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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 and exploring the inspiration and stories behind modern and contemporary art.
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74 EpisodenI 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-residence Alic...
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, activism, and dis...
Accessibility w/ Finnegan Shannon
In this episode Alice Wong introduces us to Finnegan Shannon, a multidisciplinary artist making work about disability culture and access.
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 exhibition "Reco...
Disabled Artists w/ Jeff Thomas
In this episode Alice Wong introduces us to Jeff Thomas, an urban Iroquois photographer, researcher, public speaker, and curator.
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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, and educato...
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 ART about...
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 librarian...
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 her, refle...
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 Webster Fabi...
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 Rightnowish hosted b...
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 in a city...
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. Purifoy t...
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 Oakland, Ca...
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 1960s and 19...
Season 7 Trailer: Visions of Black Futurity
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Cover art: Evangeline's Garden by Jeanna Penn @jinamae
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.
Somet...
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 subtly with...
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 Entr...
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, working class...
Roberto Matta by Art History For All
Art History For All guides you through Roberto Matta’s surreal mental landscape, Invasion of the Night (1941), and explores its connections to physics...
Betye Saar by Recording Artists
This episode focuses on Betye Saar (b. 1926). In a 1975 interview, she discusses the diverse sources for her art and how she prevailed in the face of...
Mark Rothko by The Lonely Palette
“A painting is not a picture of an experience. It is the experience.”
— Mark Rothko
This episode is produced by The Lonely Palette....
Connor by Everything Is Alive
Connor is a portrait of President William Howard Taft. He's hanging on a wall, but is anybody looking at him?
This episode is produced b...
Barnett Newman by 99% Invisible
This episode, "The Many Deaths of a Painting" was produced by 99% Invisible. More episodes at 99percentinvisible.org.
Raw Material Mixtape: The Beholder's Share
Catch a sneak peak of what’s coming this season on Raw Material's "summer mixtape," from SFMOMA.
Season update: Raw Material is temporari...
Welcome to Raw Material
Welcome to Raw Material from SFMOMA! Start here for a quick introduction to our seasonal arts + culture podcast, by SFMOMA Content Producer and Raw M...
Six Degrees Episode 6: Nikhil
Sayre Quevedo, Raw Material’s podcaster-in-residence for Season 6, is at the end of his journey. It all started with a curiosity about the surprising...
Six Degrees Episode 5: Every connection
After a series of false starts, rabbit holes, and mind maps, the time has come for Sayre to (possibly) meet internationally acclaimed artist Nikhil Ch...
Six Degrees Episode 4: Nooshin
Nooshin Rostami is a United States–based Iranian artist living in exile. While her father was dying in Iran, Nooshin was 6000 miles away from home. Ho...
Six Degrees Episode 3: Yetunde
The sounds of rain, a family kitchen, a song, a late-night conversation—do the moments they encapsulate make us who we are? In this episode, Sayre Que...
Six Degrees Episode 2: Jazmin
Jazmin Jones is pathologically inept at returning phone calls. In an attempt to clear her conscience (and voice-mail box), the artist decides to make...
Six Degrees Episode 1: Sayre
Sayre Quevedo begins Raw Material season six by breaking into his ex-boyfriend’s apartment. His goal is to retrieve twenty-two love letters he wrote t...
Raw Material Season 5: San Francisco— Stories From The Model City
Season 5 of Raw Material takes inspiration from a 41 x 37-foot scale model of the city that was recently unearthed, refurbished, and distributed in pi...
Season 5 Trailer: San Francisco— Stories from the Model City
Catch a sneak peak of what’s coming this season on Raw Material, from SFMOMA.
Luvvers Bonus Episode: Stocking Stuffer
A short, holiday bonus episode of Season 4 of Raw Material: Luvvers.
Luvvers Episode 5: My Art is Gay
Facing persecution in her native Uganda and unwilling to live an inauthentic life, fierce queer artist Leilah Babirye made a choice. She fled her hom...
Luvvers Episode 4: Silence Equals Death, So Fuck Loudly
The connection between the art world and the queer scene has not always been as openly discussed as it is today. Delve into the complex relationships...
Luvvers Episode 3: Make Time, Make Love
Through looking at a variety of relationships, Chelsea investigates the many ways desire can be expressed. Hear the famed love letters Frida Kahlo sen...