Articulated: Dispatches from the Archives of American Art

Jan 06 2025 37 ep. 40 mins 8

Articulated: Dispatches from the Archives of American Art Podcast artwork

Since 1958, the Archives of American Art’s oral history program has preserved the distinct voices and human memory of the American art world in more than 2,600 interviews. Articulated draws on those interviews of the famous and the forgotten, featuring firsthand accounts from artists, dealers, writers, and other key figures, in dialogue with today’s thought leaders. Their expansive conversations and often surprising memories challenge us to see the world and our shared history in new and unimagined ways. Smithsonian Privacy Statement: http://www.si.edu/privacy/ Smithsonian Terms of Use: http://www.si.edu/termsofuse/

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2 – Leo Tanguma: Great Humanity

Jan 06 2025 29 mins

Leo Tanguma (b. 1941) is a Chicano muralist and activist whose work in Texas and Colorado have spurred new generations of making. Hear his story, the history he makes shareable, and about the importance of art that belongs to everyone. Show Notes and Transcript available at http://www.aaa.si.edu/articulated

1 – Anita Fields: How We Gather

Dec 03 2024 26 mins

Anita Fields (Osage | b. 1951) is an artist who makes history palpable through ceramics, textiles, and more. Hear her journey in her own words and how she continues to innovate after decades of work in clay and cloth. Show Notes and Transcript available at http://www.aaa.si.edu/articulated

Season 4 Trailer

Nov 26 2024 2 mins

Hear about the lives and work of ceramicist and textile artist Anita Fields (Osage), muralist Leo Tanguma, painter and photographer Lenore Chinn, and painter Pat Steir as they've navigated their careers over the decades. This trailer was narrated by Susan Cary, our registrar and collections manager. Show Notes and Transcript available at www.aaa.si.edu/articulated

12 - This women's thing: feminism and the arts

Dec 20 2023 58 mins

Through many modes and for many aims, feminists have sought to improve equity in and through the visual arts. In this episode, hear from a variety of women as they describe the trajectory of feminism they’ve seen in their lives and careers, including stories from Faith Ringgold, Linda Nochlin, Judy Baca, and Joan Semmel among others. Show Notes and Transcript available at www.a

11 - Classical Continuity: history in series with Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence

Nov 29 2023 47 mins

Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence profoundly shaped the depiction of American history in art through their ambitious and insightful oeuvres. From generating new national traditions through the Harlem Community Art Center to capturing communal experience through paint and collage, they paved the way for subsequent generations of storytellers. In this episode, hear from the artists a

10 - A Class by Themselves: Joe Feddersen, G. Peter Jemison, and the eternal futures of Native American art

Oct 25 2023 40 mins

For more than 50 years, Joe Feddersen (Colville) and G. Peter Jemison (Seneca, Heron Clan) have been creating works that extend Native heritage and enrich the stories told by American art. Through an ambidextrous approach to craft and figuration, Feddersen finds consonance between contemporary life and traditional forms and iconographies, while Jemison highlights the continuities a

9 - Collective Force: Chicano Artists and the United Farm Workers

Sep 27 2023 41 mins

Throughout decades of protecting workers and their rights, the United Farm Workers union has been a significant nexus for artists and activists. In this episode, listen to three artists who have been instrumental in illustrating and activating the labor advocacy of the UFW, as Barbara Carrasco, Carlos Almaraz, and Ester Hernandez recount the importance of collective action and work

8 - Back to School: education, pedagogy, apprenticeship, and the arts

Aug 30 2023 45 mins

Artistic education takes many shapes, as artists pass down skills and traditions to see them transformed by new hands. In this episode, hear how the classroom shaped artists, both as learners and teachers. Stories include Anni Albers’s descriptions of lessons with Paul Klee at the Bauhaus and her own teaching at Black Mountain College, Carmen Lomas Garza on the activism that shap

7 - Critical Distance: surface dynamics with Rosalyn Drexler and Sturtevant

Jul 26 2023 43 mins

As mass media exploded and the American art scene bloomed in the 1950s and 60s, Rosalyn Drexler and Sturtevant pushed back on corrosive cultural assumptions. Drexler’s collage paintings dissect popular attitudes towards fame, violence, and women, and Sturtevant’s replicas spur questions around originality, reception, and perception. Hear how each artist made her own way in her

6 - A Sea of Solidarity/ Un mar de solidaridad: the artist en comunidad with Guadalupe Maravilla and Cinthya Santos-Briones

Jun 28 2023 34 mins

The fourth in a series on healing and belonging, this episode reflects on art as community care work. In her 2020 pandemic oral history interview, photographer Cinthya Santos-Briones describes tending for her Brooklyn neighbors during a harrowing time. She mentions the care and connection she experienced during sound baths performed by the artist Guadalupe Maravilla. Maravilla, als