Gem to Gem

Shows and Guests

Be sure to go to our YouTube channel for intriquing and fun shorts of every show!

Episode 13: Re-envisioning Public Funding for the Arts in Austin

With our guest host Heidi Schmalbach, and Angela Caranza, Executive Director of Fresh Arts in Houston, Jane Hervey, Founding Executive Director of the Future Front, and Zac Traeger, Founding Executive Director of The Museum of Human Achievement.

Episode 12: The Importance of Performance Art in Austin

Our guest host Michael Anthony García, a primary and pioneering Austin performance artist and curator, will be joined by and our guests Ron Berry, founder and Artistic Director of the Fusebox Festival, Laura G. Gutiérrez, Artistic Director of the OUTsider Fest, and Steve Parker, a ground breaking and inter-nationally known Austin musician, artist and curator.

Episode 11: The Importance of Brick and Mortar Galleries Part 2

We'rereturning to the topic of the importance of brick and mortar galleries to explore how far we've come since that first show and celebrate what FOG has accomplished. Our guests will be Jill McLennon of McLellon Pen Co. Gallery, Meredith Williams of Martha's and Phillip Neimeyer of Northern Southern.

Episode 10: Austin Art History Storytelling (Part 3)

In Part 3 of this history telling series, we carry on with a deep-dive into the aughts. In many ways, this period propelled Austin’s art scene to its current ethos. The energy and excitement that sparked then continues to resonate today. Three major players in the epicenter were Art Palace (2005-2009 Austin:2010-2017 Houston), D.Berman Gallery (2000-2011) and Okay Mountain (2006-2012).

Episode 9: Art Galleries at Black Studies Spotlight

Through its ten years of programming, AGBS has profoundly nourished the minds and imaginations of multitudes across an expanding network of intersections and become a leading bellwether - in concert with the George Washington Carver Museum, in the elevation of Black art and scholarship in the Austin community and beyond.

Episode 8: Austin Art History Storytelling (Part 2)

Jaime Salvador Castillo - Artist, Independent Curator, Writer & past service to the Austin Arts Commission & Art in Public Places since the early 2000's. Erin Cunningham - Artist & Founding Member of ICOSA Collective since 2015. Rebecca Marino - Artist, Current Associate Director, Texas State University Galleries in San Marcos, Co-Founder and Co-Editor of Conflict of Interest, Gallery Director, Pump Project, and Gallery Coordinator/Curator of Pump Project’s Flex Space Gallery in the mid 2010's. Naomi Schlinke - Austin Artist since the early 1990's.

Episode 7: Austin Art History Storytelling (Part 1)

Robert Boland - Austin Artist since the mid 2000's & Co-Founder and Co-Owner of Vault Fine Arts Services since 2012. Annette DiMeo Carlozzi - Curator and Writer based in Austin since 1996, Chris Cowden - Executive Director of Women and Their Work since 1986. Robert Faires - Senior Arts Editor of the Austin Chronicle from 1993-2021.

Episode 6: The State of Art Writing in Austin

Episode 5: Art and Education

Episode 4: Art and Tech in Austin

Episode 3: Art Collecting in Austin

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