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Artist Interview: Chakaia Booker on Rubbermade part 1
3 Minutes 8 seconds
Museum Curator Christopher Cook interviews visiting artist Chakaia Booker and discusses the materials she uses as well as her background.
Photo: Chris Velisedes
Artist Interview: Chakaia Booker on Rubbermade part 2
3 Minutes 24 seconds
In the second part of their conversation, Chakaia Booker talks about various interpretations of her work and some of the challenges she has faced in the creation of her large scale sculptures.
Above right: Chakaia Booker, Sugar in my Bowl, 2003; rubber tire and steel, 95 x 110 x 57 3/4 inches; Courtesy of the artist and Marlborough Gallery, New York
Installing RubberMade: Sculpture by Chakaia Booker
3 Minutes 24 seconds
Kemper Museum preparators Jason Myers and Christopher Bell discuss the arduous task of installing Chakaia Booker’s large-scale, sculptures created from salvaged rubber tires in her exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
Photo: Robert J. Bingaman
Conversation Pieces: Richard Diebenkorn: Untitled 1987
5 Minutes 8 seconds
Kemper Museum director and CEO Rachael Blackburn Cozad explains her attraction to artist Richard Diebenkorn's Untitled 1987.
Conversation Pieces: James Brinsfield: Transit 1993
7 Minutes 16 seconds
Artist James Brinsfield talks about his own artwork Transit, on display in the exhibition Conversation Pieces.
Conversation Pieces: Ed Blackburn: Cain and Abel (1988)
5 Minutes 49 seconds
Dr. Craig Prentiss, associate professor of religious studies at Rockhurst University, provides a reading of Ed Blackburn's Cain and Abel from a religious standpoint.
MUSIC: "Demon" performed by Kansas City group BCR (Sun-Ra cover)
