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Episode 167: Filmed at Mary Reid Kelley's home and studio in Saratoga Springs, New York, the video artist and painter discusses her video work "You Make Me Iliad" (2010). In researching the lives and experiences of women who lived during the first World War, Reid Kelley was struck by how few first-hand accounts she was able to uncover. By creating an imagined narrative involving a prostitute, a soldier, and a medical officer, Mary Reid Kelley attempted to reconstitute an experience that would have otherwise been lost to history. In black-and-white videos and drawings filled with punning wordplay and political strife, Mary Reid Kelley presents her take on the clash between utopian ideologies and the realities of women's lives in the struggle for liberation. Performing scripted narratives in rhyming verse— featuring characters such as nurses, soldiers, prostitutes, and saltimbanques—Reid Kelley playfully jumbles historical periods to trace the ways in which present concerns are rooted in the past. Learn more about the artist at: https://art21.org/artist/mary-reid-kelley/ CREDITS: Producer: Ian Forster. Consulting Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Morgan Riles. Artwork Courtesy: Mary Reid Kelley. Special Thanks: Patrick Kelley. Theme Music: Peter Foley. #MaryReidKelley #Art21 #Art21ExtendedPlay

Episode #266: From their mutual gallery in New York City, Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon collaborate on a new series of drawings. "I enjoy working alone for about a month and then after that I really need to be around other artists," explains Dzama, "I always really enjoy collaboration." The two artists work side-by-side on large-scale drawings of cathedrals, horses, and waves, allowing their work to unfold organically. For Dzama, his collaboration with Pettibon is especially significant. "He was the first contemporary artist I had heard of," explains Dzama, "I really feel that he opened the door for the acceptance drawing as a main art form, not as just the sketch before the painting." Since meeting through an event at their gallery, Pettibon and Dzama now frequently collaborate, allowing their own styles and signature imagery to influence one another. "I've definitely found that I have this looseness to my work when I collaborate," says Dzama. "It gives it more of an energy. The work is alive." Marcel Dzama was born in 1974 in Winnipeg, Canada. Fantastical and absurd, Dzama's drawings feature a cast of humans, animals, and hybrid creatures rendered in pencil, ink, watercolor, and, at times, root-beer syrup. Dzama draws upon a mix of influences—from childhood monsters, like the Wolfman and Dracula, to the work of artists like Marcel Duchamp, Francisco Goya, William Blake, and Francis Picabia—to create unique worlds that are at once surreal and familiar, sweet and violent, and chaotic and elegant. Learn more about the artist at: https://art21.org/artist/marcel-dzama/ CREDITS | Producer: Ian Forster. Interview: Ian Forster. Editor: Rosie Walunas. Camera: John Marton. Colorist: Jonah Greenstein. Artwork courtesy: Marcel Dzama, Raymond Pettibon, and David Zwirner. Special thanks: Jonathan Munar. "Extended Play" is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts; and, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the Art21 Contemporary Council; and by individual contributors. TRANSLATIONS Translated subtitles are generously contributed by our volunteer translation community. Visit our translation team at Amara for the full list of contributors: https://amara.org/en/videos/e9HCIehAo5zy/info/marcel-dzama-drawing-with-raymond-pettibon-art21-extended-play/ #MarcelDzama #Art21 #Art21ExtendedPlay #RaymondPettibon

