Art Connection
Every week meet fascinating artists and hear their stories about how a hobby became a passion.
Airs Sundays at 7:00 p.m on UEN-TV Channel 9.

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We learned about the film "I Will Survive: The Gloria Gaynor Story." Known for such hits as "I Will Survive" and "I am What I am," Gaynor's rise to fame is chronicled in this moving biopic. Located at the decommissioned Nevada state prison in Carson City, the immersive art exhibition “Far Beyond the Walls” aims to increase public awareness around incarceration. Dancer and choreographer Martin Cespedes’ impressive, decades-long career has led to him working in regional theater and on the Broadway stage. We find out more about his career.
In New Mexico, professor Lois Rudnick and author Jonathan Richards sat down to try to determine which writer is more important, William Shakespeare or Mark Twain. We head to Ohio to meet Dinara Mirtalipova, a self-taught illustrator and designer from Uzbekistan. Passed down generation to generation, Uzbek and Russian folklore shape her work, with the stories from her youth being a source of inspiration. The American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog features a wide assortment of canine-related artwork. founded in 1982, the museum highlights the meaningful role dogs play in society, and the strong bond they share with human beings.
This was water by Kellie Bornhoft and Carey Campbell is an interactive sculpture, sound and video installation centered around the Great Salt Lake. The sculptures are modeled after the gypsum crystals, or “dirty diamonds”, that emerge through the salty crust at the Great Salt Lake due to water consumption and climate change. This multimedia installation invites reflection upon our relationship with this fascinating and fragile inland sea. Inspired by his heritage and spirituality, Cuban artist Lino Vizcaino honors the voices of the past by sharing their stories. Founded in 1990, the physically integrated dance company “Karen Peterson and Dancers” encourages those with and without disabilities to move. In upstate New York, artist Sarah Platt teaches students how to create barn quilts. Designed to resemble quilt patterns and often displayed on barns, these bright, geometric works decorate rural landscapes across the United States.
Past Episodes
Follow a group of students from Delta Middle School in Utah as they travel to their first StoryCon conference. They had the opportunity to find out ways of expanding their writing skills and hear from renowned authors on how to become future storytellers. We sat with Laura Bassett, the school’s Media Specialist & Librarian, to see how big of an impact StoryCon had on her students. We met cartoonist and multimedia artist Cris Siqueira. As a lover of independent comics, she is the co-owner of a bookstore café and art space specializing in zines, prints, and small press books. We take a trip to Ohio to meet Iyana Hill, an artist, curator, and community organizer who celebrates black womanhood by honoring those that came before her. We meet the team behind “Greenbeats,” a WHRO-produced series of animated shorts that spread environmental awareness through music.
Retired art teacher Roxanne Locy loves to throw clay…so much so that she has been making pottery since 1979. We take a trip to her studio in Canton, New York to learn more about her artistic journey. Nancy-Schwartz Katz specializes in Judaic art. For over 30 years, she has been creating works that bring together history, tradition, ancient Jewish texts, and people’s stories. Across twelve iconic Miami beach hotels in Florida, artists have been given the opportunity to create temporary, site-specific works for the public to experience.
Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, “Three Sisters Collective” is a Pueblo Indigenous women-led grassroots organization focused on art, education, community, and advocacy. From fashion to makeup to performance—drag is an art. We head to Northeast Ohio to meet a talented group of queens and kings who love to express themselves. We travel to Norfolk, Virginia to meet Elbert Watson, a former principal dancer for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Today, one will find him sharing his love of dance with others. A discovery of audio tapes has allowed Elizabeth Taylor to narrate her own story. The film "Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes" had its North American premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Ohio State university dance professor Susan Van Pelt Petry created nineteen videos as a way to process what was going on in the world. In these short pieces, the emotions and challenges of this unprecedented moment in history were explored through dance and movement. For over forty years, multimedia artist David Humphreys has been creating images. From fine art to portraiture to advertising and commercial photography, Humphreys brings his vision to each work he produces. Music chose Siobhan Monique. As an ancestral funk artist, she tells a story with her voice and connects with those that came before her. When she sings, audiences are dazzled.
