March 2019

  • An Exploration of Neon in Three Parts

    My obsession with glass crept back in a three-part show about the magical world of neon signs.

    I spoke with Luis de Miranda, a philosopher and author of Being and Neonness, a cultural history of neon published by MIT Press.

    I spoke with Tom Zickuhr, a commercial neon signmaker in Madison. His neon signs light up businesses all across the city. We spoke at his east-side studio.

    And I spoke with Meryl Pataky, an Oakland-based sculptor and artist, and curator of She Bends– a national exhibition of work by women neon benders.

    Listen to the show on wortfm.org.