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Art Fight Podcast

133 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings

We bring artists, musicians, creatives, and combatants of all stripes together to have real conversations about the fight in art, and the art in fighting.

AFP is based in Nashville, created and hosted by Joe Nolan and Brian Siskind. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

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S3E9 - Terry Price aka Photo Ops

November 30, 2018 01:19 - 1 hour - 73.6 MB

Songwriter and Photo Ops music creator Terry Price talks making music in LA, Nashville, and the challenge of producing records. Nashville harmonica/lap steel man Jason Goforth guests and shares some found cassettes from an amusement park singalong booth. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S3E8 - Chris Zidek

November 21, 2018 16:53 - 1 hour - 77.5 MB

Good hang with friend of the podcast, artist and muralist Chris Zidek - who knows a lot more about crop circles than most people. Our conversation takes you from pre-Egyptian history to the gluten-free era, with lots of random stops along the way. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S3E7 - Carrie Cameron

November 08, 2018 21:13 - 1 hour - 68.4 MB

Carrie Cameron hangs with us and talks the creativity in the tattoo arts, what it's like to be on reality TV, and ponders all the reasons people want to get a tattoo. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S3E6 - Robin Black

November 01, 2018 23:45 - 1 hour - 56.3 MB

This week we're joined by the one and only Robin Black! Robin is a lifelong martial artist, a musician and singer, a former competitive fighter, and one of the most unique voices in contemporary mixed martial arts commentary and analysis. Robin joins us on the phone from the streets of Toronto, Canada to talk about how we talk about contemporary mixed martial arts, what we see at the evolving edge of the sport, and how his creative, insightful approach to talking about combat helped to inspir...

S3E5 - Mack Starks

October 28, 2018 19:08 - 1 hour - 70.3 MB

Songwriter, artist, and Nashville Public Radio digital man Mack Starks walks us down his path from early music industry success, artistic and human self discovery, and bringing it all together today with a new studio, and new outlook on creating. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S3E4 - James "Roto" Rotondi

October 20, 2018 18:37 - 1 hour - 87 MB

Enjoy our long form with musician, writer, and creative engine and friend James "Roto" Rotondi - a New York/Nashville musician, actor, journalist and critic; he's the former Editor-in-Chief of Future Music magazine, and his interviews and essays have appeared in Spin, Rolling Stone, Guitar Player, Mojo, and The Boston Phoenix, among others. As a musician, aka Roto; he is guitarist for Hundred Hounds; also plays w/The Cringe; ex-Air, Mr Bungle, and works with The Grassy Knoll and Spy Empire. ...

S3E3 - Brandon Donahue

October 12, 2018 23:19 - 1 hour - 58.3 MB

Is academic fine art something to learn, and then unlearn? Brandon Donahue creates by collecting and transforming with airbrush and sculpture mass-produced, publicly displayed, and abandoned urban forms like fallen street signs, basketballs, file cabinets, and hubcaps. Brandon works in the traditions of folk art, hip hop, graffiti art and occupies a space between low and high art culture. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S3E2 - Jay Dasgupta

October 02, 2018 22:38 - 1 hour - 59.7 MB

Writer, Director, and Producer Jay Dasgupta joins us to talk the perils and rewards in filmmaking, and gives insight into producing the new documentary about aerialist High Flying Jade, directed by his girlfriend Katherine Sweetman on location in Viet Nam with the Ho Chi Minh City Circus. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S3E1 - David Hellams - Crappy Magic

September 29, 2018 16:20 - 1 hour - 65.2 MB

Crappy Magic is an enterprise by artist David Hellams. It encompasses both Crappy Magic magazine, and the interactive exhibition series The Crappy Magic Experience. These projects work to imbue found objects with creative energy using various media: photography, self-publishing, video, installation, performance, and more. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S2E12 - Brian Siskind and Joe Nolan - Season 2 Finale

September 21, 2018 02:02 - 1 hour - 64.3 MB

We answer your questions, talk strategies for creative progress through looking at or into other pursuits, and break down our biggest artistic obstacles going into Season 3. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S2E11 - Ariel Bui

September 11, 2018 22:39 - 1 hour - 72.4 MB

Nashville music artist, educator, and boundary pusher talks the struggle of being an authentic artist while time jumping, genre shifting, finding her voice, and using it to having conversations with herself from 10 years ago. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S2E10 - Matthew Polly

August 19, 2018 21:32 - 57 minutes - 78.6 MB

Forty-five years after his sudden death at age thirty-two, bestselling author Matthew Polly has written the first authoritative biography of Bruce Lee’s life. A Princeton graduate and Rhodes Scholar, his writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Esquire, Slate, Playboy, and The Nation. He is a fellow at Yale University. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S2E9 - Michelle Brown

August 13, 2018 19:07 - 1 hour - 109 MB

Performance artist Michelle Brown aka @thefakehizofo uses her native Nashville as a canvas for activations, installations, happenings, and placemaking in the seemingly ordinary or forgotten places. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S2E8 - Sena Agbeko

August 06, 2018 23:14 - 1 hour - 88.7 MB

Rising prospect Sena “African Assassin” Agbeko speaks on his journey in boxing from Ghana to the US, the joy and struggle on the way to making to the mainstream, and his creative side as a novelist. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S2E7 - Chris Zidek

