ARTiculated is back for season four, with Anita Fields: How We Gather. Hear from ceramicist and textile artist Anita Fields (b. 1951 | Osage) about her innovations in cloth, clay, and community building as she has cultivated a career all her own for more than 50 years.
Available wherever you get your podcasts or at https://s.si.edu/4ihS9KI
This podcast is sponsored by Next50, the Denver based national foundation that works towards creating a world that values aging.
Images: 1) A photographic portrait of Anita Fields, an Osage woman in her 70s, stands in a colorful blanket with purple, turquoise, tan, and yellow.
2) Photograph of an installation with an open tan-colored Osage robe with embroidered pictogram symbols of humans, trees, and flowers with green sleeves, all below a large-brimmed top hat with red, white, brown, and purple bands, surrounded by hanging cut-outs of symbols including hands and serpents.
3) A rectangular plains landscape made of six clay squares with hills and grass painted on top with gold rosettes dotting the skyline.
All images courtesy Anita Fields.
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Season 4 of ARTiculated arrives just in time for the holidays on December 3.
Come hear about the lives and work of ceramicist and textile artist Anita Fields (Osage), muralist Leo Tanguma, painter and photographer Lenore Chinn, and painter Pat Steir as they've navigated their careers over the decades.
Through four thirty-minute podcast episodes, the Archives will highlight artists who continue to blaze trails. With an eye to sustained creativity and adaptability, these artists showcase the powerful combination of experience and drive, and their stories reflect the strength and vitality of the visual arts across the United States. Drawing from the Archives' oral history collection and new interviews, each episode gives listeners insight into the artists' journeys and enduring inventiveness.
This trailer was narrated by Susan Cary, our registrar and collections manager.
This podcast is sponsored by Next50, the Denver based national foundation that works towards creating a world that values aging.
Photograph of Anita Fields, courtesy Anita Fields.
Starr Mann, a ceramic sculpture by Anita Fields, courtesy Anita Fields
Leo Tanguma in front of a painting of a Quetzal bird, courtesy Leo Tanguma
Leo Tanguma in front of his mural, The Torch of Quetzalcoatl, courtesy Leo Tanguma
Lenore Chinn portrait by Mia Nakano, courtesy Lenore Chinn
Lenore Chinn, Land's End, 1987, acrylic on canvas, 37 1⁄8 × 49 1⁄8 × 1 7⁄8 in. (94.3 × 124.8 × 4.8 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Julia D. Strong Endowment, 2024.4, © 1987, Lenore Chinn
Portrait of Pat Steir by Grace Roselli, Pandora's BoxX Project. Image courtesy of Hauser & Wirth
Pat Steir, Painted Rain #8, 2022-23 courtesy of Hauser & Wirth, photo by Elisabeth Bernstein
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A photographic portrait of Anita Fields, an Osage woman in her 70s, stands in a colorful blanket with purple, turquoise, tan, and yellow.
A ceramic humanoid figure painted black and decorated with
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee), a painter whose work reconfigures the relationship between landscape, iconography, and history.
This 2011 oral history was featured on Season 1, Episode 9 of our podcast, ARTicluated. WalkingStick also spoke with painter Maia Cruz Palileo for Season 2, Episode 8, titled "By Gut and Heart: Painting with Kay WalkingStick." Find them both and more at aaa.si.edu/articulated, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Oral history interview with Kay WalkingStick, 2011 December 14-15. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
#SmithsonianNAHM #KayWalkingStick #Articulatedpodcast
This week, expert technicians and journal staff are overseeing printing of the Fall 2024 issue of the Archives of American Art Journal! ✨
Later this month, in print and online, you’ll be able to enjoy essays on the role early twentieth-century British artists played in the influential international exhibitions organized by the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, PA, and the importance of queer relationships in the production of much late twentieth-century art in the San Francisco Bay Area. The new journal issue also features a suite of archival fragments that reflect on the lives and work of art professionals such as model Florence Allen, whose photograph is visible in the sheet being output by the press.