Film by Eric Minh Swenson. A native Angelino, Mark Steven Greenfield studied under Charles White and John Riddle at Otis Art Institute in a program sponsored by the Golden State Life Insurance Company. He went on to receive his Bachelor’s degree in Art Education in 1973 from California State University, Long Beach and a Masters of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing from California State University Los Angeles in 1987. Greenfield’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States most notably at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art and the California African American Museum. Internationally he has exhibited in Thailand at the Chiang Mai Art Museum, in Naples, Italy at Art 1307, Villa Donato and the Gang Dong Art Center in Seoul, South Korea. His work deals primarily with the African American experience and in recent years has focused on the effects of stereotypes on American culture stimulating much-needed and long overdue dialog on issues of race. He is a recipient of the L.A. Artcore Crystal Award (2006) Los Angeles Artist Laboratory Fellowship Grant (2011), the City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship (COLA 2012), The California Community Foundation Artist Fellowship (2012), the Instituto Sacatar Artist Residency Fellowship in Salvador, Brazil (2013) and the McColl Center for Art and Innovation Residency in Charlotte, North Carolina (2016). He was a visiting professor at the California Institute of the Arts in 2013 and California State University Los Angeles in 2016. The Lora Schlesinger Gallery in Santa Monica and the Ricco Maresca Gallery in New York currently represent him. For more info on Eric Minh Swenson visit his website at thuvanarts.com. His art films can be seen at thuvanarts.com/take1 Eric Minh Swenson also covers the international art scene and his writings and photo essays can be seen at Huffington Post Arts : http://m.huffpost.com/us/author/eric-minh-swenson/

Now in its third year, the BRIC Visual Artist Residency program gives visual artists the space, resources, and support to take their work further and explore new directions. Ilana Harris-Babou is one of the artists making BRIC House her home this summer. She is a Brooklyn artist who makes video installations and sculptures, often incorporating tactile elements and the subject of food. She is using the BRIC Residency to continue work on several projects, including a digital series in which she inhabits a character who is part cooking show hostess, part "video vixen," and part carpenter, welcoming viewers into an alternate world of taste and consumption. -- This video is from BRIC TV— the first 24/7 television channel created by, for, and about Brooklyn. It is the borough's source for local news, Brooklyn culture, civic affairs, music, arts, sports, and technology. BRIC TV features programming produced and curated by BRIC, an arts and media nonprofit located in Downtown Brooklyn, NYC. Watch more Brooklyn-centric content from BRIC TV: BK Live: http://BRIC.me/u/youtube/bklive Straight Up: http://BRIC.me/u/youtube/straightup BHeard: http://BRIC.me/u/youtube/bheard B-Side: http://BRIC.me/u/youtube/bside Check out more from BRIC: https://www.youtube.com/c/BRICartsmedia Connect with us: https://www.facebook.com/BKIndieMedia http://Twitter.com/BRICTV http://Instagram.com/BRICTV http://BRICartsmedia.org/BRICTV #BKStories #documentary #BKStories #documentary #BKStories #documentary

Artist and DJ Dave Muller uses different systems, from alphabets to top-ten lists, to create unique and personal drawings. In this video, Dave shows us his massive trove of LPs, destroys some old vinyl, and tells us how he relates to music via listening and drawing. Produced by MOCA in collaboration with TEAM G Director: Felipe Lima Producers: Bret Nicely and Jett Steiger Executive Producer: Lyn Winter Cinematographer: Larkin Donley Editor: Ed Yonaitis Music: Andrew Miller Sound: Amanda Beggs Like MOCA on Facebook: http://bit.ly/MOCAFacebook Follow MOCA on Twitter: http://bit.ly/MOCATwitter +1 MOCA on Google+: http://bit.ly/MOCAGooglePlus

Museum educator Ramsey Weeks (Assiniboine, Lenape, and Hidatsa) discusses Native American ledger art, and shares ideas for family and classroom “winter count” activities. Download ledger art images for activity. http://smithsonianeducation.org/heritage_month/Ledger_Art_images_for_activity.pdf

Featuring the exhibition: Anna Torma 'Book of Abandoned Details' May 26 to September 2, 2018 Special thanks to Anna Torma and Istvan Zsako Video by: AvidEye Productions Music: Cylinder Two by Chris Zabriskie Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Esker Foundation 4th floor, 1011, 9th Avenue, South EastCalgary, Alberta, T2G 0H7, Canada @EskerFoundation www.eskerfoundation.art © Esker Foundation, 2018. Help us caption & translate this video! https://amara.org/v/C1pLj/