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Interviews 2006–2009
Zero Hour, hosted by Tim Bowring, is a radio show broadcast on WRIR, Richmond Indpendent Radio, 97.3 in Richmond, Virginia. Each week Bowring interviews visual artists, curators, critics, and editors to investigate “the why” of visual arts.
The show originated (and took its name) from Plant Zero, a restaurant/arts complex in a converted warehouse at the south end of Richmond’s 14th Street Bridge.
Of the series, Bowring writes
We have all heard of the viewer who walks into an art museum, walks up to a Jackson Pollock painting and sneers, “Well, I could have done that.” The obvious answer is, “You didn’t and you couldn't.” But that answer didn’t help me to understand the artistic process. I wanted to understand better why artists do what they do, and I wanted to know how in the world a Pollock drip painting could be considered high art. I figured I wasn’t alone.
Bowring approached Blackbird about the possibility that the journal might republish or host these interviews. With assistance from the VCU Department of English, New Virginia Review, and the PhD program in Media Art in Text, we are able to provide Zero Hour interviews from 2006–2009 in this “out-of-issue” archive. Though our usual practice is to stream audio, the mp3 format is our choice here for easy download and portability. We hope to bring you more of the archive in future. 
Artist  [mp3] |
Air Date | Genre |
| Arnold, Suzanne K. | 4/4/2008 | Painting, Mixed-Media Art |
| Bality, Andras | 7/15/2006 | Painting |
| Becker, Saul | 7/23/2006 | Painting, Drawing |
| Benetis, George | 5/20/2006 | Painting |
| Black, Jim | 1/4/2008 | Painting |
| Bolduan, Ruth | 10/19/2007 | Painting |
| Bowring, Sally | 5/4/2006 | Painting, Public Art Coordinator |
| Birchett, Brad | 4/17/2008 | Painting, Photography, Sound |
| Bruce, David | 10/24/2008 | Mixed-Media Artist |
| Burnside, Chris | 5/2/2008 | Dance |
| Caskey, Kristin | 10/3/2008 | Fashion Designing |
| Clark, Sonya | 10/5/2007, | Crafts |
| Coles, Cece | 1/23/2006 | Video, Installation, Painting |
| Coloratura:
Catherine Roseberry & Rob Womack |
2/2/2007 | Furniture Painting |
| Crow, Don | 7/9/2006 | Painting |
| Davis, Rusty | 4/13/2007 | Petersburg Regional Art Center |
| Donovan, Gregory | 10/7/2006 | Poetry |
| Farmer. Howard & Jim Risatti | 8/1/2008 | Art History, Crafts, Rock Paiinting |
| Feldman, Amy | 11/23/2008 | Painting, Drawing |
| Fisher, Bill | 11/21/2005 | Painting |
| Fisher, Matthew | 11/14/2008 | Painting |
| Flinn, Mary | 12/15/2006 | Editing |
| Fox, Pam | 11/2/2007 | Painting, Photography |
| Furman, Christopher | 12/29/2006 | Time Arts, Sculpture |
| Galarneau, Jill | 6/1/2007 | Painting, Printmaking |
| Garland, Vaughn Whitney | 9/7/2007 | Painting, Drawing |
| Germain, Paul | 4/20/2007 |
Photography, Painting |
| Ginsburg, Hope | 12/28/2007 | Performance, Textiles |
| Glass, Steven | 8/31/2007 | Pottery |
| Glasser, Susan | 12/29/2008 | Director of Education |
| Gaustad, Joan | 10/10/2008 | Painting |
| Gower, Reni | 5/9/2008 | Painting |
| Gregson, Chris | 9/24/2006 | Painting |
| Gray, Christine | 11/30/2007 | Painting |
| Guthrie, Derek | 9/19/2008 | Magazine Editor |
| Harper, Darryl | 10/12/2007 | Clarinetist |
| Hash, Arthur | 11/9/2006 | Jewelry |
| Helfgott, Myron | 5/1/2006 | Sculpture |
| Hernandez Vasquez, Rosa | 6/27/2008 | Wholistic Medicine |
| Johnson, Ron | 10/17/2008 | Painting, Drawing |
| Jones, Steve | 7/4/2006 | Performance Art, Painting |
| Kadish, Katherine | 5/20/2008 | Painting, Monotypes, Assemblages |
| King, Matt | 1/11/2008 | Sculpture, Drawing, Writing |
| Kistler, Ashley | 10/31/2008 | Curation |
| Kollatz, Harry | 2/6/2006 | Theater Coordinating |
| Kollatz, Harry & Amie Oliver | 10/26/2007 | Painting, Drawing, Author |
| Lamb, Leah and Jane Talley | 11/24/2006 | Filmmaking |
| Lucas, Anna | 11/9/2007 | Scuplture, Filmmaking, Drawing |
| Mizer, Sarah | 1/25/2008 | Drawing, Papermaking, Sculpture |
| Monroe, Paul | 1/26/2007 | Art Collection |
| Morrison, Holly | 1/2/2008 | Printmaking |
| Murphy, Lynn | 6/28/2006 | Painting |
| Neuschwander, Cindy | 2/9/2007 | Painting, Drawing, Photography |
| Norris, Chris | 10/7/2006 | Painting, Illustration, Sculpture |
| O'Brien, Kirk | 6/8/2007 | Bookmaking |
| Oliver, Amie | 11/17/2006 | Painting, Drawing |
| Pelissier, Kiara | 8/29/2008 | Glass, Mixed-Media Art |
| Poole, Louis | 12/26/2006 | Painting |
| Quirk, Christopher | 1/16/2009 | Painting |
| Riede, Danielle | 1/18/2008 | Painting, Collecting, Collage, Sculpture |
| Russel, Mylow | 1/9/2008 | Painting, Printmaking |
| Salomon, Alyssa | 2/15/2008 | Photography |
| Samsel, Virginia | 4/14/2006 | Gallery Coordinator |
| Sanchez, Diago | 7/4/2008 | Painting, Printmaking |
| Savedge, Anne | 11/16/2007 | Photography |
| Scalin, Mim | 8/22/2008 | Mail-Art, Photography |
| Scurlock, Mary | 8/24/2007 | Painting, Mixed Media, Drawing |
| Seipel, Joe | 6/20/2008 | Sculpture |
| Shropshire, Jan | 1/1/2008 | Painting |
| Stinnett, Georgianne | 9/14/2007 | Photography |
| Stettinius, Gordon | 4/11/2008 | Photography |
| Tapia, Javier | 5/15/2006 | Painting |
| Trepanier, Heidi | 11/28/2005 | Painting |
| Vitiello, Steve | 5/18/2007 | Sound |
| Volk, Gregory | 12/19/2008 | Criticism |
| Watson, Sarah | 6/13/2008 | Painting, Printmaking |
| Wax, Jack | 11/02/2006 | Glass |
| Wilder, Hilary | 4/25/2008 | Painting, Photography, Text, Video |
| Young, Millicent | 3/23/2007 | Sculpture
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