July 24, 2018 18:45 - 1 hour - 88.1 MB

Muralist and fine artist Chris Zidek takes us through his process, the challenges that come with his style, and breaks the big news of his upcoming solo show in Brooklyn. We also talked a lot about cars. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S2E6 - Joe Nolan and Brian Siskind

July 23, 2018 22:00 - 40 minutes - 55.7 MB

Joe and Brian talk artist residencies, creating music in the studio, and realize mid-podcast both Joe and Brian are speaking at the same Pecha Kucha event at the Frist Art Museum. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S2E5 - Steven Knapp

July 12, 2018 23:03 - 1 hour - 95.3 MB

Producer and Creative Director Steven Knapp talks the thrills and perils of filmmaking, content, film festivals, and how boxing and running are vehicles for understanding what's happening in your life. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S2E4 - Jayson Wall

July 03, 2018 02:01 - 1 hour - 97.8 MB

Zen and the freelance lifestyle, 3D printing, AR, VR, wrestling competition stories... JWall has it all for us on this episode! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S2E3 - James Perrin

June 29, 2018 15:33 - 1 hour - 68.1 MB

Like a storm front, James Perrin’s chaotic, densely textured canvases crackle with energy. The acclaimed Nashville artist deftly blends several modes of painting, including abstraction, realism and expressionism, and incorporates a vast array of imagery into his work, from CT scans and segments of classic paintings to photographs of retail spaces and his own personal life. (from The Tennessean) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S2E2 - Michael Weintrob

June 23, 2018 21:38 - 1 hour - 151 MB

Photographer Michael Weintrob joins us to talk about his traveling exhibition 'Instrumenthead' and shares stories he has lived photographing hundreds of the most iconic, legendary musicians and artists in the world. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S2E1 - Michael Shrieve

June 18, 2018 18:36 - 54 minutes - 50.6 MB

One of the most influential and creative drummers in music history, Michael Shrieve talks with us about training and retraining how to play drums with age, the challenges of the music business, and the opportunities in music and technology that keep him inspired and learning. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S1E12 - Ben Powers

March 11, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.1 MB

We hang with Ben Powers, a Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, and talk cerebral approaches to problem solving in combat, art, and life - and how to "gracefully bail" to work smarter, not harder. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S1E11 - Travis Vance

March 02, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 34.7 MB

We hang with old friend, master bass player/artist, Travis Vance to talk life on the road with Thomas Rhett, the strange quiet of playing stadium shows, and talk about what made Nashville special 15 years ago. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S1E10 - Donovan Salvato

February 23, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 34.9 MB

Johnathan Ivey's Cage Fighting Championships Welterweight champ Donovan Salvato comes by and talks with us about his upcoming bout, what fighting life is like, and how we became the champ. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S1E9 - Logan Nash

February 05, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MB

Logan Nash talks about the creativity in Jiu Jitsu, his upcoming bout, and the latest in combat sports. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S1E8 - Mike Kluge

January 28, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 34.5 MB

Feat. Mike Kluge, a multimedia artist based out of Queen Ave Art Collective in East Nashville, TN and Joe Nolan returns! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S1E7 - Nathan Brown and Eva Boros

January 22, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 35.6 MB

Nathan Brown is a muralist, known for his large scale geometric gradients, word collages and plantlike organic line work. Eva Boros is a curator, writer, and champion of street art and co-founder of the Nashville Walls Project. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S1E6 - Joe Nolan - remote from Arizona

December 10, 2017 08:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MB

Brian and Joe talk fights - everything from Max Holloway, Luke Sanders, and other fighters as well as new song releases, one of a kind art print books, creativity and the need to press forward. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S1E5 - Jeff Coffin

December 04, 2017 08:00 - 1 hour - 77.7 MB

Catching up with saxophonist, photographer, and teacher Jeff Coffin about playing with Dave Matthews Band, his experience playing with icons like Stevie Wonder, the creative process, making records, music, and life. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S1E4 - Brian Greif, Chris Zidek, Jon Buko

November 26, 2017 08:00 - 2 hours - 59.5 MB

Meet Brian Greif of Netflix's "Saving Banksy", Chris Zidek, and Jon Buko - all street artists and mural makers currently working on a 400 foot mural in Nashville’s booming west side - The Nations. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S1E3 - Ashley Burns

November 14, 2017 08:00 - 1 hour - 51.7 MB

This week we sit down with Nashville musician and competitive Muay Thai kickboxer, Ashley Burns. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S1E2 - Nieves Uhl

November 09, 2017 08:00 - 1 hour - 51.1 MB

Nieves Uhl talks about Nashville's printmaking culture, her love of hands-on art making, the role that art can play in fighting for social justice, and her love of martial arts which she discovered as a teen at a Muay Thai gym in Albuquerque, NM. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

S1E1 - Introducing the Art Fight Podcast

November 02, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 52.3 MB

Joe Nolan and Brian Siskind introduce the podcast and break down the fight in art and the art in fighting, and explore the parallels in creativity, struggle, and expression. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

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