Latest Austin art podcast Podcast Episodes
Episode 109: San Marcos Studio Tour by MotherShip Studios
Austin Art Talk - March 24, 2023 17:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsA quick interview with Jacqueline Overby & Courtney Peterson of MotherShip Studios, who are spearheading the inaugural San Marcos Studio Tour! We talk about the inspiration for the tour, the many mentors and examples that made it possible, the importance of group artist studio settings, what to e...
Episode 108: B Shawn Cox
Austin Art Talk - March 02, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“The more I know about me and the more I explore who I am and why I am, trying to be objective about that, I think that transfers into the work” B Shawn Cox is a Texas artist who is best known for his iconographic figurative western cowboy paintings on fabric, realized in vivid colors and pattern...
Episode 107: Anne Mourier - Mother-Nature
Austin Art Talk - October 06, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"We are fed with this idea that we have to be so much. And of course it’s not true because each of us has a specific talent or specific things we are good at. I finally feel at this place of my life that I’m enough. I’m tying to do my best with the little corner of what I know how to do. So my go...
Episode 106: Adrian Armstrong - Stronger Together
Austin Art Talk - June 17, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"I think it’s so important that we accept each other for our differences, and just come together like brothers and sisters. We’re stronger as a unit. We’re stronger together. Again, community is so important." Adrian Armstrong is a multitalented and multidisciplinary artist who creates powerful ...
Episode 105: Sara Jane Parsons - Truly Beautiful
Austin Art Talk - June 07, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“I feel like by becoming an artist it’s helped me to become who I am. And it’s helped me to accept my body. Not that I didn’t love my body, but going to figure drawing and drawing every type of persons body was such a powerful thing for me. To realize that every body really truly is beautiful.” ...
Episode 104: The Life and Legacy of Sam Coronado
Austin Art Talk - May 24, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAs an artist, educator, cultural activist, mentor, and all-around great human being, Sam Coronado, created opportunities for and changed the lives of many people before passing unexpectedly in 2013. One of his bigger accomplishments was The Serie Project, a non-profit serigraph printmaking reside...
Episode 103: Amy Scofield - Exploring Impermanence
Austin Art Talk - May 17, 2021 23:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAs artist Amy Scofield states on her website she is investigating the relationship between things. And the things she is working with very often are discarded objects or what would typically be recycled. The interaction between nature and the human-made world and our effects on the planet also fi...
Episode 102: Gladys Poorte - Nuevo Mundo
Austin Art Talk - May 08, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"Oh, I can still learn something from scratch, totally different from what I do in my world. I find that is so rejuvenating. It makes you feel good!" This week's podcast guest is Gladys Poorte. Her work for many people appears to be very otherworldly and fantastical, maybe even sci-fi inspired, b...
Episode 101: Tom Jean Webb - Being Here
Austin Art Talk - April 22, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“As much as art is about creating an object, it’s also about learning about yourself. My art has always been this tool for which I decipher the world, and my place in it, or who I am and how I learn and what I see. It’s the medium through which I decipher everything.” Artist Tom Jean Webb grew up...
Episode 100: Chris Rogers - Unconditional
Austin Art Talk - April 15, 2021 10:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“That’s my ultimate goal. When I’m done here I want to have temples built in a lot of people's hearts. Not, oh Chris was so awesome. But because I gave them something. Because I meant something to them. Because I gave them a piece of my heart” Wow! Can’t believe we’ve made it to 100 episodes. I ...
Episode 99: Manik Raj Nakra - An Ancient Art
Austin Art Talk - April 08, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"Out of the million brush strokes on this painting, I like his brushstroke. So it was worth the 20 hours I spent on it to learn this one stroke. Then I would take that stroke into the next piece. Then that piece didn’t feel right but there was a second brush stroke also that I liked. And then eve...
Episode 98: Brian Daly - Part 2 - Recovery
Austin Art Talk - March 31, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"I used to think I had all the answers. I believed it. I don’t believe that at all anymore. I have all the questions. I’ve got all of them. And I don’t really need answers anymore. I’m in it for the questions. And that pretty much rules my day, every day. Just endless questions." This is part two...
Episode 97: Brian Daly - Part 1 - Rendered
Austin Art Talk - March 24, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSometimes it can take a lot to ask for help. Artist Brian Daly realized nineteen months ago that even though he had already survived hitting bottom a few times before, this time might be his last. Through years of ups and downs, Brian acquired the skills to create almost anything as a fabricator ...
Episode 96: Nick Schnitzer - Creating Our Future
Austin Art Talk - March 17, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"Let’s continue to make beautiful things. Let’s respect ourselves and think about the future. Let’s make some money. Let’s be generous with our money. Let’s protect ourselves and the planet. Let’s be more responsible. Let’s be more grateful." Nick Schnitzer is very passionate about art and helpin...
Episode 95: Joyce Howell - Expressing The Abstract
Austin Art Talk - March 10, 2021 11:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAs an adult, after working many jobs in the business world and raising her daughters' artist Joyce Howell decided to go back to school to study art and eventually achieved her master's degree. She started out painting in a very representational style but in graduate school found the encouragement...
