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Milwaukee PBS DigitalBlack Nouveau | Valerie Cassel OliverSend us a textValerie Cassel Oliver is curator of modern and contemporary art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Previously she was senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in Texas. Cassel's work is often focused on representation, inclusivity and highlighting artists of different social and cultural backgrounds.Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream2025-01-1506 min
The Art BizPutting Artists First in Curatorial Projects with Melissa Messina (#136)Putting Artists First in Curatorial Projects with Melissa Messina Today’s conversation on The Art Biz is packed with tips and insider info. In my conversation with independent curator Melissa Messina, we discuss what an independent curator does, how Melissa finds and works with artists, and what happens during a studio visit to an artist she is (or might be) working with. You won’t want to miss the insights she shares about common mistakes she sees artists making, as well as how to correct them. Above all, Melissa shares the empowering reminder that the artist is at t...2022-12-1556 min
Pinn Drop with Anthony Pinn'We're still here, against all odds' | Valerie Cassel OliverAnthony Pinn talks with award-winning curator of modern and contemporary art Valerie Cassel Oliver about her determination to bring the powerful work and experience of underrepresented artists and traditions to greater awareness.2022-12-1437 min
Barbara London Calling2.13 | Season Finale: Valerie Cassel OliverSeason Finale! Join Barbara and special guest Valerie Cassel Oliver, the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, for a look back at Season 2 of "Barbara London Calling."2022-04-2027 min
I SEE U28: Storytelling Art of The Dirty SouthTo be black and southern is to contend with the embedded legacy of racial terror and grapple with the unique and enduring culture created in its shadow. The term “dirty south” can invoke many images connected to southern agrarian life, but hip-hop artists have transformed it into a banner of pride. Dirty South now represents a short cut for understanding the perspectives of creatives who were raised or procured their work in the South – through music, art, fashion, and other forms of cultural products that possessed a specific, Southern lens. This work has been captured in an exhibit called, “Dirty South,” c...2021-12-1052 min
I SEE U28: Storytelling Art of The Dirty SouthTo be black and southern is to contend with the embedded legacy of racial terror and grapple with the unique and enduring culture created in its shadow. The term “dirty south” can invoke many images connected to southern agrarian life, but hip-hop artists have transformed it into a banner of pride. Dirty South now represents a short cut for understanding the perspectives of creatives who were raised or procured their work in the South – through music, art, fashion, and other forms of cultural products that possessed a specific, Southern lens. This work has been captured in an exhibit called, “Dirty South,” c...2021-12-1052 min
Artelligence PodcastExploring the Dirty South with VMFA's Valerie Cassel OliverValerie Cassel Oliver discusses her latest trailblazing exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, “The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse.” Illustrating, through the frame of Southern hip-hop, how early 20th-century Black visual and sound aesthetics helped shape contemporary Southern art, music, and a material culture of customized cars and personal adornment, Cassel Oliver’s show is an exemplary expression of her curatorial vision.
Cassel Oliver is the Sydney and Francis Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Prior to this position, she spent sixteen years at the Co...2021-10-0241 min
Artelligence PodcastExploring the Dirty South with VMFA's Valerie Cassel OliverValerie Cassel Oliver discusses her latest trailblazing exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, “The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse.” Illustrating, through the frame of Southern hip-hop, how early 20th-century Black visual and sound aesthetics helped shape contemporary Southern art, music, and a material culture of customized cars and personal adornment, Cassel Oliver’s show is an exemplary expression of her curatorial vision.
Cassel Oliver is the Sydney and Francis Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Prior to this position, she spent sixteen years at the Co...2021-06-3042 min
National Gallery of Art TalksJohn Wilmerding Symposium 2020, A Tribute to David C. Driskell: Part 6, Artist ConversationIntroductory remarks by Kaywin Feldman, director of the National Gallery of Art, and Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; conversation with artists Lyle Ashton Harris, Curlee Raven Holton, Keith Morrison, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Jefferson Pinder, Frank Stewart, and Carrie Mae Weems, moderated by Sarah Workneh, codirector of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; and Q&A joined by scholars Valerie Cassel Oliver, Julie L. McGee, and Alvia J. Wardlaw
Kaywin Feldman and Lonnie G. Bunch III introduce this artist conversation held on September 17, 2020, as part of the John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art, A Tribute to Da...2021-03-151h 33
On The Record... With MAH1 - International Women's DayHello and welcome to ‘On the Record … with MAH’ – the student led podcast by the School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex.In our first episode, Liepa Jusaite and Rosie Cook celebrate International Women’s Day with a discussion on women in art, giving credit to the female artists that inspired them to think differently.*NEW EPISODES MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY*Hosts - Liepa Jusaite and Rosie CookProducer - Sarika GandhiEditor - Semi LoukeriIntro Music - TalkettoOutro Music - Moisés C...2021-03-0824 min
BeYourOwnMuseReflections on David C. Driskell’s Enduring LegacyIn this Be Your Own Muse exclusive conversation, Dr. Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Dr. Kirsten Pai Buick, Naima Keith, and Valerie Cassel Oliver (who are each recipients of the Driskell Prize in African American Art and Art History) discuss the artistic legacy and influence of David C. Driskell. They reflect on David’s impact as a mentor, colleague, and confidant and discuss his commitment to “growing the field,” expanding opportunities for African Americans in the arts, and supporting Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Correction at 3:24: The correct name of the foundation mentioned is the Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation.2020-04-1549 min
Fresh Art InternationalThe Mind-Bending Mythology of Trenton Doyle HancockIn November 2019, Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock brings his mythological “Moundverse” to Miami. Locust Projects gives over the entire space to his site-specific installation. The artist will immerse us in a world inspired by comic books, toys, horror films and animations.
