Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker interviews Shanekia McIntosh, poet performer and all-around creative force. Her work is powerful, important and everyone should read her poem Epitaph. Check out Shanekia at shanekiamcintosh.com.

Music by:

Rico Rodriguez | Jam Rock
The Beach Boys | Heroes and Villains

The Shanekia McIntosh Edition

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker interviews photographers Tyler Ki-Re and Jayna LaFountaine, two photographers featured in the 43rd Photo Regional at the Opalka Gallery at Sage College. Additionally Jayna is one of the four jurors who curated the show. 

Music by:
Joan Jett | Crimson and Clover
Tommy James and The Shondells | Crimson and Clover

Theme music by Phantogram

Youth Spotlight with Tyler Ki-Re and Jayana LaFountaine

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down this week at the University Art Museum @ SUNY Albany to talk to four of the MFA candidates graduating and presenting their thesis at the museum.

Music by:
Charles Bradley | Changes

Theme music by Phantogram

SUNY Albany MFA Embedded

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with poet Christian Ortega whose new book Rants for Social Media is out now. The conversation included a breadth of topics from art, inspiration, the choices we make in life and figuring out what you are good at. Surprisingly, it was not until the end they talked about social media and Christians deep dive into the medium as an art form.

Music by:
The Figgs | Someone Took the Coffee & I Brought the Kicks

Theme music by Phantogram

Christian Ortega/ Rants For Social Media/ Embedded

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with artists from the Albany Center Gallery exhibition Frame//Unframe. Sharing the hosting duties for this episode is Jennie Tang who curated the show and is also part of the amazing team at Albany Center Gallery. The artists present for the roundtable discussion, hosted at the gallery, are Katherine Chwazik, Laura Cannamela, Dorthea Osborn and Drea LaRose. Justin Baker steps aside this month to take questions and split the hosting job because his work is also included in the show Frame//Unframe. Not present for the discussion but also in the show are artists Sean Desiree and Kralovic (they were sorely missed). 

Music by:
A Tribe Called Quest | Can I Kick It

Theme music by Phantogram

Collar Works Radio is Frame // Unframe

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with artists from the Albany Center Gallery exhibition SEEN. Sharing the hosting duties for this episode again is Jennie Tang who curated the show and is also part of the amazing team at Albany Center Gallery. The artists present for the roundtable discussion, hosted at the gallery, are Sofeia Eddy, Alyssa McClenaghan and Aurora Powell. Not present for the discussion but also in the show are artists Maryam Adib, Alicia Barton and Arnela Mahmutovic, (they were sorely missed). 

Music by:
Cat Power | Satisfaction
The Rollingstones | Satisfaction

Theme music by Phantogram

is SEEN

This week Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with Kathy Greenwood and Judie Gilmore, two area gallery directors who stepped in to host this year’s Mohawk Hudson Regional, the region’s most prestigious yearly survey of art makers. Kathy Greenwood is the director of the Albany International Airport Gallery and Judie Gilmore is the director of the Opalka Gallery on the campus of the Sage College. Not able to make it was Tony Iadicicco who is the director of Albany Center Gallery (which is the third venue hosting the regional). We get the first-hand account of how this year’s regional dramatically changed hands and what went into putting this ambitious presentation of the Mohawk Hudson Regional on for its 85th showing.

Music by:
 The Figgs | Regional Hits & Reject

Theme music by Phantogram

a Regional Portrait

This week Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker talks with photographer and educator Danny Goodwin about his studio practice, making pictures of nothing and what he's really building in there.

Music by: 

Neil Diamond | Holly Holy
Tom Waits | What's He Building?

Theme music by Phantogram

an evening with Danny Goodwin

This month Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with artist and musician Jason Martin and discusses his current project Power Animal Systems.

Music by:

Jason Martin | Patient Zero, Please Assist Us In Transmission & Schenectady Song

Theme music by Phantogram

the Jason Martin transmission

DRSDMT 
Dave Rick -Electric Bass guitar 
Steve Dibenedetto- Drums 
Matt Tiernan- electric guitar and real time loop manipulation.
Recorded by Dave Rick

Tiernan-Og 11-15-01

DRSDMT

This month Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker talks with painter/ sound artist Matt Tiernan about his studio practice and his sound work. As promised a year ago, the CW Radio team traveled up to Stillwater to record from Matt’s studio and record the ultimate Tiernan, painting and guitar combined. In addition, in celebration of our last episode of the year, the CW Radio team put together a sound art piece to start the episode off in a nod to Tiernan himself.  If you want to hear more of Matt’s sound work check out his recording with DRSDMT hosted right here on the Collar Works Radio station. 

Music by:

Intro sound piece | CW Radio Team
Family Blood | Canned Heat (that’s what I think it’s called)
Black Sabbath | It’s Alright

Theme music by Phantogram

Matt Tiernan Vol 2

This month Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down and ZOOM’S with Katherine Chwazick who is an amazing artist and the brains behind the smallbany gallery (which if you don’t know is a 1/12 scale gallery).

