major underwriting for season 3 provided by
National Endowment for the Arts
Public Broadcasting Service
Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro
Nathan Cummings Foundation
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation
Bagley Wright Fund
Bloomberg
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
JPMorgan Chase
Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
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season
3 (2005)
What goes on inside the minds of today’s most dynamic visual artists?
How do they make the leap between insight and finished object? What inspires
artists to break through the barriers of convention to arrive at new ways
of seeing? These and other intriguing questions are explored in Season
Three of “Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First
Century,” the only series on national
public television to focus exclusively on contemporary art and the people
who create it. Like the great biennial art exhibitions that regularly
showcase current artistic activity, Art:21 returns to television every
two years to profile working artists who build our living culture with
each painting, sculpture, photograph or installation that they create.
Creating art is a complex process; sometimes deliberate, sometimes serendipitous,
always rigorous. Art:21 takes viewers into the artists’ lives, unfiltered,
for a rare encounter with the creative process in action and an exciting
opportunity to hear what cutting-edge artists are thinking about as they
work. This season, Art:21 travels from São Paulo to Boston, from
Berlin to Houston, to film 16 working artists and to open up the intimate
spaces where they flourish. “It is difficult to imagine anyone who
works harder than an artist,” says renowned curator Susan
Sollins, who is executive producer of the series.
“Art:21 allows public television viewers to experience the passion,
the focus and the compulsion that drives their creativity.”
As in previous seasons, each hour of Art:21 is organized
around a unifying theme that helps audiences analyze, compare, contrast,
and juxtapose the artists profiled. “Power”
explores issues of violence, domination and control that pervade contemporary
society. “Memory” delves
into how an artist’s personal background, as well as our shared
historical past, emerge in artistic expression. “Structures”
profiles artists who investigate context and order in the organization
of their art. “Play”
reveals artists who fearlessly tap improvisation and games, spontaneity
and mundane objects, to make art that is simultaneously whimsical and
profound.
Each of the programs is introduced by a celebrity host who is passionate
and knowledgeable about contemporary art. This season, David
Alan Grier, Isabella
Rossellini, Sam Waterston
and Grant Hill introduce
the theme at the beginning of each hour.
Every day, contemporary artists ponder questions
about life, society, philosophy, psychology, race, science, technology,
memory, history—and the nature of art itself. Through an astonishing
range of approaches, techniques and materials, they transform their ideas
into art that explores the possibilities of creative thinking and self-expression.
For many viewers, Season 3 of Art:21 should challenge conventional notions
of “the painter” or “the sculptor” who works in
a single medium. A great many of the artists profiled are adept in numerous
media, easily moving from one to the next as they experiment and search
for the perfect form for expressing their visions.
more
than a broadcast
Learn more about the sixteen artists in Season Three with these
unique companion materials and programs:
The Season Three Companion
Book, “Art:21—Art in the Twenty First Century 3,”
mirrors the unique strengths of the television series, presenting
the profiled artists directly and in their own words. Conversations
with the artists are dynamically juxtaposed with beautiful, full-color
images of their work, featuring over 400 illustrations.
The Season Three Educators'
Guide introduces teachers, museum educators, and resource coordinators
to a wide range of contemporary artists. With over 40 full-color
images, the 32-page Guide presents discussion questions and activities
as well as biographical information on each of the featured Season
Two artists. This Guide is also a doorway to additional educational
materials on the Art:21 Web site in the Online Lesson Library. We
encourage educators to use the broadcast series, Educators' Guide
and Online Lesson library in tandem to introduce contemporary art
and ideas into classroom discussion and community dialogue.
Art21 is working with community organizations, schools, and museums
to create more than 100 special Art:21
screening events across the country!
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