Halloween Art and Travel
62 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThis podcast connects artists and collectors of Halloween art. You will experience the stories and inspirations behind some of the best Halloween art being created today. You’ll hear from dedicated collectors who capture their dream pieces. You will add to your Halloween travel bucket list as we explore Halloween-centric destinations.
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Austin Phillips: Voice, Motion, Magic
October 30, 2023 05:08 - 54 minutes - 43.9 MBAustin Phillips, a skilled figure maker and expert in ventriloquist dummies, has turned his lifelong passion into a full-time career. His fascination with these mechanical dolls began at the age of five when he received a ventriloquist dummy from Santa. From that moment on, Austin was captivated by the artistry and entertainment value behind these unique creations. As he grew older, he honed his skills in figure making by experimenting with different materials and his dad’s power tools. Au...
Tracy Mahaffey: Carving Stories in Stone
October 13, 2023 22:46 - 53 minutes - 43 MBMeet Tracy Mahaffey, a talented stone carver and memorial artist who creates lasting stories in stone using only her hands and simple tools. Out of her studio comes gravestones, memorials, architectural work, and sculptures. Tracy majored in sculpture in university. At that time, she thought all memorial work was done by computers and sandblasting. When she found people making memorials by hand, she knew she had found her tribe. The low-tech nature of the job appeals to Tracy. All of her...
Sarah Band: Spooky Scientific Delights
September 30, 2023 07:03 - 24 minutes - 19.5 MBNorth Carolina glass artist, Sarah Band, is inspired by science, anatomy, and creepy stuff. As a sculpture major at San Francisco State, her ambition to create a large kaleidoscope led her to her first encounter with glass. Sarah was hooked as soon as she saw someone blow out molten material. In a craft medium like glass, the blower needs a strong understanding of chemistry. Sarah explains the process of using different metal oxides to create various glass colors. She also highlights the...
LeeAnn Kress: Eye Candy Art
September 13, 2023 04:14 - 22 minutes - 18 MBLeeAnn Kress, is the color loving artist behind Charmed Confections. Her candy shop of sculpted art invokes Willy Wonka, childhood memories, and Halloween magic. She aspires to evoke happiness and nostalgia in her collectors. Details unknown to collectors hold special significance to LeeAnn, like the number 13 representing her father's birthday. Art is not just about creating visually appealing pieces; it's about sharing a part of herself with the world. Every piece is infused with inspir...
Stephanie Hodges: Proprietor of Pizzazz
August 30, 2023 04:13 - 29 minutes - 24 MBStephanie Hodge’s journey into running an online shopping experience, Holiday Pizzazz, began with the simple desire to help collectors find their dream pieces. She experienced the supply and demand dilemma in collecting and decided to help fill the gap. She is motivated by driving availability of products for collectors and showing artists that their skills and talents are appreciated. Holiday Pizzazz carries artist reproduction pieces for all the popular holidays in the US, including a fu...
Joanna Barnum: Hauntingly Beautiful Watercolors
August 13, 2023 04:19 - 35 minutes - 28 MBJoanna Barnum’s world is one where her brush creates the macabre, bringing to life Halloween iconography, emotions, and fantasy using hauntingly beautiful watercolors. Joanna was initially skeptical of watercolor, but fell in love with its chaotic and expressive qualities during art school. She was also influenced by Stephen Gammel’s illustrations in “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.” Watercolor’s unpredictable nature has taught Joanna how to balance control and chaos. She likens wate...
Michael Robbins: Spooky Mini Magic
July 30, 2023 04:13 - 37 minutes - 29.7 MBShrink down and enter into the fantasy world of Michael Robbin’s Halloween themed miniatures. From humble beginnings collecting Polly Pockets, hear how a retiring artist’s gift becomes the catalyst for his artistic journey. Michael’s passion will inspire and delight you. Michael envisions his miniatures living in a friendly, storybook-like world where pumpkins, witches, and other magical creatures reside in harmony. He discusses the importance of facial expressions and storytelling in h...
