Arts Underground

Lowe Mill has a new mural, but it's not just any mural -  It's a mosaic created from several thousand hexagon tiles. Roberto Salcido and Max Lizarraga created the piece inspired by traditional beadwork and donated it to the Mill in celebration of Huntsville, 7 years residence, and new citizenship. 

Dana Anderson is the very first artist with special needs in the south (that we know of) to have her own solo gallery exhibit, in Chicago's Magnificent Mile no less! They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and never is that more true than with Dana's art. Since she's nonverbal, we spoke with Dana's mother, Janet, about her journey and process. 

In this Halloween special episode of Arts Underground, we hear the story of the Old Stegar Brick Mansion atop the highest hill in Nashville, rumored to be haunted, with secret tunnels somewhere below the foundation. Emma Petty woke up one night to see a pair of doors that hadn't been there before, and what was behind those doors frightened the entire family. 

We spoke with organizer Brandy Baird about this year's Tweed Ride, inspired by London's Tweed Run, a leisurely bike ride through the city while wearing your best tweedy dapper duds. Crowned as one of the featured events of the Alabama Bicentennial, the Tweed Ride is a fun and fantastic way to get to know Huntsville old and new!

Huntsville-based singer/songwriter Remy Neal visited the studio to talk about his upcoming work and how one incident with a theiving roommate in NYC instigated his musical career.

Elliot Landy came to the station to talk about the gallery show "Peace, Love and Rock and Roll: Elliot Landy's Vision of Woodstock" at the Huntsville Museum of Art. Elliot was the official photographer for the iconic music festival at Woodstock, and he shares with us his stories from that time - how he came to photograph the leading musicians of the time, his work as an activist, and when he became one of the first music photographers to be considered an artist. 

In this episode of arts underground, you can hear about fear as it sometimes affects the art-making process as well as surprising things that doctors and scholars used to believed about the female anatomy.

It's a mentality that helped us to survive in the ages before technology, and we grew up watching it in the Saturday morning cartoons.

Us vs. Them: Good guys and bad guys, Cat and Mouse, Cowboys and Indians, Black and White, Muslim and Christian, Liberal and Conservative.....what we percieve to be Good and Evil based on what we're told in the media and on social platforms.

The very idea that we must be afraid of and control each other because of our differences is the foundation of the "us v. them" mentality.

This episode of Arts Underground features interviews about Panoply and what to expect as well as Chris Wade, featured artist on the Panoply promotional poster; Jane Philips and her art show "Threshold" which beautifully honors the natural female form; and the 7th installment of the Perception of Women series, where a panel of artist and subjects handle difficult women's issues as they relate to art. 

To artists, colors are colors. They are resources from which we communicate an image. To most other people, though, colors represent concepts. For example, in America, approximately 80% of people associate the color red with the smell or taste of berries, cherries, or fruit punch; the color blue is associated with water, sky, and blue raspberry, and pink is associated with...girls?