Latest Aamarp Podcast Episodes
Past is Prologue: The Real Story Behind the Demise of AAMARP
Akin Duro's Life in Art - July 08, 2018 20:30 - 30 minutesIn July of 1974, Dana C. Chandler, Jr., already an acclaimed artist, became the first artist in the space he would open as the African American Master Artist-in-Residency in November 1978. On July 1, 2018, four months shy of its 40th anniversary, as the country to prepared to celebrate Independen...
The Activist Artist on American Activism: WAKE UP, AMERICA!
Akin Duro's Life in Art - May 11, 2012 23:00 - 2 hoursIf you visit Professor Chandler's Facebook Profile Wall, you'll see a combination of posts: images on celebrating black female beauty throughout the diaspora, photos of children and grandchildren with loving comments, messages on healthcare products, news stories about various atrocities happeni...
The Activist Artist--Life as a Citizen Activist Part 3
Akin Duro's Life in Art - May 04, 2012 23:00 - 2 hoursSit-ins, protests, speeches, letter writing campaigns, articles and, today, social media. From Black Nationalism to Black Economic Empowerment, Dana Chandler has been a citizen activist since he was in his teens. What has life been like as a citizen activist who is also a professor, father and a...
The Activist Artist--Life as a Citizen Activist Part 2
Akin Duro's Life in Art - April 27, 2012 23:00 - 2 hoursSit-ins, protests, speeches, letter writing campaigns, articles and, today, social media. From Black Nationalism to Black Economic Empowerment, Dana Chandler has been a citizen activist since he was in his teens. What has life been like as a citizen activist who is also a professional, father an...
The Activist Artist Talks About A Life as a Citizen Activist
Akin Duro's Life in Art - April 20, 2012 23:00 - 2 hoursSit-ins, protests, speeches, letter writing campaigns, articles and, today, social media. From Black Nationalism to Black Economic Empowerment, Dana Chandler has been a citizen activist since he was in his teens. What has life been like as a citizen activist who is also a professional, father an...
Upon His 71st Year: The Life of The Outsider Artist--Part 2
Akin Duro's Life in Art - April 13, 2012 23:00 - 2 hoursLast Saturday, April 7, 2012, Prof. Dana C. Chandler, Jr. celebrated his 71st birthday. Those years have been full of accomplishments and on this show, we'll talk about the years from 1970 until today, including his rise to international renown as one of the world's most controversial, politi...
Upon His 71st Year: The Life of The Outsider Artist
Akin Duro's Life in Art - April 06, 2012 23:00 - 2 hoursThis Saturday, April 7, 2012, Prof. Dana C. Chandler, Jr. will celebrate 71 years of life . Those years have been full of accomplishments and on our next show, we will discusss Chandler's beginnings as a artist and his rise to international renown as one of the world's most controversia, politic...
ArtsTalk: Beautiful Black Female Minds & Chandler Art
Akin Duro's Life in Art - March 30, 2012 23:00 - 2 hoursProf. Dana Chandler has always said he thinks many women are smarter than he is, especially black women. So, we're back this week talking about how Chandler's art reflects the black female intellect and what the intent of the content of pieces like his portrait of Angela Davis as well as every d...
ArtsTalk: Making Art That Empowers & Protects Women--Part 2
Akin Duro's Life in Art - March 16, 2012 23:00 - 2 hoursProf. Chandler has long argued that African American are the least respected, least valued women on the planet. In a society that still touts the Eurocentric ideals of beauty, African American women, including First Lady, Michelle Obama, are thought and even called "ugly". Chandler, however, thi...
ArtsTalk: Making Art That Empowers & Protects Women--Part 1
Akin Duro's Life in Art - March 10, 2012 00:00 - 2 hoursProf. Chandler has long argued that African American and other women of color are the least respected, least protected women on the planet. It is, indeed, an unsafe world for females. Moreover, Chandler asserts, rightfully, that black women in particular have not been highly valued for their bea...
ArtsTalk: Chandler's KKKrimes Against Womanity Art Series
Akin Duro's Life in Art - March 03, 2012 00:00 - 2 hoursIn recognition of Women's History Month, our series of ArtsTalk shows will be about Prof. Chandler's long history of depicting the realities of women's lives in his artwork. From the 1960s and 70s with his Black on Black for Blacks and Urban Weaponry works, Chandler has expressed value and conce...
ArtsTalk: The Influence of Ancient African Art on All Art
Akin Duro's Life in Art - February 25, 2012 00:00 - 2 hoursMost of us know by now that archeologists believe that all human history originated in Africa. By extension, Africancentric art historians and scholars have long argued that all culture grew out of the world's African origins. It follows that African art was the world's first art form and all ar...
ArtsTalk: Afrocentrism and African American Thought and Art
Akin Duro's Life in Art - February 18, 2012 00:00 - 2 hoursHow did the principles and practices of Afrocentrism, that begin in the late 19th century but was popularized in 1980s and 90s, affect African American thought and, by extension, art? How was it the same or different from Black Nationalism? Who were its thought leaders and what were they saying ...
