Articulated: Dispatches from the Archives of American Art
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
4 – Pat Steir: The Romance of Painting
Contributed by Lukas
Pat Steir (b. 1938) is synonymous with bold painting, and she has been shaping the arts in the United States and beyond since the 1970s. Through exh...
3 – Lenore Chinn: Along for the Ride
Contributed by Lukas
Hear from Lenore Chinn (b. 1949), a painter, photographer, activist, and legacy steward who has preserved the memories of multiple San Francisco com...
2 – Leo Tanguma: Great Humanity
Contributed by Lukas
Leo Tanguma (b. 1941) is a Chicano muralist and activist whose work in Texas and Colorado have spurred new generations of creativity and social aware...
1 – Anita Fields: How We Gather
Contributed by Lukas
Anita Fields (Osage | b. 1951) is an artist who makes history palpable through ceramics, textiles, and more. Hear her journey in her own words and ho...
Season 4 Trailer
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 4 of ARTiculated arrives just in time for the holidays on December 3. Hear about the lives and work of ceramicist and textile artist Anita F...
12 - This women's thing: feminism and the arts
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Through many modes and for many aims, feminists have sought to improve equity in and through the visual arts. In this episode, hear from a variety of ...
11 - Classical Continuity: history in series with Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence profoundly shaped the depiction of American history in art through their ambitious and insightful oeuvres. From gene...
10 - A Class by Themselves: Joe Feddersen, G. Peter Jemison, and the eternal futures of Native American art
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For more than 50 years, Joe Feddersen (Colville) and G. Peter Jemison (Seneca, Heron Clan) have been creating works that extend Native heritage and en...
9 - Collective Force: Chicano Artists and the United Farm Workers
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout decades of protecting workers and their rights, the United Farm Workers union has been a significant nexus for artists and activists. In th...
8 - Back to School: education, pedagogy, apprenticeship, and the arts
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Artistic education takes many shapes, as artists pass down skills and traditions to see them transformed by new hands. In this episode, hear how the c...
7 - Critical Distance: surface dynamics with Rosalyn Drexler and Sturtevant
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As mass media exploded and the American art scene bloomed in the 1950s and 60s, Rosalyn Drexler and Sturtevant pushed back on corrosive cultural assum...
6 - A Sea of Solidarity/ Un mar de solidaridad: the artist en comunidad with Guadalupe Maravilla and Cinthya Santos-Briones
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The fourth in a series on healing and belonging, this episode reflects on art as community care work. In her 2020 pandemic oral history interview, pho...
5 - Resisting Extraction: embracing ecosystems with Carolina Caycedo and Lita Albuquerque
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Art emerges through communities within their environments, and in this episode, installation artists Carolina Caycedo and Lita Albuquerque reflect on ...
4 - Don’t You Recognize Me? Making and Giving Space with Firelei Báez and Julia Santos Solomon
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was co-curated by Fernanda Espinosa, a National Endowment for the Humanities - Oral History Association Fellow. Any views, findings, conc...
3 - Essential Memories and Other Stories: healing through time with Koyoltzintli Miranda-Rivadeneira
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
New York-based artist Koyoltzintli describes her journey from photojournalism to healing through ritual and reclamation. From finding threads with her...
2 - Reflection and Reconciliation: legacies of the Japanese American incarceration and the arts
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From 1942–1946, more than 125,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated at camps throughout the country. This episode traces the lasting consequences...
1 - Relocation and Dislocation: revisiting Japanese American incarceration and the arts
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From 1942–1946, more than 125,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated at camps throughout the country. Artists including Ruth Asawa, Miyoko Ito, Is...
12 - Cracking the Wall Open: Murals and Community with Willie Herrón
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Willie Herrón’s murals enrich his East Los Angeles community by preserving history and planting seeds for the future. In this episode, New Mexico-b...
11 - Brainwashed: Decoding and Deprogramming with Emma Amos and Bruce Conner
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Artists often help us to break out of the paradigms to which we are knowingly and unknowingly accustomed. In this episode, New York- and Philadelphia-...
