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-Hi, there, and welcome to the show.
I'm Nancy Guppy, coming to you from Koplin Del Rio Gallery,
where I am surrounded by Klara Grosso's
magnificent exhibit "Diving into the Wreck."
Inspired by images
of traditional Japanese pearl divers --
known as "ama" -- who descend to great depths
without protective gear or supplemental oxygen.
Klara's monotypes, paintings, and sculpture
are centered around water, the body, and the subconscious.
Klara describes her process this way --
quote, "I dove in and, one by one,
print by print, a story unfolded.
The dive became a metaphor about going down
deep into my own subconscious,
facing things I was afraid of, and emerging with treasure,
which is so often gleaned in the depths."
"Diving into the Wreck," a gorgeous,
thought-provoking show from a distinguished artist
working at the top of her game, runs through October 28th.
Hours and location are at koplindelrio.com.
We've got a dynamite lineup for you,
including artist and innovator Wynia Lang.
-My work is process-driven.
Everything I do is finding a different process
to create a pattern.
-A slate of live theater.
And Red Dress hits Easy Street.
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♪ Well big dumb birds ♪
♪ Flap their wings ♪
♪ [Indistinct] ♪
♪ Beyond the sea ♪
-And we'll begin with the free, quarterly,
and much needed cultural resource,
PublicDisplay.ART.
-When people want to read the magazine,
I want them to learn something,
and be excited about the arts again.
There's so much wonderful art stuff happening in Seattle,
and we're a resource for that.
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I'm the executive director of One Reel
and the publisher of Public Display,
Seattle's first and foremost art magazine.
So, The Rocket is a longtime music magazine.
It was kind of like a northwest version of Rolling Stone.
And I'd always thought,
"Wouldn't it be cool to work there?"
And lo and behold, I was able to work there.
So, that kind of kick-started my love of print media.
I worked out in California for a while,
for San Francisco Weekly,
and I came back to work for The Stranger.
I was the publisher of Seattle Magazine for a short time.
So, I've had quite a bit of experience in publishing.
Public Display is a magazine that we started back in 2021
to meet the needs of Seattle's arts community.
By then, Stranger had stopped publishing,
City Arts had gone out of business,
so there really was no arts media.
So, we decided to start a magazine.
We just saw a great value in having something
that was tangible, that people could pick up
anywhere they wanted, and view art,
hopefully motivate them to go out and look at art.
So, we distribute the papers at coffee houses,
small mom and pop retailers,
restaurants, bars, and galleries.
-There you go. Yeah, no problem.
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-One of the things from the very start
that we decided to do was that we were going to give
the curating reins over to the artists.
So, each issue that we put out, the following issue,
those artists suggest three artists for the next issue.
And then, out of that pool, we pick the artists from that.
-I was in the first issue of Public Display.ART
because Marty was already familiar with my work
when he started the project.
I felt like I was in great company
with the artists that were selected,
and I felt really proud to be a part of it.
-My name is Hernan Paganini,
and I was featured in the third issue of PublicDisplay.ART.
Another artist recognized my work.
Because you receive an invitation,
but they doesn't say who invite you.
And then, after you publish your work in the magazine,
you recommend three other peoples.
-By being in the magazine,
it definitely helped me reach out to a broader community.
I remember there was this parent who e-mailed me,
and said that they saw my work in the magazine,
and her child started, like, posting my work on her bedroom,
which I thought was, like, really cool.
-We've gotten really good reports
from nearly all the artists that we've worked with,
where they've actually been able
to take a step up in their career.
They've either gotten picked up by a gallery
after being in the magazine,
or they were asked to do a show.
[ Indistinct talking ]
-Have you seen the paper?
-I just saw it.
-It's actually featured one of the featured artists
in the issue.
Having 43 artists in one show is a huge undertaking.
You don't see that in Seattle very often, you know.
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The difference between a print publication of curated content
versus going online and searching for something
is that it really does open you up to the unexpected.
-And I like this approach to the old-fashioned way
to pick something, you know,
and see, like, the newspaper or something that is printed.
-When people want to read the magazine,
I want them to discover new artists to follow.
And hopefully, they'll go and follow them on social media.
We want to make the artists as big as rock stars,
and to have a chance to further their career.
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-PublicDisplay.ART is available for free
in over 600 restaurants, cafes, galleries, and bars,
as well as in every branch of the Seattle Public Library.
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-My work is process-driven.
Everything I do is finding a different process
to create a pattern.
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That's why my -- my last show I called "Pareidolia,"
because it's that tendency to perceive a specific
or meaningful image in random visual patterns.
I'm really drawn to organic pattern,
the kind of pattern that's created
from natural forces on the elements.
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I use wind, gravity, and temperature primarily.
So, these natural forces are going to -- they inherently
produce these organic patterns.
Might look like mycelium.
It might look like waves or rays of sunshine
through water, or earth from above.
I'm really trying to observe and understand
the nature of a material,
and then exploit those characteristics.
So, glass is flat, it's impermeable,
and it's translucent.
And then, I've been playing with paper a lot lately, too,
'cause it has a whole different quality.
