<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><h4 style="text-align:center;" mce_style="text-align:center;" data-mce-style="text-align: center;"><b><i></i></b></h4><div><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The newest episode of Heads Up Arts Radio is up!<br><br>HUAR is a weekly internet radio show, highlighting guests from the arts community of Northeast Ohio.</span></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br></span></span></b></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><a title="Jill the Artist and Child-Whisperer" href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/huar/Jill_the_Artist_and_Child-Whisperer.mp3" mce_href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/huar/Jill_the_Artist_and_Child-Whisperer.mp3" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/huar/Jill_the_Artist_and_Child-Whisperer.mp3">Episode 5: Jill the Artist and Child-Whisperer</a></b></span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">"As an artist, it's your job to push it..."</span></div><ul><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Hosts Amy Spencer and Sharon Pritt interview artist/child-whisperer Jill Schumann</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Jill currently lives in the Bible Belt: hasn't found the right church yet</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Art has always been in her life</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">As a child, Jill created her own worlds… and buffalo thighs</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Her mom supported her wildness growing up</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Her teachers did not</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Graffiti: the most freeing medium</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Jill's view: all graffiti is art, even if she doesn't agree with it</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Akron: it's important to find the good weirdos, versus the creepy ones</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">The blank walls need to be filled</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Jill struggles with supporting concepts like personal property, money, and owning land: Graffiti is a means of fighting back</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Train yard at night + paint + boys = romance… but crossing tracks over a bridge = fear</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Feminism from an early age: no pink vacuum cleaners for little Jill</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Kent State's professor Carrie and the magical world of performance art</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Friendly Walmart zombies</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Performance art is living art</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">And she lives art with the kids she works with</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Student teaching: the penis incident ("If you're gonna do a penis, at least do it right.")</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Jill
wants to reach out and make a difference without being a slave to the
public school system (which is still using the same system as the Reagan
era)</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Baby's first graffiti: Fighting the prison of coloring books and building their own world</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Jill's starting dreamy, experimental photography projects in Nashville</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Influential artists: Banksy (Exit Through the Gift Shop), Basquiat, and Sophie Calle</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">The latter of which explores voyeurism to the extreme</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Breaching privacy: where's the line? As artists, is it our job to push the line further? Questions!</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">If you're offended by Jill's art, she's not sorry</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Stalk Jill on facebook: <a title="Jill on Facebook" href="https://www.facebook.com/jtothabean" mce_href="https://www.facebook.com/jtothabean" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.facebook.com/jtothabean">https://www.facebook.com/jtothabean</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Upcoming Show: <a title="Summer Series" href="http://headsupproductions.wordpress.com/shows/current/summer-series/" mce_href="http://headsupproductions.wordpress.com/shows/current/summer-series/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://headsupproductions.wordpress.com/shows/current/summer-series/">Summer Series</a> July 15th at The Market Path at 6pm (Bring $5 so we can eat!)</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Upcoming Show: <a title="The Pillowman" href="http://headsupproductions.wordpress.com/shows/current/the-pillowman/" mce_href="http://headsupproductions.wordpress.com/shows/current/the-pillowman/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://headsupproductions.wordpress.com/shows/current/the-pillowman/">The Pillowman</a> August 4-7. Tickets are $5. You can't beat that price for theater this good.</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Upcoming Show: <a title="PNR Fundraiser for Heads Up Productions" href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170865959642990" mce_href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170865959642990" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170865959642990">PNR fundraiser</a> on July 16th. $5 at the Quirk Cultural Center in Cuyahoga Falls.</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Donate!</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">We are now on itunes! Search “Heads Up Arts Radio” in the itunes store. Subscribe!</span></li><li><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Theme Song by Amy Spencer and Sharon Pritt</span></li></ul><div><span mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 14pt;" style="font-size: 14pt;">Check out <a target="_blank" title="www.headsupproductions.net/huar" mce_href="http://www.headsupproductions.net/huar" href="http://www.headsupproductions.net/huar">www.headsupproductions.net/huar</a> to listen.</span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 14pt;" style="font-size: 14pt;">We are now on iTunes. Search "Heads Up Arts Radio" on iTunes to subscribe!<br></span></div><div><br></div></span></body></html>