Art and Culture discussions locally and internationally, this program runs the gamut.....

Live Culture with Martha Willette Lewis

Up Now in the archives! 
https://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/377818
This month's episode features guest co-host and artist Maxim Schmidt as we celebrate Women's History Month with a discussion with artists George Corsillo, Clymenza Hawkins and Amy Wachtel about their involvement with the art exhibit Sound & Vision II: For the Record...  a visual and musical celebration of feminism involving over 40 artists  in a gallery exhibit featuring imaginary record covers, real covers form  private collections and the wpkn archive and musical memorabilia from  women musicians at many stages of their careers.
The show is up until May 6th at the Institute Library 847 Chapel St. new Haven.
More about the show can be found at: Institutelibrary.org
Live Culture is a monthly conversation about Visual Art- a full set of podcasts is available here on the WPKN Soundcloud page
https://soundcloud.com/wpkn895/sets/live-culture-with-martha
The full list of 
Exhibition Participants:
Amanda Bouquet
Amelia Maurer
Amy Wachtel
Angelica Sistrunk
Ann Kennedy
Carol Snyder
Christine Ohlman
Claudia Doring Baez
Corinthia Saez
Dika Kuljis
Dylan Strazar
Emily Herberich
Eva Geertz
Eve Hars
George Corsillo
Jahmal Henderson
Jeff Sokolowski
Joanne Connon
Jody Clouse
John Keefer
Julia Cumming
Julie Bowers Murphy
Kathleen DeMeo
Linda Lindroth
Martha Willette Lewis
Matt Feiner
Michelle Beaulieu-Morgan
Mohan Maharaj, Sr
Patrick Carroll, Linda Lindroth,
Sally Hill & Tim Nighswander
Regan Avery
Sadie Grey Murphy
Sue Czark
T.M. Stewart
Tammy Faye Starlite
Tina Sarno
V.V. Aldebaran McEvoy
The Collection of Alec Cumming
The Collection of Eva Geertz
The Collection of Del La Pietro
The Collection of Steve DiCostanzo
The Collection of WPKN
Curated by
Martha Willette Lewis
With Special Thanks to:
Café 9, Alec Cumming, Steve DiConstanzo, Eva Geertz, Del La Pietro, Mohan Maharaj Sr, Ann Marlowe, Michelle Beaulieu-Morgan, Rick Omante/Shaki Presents, Valerie Richardson, Scott Schuldt, WPKN radio, and the board and volunteers of The Institute Library

Live Culture Episode 79 : women's History Month, For the Record...

Giving Trees: On being an artist. How creatives are asked consistently to work for free, donate art, and otherwise give away ones talents....and how to survive and thrive when the culture at large doesn't perceive creative capitol as labor.

Live Culture 80:Maxim Schmidt, Ruby Gonzales Hernandez and  Susan Clinard

This month we offer a discussion with members of the exhibition No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor opening February 17 at Real Artways in Hartford. Listen in on a lively conversation with artists Carlos Estevez, Lesley Dill, Micki Watanabe Spiller and curator Alva Greenberg about this expansive group exhibit focusing on the ideas around garments and embodiment.
  About the exhibit:   "Clothing conveys impressions of social background, economic status and ethnicity. Like physical features, it is one of the most common means used to project ourselves and understand others. This inclination to categorize others is also a way of controlling our responses to them. How often do we subconsciously imbue clothing with a significance which is misleading?   The altered and uninhabited clothing in No Bodies disrupts these autonomic responses by playing with perceptions of materiality, cultural identity, relationships, political beliefs and portraiture itself. Being free of physicality, the works in No Bodies force us to confront assumptions, as well as the ever-growing societal compartmentalization of people and behavior and the #socialmedia which increasingly rules our thinking. What does it mean when we deconstruct a garment by unraveling it or burning it or turning it into another material? What does clothing symbolize when there never was or will be a body inside?"   Participating Artists:   Reginald Dwayne Betts, John Boone, Marsha Borden, Rachel Breen, Chris Burden, Patrick Carroll, Susan Clinard, Hannah Conradt, E.V. Day, Lesley Dill, Anindita Dutta, Nina Dwin, Carlos Estévez, Kathryn Frund, Jonathan Herrera Soto, Jesse Krimes, Whitfield Lovell, Adriana Marmorek, Carol Paik, Sidney Russell, Karen Shaw, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Micki Watanabe Spiller, Cindy Tower, Cleo Wilkinson, Cybèle Young.   About the Curator:   Alva Greenberg is a curator and artist based in Connecticut.  From 1997-2009, she ran ALVA Gallery, in New London, CT dedicated to promoting mid-career artists working in all disciplines. In 2006, she was a recipient of the Eugene O’Neill Center’s “25 of Connecticut’s most Uncommon Women” award and in 2018 she received the State of Connecticut Governor’s Patron of the Arts award.   https://carlosestevez.net/index.html https://www.lesleydill.net/ https://mickispiller.com/

