Championing Gender Equality in Hollywood: TEMA STAIG, ALLISON VANORE - Women in Media - Highlights

Championing Gender Equality in Hollywood: TEMA STAIG, ALLISON VANORE - Women in Media - Highlights

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Tema Staig · Women in Media Executive Director & Art Director
Allison Vanore · WIM Secretary & Emmy-Winning Producer of After Forever

I started Women in Media in 2010 as a sort of community group. We talked about women above and below the line because there weren’t any organizations or conversations really happening about women in the below the line positions, meaning women in the crew who are in the camera, art, grip and electronics departments. There were only conversations happening about more women directors and, being a scenic artist and production designer, I knew that there are so many women in the crew and there’s only one director. So if we only aimed for one, we would never get to parity and there would never be room like myself who wanted to advance from these crew positions.

Women in Media - Exec. Director & Art Director TEMA STAIG & ALLISON VANORE - Emmy-Winning Producer

Women in Media - Exec. Director & Art Director TEMA STAIG & ALLISON VANORE - Emmy-Winning Producer

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Tema Staig · Women in Media Executive Director & Art Director
Allison Vanore · WIM Secretary & Emmy-Winning Producer of After Forever

I started Women in Media in 2010 as a sort of community group. We talked about women above and below the line because there weren’t any organizations or conversations really happening about women in the below the line positions, meaning women in the crew who are in the camera, art, grip and electronics departments. There were only conversations happening about more women directors and, being a scenic artist and production designer, I knew that there are so many women in the crew and there’s only one director. So if we only aimed for one, we would never get to parity and there would never be room like myself who wanted to advance from these crew positions.

Bridging Art & Culture in Athens: Inside the MUSEUM HERAKLEIDON - Highlights

Bridging Art & Culture in Athens: Inside the MUSEUM HERAKLEIDON - Highlights

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General Manager & Communications Director
Herakleidon Museum, Athens

Art, Culture & History: MUSEUM HERAKLEIDON, Athens

Art, Culture & History: MUSEUM HERAKLEIDON, Athens

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General Manager & Communications Director
Herakleidon Museum, Athens

A Sculptor's Life: The Monumental Art of MARK MENNIN - Highlights

A Sculptor's Life: The Monumental Art of MARK MENNIN - Highlights

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Sculptor

I think direct contact with the material should be important to every sculptor because I think once you lose that it becomes a second hand process. It’s one of the reasons the casting process isn’t so interesting to me just because the final product, the final piece has not been touched by the artist. There’s no relationship with the mind that conceived the piece or designed it. I think something is lost when that happens. And it becomes something else.

MARK MENNIN - Sculpture, History, Landscape

MARK MENNIN - Sculpture, History, Landscape

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Sculptor

I think direct contact with the material should be important to every sculptor because I think once you lose that it becomes a second hand process. It’s one of the reasons the casting process isn’t so interesting to me just because the final product, the final piece has not been touched by the artist. There’s no relationship with the mind that conceived the piece or designed it. I think something is lost when that happens. And it becomes something else.

From Pompidou to the National Museum of Immigration: SÉBASTIEN GOKALP on Curating Art & History

From Pompidou to the National Museum of Immigration: SÉBASTIEN GOKALP on Curating Art & History

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Sébastien Gokalp · Director of France’s National Museum of Immigration
Curator of Exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris & Louis Vuitton Foundation

We have a motto that says that ‘we want to change the gaze on immigration or to open the eyes on immigration’. We’re not here to make action in society, but we want people who come here to have elements of reflection, perception about the question of immigration. To change a mind, because immigration is about the stories of people who come from another country–they are someone else, basically–by assisting them we want to show how someone else can be great for us and not a stranger, foreigner, nor an enemy, but a friend. Someone who will bring us many things about culture, about work, about a way of meaning, of thinking. We have a historical point of view. We want to show that from the French Revolution until now, so two centuries of stories.

