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At Philbrook's Third Thursday Series: Artist/Illustrator James Warhola and "A Night with Uncle Andy"

Aired on Thursday, January 15th.

On this edition of ST, we welcome James Warhola (born 1955), an American artist and illustrator who's created more than two dozen children's picture books over the years. Warhola briefly worked at Interview magazine in New York City -- which was established and edited by Andy Warhol, his uncle -- before becoming a science fiction illustrator. As such, beginning in the early 1980s, he did the cover art for hundreds of sci-fi books, and he was later an artist and illustrator for Mad magazine. Two of the well-known picture books that Warhola has written and illustrated concern the life and work of his famous -- make that iconic -- Pop Artist uncle: "Uncle Andy's" (2003) and "Uncle Andy's Cats" (2009). It's these two works that our guest discusses with us in detail on today's ST (among other subjects). Warhola will also speak about these books tonight, the 15th, at the Philbrook Museum of Art, when he participates in a Third Thursday event entitled "A Night with Uncle Andy." This event begins at 5:30pm and is free with museum admission.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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