Women at the Helm

Women at the Helm

Women at the Helm, formerly Beyond the Paint with Bernadine podcast, is a new show about the intersection of women artists and writing. . Monthly episodes highlight books, reviews, blogs, essays, poetry that showcase and celebrate women artists, their artistic process and works and will include conversations with women artists, writers and publishers. . STAY CONNECTED: >Website: BernadineFranco.com >Email: bernadine@bernadinefranco.com >Follow me on Substack

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New Directions: Tribute to my Dad

May 14, 2024 • 21 mins
Reflection on the recent passing of my father, Vincent.
I dedicate this episode to my brother Jim who knows the why. (xoxox)
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Resources include "Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver," by Mary Oliver.
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Patti.Smith: Symbolic Portraiture

March 14, 2024 • 20 mins
I contemplate the visual artist, writer, poet, songwriter and performer, Patti Smith with a focus on her writings and photographs for the 2011 exhibition, "Camera Solo," at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.

“Camera Solo” was the first museum exhibition of Patti Smith’s photography in the United States and included “seventy photographs taken by her Polaroid camera, one multimedia installation, and one video work."

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Tracy Emin: "My Bed" and Strangeland

February 6, 2024 • 19 mins
Women at the Helm features and celebrates the contemporary British artist Tracy Emin. We explore her iconic installation "My Bed" and dive into her "jagged recollections" from her memoir, "Strangeland."
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Learn more about Tracy Emin:

>Tracy Emin at the Tate Museum
>Read her evocative memoir:Strangeland
>Image Credit: Ben Gurr
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Women at the Helm: Book Dedications

January 3, 2024 • 11 mins
In this inaugural episode of my new podcast series, Women at the Helm: Intersection of Women Artists and Writings, I explore Book Dedications.
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Writers highlighted in this episode:
Janet Fitch
Poet, Mary Oliver
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Image Credit: James Abbott MacNeill Whistler, "The Beach at Selsey Bill," 1865
New Britain Museum of American Art
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New Podcast: Women at the Helm: Intersection of Women Artists and Writing

November 8, 2023 • 4 mins
Introducing a new podcast series: Women at the Helm: Intersection of Women Artists and Writing. Formerly Beyond the Paint with Bernadine podcast, Bernadine takes you on a new expansive journey that celebrates women artists through the written word; books, essays, poetry and more.
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>Website: https://beyondthepaint.net/
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Episode 173: Special Edition: Sisterhood: Portraiture: Sally Brown and Amy Chaiklin

August 31, 2023 • 21 mins
This special episode celebrates and includes a conversation with two contemporary, American female artists, Sally Brown and Amy Chaiklin and their upcoming duo exhibition Sisterhood: Portraiture: Sally Brown and Amy Chaiklin.
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The exhibition, a curation of sixty works; thirty mini-depictions of feminist artworks in self portraiture by Brown and thirty ink and graphite portraits selected from Chaiklin’s Cultured Pearls Portraits Pro...
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Going on a Hiatus.......to write my Memoir

January 29, 2023 • 7 mins
After 5 years and over 100 conversations with women artists, gallery owners and collectors, I am taking an extended hiatus from the show. I will embark on a writing journey to fulfill my deep desire to craft and publish a memoir about my engagement with the visual arts. All the ways "looking at art" has impacted my life. It will also celebrate women artists who liberated me from both imposed and self-imposed constraints. A wild rid...
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Replay: Julie Goldstein: Sea Women (#160)

January 9, 2023 • 36 mins
In this episode, join me and woodcut printmaker, storyteller and artist Julie Goldstein into the worlds of 18th century Icelandic sea women and female, Japanese Ama pearl divers. Goldstein captures the stories of these "anonymous" women, memorializing them through her vivid portrayals. Goldstein's reverence for women lost in history books is awe-inspiring.
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"Sea Woman," solo exhibition is at Bridgette Mayer Gallery, opened June 28-...
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Episode 172: Holga Camera and the Female Experience

December 14, 2022 • 19 mins
As many of you who listen to this podcast know, I am a visual arts educator, historian, speaker and of course, a podcaster. I never considered myself a maker. Until now! I took up photography to learn and experience first-hand the artistic process. This episode journeys with you my immersion into a photography series titled "The Other Side of the Mirror," employing a toy camera, the Holga.
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Episode 171: Valerie Ellis: Moving Human Experience Through Paper

November 28, 2022 • 53 mins
Abstract and Conceptual female artist Valerie Ellis draws us into her visual world through her curiosity of the human mind and condition. A psychotherapist for twenty years, Ellis paved an unconventional pathway in making art.
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Her visual vocabulary is submerged in a very hands on practice of pulling, spreading, crumpling media like paper and paper pulp. Her works deeply connect the viewer to the internal psychology of the human mi...
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Episode 170: Jamie Smith: Mother Time Tarot

