Welcome to Art Yap, where host Shawna Vesco Ahern gabs, gossips, and otherwise chitchats with San Francisco Bay Area arts and culture baddies about how they build community through creativity—and the winding, unpredictable paths that led them here.

Guests bring fresh takes on curation, arts project management, community programming, funding, legislation, marketing, and more—whether they’re reimagining museums, running collaborative book projects, framing Asawas, or curating in unexpected places. From the SF Arts Commission to SFMOMA, from Recology SF to the Peninsula Book Collaborative, Art Yap is where the Bay’s creative ecosystem comes to talk shop, spill stories, and dream out loud.

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Featuring arts and culture professionals from:
Fine Arts Museums SF
SF Arts Commission
Stanford's Cantor Arts Center
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SFMOMA
SFO Museum
Peninsula Book Collaborative
Recology SF
Orion Custom Framing
San Mateo County Arts Education

...and many more!


Original artwork featured in the logo by C.S. McIntire
Original music intro by The Jonah Kit
Episode music from mobygratis

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