Host Julie Bernard interviews Linda K. Johnson, Tahni Holt and Dana Lynn Louis about  South Waterfront art.

Art Focus with Julie Bernard - Julie's guests are Jeff Douglas and  K.C. Cowen talking about Oregon Art Beat.

Host Julie Bernard interviews local artist David Rosenak, whose work was featured in the 2006 Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum.

Host Julie Bernard talks with two distinguished guests about the current exhibitions by Debra Beers, Artist, Senior Lecturer in Art, and Program Head of Drawing at Lewis & Clark College

Joining Julie today are:

Mark Woolley, Curator/Owner of The Mark Woolley Gallery on SW Second

Linda Tesner, Curator of the Hoffman Gallery at Lewis & Clark College

Julie Bernard visits with painter Arvie Smith, whose large colorful works are currently on exhibit at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in the Swigert Commons.

Host Julie Bernard interviews Terri Hopkins, director and curator at the Art Gym at Marylhurst University about the current show, Women's Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation. It includes works by Annie Albers, Louise Bourgeois, Suzanne Caporael, Squeak Carnwath, Vija Celmins, Helen Frankenthaler, Ellen Gallager, M.K. Guth, Jane Hammond, Mary Heilmann, Julia Jacquette, Fay Jones, Barbara Kruger, Hung Liu, Agnes Martin, Julie Mehretu, Sarah Morris, Wangechi Mutu, Louise Nevelson, Judy Pfaff, Bridget Riley, Kiki Smith, Pat Steir, Kara Walker, Marie K. Watt, and Sherrie Wolf.

Host Julie Bernard interviewed local artists Remedios Rapoport and Jacquelyn Bond about  Women’s Art: Women’s Vision at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center.  Celebrating the theme of 2008’s National Women’s History Month Remedios Rapoport takes the traditional Argentinean art of Filete (elaborate sign painting) and puts a contemporary message for empowerment and action into each piece. She will present her work, act as guest curator and mentor an emerging artist also working with women and political empowerment.

Host Julie Bernard spoke with Stephanie Burton, James DeRosso and Brad Menninga of the Oregon Potters Association about the Ceramic Showcase, which is being held April 25th through the 27th at the Convention Center.

Host Julie Bernard interviews Mel George of Studio Ramp about the Glass Arts Society's 38th
Annual Conference taking place here in Portland June 19th - 21st.

Host Julie Bernard speaks with staff and youth from Caldera, a non-profit arts organization which offers deep arts learning experiences for underserved youth in Portland and Central Oregon. Participants include Kristin Kilchenstein, education director; Majik, in-school mentor; and photographer Julie Keefe who works with the youth who interview  and photograph diverse people in their neighborhoods.

Julie Bernard speaks with Alexa Pengelly and Bob LePore about online art auction.

Host Julie Bernard interviews artist TJ Norris on his work and his current exhibition at the New American Art Union.  

Host Julie Bernard speaks with Jennifer Gately, Curator of Northwest Art at the Portland Art Museum, about the Contemporary Northwest Artists Awards, which replaced the Oregon Biennial this year. 

Host Julie Bernard speaks with Jane Beebe, of the PDX Gallery, about the current exhibit there called "Kinda Like a Buffet." It's a group show featuring a variety of artists including two who are also guests on the show, Molly Vidor and Midori Hirose.  

Julie Bernard speaks with Phyllis Cantrell Reynolds, The Tree Woman. There's nothing she doesn't know about trees.

Host Julie Bernard speaks with artists Rachel Hibberd, Cara Tomlinson, and Sean Regan about their project "Good Will Hunting: Trash or the Stuff Movies Are Made of?"

On the August 21, Art Focus, Host Julie Bernard speaks with local metal artists Greg Wilbur and Kristin Mitsu Shiga about their work and about the upcoming Art in Pearl Festival Fine Arts and Crafts Festival.

Julie Bernard interviews Lee Musgrave, curator of exhibits at the Maryhill Museum of Art in the Columbia Gorge.

On the Thursday, September 4, Art Focus, Host Julie Bernard speaks with Sean Ongley, who presents his piece on the T.B.A. festival, specifically the Works and the local artists playing it. He also looks at the new Leftbank project, which seeks to renovate a historic jazz building on North Broadway into an arts building.

On the September 18 Art Focus Julie Bernard interviews representatives of City Repair who generate community by setting up the giant winged T-Horse sculpture in parks around the city and serve tea to any and all.