Learn more about the history of the Archives of American Art Journal on our website: aaa.si.edu/publications/journal.
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Sheets being fed through the offset printing press for production of the Fall 2024 issue of the Archives of American Art Journal.
Celebrate World Podcast Day with ARTiculated! 🎙️
Here's a clip from Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, a trailblazing textile artist who thinks across geographic, cultural, and material borders. Hear about her use of barbed wire and celebrate her spring of creativity in Season 2 Episode 5: Border Material: Mending with Consuelo Jiménez Underwood, available on our website: s.si.edu/3BvzpWR.
#WorldPodcastDay #ARTiculatedPodcast #Podcast #ConsueloJimenezUnderwood
Images:
All Consuelo Jimenez Underwood papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Video image description:
1. A photograph of four cylindrical spools of teal thread with one ball of teal yarn atop a white cardboard rectangle above a black and white striped fabric embroidered with multicolored flowers.
2. Yellow-green and pink yarn skeins that pierce through the left-hand side of a notebook page
3. A green floral textile square that reads CAUTION with groups of two adults and a child woven in white
4. A large set of textile squares in multiple colors that read CAUTION with woven groups of two adults and a child, the squares are connected by orange and yellow threads.
Happy birthday to Romare Bearden! Born in Charlotte, NC, in 1911, Bearden was one of the great innovators of collage and paint in New York, and a major force in the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. To hear more about his trailblazing career, listen to season 3 episode 11 of the ARTiculated podcast, "Classical Continuity: history in series with Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence," which you can find wherever you get your podcasts, or you can listen here: s.si.edu/3AJwBFj
#RomareBearden #HarlemRenaissance #ARTiculatedpodcast
Images:
1. – 3. All Romare Bearden papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
1. Romare Bearden in Harlem, circa 1950.
2. Postcard featuring Rocket to the Moon, 1968.
3. Protest signs outside the Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., ca. 1968
4. Photograph of Romare Bearden's collage Autumn, 1988 January (detail). André Thibault/Teabo papers regarding Romare Bearden. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Video descriptions:
1. A black and white photograph of Romare Bearden wearing a hat and short-sleeved shirt while he smokes a cigarette on a busy street.
2. A collage of magazine images that form a cityscape with brick apartment buildings, traffic lights, and large faces.
3. A protest with signs that read "Make MoMA Modern" and "Retrospective for Romare Bearden Now"
4. A painting with collage elements that form a woman in blue, green, and black against a golden background; she is wearing a large hat with floral elements.
Meet the Archives: Lindsey Bright
Meet Lindsey Bright! Lindsey is a library technician who manages our microfilm collection. For our exhibition, Staff Picks: Our Favorite Items from the Collection, Lindsey selected Ray Yoshida’s scrapbook of comics, one of the more plentiful types of source material found in his papers.
Learn more about Ray Yoshida and browse his digitized collection on our website: s.si.edu/3yEN3WK. #MeetTheArchivesOfAmericanArt
The Ray Yoshida scrapbook of comic book clippings is on view in our exhibition, "Staff Picks: Our Favorite Items from the Collection" through September 1, 2024. See it at the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery, Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, 8th and G Streets, NW. Open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. aaa.si.edu/visit
Featured item: Ray Yoshida. Ray Yoshida scrapbook of comic book clippings. Ray Yoshida papers, circa 1895-2010. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Video Description: Woman wearing glasses, a green top, and floral print skirt walks through a gallery painted bright pink. She stands at an exhibition case describing a scrapbook in the case. There is a close-up of the scrapbook, which contains clippings from newspaper funny pages glued onto its pages, edited into the scene.
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Today we're thinking about Jesse Treviño, whose paintings, murals, and large-scale mosaics reshaped art in the American Southwest. Often working with photorealism and strong symbolism, Treviño was also a member of Con Safo, an influential Chicano artist collective founded in San Antonio during the 1970s.