Check out more of Katherine’s work here www.katherinechwazik.com

Music by:

Thelonious Monk | In Walked Bud 
Arcade Fire | Wake Up (live from Glastonbury 2007)

Theme music by Phantogram

with Katherine Chwazik

This month Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits done with artist Gina Occhiogrosso and discusses her life making art and her current solo show Surfacing at the Arts Center of the Capital Region located in Troy, NY (Surfacing is up January 14 – March 11).   Check out more of 

Ginas work here:
https://www.gocchiogrosso.com

Music by:

Nick Drake |  Place To Be & Horn 

Theme music by Phantogram

with Gina Occhiogrosso

with Judith Braun

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker interviews Fabienne S. Powell 
Assistant Director & Chief Curator for the NYS OGS Curatorial & Visitor Services. Which means her job is taking care of the Empire State Plaza Art Collection. Listen up because we get some history, the demands of taking care of such an important collection and what happened to our George Rickey?

Check out the collection and schedule a tour:
https://empirestateplaza.ny.gov/art

Music by:
Jay - Z |  Empire State of Mind
Terry Allen | Truckload of Art
Theme music by Phantogram

Empire State Embedded

Ken Ragsdale is my guest this week and we sat down in the Sanctuary's basement studio and had a conversation about memory, folding paper and photography.

Ken Ragsdale Part One

Part two of Collar Works Radio host Justin Bakers interview with Ken Ragsdale, they continue their conversation about memory, folding paper, 11 year undergraduate degrees and how they both enjoy sitting in their basements making photographs.

Ken Ragsdale Part 2

Part two of the extended interview with Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker and J Houston. Houston is a Pittsburgh based photographer that is exhibiting work in the group show Art Stand Stills currently showing at Collar Works Gallery. In this interview we find out more about the work showing at the gallery and other projects Houston is currently working on.

J Houston Part 2

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker interviews artist Matt LaFleur. Matt was at the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency and is home now but Matt was able to stop by the studio and sit down for a two part interview. Justin talks to Matt about his time at the residency and also his work in the beautiful show Everyday Perfection at the Albany International Airport Gallery.

Matt LaFleur Part 1

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker interviews artist Matt LaFleur. Matt was at the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency and is home now but Matt was able to stop by the studio and sit down for a two part interview. In part two of the interview Justin talks to Matt about his work in the beautiful show Everyday Perfection at the Albany International Airport Gallery.

Matt LaFleur Part 2

With me this week is Julie Torres of LABspace. If you don't know LABspace is a contemporary art gallery located in Hillsdale, NY that is run by Julie and her partner Ellen Lecther, and in my opinion is showing some the most challenging and exciting work in the area. The current show Hillsdale, which features 10 artists that live and work in Hillsdale NY is up and running till December 1st.

LABspace Part One

My guest this week is Dorothy Englander. Dorothy is an incredible artist that was recently honored with a four decade retrospective of her art in September of this year, at the Albany Center Gallery. Our conversation starts with the two of us discussing how her imagery is connected to the ideas of biology and at the times the home. From there we delve deeper.

Dorothy Englander

My guest this week is Michael Van Winkle. Michael is an amazing painter who produces work that blends the figure, landscape and abstraction in a way that situates itself somewhere between absurdist humor and unmistakable beauty.

Michael Van Winkle Part 1

With me this week is Berly Brown and Will Hutnick, two artists who are featured at Collar Works Gallery in the upcoming exhibition Northern Lights that opens January 31st. The work in this exhibition creates a surreal and vibrant visual experience, much like the bright, dancing lights of the north, these artists do too. 

Collar Works Gallery is located @ 621 River St in Troy, NY.

Northern Lights featuring Berly Brown and Will Hutnick

For this episode we sat down with JoAnne Carson in the middle of the Opalka Gallery in Albany, NY and talked to her about her recent 25 year retrospective Rise Up and Shine!

Rise Up and Shine! Featuring JoAnne Carson

With me this week is Darian Longmire an artist from Brooklyn, NY. Darian opens up about his experience as an artist during COVID-19 and how it’s effecting his life right now.

Darian Longmire Edition

This week Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker Zooms with painter Joseph O'Neal about his studio practice and how he went from skateboarding teenage to mystical painter.

www.josephoneal.com

Joseph O'Neal Edition

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with SpaceLAB artists Julie Chase and Dina Bursztyn to discuss their work in the show and what it's like making art as a team.

Collar Works Radio Julie Chase and Dina Bursztyn Podcast

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with SpaceLAB artist Thomas Lail to discuss his work. Thom was a great sport in agreeing to be interviewed twice as the Collar Works Radio mobile studio on 
it's first outing had a some technical difficulties. As Collar Works Radio moves forward, now without a studio to call home we are looking to up the sound quality as best we can.

The Thomas Lail Edition

This week Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with artist Jack Magai and discusses how his current studio practice has changed during the pandemic, what he has in the works and the old testament.

Collar Works Radio with Jack Magai

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with artist Terry Conrad at the Opalka Gallery in Albany NY on the Sage Campus. Terry’s show at Opalka is full of amazing vision, curiosity and energy that is compelling and inspiring. Justin and Terry discuss his work, his process, and his life since the lockdown and how this experience of “now” has shaped what we see or hear in the gallery.  

music by: 
Louis Armstrong | Indiana 
Wussy | Pizza King
Terry Conrad | Noise Makers

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