The Boston Art Podcast

In which Theo & Brian sit down with curator, writer, and arts professional, Michelle Millar Fisher. "Michelle Millar Fisher is currently the Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts within the Contemporary Art Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work focuses on the intersections of people, power, and the material world. At the MFA, she is working on her next book and exhibition, tentatively titled Craft Schools: Where We Make What We Inherit which is taking her across 48 contiguous US states via train over the course of a year. The recipient of an MA and an M.Phil in Art History from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, she received an M.Phil from and is currently completing her doctorate in art history at The Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). She is part of the 2022 fellow cohort at the Center for Curatorial Leadership.She has long been interested in the confluence of gender and design. She has written widely on care work, mothering, and reproductive labor, including parenting in museums (and hiding care work at work), being childfree, grief and mothers, and the architecture of maternity. Since 2017, she has co-organized an independent team of collaborators around a book (MIT Press 2021), exhibition, curriculum, and program series called Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births. Find it on Instagram at @designingmotherhood. In 2017, she co-organized an exhibition and book, I Will What I Want: Women, Design, and Empowerment, in conjunction with muca-Roma, Mexico City. Previously, she was the The Louis C. Madeira IV Assistant Curator of European Decorative Arts and Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where she co-organized Designs for Different Futures (book and exhibition, 2019), helped rethink the display of nineteenth century European decorative arts, and engaged in research for the PMA’s new Gehry galleries which center contemporary art and design production at local and global levels. From 2014-2018 she was a Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she co-organized, amongst others, the exhibitions Design and Violence, This Is for Everyone: Design Experiments for the Common Good, From the Collection, 1960-1969 and Items: Is Fashion Modern? as well as accompanying catalogues.Before that, she worked for four years as a museum educator at the Solomon. R. Guggenheim Museum and as a research intern in Arms & Armor for a year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She frequently lectures at conferences and symposia, and has been an adjunct lecturer at many schools, including Parsons The New School for Design, CUNY’s Baruch College, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Graham Foundation Award, a Pew Center for Arts & Heritage project award, a Sachs Program for Arts Innovation Award, a full CUNY Graduate Center Enhanced Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship, several Kress Foundation Institutional Grants for Digital Resources, a DAAD Summer Language Fellowship, and an Arts & Humanities Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship.Collaboration and mentorship is at the core of her practice (see the open-source PPT for crediting museum teams here). Here are some of the amazing folks she’s worked with of late, check out their work and/or ask them to speak about it: Chenoa Baker (emerging curator extraordinaire), Dr. Juliana Rowen Barton (architecture and design historian), Adrianne Edwards (maternal child health advocate) Tekara Gainey (doula), Zoë Greggs (activist and arts administrator), Porsche Holland (birth advocate) Gabriella Nelson (urban planner and maternal policy expert), Sabrina Taylor (children’s author and early childhood education expert), Amber Winick (design historian and childcare expert), Maternity Care Coalition (Philly), and the Neighborhood Birth Center (Boston).In 2011, she co-founded ArtHistoryTeachingResources.org, a Kress Foundation-funded project now used in over 185 countries. In 2019, she co-founded Art + Museum Transparency, dedicated to supporting critical conversations on the intersections of art and labor, and home to the Salary Transparency Spreadsheet."Biography sourced from https://michellemillarfisher.com/Abouthttps://www.instagram.com/michellemillarfisher/Episode Artwork by Brigitte Lacombehttps://www.brigittelacombe.com/

In which Brian & Theo sit down with artist, curator, and gallerist, Frankie Symonds for their third appearence on The Boston Art Podcast. Since their solo show 'Gate of Heaven' at Distillery Gallery in South Boston last year, Frankie has opened an art gallery in Salem, Massachusetts. https://shoebonesboston.info/about/https://www.instagram.com/shoe.bones/https://www.instagram.com/realslimfrankie/

In which Theo & Brian discuss first kisses, first dates, and other fun stuff.We're also launching a Patreon !!!!!!!

