SAVONA BAILEY-MCCLAIN's show
Arts & Culture Podcasts
State of the Arts NYC is a weekly radio show where various sectors of NYC’s arts worlds converge to report and analyze the dynamic state of the arts and its participants. Hosted by Savona Bailey-McClain, long-time Executive Director of the West Harlem Art Fund (WHAF), she confronts, analyzes and celebrates victories, challenges and changes in the country’s dynamic creative capital. Reports from the field; from the far-flung fringes; from center stage and from behind the scenes—the host Savona Bailey-McClain draws on her 20 years’ in the trenches to bring you snapshot after snapshot in living color. State of the Arts NYC can be heard on iTunes, Radio Public, Youtube, Mixcloud and BRIC Radio.
Location:
Brooklyn, NY
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
State of the Arts NYC is a weekly radio show where various sectors of NYC’s arts worlds converge to report and analyze the dynamic state of the arts and its participants. Hosted by Savona Bailey-McClain, long-time Executive Director of the West Harlem Art Fund (WHAF), she confronts, analyzes and celebrates victories, challenges and changes in the country’s dynamic creative capital. Reports from the field; from the far-flung fringes; from center stage and from behind the scenes—the host Savona Bailey-McClain draws on her 20 years’ in the trenches to bring you snapshot after snapshot in living color. State of the Arts NYC can be heard on iTunes, Radio Public, Youtube, Mixcloud and BRIC Radio.
Twitter:
@sotartsnyc
Language:
English
Contact:
3473650132
Episodes
State of the Arts NYC Prototype edition 1/9/2020
1/9/2020
This edition of State of the Arts NYC we have Juecheng Chen (singer) and Garrett Fisher (composer) for the opera Blood Moon and then Ricky Ian Gordon (composer) and Emma Griffin (director) for the opera Ellen West on our show. Both operas are apart of the Prototype Festival which starts tonight.
Duration:00:30:35
State of the Arts NYC APAP interview with Mario Durham
1/9/2020
This episode is a special interview with outgoing Executive Director Mario Garcia Durham. State of the Arts NYC has covered this industry festival for three years. We talk with Durham about this year's focus and his feelings about the organization he helped build.
Duration:00:16:17
State of the Arts NYC with host Savona Bailey-McClain 11_26_2019 episode
11/27/2019
This week on State of the Arts NYC we have the artist Swoon in the studio. She is the most successful female graffiti artist in America. We talk with Swoon whose real name is Caledonia Dance Curry about her practice and influence of Gordon Matta Clark; her new exhibition at the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery and an upcoming show at BRIC Media.
Duration:00:25:34
State of the Arts NYC with host Savona Bailey-McClain 11_19_2019
11/19/2019
FortGansevoort, in association with Pavel Zoubok Fine Arts present Vanessa German, TRAMPOLINE:Resilience & Black Body& Soul. We talk with Vanessa German about this exhibition in Meatpacking District on Ninth Avenue near Little 12th Street. State of the Arts NYC learns what inspire her current show and how her artistic practice involved.
Duration:00:35:01
State of the Arts NYC with host Savona Bailey-McClain 11/12/2019
11/13/2019
This week on State of the Arts NYC, we have Tiffany Rea-Fisher, Artistic Director for the Elisa Monte Dance Company (EMD) and Monique Martin, Director of Programming for Harlem Stage. We talk about EMD's new work H.E.R. that will premiere in 2020 honoring the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance and lesser known Black women writers.
Duration:00:30:34
State of the Arts NYC - IFDPA Edition
10/22/2019
This week State of the Arts NYC returns with David Tunick and Jenny Gibbs. We talk about the IFPDA Fair opening October 23rd at the Jacob Javitis Center. Jenny Gibbs is the Executive Director of the International Fine Print Dealers Association, the Fine Art Print Fair and the IFPDA Foundation. David Tunick is the President of the IFPDA. They share information on site specific installations, special programming, new partnerships and more.
Duration:00:25:26
State of the Arts NYC Bessie Ep
7/11/2019
This episode of State of the Arts NYC spotlights the Bessie Awards with Lucy Sexton, Executive Director and Heather Robles, Managing Director. Produced in partnership with Dance/NYC, the NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies have saluted outstanding and groundbreaking creative work by independent dance artists in NYC for 33 years. Known as “The Bessie” in honor of revered dance teacher Bessie Schönberg, the awards were established in 1983 by David White at Dance Theater Workshop. They...
Duration:00:25:11
State of the Arts NYC - Lenardo Drew Ep
7/11/2019
Gallery talk with Leonardo Drew, Savona Bailey-McClain, and Brooke Kamin Rapaport in conjunction with the artist's exhibitions on view at Galerie Lelong & Co., New York and at Madison Square Park Conservancy.
Savona Bailey-McClain is Executive Director/Chief Curator of the West Harlem Art Fund, which has organized high-profile public arts exhibits throughout New York City for the past twenty years, including Times Square, DUMBO, Soho, Governors Island, and Harlem. She is also host/producer...
Duration:00:45:32
State of the Arts NYC Blue Note Edition 6/11/2019
6/13/2019
This edition of State of the Arts NYC we have Sophie Huber, Swiss filmmaker on the show to talk about her new documentary -- Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes. With Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Norah Jones, Robert Glasper, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Terrace Martin, and Don Was. This film marks the 75th anniversary of this record label and its impact on jazz and American music.