live culture  garment

a talk with the curator and artists from "no bodies: clothing as disruptor"

A talk with Curator nico w okoro about her new project the Orchid Gallery up now  at the ConnCorp building.  more at https://www.nicowheadon.com/ and https://conncorp.org/  

Maxim Schmidt and Martha Willette Lewis host a monthly discussion about Art and Culture. originally aired  on wpkn 89,5 fm

Live Culture- Max and Martha talk with nico w okoro about Orchid Gallery

In the first half a conversation with artist and scientist Nicholas Milkovich who is  giving a talk on his work at the Yale Franke Program and in the second half a conversation with Andres Versoza about his collection of baskets currently the subject of an exhibition at the Unionville Museum!

Live Culture: conversations with Nicholas Milkovich and Andres Versoza

I want you to welcome back  Gloria Frazee of ReWild Long Island.  At ReWild,   Gloria is co-chair of the Social Media & Web Committee and co-leader of the ReWild/South Fork chapter and now is a regular contributor to this program. Gloria will be joining me every 2nd Thursday of the month during the 12 noon hour.

Gloria Frazee of Rewild Long Island #2

Chuck Collins of climatecriminals.org is my guest on this "Digging in the Dirt". Chuck  is here to talk about why he believes It’s time to name the names of the individuals delaying climate action and financing the climate crisis, so they can be held accountable.
Chuck Collins  is an American author and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good.   His latest book is a novel, “Altar to an Erupting Sun,” an eco-fiction exploration of the causes of climate disruption.

Chuck Collins of ClimateCriminals.org

Gloria Frazee joins me as a regular monthly guest on Digging in the Dirt. Gloria is co-chair of the Social Media & Web Committee and co-leader of the ReWild/South Fork chapter and its Summer Program for high school students. She is also the founder of ReWild/East Hampton Compost…. in collaboration with the Town of East Hampton.

Rewild LI w/ Gloria Frazee #4

-The Atlantic Ocean is cooling at a record speed 
-The inevitability of rising temperatures due to climate change
-Farmer-first’ successful agrivoltaics projects
-Inflation Reduction Act has sparked a manufacturing boom
-New solar utility-scale operations are largest source of electricity
-Electric car sales growing fastest 
-Americans want to prioritize developing alternative energy

GaiaGram #223 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

-Weedkiller Dacthal serious health risks to unborn babies, banned.
-Record-setting heat wave in the west
-221 thousand pounds  of dead fish in Greek port
-Worst droughts sweeping across southern Africa
-Multimillion-dollar estates sliding into Pacific Ocean
-Legos, changing its plastics formula to be environmentally friendly.
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GaiaGram # 224 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

Gloria Frazee Rewild Long Island #3

Director of Agriculture at CitySeed in New Haven which we talked about on a previous segment which you can hear in our podcasts section if you missed it. Kaitlyn is Owner of Sunset Organic farm in Naugatuck Ct. she is back to talk to me now about some of the issues farmers are facing due to some of this extraordinary weather many of us are experiencing.

