Karen Werner

News Archive
2019
2018
2017
2016

Summer & Fall 2019

10/16: "Strange Radio Live! Listening to the Deep Connection: Lecture-Performance Transmission," ARTNOW public event, Edison Hall!! Monmouth University, NJ (Part of week-long Artist Residency at Monmouth)

10/1-5/30: Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship for 2019-2020 supporting the development of "Houdini, A Radio Opera," adapted from Muriel Rukeyser's musical play, Houdini.

9/1-5/30: Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship for curating, creating, and teaching radio art. Honored to receive this inaugural 9 month fellowship funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Beginning September 2019, the Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship is nine-month, part-time engagement for an American radio artist with strong interests in the history of radio art and related practices. The Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe, and will communicate regularly with Fellowship Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, and Gregory Whitehead.The fellow will develop an audio archive of noteworthy historic and contemporary radio artworks including brief introductory and contextual information for publication on the Wave Farm website. Drawing from the archive, produce approximately five hours of radio art programming weekly on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. The fellow will also create original radio artworks for broadcast and lead three workshops and/or listening sessions with WGXC’s volunteer programmers.

8/23: Live Radio Broadcast, Saari Residency Harvest Party, near Mynämäki, Finland, a collaboration with Dılşa Perençick. Next best thing to being there!

7/21-8/2: Artist-in-residence Monson Arts, Monson, Maine