Southern Arts Federation
by William MacLeod
The Southern Arts Federation (SAF) is a not-for-profit regional arts organization that has been making a positive difference in the arts throughout the South since 1975. SAF creates partnerships and collaborations; assists in the professional development of artists, arts organizations and arts professionals; presents, promotes and produces Southern arts and cultural programming; and advocates for the arts and arts education. The organization works in partnership with the nine state arts agencies of montage of images, Juggernut Jug band, Momentum Dance, New Stage Theater, Stain Glass Sam Corso and painting by Luz-Marie Lopez. Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. SAF is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), foundations, corporations, individuals and member states.
Episodes
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SAF Episode 60 - Brad Jayne
Brad Jayne has been a visual storyteller for the last 15 years, beginning his career as an award-winning still photographer with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Now based in Charleston, SC, Jayne has taken the reins as writer, director, or producer on a variety of national...
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SAF Episode 59.7 National Arts and Humanaties Month Lisa Tuttle
Nikki Estes, Presenting and Touring Program Director for the Southern Arts Federation, interviews Lisa Tuttle who is presenting a proposal writing workshop for public art projects on October 20, 2009 at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center in Roswell, GA. The workshop is free registration is…
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SAF Episode 59.6 National Arts and Humanaties Month - Eric Speakman
Nikki Estes interviews Eric Speakman about his upcoming workshop on October 15th on the pros and cons of collaborations and partnerships to sustain organizations.
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SAF Episode 59 - Colin Campbell
Southern Circuit Podcast Interview October 2009 - Allen Bell interviews Colin Campbell Colin Campbell is a writer and director for theater and film. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his short film, Seraglio, which he wrote, directed and produced with his wife, Gail Lerner. Seraglio also...
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SAF Episode 59.5 - National Arts and Humanaties month 2
As part of the Foundation Centers Funding for the Arts Month, Sherry Heyl of Concept Hub will present Developing Your Communication Plan for Social Media on October 9 in Atlanta. Hear the interview (link to podcast) The workshop is free but advance registration is required. View the complete...
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SAF Episode 58.5 - National Arts and Humanities month
October is National Arts and Humanities month, and as part of that celebration, the Foundation Center in Atlanta, Fulton County Arts Council, Alternate ROOTS, City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs, GA Council for the Arts, the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund, and the Southern Arts Federation...
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SAF Episode 58
1) Interview with Harrod Blank, filmmaker. Automorphosis looks into the minds and hearts of a delightful collection of eccentrics, visionaries, and just plain folks who have transformed their autos into artworks. 2) Interview with filmmaker Jeremy Dean. With rarely seen news footage and revealing...
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SAF Episode 57 - Brian Ray
Hannah Leatherbury, E-services Manager at the Southern Arts Federation, interviews author Brian Ray (http://www.southernartistry.org/Brian_Ray). Brian talks about sampling different literary genres and learning what blogging is good for, in addition to reading excerpts from his recently-published...
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SAF Podcast Episode 56 - Puppets
Part 1 Hannah Leatherbury, SAF E-services Manager, interviews Michael Richardson, founder and lead puppeteer of Red String Wayang Theatre (httpwww.southernartistry.orgRed_String_Wayang_Theatre). Michael reveals how he accidentally fell in love with puppetry and how his travels to Indonesia have...
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SAF Episode 55 - Michael Tick Kristin Sosnowsky
Hannah Leatherbury, E-services Manager at the Southern Arts Federation, interviews Michael Tick, Chair of Louisiana State Universitys Theatre Department and Artistic Director of Swine Palace Productions and Swine Palaces Managing Director Kristin Sosnowsky. Housed inside an old agricultural...
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SAF Episode 54 - Scott Galloway
Director Scott Galloway has produced or executive produced more than 650 television programs for networks including ABC, AE, Court TV, ESPN, Food Network, HGTV, History Channel and the Travel Channel. He has won an Emmy and more than twenty Telly awards. In 1999, Galloway co-founded Tentmakers...
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SAF Episode 53 - Rachel Goslins
Rachel Goslins is a documentary director and producer who has worked on productions for National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, AE and the History Channel, among others. Her short film, Onderduiken, was acquired for incorporation into the standardized civil rights curriculum for Northern California...
