Art Connection
Every week meet fascinating artists and hear their stories about how a hobby became a passion.
Airs Sundays at 7:00 p.m on UEN-TV Channel 9.

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From being a soloist with the Rod Rodgers Dance Company to teaching the next generation to writing her memoir, dancer, choreographer, and scholar, Halifu Osumare embraces movement. We visit the artist in California to learn more. Art Basel Miami Beach is widely recognized as the leading art show of the Americas. Each year, artists and galleries head to the state of Florida to showcase modern and contemporary art. Opera singer Margaret Chalker has had a decades-long career. We headed to the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York, where Chalker is an educator, to hear her perform. Cuban artist and scholar Javier Martinez Herrera values the exchange of cultures. We took a trip to Cuba to find out more about his recent exhibition “Textum.”
The abandoned atlas foundation has a mission—to ensure that abandoned buildings are not forgotten but remembered. The organization photographs, researches, and works to preserve these remarkable remnants of the past. We took a trip to Ohio to meet textile artist Janice Lessman-Moss. While creating, she embraces a technological and hands-on approach to weaving, combining the two to render detailed, abstract work. For over forty years, sculptor and printmaker john martini has been in key west, florida—a city that has and continues to serve as a source of inspiration for the artist.
Wisconsin musician Jordan B. Davis loves retro video games, so much so that he developed his own. named after his band “Space Raft,” the game stars Davis and his bandmates. Through ceramics and illustration, interdisciplinary artist Holly Barrett tells stories. Whether it be a vessel or an installation, her work conveys narrative and evokes memory. For Jazz legend John Lamb, age is just a number. Now in his 90s, he continues to play music in Saint Petersburg, Florida, and shows no signs of slowing down. On September 2nd, 2013, at the age of sixty-four, Diana Nyad swam 111 miles, from Cuba to Florida, in fifty-three hours. A feat of perseverance that galvanized many, she wrote a memoir.
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The Outer Rim Guilds is a not-for-profit educational organization in Florida dedicated to George Lucas’s “Star Wars.” From costuming to choreographed stage combat to prop creation, members of this fan-based group can spread their knowledge and be part of a welcoming community. Randy D. Williams loves watches. So much so, he founded his own watch company “Talley and Twine.” Made of the finest raw materials, each time piece created is a work of art that leaves buyers coming back for more. With her camera, photographer, adventurer, and human rights advocate, Eleanor Moseman focuses on the social and cultural narratives of underrepresented groups.
Based in Ogdensburg, New York, John Morrow is an artist and gallery owner who has been painting for over four decades. He takes inspiration from his surroundings. We meet visual artist and emergency medicine doctor Kristin Anchors. Through her work, she looks to heal the relationship between body and mind by reimagining textbooks as collages. We visit New York City to hear about the broadway musical "A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical."
We take a trip to Edmond, Oklahoma, to meet James Coplin. Once a bodybuilder champ, he is now an artist and teacher. We find out more about his life, career, and how he makes his paintings. Pull Club Studio is a women owned printmaking and design studio in Cincinnati, Ohio. formed by three friends, the group finds inspiration in what is around them and specializes in quality made screen printed goods. Founded in 2012, Classical Tahoe is a Nevada-based organization that presents a festival of the arts with the Classical Tahoe Orchestra at its center. We learn how a dedicated team creates an inviting space for music to be heard.
Kirk Whipple and Marilyn Morales are a husband and wife piano duo who have been playing together for over two decades. Their talent as pianists and composers has brought them all over the world. Ohio-based artist Anita Maharjan has been creating art in the United States for over a decade. Through her woven installations, she connects to her Nepali culture and comments on contemporary materiality. Denise Wall’s dance energy is an award-winning studio in Virginia that has turned out a series of extraordinary students excelling in the field of dance. Two of those students are John Chappell and Caden Hunter who were accepted into the prestigious Juilliard School for Dance.
