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Dr. Jeffrey Weiss, Curator and Head of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art, 4-27-07 Jasper Johns, National Gallery of Art, modern and contemporary art. Dr. Jeffrey Weiss is the curator of the National Gallery of Art exhibition, 'Jasper Johns - An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965'. His book 'The Popular Culture of Modern Art' was published by Yale University Press in 1994. He is also the editor and author of exhibition catalogues on Mark Rothko and Pablo Picasso. In preparation is the exhibition, 'Matisse - Painting and Drawing, 1935-1948'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ruth Weisberg, Artist, and Dean of the Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, 4-27-07 Ruth Weisberg, The Scroll, figurative art, feminist art. Ruth Weisberg is known for her work in painting, printmaking, drawing and large-scale installations. Ms. Weisberg has recently completed a major mural commission for the New York Jewish Federation. Her work is included in 60 major museum and university collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Scheele, Co-founder of Learning Strategies Corporation and Developer of PhotoReading, 4-13-07 PhotoReading, Learning Strategies, Accelerated Learning. Paul Scheele has unique expertise in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Accelerated Learning, and Preconscious Processing. Paul speaks with us about PhotoReading, a simple, comprehensive system that virtually anyone can use to process large volumes of information at speeds in excess of 25,000 words a minute, with increased comprehension. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kat Wildish, Ballerina and Dance Educator, 4-13-07 Ballet, dance instruction, Alvin Ailey Dance Studio. Kat Wildish is one of America's few ballerinas whose career has traced a path through the likes of Balanchine, Baryshnikov, and Nureyev, as well as Europe's most-revered choreographers, performers, and master teachers. Her performing credits include New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and numerous international companies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Danny SLAPJAZZ Barber, Master Body Percussionist, 4-13-07 Body percussion, slapjazz, hambone. Danny Barber has performed at the SONY Company 25-year anniversary celebration, The New World Africans stage show, the First Annual San Felipe Jazz Festival, the 'Just Ellington' Concert in Palm Springs, CA, and 'Artist On the Cutting Edge' at the La Jolla Museum of Contempory Art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elizabeth Kemp, Chair, Acting Department, Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University, and Director of La Magnani, 3-30-07 Actors Studio, acting, directing, set design. Elizabeth Kemp is a member of the Actors Studio and the Board of Directors, and has worked extensively in theater, film, and television. Ms. Kemp has guest starred in shows such as LAW AND ORDER and LA LAW, for which she received the Glaad Award. As a director and set designer Ms. Kemp has had productions in New York including 'The Glass Menagerie', 'Elektra', and 'Wound of Love'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judith Martin, author of No Vulgar Hotel - The Desire and Pursuit of Venice and Dr. Eric Denker, Senior Lecturer, Education Division, National Gallery of Art, 3-30-07 Venice, travel, art, architecture, literature. Judith Martin well-known as 'Miss Manners' and has received a National Humanities Medal. She is the author of two novels, twelve Miss Manners books, and a columnist for the United Feature Syndicate, the Microsoft Network, and 'Child' magazine. Dr. Eric Denker has been at the National Gallery of Art since 1978. He frequently lectures in Italy for the Smithsonian Institute and for the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, and around the Was ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lisa Melandri, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs, Santa Monica Museum of Art, and Dr. Josh Kun, Associate Professor, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California, 3-30-07 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Strange New World, Tijuana art. At the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Lisa Melandri was curator for 'Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico', and the upcoming 'Art After White People: Time, Trees, and Celluloid'. Professor Josh Kun directs The Popular Music Project at The Norman Lear Center at USC. A former Arts Writers Fellow with The Sundance Institute, Professor Kun is the author of 'Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America', which won a 2006 America ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Councilwoman Jan Perry, City of Los Angeles Ninth District, 3-21-07 Los Angeles, Ninth District, Councilwoman Jan Perry, Grand Avenue Project. Councilwoman Jan Perry's priorities for her second four-year term in office include greater access to basic city services, expansion of after-school programs for kids, increasing green space, and fostering economic growth in all parts of the district. She continues to work with the community to bring millions of dollars in capital improvements to parks and recreation centers, to increase public safety, and to achieve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gail Goldberg, Director of Planning, City of Los Angeles, 3-21-07 Los Angeles, urban planning, sustainability, transportation infrastructure. Gail Goldberg is responsible for organizing and directing the policies and planning activities of the City's Planning Department. Those activities include the development, maintenance and implementation of all elements of the City's General Plan as well as a range of other special zoning plans. worked for 17 years in the Planning Department of the City of San Diego, the last five years serving as Planning Director. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Murphy, ULI Senior Resident Fellow and former Mayor of Pittsburgh, PA, 3-21-07 Urban Marketplace 2007, Los Angeles, revitalization, urban development. Tom Murphy is an Urban Land Institute Senior Resident Fellow and former Mayor of Pittsburgh, PA. Mr. Murphy served three terms as the mayor of Pittsburgh, from January 1994 through December 2005. He initiated a public-private partnership strategy that leveraged more than 4.5 billion dollars in economic development in Pittsburgh, and he oversaw the development of more than 25 miles of new riverfront trails and urban gree ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Cody, Principal, Gerding Edlen Development and The South Group, 3-21-07 Urban Marketplace 2007, mixed-use urban development, downtown Los Angeles. Tom Cody is Principal with Gerding Edlen Development, responsible for California real estate development. Tom and Gerding Edlen specialize in large scale, mixed-use, urban development and are leaders in environmentally responsible development. They have completed approximately 4 billion dollars and have another 3 billion currently in development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography. Whitney Museum of American Art, 3-9-07 Gordon Matta-Clark, Whitney Museum of American Art, Elisabeth Sussman, art history. Elisabeth Sussman is curator of the Gordon Matta-Clark exhibition - 'You Are the Measure' at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She will be co-curating an upcoming exhibition on the work of William Eggleston. For the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ms. Sussman also organized, with Sandra Phillips, a retrospective of the work of Diane Arbus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jackie Keller, Founding Director of NutriFit, and Author of Body After Baby, 3-16-07 Nutrition for children, diabetes, obesity, NutriFit. Jackie Keller is dedicated to a healthier body and mind, and is a healthy lifestyle coach, nutrition educator, and culinary expert. She has appeared as a nutritional expert and health coach on the Today Show, Discovery Health, History Channel, and Access Hollywood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ethan van Thillo, Founder and Executive Director of the San Diego Latino Film Festival, 3-16-07 San Diego Latino Film Festival, documentary production, film. The 2007 San Diego Latino Film Festival is presenting more than 185 films from Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Spain and the U.S. Highlights include workshops on On-line Filming, Indy Film Promotion, Documentary Production, and a Retrospective of Chilean Films. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Cook, Artist, 3-16-07 Landscape painting, industrial cityscapes, James Cook. James Cook. James Cook is a painter who is in love with painting, with the feel of paint, its smell, its application, its color, and its movement on the canvas. He paints quickly creating richly colored and exciting surfaces. Indeed, his bravura use of paint is akin to the Abstract Expressionists. Unlike them, however, he provides the viewer with a recognizable reality, ordered by his own personal vision and controlled by his technical ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography. Whitney Museum of American Art, 3-9-07 Gordon Matta-Clark, Whitney Museum of American Art, Elisabeth Sussman, art history. Elisabeth Sussman is curator of the Gordon Matta-Clark exhibition - 'You Are the Measure' at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She will be co-curating an upcoming exhibition on the work of William Eggleston. For the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ms. Sussman also organized, with Sandra Phillips, a retrospective of the work of Diane Arbus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Miller, Artist, 3-9-07 Industrial artist, collage, photography, language. Greg Miller has been labeled by critics as a 'post pop industrial artist'. Miller, a child of the fifties and sixties, is very much a romantic, with a strong yearning for the simple beauty of yesteryear America. Miller paints billboards, motels and old Hollywood haunts, building his surfaces with a subtle yet very physical process, starting with collage, then layering paint, airbrush and finishing off the surface with resin. The artist view ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Menier, Arts and Humanities Producer, UCSD-TV, 3-9-07 UCSD-TV, documentary, film, arts education. John Menier has contributed to the production of over 500 hours of original programming, in collaboration with campus and community partners such as San Diego Opera, the Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, UCSD Theatre and Dance, and the La Jolla Music Society. His work has been honored by numerous regional and national awards, including the Emmy, Aurora and Telly awards for excellence in broadcasting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Miller, Artist, 3-9-07 Industrial artist, collage, photography, language. Greg Miller has been labeled by critics as a 'post pop industrial artist'. Miller, a child of the fifties and sixties, is very much a romantic, with a strong yearning for the simple beauty of yesteryear America. Miller paints billboards, motels and old Hollywood haunts, building his surfaces with a subtle yet very physical process, starting with collage, then layering paint, airbrush and finishing off the surface with resin. The artist view ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Menier, Arts and Humanities Producer, UCSD-TV, 3-9-07 UCSD-TV, documentary, film, arts education. John Menier has contributed to the production of over 500 hours of original programming, in collaboration with campus and community partners such as San Diego Opera, the Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, UCSD Theatre and Dance, and the La Jolla Music Society. His work has been honored by numerous regional and national awards, including the Emmy, Aurora and Telly awards for excellence in broadcasting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jay Dickman, Photographer and Olympus Visionary, 2-23-07 Photography, photojournalism, digital cameras, First Light Workshops. In the past 10 years, Jay Dickman has had over 20 assignments for 'National Geographic', and has worked on most of the 'Day in the Life' series, including America, China, Italy, and Africa. Jay's work appeared in 