Katrina Vandenberg talks to Peter Shea about her most recent book, An Alphabet Not Unlike the World, and John thinks aloud about his changing reasons for writing and motivation to undertake writing projects. Both reflect on the changes in their lives and their writing since they became parents.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reimringer, John; Vandenberg, Katrina
Created:
2012-06-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Laura Bridget Regan talks to Peter Shea about discovering herself as a musician. She talks about writing, adolescence, Bipolar Disorder, and her move from her home in Boston to New York.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Regan, Laura Bridget
Created:
2012-08-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jay Gabler talks to Peter Shea about his play Ivory Tower Burning, written for the 2012 Fringe Festival, and the sociological and political ideas behind it.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gabler, Jay
Created:
2012-08-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ken Meter talks to Peter Shea about the problems of the inner city and rural areas: both are sites where people work hard but economies are set up so resources are extracted from those areas. Meter argues that inner cities and rural areas are becoming an American Third World.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Meter, Ken
Created:
2012-09-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ann Juergens talks to Peter Shea about the ways in which her childhood helped her understand injustice, and the reasons that she chose to come back to Minnesota.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Juergens, Ann
Created:
2012-10-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Randel Hanson talks to Peter Shea about his role in Duluth’s sense of identity, struggles, aspirations, and challenges with respect to the robust food movement.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hanson, Randel
Created:
2012-10-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ryan Skinner talks to Peter Shea about his intellectual formation as a young man, including his study with Cherif Keita at Carleton College, and his desire to learn French, as well as identity, community, music, and the interplay between present and past in contemporary Mali.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Skinner, Ryan
Created:
2012-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mary Modeen talks to Peter Shea about landscapes, teaching, art-making, and place, exploring notions of the unseen and emptiness. She also talks about finding a home as an American who teaches in Scotland and in feeling more at home in herself as she ages.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Modeen, Mary
Created:
2012-10-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Iain Biggs talks to Peter Shea about the ways in which his personal life has had an impact on his artistic work, and reflects on what he has learned from conversations while in Minnesota, in particular conversations with Dakota peoples.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Biggs, Iain
Created:
2012-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Erika Holmquist-Wall and Donald Myers give Peter Shea a tour of the installation "150 Years of Swedish Art" in the Hillstrom Museum at Gustavus Adolphus.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Holmquist-Wall, Erika; Myers, Donald
Created:
2012-11-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Cherif Keita talks to Peter Shea about growing up in Mali, his intellectual life in Minnesota and Africa, come surprising connections he has discovered between Northfield, Minnesota and South Africa, dating back to the 19th century, and about the work done by his father to further education in Mali.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Keita, Cherif
Created:
2012-11-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kathleen Ryor talks to Peter Shea about her development as an art historian and her work on the Ming dynasty painter Xu Wei. She talks about her recent interest in the connections between the world of the military and the world of the artist in late Ming China. She discusses the ways in which the subject of art history is explicitly interdiscipl...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ryor, Kathleen
Created:
2012-11-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mageen Caines talks to Peter Shea about the force that shaped her–teachers, librarians, parents, friends. A student, veteran, mother, activist, and thinker currently enrolled in the school of public health at the University of Minnesota, she discusses her experiences in the military and her work with veterans.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Caines, Mageen
Created:
2012-11-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Andy Sturdevant talks to Peter Shea about how the local context of Minneapolis shapes his art practice, and the issue of the economics of being an artist.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sturdevant, Andy
Created:
2012-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Joyce Lyon talks to Peter Shea about her upbringing, finding her Polish and Jewish identity, and her beliefs about the viewer's experience of art and public art.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Lyon, Joyce
Created:
2012-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Christine Baeumler talks to Peter Shea about her formation as an artist, about work in East Palo Alto, in the Bruce Vento Nature Preserve, and as the artist-in-residence for two watershed districts in St. Paul, and also about a course she is teaching in spring 2013 with two colleagues, Kristine Miller and Valentine Cadieux, called "Slow Art and ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Baeumler, Christine
Created:
2012-12-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Carla Nappi talks to Peter Shea about her research in excavating the peoples and practices of official translation bureaus in Ming and Qing China, using dictionaries and glossaries as literary texts.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Nappi, Carla
Created:
2012-12-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Lisa Channer talks to Peter Shea about the importance of collaboration to her work as an artist and director. She also talks about pedagogy and the pleasures of teaching. In the final segmnents of the interview she talks about current directions in the American theater.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Channer, Lisa
Created:
2013-01-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Susan Whitfield talks to Peter Shea about her intellectual expansion from particular historical topics to a broad concern with trade and cultural exchange over hundreds of years, including the Silk Road between Europe and China, and about the ways in which history is recorded and utilized.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Whitfield, Susan
Created:
2013-01-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jan Estep talks to Peter Shea about her motivation to become an artist and professor, some of her current projects, and the distinction between life and art.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Estep, Jan
Created:
2013-01-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Diane Kastiaficas talks to Peter Shea about her memories of childhood which formed her as an artist. She talks about collectors and collections, showing a collection she made as a child, and about her work as a teacher.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Katsiaficas, Diane
Created:
2013-01-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Elizabeth Erickson and Patricia Olson talk to Peter Shea about their work teaching the Women's Art Institute, an intensive studio course, and their book project dealing with the experiences of the Institute's participants.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Erickson, Elizabeth; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-02-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Joyce Lyon and Howard Oransky talk to Peter Shea about the origins of the women's art movement in Minnesota, then Joyce Lyon and grad student Christina Michelon talk about a collection of ephemera recalling the same.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Lyon, Joyce; Michelon, Christina; Oransky, Howard
Created:
2013-02-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Linda Gammel and Sandra Menefee Taylor talk to Peter Shea about their collaborative project Roots of Renewal, taking oral histories dealing with citywide food systems, and its manifestation in the WARM Gallery.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gammel, Linda; Taylor, Sandra Menefee
Created:
2013-02-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Joyce Lyon and Howard Oransky talks to Peter Shea about an installation they curated together at the Katherine E. Nash and T. R. Anderson Galleries in the Wilson Library, "The House We Built: Feminist Art Then and Now". They present many of the installation's pieces, and talk about some of the artists, themes and organizations that originated, s...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Lyon, Joyce; Oransky, Howard
Created:
2013-02-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Chandos Brown talks to Peter Shea about his own personal encounter with history, as the son of a career Marine Corps father, and about his efforts to convey the idea that lives matter to his students.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Brown, Chandos
Created:
2013-02-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Charles McGovern talks to Peter Shea about his interest in American popular culture, his work at the Smithsonian, and his belief in the "seriousness" of pop culture.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
McGovern, Charles
Created:
2013-02-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Carey Bagdassarian and Elizabeth Mead talk to Peter Shea about complex systems, emergent properties, commonalities between the arts and sciences, and their collaborative process.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bagdassarian, Carey; Mead, Elizabeth
Created:
2013-02-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Catherine Levesque talks to Peter Shea about her interest in art history, natural landscapes, and Dutch artists’ role in shaping a new vision of nature in the years around 1600.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Levesque, Catherine
Created:
2013-02-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