Bridging Cultures Through Music & Composition with BRIGHT SHENG - Highlights

Bridging Cultures Through Music & Composition with BRIGHT SHENG - Highlights

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MacArthur & ASCAP Award-Winning Composer, Conductor & Pianist

I try to preserve the Chinese music flavor. So, you imagine in Chinese band, the country music that people usually reserve for weddings or for big moments or for funerals. That kind of a feeling. Drums and music playing. I try to preserve it from my memory because what we have now is just a tune. You can probably recognize the tune, but the execution of translating that for a Western orchestra and make it sound like it’s a Chinese band playing Chinese instruments.

BRIGHT SHENG - MacArthur & ASCAP Award-Winning Composer, Conductor & Pianist

BRIGHT SHENG - MacArthur & ASCAP Award-Winning Composer, Conductor & Pianist

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MacArthur & ASCAP Award-Winning Composer, Conductor & Pianist

I try to preserve the Chinese music flavor. So, you imagine in Chinese band, the country music that people usually reserve for weddings or for big moments or for funerals. That kind of a feeling. Drums and music playing. I try to preserve it from my memory because what we have now is just a tune. You can probably recognize the tune, but the execution of translating that for a Western orchestra and make it sound like it’s a Chinese band playing Chinese instruments.

Exploring Music, Writing & the Cultural Life of Athens with KIRIAKOS SPIROU - Highlights

Exploring Music, Writing & the Cultural Life of Athens with KIRIAKOS SPIROU - Highlights

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Editor, Writer, Curator, Content Creator, Pianist & Composer

This particular exhibition definitely had to do with my close relationship to dance. I have collaborated a lot with choreographers for contemporary dance theater, and I was often advising collaborators, so we would create the tasks and the content of the choreography together. We would exchange the tasks. We would create the score and narrative together. Also, because I’m a pianist, which is a very physically demanding instrument, you have this geography of the piano. I think this exhibitions links to my own experience as a performer and composer for dance and the relationship that music has with the body.

KIRIAKOS SPIROU - Editor, Writer, Curator, Content Creator, Pianist & Composer

KIRIAKOS SPIROU - Editor, Writer, Curator, Content Creator, Pianist & Composer

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Editor, Writer, Curator, Content Creator, Pianist & Composer

This particular exhibition definitely had to do with my close relationship to dance. I have collaborated a lot with choreographers for contemporary dance theater, and I was often advising collaborators, so we would create the tasks and the content of the choreography together. We would exchange the tasks. We would create the score and narrative together. Also, because I’m a pianist, which is a very physically demanding instrument, you have this geography of the piano. I think this exhibitions links to my own experience as a performer and composer for dance and the relationship that music has with the body.

FRANÇOIS CLEMMONS - 1st African American Actor on Children’s TV - Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood - Highlights

FRANÇOIS CLEMMONS - 1st African American Actor on Children’s TV - Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood - Highlights

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Singer · Author
1st African American Actor on Children’s TV · Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

I always find it an ironic thing to think about the fact that Fred Rogers was colour-blind. He could barely tell a blue from a grey. I was young and to him I was a child and I certainly played the role of a child and he played the role of parent… He was profoundly patient.

Grammy Award Winner FRANÇOIS CLEMMONS on Pioneering African American Representation on Children's TV

Grammy Award Winner FRANÇOIS CLEMMONS on Pioneering African American Representation on Children's TV

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Singer · Author
1st African American Actor on Children’s TV · Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

I always find it an ironic thing to think about the fact that Fred Rogers was colour-blind. He could barely tell a blue from a grey. I was young and to him I was a child and I certainly played the role of a child and he played the role of parent… He was profoundly patient.

Reimagining Learning Through MAHATMA GANDHI's Principles w/ ANANTHA DURAIAPPAH - Highlights

Reimagining Learning Through MAHATMA GANDHI's Principles w/ ANANTHA DURAIAPPAH - Highlights

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Inaugural Director · UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace & Sustainable Development

I’ve always found that science and evidence has to be the guiding force in the way that we design our programs. Of course, understanding people as humans. People as not just rational human beings. That’s another thing that I also learned during my journey is that the whole notion of a rational human being is used as an assumption to make our economic models simple.