David Everett: Spooky Characters for All Seasons
July 13, 2023 05:13 - 34 minutes - 27.5 MBStep into the magical world of David Everett, where spooky meets mischievousness. In a strange twist, a man who was scared of skeletons as a boy, now creates them with his sculpting tools. The unique name for his business, Chicken Lips, came from a family brainstorming session. David proclaims his spirit animal is a chicken and he loved the humorous angle of incorporating the expression, “as useful as lips on a chicken.” In his studio, you’ll find David creating Halloween and spooky twists...
Paul Haigh: Fantasy Born of Clay and Fire
June 30, 2023 04:08 - 37 minutes - 29.8 MBEnter the fantasy world of Paul Haigh, a chemist turned potter, who creates weird stuff for weird people. His work is a blend of his fascination with horror, mythology, science fiction, and games like Dungeons and Dragons. Ultimately, Paul sees his work as an escape from the real world. Paul is known for his face jugs, which are wheel-turned jugs with faces stuck on them. Traditionally, the faces are abstract or even cartoonish, but Paul enjoys making his look realistic. Originally fa...
Introducing Season 5 of Halloween Art and Travel
June 14, 2023 03:20 - 1 minute - 1.2 MBThis is Kristen Stafford, your host of the Halloween Art and Travel Podcast. This is where you get the stories behind some of the best Halloween art being created today. I’m excited to share my 2023 season with you – the 5th season of this podcast. This season, I’ll be releasing new episodes on the 13th and 30th of each month, from now through October. I’ll also drop additional episodes in-between those two dates, but always on dates that contain the number 3. Subscribe and follow in y...
Danielle James: Neon – The Brightest Art
October 31, 2022 02:21 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBArtist Danielle James (DJ for short), is conjuring up neon lights in her Durham, NC shop. Under the name Hex Neon, she creates custom work, restorations, and teaches classes. Her shop name and logo were inspired by the hex signs on Pennsylvania Dutch barns in Lancaster, PA. DJ studied metalsmithing and jewelry making in art school. As a student, she got the desire to make small wearable neon pieces. This desire took her to a neon company in Atlanta, where she discovered neon is a VIP pas...
Alycia Matthews: Painting it Orange
October 28, 2022 03:32 - 26 minutes - 21.4 MBAlycia Matthews creates joyful papier mache Halloween sculptures. Her process starts with a terra cotta base which gives her characters a distinctive warm vintage glow. She proudly declares orange her favorite color. She loves to wear orange clothes and Halloween socks all year. Alycia turns to old black and white movies for artistic inspiration. She can lose herself in studying all the wonderful props. She’ll watch with a sketch pad in hand to capture interesting facial expressions. One ...
Jeff Osgood: Painting it Black
October 20, 2022 04:36 - 1 hour - 51.9 MBJeff Osgood’s bold line of pottery features historic gravestone art that thrills collectors of Halloween, cemetery, and macabre art. His distinctive work is black and white, and filled with gravestones, skulls, crypts, willow trees, and epitaphs. His business name, Clay of the Dead, is a pun of the George A. Romano zombie movies. How did an Ohioan fall in love with New England gravestones? During middle school, Jeff took a field trip to Boston which included historic cemetery tours. Jeff...
Alyssa Thorne: Still Life Storyteller
September 30, 2022 17:50 - 52 minutes - 41.7 MBInterweaving her skills in photography, sculpture, writing, design, and history, Alyssa Thorne is creating still life compositions that will transport you to other worlds. Her photographs are heavy with symbolism, rich colors, duality, and flowers. Historical still lives have a language of symbolism that is easily decoded with a bit of knowledge. Alyssa is passionate about teaching this language and shares a little “Still Life Appreciation 101” in this episode. Still lives can document a...
