Women at the Helm

Mar 14 2024
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Women at the Helm, formerly Beyond the Paint with Bernadine podcast, is a new show about the intersection of women artists and writing.
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Monthly episodes highlight books, reviews, blogs, essays, poetry that showcase and celebrate women artists, their artistic process and works and will include conversations with women artists, writers and publishers.
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Patti.Smith: Symbolic Portraiture

Mar 14 2024 20 mins  
I contemplate the visual artist, writer, poet, songwriter and performer, Patti Smith with a focus on her writings and photographs for the 2011 exhibition, "Camera Solo," at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.“Camera Solo” was the first museum exhibition of Patti Smith’s photography in the United States and included “seventy photographs taken by her Polaroid cam

Tracy Emin: "My Bed" and Strangeland

Feb 05 2024 19 mins  
Women at the Helm features and celebrates the contemporary British artist Tracy Emin. We explore her iconic installation "My Bed" and dive into her "jagged recollections" from her memoir, "Strangeland.".Learn more about Tracy Emin:>Tracy Emin at the Tate Museum>Read her evocative memoir:Strangeland>Image Credit: Ben Gurr.STAY CONNECTED with Women at the Helm:> Website:

Women at the Helm: Book Dedications

Jan 02 2024 11 mins  
In this inaugural episode of my new podcast series, Women at the Helm: Intersection of Women Artists and Writings, I explore Book Dedications. .Writers highlighted in this episode:Janet FitchPoet, Mary Oliver.Image Credit: James Abbott MacNeill Whistler, "The Beach at Selsey Bill," 1865 New Britain Museum of American Art.Stay Connected>Website: Beyond the Paint with Bernadine>

New Podcast: Women at the Helm: Intersection of Women Artists and Writing

Nov 08 2023 4 mins  
Introducing a new podcast series: Women at the Helm: Intersection of Women Artists and Writing. Formerly Beyond the Paint with Bernadine podcast, Bernadine takes you on a new expansive journey that celebrates women artists through the written word; books, essays, poetry and more..Stay Connected>Website: https://beyondthepaint.net/>Sign up for Women at the Helm monthly newslet

Episode 173: Special Edition: Sisterhood: Portraiture: Sally Brown and Amy Chaiklin

Aug 31 2023 21 mins  
This special episode celebrates and includes a conversation with two contemporary, American female artists, Sally Brown and Amy Chaiklin and their upcoming duo exhibition Sisterhood: Portraiture: Sally Brown and Amy Chaiklin. .The exhibition, a curation of sixty works; thirty mini-depictions of feminist artworks in self portraiture by Brown and thirty ink and graphite portraits sel

Going on a Hiatus.......to write my Memoir

Jan 29 2023 7 mins  
After 5 years and over 100 conversations with women artists, gallery owners and collectors, I am taking an extended hiatus from the show. I will embark on a writing journey to fulfill my deep desire to craft and publish a memoir about my engagement with the visual arts. All the ways "looking at art" has impacted my life. It will also celebrate women artists who liberated me from bo

Replay: Julie Goldstein: Sea Women (#160)

Jan 09 2023 36 mins  
In this episode, join me and woodcut printmaker, storyteller and artist Julie Goldstein into the worlds of 18th century Icelandic sea women and female, Japanese Ama pearl divers. Goldstein captures the stories of these "anonymous" women, memorializing them through her vivid portrayals. Goldstein's reverence for women lost in history books is awe-inspiring. ."Sea Woman," solo exhibi

Episode 172: Holga Camera and the Female Experience

Dec 14 2022 19 mins  
As many of you who listen to this podcast know, I am a visual arts educator, historian, speaker and of course, a podcaster. I never considered myself a maker. Until now! I took up photography to learn and experience first-hand the artistic process. This episode journeys with you my immersion into a photography series titled "The Other Side of the Mirror," employing a toy camera, th

Episode 171: Valerie Ellis: Moving Human Experience Through Paper

Nov 28 2022 53 mins  
Abstract and Conceptual female artist Valerie Ellis draws us into her visual world through her curiosity of the human mind and condition. A psychotherapist for twenty years, Ellis paved an unconventional pathway in making art. .Her visual vocabulary is submerged in a very hands on practice of pulling, spreading, crumpling media like paper and paper pulp. Her works deeply connect th

Episode 170: Jamie Smith: Mother Time Tarot

Nov 07 2022 40 mins  
I am thrilled to have as my guest the female, multi-disciplinary artist and educator Jamie Smith. "Smith’s monochromatic drawings, wooden wall-hanging sculptures, and installation work incorporate personal and culturally-resonant symbols in an attempt to reckon with the fragility of life, new beginnings, the passage of time and the depths of loss." Her visual expressions are an "