"Ruskin Today" is a podcast sponsored by the Ruskin Art Club of Los Angeles. We explore British art and social critic John Ruskin's insights as they impact 21st-century challenges in art, the sciences, ecology, and social reform.
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Episode #15: Tyson Gaskill Muses on Art, Libraries, and Ruskin
Ruskin Art Club President Tyson Gaskill ranges widely over his own long career in the arts and in communications, touching on the historic association of the Ruskin Art Club and the University of Southern California as well as his own evolving appreciation of John Ruskin's vision. Gabriel Meyer interviews.
4 Jun 2026
Episode #14: Ruskin Art Club Executive Director Gabriel Meyer discusses life, reinventing an historic association, and Ruskin
David Judson, Ruskin Art Club board member and president of historic Judson Studios in Pasadena, interviews the club's longtime Executive Director, Gabriel Meyer, on his multi-faceted life and on his decades of involvement with the historic association and with the thought of John Ruskin.
8 Jan 2026
Episode #13: Entrevista com Professor Sérgio Ferro conduzida por Claudio Silveira Amaral (em português)
Episódio especial pelo Ruskin Today Podcast conduzido em português, o Professor Sérgio Ferro fala sobre arquitetura, arte e "trabalho livre" no Brasil e no exterior, informado pela sua admiração do John Ruskin e do discípulo dele, William Morris. A entrevista é conduzida pelo colega crítico de arquitetura Claudio Silveira Amaral.
13 Sept 2025
Episode #12: "The Illuminated Window" with Virginia Raguin
Leading architectural glass historian Virginia Chieffo Raguin takes listeners on a fascinating journey through the narrative riches of medieval, Renaissance, and modern stained glass from Chartres Cathedral to Kiki Smith -- with an appreciation of Ruskin's insights into the nature and potential of this illuminative art.
7 Dec 2024
Episode #11: The Journey of the Historic California Art Club with Peter and Elaine Adams
Painter Peter Adams and California Art Club Executive Director Elaine Adams reveal the 115-year journey of the California Art Club, championing traditional aesthetic values and emerging artists.
30 Nov 2024
Episode #10: The Denenbergs Discuss Ruskin, Art, and Heritage
Los Angeles gallery owners Stuart Denenberg & Beverly Denenberg share their life-journeys through art and historic preservation, discovering and illuminating the enduring legacy of Ruskin.
21 Sept 2024
Episode #9: Roundtable on the Pre-Raphaelites with Karl Merrick, Sara Atwood, and Gabriel Meyer
John Ruskin was an early champion and mentor to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's poets and painters. The Ruskin Art Club's Sara Atwood and Gabriel Meyer lead a lively, wide-ranging discussion of the influential movement's intersections with Ruskinian thought with Karl Merrick, trustee and podcast editor of the Pre-Raphaelite Society of the UK. For Karl's corresponding podcast interview with Sara and Gabriel, visit the Pre-Raphaelite Society website: www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org.
3 Sept 2024
Episode #8: Ruskin and Brazil with Prof. Claudio Silveira Amaral
Professor Claudio Silveira Amaral, with his background in architecture and urbanism, discusses John Ruskin's influence, through figures such as polymath Rui Barbosa and architect Sérgio Ferro, on Brazilian education, architecture, and culture. Moderated by Ruskin Art Club's Executive Director Gabriel Meyer and joined by Joseph Rodrigues.
22 Aug 2024
Episode #7: Ruskin on Education and Language with Sara Atwood
Prof. Sara Atwood teaches literature and writing at Portland State University and Pacific Northwest College of Art. Her academic work on Ruskin and Victorian literature has been widely published. She is a Companion of the Guild of St. George in the UK and a board member of the Ruskin Art Club of Los Angeles.
27 Jul 2024
Episode #6: Ruskin and Stained Glass with David Judson
David Judson, president of Judson Studios and Ruskin Art Club board member, charts his family's historic engagement in architectural glass with insights drawn from Ruskin.
For more information of Judson Studios, visit https://www.judsonstudios.com/ (https://www.judsonstudios.com/)
To purchase David Judson's 2020 book "JUDSON: Innovation in Stained Glass," visit https://www.judsonstudios.com/product/judson-innovation-in-stained-glass/ (https://www.judsonstudios.com/product/judson-innovation-in-stained-glass/)
15 May 2024
Episode #5: "Ruskin & Women" with Prof. Dinah Birch
Dinah Birch is a distinguished English literary critic and leading Ruskin scholar. Acclaimed for her ground-breaking work on the topic of Ruskin and gender, Prof. Birch delivered the Ruskin Art Club's 2023 "Ruskin" Lecture at USC, available on our YouTube channel: www. youtube.com/@ruskinartclub. She speaks with Ruskin Today's Gabriel Meyer.
7 May 2024
Episode #4: The Poet and the City with Lynne Thompson
Ruskin Today interviews LA City's Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson on the nexus of art and civic life. Interviewed by Ruskin Art Club Literary Programs Director, poet Elena Karina Byrne.
11 Apr 2024
Episode #3: Jim Spates: A Life in Ruskin
Veteran US Ruskin scholar Jim Spates discusses a lifelong fascination with the thought of John Ruskin -- "the sociologist I had been waiting for all my life." With Gabriel Meyer and Zach Bullock.
19 Mar 2024
Episode #2: Robert Hewison on today's Ruskin revival
Dean of Ruskin scholars and cultural historian Robert Hewison speaks to Ruskin Today's Gabriel Meyer on his life in Ruskin studies and on the modern revival of interest in the great Victorian polymath.
31 Jan 2024
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