The Gallery Gap
The Gallery Gap
WVIK, Quad Cities NPR
WVIK has partnered with the Figge Art Museum and Augustana College's Teaching Museum of Art to produce a new podcast focusing on underrepresented populations in art galleries across the world, and in our community. Melissa Mohr, director of Education at the Figge, and Claire Kovacs, director of the Augustana Teaching Museum of Art, host the Gallery Gap. Produced by Lacy Scarmana . Support for The Gallery Gap on WVIK comes from Pederson Paetz Design and the estate of Margaret Skinner, a long time friend of WVIK and lover of the arts.
'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 20: Magnetic Fields
This is the final episode in a three part series about the National Museum for Women in the Arts (NMWA), an institution that has done so much in its brief 30 years to advocate for equity in the arts and beyond.
Dec 20, 2017
31 min
'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 19: NMWA Committing to Equity
This episode continues Claire and Melissa’s three part series about the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) and its 30th anniversary.
Dec 20, 2017
37 min
'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 18: Celebrating 30 Years of the National Museum of Women in the Arts
As Claire and Melissa close out the first season of The Gallery Gap, they have created a special three part series that celebrates the institution that inspired The Gallery Gap’s creation, the National Museum of Women in the Arts , or NMWA, located in Washington, D.C.
Dec 20, 2017
22 min
'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 17: Midwest Women Artists: Collaboration + Determination
Melissa asks Claire about her recent experiences at the Biennial Midwest Artists Symposium , organized by the Illinois Women Artists Project (IWAP). Now in its fourth iteration, the symposium focused on Midwest women artists from the 1960s-1980s.
Dec 13, 2017
29 min
'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 16: Endless Flight
In light of the current Figge exhibition , Edouard Duval Carrié: Endless Flight, Claire and Melissa explore the topic of Haitian art with Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrié and Caribbean art scholar, Dr. Alfredo Rivera of Grinnell College.
Oct 4, 2017
47 min
'The Gallery Gap' Presents: The Rainbow Coalition Panel
This is the complete audio from the Rainbow Coalition panel held at the Augustana Teaching Museum of Art on August 30, 2017.
Sep 6, 2017
1 hr 28 min
'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 15: Organize Your Own
In this episode, we switch things up a bit, and Melissa talks to Claire about the Augustana Teaching Museum of Art's current exhibition, Organize Your Own: the Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements.
Sep 6, 2017
45 min
'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 14: Urban Exposure
After a summer hiatus, Claire and Melissa jump back into The Gallery Gap with an interview of Quad Citizens Gaye Shannon Burnett and Jon Burnett regarding their summer film program, Urban Exposure .
Aug 16, 2017
22 min
'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 13: Kara Walker's The Emancipation Approximation
Kara Walker's artwork The Emancipation Approximation is on view at the Figge until August 27. This series of 27 silkscreen prints features the provocative silhouettes for which Walker is known.
Jun 21, 2017
20 min
'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 12: Jefferson Pinder’s Ghost Light, Part 2
In the second part of a two-episode conversation about art and race in the Quad Cities, Claire and Melissa continue talking with Chicago-based artist Jefferson Pinder.
Jun 7, 2017
19 min
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