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It's Beccy, your one and only source into the exciting world of American College Life ;)

In this episode, I'll tell you about my trip to Washington D.C. -the capital of the United States- and I will share some really cool sightseeing and restaurant tips with you and some (hopefully) entertaining experiences I've made on my travels.

Below you can find the Google Maps Links to all the locations I'm mentioning in this episode. Enjoy ;)

Restaurants
the DINER - https://go.ncsu.edu/qctc8ox
Abuare Bar & Restaurant - https://go.ncsu.edu/ritj2bv

Museums and Galleries
National Gallery of Art - https://go.ncsu.edu/p6enkkd
Sculpture Garden - https://go.ncsu.edu/xlqkuto
International Spy Museum - https://go.ncsu.edu/3xpxtad

Memorials and Sights
The White House - https://go.ncsu.edu/jrhuwsq
The National Mall - https://go.ncsu.edu/r7e6yrv
Lincoln Memorial - https://go.ncsu.edu/s3llq8n
Washington Monument - https://go.ncsu.edu/fstua7f
World War II Memorial - https://go.ncsu.edu/ucvna7w
Korean War Veterans Memorial - https://go.ncsu.edu/mmvfjnv

What else? ;)
Smithsonian National Zoo - https://go.ncsu.edu/kglabhg
Synetic Theater - https://go.ncsu.edu/fdqg1mm

And as always, if you have any questions, recommendations or constructive feedback, feel free to DM me on Instagram on @beccy_schdn or @beccyontour_!

On Friday I went down to the National Gallery of Art and man I came home in a funk. Usually, I come back super charged up and wildly inspired and just ready to get back into the studio, but Friday was not one of those days. I went down to have lunch with my friend Michelle and after lunch we walked through the Philip Guston show that just opened. I had never heard of Guston before and seeing his work was a very dramatic experience. So much so that after Michelle had leave to get back to work, I ended up going through the show again and taking a little more time on some of the pieces that really resonated with me the first time through. Before you enter the actual show, there’s a short video playing on a loop that gives a little background on Guston’s life—specifically his childhood as a Jewish immigrant in California, where the persecution of Jews and Blacks by the KKK caused massive trauma that would stay with him for the rest of his life and feature heavily in his art. On top of that, three days after his tenth birthday, his father hanged himself in the shed outside their house and Guston was the one who discovered the body. As a means of processing his childhood trauma, he taught himself to draw and at 14, he started to paint.

LINKS
National Gallery of Art
Philip Guston Now
Philip Guston - Wikipedia
The Guston Foundation
Stedelijk Museum

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On Friday I went down to the National Gallery of Art and man I came home in a funk. Usually, I come back super charged up and wildly inspired and just ready to get back into the studio, but Friday was not one of those days. I went down to have lunch with my friend Michelle and after lunch we walked through the Philip Guston show that just opened. I had never heard of Guston before and seeing his work was a very dramatic experience. So much so that after Michelle had leave to get back to work, I ended up going through the show again and taking a little more time on some of the pieces that really resonated with me the first time through. Before you enter the actual show, there’s a short video playing on a loop that gives a little background on Guston’s life—specifically his childhood as a Jewish immigrant in California, where the persecution of Jews and Blacks by the KKK caused massive trauma that would stay with him for the rest of his life and feature heavily in his art. On top of that, three days after his tenth birthday, his father hanged himself in the shed outside their house and Guston was the one who discovered the body. As a means of processing his childhood trauma, he taught himself to draw and at 14, he started to paint.

LINKS
National Gallery of Art
Philip Guston Now
Philip Guston - Wikipedia
The Guston Foundation
Stedelijk Museum

CONNECT WITH ME
Website: https://jefferysaddoris.com 
Twitter: @jefferysaddoris 
Instagram: @jefferysaddoris

SUBSCRIBE
Subscribe to Jeffery Saddoris: Almost Everything in your favorite podcast app to get more conversations like this. You can also find a written version of Iterations on Substack.

