GYST DO IT! With Elephant

GYST DO IT! With Elephant

Elephant is a contemporary artist-run space in Glassell Park, Los Angeles, started in 2010. Elephant houses six working studios, a central exhibition space and an outdoor event area. The studio artists collaborate to provide outside curators and artists a location for monthly exhibitions, events and gatherings. 

Current resident artists are Astri Swendsrud, Jason Kunke, Matt Macfarland, David P. Earle, Bianca D'Amico and Quinn Gomez-Heitzeberg.

http://www.elephantartspace.com/

Hosted by Kara W. Tomé

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GYST DO IT! With Sail Cloth Art Project

GYST DO IT! With Sail Cloth Art Project

Heather Hertel is a cross-disciplinary artist and professor at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.  She created the Sailcloth Art Project to combine her art practice with her love of sailing and she collaborates with visual artists, dancers, performance artists, and musicians.

Heather is also committed to educating her art students about professional  and DIY practices and uses GYST materials and resources to do so. 

hhertel.com

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GYST DO IT! With Community-Based Art

GYST DO IT! With Community-Based Art

Annie Buckley's multidisciplinary practice embraces digital media, photography, collage, fiction, criticism, curation, and collaborative, participatory, and community-based art with an emphasis on art and social justice.

She is the co-founder of the web publication Radical Actions a project exploring issues and questions surrounding current social practices in contemporary art, education and teaching.

Annie is an Associate Professor of Visual Studies at California State University, San Bernardino, where she is also the Founding Director of Community-Based Art, an initiative in which students, alumni, and volunteers facilitate art at underserved sites that otherwise have no access to art, and the Prison Arts Collective, dedicated to facilitating art in prisons. 

She is the author of two books of fiction, several non-fiction books for youth on topics including racism, homelessness, and the arts, and over 200 articles, reviews, and essays in publications including Artforum, Art in America, The Huffington Post, Artillery, and KCET Artbound.

http://www.anniebuckley.com

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GYST DO IT! With CERF+ The Artists Safety Net

GYST DO IT! With CERF+ The Artists Safety Net

Today’s guest is Cornelia Carey, Director of CERF+ The Artist Safety Net, started by artists for artists over 30 years ago in the craft community as a grassroots mutual aid effort.

CERF+ has since emerged as the leading nonprofit organization that uniquely focuses on safeguarding artists’ livelihoods nationwide, through education, resources, grants and loans. CERF+ has provided close to two million dollars to more than one thousand craft-based artists in need of emergency financial assistance because of a major setback in their studio practice due to illness, accident, fire, or natural disaster.

The CERF+ website www.cerfplus.org has information on protecting one’s studio through preparedness and insurance, relief programs, peer advice, practical how-to advice related to fixing damaged art works and how to apply for assistance, and more.

Hosted by Kara Tomé

GYST DO IT! With CERF+ The Artists Safety Net

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GYST DO IT! With AWOL

GYST DO IT! With AWOL

Guest is artist Jim Ovelmen, co-founder of AWOL, an event and exhibition space in El Sereno, CA. AWOL is dedicated to artist projects, events, ideas, and irregular connections. Since 2015, AWOL has presented art exhibitions and a music series in its space and on its rooftop. AWOL was also co-founded by media veteran Nicole Wang.

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GYST DO IT! With Adjunct Positions

GYST DO IT! With Adjunct Positions

Adjunct Positions is a non-commercial art space run by artist David Prince out of a residential garage in the Northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park. An artist-centric test site, it supports work that brings creative process into the exhibition space — transforming, performing, or otherwise materially inhabiting it.

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GYST DO IT! with 11:11 A Creative Collective

GYST DO IT! with 11:11 A Creative Collective

Guests are Addy Renteria and Erin Stone, founders of the 11:11 Collective, whose mission is to make the San Fernando Valley in California become a strong and independent artistic community and a flourishing destination for innovative art.

Since 2009 the collective's exhibitions and events have seen tremendous growth and they are in the process of becoming a non-profit organization to facilitate even greater success. 

The Fill in the Blank project is their new catalyst for supporting artists in the creation of major murals throughout the valley, with community support.

Hosted by Kara Tomé

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GYST DO IT! With Corrie Siegel of Star Tours

GYST DO IT! With Corrie Siegel of Star Tours

Corrie Siegel is an artist, curator and educator committed to using the arts as a method of personal philosophic exploration and a tool for community building.