For decades, Hancock has been telling the story of the Mounds (gentle hybrid plant-like creatures) protected by Torpedo Boy (Hancock’s alter ego), and their enemies, the Vegans (mutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get). In paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, video and installation, the artist explores good and evil, authority, race and class, moral relati...2019-11-1218 min
Fresh Art InternationalThe Mind-Bending Mythology of Trenton Doyle HancockIn November 2019, Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock brings his mythological “Moundverse” to Miami. Locust Projects gives over the entire space to his site-specific installation. The artist will immerse us in a world inspired by comic books, toys, horror films and animations.
For decades, Hancock has been telling the story of the Mounds (gentle hybrid plant-like creatures) protected by Torpedo Boy (Hancock’s alter ego), and their enemies, the Vegans (mutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get). In paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, video and installation, the artist explores good and evil, authority, race and cl...2019-11-1218 min
Fresh Art InternationalArt and Film Illuminate the Black ImaginationHow do contemporary art and film illuminate the Black Imagination? This segment from our archive explores some of the issues and ideas behind creative practices that re-imagine the Black experience.
To begin, we share a conversation recorded with curator Valerie Cassel Oliver from 2013, while she was working at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Cassel Oliver is now Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where she's expanding the representation of African American and African-diasporic artists in the Museum's collection.
On November 2, 2016, artists, filmmakers and curators joined us to consider this topic during the Fresh...2019-08-0557 min
Fresh Art InternationalArt and Film Illuminate The Black ImaginationHow do contemporary art and film illuminate the Black Imagination? This segment from our archive explores some of the issues and ideas behind creative practices that re-imagine the Black experience.
To begin, we share a conversation recorded with curator Valerie Cassel Oliver from 2013, while she was working at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Cassel Oliver is now Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where she's expanding the representation of African American and African-diasporic artists in the Museum's collection.
On November 2, 2016, artists, filmmakers and curators joined us to consider...2019-08-0557 min
LookSEEHowardena Pindell:What Remains to Be SeenSince the 1960s, multidisciplinary artist Howardena Pindell has been pushing the limits. She was one of the first women of color to curate at a major museum, an abstract painter when black artists were expected to represent their ideas figuratively, and overt about social and political issues when abstract artists where expected to produce work free of such “impurities”. She broke the boundaries of painting itself, using unconventional materials and techniques in her work from the beginning of her career. And she continues to challenge art world dogma as her career moves into its 6th decade. Join LookSEE for a conv...2018-09-2600 minLookSEEValerie Cassel OliverContemporary art is a primary driver of attendance and attention for art museums today. Museum goers line up for hours, online and in person, to score tickets to blockbuster exhibitions like Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms or to get into hot contemporary art museums like The Broad in Los Angeles, where you can watch the wait time tick up on a dedicated Twitter account. Contemporary art can also be a bit confusing. But the eclectic and inclusive nature of art being made today has a lot to teach us about how to experience the world we live in.
Valerie Ca...2017-10-2500 min
Fresh Art InternationalContemporary Black Art in Miami - 02Nov2016Let’s dig into the world of Contemporary Black Art in Miami. We hear curator Valerie Cassel Oliver discuss her exhibition project: Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art as well as what it means to be a curator and how everything starts with a question. We expand the conversation to include Contemporary Black Art, Performance, Film and Collecting.
In the Studio: Artist Jamilah Sabur, Founding Director of Prizm Art Fair Mikhaile Solomon, ArtCenter/South Florida Artistic Director Natalia Zuluaga and Artist Domingo Castillo.
Photo: Domingo Castillo, Jamilah Sabur, Cathy Byrd, Mikhaile Solomon, and Natalia Zuluaga at Jolt Radio.2016-11-0953 min
Fresh Art InternationalContemporary Art and the Black ImaginationBringing local creatives into the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami, we dig into contemporary art and the black imagination. Curator Valerie Cassel Oliver sets the tone in a conversation we recorded about her exhibition project: Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art. We expand the dialogue to include introduce artists, filmmakers and curators working with black art, film and collecting in Miami.
In the Studio: Filmmakers Jamilah Sabur, Founding Director of Prizm Art Fair Mikhaile Solomon, ArtCenter/South Florida Artistic Director Natalia Zuluaga and Artist Domingo Castillo. Call in: Amir George, filmmaker and co-founder of Black Radical Imagination.
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Fresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Radical PresenceThis Fresh Talkepisode features Jean-Ulrick Désert and Trenton Doyle Hancock, two of the artists participating in Radical Presence:Black Performance in Contemporary Art. Curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver for the Museum of Contemporary Arts inHouston (CAMH), the exhibition is now appearing in New York City. Some of theshow’s performance art events will be featured in New York’s Performa 13 this November.
To hear CathyByrd’s unedited recording sessions with Jean-Ulrick and Trenton, go to the newFresh Talk UNCUT podcast series.
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Episode Sound: TrentonDoyle Hancock, performing Devot...2013-10-2313 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Valerie Cassel OliverIn Houston, Cathy Byrd meets Senior Curator Valerie Cassel Oliver at the Contemporary Arts Museum to tour Valerie’s latest exhibition project: Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art. Recipient of the 2011 David C. Driskell Prize for her contribution to the field of African American art history, Valerie talks about what it means to be a curator and how everything starts with a question.
Sound Editor: Eric Schwartz | Photos: Joe DeMarco and CAMH | Episode Sound: Excerpts of performance art projects in this order: Ben Patterson, Pond, 1962; Shaun El C. Leonardo, The Arena, 2012; Trenton Doyle Hancock, Devotion, 2013; Ben Patterson, Ant, 1960-20102013-02-2512 min