Crossroads / Artbeat Collection

The following short form features (4-7 minutes in length) were produced  for inclusion in the arts magazines CROSSROADS – later named ARTBEAT.     Series Executive Producer – Elisabeth Perez-Luna

ALL features as broadcast are archived with PACIFICA RADIO ARCHIVES Search – Dolores Brandon.

NOTE:

In-depth, unedited primary source interviews (audio + transcripts) with artists featured remain in Brandon’s  personal possession. These can be made available to scholars, authors, media etc. upon request.

EMAIL: brandon.dolores@gmail.com 

1989
     ● American Museum of the Moving Image (AMMI) NYC, NY
               ■ Festival featuring Pioneers in Black Filmmaking e.g. Oscar Michaux
               ■ AIRDATE February 7, 1989
     ● Nuyorican Poets Cafe
               ■ AIRDATE: May 19, 1989 & rebroadcast March 20, 1992
               ■ Founder/Director, Poet, Miguel Algarin
     ● Nelly Vivas – Columbian Playwright adapts Antigone
               ■ AIRDATE: November 17, 1989
     ● Jimmie Durham – Visual/Performance Artist – The Bishop’s Moose & The Pinkerton Men
     ● David Hammonds – Visual/Installation Artist – COAL TRAIN
     ● Robt. Blackburn – Printmaker, Founder/Director Printmaking Workshop

1990
     ● Opera Ebony )NYC, NY)
               ■ AIRDATE March 2, 1990
     ● Beverly Buchanan – Visual Artist – Shacks of the American South
               ■ AIRDATE April 6, 1990
     ● Jaune Quick-to-see Smith – Visual Artist – Chief Seattle series
               ■ AIRDATE May 4, 1990
     ● Black & Latino Museums in New York
               ■ Studio Museum of Harlem, El Barrio
               ■ AIRDATE: July 1990
     ● Sapphire – poet/performance artist – Are you Ready to Rock
               ■ AIRDATE: September 7, 1990
     ● Arte Publico
               ■ AIRDATE: June 15, 1990

1991
     ● Silkroad Playhouse – Korean-American playwrights theater
               ■ AIRDATE: November 8, 1991

1992
     ● Valerie Capers – composer operatorio Sojourner Truth pianist, professor of music
               ■ AIRDATE: January 7, 1992
     ● Dominican Writers Conference
               ■ AIRDATE: March 20, 1992
     ● Women of Color Quilting Network
               ■ AIRDATE: September 25, 1992
     ● Adrian Piper – Conceptual artist, philosopher – DECIDE WHO YOU ARE exhibit
               ■ December 18, 1992

1993
     ● Faith Ringgold – Visual artist, painter, quilt maker (date) TAR BEACH exhibit/book
               ■ AIRDATE: Dec. 24, 1993
     ● Judith Jamison – Dancer, Director Alvin Ailey Dance Theater – 2 Features
               ■ Celebrating 35th Anniversary Alvin Ailey Dance Theater
               ■ Publication of DANCING SPIRIT – Jamison’s personal memoir

NOTE: as of 1994 forward CROSSROADS is broadcast with new name, ARTBEAT
but is cataloged at Pacifica Radio Archives under CROSSROADS.

1994
     ● El Greco – Opera @ INTAR NYC, NY
               ■ AIRDATE January 21, 1994
               ■ William Harper, composer, libretto by Bernardo Solano , Director, Tom
O’Horgan
     ● Dominican Painters
               ■ AIR DATE May 6, 1994
     ● Roger Shimomura – Visual artist, performance art (YELLOW PERIL exhibit.
               ■ AIRDATE: May 20, 1994
     ● Sekou Sundiata (poet, director) What is This Thing Called Love (performance)
               ■ AIR DATE June 10, 1994
     ● Don Covay – songwriter, musician receives Pioneer Award R&B Foundation
               ■ AIRDATE: June24, 1994
     ● Otis Blackwell – musician Pioneer Award R & B Foundation
               ■ AIRDATE: July 8, 1994
                    ○ Forrest Ray, nephew to Blackwell unedited interview
     ● Black Books Galore – publisher/distributor
               ■ AIRDATE: NOVEMBER 25, 1994
     ● Hung Liu – Painter Year of the Dog (exhibit Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Soho December 23, 1994)

1995
     ● Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head – receive Federal Recognition are granted control
environmental conservation of the cliffs and sacred lands at Gay Head, Martha’s
Vineyard, MA

1996 ARTBEAT (Airdates unclear)
     ● A.R. (Archie) Ammons – Poet – publication book-length poem, GARBAGE
December 3, 1996 (date of interview)
     ● Joan Didion – Novelist, Journalist – on the occasion of the publication of THE LAST
THING HE WANTED
     ● Theodora Skipitares – Puppet/performance artist – UNDER THE KNIFE
     ● Julie Taymor (Director) & Elliot Goldenthal (Composer) – Theater artists – JUAN
DARIEN (opera)

1997 ARTBEAT Features: (Airdates unclear)
     ● Richard Foreman Director, Playwright, founder Ontological Hysteric Theater
               ■ March 21, 1997 Part 1 of 2
               ■ March 28, 1997 Part 2 of 2

INTERVIEWS
               ■ Richard Foreman
               ■ David Patrick Kelly (actor) talking about working with Richard Foreman and the OHT. Recorded @ NPR studio NYC 2.3.’97 TRX not included.

     ● Lionel Hampton’s 89th Birthday celebration June 27, 1997 (ARTBEAT)

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