'Passage to Vietnam' and was highlighted on the interactive CD. Jay has won a Pulitzer Prize, World Press 'Golden Eye', Sigma Delta Chi 'Distinguished Service in Journalism', and many other national awards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amy Rogers, Director, Musical Theatre Program, Pace University, 2-23-07 Musical theater, Pace University, performing arts. Amy Rogers created and developed the BFA Musical Theatre degree program at Pace University, the second of its kind in New York City. Amy's professional directing credits include 'Flora The Red Menace', 'The Music Man', and 'Guys and Dolls'. Productions at Pace University include 'Pippin', 'Into The Woods', and 'Funny Girl'. Amy has taught master classes at numerous universities, summer programs and is an audition and repertoire coach in Ne ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jay Dickman, Photographer and Olympus Visionary, 2-23-07 Photography, photojournalism, digital cameras, First Light Workshops. In the past 10 years, Jay Dickman has had over 20 assignments for 'National Geographic', and has worked on most of the 'Day in the Life' series, including America, China, Italy, and Africa. Jay's work appeared in 'Passage to Vietnam' and was highlighted on the interactive CD. Jay has won a Pulitzer Prize, World Press 'Golden Eye', Sigma Delta Chi 'Distinguished Service in Journalism', and many other national awards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amy Rogers, Director, Musical Theatre Program, Pace University, 2-23-07 Musical theater, Pace University, performing arts. Amy Rogers created and developed the BFA Musical Theatre degree program at Pace University, the second of its kind in New York City. Amy's professional directing credits include 'Flora The Red Menace', 'The Music Man', and 'Guys and Dolls'. Productions at Pace University include 'Pippin', 'Into The Woods', and 'Funny Girl'. Amy has taught master classes at numerous universities, summer programs and is an audition and repertoire coach in Ne ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beatriz Colomina, Professor of Architecture, and Founding Director, Program in Media and Modernity, Princeton University, 2-23-07 Architecture, design, Clip-Stamp-Fold. Beatriz Colomina is the author of 'Domesticity at War' and 'Privacy and Publicity - Modern Architecture as Mass Media', both published by MIT Press, and the editor of 'Architectureproduction', 'Sexuality and Space', and 'Cold War Hot Houses - Inventing Postwar Culture from Cockpit to Playboy'. Beatriz is the organizer of the exhibition 'Clip-Stamp-Fold - The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines' at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New Yor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beatriz Colomina, Professor of Architecture, and Founding Director, Program in Media and Modernity, Princeton University, 2-23-07 Architecture, design, Clip-Stamp-Fold. Beatriz Colomina is the author of 'Domesticity at War' and 'Privacy and Publicity - Modern Architecture as Mass Media', both published by MIT Press, and the editor of 'Architectureproduction', 'Sexuality and Space', and 'Cold War Hot Houses - Inventing Postwar Culture from Cockpit to Playboy'. Beatriz is the organizer of the exhibition 'Clip-Stamp-Fold - The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines' at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New Yor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stanley Nelson, Emmy Award-Winning Filmmaker, MacArthur Fellow, and Executive Producer, Firelight Media, 2-16-07 Firelight Media, documentary filmmaking, 'Jonestown', 'Murder of Emmett Till'. Stanley Nelson is acknowledged as one of the premier documentary filmmakers working today. He is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking historical documentaries, films that illuminate critical but overlooked history. His 2003 film, 'The Murder of Emmett Till', was broadcast nationally on PBS's 'American Experience' to rave reviews, and Mr. Nelson went on to win the Primetime Emmy for Best Directing, nonfiction ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art Greco, Producer, and Ned Davies, Co-Producer, RED DOT, 2-16-07 RED DOT Art Fair, fine art, art collecting. RED DOT is a new, vetted, hotel-based art fair in New York where approximately 50 galleries will show and sell works to the public on three adjacent floors of the elegant Park South Hotel. RED DOT will run from Friday, February 23 through Monday, February 26. Galleries participating in RED DOT include an important representation of young West Coast dealers, including DEN Contemporary, Patricia Faure, and Taylor de Cordoba from Los Angeles, and And ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hassan Christopher, Artistic Director, Company of Strangers, and Monica Gillette, Filmmaker and Professional Dancer, 2-16-07 Company of Strangers, 'Knock Knock', dance, film. Hassan Christopher's career in the performing arts has spanned nearly 15 years. Using an experimental approach, he draws from classical, modern and contemporary urban dance forms to realize his vision of 'Post-Hip Hop kinetic storytelling'. His worldwide travels have deeply influenced his belief in the transformative power of dance and theater. Monica Gillette is an experienced filmmaker and professional dancer. She grew up training as a bal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stanley Nelson, Emmy Award-Winning Filmmaker, MacArthur Fellow, and Executive Producer, Firelight Media, 2-16-07 Firelight Media, documentary filmmaking, 'Jonestown', 'Murder of Emmett Till'. Stanley Nelson is acknowledged as one of the premier documentary filmmakers working today. He is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking historical documentaries, films that illuminate critical but overlooked history. His 2003 film, 'The Murder of Emmett Till', was broadcast nationally on PBS's 'American Experience' to rave reviews, and Mr. Nelson went on to win the Primetime Emmy for Best Directing, nonfiction ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art Greco, Producer, and Ned Davies, Co-Producer, RED DOT, 2-16-07 RED DOT Art Fair, fine art, art collecting. RED DOT is a new, vetted, hotel-based art fair in New York where approximately 50 galleries will show and sell works to the public on three adjacent floors of the elegant Park South Hotel. RED DOT will run from Friday, February 23 through Monday, February 26. Galleries participating in RED DOT include an important representation of young West Coast dealers, including DEN Contemporary, Patricia Faure, and Taylor de Cordoba from Los Angeles, and And ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hassan Christopher, Artistic Director, Company of Strangers, and Monica Gillette, Filmmaker and Professional Dancer, 2-16-07 Company of Strangers, 'Knock Knock', dance, film. Hassan Christopher's career in the performing arts has spanned nearly 15 years. Using an experimental approach, he draws from classical, modern and contemporary urban dance forms to realize his vision of 'Post-Hip Hop kinetic storytelling'. His worldwide travels have deeply influenced his belief in the transformative power of dance and theater. Monica Gillette is an experienced filmmaker and professional dancer. She grew up training as a bal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hope McMath, Director of Education, The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, 2-9-07 The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Temples and Tombs, Women of Vision. The Cummer Museum is presenting Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from The British Museum, on view until March 18, 2007. Hope McMath has been responsible for creating a nationally recognized art festival for over 2000 students with profound disabilities and Women of Vision, a program bringing art making and literacy to a group of women who are blind and visually impaired. Hope was named Museum Educator of t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith, Performers and Choreographers, 2-9-07 casebolt and smith, choreography, dance, performance art. While enjoying two distinctly individual careers, Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith met and discovered a shared desire to make dances that confront conventional notions of dance making. They formed 'casebolt and smith' in the spring of 2005. Their focus on collaboration has enabled them to collide two diverse histories, exposing layers of social, cultural, gendered, sexual, and educational differences. 'casebolt and smith' have presented w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Victoria Robertson, Singer and Composer, 2-9-07 Victoria Robertson, Say New You, composer. Victoria Robertson's first full album of original compositions, 'On My Mind', was nominated for 'Best New Artist' by the San Diego Music Awards in 2005, and 'Best Record of the Year' by the LA Music Awards in 2006. She co-produced her most recent album of energetic original music, 'Say New You', her edgiest album to date. A singer-composer with a unique vision, Victoria is comfortable stretching musical boundaries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hope McMath, Director of Education, The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, 2-9-07 The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Temples and Tombs, Women of Vision. The Cummer Museum is presenting Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from The British Museum, on view until March 18, 2007. Hope McMath has been responsible for creating a nationally recognized art festival for over 2000 students with profound disabilities and Women of Vision, a program bringing art making and literacy to a group of women who are blind and visually impaired. Hope was named Museum Educator of t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith, Performers and Choreographers, 2-9-07 casebolt and smith, choreography, dance, performance art. While enjoying two distinctly individual careers, Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith met and discovered a shared desire to make dances that confront conventional notions of dance making. They formed 'casebolt and smith' in the spring of 2005. Their focus on collaboration has enabled them to collide two diverse histories, exposing layers of social, cultural, gendered, sexual, and educational differences. 'casebolt and smith' have presented w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Victoria Robertson, Singer and Composer, 2-9-07 Victoria Robertson, Say New You, composer. Victoria Robertson's first full album of original compositions, 'On My Mind', was nominated for 'Best New Artist' by the San Diego Music Awards in 2005, and 'Best Record of the Year' by the LA Music Awards in 2006. She co-produced her most recent album of energetic original music, 'Say New You', her edgiest album to date. A singer-composer with a unique vision, Victoria is comfortable stretching musical boundaries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Weiss, Artistic Director, Carolina Ballet, 2-2-07 Carolina Ballet, Monet Impressions, dance, choreography. After only eight seasons, Carolina Ballet is being recognized as one of the top ten ballet companies in the U.S. 'Monet Impressions' is an evening of new work created by Artistic Director Robert Weiss and Principal Guest Choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett, and coinciding with the North Carolina Museum of Art's exhibition. Mr. Weiss is a former principal dancer with New York City Ballet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Malashock, Artistic Director, Malashock Dance, 2-2-07 Malashock Dance, Dance Place San Diego, dance film. John Malashock is recognized as one of California's most productive choreographers over the last 20 years. He has created nearly 60 original choreographic works for Malashock Dance, which he founded in 1988 after a distinguished performing career with Twyla Tharp Dance in New York. Most recently, he founded The Malashock Dance School at Dance Place San Diego at NTC Promenade, which he was instrumental in developing for the San Diego dance ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony Eprile, Author and Educator, 2-2-07 The Persistence of Memory, The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Tony Eprile has had two books on the New York Times Notable Books List. He grew up in South Africa and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. He is Visiting Writer at The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop for the year 2006-07. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Weiss, Artistic Director, Carolina Ballet, 2-2-07 Carolina Ballet, Monet Impressions, dance, choreography. After only eight seasons, Carolina Ballet is being recognized as one of the top ten ballet companies in the U.S. 'Monet Impressions' is an evening of new work created by Artistic Director Robert Weiss and Principal Guest Choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett, and coinciding with the North Carolina Museum of Art's exhibition. Mr. Weiss is a former principal dancer with New York City Ballet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Malashock, Artistic Director, Malashock Dance, 2-2-07 Malashock Dance, Dance Place San Diego, dance film. John Malashock is recognized as one of California's most productive choreographers over the last 20 years. He has created nearly 60 original choreographic works for Malashock Dance, which he founded in 1988 after a distinguished performing career with Twyla Tharp Dance in New York. Most recently, he founded The Malashock Dance School at Dance Place San Diego at NTC Promenade, which he was instrumental in developing for the San Diego dance ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony Eprile, Author and Educator, 2-2-07 The Persistence of Memory, The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Tony Eprile has had two books on the New York Times Notable Books List. He grew up in South Africa and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. He is Visiting Writer at The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop for the year 2006-07. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brooke Hodge, Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1-26-07 Brooke Hodge, fashion, architecture, fine art. Brooke Hodge's most recent project is 'Skin and Bones - Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture', a major thematic exhibition that examines the intersections and overlaps between fashion and architecture. Ms. Hodge is also one of four curators of the National Design Triennial, which is currently on view at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, in New York. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mira Cook, Dancer and Choreographer, 1-26-07 Mira Cook, dance, choreography. Choreography by Mira Cook includes 'Two Fold', performed by City Ballet of San Diego in 2006, 'Radial', performed in 2005, and 'Midnight in a Perfect World', performed by the Austin Dance Ensemble in 2001. She is in her fifth season as a company dancer with City Ballet of San Diego. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judith Friedel, Chair, San Diego Jewish Film Festival, 1-26-07 San Diego Jewish Film Festival, film, documentary. The 17th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival, sponsored by the Mizel Family Foundation, and presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, showcases nearly 50 of the best contemporary Jewish-themed films from around the world celebrating life, human rights, and freedom of expression. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brooke Hodge, Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1-26-07 Brooke Hodge, fashion, architecture, fine art. Brooke Hodge's most recent project is 'Skin and Bones - Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture', a major thematic exhibition that examines the intersections and overlaps between fashion and architecture. Ms. Hodge is also one of four curators of the National Design Triennial, which is currently on view at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, in New York. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mira Cook, Dancer and Choreographer, 1-26-07 Mira Cook, dance, choreography. Choreography by Mira Cook includes 'Two Fold', performed by City Ballet of San Diego in 2006, 'Radial', performed in 2005, and 'Midnight in a Perfect World', performed by the Austin Dance Ensemble in 2001. She is in her fifth season as a company dancer with City Ballet of San Diego. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kim Martindale, Producer, Los Angeles Art Show, 1-19-07 Los Angeles Art Show, art collecting, contemporary art. The acclaimed Los Angeles Art Show, considered one of the most prestigious annual expositions in the United States, is returning for its 12th year, January 24-28, 2007. Presented by the Fine Art Dealers Association, the Los Angeles Art Show is a rare opportunity for both seasoned collectors and the general public to view and purchase works representing 'Five Centuries of Fine Art'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jori Finkel, Art Critic and Journalist, 1-19-07 Jori Finkel, art collecting, Collector's Boot Camp. Jori Finkel is an art critic and journalist based in Los Angeles, where she regularly covers contemporary art for The New York Times. Ms. Finkel lectures widely on topics in the art market, contemporary art, and the history of photography. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kim Martindale, Producer, Los Angeles Art Show, 1-19-07 Los Angeles Art Show, art collecting, contemporary art. The acclaimed Los Angeles Art Show, considered one of the most prestigious annual expositions in the United States, is returning for its 12th year, January 24-28, 2007. Presented by the Fine Art Dealers Association, the Los Angeles Art Show is a rare opportunity for both seasoned collectors and the general public to view and purchase works representing 'Five Centuries of Fine Art'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jori Finkel, Art Critic and Journalist, 1-19-07 Jori Finkel, art collecting, Collector's Boot Camp. Jori Finkel is an art critic and journalist based in Los Angeles, where she regularly covers contemporary art for The New York Times. Ms. Finkel lectures widely on topics in the art market, contemporary art, and the history of photography. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website George Billis, Founder and Owner, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA, 1-12-07 George Billis Gallery, Chelsea, art collecting. When George Billis first opened his gallery in March 1997, he was one of a small sprinkling of galleries on what was then a culturally desolate stretch of West 26th Street in New York City. As only the twelfth gallery to open in Chelsea, a neighborhood that currently is host to over 300 galleries, he was successful in establishing himself while the Chelsea art scene continued to grow as he predicted. In September 2004, a Los Angeles branch was ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kari Nevil, President, JuneBug Films, 1-12-07 JuneBug Films, documentary filmmaking, feature films. JuneBug Films' diverse array of award-winning short films and feature films includes At Risk, which Kari Nevil produced, Planting Melvin, and Car Stories, which she wrote, directed and produced. Ms. Nevil is currently writing the screenplay for JuneBug's upcoming feature film, Jonathan's Wedding. Car Stories, JuneBug's first foray into documentary films, made its debut at Cinequest, and won the Audience Award at the 2006 California Indep ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website George Billis, Founder and Owner, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA, 1-12-07 George Billis Gallery, Chelsea, art collecting. When George Billis first opened his gallery in March 1997, he was one of a small sprinkling of galleries on what was then a culturally desolate stretch of West 26th Street in New York City. As only the twelfth gallery to open in Chelsea, a neighborhood that currently is host to over 300 galleries, he was successful in establishing himself while the Chelsea art scene continued to grow as he predicted. In September 2004, a Los Angeles branch was ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kari Nevil, President, JuneBug Films, 1-12-07 JuneBug Films, documentary filmmaking, feature films. JuneBug Films' diverse array of award-winning short films and feature films includes At Risk, which Kari Nevil produced, Planting Melvin, and Car Stories, which she wrote, directed and produced. Ms. Nevil is currently writing the screenplay for JuneBug's upcoming feature film, Jonathan's Wedding. Car Stories, JuneBug's first foray into documentary films, made its debut at Cinequest, and won the Audience Award at the 2006 California Indep ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steven J. Vasilion, Principal, Vasilion Architects, 1-12-07 Vasilion Architects, architecture, design, community service. Vasilion Architects specializes in the design of medical facilities and custom residences. Mr. Vasilion also mentors high school students interested in a career in architecture. Each year he works with six students. He creates a hypothetical project, using a real site and owner to interact with the students. Through their research, instruction, design and presentations, students receive an inside look at an architectural practice ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website B.J. Adler, Executive Director, Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, and Carina Del Valle Schorski, Portfolio Gold Award Winner, Scholastic Writing Awards of 2005, 12-15-06 Scholastic Writing Awards, Alliance for Young Artists and Writers. The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers provides resources nationwide to encourage, connect and empower creative youth - through event and online networking, workshops, scholarships and career exploration with alumni role models and industry mentors. B.J. Adler has served as a consultant to a number of arts education organizations, including the 92nd Street Y, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the New York Philhar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leo Eylar, Music Director and Conductor, California Youth Symphony, 12-15-06 California Youth Symphony, classical music, composers. Founded in 1952, the California Youth Symphony has taught thousands of students and includes two full symphony orchestras - the CYS Orchestra and the CYS Associate Orchestra, as well as a percussion ensemble and six additional groups for younger musicians. Leo Eylar is a composer of international stature. His compositions, which blend a rich, coloristic neo-romanticism with elements of jazz and driving Eastern European rhythmic vitality ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leo Eylar, Music Director and Conductor, California Youth Symphony, 12-15-06 California Youth Symphony, classical music, composers. Founded in 1952, the California Youth Symphony has taught thousands of students and includes two full symphony orchestras - the CYS Orchestra and the CYS Associate Orchestra, as well as a percussion ensemble and six additional groups for younger musicians. Leo Eylar is a composer of international stature. His compositions, which blend a rich, coloristic neo-romanticism with elements of jazz and driving Eastern European rhythmic vitality ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Franklin Kelly, Senior Curator of American and British Painting, National Gallery of Art, and Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, 12-8-06 National Gallery of Art, John Constable, art history, landscape painting. Dr. Franklin Kelly is the curator of Constable's Great Landscapes - The Six-Foot Paintings, on view at the National Gallery of Art through December 31st, 2006. Dr. Kelly's concentration is on 19th- and early 20th-century American painting. His publications include 'Frederic Edwin Church and the National Landscape', 'Thomas Cole's Paintings of Eden', and 'Nineteenth-Century American Paintings in the National Gallery of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. William Henry Banchs, President, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, 12-8-06 National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, arts education. The NFAA encourages artistic growth and career development through workshops, public performances and exhibitions, internships, underwriting of creative projects and residency fellowships. The foundation awards high school seniors more than 500,000 dollars in cash prizes each year for achievement in the performing, literary