Her projects have been profiled in the Los Angeles Times, Mouse Magazine, and Flash Art International. She has partnered with the LA Philharmonic, LA County Museum of Art, Barnsdall Art Center, Armory Center for the Arts, and the Corita Art Center to create and implement cultural educational programming. She is currently a Six Points Fellow.

Her recent project, Star Tours, was a participatory exhibition located within a 16 foot truck, which traveled to sites throughout Los Angeles. Star Tours was a nomadic initiative intended to draw connections between local communities and cross-cultural narratives of the Jewish Diaspora. Her exhibited work referenced cartography, graffiti and Los Angeles iconography to explore identity and place. Visitors were invited to participate in the project in a variety of ways.

Hosted by Kara Tomé

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GYST DO IT! With The Los Angeles Museum of Art

GYST DO IT! With The Los Angeles Museum of Art

Alice Konitz talks about her art project, the Los Angeles Museum of Art, located just outside her studio in Echo Park. As an extension of her sculptural practice, she built the 13 foot long structure to house site-specific installations by fellow artists.

Hosted by Kara Tomé

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GYST DO IT! With WOAH

GYST DO IT! With WOAH

Sharsten Plenge, of We Open Art Houses (WOAH) a Los Angeles-based creative agency and idea hub transforming open spaces through ephemeral visionary projects since 2012.

WOAH envisions underutilized and off-the-grid spaces as opportunity for experimentation.  A not-for-profit initiative and sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, WOAH works in tandem with artists, multimedia brands, and property owners to orient pedestrian activity and create experiential environments in unexpected places. 

Hosted by Kara Tomé

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GYST DO IT! With What's On Los Angeles

GYST DO IT! With What's On Los Angeles

What's on Los Angeles is an exhibition listing App designed for viewing on mobile devices. Created and maintained by artists Jody Zellen and Brian C. Moss as a useful tool and service for the Los Angeles arts community.

Host Kara Tomé talks with Jody and Brian about how the idea to create this App came about, the challenges and potential rewards of creating a marketable service, and their plans for developing it further.

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GYST DO IT! With High Desert Test Sites

GYST DO IT! With High Desert Test Sites

Aurora Tang from High Desert Test Sites, discusses the history of the organization and the recent receipt of non-profit status after a decade of programming.

High Desert Test Sites (HDTS) supports experimental art that engages with the local environment and community. Scattered along a stretch of desert communities in and around Joshua Tree, California, HDTS provides a place for both fleeting and long-term experimental outdoor projects that challenge traditional conventions of ownership, property, and patronage. Most projects will ultimately belong to no one and are intended to melt back into the landscape as new ones emerge.

High Desert Test Sites engages in year-round programming and events including a semi-annual weekend event that invites artists to install or perform temporary projects around the area.

Sixty artists will participate in the HDTS 2013 event that will occur in Joshua Tree and travel a total 700 miles with artists projects installed all the way to Albuqurque, NM.

www.highdeserttestsites.com

Hosted by Kara Tomé

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GYST DO IT! With Thank You For Coming

GYST DO IT! With Thank You For Coming

Guests on the show are two core members of Thank You For Coming, Laura Naguera and Blake Besharian.

TYFC is an artist-run restaurant that is home to an interdisciplinary artist residency program. Each month, a new artist is selected to work on their ideas as well as make and serve food in the context of their proposed project.

Past residencies include The Heretics Kitchen presented by artist collaborative The Order, exploring food, fiber, labor and feminist history through the presentation of famine foods – simple peasant staples of bread, potatoes, beans, vegetables, and ritual feasts. 

With Special Meal, diners chose from a menu of “last meals” requested by prisoners on death row.

Thank You for Coming is volunteer-run and also hosts workshops, performances and special events. TYFC is located in Atwater Village, Los Angeles and open Wed-Sun. for lunch and dinner.

www.thankyouforcoming.la

Hosted by Kara Tome

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GYST DO IT! With PlantBot Genetics

GYST DO IT! With PlantBot Genetics

Collaborating artists Wendy DesChene and Jeff Schmuki created PlantBot Genetics, a parody company that satirically looks at the possible evolution of plant species due to the consequences of modern agricultural practices, including GMO’s. The artists create public interventions featuring their hybrid, robotic plants, including ‘Monsantra,” through the PlantBot Art Lab, an eighteen-foot trailer they converted into an off-grid, mobile exhibition space and classroom; the Greenhouse Field Lab, a solar powered portable green house ‘laboratory” for site-specific education and experimentation; and gallery and museum shows. 

