Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule speaks with WPKN's Bill Cosentino of Organic Radio ahead of Gov't Mule's New Haven, CT 10/30/25 date at College Street Music Hall.
Atelier Cue is a collaborative design and fabrication studio specializing in place-making, community engagement, and the creation of architectural works of art. Partners Ioana Barac and Marissa Dionne Mead founded the Atelier as a stage for connecting the art of design and the craft of making. Essential to our method is a process of experimentation, prototyping, and fabrication which ensures a sense of both high-design and hand-craft in their work.Each of their installations is influenced by the unique community, site, and architectural background in which it will come to life. Similarly, the design team is a creative collaboration led by Atelier Cue between client, community, and Cue's network of fabricators curated specifically for each project.The Cue: from curlicue, a prevalent graphic in the visual and decorative arts which can be both precise and unpredictable.
Cathode ray televisions, LED monitors, digital scanners, laptops, desktop tower computers, digital photo frames, cell phone and smartphones: these are among many of the pieces of technology that Paul modifies and deploy in my practice as a new media artist. Most of these devices are used once they’ve become so ubiquitous in public life, that they are either offered up with deep discounts, passed along for free, or found curbside. These objects typically go through some form of physical intervention and manipulation, by way of the application of paint or adhering of a clamp in the minimal side, to stripping a device down to its bare bones electrical components, all the while allowing the devices to still be fully functional. For the past three decades, Paul has worked on electronic, time-based media that avoid technology-heavy processes like coding and digital editing, and rely on basic computer / electronic components to exist in a minimal capacity.
I make work out of unconventional materials such as tarpaper, string, vinyl, foam and pom poms often combining them with paint. My work combines the handmade with industrial, and organic with geometric.. I explore how memories can be suggested, using form, color and pattern that incorporate nature, landscape, science, culture and more.My work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally and nationally and can be found in corporate and public collections including Log-Me-In Headquarters in Boston, MA and Sloan Kettering Hospital in NYC.
Amelia Ingraham is a photographer and creator producing work out of her New Haven studio. She works as a freelance commercial photographer for a variety of companies and publications. The personal work she produces is often surreal and highly conceptual. Being raised by an artist and an auctioneer inspired an endless amount of ideas while building her sets. Her photography boasts a minimalist point of view, with a subtle amount of chaos. Her use of styling and composition showcase her passion for the arts, allowing the viewer a look into the mind of a true creative.
Valerie Richardson spoke with four of the five members of the artists' collective G.L.O.C. who will be presenting a collective work during Erector Square Open Studios. G.L.O.C = Megan Czekaj, Emily Herberich, Anna Russell, Gabriella Svenningsen, and Allison Hornak (not present for the interview).
WPKN's Valerie Richardson speaks with Eric March, a realist painter and draftsman whose work explores themes of urban life, urban environments, and narrative-often through dense multi-figural compositions. Since 2020 Eric has created five different large community-focused figurative artworks for public display at local health facilities, including Yale New Haven Hospital and Cornell Scott Hill Health Center. Eric also is an illustrator and a web designer and developer—and is the creator of this website! He currently teaches at the Art Students League (NYC) and Creative Arts Workshop (New Haven) and has been a primary organizer of Erector Square Open Studios for the past three years.
WPKN's Valerie Richardson interviews artist Fethi Meghelli, an Algerian-American artist whose career spans more than five decades, three continents, and experimentation in a wide variety of media and styles, from printmaking, masks, and found objects to paintings, sculpture, and collage, often combining the urgency of social realism with the expansive imaginativeness of surrealism.Meghelli earned his BFA from the School of Fine Arts in Algiers, Algeria, where he was mentored by the founders of modern Algerian painting, particularly M'hamed Issiakhem (1928-1985), Choukri Mesli (1931-2017), and Ali Ali-Khodja (1923-2010). He later received his MFA from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, France, where his main studio professor was renowned Belgian painter Gustave Singier (1909-1984). Meghelli immigrated to the United States in 1974, settling in New Haven, CT, where he has been a practicing artist and art educator for 50 years, having exhibited widely and taught at a range of institutions.
