Live Culture with Martha Willette Lewis -- Episode 27 Things that fly: Flags and Overpasses

Sat, 27 May 2017 11:00:00 GMT

This month’s episode features a conversation with Dave Coon, one of the organizers of Broad Stripes and Bright Stars a major art exhibition opening in late June in New Haven, and, in the second half we offer a talk with Site Projects’ Laura Clarke and artist Robert Greenberg about the public artworks in the works for the highway underpass on state street, which is getting a major permanent installation by Shelia De Bretteville.

Broad Stripes and Bright Stars is being organized by Dave Coon and Aicha Woods and will run from June 29- August 12 at the Ely Center For Contemporary Art. This large group show features national and internationally known artista and will occupy the whole building and will include pop-up shop of artist-made flag related goods.

Ely Center of Contemporary Art
51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT

More about it here: https://www.elycenter.org/events/broad-stripes-and-bright-stars

Site Projects is hosting an event which will feature Robert Greenberg’s new film on June 10th at Union Station New Haven, free and open to the public.

More about that here: http://siteprojects.org/events/2017/5/24/community-celebration-for-lighting-your-way-at-union-station

And more about the massive underpass project here:http://siteprojects.org/sheila-de-bretteville-lighting-your-way

This show features musical clips from Fleetwood Mac and Wilco.

Live Culture with Martha Willette Lewis --Episode 18

Sat, 27 Aug 2016 10:55:00 GMT

Glitches solved: This month Martha is in conversation with artist Abigail Reynolds about her forthcoming film project The Mothers Bones. This episode was recorded live from the boot of Abigail's car on the coastal cliffs of Cornwall and features selections from the original musical score for her film composed by St Keverne Brass Band leader Gareth Churcher, and played by the band in the Dean Quarry. Don't miss this special end-of-summer conversation about art, place, time, mythology, industry,and collaboration...

find out more about the film here http://www.mothersbones.com/
find out more about the music http://www.mothersbones.com/composition

and the St Keverne Brass Band here http://www.stkeverneband.com/

Abigail Reynolds lives in St Just, Cornwall, and has a studio at Porthmeor in St Ives. She studied English Literature at Oxford University before pursuing Fine Art. Her interest in books & libraries prompts her collages and sculpture which are often composed of found photographs spliced to create fresh narratives.
Recently she has worked with Rambert as their inaugural artist-in-residence, and The Guardian Picture Library.
She has work in the Government Art Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New York Public Library and many private collections.

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Live Culture with Martha Willette Lewis -- Episode 27 Things that fly: Flags and Overpasses

Live Culture with Martha Willette Lewis --Episode 18