Digging in the Dirt - Kaitlyn Kimball Cityseed -  Storms Effects On Small Farmers

The Resistance Roundtable show interviews Branko Marcetic who discusses his recent Jacobin Magazine articles on Biden's horrific Gaza policy; and the apparent decision by the Harris campaign to keep Tim Walz off the campaign trail.
Interview by Scott Harris, Richard Hill and Ruthanne Baumgartner, Oct. 12, 2024

Jacobin Mag's Branko Marcetic: Will Biden's Gaza Policy Tank Kamala's Election Chances?

-UN ...To end the climate crisis means it is “crunch time for real”
-California files first-of-its-kind lawsuit against ExxonMobil over plastic
-Once thought extinct the Atlantic Gray whale makes comeback
-Positive news for endangered North Atlantic right whale
-Clean energy jobs grew more  twice the rate of the overall economy

GaiaGram #232 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

Laura Modlin interviews Andrew Kupinse about preserving zoning in Easton, CT to protect the water supply in the town’s four reservoirs. They serve 100s of thousands of customers in Fairfield County, Connecticut. 

Originally aired December 1, 2024.

A town with four reservoirs

On this month's show the first guests are Artist/Curator David Borawski and Artist Liz Sweibel to talk about their exhibit Abductions and Reconstructions up now at Real Art Ways in Hartford. Featuring the artists Meg Hitchcock, Ryan Sarah Murphy, Liz Sweibel, Abductions and Reconstructions offers fresh takes on abstraction, collage, and sculpture with works that are at once intricate and tough. The three artists present a diverse range of aesthetic considerations: Meg Hitchcock often uses letters from one text, such as the Bible, to craft passages in another text, like the Quran. Regarding this process, Hitchcock says:

“…by deconstructing and recombining the holy books of diverse religions, I undermine their authority and animate the common thread that weaves through all scripture.”

Ryan Sarah Murphy’s cardboard reliefs could be aerial views of farmland, architecture plans, or political maps of imaginary nations. She crafts these objects with a sense of seriousness and play befitting the found, casual nature of her materials. Liz Sweibel uses both found and acquired materials in her precarious sculptures and assemblages. Sweibel says

“The process is low-tech, immediate, and improvisational, and primarily takes form as spare, abstract sculpture, installation, and drawing.”

Abductions and Reconstructions is at RealArtWays, 56 Arbor St, Hartford and runs from Feb 15- April 8.

More about Real Art Ways here

During the second half we talk on the phone with artist Aliza Shvarts whose forthcoming exhibit at Artspace New Haven, Aliza Shvarts: Off Scene runs from May 11 - Jun 30. . Aliza recently ran a workshop based on her Banners Project as a part of the current Code Breakers Exhibit at The Ely Center for Contemporary Art, which invited women and gender variant people to exchange of stories in which the internet left them vulnerable to public shaming, and how these individual experiences of shame can be transformed to galvanize a collective demand. The title Aliza Shvarts: Off Scene, references the artists’ investment in performance, one that shifts our attention from the center to the social, historical, and material surround. At once linguistic and bodily, “off scene” refers to the circulation of gossip, rumor, viral text, and other forms of knowing. Using text, video,and audio she explores issues of how the body means and matters, how the subject consents and dissents.

The opening reception is Friday, May 18, 5-8pm. On Friday, May 18 from 6-8pm, Shvarts will host a roundtable discussion with Robert Post (Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School), Reva Siegel (Nicholas de B. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School), which will consider the aesthetic, legal, and ideological frameworks that choreograph the body’s capacity to produce meaning within the fictive or the real. This event is free and open to the public. Artspace is located at 50 Orange Street in New Haven, CT.

more about Artspace here

This episode of Live Culture also features a new song performed by Jody Stecher in protest of the gun violence t in this Country. Cousins Jay Feldman and Jody Stecher found they each were hit hard by the Florida school shootings. Jay began writing a song expressing his feelings about it. Jody helped him finish the song. Also on the show will be an excerpt of music from the soundtrack to the film Ladybird  by Jon Brion, and a song from The Mammals.

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Episode: Live Culture  Episode 37: Structive (De, Con & In)

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Episode: Live Culture Episode 37: Structive (De, Con & In)

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