ARTiculate: Art is Essential
99.1 KLBP, Long Beach Public Radio has partnered with the Port City Creative Guild for EMERGENCE, a new exhibition on view online through September. EMERGENCE itself is a play on ‘emergency’ and the sense of urgency we are all feeling to renew hope, fight for justice and heal.
For the project, KLBP produced ARTiculate, a new podcast highlighting the ten artists whose works are featured in the exhibition.
Hosted by Ashley Aguirre & Antonia Molina
Produced by Ashley Aguirre & Tokotah Ashcraft
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2020
ARTiculate: Ms.Yellow — "Becoming"
Ms.Yellow is a self-taught international muralist, artist and craftswoman. Born in Long Beach, Ca of Mexican descent, she has dedicated her life to the creative development and empowerment of communi…
ARTiculate: Olga Lah — "Lucent Shifts"
Olga Lah is a second generation Korean-American, born and raised in Torrance, California. She has resided in Long Beach for the past 13 years. She received a double B.A. in Studio Art and Art History…
ARTiculate: Steve Martinez — "Rebirth"
Steve Martinez is an accomplished muralist, fine artist, and graphic designer. He featured at Pow Wow Long Beach (Mural Festival) in 2019. He has completed six public art projects for the city of Lon…
ARTiculate: Mer Young — "Coming to Light"
Long Beach artist Mer Young has created a body of artwork manifested in collages, drawings, paintings, and public artworks. Young’s artworks aim to inspire, celebrate and elevate repressed indigenous…
ARTiculate: Jorge Mujica — Despondent in the Time of Corona
Mujica began his career traveling around Southern California with his father who was a photojournalist. Navigating the assimilation of his dual culture, Mujica’s desire to create has occupied public …
ARTiculate: Marianna Jamadi — "Melting Pot"
Marianna Jamadi is a travel photographer who digests the world through her camera. Her love of the craft and interest in the human experience is what inspires her to share stories through photos. She…
ARTiculate: Jason Keam — "Changes"
Jason Keam is a contemporary visual artist with a background in animation and visual effects in broadcast production from Long Beach, California.
ARTiculate: Nat Iosbaker — "Oil"
As a poet, sign painter, and stencil artist, Nat Iosbaker’s work is grounded deeply in living and working throughout Long Beach, CA, Madison, WI, and Chicago, IL.
The work produced at his studio in T…
ARTiculate: Cynthia Lujan — "In Situ"
Cynthia Luján is a visual artist and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts focused in figurative drawing & painting, with a minor in Russian studies from California State University, Long Beach. She lives in…
ARTiculate: Tidawhitney Lek — "Lights Off"
On this episode we talk to Tidawhitney Lek, an LA-based painter born and raised in the city of Long Beach, California. She received her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts, Drawing and Painting in 2017 at CSULB …