and visual arts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julie Shigekuni, Editor, Blue Mesa Review, and Associate Professor of English, University of New Mexico, 12-8-06 Blue Mesa Review, creative writing, University of New Mexico. The Blue Mesa Review is committed to publishing regional writers alongside nationally recognized artists and exceptionally talented newcomers. Distinguished by the multi-ethnic and diverse cultural heritage of its contributors, Blue Mesa Review strives to combine personal vision and aesthetics with a high degree of intellectual curiosity. Julie Shigekuni Julie Shigekuni has won several awards for her writing, including the PEN Jo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Franklin Kelly, Senior Curator of American and British Painting, National Gallery of Art, and Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, 12-8-06 National Gallery of Art, John Constable, art history, landscape painting. Dr. Franklin Kelly is the curator of Constable's Great Landscapes - The Six-Foot Paintings, on view at the National Gallery of Art through December 31st, 2006. Dr. Kelly's concentration is on 19th- and early 20th-century American painting. His publications include 'Frederic Edwin Church and the National Landscape', 'Thomas Cole's Paintings of Eden', and 'Nineteenth-Century American Paintings in the National Gallery of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. William Henry Banchs, President, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, 12-8-06 National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, arts education. The NFAA encourages artistic growth and career development through workshops, public performances and exhibitions, internships, underwriting of creative projects and residency fellowships. The foundation awards high school seniors more than 500,000 dollars in cash prizes each year for achievement in the performing, literary and visual arts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julie Shigekuni, Editor, Blue Mesa Review, and Associate Professor of English, University of New Mexico, 12-8-06 Blue Mesa Review, creative writing, University of New Mexico. The Blue Mesa Review is committed to publishing regional writers alongside nationally recognized artists and exceptionally talented newcomers. Distinguished by the multi-ethnic and diverse cultural heritage of its contributors, Blue Mesa Review strives to combine personal vision and aesthetics with a high degree of intellectual curiosity. Julie Shigekuni Julie Shigekuni has won several awards for her writing, including the PEN Jo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andreas Manolikakis, Chair, Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University, and member of the Acting and Directing Faculty; and Dr. Bill Coco, Director, Theater History Department, and member of the Theater History and History of Directing Faculty, 12-1-06 Actors Studio MFA Program, Pace University, acting, writing, directing. In the Actors Studio MFA Program, every student, actor, director, and writer, is undergoing intensive - and intense - training in his or her own discipline, led by one of the most distinguished acting, directing and writing faculties ever assembled. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jenny Lyn Bader, Playwright and Author, 12-1-06 Playwriting, Manhattan Casanova, He Meant, She Meant. Jenny Lyn Bader's plays include 'Manhattan Casanova' - which just received its world premiere at New York's Hudson Stage. She co-authored the book 'He Meant, She Meant - The Definitive Male-Female Dictionary - What Men Think They're Saying, What Women Really Mean', published by Warner. In December, her one-act cycle 'Out of Mind - 7 Short Plays with Some of the People Missing' will be produced at NYU - Strasberg. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andreas Manolikakis, Chair, Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University, and member of the Acting and Directing Faculty; and Dr. Bill Coco, Director, Theater History Department, and member of the Theater History and History of Directing Faculty, 12-1-06 Actors Studio MFA Program, Pace University, acting, writing, directing. In the Actors Studio MFA Program, every student, actor, director, and writer, is undergoing intensive - and intense - training in his or her own discipline, led by one of the most distinguished acting, directing and writing faculties ever assembled. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jenny Lyn Bader, Playwright and Author, 12-1-06 Playwriting, Manhattan Casanova, He Meant, She Meant. Jenny Lyn Bader's plays include 'Manhattan Casanova' - which just received its world premiere at New York's Hudson Stage. She co-authored the book 'He Meant, She Meant - The Definitive Male-Female Dictionary - What Men Think They're Saying, What Women Really Mean', published by Warner. In December, her one-act cycle 'Out of Mind - 7 Short Plays with Some of the People Missing' will be produced at NYU - Strasberg. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Senior Curator, The Phillips Collection, 11-17-06 The Phillips Collection, The Société Anonyme, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Calder. Dr. Elizabeth Hutton Turner is a specialist in early twentieth century modern art. At The Phillips, Dr. Turner has directed a series of traveling exhibitions derived from the permanent collection, including Two Lives - Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, and Jacob Lawrence - The Migration Series. Dr. Turner also has curated and directed significant large loan exhibitions, including Americans in Paris - Man Ray, Ge ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wesley Jessup, Executive Director, Pasadena Museum of California Art, 11-17-06 Pasadena Museum of California Art, Liquid Los Angeles, California Design Biennial. Wesley Jessup has organized several exhibitions at PMCA, including Liquid Los Angeles - Currents in Contemporary Watercolor and the California Design Biennial in 2003 and 2005. Previously, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Mr. Jessup helped organize and travel Robert Rauschenberg - A Retrospective, and Picasso and the War Years - 1937-1945. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rey Bustos, Artist and Educator, 11-17-06 Artistic anatomist, figure drawing, arts education. Rey Bustos is one of the leading artistic anatomists in the U.S. today. A former freelance illustrator, he is now almost solely dedicated to art education at every level. Mr. Bustos has developed a type of painting he calls SURREAL-REALISM, whereby he uses collage and paint to create a surreal new environment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Senior Curator, The Phillips Collection, 11-17-06 The Phillips Collection, The Société Anonyme, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Calder. Dr. Elizabeth Hutton Turner is a specialist in early twentieth century modern art. At The Phillips, Dr. Turner has directed a series of traveling exhibitions derived from the permanent collection, including Two Lives - Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, and Jacob Lawrence - The Migration Series. Dr. Turner also has curated and directed significant large loan exhibitions, including Americans in Paris - Man Ray, Ge ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wesley Jessup, Executive Director, Pasadena Museum of California Art, 11-17-06 Pasadena Museum of California Art, Liquid Los Angeles, California Design Biennial. Wesley Jessup has organized several exhibitions at PMCA, including Liquid Los Angeles - Currents in Contemporary Watercolor and the California Design Biennial in 2003 and 2005. Previously, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Mr. Jessup helped organize and travel Robert Rauschenberg - A Retrospective, and Picasso and the War Years - 1937-1945. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rey Bustos, Artist and Educator, 11-17-06 Artistic anatomist, figure drawing, arts education. Rey Bustos is one of the leading artistic anatomists in the U.S. today. A former freelance illustrator, he is now almost solely dedicated to art education at every level. Mr. Bustos has developed a type of painting he calls SURREAL-REALISM, whereby he uses collage and paint to create a surreal new environment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kimberli Meyer, Director, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, 11-10-06 MAK Center, architecture, art, Schindler House. The MAK Center's mission involves creating and supporting programming that explores the dynamic intersections of art, architecture, and culture. The MAK Center produces a year-round schedule of exhibitions, lectures, concerts, film screenings, and performances, and hosts an international residency program for visiting artists and architects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andreas Manolikakis, Chair, Acting and Directing, and Edward Allan Baker, Playwriting, Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University, 11-10-06 Actors Studio MFA Program, Pace University, acting, writing, directing. In the Actors Studio MFA Program, every student, actor, director, and writer, is undergoing intensive - and intense - training in his or her own discipline, led by one of the most distinguished acting, directing and writing faculties ever assembled. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jocelyn Kress, Art Historian and International Lecturer, 11-10-06 Samuel H. Kress Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, art history, old masters. Jocelyn Kress has achieved international recognition for her varied and significant contributions to the world of Art. Her informational and engaging lectures reflect an extension of her lifelong interest in preserving the legacy of the Samuel H. Kress Collection, which many consider the most extensive and encyclopedic art collection of old masters ever amassed by an American. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kimberli Meyer, Director, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, 11-10-06 MAK Center, architecture, art, Schindler House. The MAK Center's mission involves creating and supporting programming that explores the dynamic intersections of art, architecture, and culture. The MAK Center produces a year-round schedule of exhibitions, lectures, concerts, film screenings, and performances, and hosts an international residency program for visiting artists and architects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andreas Manolikakis, Chair, Acting and Directing, and Edward Allan Baker, Playwriting, Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University, 11-10-06 Actors Studio MFA Program, Pace University, acting, writing, directing. In the Actors Studio MFA Program, every student, actor, director, and writer, is undergoing intensive - and intense - training in his or her own discipline, led by one of the most distinguished acting, directing and writing faculties ever assembled. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jocelyn Kress, Art Historian and International Lecturer, 11-10-06 Samuel H. Kress Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, art history, old masters. Jocelyn Kress has achieved international recognition for her varied and significant contributions to the world of Art. Her informational and engaging lectures reflect an extension of her lifelong interest in preserving the legacy of the Samuel H. Kress Collection, which many consider the most extensive and encyclopedic art collection of old masters ever amassed by an American. