Café Floss
Café Floss
Podcast Description
When Floss Barber read the book, Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father, by Stephen Fried, she was moved by the stories of Colonial Philadelphians and their enlightened thinking. It made her want to capture the details of her own generation’s creative minds. In the Café Floss podcast series, the founder of interior design studio Floss Barber Inc. sits down with a select group of creative legends who have spent their careers in Philadelphia. They might not have signed the Declaration of Independence like Benjamin Rush and his friends, but they have forged creative paths, broken barriers, and helped ensure future generations can think, work, and live in imaginative and inspired ways.
In each episode, Floss delves into the life and experiences of one individual. By discussing their early years, career beginnings, challenges, and achievements, Floss and her guests capture their stories for generations. Floss brings her own designer perspective to the conversations, exploring how Philadelphia’s rich artistic and cultural heritage has influenced her guests. Produced by Philadelphia media production lab RADIOKISMET, which espouses a belief in the inherent value of every
person’s story, Café Floss helps preserve the legacy of Philadelphia’s creative community.
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The podcast emphasizes themes of creativity, personal storytelling, and the significance of Philadelphia's artistic community. Episodes cover a range of subjects including the evolution of a guest's career, their creative processes, and their contributions to Philadelphia's cultural landscape, such as examining the artistic approaches of painters, architects, and dancers, while highlighting the impact of historical influences on their work.
When Floss Barber read the book, Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father, by Stephen Fried, she was moved by the stories of Colonial Philadelphians and their enlightened thinking. It made her want to capture the details of her own generation’s creative minds. In the Café Floss podcast series, the founder of interior design studio Floss Barber Inc. sits down with a select group of creative legends who have spent their careers in Philadelphia. They might not have signed the Declaration of Independence like Benjamin Rush and his friends, but they have forged creative paths, broken barriers, and helped ensure future generations can think, work, and live in imaginative and inspired ways.
In each episode, Floss delves into the life and experiences of one individual. By discussing their early years, career beginnings, challenges, and achievements, Floss and her guests capture their stories for generations. Floss brings her own designer perspective to the conversations, exploring how Philadelphia’s rich artistic and cultural heritage has influenced her guests. Produced by Philadelphia media production lab RADIOKISMET, which espouses a belief in the inherent value of every
person’s story, Café Floss helps preserve the legacy of Philadelphia’s creative community.
Stephen Tanis is a painter and Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware where he taught both painting and drawing in the Department of Art for nearly thirty years. He received a BFA from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in painting from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Tanis has been the recipient of three individual artist fellowships from the Delaware State Arts Council: the first for painting, the second for works-on-paper, and the third, a Masters fellowship in 2002 for painting. In that same year, Tanis received a Delaware Governor’s Award in the Arts. He has also received individual fellowships from the Hereward Lester Cooke Foundation and the John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Foundation. Tanis has had over twenty five solo exhibitions of his work in galleries and museums including eight shows at the Sherry French Gallery in New York City and six shows at the Jane Haslem Gallery in Washington, DC. In 2009, Stephen Tanis was honored with a retrospective show at the University of Delaware Museum that spanned forty-one years of his painting. His work is included in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States, the UK and Europe.
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