American Women — Art and artists

  • The Berkeley museum opening / moderated by Clare Spark.

    Clare (Loeb) Spark interviews Barbara Rose, Vicci Sperry and William Ezelle Jones about the opening of the Berkeley Museum. Barbara Rose was interviewed at the University of California at Berkeley, followed by a live discussion (at 29 minutes in) with Vicci Sperry, artist and author of “The art experience,” as well as protegee of Hans…

  • Art now / Clare Spark.

    Clare Loeb introduces a recording of Dr. David Kunzle, Ph.D, on artist-caricaturist Honore Daumier (1808 – 1879), his influence, and political art in general. Kunzle’s lecture, which was originally delivered to an audience at the Bing Theatre of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where a concurrent exhibit of Daumier’s work was being shown…

  • Arttalks: Alice Aycock interviewed by Jane Hall and Don Joyce (Episode 4)

    Sculptor Alice Aycock (b. 1946) discusses her life and work with Jane Hall and Don Joyce. Recorded at the San Francisco Art Institute, Summer 1979. Broadcast: KPFK, 1980. Arttalks is a series of interviews and verbal art, broadcast alternating Fridays on KPFA.

  • Yoko Ono interview / by Barbara Cady.

    Musician and artist Yoko Ono discusses the feminist movement and its relationship to the mass media with KPFK’s Barbara Cady. Ono and Cady discuss how women’s art and writing is ignored by the media, dissect some of the criticisms of the women’s movement, and discuss some of Ono’s recent art. Contains some sensitive language. Identical…

  • Design process Olivetti, 1908-1978 / Nathan Shapira ; interviewed by Clare Spark.

    UCLA professor discusses industrial design, the role of the user in design, corporate patronage, the role of women in the Olivetti corporation, and the Olivetti exhibition which he prepared at UCLA. Also a discussion of the new satellite technology for public radio.

  • The Photographer as discoverer : Dorothea Lange / Milton Meltzer interviewed by Susan Anderson.

    Susan Anderson interviews Milton Meltzer, writer and historian, about his book, “A photographer’s life,” a biography of the great American photographer Dorothea Lange (1895 – 1965). Meltzer describes the genesis behind much of her work as a photographer of migrant labor communities, her travels around the United States, and her writing, which often accompanied her…

  • A haven for the next Saul Bellow? / produced by Judith Ghinger and David Levine.

    A conversation with William Smart, director of the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Arts Colony in Sweetbriar, Virginia, and two veterans of the Center: Edwin “Ed” Honig, poet, and Jean Zaleski, painter. Smart describes the history and role of the Virginia Center Arts Colony, and the two artists describe what it was like to…

  • Carnival strippers / by Susan Meiselas ; interviewed by Barbara Londin.

    Barbara Londin speaks with photographer Susan Meiselas about her book “Carnival Strippers.” This book is a photo-documentary of the intimate professional and private lives of New England county carnival strippers. Meiselas talks about how she gained entrance into the world of carnival strippers, explains how the world of strippers operates, and about stripping as the…

  • Mother, father and child / Laurel Brodsley

    An experimental radio drama by Laurel Brodsley, for three voices and electronic workshop. This premiere KPFK performance, featuring Michael and Candy of the Provisional Theater and Kevin Sullivan, concerns itself with the developing madness of a child and his experience of his family. The play was directed by Laurel Brodsley with sound engineering and synthesizer…

  • We work alone : a panel of artists / moderated by Barbara Londin.

    Host Barbara Londin talks with four of her fellow painters – Jack Tricarico, Ruth Roberts, Carol Stronghilos, and Paul Rodonno[sp?] – about their isolated working conditions they have in common, what it means to their work, their soul, their friends, and their families.