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Libby and Roberta interviewed activist ceramic artist Roberto Lugo in 2013. The podcast is 17 minutes long and in it the artist explains his life journey from grafitti artist in Kensington to graduate of Penn State's art program. It's a great interview.

Amy Sadao, Director of the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)  has won many awards for her work as a curator, organizer and leader in the arts. There are not a lot of women directors of art museums, and Sadao says that’s a problem. She herself had strong woman mentors and credits them for her success. We […]

Libby and Roberta talk with Curator John Caperton about the complex and visually-exciting exhibit by Demetrius Oliver at the Print Center.

Ken Lum moved to Philadelphia in 2012 to head up the Fine Arts Undergraduate Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Right now, you can see work by Ken at his solo exhibition, The Mini-Mall Series, at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery. AND, coming in March, his work will be featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial!  In our podcast, Ken talks […]

John Kelly got a scholarship to American Ballet Theater when he was 17. After dancing for a while he went to Parsons to study art. Then he hit the East Village Paradise Club and began performing, singing songs, in boy drag or other drag (e.g., dressed as Joni Mitchell), and the rest is history. Kelly, […]

Art was the family business for Renny Molenaar and Rocio Cabello, owners of IMPeRFeCT Gallery in Germantown. Renny’s family includes many musicians and visual artists, and Rocio’s family includes a graphic design firm she worked for. The two met through Renny’s gallery in the South Bronx in the 1980s, Black and White in Color. The […]

Kay Healy is known for her “stuffed” wall works, printed environments that look like scenery for a play or life-size relief sculptures. The environments are domestic, with chairs, tables, a refrigerator, a sink — printed and stuffed.  The artist is from New York, and is sensitive to people’s loss of their domestic objects because of her […]

Lewis Colburn loves history and his sculptures and installations often deal with historical periods and ideas at play in those bygone eras. We would have loved to meet and talk with him in his studio in the Viking Mill building in Kensington, but that building, which houses many artists studios and small businesses, was recently closed […]

Donald Camp is a member of the Baha'i faith, and our interview with him involved talk about spirituality and seeking answers.  But in addition, Don told us about magic.  He is a trained magician, who learned his first tricks from his magician father.

Roberta and Libby interview artist Piper Brett in this 20-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview Antonio Puri in this 21-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Jess Perlitz makes work that you can interact with.  Sometimes there is a crank that will sound an air raid siren; sometimes there are steps to climb up to the top of a fortress lookout. Occasionally, she wears a costume and you interact with her. She sees her work as coming out of childhood play, […]

Roberta and Libby interview John Gatti in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview Mary Smull in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview Tim Eads in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

—>This podcast was originally published Feb. 14, 2011, following our interview with Daniel Traub at The Print Center where he had a show of his photographs.  Daniel’s film, with Glenn Holsten, The Barefoot Artist, a documentary on Daniel’s mother Lily Yeh, debuted at the Philadelphia Museum of Art last night.  The auditorium was jammed, every […]

Roberta and Libby interview artist Jacob Lunderby in this 16-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview Beth Heinly in this 16-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

“It’s possible here in Philly” Lindsay Chandler and A. J. Rombach moved to Philadelphia after graduating from art school (Lindsay, from RISD, and A.J. from Boston University).  They didn’t know each other before moving here but became friends through their network of artist friends.  The two artists helped co-found Fjord space on Frankford Ave. last […]

Michelle Post’s sculptural Tronies will debut as a permanent installation at Grounds for Sculpture this fall. In our podcast the artist tells us how she received the commission and how she conceived of the ten large portrait heads that sit on plinths like a chorus of grumpy citizen jurors waiting for something to pass judgment on. Post, a […]