High Visibility: On Location in Rural America and Indian Country
8 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -High Visibility is a podcast produced by Art of the Rural and Plains Art Museum that welcomes into conversation artists, culture bearers, and leaders from across rural America and Indian Country.
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Photography and Community: Xavier Tavera
July 10, 2022 18:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBToday we have the opportunity to speak with Xavier Tavera, a photographer who builds deep, longterm relationships with communities and creates work that expresses the humanity, and the historical currents, within the complexities of contemporary Latinx culture. Please find show notes and a transcript on this conversation's page on High Visibility. After moving from Mexico City to the United States, Xavier learned what it felt like to be part of a subculture -- the immigrant community. Be...
The Long Conversation: Dyani White Hawk and Jovan C. Speller
June 06, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBWe are grateful to share Dyani White Hawk and Jovan C. Speller taking part in a podcast format we are calling The Long Conversation -- one that offers folks the chance to cultivate a thread of ideas and relationships without the presence of an interviewer Please find extensive show notes, transcripts, and links on the episode site. Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) is a visual artist and independent curator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Most recently, her work was included in the 2022 ...
Traveling in Place: Erika Nelson
November 16, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBHigh Visibility is a podcast on arts, culture, and ideas in rural America and Indian Country produced by Art of the Rural and Plains Art Museum, a part of a longterm collaboration of exhibitions, publications, and events that share the richly divergent stories, experiences, and visions of folks across the continent. This episode is hosted by Matthew Fluharty, organizing curator of High Visibility. Today’s guest is Erika Nelson, an independent artist and educator whose work asks provocativ...
1001 Arab Futures: Sharon Mansur
June 15, 2021 18:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBToday we have the chance to speak with Sharon Mansur and to learn more about her recent work in 1001 Arab Futures, An intimate outdoor site-specific dance performance and visual installation that contemplates imaginative visions, past reckonings, embodied truths and other future potentials from the Arab diaspora. Sharon Mansur created this work in collaboration with Yara Boustany, Andrea Shaker, and Metta Loulou Von Kohl. While this effort weaves through the materials, memories, and lived e...
How We Gather: Su Legatt
May 24, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBHigh Visibility is a podcast, exhibition, and publication series produced by Art of the Rural and Plains Art Museum that welcomes into conversation artists, culture bearers, and leaders from across rural America and Indian Country. We are grateful for the support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Today we have the chance to speak with Su Legatt, and to learn more about how her upbringing in rural Minnesota, and her experiences as an ...
What The Sound Carries: Raven Chacon
April 20, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBToday we have the chance to speak with Raven Chacon, and to learn more about the experiences that have shaped his work across a variety of forms – from his music compositions, to his visual scores and installations, through to his leadership in the Native American Composer Apprentice Project and his piece American Ledger No. 2, currently on view at the Plains Art Museum. Raven Chacon's artist site: http://spiderwebsinthesky.com/ This conversation moves across an array of lands and tradit...
Memory, Myth, and Home: Jovan C. Speller
March 22, 2021 22:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBJovan C. Speller joins Matthew Fluharty for a conversation on her recent work and its meditation on Black origins, land, and multilayered family histories. Jovan C. Speller is a multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis, MN. Her work – visual, textual and performative – interprets historic narratives through contemporary discourse. Her research-based practice is centered around elevating, complicating and inventing stories that explore ancestry, identity, and spatial memory – making t...
Less Arc, More Contact: Karl Unnasch
March 01, 2021 16:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBIn this episode, Karl Unnasch joins Matthew Fluharty for a conversation on his creative process, rural community, and bridging difference between cultures and geographies. Husk, his metal and stained glass sculpture of a crushed Busch Light can, is included in the High Visibility exhibition. A rugged farm upbringing streaked with a penchant for the surreal: This has been the driving force behind the work of Karl Unnasch. With decades of expertise in wood, metal, stonework and stained glass,...