PlantBot has been displayed around the U.S. and the world, including in Egypt and Austria. The artists have been in residence at the McColl Center in North Carolina and the Hafnarborg Art Center in Iceland, and will create projects at the Landscape Laboratory at Buitenwerkplaats, Amsterdam and the KulttuuriKauppila Art Center in Finland.

Hosted by  Kara Tomé.

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GYST DO IT! With Yuval Sharon of The Industry

GYST DO IT! With Yuval Sharon of The Industry

The Industry presents new and experimental productions that merge music, visual arts, and performance in order to expand the traditional definition of opera and create a new paradigm for interdisciplinary collaboration. The Industry aspires to be regarded on a national level for premiering the most exciting and experimental new work in the country.

Artistic Director Yuval Sharon joins host Kara Tomé in conversation about the groundbreaking company that is “reshaping L.A. opera” (Los Angeles Times)

https://theindustryla.org/

Hosted by  Kara Tomé.

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GYST DO IT! With Miranda Wright of Los Angeles Performance Practice and The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts

GYST DO IT! With Miranda Wright of Los Angeles Performance Practice and The Center for Sustainable Practice

Miranda Wright is the founder of two innovative organizations.

The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts (CSPA) provides a network of resources to artists and arts organizations designed to enable sustainable practices in art making through environmentalism, economic stability, and strengthened cultural infrastructure.

Los Angeles Performance Practice is an infrastructure comprised of a network of independent artists and companies who create groundbreaking theatrical experiences through cutting-edge approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement.

http://losangelesperformancepractice.org/

http://www.sustainablepractice.org/

Hosted by  Kara Tomé.

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GYST DO IT! With Yarn Bombing Los Angeles

GYST DO IT! With Yarn Bombing Los Angeles

Yarn Bombing Los Angeles (YBLA) is a group of guerrilla knitters who have been collaborating since 2010 to stage public installations and performances to help expand the definition of public art to include self initiated, temporal urban interventions. 

Guest Arzu Arda Kosar, a founding member of the group, will discuss the origins of the collaborative and their recent project CAFAM Granny Squared - the yarn bombing of the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. Over 500 crafters from 50 states and 25 countries joined to crochet 12,000 granny squares to cover the facade of the building.

The project is designed to bring together a community of artists and crafters who otherwise might not have had access to exhibit their work in a museum. After de-installation, the crocheted squares will be sewn into blankets and distributed to the residents of Skid Row.

http://www.yarnbombinglosangeles.com/

Hosted by  Kara Tomé.

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GYST DO IT! With Concord/P.S. 1010 Bus Project

GYST DO IT! With Concord/P.S. 1010 Bus Project

GYST Radio interviews members of the artist collective Concord, a trans-disciplinary collective, artist-run gallery, international residency program, and a home in Cypress Park, Los Angeles. 

Concord's two main interests have been collectivity and user-ship. Collectivity both as a process and an object of inquiry and user-ship through shows and events that engage audiences to explore, discuss, and interact rather than witness or view. As both an art project and a project space, Concord practices and provides a platform for critical models of art-making, culture-working, and community building.

The P.S. 1010 project is to convert a school bus into a mobile laboratory, gallery, and classroom. A roving gathering place for artists, teachers, and communities.

On the bus, artists will curate and create workshops, exhibitions, performances, and discussions as modes of collectively building and sharing knowledge—inviting local participants to respond and providing them with a platform to do so.

Hosted by  Kara Tomé.

GYST Radio_Interviews Concord Bus Project

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GYST DO IT! With Automata

GYST DO IT! With Automata

Automata is dedicated to the creation, incubation, and presentation of experimental puppet theater, experimental film, and other contemporary art practices centered on ideas of artifice and performing objects.

Automata's programming seeks to radically redefine and re-contextualize the notion of object performance, locating it at the intersection of contemporary performance, media, visual art, sound art and experimental writing.

Guests on the show are co-founders/co-directors Janie Geiser and Susan Simpson and associate producer Miranda Wright.

Hosted by  Kara Tomé.

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