With the
support of the
ARTS COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS,
THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION and THE
CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS.
THE
ART OF THE MATTER
Saturday
4 pm
Celebrate
the many ways the arts can enliven, inform,
challenge, fulfill and make listeners better
citizens of their community and the world
with The Art of the Matter. Hosts Sharon
Gamble, Matt Socey and Travis DiNicola,
joined by an array of fascinating guests,
examine the cultural community from the
perspective of who, what, when and where,
while exploring the broader effects the
arts have on our lives.
Email a submission for The Art of the Matter's arts calendar.
Saturday, May 10
The Truth About Cancer:
Oncocology on Canvas & The Wellness
Community
Last month on WFYI TV 20, the program
The Truth About Cancer debuted. In
this special, award-winning filmmaker
Linda Garmon shares the story of her
husband’s battle with cancer.
In conjunction with the broadcast,
WFYI has organized an exhibition of
cancer survivors’ art as well
as other special activities.
This week The Art of the Matter is
running two special interviews dealing
with this subject. The first is a piece
Sharon Gamble recorded two years ago,
titled Oncology on Canvas, about an
exhibit at the Harrison Center of artwork
created by cancer survivors.
For part two, Travis DiNicola sat
down to chat with Dwayne Kniola and
Jan Wilson of the Wellness Community.
The Wellness community is a non-profit
organization providing free support,
education and hope to individuals
and their families affected by cancer.
Dwayne is the clinical program director
and Jan is an art therapist. Visit
www.twc-indy.org for more information.
And, if you – or someone
you love – are living with
cancer, or if you are a caregiver
for a cancer patient or survivor,
mark your calendar and plan to
participate in one of the upcoming
film screening and discussion events
for The Truth About Cancer: June
4 at 7 pm at the Pike Library,
and June 11 at 7 pm at the Southport
Library. More information is also
available at www.wfyi.org/truthAboutCancer.asp
Preservation Month
Happy Preservation Month! Tina Connor,
executive vice-president of Historic
Landmarks Foundation of Indiana has
some suggestions on how to celebrate,
as Sharon Gamble recently learned.
For more information about Preservation
Month lectures, workshops and other
activities, check out their Web site
at historiclandmarks.org
Sharon
Gamble
Sharon Gamble has enjoyed careers as
an English teacher, writer and editor,
arts administrator and classical radio
host (on WSYW-FM and WFYI Radio FM
90.1). She currently serves as the
executive director of the Phoenix Theatre.
When she is not interviewing some of
the most fascinating people in Indianapolis,
she collects McCoy pottery and vintage
linens, gardens, reads, studies cello
and works on restoring a classic pre-World-War-I
Craftsman Bungalow in Old Meridian
Park. She also contributes pieces to Across
Indiana on WFYI Radio's sister
station TV 20.
Travis
DiNicola
Art of the Matter co-host M. Travis
DiNicola is also the Executive Director
of Indy Reads, a non-profit which provides
free tutoring programs for functionally
illiterate adults in Indianapolis who
want to learn to read. Prior to joining
Indy Reads, DiNicola was the Director
of Public Relations for Young Audiences
of Indiana for ten years. Originally
from Pennsylvania, DiNicola received
a B.A. in Theatre & Dance and a
M.S. in Art Education from Penn State
University. Before moving to Indiana,
he worked as an actor and a performance
artist, presenting his work at venues
in New York, Cleveland, Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia, and other locations on
the East Coast. Indianapolis audiences
saw him perform occasionally for five
seasons (1999-2003) as Rowdie, the
mascot of the Indianapolis Indians.
He is also a writer, and has taught
at IUPUI, Butler University, and Seoul
National University. Awards he has
received include Best Graduate Research
at Penn State, a Creative Renewal Arts
Fellowship, an Indiana Individual Artist
Award, WFYI’s Community Volunteer
Award, Broad Ripple Art Fair Volunteer
of the Year, and most recently was
picked as an IBJ Forty Under 40 recipient.
He is married to Elizabeth Garber,
owner of The Best Chocolate in Town.
Matthew
Socey
January 29, 2005, marked the last regular
appearance for Matthew Socey as host
of The Art of the Matter. Matthew has
had triple duties at WFYI. Besides
co-hosting TAOTM, he's host of The
Blues House Party and is the
voice of WFYI Sundays from 3-8 p.m.
Leaving The Art of the Matter will
allow Matthew to devote more time to
The Blues House Party, including a
series of live appearances at The Slippery
Noodle. Not to worry, Soceyphiles -
He'll stop in from time to time as
a special correspondent. Matthew is
also a contributing writer for NUVO
Newsweekly, Downbeat and Big City Blues
magazine. He's acted, directed and
produced several local plays, and teaches
theatre to grade school students.
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