Episode 650 Allison Agsten and the Main Museum

Episode 650 Allison Agsten and the Main Museum


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This week we catch up with Dana’s life crush, Allison Agsten, Director of LA’s Main Museum. We chat through founding a museum, LA’s art scene, and who has the best bag.

http://www.themainmuseum.org/home

Allison Agsten, you might remember as Curator of Engagement at the Hammer when she appeared on our show with Duncan’s life crush Mark Allen, https://badatsports.com/2011/episode-319-mark-allen-and-allison-agsten/

We be crushing yo.

Recorded as part of the B@S radio take over at Lumpen Radio WLPN Chicago for Justice and Open Engagement 2018

Episode 675: Stairwell’s in Oakland

Episode: 648 Sheehy, Cadieux, and Matteson


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Art and Change. Fast and Slow.

We check in with three bright lights of the Minneapolis/St Paul arts community and try to get to the bottom of #soilpractice #socialpractice

How do we make and sustain engagement?

Recorded as part of the B@S radio take over at Lumpen Radio WLPN Chicago for Justice and Open Engagement 2018

Episode: 641 Anna Metcalfe and Holly Hanessian

Episode: 641 Anna Metcalfe and Holly Hanessian


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Live from our Elevator Studio @ Open Engagement: We are joined by Anna Metcalfe and Holly Hanessian to discuss their cohort, The Socially Engaged Craft Collective (SECC), a group focusing on the social aspects historically connected to craft objects and materials. We suss out the intersection of ceramic objects and sustainable models of agriculture and water consumption.

Episode 640: Lizania Cruz aka. We the News

Episode 640: Lizania Cruz aka. We the News


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Live from our Elevator Studio @ Open Engagement:

We are joined by the ever-inspiring, Lizania Cruz, who takes us into the world of her latest project, We the News. Cruz discusses her work creating and distributing immigrant-focused publications and products for her nomadic newsstand. We learn the history and future of WTN, including collaborations with Black Alliance of Just Immigration (BAJI) and The Laundromat Project through the first ever, one-year Artist Residency.