<<< outside the frame >>> Episode #1 | Run Of Show & Featured Guests

11/10/2024

Episode #1 of <<<outside the frame>>>, the Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 interactive podcast on Tuesday, November 12th at 7:00 pm on ZOOM* will include a number of invited guests who - along with YOU - will contribute to a vibrant conversation about the game and the regional art scene.

We'll kick off the first episode with an introduction to the game and how you can participate alongside the players. Then everyone will contribute to a freewheeling conversation about the regional art scene with invited our invited guests and Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 players.

Click to register and get your link to Episode #1: Tuesday, November 12th at 7:00 pm EST

Featured guests on episode #1 of <<<outside the frame>>>

Originally from Connecticut, Mev McMahon fell in love with the Rochester area while earning her BFA in Photojournalism at RIT. Her passion for photography developed in tandem with her appreciation for history. Growing up, Mev traveled with her archaeologist parents to numerous historical sites with a camera in hand. During college, she researched, acquired, and sequenced thousands of images while working as a Picture Editor for major publications such as TV Guide Magazine and NBCNews.com. Not one for NYC living, she moved back to her adopted home to give back in the best way she knows how: using visual storytelling to showcase the work of local nonprofit organizations.

These days Mev is the Marketing & Communications Director at Flower City Arts Center, a community-based not-for-profit organization that educates, encourages, and inspires all people to create and enjoy the visual arts, design, and media. Flower City Arts Center embraces the fact that the arts elevate humanity, are naturally therapeutic, and provides tools for expression in the language of the heart in a world that needs healing. Flower City Arts Center strives to create social change through arts, education, and creative entrepreneurship. They provide high-quality arts programs to the most in-need people in our community.

Flower City Arts Center celebrated 50 years in 2020. Established in 1970, Flower City Arts Center is housed in a historic firehouse constructed in 1895-1905. They are the only community visual arts center conveniently located within the City of Rochester. In 1974, Flower City Arts Center was incorporated as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit educational institution. In addition to our staff and board, they up to 20 artists-in-residence and many instructors, studio artists, volunteers, and interns.

Instagram: @mevmcmahon (Mev McMahon)

Rachael Gootnick is a working artist and savvy businesswoman.

Her art-based business, Just Terrific Handcrafted Goods, and her studio are located at 208 N. Goodman Street near the Memorial Art Gallery in the renovated School 31 Lofts building. Rachael's art practice focuses on book repair & restorations, book art, and miniature book jewelry.

This year, as in prior years, she is a judge in the annual "Art Of The Book & Paper" exhibition at the Rundel Memorial Library. New in 2024, the Rundel Library administration added an auxiliary exhibit adjacent in the Arts Division – The Works of the Judges of the Art of the Book & Paper. See the beautiful artists books and collages by Diane Bond, Gerald Mead, Susan Tkach and, of course, Rachael.

On Monday, November 18th Rachael will talk in some detail about Art Of The Book & Paper. Her presentation will begin at 5:00 pm. It will take place on the first floor of the Rundel Memorial Library near the exhibition location.

As if she weren't busy enough, Rachael's work is also currently on display at Main Street Arts in Clifton Springs, NY.

Instagram: @justterrific (Just Terrific • Rachael Gootnick)

A look at the players who will also be on Episode #1

Nancy has been a working artist and educator in the Rochester area for too many years for her to count. Her professional experiences have included teaching visual arts at the elementary, middle, high school, and college levels as well as leading professional development workshops for teachers and art workshops for adults in the community.

Because of her many wonderful art experiences and interactions with other artists, she has come to greatly value Rochester's extraordinary arts community.

As a working artist, Nancy has engaged with many visual art forms & media including painting, graphic design, sculpture, metal-smithing, glass, ceramic sculpture and, most recently, printmaking.

Nancy maintains a studio/gallery in Rochester in Village Gate as well as an outdoor studio in rural Greenwood, NY, a source of great inspiration for her work.

Instagram: @nancy.valle.1 (Nancy Valley)

Yes, her name is Jappie.

Her grandfather’s name was Jasper and his nickname was "Jap". He had 4 daughters. Jappie's mother was the youngest. Jap invented the name "Jappie" for her mom and her mom gave it to Jappie.

King was her father’s last name and Black her husband’s. All together they are what she considers her real name. Her husband suggested that she add his name to hers so that when names were alphabetized for exhibitions hers would be first. That doesn’t always work since her name is sometimes placed with the Ks. She says she doesn’t hyphenate her last name because that costs extra to print.

Jappie moved around a lot as a child with her parents, 1st to Argentina then back to the states, later to Mexico. She's a graduate of the Ateneo Fuente/Universidad de Coahuila and the Interlochen Arts Academy and has a BFA in Textile Design from Rhode Island School of Design as well as a MFA in Fibers from Syracuse University. Jappie was a tenured professor commuting to NJ from Brockport for nearly a decade. She may have felt somewhat rootless in the past, but at this point she has lived in New York longer than anywhere else in her life.

Jappie is now retired from teaching and spends her creative energy making and exhibiting her visual art.

Jappie and her husband, Richard, are playing as a team. Richard may also join us...

Instagram @jkbreddot (Jappie King Black)

Looking ahead to future episodes...

Episode #2: Tuesday, December 10th at 7:00 pm EST (Click to register & get the link.)

In this episode we'll dig into the emerging fantasy art collections and game strategies followed by a conversation about the massive exhibitions being offered this year. Then we'll open up the conversation to topics of interest to participants.

Episode #3: Tuesday, January 14th at 7:00 pm EST (Click to register & get the link.)

The Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 "BIG REVEAL" event in February will be the focus of the first part of the final episode. We'll also update you on gameplay as we approach the closing days of Season 1. After that we'll talk about the local art market in 2024 among other topics.
Each of the three podcasts has it's own registration & ticketing. Please look closely when you register to make sure you have the correct dates.

All the podcasts are FREE and open to the public with registration in advance on Eventbrite.

* All the episodes will be recorded live and posted here on reddotchallenge.org

Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 is a program of Rochester Art Collectors.

Participating in Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 is FREE and open to the public. None of the players are paying to play or receiving any compensation. The program is privately funded and entirely non-commercial. Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 is not a fundraiser of any kind for any organization.

The works of art chosen by Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 players for their fantasy art collections are not being purchased with real money. Red Dot Challenge is a FANTASY art collecting GAME. Players are having fun PRETENDING to buy/collect the art and modeling art collecting behaviors.

In all instances the artists retain the copyright for their work as well as all other rights and privileges provided by the law.

If you are interested in purchasing a work of art you've seen during Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 gameplay, please inquire at the venue where the work is exhibited.

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