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Afros & Ceramic Fruit
by WSTS Radio
Afros & Ceramic Fruit is a gathering space for topical discussions on contemporary art and visual culture. The programmed discussions are used as a platform to engage in conversation with those who's work connects to spaces for contemporary antiquities, through art making, place making and meaning making. This program airs on WSTS radio, an online radio station and cultural hub based on the Westside of Chicago.
Episodes
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Ep #11: Ryan Dennis & Project Row Houses
Public Art Director of Project Row Houses, Ryan Dennis joins Afros & Ceramic Fruit to talk about current programs along with Project Row Houses year-long 20th anniversary celebration. In addition, she discusses how the development of smaller institutions heighten the visibility of artist and art...
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Ep #10: Talk w/ Artist Samantha Hill
Host La Keisha Leek & Savannah Wood sits down with transdisciplinary artist Samantha Hill to talk about: 1. Artist as archivist. 2. Place as a framework for understanding history. 3. Utopian hopes for the greater African American community. and much more. Hill's work is currently on view in the...
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Ep #9: Chicago Home Theater Festival
Artist and educator Irina Zadov talks about the 2014 Chicago Home Theater Festival (CHTF). This is a month long celebration of art across 20 neighborhoods in Chicago, co-produced with Black Russell and Laley Lippard. In addition to CHTF Zadov talks about the presence of home as a significant part...
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Ep #8: Interview with Paul Mpagi Sepuya
This week we talk with Brooklyn-based photographer Paul Mpagi Seyupa about a practice which uses photography as a tool for mapping together layered narratives. These narratives which is used to track the histories of personal relationships and encounters over the years. We also talk about...
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Ep #7: Interview with Felicia Mings
Arts Educator and Administrator Felicia Mings joins Afros & Ceramic Fruit to talk about creating visibility for emerging Canadian artists of African and Caribbean descent, an upcoming curatorial project on absence and presence thing Spring, working with The Andrew W. Mellon Summer Academy and...
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Ep #6: Rashayla Marie Brown
This week on Afros & Ceramic Fruit we welcomed Interdisciplinary arts practitioner Rashayla Marie Brown. In addition to explaining how her growing up in a family where an understanding of Black history was embedded at a young age, we pick back up at some of last week's conversation and talk with...
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Ep #5: Honoring Histories w/ Nikki & Rae
This week on Afros and Ceramic Fruit Savvy and I we joined by The Corner hosts Nikki and Rae. We discuss the ways we all engage our histories, the histories of those closest to us and how we use those histories as a mode of self expression, production and finding our creative niches. We also talk...
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Ep #4 - Black Hair & Performance Art
Savvy is back! We catch up on her project Black Ink Book Exchange opening at the Arts Incubator in Washington Park this Spring- Look out for it folks! We were joined by artists, curators, administrators Alexandria Eregbu and Sydney Stoudmire to talk about black hair in performance art, having...
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Episode #3: Interlacing Threads Exhibit
Welcome back for the third installation of Afros & Ceramic Fruit. This week we talk with curator and arts administrator Marcela Andrade about what it means to be Latina, and female in the art world. Using Marcela's own narrative as a springboard, we talk about her exhibition Interlacing Threads:...
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Episode #2: Celebrating Dilla with #ACF
We've arrived at week 2! Savvy and I thank you all for tuning in last week for the first installation of Afros & Ceramic Fruit with the team from the Fultonia project. On the occasion of Dilla Day 2014 this week guest co-host Felicia Mings and I talk with Chicago-based interdisciplinary artists...
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Episode #1: Fultonia
The first installation of Afros & Ceramic Fruit features three collaborators from Red, Bike & Green - Chicago on their new project, Fultonia- Eboni Senai Hawkins, Sam Scipio and Michael Tekhen Strode. Fultonia was a health food/supplement shop in Englewood on Chicago's Southside owned by Dr....
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Afros & Ceramic Fruit is a gathering space for topical discussions on contemporary art and visual culture. The programmed discussions are used as a platform to engage in conversation with those who's work connects to spaces for contemporary antiquities, through art making, place making and meaning making. This program airs on WSTS radio, an online radio station and cultural hub based on the Westside of Chicago.
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Afros & Ceramic Fruit is a gathering space for topical discussions on contemporary art and visual culture. The programmed discussions are used as a platform to engage in conversation with those who's work connects to spaces for contemporary antiquities, through art making, place making and meaning...
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