Art Focus

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Airs at: Tue, 08/12/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Airs at: Tue, 07/22/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Art Focus
Hosted by: 
Joseph Gallivan
Produced by: 
KBOO
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A radio show about visual art. You get it.

 

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Every Second and Fourth Tuesday, from 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Art Focus features interviews by host Joseph Gallivan with artists, curators and critics. Lively voices talking about art, how it's made and sometimes even what it means. Page back through KBOO's schedule to find all the recordings, some of which were made on magnetic tape.   

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Topic tags: 
Arts/Culture
Genre(s): 
Arts and Culture
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Current

The Historic Black Williams Project

Airs at: Tue, 06/27/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  KBOO's Eric Bartels speaks to Kayin Talton Davis...the project manager of The Black Williams Project. N Williams/Albina was Portland’s largest African American community. The goal of the Black Williams Project is to highlight this history, through a multimedia public... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Daniel Peabody about his show of 21 gunpowder-based drawings “Residue”

Airs at: Tue, 06/20/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, June 20, 2017, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Daniel Peabody about his show of 21 gunpowder-based drawings “Residue” on show now at Oranj Studio in South Waterfront through June 30. Peabody will talk about his technique for burning gunpowder against a ... Read more

Arvie Smith speaks to Eric Bartels

Airs at: Tue, 06/13/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  Eric Bartels interviews painter and educator Arvie Smith about education and the arts.  Arvie Smith transforms the history of oppressed and stereotyped segments of the American experience into lyrical two-dimensional master works. His paintings are commonly of psycho... Read more

Art Focus on 05/30/17

Airs at: Tue, 05/30/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Joseph Gallivan interviews Randy Gragg about architect John Yeon

Airs at: Tue, 05/23/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, May 23, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Randy Gragg about architect John Yeon [PRONOUNCED YONN] about ‘Quest for Beauty: The Architecture, Landscapes, and Collections of John Yeon’ which is at the Portland Art Museum now through September 3, 2017. Art ... Read more

Art Focus on 05/16/17

Airs at: Tue, 05/16/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Photographer Susan Seubert and book artist James Allen

Airs at: Tue, 05/09/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday May 9, 201&, Joseph Gallivan interviews photographer Susan Seubert and book artist James Allen. Seubert will talk about her photography show about suicide called Not a Day Goes By, a series of portraits of people posing as though they are suffocating in plast... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Dawson Carr, about Francescuccio Ghissi’s St. John Altarpiece

Airs at: Tue, 04/25/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday April 25, 2015, Joseph Gallivan interviews Dawson Carr, about Francescuccio Ghissi’s St. John Altarpiece, which is on display at the Portland Art Museum through July 9, 2017. Exhibition curator Carr is the Janet and Richard Geary Curator of European Art at th... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Tsilli Pines and Will Smith about Design Week Portland 2017

Airs at: Tue, 04/11/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, April 11 at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Tsilli Pines and Will Smith. Pines is the Director of Design Week Portland, which runs April 21 to 29, 2017, and Smith is with the Untitled Studio collective. Pines will detail the main designer talk and events at... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Peter Ksander, Rebecca Lingafelter and Isaac Lamb about the British play The Angry Brigade.

Airs at: Tue, 04/04/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, April 2, 2017 at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Peter Ksander, Rebecca Lingafelter and Isaac Lamb about the “flying bricks” set design of the British play The Angry Brigade. They will talk about  The set’s yin and yang structure and deterioration over t... Read more