Framing the Hammer
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Episodes
18 episodes
FTH Ep. 118 - Cartooning Around in the Creative Economy, with Ellis Rosen
Episode 18 of Framing the Hammer finds us in etymological and philosophical hilarity with cartoonist Ellis Rosen. A cartoonist of many decades, Rosen has been featured in The New Yorker in addition to dozens of other publicati...
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Episode 18
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43:25
FTH Ep. 117 - Culture is Not an Industry, with Professor Justin O'Connor
Professor Justin O’Connor of University of South Australia’s Creative Economy Department joins us for episode 17 of Framing the Hammer to disc...
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Episode 17
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59:24
FTH Ep. 116 - Democratizing Art, with Bianca Bosker
“Democratization of American Arts and Culture” means lowering or removing barriers to experiencing, creating, and sharing art. Through this process, ideas are explored, questions asked, humanity exposed, bonds created, and communities are great...
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Episode 16
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38:03
FTH Ep. 115 - Growing Arizona's Arts Advocacy Ecosystem, with Patrick McWhorter & Sabrina Estrada
A conversation with Arizona Citizens for the Arts (AZCA), the state arts advocacy organization fighting to increase funding in the Arizona state budget. In this episode, we chat with the AZCA Executive Director, Patrick McWhorter, and Director ...
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Episode 15
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30:54
FTH Ep. 114 - How Loneliness Inspires Creativity, with Richard Deming
In episode 114 of Framing the Hammer, we chat with Richard Deming, Yale Direct...
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Episode 14
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46:32
FTH Ep. 113 - The Force (of the Creative Economy) Awakens, with Jason McGatlin
In Episode 12 of Framing the Hammer, we chat with Jason McGatlin, a Hollywood producer who worked on films such as The Adventures of TinTin,
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Episode 13
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52:36
FTH Ep. 112 - Are Your Musicians Ethically Sourced? with Hillary Perkins
In episode 12, we chat with Hilary Perkins, founder of Whippoorwill Arts (www.whippoorwillarts.org) a nonprofit advocating for music and musicians that recently underwent a comprehensive report on recommended wages for working musicians. We tal...
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Episode 12
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45:43
FTH Ep. 111 - Hyperreality and Pumpkin Spice Lattes, with Boris Eldagsen & Jason M. Allen
In episode 11 of Framing the Hammer, we chat with artists Boris Eldagsen and Jason M. Allen about their respective approaches to, uses of, and thoughts about artificial intelligence. Both Boris and Jason received awards for their work ...
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Episode 11
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1:29:07
FTH Ep. 110 - Sonic Branding is the New Sonic Boom, with Danielle Venne
4A Arts dives into another aspect of the creative economy in our discussion with creative director Danielle Venne of Made Music Studio. Her firm specializes in “sonic branding” or, “The au...
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Episode 10
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30:24
FTH Ep. 109 - Cultivating the Crafting Community, with Mx. Domestic
In our conversation with Mathew Boudreaux, known in the online crafting world as the “Themperor of Crafting”, @mx.domestic. Mathew addresses their favorite quilting and crochet projects, being a crafting influencer, the sense of community devel...
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Episode 9
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30:14
FTH Ep. 108 - Creating the Fringe, with Elena K. Holy
In this episode of Framing the Hammer, we speak with Elena K. Holy, founder and director of the New York International Fringe Festival as well as the 4A Arts general manager. Elena has spent a lifetime as a theatrical producer with a p...
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Episode 8
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40:42
FTH Ep. 107 - An Indianapolis Jazz Luminary, with Larry Ridley
Jazz legend and current board member for 4A Arts, Larry Ridley, recounts his musical youth in the Indianapolis jazz scene, his time touring with jazz greats like the Montgomery Brothers, and his lifelong commitment to sharing jazz through educa...
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Episode 7
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33:37
FTH Ep. 106 - FDR and the Artsy Alphabet Soup of the WPA, with Troy Plumer
Framing the Hammer episode 106 brings us Troy Plumer, a Louisville, KY-based master’s student in history. Troy is an aficionado, though not a trained expert by his own admission, with the era around the
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Episode 6
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45:20
FTH Ep. 105 - Art as an Act of Vandalizing Nature, with Ishkoten Dougie
A chat with Indigenous artist Ishkoten Dougi whom Gavin met at the Santa Fe Indian Art Market in August. During our conversation, Ishkoten discusses many fascinating aspects of his art, creative process, a...
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Episode 5
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39:30
FTH Ep. 104 - Finding Their Ikigai, with Art Therapist Yuko
Enjoy this conversation with an art therapist who works with violent criminals. Her nonjudgmental compassion for her patients and artistic process bring insight into the multitude of ways art restores our humanity and helps our self-understandi...
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Episode 4
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43:40
FTH Ep. 103 - Children and Art, with Jim and Katherine Starkey
In this episode, 4As executive director Gavin Lodge is reunited with his high school junior and senior English teachers, Katherine and Jim Starkey. This married dyna...
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Episode 3
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