HeyJaredArt Yap
Convos with the creative folk shaping the arts and culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hosted by Shawna Vesco Ahern.
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19 - Crowded Fire Theater, Nailah + Adin (opens the original)
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BOGO tickets for Manning with code: YAPPERS Welcome back to Art Yap, where I gab, gossip, and otherwise chitchat with San Francisco Bay Area arts and culture baddies about how they build community through creativity. I'm your host, Shawna Vesco Ahern. Today I'm sitting down with two people who go way back — like, high school musical, grew-up-in-Maryland, performing in-Hair-together way back. Nailah Harper-Malveaux is co-executive director of Crowded Fire, a Bay Area theater company that's been m
18 - Suzy Varadi, The Yenta of SFMOMA (opens the original)
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Before she was brokering multi-million dollar partnerships at SFMOMA, Suzy was training monkeys to play computer games in a neuropsychopharmacology lab. In this episode, she talks about her winding path from grad school research to Meals on Wheels to Macy's parade sponsorships to finally landing her dream job at SFMOMA — and how she uses psychology, listening, and a little bit of "yenta" energy to match brands with the museum in ways that actually feel authentic. Plus: her two Border Collies, th
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