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ARTIST OF THE WEEK PODCAST
The San Jose Museum of Art is pleased to announce that the Artist of the Week PodCast won a 2007 MUSE Award for Extended Experience from the American Association of Museums. Here is what the judges had to say:
More and more museums are taking up podcasting to extend the visitor experience beyond the institution's walls. In many cases, outside production firms have been contracted to develop these series, resulting in a number of high quality, engaging programs. The Artists of the Week podcast from SJMA has been awarded an honorable mention because it manages to be both high quality and engaging —and produced entirely in-house. SJMA demonstrates admirably that podcasting is within the grasp of every museum.
During the 8-week run of the permanent collection exhibition New Year, New Gifts, the San Jose Museum of Art offered a weekly podcast featuring one of the artists in the show.
Artists in the series included: Hung Liu, Jack Zajac, Helen Lundeburg, Ruth Asawa, Richard Misrach, Amy Kaufman, Manuel Neri and Rick Arnitz.
We hope that visitors will download these podcasts and bring their iPods into the museum to experience the works first hand with the audio (Some works no longer on display). However, these are enhanced podcasts and if you own an iPod that displays pictures or if you view the podcast in iTunes, you will be able to view images of the work and images from the interviews. Or —you can just listen to the audio on this page and enjoy the insight that each podcast will provide.
Your feedback on this series is greatly appreciated. Please send your comments or questions to podcast@sjmusart.org. Or leave your comments at the bottom of this page, on iTunes or on Odeo.
Select an artist in the series:
1. Hung Liu - Shoah
SJMA's first Artist of the Week is Hung Liu. For this PodCast, we visited Hung Liu in her studio to discuss Shoah which recently came into the permanent collection and to hear about how Liu's work is created. Jeff Kelley, art critic, curator, and Liu's husband of 22-years, provided professional and personal insight.
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2. Jack Zajac - Falling Water, Santa Cruz XXIV
Our second artist is Jack Zajac. We went to Santa Cruz, CA where Zajac lives and works to speak with him. In his studio, we were treated to a tour of his artwork and after we sat down with him in his home to speak about his travels, his art and his process. Providing extra insight is JoAnne Northrup, Senior Curator at SJMA, who helped bring Falling Water, Santa Cruz XXIV into our collection.
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3. Rick Arnitz - Who Won What When and Where
This week we interviewed Rick Arnitz in his live/work studio in Oakland, CA. During the interview he discusses his painting, a recent SJMA acquisition, called Who Won What When and Where. After the interview, we were treated to a tour of his studio where we saw recent works he was producing for an upcoming exhibition at Stephen Wirtz Gallery. In addition, we spoke to gallery owner Stephen Wirtz by phone who has represented Arnitz for more than 10 years.
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4. Ruth Asawa - Untitled
Ruth Asawa is the artist featured this week on our Artist of the Week PodCast whose tied-wire sculpture Untitled recently came into our collection. For the episode, we traveled to San Francisco to speak with Curator of American Art and Director of Contemporary Programs, Daniell Cornell, at the De Young Museum. Daniell Cornell worked closely with Asawa to curate and plan her retrospective exhibition "Contours in the Air". In addition, we spoke by phone with Aiko Cuneo, Ruth Asawa's oldest daughter, who spoke with us about what life was like living with such a prolific and renowned artist.
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5. Richard Misrach - Untitled, from the series On the Beach
For week 5, we focus on artist Richard Misrach and SJMA's recent acquisition Untitled, from the series On the Beach, photographed by Misrach. For the podcast we spoke with gallery owner Robert Mann who represented Richard Misrach for over 20 years and even traveled with him several summers through the desert Southwest. In addition, we interviewed geologist, SJMA board member and Misrach collector, Peter Lipman who shares his personal insight on Misrach's work.
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6. Amy Kaufman - Ice and Shoots
We traveled to Oakland for this episode of Artist of the Week where we were invited into the studio of Amy Kaufman to discuss her artistic process and her piece, Ice and Shoots in the SJMA permanent collection. In her bright and welcoming studio we were able to see recent paintings and drawings in various states of progress. We also spoke with the San Jose Museum of Art's Chief Curator, Susan Landauer, who was able to put Kaufman's art into context with the Bay Area art scene and shed some insight on Kaufman's artistic abilities.
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7. Manuel Neri - Untitled (Kneeling Figure)
Chained to the office for this episode of Artist of the Week, we headed into the recording studio where we conducted phone interviews with two Bay Area art professionals. The subject of the interviews was Benicia based artist Manuel Neri, whose sculpture Untitled (Kneeling Figure) recently came into the SJMA collection. First up, we interviewed art critic and San Francisco Institute of Art professor Mark Van Proyen, who has written a catalog essay for Neri's upcoming show at Hackett-Freedman Gallery in San Francisco. Then we turned to the co-owner of the Hackett-Freedman Gallery, Tracy Freedman, to shed some personal insight on the artist who the gallery has represented for 7 years now.
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8. Helen Lundeburg - Untitled (Red Line)
Our final podcast in the Artist of the Week series focuses on the California painter Helen Lundeburg (1908-1999). LundeburgÕs painting Untitled (Red Line) recently came into the collection of the San Jose Museum of Art. For this episode we interviewed Tobey C. Moss, owner of the Tobey C. Moss Gallery. As a close friend of LundeburgÕs, and also her representative, Moss was able to provide an intimate look into the life and art of this often overlooked artist.
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