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Hosted by Shawna Vesco Ahern · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 19 episodes
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Convos with the creative folk shaping the arts and culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hosted by Shawna Vesco Ahern.
Shawna Vesco Ahern hosts Art Yap, a arts show with 19 episodes published.
Before she was brokering multi-million dollar partnerships at SFMOMA, Suzy was training monkeys to play computer games in a neuropsychopharmacology lab. In this episode, she talks about her winding path from grad school
Today's guest is Demetri Broxton, someone who I think practices radical attention in his artistic practice as well as in his general disposition toward the creative community he builds at Root Division as executive direc
CCA — California College of the Arts — is closing. Vanderbilt University is buying the campuses. And decades of art education, community, and institutional memory are being sold off with them. In this episode, recorded a
The night before Valentine’s Day, artists gathered at SOMA Arts to talk about saving the San Francisco art scene. It felt less like a policy meeting and more like couples therapy. In this special Art Yap episode, Shawna
Today on Art Yap, I’m talking with someone whose mind seems to run on two beautifully interwoven tracks — sharp, crystalline analysis and expansive creative instinct. Lauren Frankel is a musicologist-turned-nonprofit-art
In this episode of Art Yap, I sit down with Richard Koscher (RMK)--artist, filmmaker, creative director, and bold experimenter--whose newest project GHOSTS OF THE ICE asks us to look directly at what's disappearing. Usin
Today’s guest is Connie Wurz (formerly Connie Wood), Curator in Charge of Graphic Design at the SFO Museum—and someone whose work quietly shapes how millions of people experience art and information every day. Connie’s d
Today’s guest is Jackie von Treskow, Senior Program Manager for Public Art at the San Francisco Arts Commission. Jackie’s journey into the arts wasn’t a straight line—it involved mythical Asheville forests, fringe pirate
“A room without books is like a body without a soul." And honestly… a mall without art or bookstores? Same energy. Today we’re heading into Daly City’s Westlake Shopping Center—yes, my childhood stomping grounds—for a co
This week’s guest is Tina Wiley Crawford, recruitment manager at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She is also a talented graphic designer, a champion for youth programs, and—by her own words—a Swiss Army knife of
In this week’s episode I head down to the dump to trash talk...pardon me, talk trash with Deborah Munk, who’s been running the Artist in Residence program at Recology San Francisco for over 25 years, and Bryan Keith Thom
Today’s guest is Micah Ruiz, the founder of Orion Custom Framing. Micah is the kind of person who makes you feel like you can build something beautiful from scratch—whether it’s a frame, a business, or an entire life. Mi
Today’s episode features Allison Gamlen, a lifelong arts advocate who now serves as the Visual and Performing Arts Coordinator for the San Mateo County Office of Education. We talk about growing up in the wings of the sy
Today’s guest is Jonathan Carver Moore—a gallerist, curator, and unapologetic advocate for emerging artists, especially artists of color and queer voices. Jonathan runs his namesake gallery in San Francisco’s budding Mid
Today’s episode features Anna Lisa Escobedo a true community building baddie from LA. Anna Lisa’s creative project management connects artists with opportunities, each other, and the public. She pours herself heart and s
In today’s episode I sit down with LE BohemianMuse in her beautiful sunlit SF studio in the mission. LE is first generation Ghanian Bay Area-ian, and I just love talking art and life with her. She’s a philosophical soul
Today’s guest is Craig McIntire—a self-taught painter, a practicing speech-language pathologist, and the kind of person who instantly feels like a friend you’ve known forever. He’s warm, funny, endlessly curious, and has
In today’s episode I sit down with Stella Lochman, a joy-driven community programming visionary with deep roots in San Francisco, the city where she was born and raised. Carrying forward the legacy of the city’s progress
Shawna Vesco Ahern gabs, gossips, and otherwise chitchats with San Francisco Bay Area arts and culture baddies about how they build community through creativity—and the winding life paths that led them there. Art Yap gue
Connie Wurz
SFO Museum
1 appearance on this show
Jackie von Treskow
San Francisco Arts Commission
1 appearance on this show
Raquel Espana
Peninsula Book Collaborative
1 appearance on this show
Tina Wiley Crawford
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
1 appearance on this show
Deborah Munk
Recology San Francisco
1 appearance on this show
Micah Ruiz
Orion Custom Framing
1 appearance on this show
Allison Gamlen
San Mateo County Office of Education
1 appearance on this show
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Art Yap is hosted by Shawna Vesco Ahern. The show is categorised under arts (visual) and has published 19 episodes.
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