Stephanie Sherratt: Producing Halloween Magic
September 22, 2022 02:52 - 23 minutes - 18.6 MBFor over a quarter century, Halloween art fans have flocked to Petaluma, CA to collect exquisite pieces from their favorite artists. The original show, Halloween and Vine, has evolved into All Hallow’s Art Fest. In this episode, you’ll meet the show producer, Stephanie Sherratt. Stephanie is driven by nostalgia. She loves helping adults relive the excitement of their trick-or-treating days. Stephanie has witnessed the importance of marketing on social media go from being a novelty to a ...
Sheila Bentley: Hags and All Things Halloween
September 13, 2022 15:38 - 37 minutes - 29.7 MBSheila Bentley is creating one-of-a-kind hags, witches, zombies...everything creepy and Halloween. While Sheila will create young hags, her heart really is for more experienced ones. Her motto is the more wrinkles the better. She doesn’t plan or sketch; she works intuitively and never knows who is going to emerge from the clay. The weirdest character she ever made was a rat witch with a human face. One of her favorite things is creating the small companions for her larger pieces. Sheil...
Jeanette Leary: Art Treats for Grownups
August 31, 2022 03:18 - 47 minutes - 38.3 MBJeannette Leary thinks of her art dolls as “little art treats for grownups who don’t ever want to grow up.” When she started Sugar Bright Studio she pictured a colorful candy store, but instead of candy, one filled with bowls of pocket-sized art dolls. After growing up in Ohio, Jeannette and her twin sister moved to Florida and commenced working at Disney. Her role as a backstage tour guide helped her grow her confidence and swept her into the Disney magic. Another favorite job was pain...
Dorann Nelson: Always Gravitating to Halloween
August 13, 2022 07:13 - 54 minutes - 43.4 MBDorann Nelson is a lifelong creative who found her artistic groove fashioning Halloween figures in the Appalachian Mountains. Her art took a backburner while she raised her family and worked as an interior designer/architect for the Department of Defense. Dorann worked on everything from designing a general’s office to expanding an aircraft hangar. She only had time to do art in the wee hours of the night, hence the name of her business, Moonlight Artistry. After years of career relocatio...
Joey Marsocci: Curioporium Creative Director
June 14, 2022 00:11 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBArtist Joey Marsocci is a story teller who uses the mediums of theme park and haunt design, creature fabrication, illustration, writing, acting, cosplay, and more to tell his stories. He’s passionate about building immersive experiences for those who enjoy his strange worlds. He is the Creative Director and Co-Creator at the Curioporium, New England’s Premier Haunted Shopping Experience in Hartford, CT. The Curioporium is an immersive, 5 senses experience (some say 6) brought to fruition...
Mushroom Muse
May 30, 2022 04:06 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBThe Amanita Muscaria is the most famous mushroom in the world. Even if you don’t pay much attention to fungus, you’ve seen them in fairy paintings, Alice in Wonderland, Super Mario Brothers, and as the mushroom emoji. Also known as “fly agaric”, they are found all over the Northern Hemisphere, August through November. The most recognizable part of the mushroom is its stunning bright red cap with white spots. They also have little cute white skirts on their stems and a bulb at their base. ...
Introducing Season 4 of Halloween Art and Travel
May 13, 2022 04:02 - 1 minute - 1.73 MBThis is Kristen Stafford, your host of the Halloween Art and Travel Podcast. This is where you get the stories behind the best Halloween art being created today. I couldn’t think of a better day than Friday the 13th to drop this preview of Season 4 into your ears. Did you notice my new logo? It’s evolved from its original US passport inspired design to one that harkens back to luggage stickers from travel’s golden age. Speaking of travel, with events coming back, I’m excited to add more t...
