{"podcast":{"title":"The Block Club Chicago Podcast","slug":"the-block-club-chicago-podcast-3685203","podcast_index_feed_id":3685203,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/qM5NtVST","website_url":"https://its-all-good-the-block-club-chicago-podcast.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/aa4ffcac-b42d-405a-88cc-74bdb802736c/d147c78c-4d2f-4164-aa85-405ca9b96b7c/3000x3000/screenshot-2024-07-02-at-12-26-36-pm.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Block Club Chicago","episode_count":418,"summary":"The important, emotional, inspiring stories affecting Chicagoans. New episodes Tuesdays, Thursdays, or whenever a BIG story breaks.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T10:17:04.550113+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-block-club-chicago-podcast-3685203"},"episode":{"title":"Field Trip! The Smart Museum Celebrates Alma Thomas' Dazzling Abstracts","slug":"field-trip-the-smart-museum-celebrates-alma-thomas-dazzling-abstracts","published_at":"2026-05-30T10:20:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-block-club-chicago-podcast-3685203/field-trip-the-smart-museum-celebrates-alma-thomas-dazzling-abstracts","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-block-club-chicago-podcast-3685203","url":"https://its-all-good-the-block-club-chicago-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/field-trip-the-smart-museum-celebrates-alma-thomas-dazzling-abstracts-J1hA_icm","audio_url":"https://cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/4b67569c-9b51-4285-820f-a5244ab668ca/7295b7d5-e3da-4a44-8389-7abb62c35c0c/episodes/audio/group/d2b538b9-db9a-4bbb-afc2-051c68a33eb0/group-item/029f061d-85f4-4167-a47b-1a801eb13d4f/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=qM5NtVST","summary":"Alma Thomas (1891–1978) is a singular figure of twentieth-century American art. She developed her form of abstraction – characterized by the dazzling interplay of pattern and hue – late in life, after retiring from a long career as a schoolteacher. Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas draws on the extensive holdings of the artist’s paintings at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and offers an intimate view of Thomas’s evolving practice during her most prolific period.","meta_description":"Alma Thomas (1891–1978) is a singular figure of twentieth-century American art. She developed her form of abstraction – characterized by the dazzling inte…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1175,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-block-club-chicago-podcast-3685203/episodes/field-trip-the-smart-museum-celebrates-alma-thomas-dazzling-abstracts/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-block-club-chicago-podcast-3685203/field-trip-the-smart-museum-celebrates-alma-thomas-dazzling-abstracts.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}