This edition: October 2014
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Original tape date: October 29, 2014. First aired: October 29, 2014.This episode of “Italics: Television for the Italian American Experience” focuses on Italian Americans in art and literature. We’ll talk with Dr. Valerie Rousseau, Curator, Art of the Self-Taught and Art Brut, who was instrumental in welcoming the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s exhibit, “Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget,” to New York’s American Folk Art Museum. Book authors Joseph Luzzi and Dolores DeLuce bring their respective new works – “My Two Italies” and "My Life, A Four Letter Word: Confessions of a Counter Culture Diva,” to the Calandra Institute. We’ll preview “Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework From The Italian Diaspora,” in anticipation of its November 13th presentation at the Calandra Institute. Contributors Joanna Clapps Herman and Jo Ann Cavallo join editor Joseph Sciorra in our studios.
Guest List
Rosangela Briscese Coordinator for Academic and Cultural Programs, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute/Queens College/CUNY
Jo Ann Cavallo Chair, Department of Italian, Columbia University
Dolores De Luce Author, “My Life, A Four Letter Word”
Joanna Clapps Herman Writer and Poet
Joseph Luzzi Author, “My Two Italies”
Dr. Valerie Rousseau Curator, Art of the Self-Taught and Art Brut, American Folk Art Museum
Dr. Joseph Sciorra Director of Academic and Cultural Programs/Folklorist, Calandra Institute, Queens College, CUNY
Cav. Anthony Julian Tamburri, PhD. Dean & Executive Director, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
- Alain Elkann & ILICA
- Wednesday, April 15 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, May 13 - 9:30am
- Book Launch, PIACE, and a Presepio
- Thursday, April 16 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, May 5 - 9:30am
- Frank Ingrasciotta in Blood Type: Ragu
- Monday, April 20 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, May 6 - 9:30am
- Antonio Tibaldi, Gorgona
- Tuesday, April 21 - 9:30am
- Thursday, April 23 - 9:30am
- Thursday, May 7 - 9:30am
- Emma Stebbins at The Heckscher Museum of Art
- Wednesday, April 22 - 9:30am
- Monday, May 11 - 9:30am
- TBA
- Monday, April 27 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, April 28 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, April 29 - 9:30am
- Thursday, April 30 - 9:30am
- Monday, May 4 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, May 12 - 9:30am
- THE VIEW FROM LAKE COMO: CONVERSATION WITH ADRIANA TRIGIANI
- Wednesday, April 1 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, April 14 - 9:30am
- CAFÉ MARS AND CIVITA
- Tuesday, March 31 - 9:30am
- Monday, April 13 - 9:30am
- Emma Stebbins at The Heckscher Museum of Art
- Monday, March 23 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, March 24 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, March 25 - 9:30am
- Thursday, March 26 - 9:30am
- Monday, March 30 - 9:30am
- Thursday, April 9 - 9:30am
- Antonio Tibaldi, Gorgona
- Thursday, March 19 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, April 8 - 9:30am
- Frank Ingrasciotta in Blood Type: Ragu
- Wednesday, March 18 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, April 7 - 9:30am
- Book Launch, PIACE, and a Presepio
- Tuesday, March 17 - 9:30am
- Monday, April 6 - 9:30am
- Alain Elkann & ILICA
- Monday, March 16 - 9:30am
- Thursday, April 2 - 9:30am
