Ralph Fasanella's guest appearances

Ralph Fasanella

Art Works Podcast

Talks, Symposia, and Lecture Series

Your Rights At Work

John Adams

Kevin Young

Nicholson Baker

Jake Gyllenhaal

Tracy K. Smith

Danielle Evans

Lynn Nottage

Josh Ritter

Michael Berry

Sebastian Junger

Jacob Lawrence

Rhiannon Giddens

Frederick Douglass

Ron Capps

Jericho Brown

OwlTail

Broadcast on February 2, 2023 Hosted by Chris Garlock &amp; Ed Smith Ralph Fasanella, a former UE organizer who became recognized as one of America’s greatest painters of working-class life and struggle, passed away twenty-five years ago, on December 16, 1997. UE Communications Director Jonathan Kissam talks about Fasanella’s life, art and commitment to the working class.  Read his article here: Remembering Ralph Fasanella, UE Organizer and Painter of Working-Class Life and Struggle    Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.    @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @ueunion @domesticleft

Broadcast on February 2, 2023 Hosted by Chris Garlock &amp; Ed Smith Ralph Fasanella, a former UE organizer who became recognized as one of America’s greatest painters of working-class life and struggle, passed away twenty-five years ago, on December 16, 1997. UE Communications Director Jonathan Kissam talks about Fasanella’s life, art and commitment to the working class. Read his article here: <a href="https://www.ueunion.org/ue-news-feature/2022/remembering-ralph-fasanella" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Remembering Ralph Fasanella, UE Organizer and Painter of Working-Class Life and Struggle</a> Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.   @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @ueunion @domesticleft

Remembering Ralph Fasanella

Leslie Umberger

Blue-collar worker and union organizer Ralph Fasanella would have been 100 this week.  His paintings of urban working class people struggling and thriving continue to live on.

Blue-collar worker and union organizer Ralph Fasanella would have been 100 this week.  His paintings of urban working class people struggling and thriving continue to live on.

Curator Leslie Umberger on artist Ralph Fasanella

Ralph Fasanella celebrated the common man and tackled complex issues of postwar American political life in colorful, socially-minded paintings. Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget celebrates the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth and brings together key works from a career spanning fifty-two years. Watch Marc Fasanella, son of the artist, and Leslie Umberger, curator of folk and self-taught art at the museum, as they shed light on the artist's life, family, and artistic career.

Exhibition Talk - Ralph Fasanella- Lest We Forget