Arts & Culture

The Art Of Seating At AIHA

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Sarah LaDuke

Published November 18, 2016 at 11:13 AM EST

The exhibition The Art of Seating: Two Hundred Years of American Design, organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville is currently on view at The Albany Institute of History and Art through December 31st.

In the show, the chair is experienced not only as a functional item, but as art -- with more than 40 unique chairs on view.

Public Relations Associate, Aine Leader-Nagy and Chief Curator Doug McCombs take us on a tour.

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Sarah LaDuke

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.

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