Treviño was a veteran of the Vietnam War, where his injuries included the amputation of his right arm, after which he learned to paint with his left hand. Through his work, he sought to effect safety and community healing, activating powerful symbols of hope and solidarity.
To learn more about Treviño and his iconic Texas works, listen to season two, episode two of our podcast, ARTiculated, Jesse Treviño: Spurring San Antonio, available on our website or on your preferred listening platform: s.si.edu/46ML5jy.
#JesseTrevino #SanAntonio #DisabledVeterans
Video Description: An image of a photorealistic painting of seven men posing in front of a white wooden fence with a lush treescape behind them. Jesse Treviño, Mis Hermanos, 1976, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 70 in. (121.9 x 177.8 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Lionel Sosa, Ernest Bromley, Adolfo Aguilar of Sosa, Bromley, Aguilar and Associates, 1994.74
Jerome Caja from Articulated season 2, episode 10
Pride month keeps rolling with a celebration of Jerome Caja, an artist who worked across drag, paint, sculpture, and performance in the Bay Area.
In his 1995 oral history, Caja talked about his art practice as a space for self-expression and discovery, the medium by which he worked out facets of himself. Caja's legacy lives on as a queer trailblazer. You can hear more from him on Season Two Episode Ten of our podcast, ARTiculated, The Art of Detection: Knowing and Feeling with Jerome Caja and Michelle Stuart, which was guest curated by Dionne Lee. Visit our website to hear the full episode: https://s.si.edu/ARTiculatedS2E10.
#SmithsonianPride #Pride #Drag 🌈
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Oral history interview with Jerome Caja, 1995 August 23 and September 29. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Image Credits:
All images Jerome Caja papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
1. Jerome Caja, "Coat tree in the Closet," undated.
2. Photograph of Jerome Caja in drag, undated
Video description:
Two images are used in a video against a dark teal background with the Articulated logo at the top and Archives of American Art and Smithsonian logos on the bottom of the screen. There is a sound wave between the two logos on the bottom that moves as the following text is spoken: “I have a working behavior and it's even less intellectual thought; it's more habitual. It's something that I just do. I just go into it and just do it. Usually I'm telling a story and playing and chatting with myself. 'Cause that's what my painting is, it's me talking to myself, telling jokes, or making a statement, or losing my temper, or whatever. Usually that's what I'm doing, when I'm painting, I'm talking to myself, I'm having a private conversation.“ The two images included in the video are:
1. A hatched drawing with three skeletons in a closet, one standing upright behind a rack, with colorful shirts on the far left side and empty hangers to the right.
2. Jerome Ca
Meet the Archives: Jennifer
Meet Jennifer Snyder, our oral history archivist!
Jennifer works with our oral history transcripts to make the Archives' 3,000+ oral histories available to the public on our website. View more of Jennifer's favorite collections items, in our exhibition, Staff Picks: Our Favorite Items from the Collection, open now through September 1, 2024.
The Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, 1st floor
8th and F Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20001
United States
Open daily 11:30 a.m.–7:00 p.m. through 2024.
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Today, we're thinking about what it means to tend to the past while building the future. In her 2009 oral history, lauhala weaver Katherine Kalehuapuakeaula “Lehua” Domingo (1935-2023) described the importance of conserving makaloa, a sedge plant native to Hawai'i that is used for traditional weaving, and the cycle of care that suffused her practice. 🌾
🎧 To learn more, tune in to Season Two, Episode Seven of ARTiculated to hear an intergenerational dialogue between contemporary kapa maker Lehuauakea and Katherine.
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#ARTiculatedpodcast #KatherineLehuaDomingo #Lehuauakea #makaloa
There is no art without women and today we are reflecting on two conceptual artists who have profoundly interrogated the image and feminism—Sarah Edwards Charlesworth and Celia Álvarez Muñoz. Revisit season two episode four of our podcast, ARTiculated, to hear these artists discuss their life and work in continued celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth and as we honor what would have been Charlesworth's 77th birthday on March 29th #WomensHistoryIs #SarahCharlesworth #CeliaAlvarezMunoz
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