ArtsTalk: Early 20th-Century African American Master Artists
Akin Duro's Life in Art - February 11, 2012 00:00 - 2 hoursHow did artists like John Biggers, Romare Bearden, Lois Mailou Jones, Benny Andrews, Jacob Lawrence, Augusta Savage and Charles Alston influence American art and contemporary American artists? As part of our Black History Month ArtsTalk series, Prof. Dana C. Chandler, who taught African and Afr...
ArtsTalk: African Art and the European Formalist Aesthetic
Akin Duro's Life in Art - February 04, 2012 00:00 - 1 hourHave you ever contemplated the influence of African Art on the European classical art tradition? Has cubism always fascinated you? Would you like simply to learn more about this early 20th century avante garde movement in European art? Pablo Picasso, Ferdinand Leger, Georges Braque, Henri Matis...
ArtsTalk: The Black Arts Movement in Boston and Beyond
Akin Duro's Life in Art - January 28, 2012 00:00 - 1 hourAs we air our show at it's new time, 7-9 p.m. ET on Fridays, we also are debuting our new series, "ArtsTalk", shows on which Chandler and other artists talk about historical events, issues and experiences as artists. On the first of the series, we'll discuss The Black Arts Movement of the 60s...
AMAARP: A Strong Chandler Legacy in the Black Art World-Pt 2
Akin Duro's Life in Art - January 20, 2012 17:00 - 1 hourIn 1978, Prof. Dana C. Chandler, Jr., opened the doors to a program that had been his vision for several years--the African American Master Artist-in-Residency Program (AAMARP) at Northeastern University. He ran the program for 25 years, until his ouster in 2003. In this episode, we'll discuss ...
AMAARP: A Strong Chandler Legacy in the Black Art World
Akin Duro's Life in Art - January 13, 2012 17:00 - 2 hoursIn 1978, Prof. Dana C. Chandler, Jr., opened the doors to a program that had been his vision for several years--the African American Master Artist-in-Residency Program at Northeastern University. He ran the program for 25 years, until his ouster in 2003. But, what is AAMARP, why was it so impo...
The Patriot Act, Neo-COINTELPRO & US Military as Police
Akin Duro's Life in Art - January 06, 2012 17:00 - 46 minutesUnknown to most Americans, our country has always had some form of a domestic spying program, often using the military and law enforcement of the day to conduct these activities against otherwise law-abiding Americans. On our next show, we'll begin to talk about that history and how we got to wh...
Chandler's Art, The People's Art: 1967-Present--Part 2
Akin Duro's Life in Art - December 30, 2011 17:00 - 31 minutesProf. Chandler has created controversial, political themed art for decades and, on Part 2 of these two-part series, we'll discuss how that art is relevant to today's events. On this episode, we will focus on and dispay specific pieces of art for listeners to view created by the artist from 1991-2...
Chandler's Art, The People's Art: 1967-Present--Part 1
Akin Duro's Life in Art - December 23, 2011 17:00 - 30 minutesProf. Chandler has created controversial, political-themed art for decades and, on the next two episodes, we'll discuss how that art is relevant to today's events. In Part 1, we will display and discuss specific pieces created between 1967-1990. If you love Chandler's art and/or outsider art, yo...
FEMA Death Camps--Do They Exist and What Are They For?
Akin Duro's Life in Art - December 16, 2011 17:00 - 30 minutesNot ones to shy away from the controversial, on this episode, Prof. Dana C. Chandler, Jr. and his daughter and artist agent, award-winning journalist, Dahna M. Chandler, will discuss the FEMA death camps that many from Jesse Ventura of the TruTV show, "Conspiracy Theory" to Alex Jones to common ...
Chemtrails--Just WHAT Out of HELL is Being Sprayed on Us??
Akin Duro's Life in Art - December 09, 2011 17:00 - 31 minutesMany people looking at their once perfectly blue skies are seeing something strange being sprayed over them. On this episode, Prof. Chandler and his daughter, award-winning journalist (and the show's co-host and producer) will talk about the much discussed but equally often denied by the EPA and ...
What Must Obama Do to Win Re-Election? Part 2
Akin Duro's Life in Art - November 18, 2011 17:00 - 31 minutesThe Outsider Artist will continue last week's discussion on what he believes President Barack Obama must do to win re-election to a second term. He will provide his unique views on the current political landscape and what how he believes our President--and his supporters--should leverage the oppo...
Show Launch--What Obama Must Do to Win Re-Election
Akin Duro's Life in Art - November 11, 2011 17:00 - 30 minutesIn this premiere episode, Prof. Dana C. Chandler, Jr. (Akin Duro) introduces the audience to his thought-provoking show and the issues he will cover. The show is co-hosted by his daughter, award-winning journalist, Dahna M. Chandler. Called "controversial", a "Black Power Artist", "activist arti...
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