<<< outside the frame >>> Episode #2 | Run Of Show & Featured Guests

12/4/2024

Episode #2 of <<<outside the frame>>>, the Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 limited series interactive podcast, will go live on Tuesday, December 10th at 7:00 pm on ZOOM*. The recorded stream will be posted here soon after.

This episode of the show will include a number of featured guests, as well as a few of the Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 players. Information about our guests is available below.

The key distinction between <<<outside the frame>>> and a typical podcast is the way it's open to the public. EVEYONE who registers in advance on Eventbrite will get a link to the show and be able to participate in real time along with the guests!

In this episode we'll provide a quick overview of the game and then dig into the emerging fantasy art collections and game strategies. We'll probably talk a bit about the MASSIVE art exhibitions offered this season. Then we'll introduce our featured guests and open up the conversation to art-related topics of interest to everyone on the ZOOM.

CLICK HERE to register and get your link to Episode #2: Tuesday, December 10th at 7:00 pm EST

The guests featured on Episode #2 of <<<outside the frame>>

Adam Eaton is an artist & creative director born and raised in Rochester, NY. He uses photography as a medium to explore the beauty of Black people and examines how art and culture shape our definitions and perceptions of beauty while celebrating diversity. His commitment to art and the Rochester community has led him to create Rochester Artist Collaborative an arts organization that provides local artists with the resources and opportunities needed to succeed.

Instagram: @adameaton.art (Adam Eaton)
Instagram: @rochesterartistcollaborative (Rochester Artist Collaborative)

By day, Erich S. Lehman is Lead IT Systems Administrator / Manager for RIT's College of Art and Design and has taught courses for RIT at the graduate and undergraduate level in topics ranging from the artistic to the technical. He’s also given lectures around the country in technical and artistic topics.

More notably for our discussion, he’s had a parallel career in the local arts community. Erich is founder and gallerist of 1975 Gallery (est. 2008), championing local, national, and international artists. He's a co-curator and Lead Organizer of WALL\THERAPY (est. 2011), an arts organization that has brought dozens of muralists from around our region and around the world to Rochester's public spaces. He is an itinerant curator at arts spaces around Rochester, and has a long-running design and creative practice of his own. And, of course, he's also an inveterate art collector. So, he's got a lot going on!

Instagram: @1975ish (1975ish)
Instagram: @walltherapyny (WALL\THERAPY)

Most people know Nick Koch as @RocStreetPhoto on Instagram. He's a prolific street photographer who often turns his lens on urban architecture; particularly when it's accented by graffiti. His love of graffiti, the artists who create the work and the community who support their efforts are central to his oeuvre. But, he also has an eye for cars & motorcycles. TBH, any hot vehicle that crosses his path is fair game for a digital capture. And, let's just say he's not unfamiliar with the concept of a "wheelie". Nick has exhibited his work around town for quite some time.

More recently, Nick found himself curating an art exhibition at Frank's Chop Shop on East Avenue. The show, "Thanks To The Streets" Volume #2", just came down at the end of November. It was a group show highlighting the vibrant world of graffiti art featuring works by over 40 talented artists and photographers. In his mind, it wasn't just an art show—it was a celebration of creativity and community. You get the picture.

Instagram: @rocstreetphoto (Roc Street Photo)

A look at the players who will also be on Episode #2

Mike Molaire was born under the sun, inches from the ocean: in the coastal Haitian city of St Marc. His involvement with photography started at age 14. By seventeen, he was already doing on-site portraiture as a business.

Mike came to Brooklyn, NY in July 1971. He used my his first paycheck from a summer job to buy a photographic darkroom set that he used at night in the bathroom while everybody was sleeping. (He was enrolled in a correspondence photographic course with Modern Photography.) By September, while attending New York Technical College to study chemistry, he had started a (successful) wedding and portrait business.

Upon graduation Mike was recruited by Eastman Kodak Company and moved to Rochester, NY in 1974. Mike traveled extensively as a Kodak employee around the US and on a few international trips. On every trip he arranged a vacation day to photograph each city he visited. He has amassed a large library of landscape scenes.

Mike describes himself as a photo-artist, not a photojournalist. He does not report, inform, nor teach unless a particular project draws him to that approach. He wants to evoke your senses, your emotions, your feelings. He wants to stimulate, project, induce, provoke, excite, perk up, animate, arouse.

Mike is author and publisher of:

African American Who's Who Past & Present, Greater Rochester Area 12/1/1998.
Shadow of Dreams (poetry) 12/1/1995.
Plus Pres (Nearer) (poetry) 12/1/1968
La Vie des Oiseaux Morts (The Life of the Dead Birds) (poetry) 12/1/1965.

Instagram: @mikemolairefineart (Michel (Mike) Frantz Molaire)

Reaghan is a fiber, ephemera, and microscopy artist focused on the re-use of found materials and tactile art. He is a proud volunteer for Rochester Contemporary Art Center and an avid art collector. A voracious book nerd, he spends his free time researching human-made disasters.

Instagram: @reg_droid (Reaghan McCan)

Matt is an artist, curator and New York State certified educator practicing in Rochester, New York. He also creates artworks; facilitates arts programming; writes about art; talks about art and curates art exhibitions in collaboration with a variety of local organizations that include The Yards Art Collective, Rochester Artist Collaborative and Frank’s Chop Shop.

Matt owns Hungwell Art Services which specializes in installing art in homes and businesses; packing & shipping art for clients and developing unique frames for works of art using handmade and found materials.

Matt participated in the Pilot Season of Red Dot Challenge in 2023-2024.

Instagram: @matt_vanderlee (Matt Vanderlee)

Kelly’s unique career has taken her around the world, designing and leading massive, community-built sculptures. Through both art and community organizing, she has witnessed the power of collective action—how people are eager to contribute to the greater good when given support and opportunity, and the importance of creating spaces for collaboration and creativity.

Both light-hearted and lion-hearted, Kelly blends her expertise in design, logistics, and marketing to champion equity and the arts in Rochester. Unwavering in her commitment to the common good, she challenges the status quo when it fails the people and advocates passionately for thoughtful, informed decision-making.

A Guinness World Record holder and Silver Abby award winner, Kelly’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Make Magazine. She is an active writer and has published essays, op-eds, as well as two children’s books, Artist Eyes and And He Puffed.

Instagram: @kellycheatle (Kelly Cheatle)

Susan & Seth* are now fully retired and loving it. They enjoy art, traveling, reading, and walking.

Susan taught art in public school for 30 years. She creates art and also is an art collector.

Seth formerly owned and operated a Rochester-based printing company for 30 years. His dog is named Cayenne Pepper and he drives an EV.

Seth & Susan are playing as a team. They are considered ONE player in Season 1.

Seth & Susan are playing as a team. They are considered ONE player in Season 1.

Instagram: @sethoze (Seth Oser)

* Susan & Seth participated in the Pilot Season of Red Dot Challenge in 2023-2024.

Looking ahead to the 3rd and final episode of <<<outside the frame>>>

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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