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Radio GalleryRadio Gallery: Take a SurveyToday, host of Radio Gallery, Maija Jenson, signs off. The generosity of Duluth artists and educators, curators and organizers have made the program what is was, a spotlight on the creative ideas and local art across media. Since 2009, Radio Gallery has shared our interviews with students, emerging artists, professors, life-long makers and world famous artists. The artistic talent and opportunity in Duluth is enviable and only continues to grow.2019-06-2605 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: Sue RauschenfelsLocal painter Sue Rauschenfels has been busy creating new work in acrylic, and mixed media and has opened her latest exhibit at Pizza Luce, up through then end of June. With selections from multiple projects, the show includes her large scale "Trees" as well as pieces from the "Sisterhood" series and more. Rauschenfels also has work up at the Vanilla Bean in Two Harbors and is looking forward to her August show at the Whole Foods Coop - Denfeld.2019-06-1904 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: Ken BloomThis week, Director of the Tweed Museum of Art at UMD Ken Bloom retires. His dedication to local art, a growing Native American art collection and increased community programming will leave a lasting impression on the Tweed. But this is not the end, but rather new beginnings. Bloom has shared that he is returning to his first passion, photography, and will possibly return as a guest curator.2019-06-1204 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: Russ White"Another Fine Mess" drawings and installations by Russ White opens for one weekend only, Friday, June 7 - Sunday, June 9, at Squirrel Haus Arts in Minneapolis.2019-06-0505 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: Allen Killian-MooreYou may know local moving picture artist Allen Killian-Moore from his local film series the "Saltless Sea Cinema." If you are new to the work of Killian-Moore, wait no more. His show "I Am What's Wrong With the World" Is at the Duluth Art Institute May 23 - August 11, 2019. The films which delve in to ideas of power, disenfranchisement, both globally and personally, are all Killian-Moore's footage with original scores. His films are real, abstract, fine art and true life2019-05-2205 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: Duluth Dylan FestDuluth Dylan Fest kicks off Saturday May 18, with the opening of the William Pagel Archives Bob Dylan Exhibit at Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, with the reception happening the following Saturday, May 25 in conjunction with the John Bushey Memorial Lecture by David Gaines. The annual festival celebrates the legacy and music of Bob Dylan with a full week of events May 18-26 in Duluth, with art, poetry, a Dylan birthday party and of course nightly of music events.2019-05-1405 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: Robert Dewitt AdamsMixed media, painter, cartoonist and collage artist Rob Adams has a retrospective show up through May 24, at CF Design, before he ships out.2019-05-0705 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: BeadsA deeply Minnesotan exhibit called Beads opens this week at The Nordic Center in Duluth. Beads brings together beadwork pieces from northern peoples, "specifically the Norwegian Hardanger tradition and the Anishinaabe traditional and contemporary beadwork here in Minnesota,” according to the Nordic Center.2019-04-2405 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: Art for Earth DayThe Art for Earth Day Gallery Hop began 29 years ago in honor of the 20th anniversary of Earth Day. Everyone is invited to celebrate with earth-friendly and earth-honoring art, on Saturday April 20, from 10am-5pm in Duluth.2019-04-1704 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: Honestly tho..."Honestly tho...,"an exhibition about the revolutionary nature of vulnerability," opens this Friday, April 12 at Prøve Gallery in Duluth. This is a collective show, celebrating the power of intimacy, pleasure and physical body autonomy.2019-04-1005 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: Quilts Are MagicDuluth artist and musician, Scott Lunt celebrates his first solo quilt show, "Quilts are Magic," opening on Thursday, April 4 at the Kruk Gallery at the University of Wisconsin, Superior. His quilting is both a passion and an obsession, as both quilters and artists are compelled by their creativity.2019-04-0305 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: 150 Years of CLAA new exhibit opens at the Elmer L. Andersen Library on Friday, March 29, "Calling to Question: 150 Years of Liberal Arts Education at the University of Minnesota," part of a year-long celebration, "Shattering Expectations." The exhibit, created by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus, College of Liberal Arts in conjunction with the University Libraries, was culled from the archives to bring forward the rich heritage and personal stories from this 150 year legacy.2019-03-2705 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: Sirpa SärkijärviThe Joseph Nease Gallery welcomes a Finnish painter to Duluth this week. Opening on Friday, March 22 is Transcription by Sirpa Särkijärvi. Her active and fluid style brings her large scale figurative paintings to life. Driven by human connections to nature and the complexities of the human experience in this stressful modern world, her insights carry great expression.2019-03-2105 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: Arts GrantsThe Minnesota State Arts Board is an important resource for artists but also for educators, festival organizers and more. Applying for an arts grant can support tradiational arts, community education opportunities and even putting on a community, music or arts festival. We share our conversation with Executive Director, Sue Gens.2019-03-1404 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: WTF!On International Women's Day 2019, feminists will gather to celebrate the opening of the 3rd annual art exhibit, WTF! "What the Feminist" is a community collective art show up for the month of March at Prøve Gallery in Duluth. With a theme of feminism, artists in the Northland have put forth their works about equity, equality, women and so much more.2019-03-0804 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: Beehive CollectiveBeehive Design Collective have brought their art, storytelling and presentations to classrooms, coffee shops, colleges, conferences and this Wednesday, to Prøve Gallery in Duluth.2019-02-2705 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: Jay WhitcombHead out into the snow on Friday night for the Downtown Duluth Arts Walk and you'll find the work of Jay Whitcomb at Prøve Gallery. Whitcomb opened his exhibit "Demons and Angels: Moments of Clarity" on February 8, a collection of introspective figurative works in paint and ink.2019-02-2005 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: Gordon ParksThe National Gallery of Art in Washington DC along with consulting curator Philip Brookman have produced a retrospective exhibit spotlighting the early works of Minnesota’s most famous photographer, Gordon Parks.2019-02-1305 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: Sarah BrokkeDuluth painter Sarah Brokke opens a new show called "Sacred Selves" at The Duluth Pottery this week. In the heart of the Lincoln Park Craft District, The Duluth Pottery has emerged as an arts center, celebrating and sharing the work of two and three dimentional artists. Everyone is invited to an opening reception on Sunday Feb. 10, 4-6 p.m.2019-02-0605 minRadio GalleryRadio Gallery: WildThe Duluth Folk School is hosting their first art show reception this Friday! Local painter Alexa Carson and photographer Riah Beth have teamed up for a Wild exhibit about our environment, nature and inhabitants of the Northwoods. Carson 's paintings of wild animals are both beautiful and painterly yet are realistic glimpses in to the lives of animals. She joins us on Radio Gallery to talk about bringing her works or art to life.2019-01-3005 min
Talkhouse PodcastBen Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie) with Alan Sparhawk (Low)Today’s episode features Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie and Low’s Alan Sparhawk—and it's the first to be curated by Talkhouse’s new Executive Editor Josh Modell, who joins me to introduce it. (Welcome, Josh!) Ben and Alan’s talk goes all the way back to the earliest days of their bands, and up to the present with the fantastic LPs they each recently dropped. We hear about the formative teenage moments when seeing bands changed their lives; staying open to new sounds as "men of a certain age playing rock & roll;" Ben blatantly...2018-10-0953 min