Good Morning & Good Evening Art Story Podcast

• Project Type: Professional Project with TOSEE ART EDUCATION
• Project Location: Online
• My Role in the Team: Main Content Contributor/ Story Teller
• Team Member: Keying Chen, Xiu Yao, Keming Sun, etc

This was an podcast project introducing prominent artists and artwork through stories to families with kids from age 3 to 10 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The good morning series were relatively shorter stories with merrier tones to generate energetic senses for the families to start a day. The good evening series were longer and more complex stories introducing stories behind specific artists, artwork, and museums with more soothing tones to create a peaceful atmosphere for sleep.

Some of my favorite episodes written by me are as follows (click the title to listen, audio in Mandarin):

Good Morning series:

• The Modern Master the documentary
• The museum inside books
• Is spring a sad beauty? (The story of Flora by Rembrandt)
• A painting with music in it! (The story of Broadway Boogie-Woogie by Piet Mondrian)
• Big Art, Small Cola Bottle! (The story of Green Coca-Cola Bottles by Andy Warhol)
• A revolution in art aroused by a porcelain urinal (The story of Fountain by Marcel Duchamp)
• Listen! The starry night is singing! (The story of Don McLean’s Vincent)
• Come and eat this sculpture! (The story of the sweets sculpture by Félix González-Torres)
• Look! So many cupcakes in this painting! (The story of Cakes, 1963 by Wayne Thiebaud)
• What? Peppa Pig and Picasso? (The story behind the invention of Peppa Pig)

Good Evening series:

• How to prevent separating with your mom? (The story of Cupid and Venus)
• Why the frame is empty in this museum? (The story of the biggest theft case at Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston, US)
• The unfinished famous painting (The story of The Family by Egon Schiele)
• Who is the girl in Starbuck’s logo? (The story of Siren)
• Who should have this meteorite in the end? (The story behind the Willamette Meteorite at the American Museum of Natural History)
• Can toys also be art? (The story of Alexander Calder)
• A hero or a badass? (The story behind La Mort de Marat)
• How to store your favorite colors? (The story of the Forbes Pigment Collection of Harvard Art museums)
• Why Egypt gifted the U.S. people an ancient temple? (The story behind the Temple of Dendur at THE MET)
• A “fake” ancient artifact in the British Museum? (The story behind the hoax caveman art by Banksy)
• The popular chow-suey in the U.S.(The story behind the Chop Suey by Edward Hopper )
• Why the artist’s suit was cut by the audiences? (The story behind the Cut Piece by Yoko Ono)
• Who is the artist on the Mexican cash? (The story of Frida Kahlo)
• Why Picasso loved painting bull? (The story of bull paintings by Picasso)
• Hemingway is a cat lover! (The story of Ernest Hemingway and his six-toed cats)
• A famous artist who was never born (April Fool’s Special: The story of Nat Tate)
• The mathematician who wrote a classic fairy tale (The story behind Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)
• How the little mermaid sculpture was made? (The story behind the little mermaid sculpture)
• The ‘Ugly’ ballerina! (The story behind the Little Ballerina by Edgar Degas)
• Why did Van Gogh cut his own ear? (The story between Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin)
• The Impressionism Series: Monet and his Water lilies
• The Impressionism Series: Renoir and his party scene
• The Impressionism Series: Pissarro and his Boulevard Montmartre
• The Renaissance Series: Botticelli and the Medici Family
• The Renaissance Series: Raphael and his hidden ruby ring