Season 2
Gisela Romero
Season 1
Betsy Peters
Pamela Schwartz
Katherine Page
Maria Guerrero, founder of Women in the Arts, Inc. visits Gisela Romero, artist in residence at the Art & History Museums in Maitland, Florida for a conversation about her exhibition: “A Constant Goodbye.”
Avant interviews Betsy Peters, director of programs at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum. She shares her perspective on designing experiences for the public to engage with the museum's collection of "the things people make for the joy of making," including the multi-disciplinary works by Louis Comfort Tiffany, and the Museum's new Stebbins collection of drawings, paintings, and sculpture.
Avant interviews Pamela Schwartz, executive director at the Orange County Regional History Center. She shares her approach to collecting and curating the stories of central Florida, and how she creates an equitable environment for newcomers in the field.
Avant interviews Katherine Page, who seeks out and celebrates the autonomy of the human spirit in each facet of her role as Curator of Art and Education at the Mennello Museum of American Art.
Avant interviews manhole artist, Bobbi Mastrangelo, who has a decades-long career celebrating the humble manhole cover, advocating for clean water, and envisioning the essential infrastructure we'll need on Mars. Sculptor and printmaker Bobbi Mastrangelo, also known as the "Grate Lady" has spent her decades-long career creating prints and hyper-realistic sculptures of manhole covers, grates, and drains. Bobbi was a finalist in the 2020 Women in the Arts, Inc. "Celebrating the Genius of Women" Competition and her work has been shown in museums and galleries all over the country. We find out the answer to the question "Why manhole covers?", learn more about her passionate advocacy for clean water and litter eradication, and go beyond Earth, to her vision for an art institution on Mars and, perhaps unsurprisingly, what its plumbing ought to look like.