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Description:: Gerry Kearns talks to Peter Shea about "public geographies", geographical ideas which organise much about the way we apprehend the world yet rest upon often-unexamined claims about space, place, and environment, the fundamental geographical dimensions of our world.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Kearns, Gerry
Created:: 2012-10-22
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Christopher Fischbach is Publisher at Coffee House Press. In this interview, he talks to Peter Shea about how he became involved with Coffee House, the publication decisions he makes, his relationship to the authors of published works, and the Press's commitment to experimental writing and diverse writers.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Fischbach, Christopher
Created:: 2014-08-11
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Harriet Tarlo and Judith Tucker talk to Peter Shea about the processes they use in their collaboration, centering upon both human and nonhuman imprints on the Australian landscape, such as walking through the landscape. They comment on the ways in which their landscape work looks rather exotic to them in the very different context of Minnesota.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Tarlo, Harriet; Tucker, Judith
Created:: 2012-10-16
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Isabel Ettenauer, concert toy pianist, talks to Peter Shea about how she came to perform on toy pianos through the music of John Cage. She describes varieties of the instrument, her collaborations with composers, and why she likes playing the toy piano. She considers her relationship to the classical piano canon.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Ettenauer, Isabel
Created:: 2014-10-02
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Natalie Rae Wass, writer and actor, talks to Peter Shea about her play, Fashion Risk, or the Accidental Nudist, at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. She talks about growing up in England, the place of nude vacations in her family‚Äôs life, and her attitudes toward cultural proscriptions around clothing and nudity.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Wass, Natalie Rae
Created:: 2013-08-01
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Tim Hoogland, historian, talks to Peter Shea about his work as the coordinator of History Day. He discusses the challenges involved with students learning about history, lack of teacher resources, and the role of the Minnesota Historical Society in solving these conflicts. He talks about how History Day is used as a vechicle for underprivileged ...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Hoogland, Tim
Created:: 2014-02-05
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Jodie Ahern, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about her artwork, her involvement in the 2013 Women's Art Institute at St. Kate's University, her rediscovery of feminist art, and her renewed artistic drive. She exhibits three pieces she produced while at the Institute. She thinks about the future of her art practice.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Ahern, Jodie; Olson, Patricia
Created:: 2013-07-10
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13