It's surprising how much this dye will migrate.
It's very, very fluid.
And so, then, I'm trying to --
to corral it, or spread it across.
I'm always kind of choosing whether I want to move
with what is, or do I want to, you know,
impose my will upon it,
and see if I can get it to do something else.
You know, unlike with a paint brush or traditional
mark-making tools, I'm not adding a line.
The air actually subtracts color.
It's pushing it away.
So, I'm just -- I start pushing that color back and forth.
Essentially, it's kind of like this --
this dialog -- or trialogue, I guess --
between the materials and the process and myself.
I'm watching, seeing what's happening,
manipulating it,
and just trying to get it to behave -- which it never does.
But, you know, that's -- it's kind of this funny balance
between trying to control it, and letting go,
and just watching, and seeing it surprise me.
It always surprises me.
One thing always leads to the next and the next,
and it's hard to get out of there,
because there's always something right around the corner.
There's always something new I want to try.
-Learn more about Wynia and her myriad of beautiful
and eclectic artworks and projects at rhuby.com.
Red Dress, one of my all-time favorite local bands,
hit the music scene in the late 1970s,
and are still going strong,
performing on stages all over the city,
including an upcoming gig at Easy Street Records.
So, here they are --
Gary Minkler, John Olufs, Peter Pendras,
Billy Shaw, and Walt Singleman performing "Guttersnipe."
[ "Gutternsipe" plays ]
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-♪ Bubble, bubble, bubblegum ♪
♪ Bubblegum ♪
♪ Bubble, bubble, bubblegum ♪
♪ Bubblegum ♪
♪♪
♪ Bubble, bubble, bubblegum ♪
♪ Bubblegum ♪
♪ And a torn blue blouse ♪
♪ [Indistinct] ♪
♪ Cripes! ♪
♪ People can be so mean ♪
♪ Bubble, bubble, bubblegum ♪
♪ Bubblegum ♪
♪ Bubble, bubble, bubblegum ♪
♪ Bubblegum ♪
♪♪
♪ Bubble, bubble, bubblegum ♪
♪ Bubblegum ♪
♪ She's no great [indistinct] ♪
♪ Kind of wiggle that a fat girl makes ♪
♪ Cripes ♪
♪ People can be so mean ♪
♪ But I like that dirty little guttersnipe ♪
♪♪
♪ She makes men sweat ♪
♪ Like they never met ♪
♪ Cripes! ♪
♪ People can be so mean ♪
♪ Cripes! ♪
♪ People can be so mean ♪
♪ Cripes! ♪
♪ People can be so mean ♪
♪ But I like that dirty little guttersnipe ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Catch Red Dress live at Easy Street Records on Sunday,
November 19th.
Show starts at 5:30 sharp.
There's lots of great live theater happening around town,
and we want to flag a few shows and events
that you won't want to miss.
"Thoreau at Home" is a one-man show
featuring the brilliant Todd Jefferson Moore
as Henry David Thoreau.
Working with a script drawn from Thoreau's personal journals,
this under-an-hour performance is a riveting
and deeply moving meditation on the natural world
and our place in it.
Thoreau at home plays at Whidbey Island Center for the Arts,
October 13th through the 28th.
ACT, a contemporary theater, launches New Works Northwest,
a three-day festival featuring readings
of five new plays by five excellent Seattle playwrights,
Andrew Lee Creech, Steven Dietz, Katie Forgette,
Reginald Andre Jackson, and Maggie Lee.
Tickets are pay-what-you-can, and all readings
will be followed by a post-show discussion.
Three-time Emmy-nominated actress Molly Shannon,
known by many for her hilarious,
over-the-top "Saturday Night Live" character
Mary Katherine Gallagher, is coming to the Moore Theater
to talk about her successful,
decades-long career and her poignant new memoir,
"Hello, Molly!"
And I'll be leading the conversation.
Molly at the Moore happens Saturday, October 21st.
And finally, Letters Aloud, the performing arts company
that brings to life intimate, thoughtful,
often humorous stories
hidden within the private letters of real people
presents "Before They Were Famous:
Letters on the Way Up," featuring actors reading letters
written by well-known figures such as Bruce Lee,
Stephen King, Oprah Winfrey, and Tom Hanks.
The content of this personal correspondence
reveals the crooked, prickly,
sometimes backstabbing path to fame.
"Before They Were Famous: Letters on the Way Up"
happens Saturday, October 28th at Town Hall, Seattle.
And that's a wrap.
Big thanks to Koplin Del Rio Gallery for hosting us,
and a reminder that "Diving into the Wreck"
runs now through October 28th.
And thanks to you for tuning in.
Have a great week, and we'll see you soon.
-♪ Skies of pink ♪
♪ Skies of blue ♪
♪ [Indistinct] ♪
♪ Too young to think ♪
♪ Not too young to fly ♪
♪ [Indistinct] ♪
♪ In the teenage sky ♪
♪ [Indistinct] ♪
♪ In the teenage sky ♪
♪ [Indistinct] ♪
♪♪
♪ In the teenage sky ♪
♪ In the teenage sky-y-y-y ♪
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[ Cheers and applause ]
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