Isaias Hiram Urrabazo: Celebrating Life
October 31, 2021 04:15 - 46 minutes - 37.2 MBIsaias Urrabazo uses his diverse skill set to create stunning visual art that celebrates life. Isaias is an accomplished artist, singer, actor, speaker, and costume designer. Isaias is well-known for his elaborate ofrendas that he exhibits in Las Vegas for Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead (DotD)). DotD is a bright celebration, in which we wait for our deceased loved ones to return to earth. His ofrendas are jam-packed with marigold flowers, a symbol of the Aztec sun god. The smell of...
Jorene Lomenzo: Whim-spook-ical
October 29, 2021 00:39 - 48 minutes - 39.1 MBYou can be sure Jorene Lomenzo’s heart is racing in excitement whenever she’s clicking refresh in anticipation of a shop update or standing in line to get into an art show. Jorene is a Halloween art collector and blogger. “There’s so little in life that brings me this much joy,” sums up how she feels about collecting. Jorene’s superstitious grandmother sparked her obsession for all things spooky. Her grandmother believed her colicky uncle was cursed by a witch. If you’ve ever known a co...
Paskalini Savopoulos: Broomsquire
September 22, 2021 04:31 - 42 minutes - 33.9 MBPicture a broom in your mind. Did it have glitter and dried flowers on it? Have you ever even dreamed those were possibilities? Creative Paskalini Savopoulos (Lena for short), is obsessed with crafting decorative and functional brooms by hand. She recalls falling in love with a broom at a Renaissance Festival. She didn’t buy it at first – but she found as she was walking around she couldn’t get it out of her mind. When she returned to purchase it, she was disappointed to discover it ha...
Jennie Hepler-Takens: Sculptor of Stories
August 31, 2021 04:37 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBHave you ever realized that an art collection can have the same function as a library? All of the creations by doll artist Jennie Hepler-Takens are stories and her body of work is her book. Every doll Jennie creates tells a story. Sometimes she even continues to work on a character’s story long after he or she is settled into their new home. In this episode, we learn the stories behind some of Jennie’s past and current works. There’s a bearded lady, who gives us a glimpse into the lif...
Lurena Williamson: Passion for Textiles and Textures
August 13, 2021 19:55 - 54 minutes - 43.3 MBLurena Williamson of Tattered Moon, is obsessed with resurrecting antiques by transforming them into one-of-a-kind Halloween dolls. She’s an outsider artist with an edge of creepy. All of her designs are one-of-a-kind and created without patterns. Even her sewing machine, which “drives like a Porsche,” is vintage. Lurena commenced her career by working at a fabric store. She’s had a variety of jobs, even working for a technology company. Through it all, her soul has always driven her to...
Dennis Haynes: Halloween Renaissance Creative
July 30, 2021 03:20 - 41 minutes - 33.3 MBA “Renaissance person” has many skills and areas of knowledge. This is an accurate description of Dennis Hayes – he collects vintage Halloween, creates whimsical art, and produces art shows. His business name, Runamuck Studio, is a nod to his love of variety. Today you can find him sculpting with paper clay, building feather trees, and carving scrimshaw. His creative style is bright with strong influences of vintage Halloween. His vintage collection includes over 250 paper party hats...
JR Pepper: Professional Eccentric
July 14, 2021 01:35 - 1 hour - 54.4 MBProfessional eccentric, JR Pepper, combines her love of art and bizarre history into her entertaining lectures and spooky photography. She majored in art history with a focus on female surrealists. Today she is a Fellow and Curator, for the New York City Odd Salon, a non-profit that hosts curated talks on topics dealing with history, art, and science from 1950 or earlier. Pepper helps us understand that monsters are visual representations of our fears. Film serves as a medium to express...
Gravestone Girls: Cemetery Art and History Devotees
July 01, 2021 01:23 - 50 minutes - 40.2 MB“Keeping our dead alive” is the passion of the devoted Gravestone Girls (GG). In this episode, we meet Brenda Sullivan, the founder of this New England-based crew. Brenda, Maggie, and Melissa make history relevant through cemetery lectures and tours, genealogy work, and castings of beautiful gravestones. It’s no surprise that Brenda grew up in a family skilled in antiques, restoration, art, and history. Young Brenda learned how to do gravestone rubbings and to respect cemeteries as re...
