Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker interviews Fabienne S. Powell Assistant Director & Chief Curator for the NYS OGS Curatorial & Visitor Services. Which means her job is taking care of the Empire State Plaza Art Collection. Listen up because we get some history, the demands of taking care of such an important collection and what happened to our G…

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This month Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits done with artist Gina Occhiogrosso and discusses her life making art and her current solo show Surfacing at the Arts Center of the Capital Region located in Troy, NY (Surfacing is up January 14 – March 11). Check out more of Ginas work here:https://www.gocchiogrosso.comMusic by:Nick Drake | Place…

This month Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down and ZOOM’S with Katherine Chwazick who is an amazing artist and the brains behind the smallbany gallery (which if you don’t know is a 1/12 scale gallery).Check out more of Katherine’s work here www.katherinechwazik.comMusic by:Thelonious Monk | In Walked Bud Arcade Fire | Wake Up (live from …

This month Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker talks with painter/ sound artist Matt Tiernan about his studio practice and his sound work. As promised a year ago, the CW Radio team traveled up to Stillwater to record from Matt’s studio and record the ultimate Tiernan, painting and guitar combined. In addition, in celebration of our last episode of…

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This month Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with artist and musician Jason Martin and discusses his current project Power Animal Systems.Music by:Jason Martin | Patient Zero, Please Assist Us In Transmission & Schenectady SongTheme music by PhantogramBởi Collar Works Radio

This week Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker talks with photographer and educator Danny Goodwin about his studio practice, making pictures of nothing and what he's really building in there.Music by: Neil Diamond | Holly HolyTom Waits | What's He Building?Theme music by PhantogramBởi Collar Works Radio

This week Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with Kathy Greenwood and Judie Gilmore, two area gallery directors who stepped in to host this year’s Mohawk Hudson Regional, the region’s most prestigious yearly survey of art makers. Kathy Greenwood is the director of the Albany International Airport Gallery and Judie Gilmore is the directo…

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with artists from the Albany Center Gallery exhibition SEEN. Sharing the hosting duties for this episode again is Jennie Tang who curated the show and is also part of the amazing team at Albany Center Gallery. The artists present for the roundtable discussion, hosted at the gallery, are Sofeia Eddy, Al…

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with artists from the Albany Center Gallery exhibition Frame//Unframe. Sharing the hosting duties for this episode is Jennie Tang who curated the show and is also part of the amazing team at Albany Center Gallery. The artists present for the roundtable discussion, hosted at the gallery, are Katherine C…

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with poet Christian Ortega whose new book Rants for Social Media is out now. The conversation included a breadth of topics from art, inspiration, the choices we make in life and figuring out what you are good at. Surprisingly, it was not until the end they talked about social media and Christians deep …

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down this week at the University Art Museum @ SUNY Albany to talk to four of the MFA candidates graduating and presenting their thesis at the museum.Music by:Charles Bradley | ChangesTheme music by PhantogramBởi Collar Works Radio

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker interviews photographers Tyler Ki-Re and Jayna LaFountaine, two photographers featured in the 43rd Photo Regional at the Opalka Gallery at Sage College. Additionally Jayna is one of the four jurors who curated the show. Music by:Joan Jett | Crimson and CloverTommy James and The Shondells | Crimson and CloverThem…

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker interviews Shanekia McIntosh, poet performer and all-around creative force. Her work is powerful, important and everyone should read her poem Epitaph. Check out Shanekia at shanekiamcintosh.com.Music by:Rico Rodriguez | Jam RockThe Beach Boys | Heroes and Villains…

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with artist Terry Conrad at the Opalka Gallery in Albany NY on the Sage Campus. Terry’s show at Opalka is full of amazing vision, curiosity and energy that is compelling and inspiring. Justin and Terry discuss his work, his process, and his life since the lockdown and how this experience of “now” has s…

This week Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with artist Jack Magai and discusses how his current studio practice has changed during the pandemic, what he has in the works and the old testament.Bởi Collar Works Radio

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with SpaceLAB artist Thomas Lail to discuss his work. Thom was a great sport in agreeing to be interviewed twice as the Collar Works Radio mobile studio on it's first outing had a some technical difficulties. As Collar Works Radio moves forward, now without a studio to call home we are looking to up th…

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker sits down with SpaceLAB artists Julie Chase and Dina Bursztyn to discuss their work in the show and what it's like making art as a team.Bởi Collar Works Radio

This week Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker Zooms with painter Joseph O'Neal about his studio practice and how he went from skateboarding teenage to mystical painter.www.josephoneal.comBởi Collar Works Radio

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker discusses art, relationship insecurities and Brancusi with artist and Collar Works Gallery co-founder Sanford Mirling.Bởi Collar Works Radio

With me this week is Darian Longmire an artist from Brooklyn, NY. Darian opens up about his experience as an artist during COVID-19 and how it’s effecting his life right now.Bởi Collar Works Radio

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My guest this week is Michael Van Winkle. Michael is an amazing painter who produces work that blends the figure, landscape and abstraction in a way that situates itself somewhere between absurdist humor and unmistakable beauty.Bởi Collar Works Radio

My guest this week is Dorothy Englander. Dorothy is an incredible artist that was recently honored with a four decade retrospective of her art in September of this year, at the Albany Center Gallery. Our conversation starts with the two of us discussing how her imagery is connected to the ideas of biology and at the times the home. From there we de…

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Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker interviews artist Matt LaFleur. Matt was at the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency and is home now but Matt was able to stop by the studio and sit down for a two part interview. In part two of the interview Justin talks to Matt about his work in the beautiful show Everyday Perfection at the Albany International A…

Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker interviews artist Matt LaFleur. Matt was at the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency and is home now but Matt was able to stop by the studio and sit down for a two part interview. Justin talks to Matt about his time at the residency and also his work in the beautiful show Everyday Perfection at the Albany Internati…

Part two of the extended interview with Collar Works Radio host Justin Baker and J Houston. Houston is a Pittsburgh based photographer that is exhibiting work in the group show Art Stand Stills currently showing at Collar Works Gallery. In this interview we find out more about the work showing at the gallery and other projects Houston is currently …

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This week is part two of my interview with Daesha Devón Harris, in this segment we discuss spirituality, making things by hand and our mutual love of looking at painting.Bởi Collar Works Radio

This week my guest is Daesha Devón Harris an artist who's work in photography was recently awarded a prestigious Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Grant and a NYFA Artist Fellowship in Photography. Daesha was kind enough to sit down and discuss in depth her work that is on display at the Esther Massry Gallery as part of their alumn…

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Ken Ragsdale is my guest this week and we sat down in the Sanctuary's basement studio and had a conversation about memory, folding paper and photography.Bởi Collar Works Radio