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Director and Chief Curator, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, 11-3-06 Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Latin American contemporary art, Art Basel Miami Beach. Cecilia Fajardo-Hill is a British-Venezuelan art historian and curator of contemporary art. The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Grants and Commissions Programs support emerging and mid-career artists from Latin America, and offer support to other cultural endeavors including Miami Art Central. Ms. Fajardo-Hill has curated and organized numerous exhibitions, and written about the work of contemporary ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Asuka Hisa, Education Director, Santa Monica Museum of Art, 11-3-06 Santa Monica Museum of Art, arts education, Wall Works. Asuka Hisa is the creator of such groundbreaking programs as 'Wall Works', where acclaimed mid-career artists create large-scale public art projects with K-12 students. She is a board member of the Museum Educators of Southern California, member of ART TABLE, and sits on the City of Santa Monica Arts Education Commission. In 2003, Ms. Hisa was awarded the distinction of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by France's Ministry of Culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Korda, Concert Violinist, 11-3-06 Chamber music, film scores, Los Angeles Philharmonic. Robert Korda was a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra for 20 years playing under directors Sir George Solti, Zubin Mehta, and Carlo Maria Giulini. Mr. Korda has performed for six U.S. Presidents and other world leaders. Currently, he is a soloist for concerts, films, television, and chamber music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Director and Chief Curator, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, 11-3-06 Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Latin American contemporary art, Art Basel Miami Beach. Cecilia Fajardo-Hill is a British-Venezuelan art historian and curator of contemporary art. The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Grants and Commissions Programs support emerging and mid-career artists from Latin America, and offer support to other cultural endeavors including Miami Art Central. Ms. Fajardo-Hill has curated and organized numerous exhibitions, and written about the work of contemporary ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Asuka Hisa, Education Director, Santa Monica Museum of Art, 11-3-06 Santa Monica Museum of Art, arts education, Wall Works. Asuka Hisa is the creator of such groundbreaking programs as 'Wall Works', where acclaimed mid-career artists create large-scale public art projects with K-12 students. She is a board member of the Museum Educators of Southern California, member of ART TABLE, and sits on the City of Santa Monica Arts Education Commission. In 2003, Ms. Hisa was awarded the distinction of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by France's Ministry of Culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Korda, Concert Violinist, 11-3-06 Chamber music, film scores, Los Angeles Philharmonic. Robert Korda was a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra for 20 years playing under directors Sir George Solti, Zubin Mehta, and Carlo Maria Giulini. Mr. Korda has performed for six U.S. Presidents and other world leaders. Currently, he is a soloist for concerts, films, television, and chamber music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maki Kawakita, Photographer and Olympus Visionary, 10-27-06 Maki Kawakita, photography, fashion, digital multimedia, Olympus. Maki Kawakita covers as diverse a range of photography as the cultures Japanese, American, and European - that have most influenced her. Fashion, editorial, advertising, portraiture, fine art and dance all provide areas for her expression and for her professional work, which has also included invitations as guest lecturer at art colleges in Philadelphia, New York City, and Tokyo. Ms. Kawakita was selected in 2006 by Commercia ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Professor Christopher Merrill, Director, International Writing Program, The University of Iowa, 10-27-06 International Writing Program, University of Iowa, poetry, film. Professor Christopher Merrill has published four collections of poetry, including 'Watch Fire', for which he received the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; several edited volumes, including 'The Forgotten Language: Contemporary Poets and Nature', and four books of nonfiction, including 'The Old Bridge: The Third Balkan War and the Age of the Refugee', and 'Things of the Hidden God: Journ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maki Kawakita, Photographer and Olympus Visionary, 10-27-06 Maki Kawakita, photography, fashion, digital multimedia, Olympus. Maki Kawakita covers as diverse a range of photography as the cultures Japanese, American, and European - that have most influenced her. Fashion, editorial, advertising, portraiture, fine art and dance all provide areas for her expression and for her professional work, which has also included invitations as guest lecturer at art colleges in Philadelphia, New York City, and Tokyo. Ms. Kawakita was selected in 2006 by Commercia ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anne L. Strauss, Associate Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, 10-27-06 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, art history, Sean Scully, Cai Guo-Qiang. Anne Strauss organized The Metropolitan Museum of Art's presentation of 'Sean Scully: Wall of Light'. Also at the Metropolitan, she curated the recent exhibitions 'Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates, Central Park, New York' (2004) and 'Andy Goldsworthy on the Roof' (2004), and co-curated 'Cai Guo-Qiang on the Roof: Transparent Monument' (2006), among other exhibitions Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Professor Christopher Merrill, Director, International Writing Program, The University of Iowa, 10-27-06 International Writing Program, University of Iowa, poetry, film. Professor Christopher Merrill has published four collections of poetry, including 'Watch Fire', for which he received the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; several edited volumes, including 'The Forgotten Language: Contemporary Poets and Nature', and four books of nonfiction, including 'The Old Bridge: The Third Balkan War and the Age of the Refugee', and 'Things of the Hidden God: Journ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sean Scully, Artist - 'Sean Scully: Wall of Light' is on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 9-26-06 to 1-15-07, 10-20-06 Wall of Light, Metropolitan Museum of Art, history of painting. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently exhibiting 'Sean Scully: Wall of Light', the first U.S. museum presentation of Mr. Scully's 'Wall of Light' series. The exhibition began its national tour at The Phillips Collection, followed by showings at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Cincinnati Art Museum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Erdman, Partner, servo, and Design Faculty, UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, 10-20-06 servo, architecture, digital technology. David Erdman and each founding member of the research design collaborative servo blends the work of the practice with academic research. Mr. Erdman has coordinated the participation of his student's work in exhibitions internationally including the 'Florence Festival for Architecture in Video', the 'Gray, Green and Brown' competition at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the '2x8' exhibition at the A plus D museum in Los Angeles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Nalven, Founder, Digital Art Guild, 10-20-06 Digital art, photography, Photoshop, Multiple Universes. Joe Nalven founded Digital Art Guild in 2003. He is the co-author of 'Going Digital - The Practice and Vision of Digital Artists'. Recently, Mr. Naiven helped the San Diego Art Institute launch its first ever 'International Digital Fine Art Exhibition'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sean Scully, Artist - 'Sean Scully: Wall of Light' is on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 9-26-06 to 1-15-07, 10-20-06 Wall of Light, Metropolitan Museum of Art, history of painting. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently exhibiting 'Sean Scully: Wall of Light', the first U.S. museum presentation of Mr. Scully's 'Wall of Light' series. The exhibition began its national tour at The Phillips Collection, followed by showings at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Cincinnati Art Museum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Erdman, Partner, servo, and Design Faculty, UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, 10-20-06 servo, architecture, digital technology. David Erdman and each founding member of the research design collaborative servo blends the work of the practice with academic research. Mr. Erdman has coordinated the participation of his student's work in exhibitions internationally including the 'Florence Festival for Architecture in Video', the 'Gray, Green and Brown' competition at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the '2x8' exhibition at the A plus D museum in Los Angeles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Nalven, Founder, Digital Art Guild, 10-20-06 Digital art, photography, Photoshop, Multiple Universes. Joe Nalven founded Digital Art Guild in 2003. He is the co-author of 'Going Digital - The Practice and Vision of Digital Artists'. Recently, Mr. Naiven helped the San Diego Art Institute launch its first ever 'International Digital Fine Art Exhibition'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jerrilynn Dodds, Distinguished Professor of Art History and Theory, School of Architecture of the City College of the City University of New York, 10-13-06 Art history, architecture, filmmaking, Medieval Spain, New York Masjid. Professor Jerrilynn Dodds's work has centered on issues of artistic interchange, and how groups form their identities through art and architecture. She is known in addition as an author, curator and documentary filmmaker. Professor Dodds is the author of 'Architecture and Ideology of Early Medieval Spain', 'Al Andalus - The Arts of Islamic Spain', and 'New York Masjid. The Mosques of New York'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Larry and Debby Kline, Artists/Curators, 10-13-06 Art, performance art, Shmata Nouveau, Forty Acres. Larry and Debby Kline are artists who create untraditional artwork that addresses social concerns. Their unique approach to art has been awarded three grants from The Gunk Foundation, New York, and a grant from the Potrero Nuevo Fund, San Francisco. Their work has been featured in internationally distributed publications such as Orion, Utne, Public Art Review, Camerawork, and ArtPaper. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jerrilynn Dodds, Distinguished Professor of Art History and Theory, School of Architecture of the City College of the City University of New York, 10-13-06 Art history, architecture, filmmaking, Medieval Spain, New York Masjid. Professor Jerrilynn Dodds's work has centered on issues of artistic interchange, and how groups form their identities through art and architecture. She is known in addition as an author, curator and documentary filmmaker. Professor Dodds is the author of 'Architecture and Ideology of Early Medieval Spain', 'Al Andalus - The Arts of Islamic Spain', and 'New York Masjid. The Mosques of New York'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Larry and Debby Kline, Artists/Curators, 10-13-06 Art, performance art, Shmata Nouveau, Forty Acres. Larry and Debby Kline are artists who create untraditional artwork that addresses social concerns. Their unique approach to art has been awarded three grants from The Gunk Foundation, New York, and a grant from the Potrero Nuevo Fund, San Francisco. Their work has been featured in internationally distributed publications such as Orion, Utne, Public Art Review, Camerawork, and ArtPaper. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rebecca Bryant, Dancer-Choreographer, 10-6-06 Dance, choreography, performance art, improvisation. Rebecca Bryant collaborates with dancers, musicians, actors, and visual artists on dance pieces that combine movement, sound, text and visuals. She is a recipient of the Glorya Kaufman, Jean Irwin and Forti Family Awards, Artsbridge Scholarship, and a residency at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program. Her choreographic work was selected for the Gala Concert at the Southwest Region American College Dance Festival in 2000. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amanda Shore, President, Cambridge Art Gallery, 10-6-06 Landscape painting, Benjamin Williams Leader, Cambridge Art Gallery. Cambridge Art Gallery is unique in presenting works by both emerging artists and their stylistic predecessors. The gallery also holds an exceptional program of lectures and related events throughout the year inviting the most distinguished historians and curators from around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daniel Marshall, Artistic Director of LaDiego Dance Theater, 10-6-06 Dance, choreography, LaDiego Dance Theater. Daniel Marshall received the National Choreography Award in 2002 and was named 'One of the 25 Dancers to Watch' in 2001 in Dance Magazine. LaDiego Dance Theater is currently setting pieces for the November 2006 premier of Harlem Nutcracker 'Land of the Sweets'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rebecca Bryant, Dancer-Choreographer, 10-6-06 Dance, choreography, performance art, improvisation. Rebecca Bryant collaborates with dancers, musicians, actors, and visual artists on dance pieces that combine movement, sound, text and visuals. She is a recipient of the Glorya Kaufman, Jean Irwin and Forti Family Awards, Artsbridge Scholarship, and a residency at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program. Her choreographic work was selected for the Gala Concert at the Southwest Region American College Dance Festival in 2000. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amanda Shore, President, Cambridge Art Gallery, 10-6-06 Landscape painting, Benjamin Williams Leader, Cambridge Art Gallery. Cambridge Art Gallery is unique in presenting works by both emerging artists and their stylistic predecessors. The gallery also holds an exceptional program of lectures and related events throughout the year inviting the most distinguished historians and curators from around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daniel Marshall, Artistic Director of LaDiego Dance Theater, 10-6-06 Dance, choreography, LaDiego Dance Theater. Daniel Marshall received the National Choreography Award in 2002 and was named 'One of the 25 Dancers to Watch' in 2001 in Dance Magazine. LaDiego Dance Theater is currently setting pieces for the November 2006 premier of Harlem Nutcracker 'Land of the Sweets'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lynn Simonson, Founder of the Simonson Technique and Co-Founder of Dance New Amsterdam, 9-29-06 Dance, choreography, dance education, Simonson Technique. Lynn Simonson is a choreographer and was director of the Jazz Project and New Vision for Dance at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival for over 12 years. The Simonson Technique is a concert jazz dance form founded on anatomically based principles of body awareness and alignment. The Technique is currently taught in 19 countries worldwide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April Greiman, Artist and Designer, 9-29-06 Digital photography, graphic design. April Greiman pioneered digital design and became renowned for her unique experiments with the Apple Macintosh. Drive-by Shooting -- April Greiman Digital Photography is April Greiman's current exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lynn Simonson, Founder of the Simonson Technique and Co-Founder of Dance New Amsterdam, 9-29-06 Dance, choreography, dance education, Simonson Technique. Lynn Simonson is a choreographer and was director of the Jazz Project and New Vision for Dance at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival for over 12 years. The Simonson Technique is a concert jazz dance form founded on anatomically based principles of body awareness and alignment. The Technique is currently taught in 19 countries worldwide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April Greiman, Artist and Designer, 9-29-06 Digital photography, graphic design. April Greiman pioneered digital design and became renowned for her unique experiments with the Apple Macintosh. Drive-by Shooting -- April Greiman Digital Photography is April Greiman's current exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Jennifer Tonkovich, Associate Curator, Drawings and Prints, The Morgan Library and Museum, NYC, 9-22-06 Rembrandt etchings, Morgan Library and Museum, art history, Van Gogh. Dr. Jennifer Tonkovich is curator in charge of the upcoming exhibition at The Morgan, 'Fragonard and the French Tradition'. She is currently preparing an exhibition of Vincent van Gogh's letters for Fall 2007. Dr. Tonkovich is widely published in such journals as 'The Burlington Magazine' and 'Master Drawings'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colleene Fesko, Vice President, and Director of American and European Paintings and Prints, Skinner Inc., 9-22-06 Art auctions, contemporary art, Antiques Roadshow. Colleene Fesko is responsible for four major auctions per year, overseeing sales that include American and European paintings, prints, and sculpture from the 16th through 21st centuries. A familiar face on the PBS series 'Antiques Roadshow', Ms. Fesko has also been a featured guest on NPR's 'Talk of the Nation'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Jennifer Tonkovich, Associate Curator, Drawings and Prints, The Morgan Library and Museum, NYC, 9-22-06 Rembrandt etchings, Morgan Library and Museum, art history, Van Gogh. Dr. Jennifer Tonkovich is curator in charge of the upcoming exhibition at The Morgan, 'Fragonard and the French Tradition'. She is currently preparing an exhibition of Vincent van Gogh's letters for Fall 2007. Dr. Tonkovich is widely published in such journals as 'The Burlington Magazine' and 'Master Drawings'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colleene Fesko, Vice President, and Director of American and European Paintings and Prints, Skinner Inc., 9-22-06 Art auctions, contemporary art, Antiques Roadshow. Colleene Fesko is responsible for four major auctions per year, overseeing sales that include American and European paintings, prints, and sculpture from the 16th through 21st centuries. A familiar face on the PBS series 'Antiques Roadshow', Ms. Fesko has also been a featured guest on NPR's 'Talk of the Nation'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anne-Brigitte Sirois, Director of Real Estate Development for the Arts, Lerner Group, New York City, 9-15-06 Chelsea art district, real estate development, art galleries, art investment. In the mid-1990s, Anne-Brigitte Sirois initiated an ongoing project to market the then-isolated area of Chelsea West and formally advocated the creation of a new art gallery community. Today, Chelsea is home to almost 300 art galleries and hosts a vital scene for contemporary art in New York City. Between 1996 and 2006, Ms. Sirois has directly represented transactions totaling over $250 million on behalf of variou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sage Tucker-Ketcham, Founder, Director, and President, Studio STK, 9-15-06 Studio STK, art center, art classes, painting. Studio STK, located in Burlington, VT, combines a community art center and gallery with the mission of supporting and showing emerging artists, as well as creating a space that encourages creativity and promotes the growth of art. Sage Tucker-Ketcham has curated over 120 different artists at Studio STK's Gallery, which is fully booked through August 2007. Sage is currently expanding her body of paintings to be submitted to galleries in New York ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tina Landau, Writer and Director, 9-19-06, Part One Tina Landau, Viewpoints, acting, theater, Steppenwolf. Tina Landau is a writer and director whose original work includes the music-theatre project BEAUTY, which won the 2003 San Diego Critic's Circle Award for Outstanding New Play; the play SPACE, one of Time Magazine's 1997 Ten Best; the music-theatre piece DREAM TRUE which won the Richard Rogers Award; and the musical FLOYD COLLINS which received the 1996 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical, seven Drama Desk nominations, and seven 1999 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tina Landau, Writer and Director, 9-19-06, Part Two Tina Landau, Viewpoints, acting, theater, Steppenwolf. We continue our ARTSCAPE conversation with acclaimed writer-director Tina Landau. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tina Landau, Writer and Director, 9-19-06 Tina Landau, Viewpoints, acting, theater, Steppenwolf. Tina Landau is a writer and director whose original work includes the music-theatre project BEAUTY, which won the 2003 San Diego Critic's Circle Award for Outstanding New Play; the play SPACE, one of Time Magazine's 1997 Ten Best; the music-theatre piece DREAM TRUE which won the Richard Rogers Award; and the musical FLOYD COLLINS which received the 1996 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical, seven Drama Desk nominations, and seven 1999 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tina Landau, Writer and Director, 9-19-06 Tina Landau, Viewpoints, acting, theater, Steppenwolf. We continue our ARTSCAPE conversation with acclaimed writer-director Tina Landau. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Annie MacManus, Host of the Annie Mac Show, BBC Radio 1, 9-15-06 Annie Mac, BBC Radio 1, club DJ, hip-hop, house music. Since July 2004, the Annie Mac show has gone from strength to strength, attracting a host of loyal followers from around the world, and Annie has established herself firmly as part of Radio 1's 'In New Music We Trust' evening output. Annie is also a talented club DJ and is booked regularly to play the UK's most credible clubs. Annie's DJ tour, Annie Mac Presents II, will begin in September 2006. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jillian Chu, Founding Director, BOUNDcontemporaryDance, 9-8-06 BOUNDcontemporaryDance, choreography, ballet, modern dance. BOUNDcontemporaryDance performers are connected by a common thread -- the search for truth in movement and communication. BOUND dancers share with audiences the power of movement as an entry point into the human condition through dance that is visually and intellectually stimulating. In Chicago, Jillian Chu's choreography was featured in the acclaimed 'New Dances' annual series. Ms. Chu was awarded 'Outstanding Performer' by the Am ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charles Santos, Executive Director, TITAS, 9-8-06 TITAS, ballet, dance, music. Established in 1982, TITAS is the premier Texas presenter of major dance attractions in a series format. Now entering its 23nd season, TITAS has presented over 130 of the world's finest performing ensembles, ranging from the greatest classical companies, to the young American ensembles currently leading the dance world, to ethnic troupes rich in the history of other cultures. Previously, Mr. Santos was the Managing Director and Producer for the Lower Manhattan C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Mays, Executive Director, Los Angeles Art Association, 9-8-06 Los Angeles Art Association, emerging artists, Gallery 825, LAAA South. The mission of Los Angeles Art Association is to provide emerging artists with the experience, education and exposure needed to create and sustain a career in the arts. Peter Mays is also an experienced painter, printmaker, book illustrator and graphic designer whose artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums. brings his vast experience with creative and nonprofit management to the Los Angeles Art Association. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Mays, Executive Director, Los Angeles Art Association, 9-8-06 Los Angeles Art Association, emerging artists, Gallery 825, LAAA South. The mission of Los Angeles Art Association is to provide emerging artists with the experience, education and exposure needed to create and sustain a career in the arts. Peter Mays is also an experienced painter, printmaker, book illustrator and graphic designer whose artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums. brings his vast experience with creative and nonprofit management to the Los Angeles Art Association. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Eric Denker, Senior Lecturer, Education Division, National Gallery of Art, 8-25-06 National Gallery of Art, Venetian Renaissance, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian. The National Gallery of Art is currently exhibiting 'Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting'. Dr. Denker has been at the National Gallery of Art since 1978. From 1998 to 2006, Dr. Denker also served as the Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Corcoran, overseeing the permanent collection and coordinating an active special exhibition schedule, including historical shows of John Singer Sa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marjorie Portnow, Landscape Painter, and Associate Professor of Art, Western Connecticut State University, 8-25-06 Landscape painting, fine art, arts education. Marjorie Portnow's landscape paintings represent her keen observation of nature and the sense of the passing moment. Her work has been exhibited widely and is represented in permanent collections throughout the U.S., including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and The National Academy of Design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Lawrence Wheeler, Director, North Carolina Museum of Art, 8-25-06 North Carolina Museum of Art, Monet in Normandy, Rodin, Matisse. Beginning October 2006, the North Carolina Museum of Art will present 'Monet in Normandy'. The exhibition presents 50 paintings, including some of Monet's most celebrated works -- his paintings of Normandy's fields and coast, his garden and water lily pond at Giverny, and Rouen's cathedral. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bijan Khezri, CEO, Artist Pension Trust, 8-18-06 Artist Pension Trust, fine arts, investment program for artists, emerging artists. In 2004 Mr. Bijan Khezri co-founded Saphire Finance LLP, a London-based principal merchant banking partnership. Mr. Khezri has been passionately collecting young emerging artists for many years. With his professional finance background, he brings his multi-faceted experience to Artist Pension Trust. Mutual Art's Artist Pension Trust is the first-ever financial institution to champion artists as client and ben ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jimmy Gamonet, Artistic Director, and Iliana Lopez, Ballet Mistress, Ballet Gamonet (Miami, FL), 8-18-06 Ballet Gamonet, ballet, dance, choreography, Miami. Mr. Jimmy Gamonet's works have been commissioned or underwritten by AT and T, The Wolf Trap Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and Jacob's Pillow, among others, and include nearly three dozen set on the dancers of Miami City Ballet during his 14-year collaboration as Resident Choreographer with the company. At age 17, Miss Iliana Lopez became a finalist at the IV International Ballet Competition, celebrated at the Bolshoi The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Lewis, Composer and Pianist, 8-18-06 Piano, jazz, crossover music, music industry. Eric Lewis, composer-pianist, is the winner of the 1999 Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition, a contest that goes beyond simply rewarding musical proficiency to recognizing the elusive combination of knowledge, command, passion and expression. It effectively crowned Eric Lewis a piano master. Mr. Lewis has toured the world with Wynton Marsalis and Cassandra Wilson. His newest CD is 'Hopscotch' and is in stores. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Christian, CEO, World Digital Media Group, 8-11-06 Music industry, digital media, Ali Lohan, Grammy award, indie music. Chris Christian began his professional music career as a performer in Nashville in 1974. Chris's music industry accolades include nine Grammy Award nominations as a music producer, artist and publisher, with Chris winning four Grammys. He launched the music career of Amy Grant, and has produced more than 60 albums that together sold in excess of 10 million copies. Chris has written more than 2000 songs, many of which have ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jodee Nimerichter, Associate Director, American Dance Festival, 8-11-06 Dance, modern dance, choreography, American Dance Festival, ballet. The American Dance Festival, now celebrating its 73rd anniversary, began in 1934 as the Bennington School of Dance in Bennington, VT, founded by Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. With its numerous programs for dancers, students, choreographers and artists, ADF supports and develops new modern dance works, both nationally and internationally, while preserving the history of the field. Its school ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sal Trapani, Professor, Acting-Directing, Western Connecticut State University, 8-4-06 Theater, musical theater, acting, directing, Shakespeare, Aeschylus. Sal Trapani has worked at many New York, regional and international venues as a director, writer and composer including Minetta Lane, Circle Rep, Circle in the Square, Lincoln Center, and Playwright's Horizons. Mr. Trapani's original musicals including Antigone's Last Dance, Macbeth 2000 - A Multi-Media Rock Opera, and his adaptation of Twelfth Night - The San Francisco Psychedelic Musical have been performed in New York a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Capanna, Executive Director, Settlement Music School, 8-4-06 Music education, Settlement Music School, pre-school arts education. Settlement Music School, founded in 1908, is the largest community school of the arts in the United States. With five branches in the Philadelphia region and one in Camden, NJ, the School now serves about 15,000 students of all abilities, and awards nearly $2 million a year in financial aid. There is at least one Settlement Music School alumnus in every major symphony in the United States. Mr. Capanna is an active and wide ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cho-Liang Lin, SummerFest Music Director, La Jolla Music Society, 8-4-06 La Jolla Music Society Summerfest, chamber music, music festivals, music education. Taiwanese-American violinist Cho-Liang Lin is lauded the world over for the eloquence of his playing and for the superb musicianship that marks his performances. As one of Southern California's leading presenters of world-class performing arts, La Jolla Music Society hosts a rich variety of concert series year round. La Jolla SummerFest, a three-week chamber music festival of performances, live broadcasts, o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diane Ladd, Golden Globe- and British Academy Award-Winning Actress, Director, Producer, 7-28-06 Acting, directing, film, Academy Award, arts education. Diane Ladd has been heralded by Time magazine as 'one of the ten top actresses, not only in this country, but in the whole world.' Miss Ladd has been nominated three times each for Emmys and Oscars, and is the recipient of 23 awards, including a Golden Globe and a British Academy Award. Miss Ladd's book 'Spiraling Through the School of Life', was released by Hay House earlier this year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pierre Parisien, Head Artistic Director, Cirque du Soleil Las Vegas, 7-28-06 Cirque du Soleil, Las Vegas, Mystere, commedia dell'arte, performance art. As protector of the creative concept, Pierre Parisien ensures the artistic creation of each of the five Cirque du Soleil shows in Las Vegas stay true to their form. The shows include KÀ at MGM Grand, Mystère at Treasure Island, 'O' at Bellagio, ZUMANITY, ANOTHER SIDE OF CIRQUE DU SOLEIL at New York-New York Hotel and Casino, and the new production at Mirage, LOVE. Mr. Parisien works with over 350 performers, as well ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Professor Henry Adams, Professor of American Art, Case Western Reserve University, 7-28-06 Art history, Andrew Wyeth, Viktor Schreckengost, abstract expressionism. Professor Henry Adams was recently acclaimed by Art News as one of the foremost experts in the American field. He has produced over 200 publications, including scholarly and popular articles, books, catalogues, and exhibitions catalogues. These focus principally on American artists of the 19th and early 20th century, including Winslow Homer, Thomas Hart Benton, and David Hockney. latest book, VIKTOR SCHRECKENGOST: AMER ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judith Fugate and Medhi Bahiri, Co-Artistic Directors, Fugate-Bahiri Ballet NY, 7-21-06 Ballet, choreography, dance, performing arts, Balanchine. Fugate-Bahiri Ballet NY was founded in 1997 by Co-Artistic Directors Judith Fugate and Medhi Bahiri. Miss Fugate, former Principal Ballerina with New York City Ballet, danced roles in virtually every ballet in the NYCB repertoire, counting among her partners Peter Martins, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Helgi Tomasson. Mr. Bahiri, International Guest Artist, has been Principal Dancer with Ballet West and Boston Ballet, and a member of Maur ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mitzi Lizárraga, Director of Development Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, 7-21-06 Photography, photojournalism, documentaries, film. The Museum of Photographic Arts permanent collection currently includes more than 7000 photographs that span the history of photography. MoPA has produced 15 exhibitions that have traveled to museums around the globe and has published 16 exhibition catalogues. MoPA houses a 20,000-volume library and a 226-seat state-of-the-art theater that fulfills the museum's mandate of presenting the arts of photography, video and film. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pam Crowe-Weisberg, Executive Director, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT, 7-21-06 Arts education, museums, Park City, art exhibitions. The Kimball Art Center is a nonprofit community art center celebrating its 30th anniversary. Year-round, the center's three galleries offer a variety of exhibitions. The Kimball plays host to significant national exhibitions, as well as to shows featuring up-and-coming local artists. In conjunction with each exhibition, regional schools tour the galleries and participate in art education and hands-on creative projects. The art center also ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Edward Morgano, Arts Supervisor for The New York City Department of Education's Region Five Learning Support Center, Part Two, 7-14-06 Arts education, New York City, visual arts, performing arts, P.S. 156, I.S. 392. Edward Morgano is the Arts Supervisor for The New York City Department of Education's Region Five Learning Support Center. He supervises visual arts, music, theater and dance for 113 schools in three community school districts in Brooklyn and Queens. Mr. Morgano is one of ten Regional Arts Supervisors assigned to oversee the kindergarten through high school arts programs for schools in their regions. An importa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Edward Morgano, Arts Supervisor for The New York City Department of Education's Region Five Learning Support Center, Part Two, 7-14-06 Arts education, New York City, visual arts, performing arts, P.S. 156, I.S. 392. We continue our conversation with Edward Morgano, and talk about the Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts and the Arts and Cultural Education Services Guide, and New York City schoolchildren participation in the acclaimed documentary, 'Mad Hot Ballroom'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Elaine Chew, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, 7-7-06 Music, virtual reality, engineering, performance, tonality. In 2004, Elaine was honored with an NSF Career award for her proposal on performer-centered approaches to computer-assisted music making, in which she stated that her purpose was 'to establish engineering music research as a core academic discipline' and to 'promote the use of computational research in music processing by humans as a basis for creating and improving human-computer interaction in computer music systems'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Eric Denker, Senior Lecturer, Education Division, National Gallery of Art, 8-25-06 National Gallery of Art, Venetian Renaissance, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian. The National Gallery of Art is currently exhibiting 'Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting'. Dr. Denker has been at the National Gallery of Art since 1978. From 1998 to 2006, Dr. Denker also served as the Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Corcoran, overseeing the permanent collection and coordinating an active special exhibition schedule, including historical shows of John Singer Sa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Lawrence Wheeler, Director, North Carolina Museum of Art, 8-25-06 North Carolina Museum of Art, Monet in Normandy, Rodin, Matisse. Beginning October 2006, the North Carolina Museum of Art will present 'Monet in Normandy'. The exhibition presents 50 paintings, including some of Monet's most celebrated works -- his paintings of Normandy's fields and coast, his garden and water lily pond at Giverny, and Rouen's cathedral. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Christian, CEO, World Digital Media Group, 8-11-06 Music industry, digital media, Ali Lohan, Grammy award, indie music. Chris Christian began his professional music career as a performer in Nashville in 1974. Chris's music industry accolades include nine Grammy Award nominations as a music producer, artist and publisher, with Chris winning four Grammys. He launched the music career of Amy Grant, and has produced more than 60 albums that together sold in excess of 10 million copies. Chris has written more than 2000 songs, many of which have ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jodee Nimerichter, Associate Director, American Dance Festival, 8-11-06 Dance, modern dance, choreography, American Dance Festival, ballet. The American Dance Festival, now celebrating its 73rd anniversary, began in 1934 as the Bennington School of Dance in Bennington, VT, founded by Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. With its numerous programs for dancers, students, choreographers and artists, ADF supports and develops new modern dance works, both nationally and internationally, while preserving the history of the field. Its school ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diane Ladd, Golden Globe- and British Academy Award-Winning Actress, Director, Producer, 7-28-06 Acting, directing, film, Academy Award, arts education. Diane Ladd has been heralded by Time magazine as 'one of the ten top actresses, not only in this country, but in the whole world.' Miss Ladd has been nominated three times each for Emmys and Oscars, and is the recipient of 23 awards, including a Golden Globe and a British Academy Award. Miss Ladd's book 'Spiraling Through the School of Life', was released by Hay House earlier this year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pierre Parisien, Head Artistic Director, Cirque du Soleil Las Vegas, 7-28-06 Cirque du Soleil, Las Vegas, Mystere, commedia dell'arte, performance art. As protector of the creative concept, Pierre Parisien ensures the artistic creation of each of the five Cirque du Soleil shows in Las Vegas stay true to their form. The shows include KÀ at MGM Grand, Mystère at Treasure Island, 'O' at Bellagio, ZUMANITY, ANOTHER SIDE OF CIRQUE DU SOLEIL at New York-New York Hotel and Casino, and the new production at Mirage, LOVE. Mr. Parisien works with over 350 performers, as well ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Professor Henry Adams, Professor of American Art, Case Western Reserve University, 7-28-06 Art history, Andrew Wyeth, Viktor Schreckengost, abstract expressionism. Professor Henry Adams was recently acclaimed by Art News as one of the foremost experts in the American field. He has produced over 200 publications, including scholarly and popular articles, books, catalogues, and exhibitions catalogues. These focus principally on American artists of the 19th and early 20th century, including Winslow Homer, Thomas Hart Benton, and David Hockney. latest book, VIKTOR SCHRECKENGOST: AMER ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judith Fugate and Medhi Bahiri, Co-Artistic Directors, Fugate-Bahiri Ballet NY, 7-21-06 Ballet, choreography, dance, performing arts, Balanchine. Fugate-Bahiri Ballet NY was founded in 1997 by Co-Artistic Directors Judith Fugate and Medhi Bahiri. Miss Fugate, former Principal Ballerina with New York City Ballet, danced roles in virtually every ballet in the NYCB repertoire, counting among her partners Peter Martins, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Helgi Tomasson. Mr. Bahiri, International Guest Artist, has been Principal Dancer with Ballet West and Boston Ballet, and a member of Maur ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mitzi Lizárraga, Director of Development Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, 7-21-06 Photography, photojournalism, documentaries, film. The Museum of Photographic Arts permanent collection currently includes more than 7000 photographs that span the history of photography. MoPA has produced 15 exhibitions that have traveled to museums around the globe and has published 16 exhibition catalogues. MoPA houses a 20,000-volume library and a 226-seat state-of-the-art theater that fulfills the museum's mandate of presenting the arts of photography, video and film. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Edward Morgano, Arts Supervisor for The New York City Department of Education's Region Five Learning Support Center, Part Two, 7-14-06 Arts education, New York City, visual arts, performing arts, P.S. 156, I.S. 392. Edward Morgano is the Arts Supervisor for The New York City Department of Education's Region Five Learning Support Center. He supervises visual arts, music, theater and dance for 113 schools in three community school districts in Brooklyn and Queens. Mr. Morgano is one of ten Regional Arts Supervisors assigned to oversee the kindergarten through high school arts programs for schools in their regions. An importa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Edward Morgano, Arts Supervisor for The New York City Department of Education's Region Five Learning Support Center, Part Two, 7-14-06 Arts education, New York City, visual arts, performing arts, P.S. 156, I.S. 392. We continue our conversation with Edward Morgano, and talk about the Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts and the Arts and Cultural Education Services Guide, and New York City schoolchildren participation in the acclaimed documentary, 'Mad Hot Ballroom'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Elaine Chew, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, 7-7-06 Music, virtual reality, engineering, performance, tonality. In 2004, Elaine was honored with an NSF Career award for her proposal on performer-centered approaches to computer-assisted music making, in which she stated that her purpose was 'to establish engineering music research as a core academic discipline' and to 'promote the use of computational research in music processing by humans as a basis for creating and improving human-computer interaction in computer music systems'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Eric Denker, Senior Lecturer, Education Division, National Gallery of Art, 8-25-06 National Gallery of Art, Venetian Renaissance, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian. The National Gallery of Art is currently exhibiting 'Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting'. Dr. Denker has been at the National Gallery of Art since 1978. From 1998 to 2006, Dr. Denker also served as the Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Corcoran, overseeing the permanent collection and coordinating an active special exhibition schedule, including historical shows of John Singer Sa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marjorie Portnow, Landscape Painter, and Associate Professor of Art, Western Connecticut State University, 8-25-06 Landscape painting, fine art, arts education. Marjorie Portnow's landscape paintings represent her keen observation of nature and the sense of the passing moment. Her work has been exhibited widely and is represented in permanent collections throughout the U.S., including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and The National Academy of Design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Lawrence Wheeler, Director, North Carolina Museum of Art, 8-25-06 North Carolina Museum of Art, Monet in Normandy, Rodin, Matisse. Beginning October 2006, the North Carolina Museum of Art will present 'Monet in Normandy'. The exhibition presents 50 paintings, including some of Monet's most celebrated works -- his paintings of Normandy's fields and coast, his garden and water lily pond at Giverny, and Rouen's cathedral. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pam Crowe-Weisberg, Executive Director, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT, 7-21-06 Arts education, museums, Park City, art exhibitions. The Kimball Art Center is a nonprofit community art center celebrating its 30th anniversary. Year-round, the center's three galleries offer a variety of exhibitions. The Kimball plays host to significant national exhibitions, as well as to shows featuring up-and-coming local artists. In conjunction with each exhibition, regional schools tour the galleries and participate in art education and hands-on creative projects. The art center also ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Edward Morgano, Arts Supervisor for The New York City Department of Education's Region Five Learning Support Center, Part Two, 7-14-06 Arts education, New York City, visual arts, performing arts, P.S. 156, I.S. 392. Edward Morgano is the Arts Supervisor for The New York City Department of Education's Region Five Learning Support Center. He supervises visual arts, music, theater and dance for 113 schools in three community school districts in Brooklyn and Queens. Mr. Morgano is one of ten Regional Arts Supervisors assigned to oversee the kindergarten through high school arts programs for schools in their regions. An importa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Edward Morgano, Arts Supervisor for The New York City Department of Education's Region Five Learning Support Center, Part Two, 7-14-06 Arts education, New York City, visual arts, performing arts, P.S. 156, I.S. 392. We continue our conversation with Edward Morgano, and talk about the Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts and the Arts and Cultural Education Services Guide, and New York City schoolchildren participation in the acclaimed documentary, 'Mad Hot Ballroom'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Larson, Executive Director, BestFest America, 7-14-06 Film, film festivals, BestFest America. Now in its 8th year, BestFest America has grown to become the nation's largest student film festival, with over 1000 college and high school students submitting entries in 2006. An award-winning film and video producer and writer, David Larson also mentors students and teachers and created the extremely popular 48 Hours of Madness school team competition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Elaine Chew, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, 7-7-06 Music, virtual reality, engineering, performance, tonality. In 2004, Elaine was honored with an NSF Career award for her proposal on performer-centered approaches to computer-assisted music making, in which she stated that her purpose was 'to establish engineering music research as a core academic discipline' and to 'promote the use of computational research in music processing by humans as a basis for creating and improving human-computer interaction in computer music systems'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ethan van Thillo, Executive Director, San Diego Latino Film Festival, 7-7-06 Film festival, Latino film, theater. The San Diego Latino Film Festival was established 13 years ago as a student film festival focusing on works by Latinos and-or about the Latino Experience. Since then, the San Diego Latino Film Festival has developed into one of the larger and well-respected Latino film festivals in the country. Over 120,000 people have attended during the past seven years and 1000 films and videos from across Latin America and the United States have been screened. Past ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judith Fugate and Medhi Bahiri, Co-Artistic Directors, Fugate-Bahiri Ballet NY, 7-21-06 Ballet, choreography, dance, performing arts, Balanchine. Fugate-Bahiri Ballet NY was founded in 1997 by Co-Artistic Directors Judith Fugate and Medhi Bahiri. Miss Fugate, former Principal Ballerina with New York City Ballet, danced roles in virtually every ballet in the NYCB repertoire, counting among her partners Peter Martins, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Helgi Tomasson. Mr. Bahiri, International Guest Artist, has been Principal Dancer with Ballet West and Boston Ballet, and a member of Maur ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website