Becky Kilimnik: Spooky by Design
June 13, 2021 23:40 - 51 minutes - 41.6 MBBecky Kilimnik fell in love with spooky storytelling during her childhood in the mountains of Tennesse. Today, she expresses this passion in her art, design, and podcasting. Listen today to hear her behind-the-scenes experiences of owning an art gallery, upbeat and humorous afterlife art collecting tips, and what it takes to scare someone who tells scary stories for a living. Becky owns a graphic design studio in Atlanta, GA. A few years back, Becky, along with family members, owned and ...
Sarah Boyce: Seasonal Folklore and Celebration
May 30, 2021 20:14 - 39 minutes - 31.6 MBSarah Boyce’s love of the autumn and winter holidays will expand your understanding of the passage of time and seasons. Sarah created Garlands and Gravestones to give her space to celebrate the folklore and magic of the spookiest half of the year. In many ways, holidays celebrate the seasons and serve as markers of time. Sun dials are just one example of a visual for that passage. Sarah loves history, especially ancient, medieval, and Renaissance. Who can resist being inspired by an Egyp...
Victorian Cemetery Symbolism
May 13, 2021 05:07 - 32 minutes - 26.2 MBWhat do you think of when you hear the word cemetery? Spooky? Do you think history and art museum? If you haven’t, you should! This episode explores some common symbols found in Victorian era cemeteries in the US. Trigger Warning: Grief, loss, child loss Some examples of the symbolism covered: Broken columns symbolize the end of life, usually one cut short Snapped flowers and buds symbolize a life cut short, usually a young one Empty shoes, beds, and chairs symbolize the ...
Sharon Bloom: The Joy is in the Connection
April 30, 2021 02:30 - 58 minutes - 46.9 MBSharon Bloom is a visual artist and teacher who LOVES Halloween. While her education is in painting and print making, today she is best known in the Halloween art world for her vivid Halloween themed hand-built ceramics. She enjoys clay because it gives her a chance to work dimensional. A life-long learner, Sharon is always trying out new technology, tools, and techniques. She’s had such variety in her creative journey: painting t-shirts at Nordstrom, painting thousands of cards and but...
Joey Marsocci: Creating Immersive Spooky Experiences
October 31, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 50.3 MBArtist Joey Marsocci is a story teller who uses the mediums of theme park and haunt design, creature fabrication, illustration, writing, acting, cosplay, and more to tell his stories. He’s passionate about building immersive experiences for those who enjoy his strange worlds. Joey knew he wanted to be in arts and entertainment since childhood. He loved watching scary movies like Jaws and figuring out how they were made. Authors like Jules Vern and Mary Shelley put his imagination into o...
Ellen Gee: Producer and Publisher of the Macabre
October 30, 2020 18:12 - 45 minutes - 36.5 MBEllen Gee has dedicated her life to Halloween. It manifests in her music and fashion choices, home decorating, and career. Ellen is an artist, publisher, writer, and event planner – all in the theme of Halloween and horror. Ellen has embraced goth since childhood. As a child, she identified with the strong female leads in The Addams Family and The Munsters. Lily Munster and Morticia Addams served as fashion muses to her. In middle school she fell in love with Alice Cooper and started dr...
Kristen Beason: Bright and Colorful Halloween
October 21, 2020 01:54 - 38 minutes - 31.2 MBKristen Beason is creating cheeky folk art for Halloween merrymaking. She desires to make the holiday memorable for collectors, friends, and family. Kristen traces her fascination with witches back to childhood. She enjoyed dressing up as Witchiepoo from the TV show H. R. Pufnstuf. She constantly drew witches on her handwriting paper in elementary school. She loves the illustrations in the children’s book “A Woggle of Witches” by Adrienne Adams. In it you’ll find long and lanky witches ...
