Podcasts by The Gallery Gap

The Gallery Gap

WVIK has partnered with the Figge Art Museum and Augustana College's Teaching Museum of Art to produce a new podcast focusing on underrepresented populations in art galleries across the world, and in our community. Melissa Mohr, director of Education at the Figge, and Claire Kovacs, director of the Augustana Teaching Museum of Art, host the Gallery Gap. Produced by Lacy Scarmana . Support for The Gallery Gap on WVIK comes from Pederson Paetz Design and the estate of Margaret Skinner, a long time friend of WVIK and lover of the arts.

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 19: NMWA Committing to Equity from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This episode continues Claire and Melissa’s three part series about the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) and its 30th anniversary.

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 18: Celebrating 30 Years of the National Museum of Women in the Arts from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

As Claire and Melissa close out the first season of The Gallery Gap, they have created a special three part series that celebrates the institution that inspired The Gallery Gap’s creation, the Nati...

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 17: Midwest Women Artists: Collaboration + Determination from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Melissa asks Claire about her recent experiences at the Biennial Midwest Artists Symposium , organized by the Illinois Women Artists Project (IWAP). Now in its fourth iteration, the symposium focus...

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 16: Endless Flight from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In light of the current Figge exhibition , Edouard Duval Carrié: Endless Flight, Claire and Melissa explore the topic of Haitian art with Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrié and Caribbean art schol...

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'The Gallery Gap' Presents: The Rainbow Coalition Panel from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This is the complete audio from the Rainbow Coalition panel held at the Augustana Teaching Museum of Art on August 30, 2017.

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 15: Organize Your Own from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this episode, we switch things up a bit, and Melissa talks to Claire about the Augustana Teaching Museum of Art's current exhibition, Organize Your Own: the Politics and Poetics of Self-Determin...

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 14: Urban Exposure from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

After a summer hiatus, Claire and Melissa jump back into The Gallery Gap with an interview of Quad Citizens Gaye Shannon Burnett and Jon Burnett regarding their summer film program, Urban Exposure .

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 13: Kara Walker's The Emancipation Approximation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Walker's artwork The Emancipation Approximation is on view at the Figge until August 27. This series of 27 silkscreen prints features the provocative silhouettes for which Walker is known.

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 12: Jefferson Pinder’s Ghost Light, Part 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In the second part of a two-episode conversation about art and race in the Quad Cities, Claire and Melissa continue talking with Chicago-based artist Jefferson Pinder.

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 11: Jefferson Pinder’s Ghost Light, Part 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In the first part of of a two-episode conversation about art and race in the Quad Cities, Claire and Melissa speak with Chicago-based artist Jefferson Pinder.

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 9: Remembrance + Restitution, Part 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this episode, Melissa and Claire discuss a couple of recent films that grapple with the aftermath of WWII and the Holocaust, and pick up where they left off in their conversation with Dr. Jonath...

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 8: Remembrance + Restitution, Part 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In observance of Yom HaShoah, Claire and Melissa discuss the importance of remembering the Holocaust, and begin a conversation with Dr. Jonathan Petropoulos, professor of European History at Clarem...

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 7: Earth Day Edition from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Melissa and Claire talk about the intersections of art, Earth Day , and the March for Science through a closer examination of artists Katja Loher and Maria Sybilla Merian .

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 6: Funding Conundrum from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Claire and Melissa discuss federal funding for agencies that support arts, culture and education, such as the National Endowment for the Arts , the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corpor...

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 5: Representation + Community from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This week, Claire and Melissa sit down with Chicago-based artist Kiam Marcelo Junio to talk about their work, their recent exhibition and performance at the Augustana Teaching Museum of Art, and th...

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 4: #5WomenArtists from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Gallery Gap launched in March in recognition of National Women’s History Month. Women artists are not the sole focus of this podcast, but they have certainly been the primary focus of this mont...

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 3: Out From The Shadows from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

What would you do with pieces of wood and rope, a pair of antlers, and tar? Artist Alison Saar transforms all of these, and much more, to create dynamic sculptures and installations that examine th...

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 2: The Reckoning from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This week, Claire Kovacs and Melissa Mohr pick up where they left off by talking about the Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous group of feminist artists.

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 2: The Reckoning from 2017-03-15T06:00

This week, Claire Kovacs and Melissa Mohr pick up where they left off by talking about the Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous group of feminist artists.

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'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 2: The Reckoning from 2017-03-15T06:00

This week, Claire Kovacs and Melissa Mohr pick up where they left off by talking about the Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous group of feminist artists.

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