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Raw Material (SFMOMA)

Raw Material is an arts and culture podcast from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Each season focuses on a different topic, featuring voices of artists working in all media a...

Episodes

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I Still Have a Voice (Epilogue)

As an epilogue for the Raw Material: Disability Visibility Mixtape, we’re honored to share an audio piece by this season's podcaster-in-resi...

00:06:03May 9, 2023

Museums w/ Amanda Cachia

In this episode Alice Wong introduces us to Amanda Cachia, an independent curator and critic whose work focuses on contemporary art, activis...

00:33:25Apr 25, 2023

Accessibility w/ Finnegan Shannon

In this episode Alice Wong introduces us to Finnegan Shannon, a multidisciplinary artist making work about disability culture and access. Ep...

00:36:12Apr 11, 2023

Art & Technology w/ Lindsey D. Felt and Vanessa Chang

In this episode Alice Wong introduces us to Lindsey D. Felt and Vanessa Chang, curators who collaborated on the multidisciplinary art exhibi...

00:47:46Mar 28, 2023

Disabled Artists w/ Jeff Thomas

In this episode Alice Wong introduces us to Jeff Thomas, an urban Iroquois photographer, researcher, public speaker, and curator. Episode Ar...

00:33:05Mar 14, 2023

Disabled Dancers w/ India Harville

In this episode Alice Wong introduces us to India Harville, an African American queer disabled femme dancer, somatic bodyworker, activist, a...

00:32:54Feb 28, 2023

Raw Material Presents: The Mission Muralismo Audio Zine - Volume I

Raw Material is excited to share The Mission Muralismo Audio Zine – Volume I with our listening audience — because we know how much you love...

00:48:21Apr 13, 2022

Visions of Black Futurity Episode 7: Radical Dreaming

In Episode 7, Babette reconnects with EJ, and we hear her loud and clear. Babette talks with KQED’s Pendarvis Harshaw + former Oakland head...

00:43:05Apr 6, 2022

Visions of Black Futurity Episode 6: We All We Got

In Episode 6, Babette is welcomed into the home of artist Mildred Howard. Twice. Listen to Mildred speak about letting her materials inform...

00:46:18Mar 23, 2022

Visions of Black Futurity Episode 5: How Art Lives

In Episode 5, Babette connects with artist Cheryl Fabio to discuss the work, impact, and foresight of her mother, poet and activist Sarah We...

00:39:46Mar 2, 2022

Visions of Black Futurity Episode 4: Black Futurity Rightnowish

In Episode 4 of Visions of Black Futurity, Babette shares an update on their search for Evangeline. Plus, we hear two episodes of Rightnowis...

00:39:24Feb 16, 2022

Visions of Black Futurity Episode 3: Big Black Open Spaces

In Episode 3, Babette tries to answer the question, “Where will we host our Black art spaces of the future?” In the woods, by the ocean, or...

00:40:30Feb 2, 2022

Visions of Black Futurity Episode 2: Preparing for Launch

In Episode 2 of Visions of Black Futurity, Babette visits a museum with no walls: the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Museum in Joshua Tree, CA....

00:37:52Jan 19, 2022

Visions of Black Futurity Episode 1: Finding Kinship in the Archive

In Episode 1 of Visions of Black Futurity, Babette Thomas takes us on a journey through time. We travel to a 1968 Black arts exhibition in O...

00:23:54Jan 1, 2022

Visions of Black Futurity Playlist: The Vibes are Free

Babette sets the sonic table for Season 7 of Raw Material with a playlist of songs inspired by the ethos of the Black Bay Area during the 19...

00:08:54Dec 21, 2021

Season 7 Trailer: Visions of Black Futurity

Call 415-915-1784. Cover art: Evangeline's Garden by Jeanna Penn @jinamae

00:02:10Dec 6, 2021

Anselm Kiefer by The Lonely Palette

The art of postwar German artist Anselm Kiefer and the poetry of Holocaust survivor Paul Celan are both layered, dense, and hard to read. So...

00:55:02Aug 10, 2020

Alexander Calder by Accession

This episode talks about a number of pieces by Alexander Calder. Calder is most well known for his mobiles, giant hanging pieces that move s...

00:23:31Aug 3, 2020

Kara Walker by The Way I See It

Roxane Gay reflects on Kara Walker's Christ's Entry into Journalism (2017). The Way I See It, "Roxane Gay and Kara Walker's Christ's Entry i...

00:14:03Aug 3, 2020

Agnes Martin by Bow Down

The best-selling novelist and essayist, Olivia Laing explores the influential abstract artist Agnes Martin (1912-2004). Martin – a gay, work...

00:22:08Aug 3, 2020