Pinocchio Noses and Plug-In Halos with Ann Telnaes and Wendy Wick Reaves

Kim Sajet

Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's Portraits podcast 4 (11; October 4 2022): https://npg.si.edu/podcasts/pinocchio-noses-and-plug-halos

If you don't want Ann to draw you, don't be a hypocrite.

Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes says her profession serves as a canary in the coalmine for freedom of expression, a kind of oxygen monitor on democracy itself. When cartoonists are ducking for cover, she says, you'd better watch out. She also shares with Kim why she made the jump from Disney animator to thick-skinned political commentator, through drawing. Then Wendy Wick Reaves, who procured stacks and stacks of political cartoons for the National Portrait Gallery, explains why President Nixon with a Pinocchio nose is indeed a form of portraiture.

Ann Telnaes and Wendy Wick Reaves

Host: Kim Sajet, Director of the National Portrait Gallery
Co-Executive Producers: Ann Conanan and Justin O'Neill
Series Producer: Ruth Morris
Engineer: Tarek Fouda
Director for Audience Engagement: Rebecca Kasemeyer
Web and New Media: Deborah Sisum
Communications: Concetta Duncan, Karen Vidangos and Gabrielle Obusek
Graphic Design: Gregory Fisk (https://fisk.studio/)
Musical Theme: Joe Kye (http://www.joekye.com/)