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SAF Episode 52 (VIDEO) - Kaaren Engel
Kaaren Engel began her career as an artist creating paintings on paper and canvas. These paintings often seemed to transcend the flat surface and, after several years, Kaarens art did in fact expand beyond two dimensions. Cutting, tearing and reassembling her paintings, Kaaren creates...
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SAF Episode 51 - Michael Swanson
In All About Us, two young African-American filmmakers struggle to make it in Hollywood. Unable to secure a distribution deal for their latest film, Ed (Boris Kodjoe) and Stacey Brown (Ryan Michelle Bath) are forced to reconsider their cinematic dreams. Despite having a finished product in the…
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SAF Episode 50 - Victor Zimet and Stephanie Silber
Random Lunacy is a documentary that chronicles the life and adventures of Poppa Neutrino and his family. From the streets of New York to a circus in Mexico, from the Arizona desert to an Atlantic Ocean crossing on a raft made of discarded materials, from Russia to Europe playing Dixieland jazz…
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SAF Episode 49 - Scott Hart
Scott Hart of Hart Law Firm in Atlanta is a major sponsor of SAFs Rhythm Roots, Southern Music Traditions traveling exhibit. Scott talks about the importance of the arts for society and in education and dispels the myth that only wealthy people can be arts supporters.
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SAF Episode 48 - Phoebe Ferguson
Directed by Phoebe Ferguson, Member of the Club tells the story of a debutante, Marisa Arianne Mitchell, who has been groomed to be a New Orleans Mardi Gras Queen since she was an infant. Surrounded by her mother, Adrienne Mitchell, and her grandmother, Lorraine Petit, Marisa is prepared to…
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SAF Episode - 47 - Stewart Wade and Antonio Brown
Tru Loved tells the story of a teenage daughter of lesbian mothers, Tru struggles as an outsider at her new high school in a conservative So. California town until high school quarterback Lodell takes an interest in her. The film traces their emerging friendship, her efforts to begin a…
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode 46 - Scott Chamberlin Hoyt
As founder of Tea Dragon Films, Scott Chamberlin Hoyt brings a wealth of experience to a film project about a ritual he has treasured since childhood - tea. His perspective is augmented by years of travel throughout the world and deepened by decades of exploration into Eastern thought. Hoyt is on...
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode 45 - Ben Russell
Ben Russell is an itinerant photographer, curator and experimental filmmaker whose works have screened in spaces ranging from 14th-century Belgian monasteries to 17th-century East India Trading Company buildings, from police station basements to outdoor punt squats, from Japanese cinematheques to...
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode 44 - Phyllis Lear
Mixed-media artist and arts instructor, Phyllis Lear tells us about how she developed her unique style of art-making and also how she was able to salvage some of her work prior to the arrival of Hurricane Gustav. The musical interludes in this interview are provided by two musicians also found on...
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Southern Arts Federation Special Episode 3 - Lynn Basa
Hear from Lynn Basa, a Chicago-based artist who will conduct a workshop for artists about finding and securing national public art commissions on October 25 in Atlanta.
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Southern Arts Federation Episode 43 - Aprill Winney
In Counting Backwards, Joe is diagnosed with leukemia the day after he meets Claire, the woman of his dreams. Choosing not to reveal his illness to Claire and refusing treatment so that he can spend his remaining days living the life that he always wanted, he begins writing a novel about his...
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Southern Arts Federation Episode 42 - Liz Lerman
2008 Performing Arts Exchange - Atlanta. Listen to Liz Lerman's keynote speech, recorded live at PAE.
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Special Episode 2 - Lila Kanner, Executive Director of Artadia
Listen to an interview with Lila Kanner, Executive Director of Artadia. Lila will be in Atlanta on October 15 to discuss Artadias funding for individual artists.
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode 41 - Adrian Belic
Allen Bell, Program Director for Contemporary Arts New Initiatives, interviews Adrian Belic Ed Artis, James Laws an Walt Ratterman are three middle-aged men whose idea of adventure is taking desperately needed food and medicine into the worlds most forbidding places, often at the front lines of...
