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Libby Rosof and Roberta Fallon partnered with WHYY’s Newsworks and created some 20 podcasts of interviews with people from Phialdelphia’s art world that were produced by WHYY’s Peter Crimmins. New episodes were available every other Monday. Last spring, they also began producing photo slideshows to go with the podcasts. Artblog Radio is one part of their larger website, which covers a variety of contemporary art news.
Amir Lyles has used the brick dust that falls off the cellar walls to give his paint texture. He has also used bits of his beard. His house and his family are essential parts of the identity that he pours into his paintings, many of them with themes of African identity – but also Rastafarianism, jazz and hiphop to soul.
The triumvirate who run Extra Extra aim their exhibitions at fellow artists. For Derek Frech, Joe Lacina and Daniel Wallace, success is not defined by sales. Rather, it’s defined by ideas, the conversation and the buzz the exhibit generates in Philadelphia’s alternative art community.
WHYY carried an Artblog logo on its Arts and CUlture page and linked out to the podcasts but it did not host the podcasts on its site (at the request of Rosof and Fallon), which prevented Newsworks from archiving them. A listing of those podcasts that were produces, though, might have helped to juice some content on WHYY’s site.
The Artblog’s founders were grateful that WHYY sent them traffic. Some of the podcasts have aired on the Newsrowks Tonight newscast, WHYY’s Chris Satullo said.
Rosof said the Artblog is now working on a new project with Newsworks – Artblog Art Safaris, “in which we take people on van tours to Philadelphia’s hard-to-navigate, widespread galleries, videotape the tours.” Artblog will post the videos at the various galleries.
“People tell us they love the podcasts,” said the Artblog team. “We don’t think people notice the two different websites.”