November 8, 2022 • 40 mins
I am thrilled to have as my guest the female, multi-disciplinary artist and educator Jamie Smith. "Smith’s monochromatic drawings, wooden wall-hanging sculptures, and installation work incorporate personal and culturally-resonant symbols in an attempt to reckon with the fragility of life, new beginnings, the passage of time and the depths of loss." Her visual expressions are an "engulfment" of her female experiences.
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Episode 169: Artist Ann Stoddard: Feminist Collaborator with Mother Earth

October 24, 2022 • 36 mins
Ann Stoddard is a contemporary interdisciplinary artist, a feminist and an environmentalist. Her work, practice coupled with social activism engage with nature, from rivers in and around Maryland to Corn Fields and beyond. This episode includes some historical perspective of female, pioneer ecofeminists and a lively conversation with Stoddard.
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Episode 168: "Awakening and Furor:" A conversation with Painter Lucy Pike and Curator Katie Bradford Osborne

October 10, 2022 • 31 mins
The powerful 'virtual' exhibition "Awakening and Furor" at the Roaring Artist Gallery celebrates contemporary women artists and shapes the way we see women represented. The multi-media artworks; paintings, sculptures, video art and textiles express and are a response to the perpetual injustices of "women's rights."
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On the show, a conversation with the recipient of the Juror's Award, abstract painter Lucy Pike and the gallery owne...
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Best of Beyond the Paint: #130: Deborah Wasserman: Migration, Land and the Feminine Body

September 27, 2022 • 44 mins
Taking a short sabbatical from podcasting; will be back in two weeks with new conversations with women artists.
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Please enjoy one of my favorite episodes (#130); a celebration of the female artist Deborah Wasserman. Since the recording of the show, we have become good friends in the arts. Her evocative, large scale paintings, photographs and collage works merge the female figure in painted landscapes and in her performative works.
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Episode 167: Women of Surrealism: Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington

September 13, 2022 • 29 mins
In this fascinating episode, we will look at the women of Surrealism: Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington. All three artists worked in Mexico throughout the 20th century. We will examine their distinctive personal, visual vocabulary and consider the ways "place" informed and liberated their practice. We will round up the episode highlighting the contemporary Surrealist painter Rita Maikova.
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Episode 166: Nicole Peyrafitte: Artistic Practice as a Healing Practice

August 30, 2022 • 46 mins
Multi-media and performance artist Nicole Peyrafitte employs a fascinating practice in her multi-works. Through her astute observations and interplay with nature, she immerses her body, her research to compose multi-media installations.
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In my conversation with Peyrafitte, we explore a site-specific installation for the exhibition "Women and Other Wild Creatures: Matrilineal Tales," at the Sapar Contemporary Art Gallery. The multi-...
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Episode 165: Artist Hend Al-Mansour: Elevating the Female Figure in Contemporary Islamic Art

August 19, 2022 • 33 mins
In Islamic art, representations of women and the female figure are controversial. Hend Al Mansour, from Saudi Arabia, currently residing in the United States, examines Islamic social practices. Her multi-media works celebrate and critiques Islamic Arab culture. The artist, through Islamic aesthetic addresses gender equality, sexual independence and role of women. This episode includes a conversation with Hend.
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Episode 164: Kathryn Hart: Love, Grief, Transformation Threshold

August 8, 2022 • 37 mins
Contemporary female artist Kathryn Hart returns to the podcast in an in-depth conversation exploring her multi-media works through the lens of love, grief and transformation threshold. Hart's evocative works are an extension of a very present love story between herself and recently deceased husband Dennis. Join me into the poetic beauty of Hart's sculptures, photographs and monoprints.
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Episode 163: Rita Maikova: Surrealist Female Painter of Ukraine

July 28, 2022 • 32 mins
Join me in a conversation and exploration of the Surrealist contemporary painter of Ukraine, Rita Maikova. Her fantastical paintings express the interior of her mind and spirit, "all the parts of me," says Maikova. Infused with feminine and maternal energy, Maikova's works and practice are informed by the Surrealist aesthetic, Ukrainian folklore embedded with personal iconography and symbols.
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Episode 162: Avant Garde Women Artists of Ukraine: Alexandra Exter and Iryna Pap

July 18, 2022 • 17 mins
Historically, Ukrainian art history books have "failed to give Ukranian women artists their due." This episode looks to two 20th century women artists who left an idelible impact on the story of art in Ukraine: Early 20th century Modernist: Alexandra Exter and mid-20th century photographer Iryna Pap.
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