10 - The Art of Detection: Knowing and Feeling with Jerome Caja and Michelle Stuart
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do we understand our bodies in relation to the earth? In this episode, Columbus, Ohio-based artist Dionne Lee meditates on the wonder and danger o...
9 - Kathy Vargas: the Personal Political
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, San Antonio-based photographer Mari Hernandez considers the social, political, and formal trails blazed by Kathy Vargas, another San ...
8 - By Gut and Heart: Painting with Kay WalkingStick
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Brooklyn-based painter Maia Cruz Palileo navigates Cherokee painter Kay WalkingStick's journey with family, art, and history. From gr...
7 - Weaving and Shaping Native Art Today: A Balance Between the Contemporary and the Traditional
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Native Hawaiian lauhala weaver Katherine Kalehuapuakeaula “Lehua” Domingo (1935-) and Hopi ceramicist Al Qöyawayma (1938-) are two elder Indigeno...
6 - Rage and Mourning: Women's Art in Public with Suzanne Lacy and Juana Alicia
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does art make happen, and what can art make happen? Artists have adapted a variety of forms to encourage equity and advancement, creating art tha...
5 - Border Material: Mending with Consuelo Jiménez Underwood
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Consuelo Jiménez Underwood has blazed her own trail in fiber art, weaving with heritage and healing. Across borders, identities, and time, she create...
4 - Imaging Feminism: Sarah Charlesworth and Celia Alvarez Muñoz
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Images shape our sense of self, both as we receive and as we express them. Artists have interrogated the power of images for an array of feminist aims...
3 - Catherine Opie: Holding History
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Opie’s photographs examine the markers of human experience, how they individuate and connect us. Throughout her career she has foregrounde...
2 - Jesse Treviño: Spurring San Antonio
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Art reflects and shapes communities, and Jesse Treviño has made a career of enriching his lived environment in San Antonio, Texas. His work cherishes...
1 - Frederick Weston: A Legacy of Love
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Artist, poet, activist, menswear designer, and renowned hugger Frederick Weston (1946–2020) found community wherever he went. Through collected ephe...
9 - Oral History at the Archives of American Art
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Oral history provides a medium by which we can share our voices and stories. The Archives of American Art has one of the oldest collections of oral hi...
8 - The Preservation and Maintenance of Cultural Heritage
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to conserve and sustain culture? How to we care for art, artifacts, and legacies? At the Archives of American Art, these questions a...
7 - Women and Technology
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Digital art has surged in recent years, but its current flash builds on decades of innovation in computing, video, and other technologies in which wom...
6 - I am a Lesbian and Proud: the AIDS crisis, community, and queer visibility
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to the members of fierce pussy describe their approach to direct action, lesbian visibility, and allyship along the arc of their careers and co...
5 - The AIDS Crisis and Queer Activist Art
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What makes an activist group, how do they come together, and how are they most effective? This episode traces the rise and impact of ACT UP, or the AI...
4 - The New Deal Era Arts Projects: New Horizons
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Art in America was forever altered by the New Deal, and its sweeping significance is palpable throughout infrastructure, public art, photography, and ...
3 - The New Deal Era Arts Projects: Issues of Labor and Equity
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The WPA (Works Progress Administration) was designed as an open relief roll, operating without discrimination based on sex or race and only mandating ...
2 - The New Deal Era Arts Projects: The Making of American Art
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The diversity, breadth, and ubiquity of New Deal arts projects reveal both the country's sense of what art was and how it should shape the American pe...
1 - The New Deal Era Arts Projects: A Background
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Archives’ debut podcast episode focuses on the New Deal arts initiatives, providing an overview of their major features and a wide perspective o...
Articulated Season 1 Trailer
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Get a sneak peek of what’s in store on Season 1 of Articulated: Dispatches from the Archives of American Art. Set to launch on August 26th (the day ...