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Special Episode Making the Case for Fiscal Support for Artists
Nikki Estes in an interview with Adam Natale of Fractured Atlas. Hear about their fiscal sponsorship program and other services for individual artists. Want to learn more? - Adam will participate in moderated panel discussion, Making the Case for Fiscal Support for Artists, on Monday, October 6…
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode 40 - Jed Riffe
The fascinating documentary Ripe for Change explores the intersection of food and politics in California over the last 30 years, illuminating the trade-offs between mass production, human health, and environmental balance. Featuring commentary by eloquent farmers, prominent chefs, noted authors…
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Southern Arts Federation Episode 39
Allen Bell, Program Director for Contemporary Arts New Initiatives, interviews Mohammed Naqvi. In the summer of 2002, in a remote village of Pakistan, thirty-year-old Mukhtaran Mais life changed when the village tribal council sanctioned a punishment against her for a crime allegedly committed by...
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Southern Arts Federation Episode 38 - David Dombrosky
Allen Bell interviews David Dombrosky of CAMT.
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode 37 - Justine Dennis
In this months SouthernArtistry.org artist interview Self-taught fiber artists Justine Dennis tells how she creates her whimsical fiber sculptures and how a single bag of cotton inspired her to take up sewing. Music by SouthernArtistry musicians Kenny Brown and Jerry Krahn.
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode 36 - Rueben Hoch
Hannah Leatherbury, E-services Manager at the Southern Arts Federation, interviews Rueben Hoch lead drummer and founder of the Chassidic Jazz Project (httpwww.southernartistry.orgThe_Chassidic_Jazz_Project). The group formed ten years ago to fill voids in both the Jazz and World music genres…
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode 35 - Malcolm White and Kim Whitt
Allen Bell interviews Malcolm White and Kim Whitt of the Mississippi Arts Commission Moving Toward the Art of Good Health The Mississippi Arts Commission, in a unique partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation, has launched a pilot program for students that combines the art...
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode 34 - Charles Wsir Johnson
Musician, storyteller, and instrument-maker Charles Wsir Johnson (httpwww.southernartistry.orgCharles_Wsir_Johnson) talks about the necessity of knowing how to repair and create his own instruments while living in a rural community, getting commissioned by Chuck D (front man for hip-hop group,...
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode XXXIII - Liisa Salosaari-Jasinski
Hannah Leatherbury, E-services Manager at the Southern Arts Federation, interviews Liisa Salosaari-Jasinski (httpwww.southernartistry.orgLiisa_Salosaari_Jasinski), whose interest in painting and visual arts blossomed later in life. Born and raised in Helsinki, Finland, Liisa came to the United...
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode XXXII - Jim Haverkamp
Allen Bell, Program Director for Contemporary Arts and New Initiatives, interviews Jim Haverkamp Jim Haverkamp is a filmmaker and editor based in Durham, NC. His short films have shown at over 50 film festivals worldwide, including Black Maria, Ann Arbor, Chicago Underground, Big Muddy, and...
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode XXXI - Nnenna Freelon
Hannah Leatherbury, E-Services Manager at the Southern Arts Federation. In February, I was lucky enough to interview jazz vocalistcomposer and educator, Nnenna Freelon (www.southernartistry.orgnnenna_freelon) in the midst of her travels across the country on the 22-state Monteray Jazz Festival…
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode XXX - Cathy Crane
Allen Bell, Program Director for Contemporary Arts and New Initiatives, interviews Cathy Crane Unoccupied Zone The Impossible Life of Simone Weil explores the life and thought of one of the most compelling and contradictory spiritual thinkers of our times. A pacifist who fought in the Spanish…
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode XXIX - Sherri Lynn Wood
Hannah Leatherbury, E-Services Manager, SAF, talks with multi-media artist Sherri Lynn Wood (www.southernartistry.orgSherry_Lynn_Wood) about her most recent project The Mantra Trailer. This 1972 breadbox trailer has been converted into a recording studio and broadcast station, which, travels the...
