Relief Podcast

by Akron Art Museum

This monthly podcast brings listeners joy and comfort to your day. The Akron Art Museum’s staff shares insights from their own lives combined with conversations about the collection and interviews with regional artists and musicians.
Visual Arts
Music Interviews

Podcast episodes

  • Season 2

  • Movement

    Movement

    S02 E06
    27:57

    Gina talks about movement with Stephanie Petcavage, Collections Manager and Exhibition Registrar. Sloane explores Honoré Guilbeau's lithograph, For Art's Sake. Shop Talk with Benedict Scheuer (note, in the earlier segment Honoré Guilbeau is referred to as he, later as she. She is the correct identity for the artist.

  • Adventure

    Adventure

    S02 E05
    26:46

    Gina talks to Museum visitors about their adventures, Sloane takes a deep dive into Maurizio Pellegrin's sculpture, The Sea, and we talk with featured artist, Muti, an illustration studio from Cape Town, South Africa.

  • Reflection

    Reflection

    S02 E04
    37:11

    Seema and Gina talk about reflections and the various places to find them. Take a deep dive with Sloane into Dieter Appelt's photograph, Der Fleck auf dem Spiegel, den der Atemhauch schafft. Katelyn talks with artist Thomas Roese.

  • Capture

    Capture

    S02 E03
    24:18

    Seema and Gina talk about the photography as an artist's tool, choosing subjects for photographs, and what it means to be a photographer. Sloan explores Daido Moriyama's photograph Inu No Kioko Shusho (Memory of Dog Epilogue) and talks about what it means to capture fleeting moments. Katelyn chats with fine art photographer and educator, Lori Kella.

  • Togetherness

    Togetherness

    S02 E02
    28:05

    Seema and Gina talk about the different forms of "togetherness" and how people have fostered those moments over the past couple of years. Our "deep dive" explores artwork by Sam Gilliam. Katelyn talks to artist Terence Hammonds in the "shop talk" segment.