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The Gallery Gap

by WVIK, Quad Cities NPR

WVIK has partnered with the Figge Art Museum and Augustana College's Teaching Museum of Art to produce a new podcast focusing on underrepresented populations in art galleries across the world, and in our community. Melissa Mohr, director of Education at the Figge, and Claire Kovacs, director of the Augustana Teaching Museum of Art, host the Gallery Gap. Produced by Lacy Scarmana . Support for The Gallery Gap on WVIK comes from Pederson Paetz Design and the estate of Margaret Skinner, a long time friend of WVIK and lover of the arts.

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Episodes

  1. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 20: Magnetic Fields

    This is the final episode in a three part series about the National Museum for Women in the Arts (NMWA), an institution that has done so much in its brief 30 years to advocate for equity in the arts and beyond.

  2. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 19: NMWA Committing to Equity

    This episode continues Claire and Melissa’s three part series about the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) and its 30th anniversary.

  3. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 18: Celebrating 30 Years of the National Museum of Women in the Arts

    As Claire and Melissa close out the first season of The Gallery Gap, they have created a special three part series that celebrates the institution that inspired The Gallery Gap’s creation, the National Museum of Women in the Arts , or NMWA, located in Washington, D.C.

  4. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 17: Midwest Women Artists: Collaboration + Determination

    Melissa asks Claire about her recent experiences at the Biennial Midwest Artists Symposium , organized by the Illinois Women Artists Project (IWAP). Now in its fourth iteration, the symposium focused on Midwest women artists from the 1960s-1980s.

  5. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 16: Endless Flight

    In light of the current Figge exhibition , Edouard Duval Carrié: Endless Flight, Claire and Melissa explore the topic of Haitian art with Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrié and Caribbean art scholar, Dr. Alfredo Rivera of Grinnell College.

  6. 'The Gallery Gap' Presents: The Rainbow Coalition Panel

    This is the complete audio from the Rainbow Coalition panel held at the Augustana Teaching Museum of Art on August 30, 2017.

  7. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 15: Organize Your Own

    In this episode, we switch things up a bit, and Melissa talks to Claire about the Augustana Teaching Museum of Art's current exhibition, Organize Your Own: the Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements.

  8. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 14: Urban Exposure

    After a summer hiatus, Claire and Melissa jump back into The Gallery Gap with an interview of Quad Citizens Gaye Shannon Burnett and Jon Burnett regarding their summer film program, Urban Exposure .

  9. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 13: Kara Walker's The Emancipation Approximation

    Kara Walker's artwork The Emancipation Approximation is on view at the Figge until August 27. This series of 27 silkscreen prints features the provocative silhouettes for which Walker is known.

  10. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 12: Jefferson Pinder’s Ghost Light, Part 2

    In the second part of a two-episode conversation about art and race in the Quad Cities, Claire and Melissa continue talking with Chicago-based artist Jefferson Pinder.

  11. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 11: Jefferson Pinder’s Ghost Light, Part 1

    In the first part of of a two-episode conversation about art and race in the Quad Cities, Claire and Melissa speak with Chicago-based artist Jefferson Pinder.

  12. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 10: On Balance, Motherhood + Artmaking

    Claire and Melissa honor the mothers in their lives by considering the perennial question of balance, and in this case, balance between being both an artist and a mother.

  13. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 9: Remembrance + Restitution, Part 2

    In this episode, Melissa and Claire discuss a couple of recent films that grapple with the aftermath of WWII and the Holocaust, and pick up where they left off in their conversation with Dr. Jonathan Petropoulos.

  14. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 8: Remembrance + Restitution, Part 1

    In observance of Yom HaShoah, Claire and Melissa discuss the importance of remembering the Holocaust, and begin a conversation with Dr. Jonathan Petropoulos, professor of European History at Claremont McKenna College, about how Nazi looting of artwork was a way for the Nazis to dehumanize people.

  15. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 7: Earth Day Edition

    Melissa and Claire talk about the intersections of art, Earth Day , and the March for Science through a closer examination of artists Katja Loher and Maria Sybilla Merian .

  16. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 6: Funding Conundrum

    Claire and Melissa discuss federal funding for agencies that support arts, culture and education, such as the National Endowment for the Arts , the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Institute of Library and Museum Services.

  17. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 5: Representation + Community

    This week, Claire and Melissa sit down with Chicago-based artist Kiam Marcelo Junio to talk about their work, their recent exhibition and performance at the Augustana Teaching Museum of Art, and the obligation of institutions to create space and community for and around marginalized voices.

  18. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 4: #5WomenArtists

    The Gallery Gap launched in March in recognition of National Women’s History Month. Women artists are not the sole focus of this podcast, but they have certainly been the primary focus of this month’s episodes. To wrap up Women's History Month, Claire and Melissa play a game called #5WomenArtists.

  19. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 3: Out From The Shadows

    What would you do with pieces of wood and rope, a pair of antlers, and tar? Artist Alison Saar transforms all of these, and much more, to create dynamic sculptures and installations that examine the positioning of women and African-Americans, both throughout history and in contemporary culture.

  20. 'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 2: The Reckoning

    This week, Claire Kovacs and Melissa Mohr pick up where they left off by talking about the Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous group of feminist artists.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

WVIK has partnered with the Figge Art Museum and Augustana College's Teaching Museum of Art to produce a new podcast focusing on underrepresented populations in art galleries across the world, and in our community. Melissa Mohr, director of Education at the Figge, and Claire Kovacs, director of the Augustana Teaching Museum of Art, host the Gallery Gap. Produced by Lacy Scarmana . Support for The Gallery Gap on WVIK comes from Pederson Paetz Design and the estate of Margaret Skinner, a long time friend of WVIK and lover of the arts.

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WVIK has partnered with the Figge Art Museum and Augustana College's Teaching Museum of Art to produce a new podcast focusing on underrepresented populations in art galleries across the world, and in our community. Melissa Mohr, director of Education at the Figge, and Claire Kovacs, director of the...

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