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Airs at: Tue, 05/13/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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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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This is a Black Spatial Imaginary: Sharita Towne

Airs at: Tue, 10/03/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  As an artist, Sharita Towne’s interests lie in unpacking the inherited struggles of past burdens and in affording collective catharsis. Through collaboration, stereo-photography, printmaking, video, and community art projects, she’s worked at memorials in Germany; in ... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Dana Lynn Louis about La Grande Robe

Airs at: Tue, 09/26/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, September 29, 2017, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Dana Lynn Louis  about La Grande Robe, her installation at Front of House Gallery.  The installation of two large dresses made from plastic rice sacks in Senegal comes with many stories behind them, of... Read more

PERCEIVE

Airs at: Tue, 09/19/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  Killjoy Collective is pleased to announce the public opening of PERCEIVE, new works by Candace Jahn and Jill Falk. Please join us Saturday, September 16th from 7-9 pm for an opening reception. PERCEIVE will be on view until Saturday, October 7th. Curated by Tessa Heck... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews ERIN BOBERG DOUGHTON and ROYA AMIRSOLEYMANI about the second half of T:BA 17.

Airs at: Tue, 09/12/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday Sept 12, 2017, Joseph Gallivan interviews ERIN BOBERG DOUGHTON and ROYA AMIRSOLEYMANI [pronounced ameer-sollay-monny] of the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art about the second half of T:BA 17. The annual time-based art festival runs from September 7 to 1... Read more

Art Focus on 09/05/17

Airs at: Tue, 09/05/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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TBA17

Airs at: Tue, 08/29/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday August 29, 2017, Joseph Gallivan interviews ERIN BOBERG DOUGHTON and ROYA AMIRSOLEYMANI [pronounced ameer-sollay-monny] of the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art about T:BA 17. The annual time-based art festival runs from September 7 to 17th this year. T... Read more

EXTREMO THE CLOWN: Scot Campbell

Airs at: Tue, 08/22/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  Eric Bartels talks to Scot Campbell. He was once known as Extremo the Clown, an offbeat character who ran for mayor and whose best-known vehicles for self-promotion were absurdly overdecorated cars covered in weird art and pop culture artifacts. But he's also a talent... Read more

Drew Carson and Kate Simmons

Airs at: Tue, 08/15/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, August 15, 2017, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews artists Drew Carson and Kate Simmons. Carson is the co founder of Combat Paper, a traveling art project that takes military uniforms and turns them into paper for art works, from agit prop screen prints ... Read more

The Best Days Are Ahead: Andrea Borsuk

Airs at: Tue, 08/08/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  Eric Bartels speaks to Andrea Borsuk about her work, what drives her, how it's evolved and how all of us have it in our DNA to be creative.   Andrea Borsuk is a painter whose work explores notions of journey, time and destiny. She holds an MFA from Columbia University ... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Julia Dolan about the show Representing: Vernacular Photographs of, by, and for African Americans.

Airs at: Tue, 08/01/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, August 1, 2017, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Julia Dolan about the show Representing: Vernacular Photographs of, by, and for African Americans,  which just opened at the Portland Art Museum.   Dolan will talk about the family albums that were loaned ... Read more