From Paula Mauro
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Producers: Paula Mauro

In her basement workshop, New York-area artist Jenny Feder constructs sculptural houses out of wood and eclectic scraps of metal, cardboard book covers, game pieces, and photographs. She and her partner, Jill Dunbar, talk about what it's like when you live with a basement full of dangerous equipment and an artist who's on to something.
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Review of It's an Emergency!Light-hearted and fun look at an artist's process. It's difficult to do a profile on visual artists without narration but Producer Paula Mauro does a commendable job incorporating off-hand humorous comments by Jenny Feder about her battle scars working with power tools in pursuit of art and her partner's concerns for her safety. The music propels the light tone to the piece and keeps it moving. At present length though it may not fit into most local news magazines. The piece would probably work best at 6-7 minutes. I'd also like to know more about the artist in a host intro or in info on the PRX site so I can see more visuals as I'm listening to the piece. I had a hard time visualizing exactly what the artist was making. Still this portrait would work well as an arts feature or a women's show feature....Dmae |
Chris Hand
Posted on June 04, 2005 at 01:10 PM | Permalink
Review of It's an Emergency!
Howdy!
While not dealing explicitly with the art. I found this piece to be a nice profile of Jenny Feder. I assume that there would be a fairly detailed intro for the piece, but artists speaking in their own voice is something I appreciate greatly.