Susie Krichbaum: Creator of the Peculiar
October 13, 2020 04:35 - 50 minutes - 40.7 MBArtist Susie Krichbaum loves to create peculiar creatures with a twist. Not satisfied to create a standard mermaid, Susie sculpted one and gave it anglerfish head. This desire to mix things up is no surprise given Susie’s career history and diverse arts and crafts endeavors. Susie started her career as a nurse. After she became a mom, she took a break from nursing to be home with her two kids. During that time, Susie was creating part-time and selling at local craft shows. Instead of...
Nancy Malay: Spooky Sweet Creator
September 18, 2020 15:40 - 50 minutes - 40.5 MBMinnesotan artist Nancy Malay has earned her nicknames of “The Christmas Lady” and “The Halloween Lady.” Early American Life magazine named her as one of the best artists in the country. She’s been published in multiple magazines, including five covers of Better Homes and Gardens Holiday Crafts. She describes her Halloween style as “spooky sweet.” Nancy loves writing craft tutorials. She strives to simplify the artistic process for beginning creatives and to help them avoid pit falls sh...
Melissa Belanger: Art Quite Contrary
August 31, 2020 03:28 - 48 minutes - 38.9 MBArtist Melissa Belanger's desire to be contrary is rooted in her childhood. Her mother was supportive but didn't like candy, Halloween, and dolls, which Melissa adores. Melissa created all of her costumes. One of her most memorable was cardboard butterfly wings paired with a snowsuit. Halloweens were often cold in her Wisconsin hometown. Melissa loved her time as a middle school art teacher. She pushed her students to explore as many mediums as possible and to focus on process over...
Sian Ellis: Ghosts Everywhere
August 13, 2020 04:21 - 55 minutes - 44.3 MBIn this episode, you’ll meet British artist Sian Ellis. Sian is excited to be a full-time artist after years working concurrently in charity events management and art. Sian’s favorite events to produce were Halloween ones. She organized a children’s event that featured the crafting of monster lanterns out of tissue paper and birch. Once the children completed their lanterns, they put fairy lights in them and paraded around to the beats of a steel drum band. One of her favorite grown-up eve...
Karen Steinkraus: Heirloom Victorian Witch Hats
July 14, 2020 02:47 - 49 minutes - 39.6 MBArtist Karen Steinkraus, of The Victorian Witch Hat, uses her experience in theater costume design to create one-of-a kind, jaw-dropping witch hats. Karen started by creating big Victorian hats for theater plays like “Hello Dolly.” She discovered it was a joy to make them. A group of women wearing crazy witch hats for a girls’ night out inspired her to start creating them for use outside the theater. Karen sews without patterns. This skill commenced in childhood when she learned to mak...
Tom Taggart: Making Monsters and Mischief
June 30, 2020 18:47 - 48 minutes - 39.2 MBA man of many talents and skills, artist Tom Taggart is creating monsters and myths. Tom has a long list of artistic experience, including comic book covers (including Batman, Swamp Thing, and Doom Patrol), toy fabrication, movie sets, mini-golf design, and more. A New Jersey native, he currently lives in North Carolina. Self-taught, Tom stands out because he always puts his own take on characters. He loves coming up with this own designs and stories. When he was younger, he didn’t thin...
Isaac Bidwell: Thrills, Chills, Monsters, and Fun
June 13, 2020 18:34 - 56 minutes - 45.5 MBIsaac Bidwell is a designer and illustrator. The inspiration behind Isaac’s business name, Pickled Punks, comes from side-show specimens that were displayed in jars. Isaac is into side-show gaffs, an example of one is the jackalope. He plans his road trips around weird museums and attractions. Isaac is inspired by spook shows. Spook shows started in the 1920s as live magic shows with creepy stuff. They eventually evolved into late night movies wildly popular with teenagers. All kinds of...
