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Art Connection

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This weekly series highlights four artists and their craft. Travel around the world, meeting fascinating people and the love of art that connects them all.

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• Experiences

  In New Mexico, we meet Neal Ambrose-Smith, a contemporary Native American painter, sculptor, printmaker, and professor. imbued with pop culture references and contemporary themes, his artwork has struck a chord with audiences. We took a trip to the Ohio State University libraries in Columbus to get an inside look at the exhibition “Essential Ingredients: Cookbooks as History.” We traveled to Virginia to meet K’Bana Blaq—a creative in every sense of the word. From music to theater to fashion, Blaq looks to bring people together and spread love and joy. "Songs of Sanctuary" was a multimedia concert experience created by the students of Piute High School in Utah. Digital audio and video teacher Tyrel Ivie, alongside dance teacher Carol Springer, combined their creative forces to produce a unique concert featuring a choir, dancers, and video components. Together, they told a story about finding sanctuary in the places we find familiar.

  Next Airing:	Tue, May 13th, 2025 at 10:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:33:38
  Usage rights:	Expires 9/28/2025

• Human Experience

  Meet woodworker Matt Rozler. Having first become interested in the art form through his father and grandfather, the two continue to be a source of inspiration as he transforms wood into meticulously handcrafted pieces. Born in Michigan and now residing in Cleveland, Ohio, Antwoine Washington is an artist who draws and paints bold, colorful portraits. In New York City, Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Boulevard" returns to broadway. Directed by Jamie Lloyd and starring Nicole Scherzinger and Tom Francis, the exhilarating production reimagines the classic musical. We hear from the artist Fei Fei Lin whose imaginative artwork explores the many facets of the human experience and reveals both cultural and personal truths.

  Next Airing:	Sun, May 18th, 2025 at 7:00 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:25:50
  Usage rights:	Expires 9/28/2025

• Reflect

  In his work, artist Gavin Benjamin brings together the old and the new by finding inspiration in the old masters and combining analog photography, collage, varnish, and paint to reflect on culture, politics, fashion, and design. We took a trip to the Museum of Graffiti in Florida, to meet Kern Myrtle—a yarn graffiti artist and painter. Using crocheted acrylic yarn and spray paint, they leave their distinct mark on the streets of Miami. Mason Drumm loves stop motion animation—so much so that he turned it into a career and founded a premier studio dedicated to handcrafted content.

  Next Airing:	Sun, May 25th, 2025 at 7:00 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:25:19
  Usage rights:	Expires 9/28/2025

• A Wonderful Life

  Based in Ogdensburg, New York, John Morrow is an artist and gallery owner who has been painting for over four decades. He takes inspiration from his surroundings. We meet visual artist and emergency medicine doctor Kristin Anchors. Through her work, she looks to heal the relationship between body and mind by reimagining textbooks as collages. We visit New York City to hear about the Broadway musical "A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical."

  Length:	00:25:41
  Usage rights:	Expires 9/28/2025

• A Work of Art

  The Outer Rim Guilds is a not-for-profit educational organization in Florida dedicated to George Lucas’s “Star Wars.” From costuming to choreographed stage combat to prop creation, members of this fan-based group can spread their knowledge and be part of a welcoming community. Randy D. Williams loves watches. So much so, he founded his own watch company “Talley and Twine.” Made of the finest raw materials, each time piece created is a work of art that leaves buyers coming back for more. With her camera, photographer, adventurer, and human rights advocate, Eleanor Moseman focuses on the social and cultural narratives of underrepresented groups.

  Length:	00:24:48
  Usage rights:	Expires 9/28/2025

• Exchange

  From being a soloist with the Rod Rodgers Dance Company to teaching the next generation to writing her memoir, dancer, choreographer, and scholar, Halifu Osumare embraces movement. We visit the artist in California to learn more. Art Basel Miami Beach is widely recognized as the leading art show of the Americas. Each year, artists and galleries head to the state of Florida to showcase modern and contemporary art. Opera singer Margaret Chalker has had a decades-long career. We headed to the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York, where Chalker is an educator, to hear her perform. Cuban artist and scholar Javier Martinez Herrera values the exchange of cultures. We took a trip to Cuba to find out more about his recent exhibition “Textum.”

  Length:	00:26:00
  Usage rights:	Expires 9/28/2025

• New Path

  We take a trip to Edmond, Oklahoma, to meet James Coplin. Once a bodybuilder champ, he is now an artist and teacher. We find out more about his life, career, and how he makes his paintings. Pull Club Studio is a women owned printmaking and design studio in Cincinnati, Ohio. formed by three friends, the group finds inspiration in what is around them and specializes in quality made screen printed goods. Founded in 2012, Classical Tahoe is a Nevada-based organization that presents a festival of the arts with the Classical Tahoe Orchestra at its center. We learn how a dedicated team creates an inviting space for music to be heard.

  Length:	00:25:13
  Usage rights:	Expires 4/15/2025

• Remnants

  The Abandoned Atlas Foundation has a mission—to ensure that abandoned buildings are not forgotten but remembered. The organization photographs, researches, and works to preserve these remarkable remnants of the past. We took a trip to Ohio to meet textile artist Janice Lessman-Moss. While creating, she embraces a technological and hands-on approach to weaving, combining the two to render detailed, abstract work. For over forty years, sculptor and printmaker john martini has been in key west, florida—a city that has and continues to serve as a source of inspiration for the artist.

  Length:	00:25:03
  Usage rights:	Expires 9/28/2025

• Sharing Stories

  Wisconsin musician Jordan B. Davis loves retro video games, so much so that he developed his own. named after his band “Space Raft,” the game stars Davis and his bandmates. Through ceramics and illustration, interdisciplinary artist Holly Barrett tells stories. Whether it be a vessel or an installation, her work conveys narrative and evokes memory. For Jazz legend John Lamb, age is just a number. Now in his 90s, he continues to play music in Saint Petersburg, Florida, and shows no signs of slowing down. On September 2nd, 2013, at the age of sixty-four, Diana Nyad swam 111 miles, from Cuba to Florida, in fifty-three hours. A feat of perseverance that galvanized many, she wrote a memoir.

  Length:	00:25:31
  Usage rights:	Expires 9/28/2025

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