Sundays at 12:00 pm (Repeat on Mondays at 12:00 pm)
Hosted by Heather McDougall and the Maine Public Classical Team
State of the Art is a weekly dive into the Maine arts scene with the people who create, collaborate and shape our vibrant cultural landscape. Host Heather McDougall and other members of the Maine Public Classical Team sit down with guests, sharing their stories, experiences and forthcoming projects and events.
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Our warmest thanks to Portland-based Palaver Strings for sharing their recording as our series sig tune, the fiddle set, Yorkshire Lass/One Hour in Hungary/Shuckin’ Stiddy - Greg Boardman/Mikael Marin/Roger Tallroth/Elsie Gawler.
Episodes:
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Allison Kiger, Artistic Director of the Bar Harbor Music Festival, talks with Host Heather McDougall about the 58th edition of the festival now underway on MDI and continuing through early August. -
This week’s guests are Anna Tsouhlarakis, a Navajo, Creek and Greek artist working in sculpture, installation and video, and Shane Perley-Dutcher, a Wolastoq mixed media artist from the Neqotkuk Wolasqiyik (Tobique First Nation) in New Brunswick. Both are in residence at Indigo Arts Alliance this month, collaborating on a public art piece at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, as part of the upcoming symposium, Deconstructing Boundaries: The Land Fights Back. -
Opera Maine’s Artistic Director, Dona D. Vaughn, took time out between the company’s back-to-back productions to talk about bringing two operas, set against the backdrop of war, to Portland this summer – Rappahannock County, about the American Civil War, and Aida, set in Ancient Egypt. -
The Theater at Monmouth is known as the Shakespearean Theater of Maine and the summer of 2024 has plenty in store from the Bard and much else. Producing Artistic Director, Dawn McAndrews is this week’s guest. -
Hogfish is one of Maine’s newest arts organizations - established as a regenerative arts production company and artist residency program in Cape Elizabeth. This week’s guests are its founders and directors, Edwin Cahill and Matt Cahill. -
The Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick is marking its 60th anniversary year and 2024 sees this week’s guests, cellist David Ying and violist Philip Ying, in their tenth year as co-artistic directors. -
Dr. Tiffany Lu is the new Music Director at the Monteux School and Music Festival in Hancock, Maine. As this week’s guest, she talks about her transition to the role, the 81st season ahead, Monteux’s tradition of nurturing conductors, and her vision for the school and festival. -
Curt Dale Clark, Artistic Director of Maine State Music Theatre, is in conversation with host Heather McDougall on this week’s State of the Art. They chat about Mainers’ love of musical theater and MSMT’s 2024 season, running throughout the summer in Brunswick. -
Elaine Gammon and Gerald Walsh of LA Arts are this week’s guests on State of the Art. They chat with Host Heather McDougall about the upcoming Summer Art Walk LA series, that kicks off on Friday May 31st in downtown Lewiston, and continues on the last Friday of the month from June to September. -
In this week’s episode of State of the Art, Host Heather McDougall is joined by Jane Bianco, curator of the new exhibition, Lynne Drexler: Color Notes, running at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland. Drexler was a second-generation abstract expressionist artist and longtime resident of Monhegan Island. Jane and Heather discuss Lynne’s decision to move to Monhegan and the legacy she left there, her love of classical music, and her vibrant work as a colorist during the 1960s that can be seen at the exhibition now running at the Farnsworth.
