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Every Second and Fourth Tuesday, from 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Art Focus features interviews by host Joseph Gallivan with artists, curators and critics. Lively voices talking about art, how it's made and sometimes even what it means. Page back through KBOO's schedule to find all the recordings, some of which were made on magnetic tape.   

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Signs of Change and Gestures of Resistance

Airs at: Tue, 02/23/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Art Focus presents a look at two current exhibitions in Portland dealing with protest and social change, Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now at PNCA and Gestures of Resistance at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. The guests are Namita Wiggers, Curator at ... Read more

Art on the Vine, an auction to benefit OCAC

Airs at: Tue, 02/16/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Bonnie Laing-Malcomson, president of the Oregon College of Art and Craft and Joyce Campbell, co-chair of the event Art on the Vine were our guests for Art Focus. We talked about the auction, the history of the college and how craft thrives in the Pacific Northwest. Read more

Corey Smith's "Obsolete Dreams"

Airs at: Tue, 02/09/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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My guest this week on Art Focus was Corey Smith. I've caught his shows here and there and now he's at Worksound, showing !Obsolete Dreams, all mixed media pieces. Smith is an Oregon artist who moved to Los Angeles - a lot of the work riffs on the deterioration of the Califo... Read more

Soul Recovery Systems

Airs at: Tue, 02/02/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Felicity Fenton and Michael T. Hensley have formed Soul Recovery Systems, a project which helps us get rid of our inner trash. They talk about their videos, photo documentation and examples of this work. Read more

Linda Tesner talks about "What is a Trade?"

Airs at: Tue, 01/26/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Linda Tesner, curator of Lewis and Clark's Hoffman Gallery, talks about "What is a Trade?" This is a show by Donald Fels who collaborated with Indian sign painters to address globalization in India. The xhibition has large scale paintings, intense with color and graphics. Read more

Christopher Rauschenberg

Airs at: Tue, 01/19/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Christopher Rauschenberg talks about his new show of Paris flea markets at Elizabeth Leach, his work re-photographing Atget, the Portland Grid Project, Photolucida and more.   Read more

Joe Sacco on Footnotes in Gaza

Airs at: Tue, 01/12/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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A sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the most tormented of places, FOOTNOTES IN GAZA (Metropolitan Books/December 22, 2009), the highly anticipated new work by award-winning graphic novelist Joe Sacco, recounts fifty years of history across hundreds of... Read more

Laura Russell of 23 Sandy

Airs at: Tue, 01/05/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Laura Russell is an artist who is also the founder and director of 23 Sandy, a gallery on NE 23rd. Here she talks about artist books and her current exhibition, a group show called The Assignment. The book here is by Karen Kunc. Read more

Brian Lindstrom talks about his new documentaries

Airs at: Tue, 12/29/2009 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Brian Lindstrom is a Portland filmmaker who has two new films showing soon at Cinema 21: "Old Town Diary" and "To Pay my Way with Stories." We talked about the process of making his documentaries, which include workshops at Writing Around Portland.   Our guest is Brian Li... Read more

Tim DuRoche and Judith Margles/the Oregon Jewish Museum

Airs at: Tue, 12/22/2009 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Tim DuRoche, who curated at the new Oregon Jewish Museum The Shape of Time: Accumulations of Place and Memory, was my guest. This exhibition of photography works around Jewish history in Oregon via specific location and public memory. The photographers include Sika Stanton,... Read more