ANANTHA DURAIAPPAH - Director - UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development

ANANTHA DURAIAPPAH - Director - UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development

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Inaugural Director · UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace & Sustainable Development

Curating Change: ELISSA AUTHER - Avant-Garde Art, Feminism & Craft at Museum of Arts & Design - Highlights

Curating Change: ELISSA AUTHER - Avant-Garde Art, Feminism & Craft at Museum of Arts & Design - Highlights

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Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator Museum of Arts and Design

So the Museum of Arts and Design historically, for me, is part of a New York avantgarde scene. It's just that it was dedicated to artists working in these historically-marginalized materials. And it continues to do that. That mission has never changed.

ELISSA AUTHER - Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at Museum of Arts and Design

ELISSA AUTHER - Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at Museum of Arts and Design

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Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator Museum of Arts and Design

So the Museum of Arts and Design historically, for me, is part of a New York avantgarde scene. It's just that it was dedicated to artists working in these historically-marginalized materials. And it continues to do that. That mission has never changed.

INGRID NEWKIRK - Founder, President of PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

INGRID NEWKIRK - Founder, President of PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

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Founder & President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

They’re not human traits. They’re all shared traits because, of course, we all love. We all love our families, or not. We all grieve if somebody we love disappears or dies. A family dog, perhaps. A grandfather. We all feel loneliness, we all feel joy. We all really value our freedom. And so I think, if anything, looking into the eyes of the animal, even online, you see a person in there. There’s a someone in whatever the shape or the physical properties of that individual are. And that lesson is that I am you. You are me, only different. We are all the same in all the ways that count…Any living being teaches you– Look into my eyes. And there you are, the reflection of yourself.

The Health of the Planet with Artist & Environmentalist STEVE MILLER - Highlights

The Health of the Planet with Artist & Environmentalist STEVE MILLER - Highlights

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Steve Miller is a multimedia artist born and raised in Buffalo, New York. Being an early pioneer for the ‘science-art’ movement, his most recognized works are those of paintings and sculptures of the natural world. One of his latest projects, entitled, “Health of the Planet”, works with Brazilian scientists to showcase the diversity and necessity of the lungs of our planet, the Amazon rainforest. With surfboards depicting diagrams of alligators, and stingrays, as well as printed x-rays of sloths and native fruits of the country, the intention of the project is for Brazil to take a closer inspection on their global contribution to the planet. Over the past 30 years Steven has presented over 30 solo exhibitions at institutions across the US, China, France and Germany, continuing these conversations about ourselves, each other, and the planet that connects us all.

The Health of the Planet with Artist & Environmentalist STEVE MILLER - Highlights
The Creative Process + One Planet Podcast

STEVE MILLER

I have this idea art should be in the world in as many forms and ways as possible, and I love communicating with skate decks… It partially started out in Brazil because what I was doing in Brazil is x-raying animals in the Amazon and I thought there was this idea in the old days that you’d go to the Amazon, you’d kill an animal, stuff it, bag it, and then you’d have this trophy of your kill. The alligators that we x-rayed were alive. I got them from a zoo in a town called Belem, which means Bethlehem in Portuguese.

This interview was conducted by Mia Funk with the participation of collaborating universities and students. Associate Interviews Producer on this podcast was Wills Ladd. Digital Media Coordinator is Hannah Story Brown. 

The Intersection of Science and Art: X-Raying the Amazon with STEVE MILLER

The Intersection of Science and Art: X-Raying the Amazon with STEVE MILLER

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Artist & Environmentalist

“I have this idea art should be in the world in as many forms and ways as possible, and I love communicating with skate decks… It partially started out in Brazil because what I was doing in Brazil is x-raying animals in the Amazon and I thought there was this idea in the old days that you’d go to the Amazon, you’d kill an animal, stuff it, bag it, and then you’d have this trophy of your kill. The alligators that we x-rayed were alive. I got them from a zoo in a town called Belem, which means Bethlehem in Portuguese.”