Duration:00:22:45
State of the Arts NYC on Governors Island 6/1/2019
6/5/2019
This is a special interview on-site on Governors Island with State of the Arts NYC host Savona Bailey-McClain. The West Harlem Art Fund and the Eli Klein Gallery kicked off the opening of the exhibition TRACES with an artist talk with Chinese artist Miao Xiaochun at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 1st in Nolan Park, Building 10 (NP/10).
As the one of the foremost representatives of Chinese new media art, his extensive body of works parallel each other through the theme of technology as a...
Duration:00:23:19
State of the Arts NYC 4/16/2019 with host Savona Bailey-McClain
4/17/2019
On this episode of State of the Arts NYC we dancer/choreographers Stephanie Acosta and Remi Harris. Both are Brooklyn-based and we talk about the recent Dance NYC Symposium where the duo were guest curators. We also talk about the state of dance today both regionally and across the country. Hear our lively conversation.
Duration:00:31:46
State of the Arts NYC Special LIVE TALK with Derrick Adams and Savona Bailey-McClain
4/16/2019
This is a special show. Hear Derrick Adams chat with curator & podcast host Savona Bailey-McClain from State of the Arts NYC. The two discuss his artistic practice, his new exhibition Interior Life and commission for the television show Empire. This talk was a public event at the Luxembourg & Dayan Gallery located on East 77th Street. Special thanks to PJ Ryan, Producer & Host of the Highly Melanated Podcast & The Dear You Project for helping us with engineering.
Duration:00:43:41
State of the Arts NYC Special Museum Edge Review on Fritz Ascher
3/31/2019
Fritz Ascher: Expressionist is the first American solo retrospective to showcase this artist’s bold, colorful oeuvre, which features early academic studies and figural compositions as well as late mystical landscapes devoid of human presence. We hear our contributor Irene Javors who reviews this exhibition for Museum Edge.
Duration:00:04:29
State of the Arts NYC Special Interview at the Athena Film Fest with host Savona Bailey McClain
3/21/2019
Two interviews with Director Julia Hart of Fast Color and Lead Actress Lorraine Toussaint at the Athena Film Festival in Manhattan. It's premiere night for the film and State of the Arts NYC is on the red carpet to get reactions.
Duration:00:10:28
State of the Arts NYC with host Savona Bailey-McClain Special Museum Edge Review
3/20/2019
The Jewish Museum presented Martha Rosler: Irrespective, a survey exhibition of the work of the influential artist Martha Rosler, from November 2, 2018, through March 3, 2019. Rosler is considered one of the strongest and most resolute artistic voices of her generation; she is also a prolific writer, lecturer, professor, and advocate for social justice. She skillfully employs diverse materials to address pressing matters of her time, including war, gender roles, gentrification, inequality,...
Duration:00:04:40
State of the Arts NYC Throckmorton special with host Savona Bailey-McClain
3/19/2019
This special interview was recorded at the Throckmorton Fine Arts Gallery in midtown New York. Joining host Savona Bailey-McClain was gallery owner Spencer Throckmorton and Photography Director Norberto Rivera. We talk about the Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias and his role during the Harlem Renaissance this past February. This special interview was conducted in front of a LIVE audience in the gallery.
Duration:00:26:30
State of the Arts NYC 3/5/2019 with host Savona Bailey-McClain
3/8/2019
This week on State of the Arts NYC we have UK based artist Ann Christopher and her NYC gallerist Marianne Rosenberg of Rosenberg Gallery on the Upper East Side. State of the Arts NYC is pleased to celebrate International Women's Day with a woman artist, two curators and radio host. We talk with Christopher about her artistic practice and with Rosenberg about the expansion of her gallery and what it means to kick that off with Christopher's 1st solo show in NYC.
Duration:00:30:52
State of the Arts NYC 2/26/2019 with host Savona Bailey-McClain
3/7/2019
State of the Arts NYC is pleased to have dancer/choreographer Jonah Bokaer back on our show. Bokaer talks with us about his Center for Performance Research in Williamsburg. Bokaer's Foundation secured affordable rehearsal space for dance in a 4,000 sq. ft commercial condominium. Space is an issue in NYC for visual and performance artist. We talk with Bokaer on what we can as a City.
Duration:00:25:29
State of the Arts NYC 2/12/2019 with host Savona Bailey-McClain
2/13/2019
this week on State of the Arts NYC, we have in the studio Emma Osore, social architect, artist and arts administrator. She is the co-founder of Black Space, a collective with creative professionals of color in the design, urban planning, architect and arts field.
With over 200+ members this collective aims to sensitize the planning process of Black communities across the country using cultural assets, storytelling and memory. We talk on how Black Spacer is reclaiming heritage and...
Duration:00:31:02
State of the Arts NYC with host Savona Bailey-McClain at the Winter Show 2019
2/5/2019
Curator and radio host Savona Bailey-McClain talks with Michael Diaz-Griffith, Associate Director of the Winter Antique Show and Thomas Heneage, London-based book dealer on Saturday, January 26th at 11 am, about the sale of Le Tumulte Noir by Paul Colin. Thomas Heneage Art Books presented this rare book edition dedicated to Josephine Baker and La Revue Nègre. The book sold within hours on opening day at the Winter Antique Show at the Park Avenue Armory.
Cities across the US are planning...
Duration:00:23:32