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Riverside Chats219. Artist Carmen Winant on "The last safe abortion"Carmen Winant is an artist, photographer, writer, and art professor at The Ohio State University. Her work involves installation and collage work to examine survival and revolt through a feminist lens. Her traveling exhibition “The last safe abortion” opens Jan. 18 at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
“The last safe abortion” is an exploration of women’s health clinics and abortion providers, with a particular focus on the Midwest. The installation is composed of photos of behind-the-scenes work related to reproductive healthcare, such as answering phones, sterilizing equipment, conducting training sessions and scheduling appointments.
Bemis’ Rachel Adams curated...2025-01-1151 minRiverside Chats153. Jennifer Ling Datchuk on "Eat Bitterness" and Exploring Fragility, Femininity, Identity, and Personal History through ArtIn China, the phrase “to eat bitterness” means to persist through hardship without complaint. Artist Jennifer Ling Datchuk used the idiom to title her collection of new and recent work, comprising ceramics, textiles, video and other mediums. Datchuk is a Texas-based artist of Irish and Chinese ancestry.
In this conversation with Maria Corpuz, she discusses her work, which explores the intersections of her own identity, as well as the role of women and global labor inequality. Through material culture, the history of craft, and by championing the handmade, Datchuk challenges the social, political, and cultural systems that cont...2023-06-2553 min
Riverside Chats133. Keith Rodger on the History and Promise of the Omaha Music SceneKeith Rodger is a musician, producer and audio engineer who performs as Kethro. Rodger has made a name for himself in the music industry while based in his hometown of Omaha. In 2014, he started touring as an engineer with The Faint, Tuxedo, and CeeLo Green. He honed his craft as a DJ and sound designer at local outlets including eighty-nine-seven The River, Make Believe Studios and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
Today, he’s in conversation with Maria Corpuz about the Omaha music scene, how it can grow, and how it’s changed since the COVID pandemic.2023-01-2153 min
Archive Dive with the Superior Telegram1 year later, the history of the century-old Superior buildings lost to fireFire destroyed two storied Superior warehouses one bitterly cold day, Jan. 6, 2022 . No one was injured, but Superior Mayor Jim Paine called it “a terrible tragedy for the city.” In this month's podcast, Telegram reporter Maria Lockwood is once again joined by local historian and retired librarian Teddie Meronek as they discuss the history of the Osborne Warehouse and the Twohy Mercantile Building, also know as the Bayside Warehouse, which were built in the 1890s. Built with large pieces of timber, which was slower to burn, both were prominently mentioned in newspaper articles as being fire safe. "The...2023-01-1122 min
Bigger Than CapesIssue #11 - February 2021 Indie Comics Round-UpWe're rounding-up February's comics! We're focusing on Luna #1 by Maria Llovett from Boom! Studios, Radiant Black by Kyle Higgins & Marcelo Costa from Image Comics, Savage by Max Bemis & Nathan Stockman from Valiant, and Hollow Heart by Paul Allor & Paul Tucker from Vault! There's also a good helping of weird tangents and a news segment that's really just us talking about the announcement of Todd McFarlane's Spawn shared universe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2021-02-271h 38
Check It OutEpisode Thirty-Three (October 2017)Ben Mills recommends a cookbook full of year-round farm-fresh recipes (11:12); Silvia Schuh talks October and November arts and crafts (7:57); and Mari McKeeth recommends some epistolary novels, with the help of the host (19:07). Ben recommends: Dishing Up the Dirt by Andrea Bemis Mari recommends: Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn World War Z by Max Brooks The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Giliad by Marilynne Robinson Jared recommends: 2017-10-2145 min
Madness RadioBorderlands Acupuncture | Herman Garcia – Ryan Bemis | Madness RadioAre psychiatric treatments, experts, and medications the best way for traumatized communities to heal their mental health problems? Could indigenous practices, including traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture, offer a different way forward — through grassroots community development?
Herman Garcia is the Vice President and Ryan Bemis Founder of Crossroads Community Supported Healthcare, which offers practical skills training to local healers in the violence-stricken communities of Ciudad Juarez and Sierra Tarahumara, Mexico. Joined by health promotors Maria de Jesus, Sister Maria de Rosario Cordova, and Gloria of the Rahrami indigenous group, they discuss supporting communities harmed by the War on Drugs, s...2016-12-0855 min