Scroll down to read info about Sculptcast’s host, pro­ducer and asso­ciate producer.

Host

Joe Bologna hosts Sculpt­cast Con­ver­sa­tions, bring­ing more than 30 years of expe­ri­ence in archi­tec­ture, ceram­ics, and sculp­ture to con­ver­sa­tions with artists, design­ers, gallery own­ers, sup­pli­ers and more.  He is a long­time mem­ber of the Pacific Rim Sculp­tors Group and the Inter­na­tional Sculp­tor Cen­ter.  Bologna his curated sculp­ture shows in the San Fran­cisco Bay Area.

He builds his own metal sculp­tures from found objects he col­lects and stores in a large and impres­sive pile, and has exhib­ited his work through­out the San Fran­cisco Bay Area and at Art Prize in Grand Rapids, Mich.

“Steel,” Bologna says, “is one of my favorite mate­ri­als for its strength, color, tex­ture, and will­ing­ness to reincarnate.”

Visit Joe’s sculp­ture web­site.

Pro­ducer

Cheryl Bowlan serves as Sculptcast’s writer, sound recorder, edi­tor, pho­tog­ra­pher, web­mas­ter, and producer.

She has spent more than three decades in the jour­nal­ism, com­mu­ni­ca­tions, design, and mul­ti­me­dia fields.  Her back­ground includes writ­ing for major mag­a­zines and news­pa­pers; shoot­ing, edit­ing and pro­duc­ing videos for the Web; pho­tog­ra­phy; and sound pro­duc­tion. Bowlan’s videos about art and dis­abil­ity have been screened at film fes­ti­vals.  Her pro­file of a dis­abled painter aired on KALW pub­lic radio in San Fran­cisco and is avail­able on the Pub­lic Radio Exchange.

Bowlan has been inter­ested in art and artists her entire life and earned her under­grad degree in stu­dio arts, later study­ing jour­nal­ism for her grad­u­ate degree.

Asso­ciate Producer

John Toki is well known in the San Fran­cisco Bay Area art com­mu­nity as an estab­lished sculp­tor, pres­i­dent of Leslie Ceram­ics Sup­ply, resource to many artists and a leader in build­ing com­mu­nity.  He’s the co-director of the Ceram­ics Annual of Amer­ica and has been awarded art res­i­den­cies at the Kohler Arts Cen­ter, Euro­pean Ceram­ics Work­cen­tre and, with Stephen DeStae­bler, the Water­shed School of the Ceramic Arts.

His sculp­tures have been exhib­ited in pub­lic spaces, muse­ums and gal­leries through­out Cal­i­for­nia as well as Mary­land, Ari­zona, and Wisconsin.

Toki has taught ceram­ics and sculp­ture at Cal­i­for­nia Col­lege of the Arts, where he earned his MFA, the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley, and San Fran­cisco State University.

He is also the co-author with Char­lotte Speight of sev­eral notable books on ceram­ics for begin­ners and artists

Click to lis­ten to a Sculpt­cast inter­view with John Toki.