State of the Arts NYC Podcast
New podcast that covers all the arts in NYC
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Episodes
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
In the studio we have Tyreek McDole, jazz vocalist and a Washington Heights resident. He just won 1st place in the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition.
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
In the studio, we have Kevin Quiles Bonilla and Zaq Landsberg who talk about their public art installation -- For centuries, and still... (anticipated completion). For centuries recreates a guard tower from the iconic colonial fortresses of Old San Juan, built out of NYC construction fencing material.
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
In the studio we have artists Melissa Joseph and Abir Karmakar. Melissa talks about her show Irish Exit at the Margot Samuel Gallery in TriBeCa and Abir with the Aicon Contemporary Gallery in SoHo and his photography exhibition NightJar.
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Today, we have artist Coby Kennedy talk about his recent exhibition at C24 Gallery in Chelsea New York City.
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
We have in the studio Elinor R. Tatum, Publisher and Editor in Chief of the Amsterdam News and Dedric “BeLoved” Hammond, Chief Credible Messenger Cure Violence Specialist Site Supervisor at Living Redemption Youth Opportunity Hub to talk about the documentary film spotlighting his life.
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
In the studio is Judy Yin-Chi Lee, Chief Program Officer of Maestra Music and Carrie Caffrey, Maestra's Director of Operations and Events.
Show Description
State of the Arts NYC edition is a podcast show heard on various platforms where various sectors of NYC’s arts worlds converge to report and analyze the dynamic state of the arts and its participants. Hosted by Savona Bailey-McClain, long-time Executive Director of the West Harlem Art Fund (WHAF), she confronts, analyzes and celebrates victories, challenges and changes in the country’s dynamic creative capital. Reports from the field; from the far-flung fringes; from center stage and from behind the scenes—the host Savona Bailey-McClain draws on her 20 years’ in the trenches to bring you snapshot after snapshot in living color.
Host/Producer
Savona Bailey-McClain currently lives and works in New York City. She is an independent curator and producer. The range of McClain’s practice has included sculpture, drawings, performance, sound, and mixed media. McClain is the Executive Director & Chief Curator for The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. an eighteen year old public art organization and curatorial collective serving neighborhoods around the City. Her public art installations have been seen in the New York Times, Art Daily, Artnet, Los Angeles Times, and Huffington Post among others. McClain has installed works in Times Square, DUMBO, Soho, Governors Island and Harlem. Noted works include The H in Harlem, Counting Sheep, Story Piles, East River Flows and Loosely Coupled. McClain is now developing new digital installations and location-based interventions using a tour platform. McClain is a member of Arttable and radio host/producer for State of the Arts NYC.