MUSIC
Music For Workplaces by Jeffery Saddoris

We share traits with every single human on this planet. But often our differences define us more than our commonalities. In this episode we explore our empathetic potential, and how art just might be a bridge for creating better connection.

Social psychologist Dr. Sara Konrath and Director of the National Gallery of Art guide us through an exploration of art and empathy, and we explore a new public art installation at the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial in Washington State. 

Head over to CreativeFuelCollective.com for more creative inspiration, prompts, online workshops and a robust creative community.

Hosted by Anna Brones

Co-Produced by Anna Brones & Gale Straub

Theme Music is by cleod9 music

Season 1 is Made with Support by Big Cartel

Featuring: 

• Kaywin Feldman: Kaywin Feldman is the director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. She is the National Gallery's fifth director, and the first female to hold the position. Before coming to the National Gallery, she served for a decade as the director and president of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Terra Foundation for American Art and a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the White House Historical Association, and the Chipstone Foundation. Feldman holds master's degrees in art history and archeology from the University of London.
  • Links:
    • National Gallery of Art
• Sara Konrath: Sara Konrath is a social psychologist who directs the Interdisciplinary Program on Empathy and Altruism Research at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Her scientific research focuses on topics related to social and emotional intelligence. For example, her studies explore changes over time in these traits among American young people. Other research examines implications of these traits for individuals themselves and for other people. For example, she has published extensively on the health and happiness benefits of giving. She also creates and evaluates empathy-building training programs in a variety of groups, including young people, nonprofit professionals, art museum staff and visitors, and doctors. Konrath holds a PhD. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan.
  • Links: ipearlab.org
• Carol Reitz: Originally from Minnesota, Carol Reitz serves as the president of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community on Bainbridge Island in Washington State. She is also a Bainbridge Island Rotarian and played piano for high school choirs. Loves to play pickleball, knit, and serve as a docent and volunteer host at the Exclusion Memorial educating visitors from around the world.

Resources Mentioned & Places to Learn More

• Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial
• Scrovegni Chapel
• Minneapolis Institute of Art Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts
• Does Arts Engagement Increase Empathy and Prosocial Behavior?
• Eric Klinenberg, “Why Libraries Will Save the World”
• “Art as a Trojan Horse,” part of Dr. Konrath’s column for Psychology Today, The Empathy Gap
• Images of public art installation at the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial deck
• Video of the production and fabrication of some of the components in Anna Brones and Luc Revel’s artwork for the Bainbridge Island Japanese Exclusion Memorial

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Last week, the New York Times reported that the National Gallery of Art's Philip Guston retrospective, expected to travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tate Modern in London, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, would be delayed by four years. The reasons are many, including the limited demographics of those who worked on an exhibition that is very much about race, as well as the current cultural climate. The decision has caused = reactions of indignation and anger in some art circles, causing others to be perplexed over what seems like an overreaction to the delay of an exhibition by a very well-known artist, who is frequently shown and exhibited in spaces the world over.

In this episode, the director of the National Gallery, Kaywin Feldman, shares her thoughts on the decision, why it was important, and what the National Gallery of Art will do now.

The music featured in this episode is the track “California Life" by Radiochaser.

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Byron Kim is a Brooklyn-based artist who works in an area known as the abstract sublime. Part of the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, his minimalist paintings sit at the threshold between abstraction and representation, conceptualism and pure painting. Catherine and Juliana learn about Byron’s original plan to become a poet (he switched to art, thinking it would be “easier”); his physician parents, who immigrated to New York back in the 1950s; the gigs that got him through his early years as a struggling New York artist (four words: Skadden Arps graveyard shift); his career breakthrough at the landmark 1993 Whitney Biennial; and his ongoing series known as “Sunday Paintings,” arguably his most personal work to date.

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Hosts: Juliana Sohn @juliana_sohn Catherine Hong @catherinehong100
Executive Producer: Hj Lee
Editor: AJ Valente
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