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

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

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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George Johanson

Airs at: Tue, 05/18/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday May 18, 2021, Aurora Josephson continues her series of studio visits during the pandemic. Johnson talks to 92 year old painter George Johanson, who discusses the metamorphosis that can happen after working on an unfinished canvas after five years, how the pand... Read more

Strawberry Pickle's Rainbow City

Airs at: Tue, 05/11/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist, starseed and entrepreneur Strawberry Pickle about her all ages night club and art space Rainbow City. The space shows work painters, street artists and sculptors, and has jewelry and clothes for sa... Read more

REPEAT EPISODE: NOMADLAND PRODUCER MOLLYE FISHER

Airs at: Tue, 05/04/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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REPEAT EPISODE: NOMADLAND Joseph Gallivan interviews Mollye Asher, producer of the movie Nomadland starring Frances McDormand On Tuesday May 4, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Mollye Asher, producer of the movie Nomadland starring Frances McDormand. Asher t... Read more

Dawson Carr talks retirement

Airs at: Tue, 04/27/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, April 27, 2021, at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Dawson Carr, the curator of European art at the Portland Art Museum, about his career in Portland and his coming retirement. Carr talks about some works he purchased for the museum, including the famous... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Sarah Horowitz

Airs at: Tue, 04/20/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Sarah Horowitz about her show Blue, which is at Froelick Gallery though May 29. Horowitz talks about producing ink drawings and etchings of ponderosa pines and seed heads, her art book and print m... Read more

Aurora Josephson on Martha Bergman

Airs at: Tue, 04/13/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, April 13, 2021, at 11.30 am Aurora Josephson talks to Martha Bergman of Art Construction Mgt about color theory and practice. She explains what a hue is, and how the big four painters of the Renaissance worked their magic in color.    Guest contact info: Ma... Read more

Julia Dolan on Ansel Adams In Our Time

Airs at: Tue, 04/06/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Julia Dolan, the curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum, about the upcoming show Ansel Adams In Our Time. Dolan talks about Adams’s beginnings as a teenage tourist in Yosemite, his gradual prog... Read more

Aurora Josephson interviews painter Henk Pander

Airs at: Tue, 03/30/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday March 30, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. in the fourth of her pandemic studio visits, Aurora Josephson interviews painter Henk Pander about his new works depicting the Portland protests of 2020, classic ships and other dramatic scenes. Pander talks about realism, theater,... Read more

THE DALÍ LEGACY

Airs at: Tue, 03/23/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews art historians Dr. Christopher Heath Brown and Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts [PRONOUNCED IZZ-boots] talk about Catalan surrealist artist Salvador Dali and why he still has an impact on popular culture. They dr... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Mollye Asher, producer of the movie Nomadland starring Frances MacDormand

Airs at: Tue, 03/16/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday March 16, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Mollye Asher, producer of the movie Nomadland starring Frances MacDormand. Asher talks to Art Focus about the role of a producer in helping a director realize their vision, the character of the light in t... Read more