George Coghill: Life of a Monsterologist
May 30, 2020 06:06 - 50 minutes - 40.8 MBGeorge is a monsterologist who studies creatures, creeps, and cryptids. His web site is https://monsterologist.com. Ever since childhood, his radar has been on to look for Halloween stuff. He doesn’tremember a time he wasn’t completely obsessed. He would even put skeletons and bats on cards he drew for his mother. He dreamed of working for Mad Magazine and illustrating heavy metal covers. After studying art in school, he did freelance illustration. Unfortunately, he became burnt-out...
Kevin Buntin: It All Started With Clay on a Stick
May 13, 2020 14:39 - 49 minutes - 22.5 MBToday you’ll meet artist Kevin Buntin from Ohio. Kevin creates fantasy, seasonal, and Halloween based sculpture. Kevin’s childhood Friday nights were spent watching Indiana horror host, Sammy Terry. While watching the movies that gave him nightmares, he would create clay monsters complete with internal organs. After high school, Kevin wasn’t college bound, so he dismissed going into art as a career. Kevin worked multiple factory and labor jobs, including cleaning up roadkill. After her...
Amber Leilani: A Doorway to Her World
April 30, 2020 15:45 - 37 minutes - 17.1 MBMeet artist Amber Leilani, a creator of folk surrealist paintings and mixed media. When I met Amber, she was sculpting. Repetitive wrist injuries made sculpting painful for her. She discovered painting is better suited for her wrists and she is obsessed. Amber recently changed her main focus from Halloween and Day of the Dead to nature-based topics. This change was deliberate. She still likes to have her gothic look come through. One of her favorite things to paint is ladies with skull...
Amber Leilani: A Doorway to Her World
April 30, 2020 15:45 - 37 minutes - 17.1 MBMeet artist Amber Leilani, a creator of folk surrealist paintings and mixed media. When I met Amber, she was sculpting. Repetitive wrist injuries made sculpting painful for her. She discovered painting is better suited for her wrists and she is obsessed. Amber recently changed her main focus from Halloween and Day of the Dead to nature-based topics. This change was deliberate. She still likes to have her gothic look come through. One of her favorite things to paint is ladies with skull...
Nicole Johnson: Have Monsters Will Travel
October 29, 2019 03:54 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBMeet artist Nicole Johnson, monster specialist. Since childhood she has been drawn to creepy stories and things – she doesn’t know why. She jokes that “something’s wrong with me.” She wanted to make realistic art when she was a student. She tried religious art, but it ended up looking creepy. With experience she came to the realization she is better at making cartoonish art. She has devoted herself to full-time monster making. Her favorites are the classics like werewolves and vampires. ...
Gina Iacovelli: The Modern Legacy of Victorian Hairwork
September 30, 2019 04:13 - 35 minutes - 16.5 MBHairwork is the art of making jewelry and other sentimental objects out of hair. If you like Halloween or history, you’ll start noticing it at oddities shows, incorporated into Halloween art, and at historical museums. In this episode, we meet hairworker Gina Iacovelli, who helps us experience the sentimentality of this artform. Gina taught herself hairwork from Victorian journals and then created her business of making sentimental and memorial jewelry. She loves expressing the past in mod...
Zan Asha: Fairy Tales, Nature, and Halloween
August 31, 2019 21:01 - 44 minutes - 20.6 MBMeet Zan Asha, an artist who is blending fairytales, nature, folklore, and Halloween into her art. Zan is friendly, fun, and has one of the most interesting family and career stories I’ve ever heard. Zan has done time in corporate life, been a vet tech, directed a dance troupe, written, traveled, illustrated, and kept bees. Zan’s family is a blend of Hungarian (Slavic), Romany, and Middle Eastern roots. Her childhood was full of fairytales and folk songs from her parents. In addition to ...