative capital. Reports from the field; from the far-flung fringes; from center stage and from behind the scenes—the host Savona Bailey-McClain draws on her 20 years’ in the trenches to bring you snapshot after snapshot in living color. State of the Arts NYC can be heard on iTunes, Radio Public, Youtube, Mixcloud and BRIC Radio.

Information

  • Creator
    SAVONA BAILEY-MCCLAIN
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2020
  • Episodes
    11
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright SAVONA BAILEY-MCCLAIN
  • Show Website
    SAVONA BAILEY-MCCLAIN's show