Category: Visual Arts
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The Daily Drum w/ Jenn Grant
View on Zencastr In this episode of Re-Creative, we talk to singer-songwriter Jenn Grant about coffee, smoothies, and a whole lot more, including the work of Mi’kmaq artist, Alan Syliboy. Jenn speaks passionately about her own journey with visual art and her admiration for Syliboy’s work, including his daily drum series. [Pictured left.] She reflects on…
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Episode: 69: Sherlock Jr.
Support Our Guest Ira Nayman’s latest work includes the anthology The Dance, which he edited and which includes one of his stories. (The anthology also includes one of Mark’s stories.) Ira decided to devote his life to writing humor when he was eight years old. More than fifty years later, he has had eight novels published…
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Episode 63: Ruth Abernethy
View on Zencastr Ruth Abernethy, sculptor of some of the most iconic public art in Canada, joins the podcast to discuss her work. Ruth has been a sculptor for more than thirty years, documenting in bronze many quintessential Canadian figures, such as Glenn Gould [pictured left], Oscar Peterson, and Margaret Atwood. Joe used to walk…
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Episode 56: The Gates
Mark and Joe are joined by the writer and broadcaster, Lisa Brandt, to discuss massive environmental art installation by Bulgarian artist Christo Yavacheff and French artist Jeanne-Claude, known jointly as Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
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Episode 54: Nick Patterson
Joe and Mark are joined by the writer Tom Bradley. 3:AM magazine described Tom as “… one of the most criminally underrated authors on the planet.”
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Episode 48: René Magritte
View on Zencastr Author and critic Michael Antman joins Joe and Mark for a wide-ranging discussion about visual arts and writing. Michael started out as a poet. After switching to fiction, he’s had two novels published by indie presses: Cherry Whip and Everything Solid Has A Shadow. He likes to explore themes of self-knowledge in…
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Episode 26: The Camouflaged Piano
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark are joined by the visual artist, Gerard Pas, to discuss the work of Greg Curnoe. Gerard was born in The Netherlands and immigrated to Canada with his parents when he was a boy. He first met Curnoe when he was an art student at H.B. Beal. Then he moved…
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Episode 16: Tunnel Vision
View on Zencastr When author and jazz singer Krista Wallace saw Tunnel Vision, a painting by Burnaby artist Jane Appleby [see below], she knew she had to buy it. “I walked around the corner, and I saw it, and I was just locked on,” Wallace says. She was in the process of writing her first…
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Episode 12: Children’s Games
View on Zencastr Mark and Joe revisit childhood with Canadian author Arlene F. Marks, as they discuss the painting Children’s Games, by Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Arlene explains why the painting is so important to her as a writer. Like the painting, which shows 230 children playing 83 different games of the…
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Episode 5: The Traveler
Cape Breton speculative fiction writer Sherry D. Ramsey joins Mark and Joe to discuss a painting that has been “lost” to her, The Traveler.