Art Yap
Convos with the creative folk shaping the arts and culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hosted by Shawna Vesco Ahern.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 13
- Years Active
- 2025
12 - Connie Wurz (formerly Connie Wood), at SFO Museum design is everywhere
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 …
11 - Jackie von Treskow, Fringe Signal, Civic Scale
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 fo…
10 - Raquel Espana & Daly City's Peninsula Book Collaborative
“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 stom…
9 - Tina Wiley Crawford, Art Jobs Inside
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…
8 - Deborah Munk & Bryan Keith Thomas, What Keeps
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,…
7 - Micah Ruiz, The Luck You Craft
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, …
6 - Allison Gamlen, Futures Worth Funding
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…
1 - Stella Lochman, Radical Joy
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 o…
3 - Anna Lisa Escobedo, Everyone Has a Story to Tell
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 pour…
5 - Jonathan Carver Moore, To Be Seen
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 Fr…
2 - LE BohemianMuse, A Multifaceted Storyteller
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…
4 - Craig McIntire, Connecting Through Art
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, endle…
Introducing: Art Yap
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 th…