Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz is a curator, lecturer and public art consultant with a unique concentration in public art policy, modern and contemporary art for architecture and the landscape in the broader context of cultural, urban and environmental revitalization. 

In 1968-1971 she founded “The Photographer’s Gallery,” the first gallery in New York City exhibiting photography as fine art.

She was Director of Commissions at Pace Gallery in New York from 1972-1982, implementing public sculpture projects with Pace artists.

In 1982 Joyce founded “Works of Art for Public Spaces, Ltd.”, dedicated to working with American and International artists creating major works of Art for Architecture. She is also one of the founding board members of ARTTABLE.

She recently established the Harold and Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz “Archives of Public Art” at the Fales Special Collections/NYU Bobst Library, of artists’ monographs, photographs and papers available for public art historical research. It now includes the archives of the Public Art fund and Creative Time.

In July 2023, Joyce released her book: “The Private Eye in Public Art”, published by Oro Editions.

On this episode of The One Way Ticket Show, Joyce shares her one way ticket to 25 years into the future to know what her two great-granddaughters are doing then.

During the course of our conversation, Joyce also reflects on:

·     Her lifelong love of art – particularly Native American and African Art - stemming from her visits as a young girl in the late 1930s to the Brooklyn Museum, the Met and MOMA (which she used to ride to solo via the subway)

·     Visiting the 1939 World’s Fair and the futuristic GM pavilion

·     The general role art plays in questioning and opening ones mind

·     The role of public art and how it moved beyond sticks & stones to the art of ideas and place-making

·     How public art shapes a space rather than fills it and how it provides a common cultural cue

·     How from the very start, Chicago got public art projects right

·     Collaborating with groundbreaking artists including: Louise Nevelson, Tony Smith, David von Schlegell and Isamu Noguchi

·     Creating the Irish Hunger Memorial in New York City

·     Arshile Gorky’s lost (then found!) murals at Newark Airport

·     Why artists are the only narcissists she’ll ever forgive.

On this Summer Special of The One Way Ticket Show, Host Steven Shalowitz welcomes Hollywood icon, Ann-Margret, to the program.

The Swedish-born actresss and performer has won five Golden Globe Awards, has been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammys, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards – winning one.   She’s been a headliner at sold out shows, and has 56 films and counting to her credit, everything from "Viva Las Vegas" to "Grumpier Old Men", "Bye Bye Birdie" to "Carnal Knowledge", and "The Cincinnati Kid" to "The Break Up".

She has worked alongside the great performers of the 20^th and early 21^st century, including: George Burns, Bette Davis, Elvis, Steve McQueen, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Jack Lemon, Claudette Colbert, Jack Benny, Sophia Loren, Jack Nicholson, John Forsythe, Anthony Hopkins, Carol Burnett, Anthony Quinn, John Wayne, Alan Arkin, etc.

In 2003, the USO honored Ann-Margret with its Spirit of Hope Award, named in honor of Bob Hope, her friend whom she performed with in Vietnam during the war.

In our conversation, Ann-Margret touches on:

• Performing with the USO, first in Europe as a college freshman at Northwestern, then in 1966 in Vietnam and back in 1968 with Bob Hope
• What she learned from Bette Davis while working on the 1961 film (her first), "Pocketful of Miracles"
• Elvis’ greatness as a performer and if we’ll ever see the likes of another
• What Bob Hope did for soldiers serving in Vietnam which revealed his caring side
• John Wayne’s kindness
• Why she loves motorcycles
•  How her drama teacher at New Trier High School told her at age 16: “Olsson, you’re going to be an actress in the movies”.

Plus, Ann-Margret shares how her dear friend, actor Justin Chambers, said he was going to create a perfume for her.  Twenty-five years in the making, the limited edition Ann-Margret Eau de Parfum has now been launched with all profits going to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

To purchase, visit: www.annmargretperfume.com

Jens Kurt Heycke was educated in Economics and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago, the London School of Economics, and Princeton University.

He worked as an early employee and executive in several successful technology startups, including one that pioneered the mobile Internet and produced software installed in more than a billion mobile phones.

Since retiring from high tech, he has worked as a writer and independent researcher, conducting field research around the world, from Bosnia to Botswana.

He is an internationally competitive masters cyclist, winning a bronze medal at the World Masters Games and top-ten places in other world championship events.

On this episode, Jens shares his one way ticket to a future America that fully realizes the melting pot ideal.

Plus, he shares ideas and introduces us to historical figures as outlined in his book: “Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire: Multiculturalism in the World’s Past and America’s Future”. These include:

• Ibn Khaldun, the 14^th century North African father of sociology who introduced the notion of “asabiyah”, which scholars have translated to mean “social cohesion”, “group consciousness” or “esprit de corps”, and how without it, a nation falls apart
• How a melting pot has always been a two-way process whereby immigrants adopt to the nation and the nation adopts to immigrants
• Soft Multiculturalism which fits into the melting pot paradigm where cultures are respected and welcomed vs. Hard Multicultural or Multicultural Particularism where every ethnicity needs to remain separate, thereby not allowing for a shared culture
• Examples of countries that adopted “asabiyah” to great success including, Botswana and Singapore and eventually after its horrific genocide, Rwanda
• Examples of countries that pitted one ethnic group against another to disastrous effect, including Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, and Sri Lanka
• Ethnic opportunists
• Questioning DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) programs and whether there are measures in place to quantify their success
• How ethnic unity promotes economic success
• History indicating how pitting one group against another is bad policy. 

Jens believes the answer to segregation isn’t more segregation, which he believes is a path we’re currently going down in the US. To remedy this, he calls for: Ending group distinctions, ceasing to pit one group against another, national team building exercises (borrowing from the “umaganda” example in Rwanda), and a type of national service program to foster social cohesion.