Art Is Awesome with Emily Wilson

Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, Emily chats with SF based multimedia artist Heesoo Kwon...About Artist Heesoo Kwon:Heesoo Kwon is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco. Positioning herself as an artist, activist, archivist, anthropologist, and religious figure. Kwon builds feminist utopias in the digital realm that liberate one from personal, familial, and historical trauma rooted in

Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, Emily chats with Artist & Portand State University Professor Taravat Talepasand.About Artist Taravat Talepasand:Taravat Talepasand is an artist, activist, and educator whose labor-intensive interdisciplinary painting practice questions normative cultural behaviors within contemporary power imbalances. As an Iranian-American woman, Talepasand explores the cultural

Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, Emily chats with Ron Saunders, a landscape architect and artist in San Francisco. She visited Ron at his studio at the Minnesota Street Project, and he talked about becoming a landscape architect, why he likes public art projects, and starting a group for Black artists.About Artist Ron Saunders:Ron Moultrie Saunders, a co-founding member of the 3.9 Art Collective, is

Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, Emily chats with multimedia artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson. This was recording during a visit to her show, About Face, at San Francisco’s Altman Siegel Gallery. The show covered the last five decades of Lynn's career and work exploring the role of technology in the human condition. Lynn's work is showing now at the SF Altman Siegel Gallery until July 8

Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, Emily chats with Richmond ceramics artist, Cathy Lu. Cathy is one of the winners of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s prestigious SECA award and her work is on display on the second floor of the museum for free through the end of May.About Artist Cathy Lu:Cathy grew up in Miami, in a family of immigrants from Taiwan and China. Her work manipulates traditional

Welcome to Art is Awesome! hosted by Emily Wilson...We are excited to share this new podcast, featuring artists in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond... Be sure to subscribe wherever you find your podcast media, so you wont miss an episode... conversations begin dropping in May!