Marjorie Barrick Museum Podcast

Inspired by The Emotional Show, MFA students ¡Katie B Funk! and Bailey Anderson talk about the powerful emotions that come with the practice of making art. 

In this episode we chat with Isabelle Bellinghausen, the Executive Director of Poetry Promise Inc., and the poet Charlene Stegman Moskal, one of the organization’s Teaching Artists. They talk about the importance of connecting poets to the local community. “You can really see the difference in the students after they go do a live reading because they realize, I can make a life out of this. I can become a full-time artist,” says Bellinghausen.  

In this episode we spoke with Modern Desert Markings co-curators, Katie Hoffman and Hikmet Sidney Loe. How did the exhibition begin? Who made that row of altered maps in the WorkShop Gallery? Listen in as the curators tell us more about the aims of the exhibition, outlining the role of Loe’s students and explaining the significance of Southern Nevada’s historic Land Art.

Interviewers: LeiAnn Huddleston, D.K. Sole
Interviewees: Katie Hoffman, Hikmet Sidney Loe

Modern Desert Markings: An Homage to Las Vegas Area Land Art was on view at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art from March 14 to July 8, 2023. Funding for this exhibition is generously provided by Nevadans for Cultural Preservation, Nevada Arts Council, Nevada Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and an Anonymous Donor.

Additional support was provided by the UNLV College of Fine Arts, the UNLV Department of Art, and the Nevada Museum of Art.

To learn more about the museum please click the link, UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art.
To learn more about NVFCP please click the link, Nevadans for Cultural Preservation. 

In this episode we talk to The Neon Museum’s latest artist-in-residence, Thomas Putzier, and its Arts Programs Manager, Joanne (JK) Russ. Putzier comes to Las Vegas from his home base in Minneapolis. What is it like for a Las Vegas newcomer to “experience the city through making art”? What is he planning to do with the Stardust sign? And what can he tell us about his Circle of Introspective Agency, the hot pink community engagement installation that appeared in the Marjorie Barrick Museum’s West Gallery for a single day in January?  Listen in and find out. Plus, Russ talks to us about the residency program and what it means for Las Vegas.

Interviewer: LeiAnn Huddleston

Interviewee: Joanne (JK) Russ, Thomas Putzier

Our partnership program with The Neon Museum is supported in part by Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, National Endowment for the Arts, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

In this episode we talk about manifestations of Black connective energy with Kristina Kay Robinson and Erica Vital-Lazare. Robinson is an artist and writer based in New Orleans, while Vital-Lazare is a Las Vegas writer, scholar, and curator of exhibitions like the Barrick’s Seeing/Seen as well as the popular Obsidian and Neon: Building Black Life and Identity in Las Vegas. They’ve been working together on a new project that brings together the multimedia ethos of Robinson’s Afrofuturist creation, Republica: Temple of Color and Sound — on view at the Barrick in Notes for Tomorrow — and Vital-Lazare’s research into Black history and Black space. What happens when “the swampland” of Louisiana gets connected to “the desert” of Nevada? Listen and find out.

Interviewers: LeiAnn Huddleston, D.K. Sole

Interviewees: Kristina Kay Robinson, Erica Vital-Lazare

To learn more about the museum please click the link, UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
This episode of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of art podcast was recorded with support from Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Notes for Tomorrow is a traveling exhibition organized and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI). Photo | Kristina Kay Robinson, Republica: Temple of Color and Sound (detail), 2018-present, sound installation. Courtesy of the artist.

In today’s episode we talk to performance artist Yasmina Chavez and Aluminati metal caster Micah Haji-Sheikh about the legendary late Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta. Chavez and Haji-Sheikh both took part in a sequence of Mendieta-themed activities at the Barrick Museum in mid-2022. Why is an artist who died in 1985 still such an inspirational presence? How do you build your own performance around her ideas? How do you stay safe when you're handling hot liquid metal? And who are the Aluminati? Find out with us.

Interviewers: LeiAnn Huddleston, Emmanuel Muñoz

Interviewees: Yasmina Chavez, Micah Haji-Sheikh

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To learn more about the museum please click the link, UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

Photo | Becca Schwartz/UNLV Creative Services

In this episode we talk about the importance of environmental mindfulness with two curators from Spirit of the Land, an exhibition that celebrated the East Mojave landscape around the sacred mountain known as Avi Kwa Ame. Spirit of the Land was on view at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art from March 25 to July 23, 2022. Kim Garrison Means and Mikayla Whitmore tell us what it was like working with rural communities to create their exhibition, how it feels when they hear people refer to their beloved desert as a wasteland, and why you should never decorate wild juniper trees with Christmas tinsel, even if you think it looks cute.

Interviewers: LeiAnn Huddleston, Emmanuel Muñoz

Interviewees: Kim Garrison Means, Mikayla Whitmore

To learn more about the museum please click the link, UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Photo | Josh Hawkins/UNLV Creative Services

You may have visited the Barrick Museum before but have you met our team? In our very first episode, we introduce ourselves. Find out what it's like to work in an academic art museum, hear about our strangest phone calls, and discover who on staff is the office prankster.

Interviewer: Dan Hernandez

Interviewees: Chloe Bernardo, Paige Bockman, Lauren Dominguez, Tracy Fuentes, LeiAnn Huddleston, Alisha Kerlin, Emmanuel Muñoz, Deanne Sole.

To learn more about the museum please click the link, UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 

Photo | Josh Hawkins/UNLV Creative Services