Episode 94: Valerie Chaussonnet - The Joy Of Life & Art
Austin Art Talk - February 25, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"For us, as artists, the pandemic certainly economically was hard for many people but I think we are probably better equipped because can we invent something that has not been done before. If somebody is used to having a routine and a certain structure and not used to inventing their life it’s ha...
Episode 93: Lauren Hunt - Glass Work
Austin Art Talk - February 10, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsLauren Hunt is one of the rare artists who works with glass, and she has been at it for over 10 years. After college she worked for 7 of those years at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York with the Hot Glass Show, on land and traveling all over the world on cruise ships doing live and educatio...
Episode 92: Kevin Ivester - The Art Of The Gallery
Austin Art Talk - February 03, 2021 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"I think that we are all striving towards the same goals. People are making artwork, galleries are showing artwork, and we all want to be seen. We all want to be making a positive impact somewhere. How do we move forward? I think collaboration is key ” What does it take to open an art gallery and...
Episode 91: Elizabeth Hendley - Expressive Therapies & Essential Workers
Austin Art Talk - May 28, 2020 01:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsElizabeth Hendley is an art therapist at Dell Children’s Medical Center and a part of what is called the Expressive Therapies team. We spoke back in March of 2018 and went in depth to explore her origin story, how she became a therapist, and some of her experiences working with children that illu...
Episode 90: Elizabeth McQueen - The Importance of Music & Art, Aggressive Positivity, & Transformational Songs
Austin Art Talk - May 19, 2020 11:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"What’s the thing that people turn to when you are in the middle of this confusing and terrifying time, and whats the thing that brings relief? It’s Art. It’s music, it’s seeing films, it’s watching TV shows, it’s looking at visual art. These are the things that can bring us out of all of these f...
Episode 89: Suzanne Koett - What is important to us now?
Austin Art Talk - April 28, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"Anytime I am stuck in life, I will usually do a project on it. Trying to understand, and just to try and move through it. It really helps me move through something. All of my work is basically things I am trying to figure out and move through in my own life" This interview is with Suzanne Koett ...
Episode 88: Living an Artful and Authentic Life - John P Weiss
Austin Art Talk - April 22, 2020 21:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“Don’t lose your authenticity. Keep honing your skills to become a better artist. Don’t just copy what someone else is doing, go beyond it. Find what really speaks to you in your soul as an artist and start doing that.” After I started reading An Artful Life by John P Weiss (https://www.amazon.c...
Episode 87: Fusebox Festival 2020 - Virtual Edition - An Interview with Ron Berry & Anna Gallagher-Ross
Austin Art Talk - April 15, 2020 11:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsFor over 15 years the Fusebox Festival has been delivering an amazing array of curated performances and artists from all over the world and bringing them right here to Austin. Since the festival will not be able to go on as planned as a live event, the organizers had to pivot the whole event onli...
Episode 86: Becca Borrelli - Sensitive As F**K
Austin Art Talk - April 13, 2020 22:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsBecca Borrelli (https://borrel.li/) is an illustrator, teacher, story teller, and part of The Lemon House (https://www.lemonhouseatx.com/) where she has her art studio, which will also be hosting an upcoming Process Over Product Art Series. (https://borrel.li/blogs/news) Becca also just launched ...
Episode 85: Brief Update March/April 2020- Going Forward
Austin Art Talk - April 12, 2020 04:45 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis is a quick update to talk about how things will proceed with the podcast after adjusting to the pandemic. Upcoming guests: Becca Borrelli/Illustrator & Teacher Ron Berry & Anna Gallagher-Ross/Fusebox Festival Photographer Suzanne Koett Susannah Morgan/SKM Art Advising catch-update Intro mus...
Episode 84: Adrian Whipp - Lumiere Tintype
Austin Art Talk - March 03, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"I think art for me has always been about giving someone an image that they can get absorbed into, and that takes them to a place that is sort of hyper-real. You know it’s not reality but you also can’t quite pin down what it is or where it came from. I see that in the tintype process as well. It...
Episode 83: Roi James - The Next Level
Austin Art Talk - February 20, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"I think it’s ok to be in a space of feeling lost at points in your life. That’s actually a great place to be." Two years on from our first interview, Episode 18 (https://www.austinarttalk.com/18), which I highly recommend listening to before you proceed with this one, I recently had the privile...
Episode 82: Naomi Schlinke - Being Mobile
Austin Art Talk - February 07, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“You don’t just believe in yourself, You behave in a way that you can believe in yourself, trust yourself. You have to show up. You have to show up everyday in the studio. You have to put in your time to make this unreal thing real.” Naomi Schlinke is an visual artist who after many years as a p...
Episode 81: MAKE YOUR SH*T - Rohitash Rao
Austin Art Talk - February 03, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"You know what, all that matters is that you find a way, however you have to do it, to just keep making your shit. Whatever that is. Just don’t stop. Any creative person. It’s so easy not to. Just find a way. Just don’t stop. You have to give yourself that opportunity. It’s a lot easier now than ...
Episode 80: Annalise Gratovich
Austin Art Talk - January 18, 2020 21:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"I have a huge interest in empathy and compassion and humanizing people. That’s been a big part of my work and my life." Annalise Gratovich is a Texas printmaker who uses a lot of different tools and a supportive community to create small to sometimes very large prints. She can often be found ca...
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