In which Brian & Theo talk with artist Ryan Dempsey.Ryan Dempsey is a 20-year old artist from Arizona who is receiving his BFA in painting at the highly acclaimed College of Fine Arts at Boston University. Ryan has had multiple solo shows across the west (his first being at the age of 9), and participated in a number of group shows in Arizona, California, and Boston. Ryan first picked up a brush at the age of 5, and built a technical ability over years of hyperrealism painting (see high school works). He paints from life and from experience, taking ordinary events/objects and transforming them into tactile artifacts that reflect his way of seeing with an emphasis on mark making and surface quality. Varying the speed at which he works, Ryan’s fusion of various painting languages manipulates how the eye moves across one of his canvases. A typical painting of his will include realism, broad flat spaces, gestural mark-making, and forms of printmaking all coexisting in one world. Ryan Dempsey works to develop an internally niche language of poetics through developed motifs and textual elements with an aim on achieving maximum aesthetic convention and making paintings good enough for your guest bathroom.above text sourced from the artist's website.https://www.ryandempseyart.com/

In which Theo & Brian discuss art, anitque photos, and proffessionalism. https://www.bostonartpodcast.com/

In which Brian & Theo answer listener questions.https://www.bostonartpodcast.com/

In which Theo & Brian talk about interviewing, art, and family. https://www.bostonartpodcast.com/

In which Theo & Brian talk with accomplished film maker, photographer, and installation artist, Jaina Cipriano. __Jaina Cipriano is a Boston based artist communicating with the world through photography, film and installation. Her works explore the emotional toll of religious and romantic entrapment.Jaina creates her photographs in built sets, forgoing digital manipulation because she believes creating something truly immersive starts with the smallest details. A self taught carpenter, Jaina loves a challenge and her larger than life sets draw inspiration from the picture books and cartoons of her childhood. Jaina writes and directs short films that wrestle with the complicated path of healing. In 2020 she released ‘You Don’t Have to Take Orders from the Moon’, a surrealist horror film wrestling with the gravity of deep codependency. Her second short, ‘Trauma Bond’ is a dreamy coming of age thriller and is planned for a 2022 release.Working with many local organizations to support and strengthen the community, Jaina was a judge for The Arlington International Film Festival, she dispersed funds for the inter-media portion of the Somerville Arts Council Grant Board, built sets for Arlington Friends of the Drama and served on the board of the New England Sculptors Association. Jaina is also the founder of Finding Bright, a design studio specializing in set building for music videos as well as hosting events that bring the Boston art scene together.Jaina studied at The New England School of Photography and has been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions around New England.Bio sourced from artist's website. http://www.jainaciprianophotography.com/about-jaina

In which Theo & Brian sit down with artist, Breanna Cee Martins."Breanna Cee Martins paints the mirage of an America that never existed, for people like her and entire swaths of the population of this country. The artist’s watercolor paintings fall away from the viewer like a half-remembered dream; images of ghostly and phantom children, coming together to explode in kaleidoscopic colors. Working from found black and white photos, the images metamorphose into Technicolor nightmares, the old made new. Children dressed up as monsters, and monsters dressed up as children; these monochromatic visions glow with infernal light, watching the viewer, watch them. Posed family photos capture the conflicts raging beneath the surface; the pause or unease creating narrative tension, a rift between what is expected and what’s seen, and better left unsaid. They are images captured from the afterglow of a fading star, an apparition of our world growing dimmer amidst the passage of time. These paintings confront you with pleading eyes, asking the viewer to delve deeper into the question, does this familial imagery have personal meaning to you?Or, is it evocative of an emotional scene you might have remembered, yet never experienced?"Text sourced from artist's website: https://www.breannamartins.com/www.instagram.com/prettyspookygirls

In which Theo & Brian answer a few questions such as how to start a drawing, how to be an art vendor, and what to do if no one likes your art. Enjoy! https://www.bostonartpodcast.com/