In this episode, Valerie Richardson sits down with Dr. Jennifer Reynolds‑Kaye, Director of the Housatonic Museum of Art, and guest Bill Behnken to explore Ink and Impressions: 110 Years of the Society of American Graphic Artists. Behnke is a former president of SAGA. We talk about SAGA’s legacy and what it means to mark the organization’s 110th anniversary with its 90th annual members’ exhibition—150 hand‑pulled prints by artists whose works span intaglio, wood engraving, lithography, mokuhanga, and more. We highlight how the show bridges past and present—featuring historic names like Isabel Bishop, Rafael Soyer, Ruth Leaf, and Ann Chernow alongside today’s innovators. The exhibition runs September 10, 2025–February 13, 2026 at HMA in Bridgeport, CT.Click Link.
Valerie Richardson speaks with Rebecca Goodheart, Producing Director of the Elm Shakespeare Company. Their 30th anniversary production is a Bollywood-styled A Midsummer Night's Dream. Performances run August 14 through August 31, beginning at 7:30 pm, in New Haven's Edgerton Park. Admission is free. elmshakespeare.org
Valerie Richardson speaks with Cynthia Davis on WPKN's Community Hour on August 18, 2025. Cynthia shares the origin story of Our Woven Community and the women whose artistry fuels it—bags, scarves, and new beginnings. She also previews “Sew Strong Together,” the September 7 gala supporting OWC’s next chapter.
WPKN's Lou Pomales (La Esquina Latina) interviews Richard Hill of Mikata as the band approaches their 40th anniversary.WPKN is a media partner in Trova Y Salsa, Mikata, 40 Year Anniversary Celebration happening Friday July 18, at 9PM, at Park City Music Hall, in Bridgeport. Mikata celebrates 40 years of music making. This event is paired with Park City Music Hall’s Trova y Salsa monthly series, dedicated to the ritmo, cultura, and community of regional salsa. Tickets and more information are available at parkcitymusichall.comRichard Hill also serves as WPKN's Director of Public Affairs.
2023, Mike Calabrese of Lake Street Dive talks the history of the band and current music making with WPKN's Martha Nachman.
2023, Fred Tackett talks with WPKN's Martha Nachman about all things Little Feat.
Photographer Michael Friedman (THE LOST ROCK & ROLL NEGATIVES OF MICHAEL FRIEDMAN) talks about his photography, stories, and book of unreleased 1960's rock 'n' roll photos with WPKN's Martha Nachman.
2018 conversation with Olivia Panella (UMA GAIA, Healer) and Yamin Alma (Afternoon in the Park), hosted by WPKN's Martha Nachman.
2018, WPKN's Martha Nachman in conversation with Nicole Atkins (Singer/Songwriter).
Valerie Richardson speaks with Tod Papageorge, emeritus director of photography at the Yale School of Art, and Lisa Kereszi, assistant director in photography at Yale, about At the Beach + In the Pool: On Influence, a new exhibition at MoCA Westport. The show pairs Papageorge’s iconic black-and-white photographs of 1970s–80s Los Angeles beachgoers with work by 41 of his former Yale MFA students—now Guggenheim Fellows—offering a compelling meditation on photographic mentorship, influence, and legacy.
Sam Carlson, a lynchpin of the modern-day New Haven, CT music scene drops by to preview singles from the new Tines album Barrows (hitting in August 2025), and to share his favorite productions from Sans Serif Recording with music by Offering Field, Mickey Blurr, Ambulance Chasers, Pyramid Rose Band, and Old Milk Mooney. Hear his take on art, music, life and so much more...Sans Serif RecordingThe Tines on Bandcamp
John Kinsner of Black Ink Presents, and "Jim Henson's" Labyrinth in Concert" talks with WPKN's Herman Olivera (ReHumanize Yourself Radio) about the upcoming Saturday, May 3, 2025 event at College Street in New Haven. Tickets and more information: https://collegestreetmusichall.com/e/jim-henson-s-labyrinth-in-concert-1050219634197/