Convos with the creative folk shaping the arts and culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hosted by Shawna Vesco Ahern.
Art Yap
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Convos with the creative folk shaping the arts and culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hosted by Shawna Vesco Ahern.
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Recent Episodes
July 22, 2026
18 - Suzy Varadi, The Yenta of SFMOMA
<p>Before she was brokering multi-million dollar partnerships at SFMOMA, Suzy was training monkeys to play computer games in a neuropsychopharmacology lab. In this episode, she talks about her winding path from grad school research to Meals on Wheels to Macy's parade sponsorships to finally landing her dream job at SFMOMA — and how she uses psychology, listening, and a little bit of "yenta" energy to match brands with the museum in ways that actually feel authentic. Plus: her two Border Collies, the Google.org gift behind the Ruth Asawa show, and why she thinks San Francisco's creative energy is alive and well.</p>
June 20, 2026
17- Demetri Broxton, Building an Artistic Future Bead By Bead
<p>Today's guest is Demetri Broxton, someone who I think practices radical attention in his artistic practice as well as in his general disposition toward the creative community he builds at Root Division as executive director. Demetri is an Oakland-born artist who takes photographs of ancestors, some named, some lost to time, and brings them back through an act of almost impossible attention.</p><p>Bead by bead, stitch by stitch, he places them into futures they were never allowed to have. His work is in the collection of the de Young, and right now he is having a moment. His very first museum solo at MOAD and a public art piece going up in the community where his own family put down roots. We sat together inside an interactive art installation, fabric all around us filled with lavender, the warm air carrying the scent through the [00:02:00] whole conversation.</p><p>It felt like the right place to talk about what it means to lead for other artists while keeping your own creative fire alive, what his family thought when he chose art over everything else, and what happens when a stranger stands in front of your artwork and starts to cry. This one felt like a conversation I needed to have, and I hope you feel the same way.</p>
March 10, 2026
SOLD: CCA's Closure with Melissa Leventon and Elizabeth Travelslight
<p>CCA — California College of the Arts — is closing. Vanderbilt University is buying the campuses. And decades of art education, community, and institutional memory are being sold off with them.</p><p>In this episode, recorded at Goat Hall in San Francisco's Potrero Hill, I sit down with two people who lived it from the inside: Elizabeth Travelslight, who taught in CCA's Critical Studies program and was also present for the closure of SFAI, and Melissa Leventon, who has taught fashion history and theory at CCA for 27 years. Together they trace the risky financial decisions and leadership failures that brought the institution to this point, the history that gave rise to both CCA and SFAI, and what it means — for students, for faculty, for the Bay Area — when places like this disappear.</p><p>We didn't plan it this way, but the conversation took on a shape of its own: part mass, part confession, part hail mary, and somewhere at the end, something like a benediction.</p><p>SFAI is already gone. Now CCA. The question is what we're willing to lose next.</p>
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