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode XXVIII - David Redmon
Allen Bell, Program Director for Contemporary Arts and New Initiatives, interviews David Redmon. Kamp Katrina is David Redmons second documentary film. If follows a New Orleans Upper 9th Ward resident, Ms. Pearl, and her attempt to open up her backyard to give shelter to those who lost their…
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Southern Arts Federation Episode XXVII - Thomas Nybo and Simon Umlauf
Allen Bell, Program Director for Contemporary Arts and New Initiatives, interviews Thomas Nybo and Simon Umlauf. Hip-hop is a musical form often driven by protest and rebellion against the authority that surrounds it. Thomas Nybo and Simon Umlaufs Guerrilla Radio The Hip-Hop Struggle Under Castro...
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Southern Arts Federation Episode XXVI - John McCutcheon
Hannah Leatherbury, E-Services Manager, Southern Arts Federation, talks with composermusicianstoryteller, John McCutcheon. When asked how he got into folk music, John told her that he took off from college to do an independent study in the hills of Kentucky with his banjo and that today hes still...
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode XXV - Socheata Poeuv
Allen Bell (new Program Director for Contemporary Arts and New Initiatives) interviews Socheata Poeuv. Socheata Poeuv has won multiple international cinema awards by the young age of 27. She recently made her filmmaking debut with New Year Baby, which won the highest human rights cinema award…
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode XXIV - Paul Festa
Allen Bell (SAF's new Program Director for Contemporary Arts and New Initiatives) interviews Paul Festa. Filmmaker and writer Paul Festa studied violin at the Julliard School before graduating in 1996 from Yale College, where he studied English. His essays have appeared in Nerve, Salon, Best Sex...
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode XXIII - Ken Murphy
Hannah Leatherbury, E-services manger, Southern Arts Federation, talks to photographer and Mississippi chronicler, Ken Murphy. Born in Germany and now a resident of Bay St. Lois, MS, Ken has captured his time in Mississippi with thousands of photographs of the state, most notably of the Gulf…
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode XXII - Teo Castellanos
Hannah Leatherbury, E-services manger, Southern Arts Federation, talks to actor, writer and director, Teo Castellanos. Born in Puerto Rico and now a resident of Miami, FL, Teo infuses his productions with rituals from cultures around the world and adds a good dose of local urban flavor. Having...
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Southern Arts Federation- Episode XIX - Jay Craven
David Dombrosky interviews Jaye Craven Jay Craven is an award-winning director, writer, and producer whose narrative films include High Water, Where the Rivers Flow North, A Stranger in the Kingdom, In Jest, The Year That Trembled, and Disappearances. Cravens films have played in 345 U.S. cities...
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode XVIII Andrew Garrison
David Dombrosky interviews Andrew Garrison. Andrew Garrison (director, cinematographer, co-editor) is an independent filmmaker who has worked on documentaries dealing with issues of community, culture and poverty. His award-winning narrative, The Wilgus Stories, was screened at international...
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Southern Arts Federation - Episode XVII
David Dombrosky interviews Cynthia Hill. Cynthia Hill is an independent filmmaker in Durham, North Carolina. Cynthia worked as a producer and editor at GLC Productions, a post-production facility in New York City, before returning to work on her own films in the South. Cynthia is the co-producer…
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Southern Arts Federation Episode XVI - Eden Brent
Hannah Leatherbury, E-services manger, Southern Arts Federation talks to singer and boogie-woogie pianist, Eden Brent. A native of Greenville, Mississippi, Eden earned a music degree from the University of North Texas, but credits most of her learning to a sixteen-year apprenticeship with the…
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About this show
The Southern Arts Federation (SAF) is a not-for-profit regional arts organization that has been making a positive difference in the arts throughout the South since 1975. SAF creates partnerships and collaborations; assists in the professional development of artists, arts organizations and arts professionals; presents, promotes and produces Southern arts and cultural programming; and advocates for the arts and arts education. The organization works in partnership with the nine state arts agencies of montage of images, Juggernut Jug band, Momentum Dance, New Stage Theater, Stain Glass Sam Corso and painting by Luz-Marie Lopez. Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. SAF is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), foundations, corporations, individuals and member states.
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