Latest Austin art podcast Podcast Episodes
Episode 79: Oen Hammonds - Design Thinking
Austin Art Talk - January 01, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"There is nothing wrong with failing. Failing is a learning moment. If you failed and you took the time to reflect and learn why you failed, and what you can do to change that course, and who can help you with that, most importantly, then you haven’t failed. You’ve just learned something." Oen H...
Episode 78: Art From The Streets
Austin Art Talk - December 05, 2019 22:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“My passion is around art because I know how wonderful it is to create. There are lots of fabulous programs for people to have food and shelter. Very Important. Very Important. But we as human beings need to have our souls fed. That’s what I see happening with Art From The Streets.” Heloise Gold ...
Episode 77: Rehab El Sadek - Transient
Austin Art Talk - November 23, 2019 18:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“As any conceptual artist you feel like you are a reflection of the people around you. It’s not like you do what people want. It’s more like you try to just feel, what is the concerns or what is the highlights of your society. And how to connect people. And how to connect with people. And that’s ...
Episode 76: Keith Kreeger - Objects Matter
Austin Art Talk - November 16, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"It’s always scary to stop doing something. But if you don’t stop doing something, you can't do something new. Every time I’ve stopped doing something other opportunities came, or I had time to try something new." Keith Kreeger loves clay. For the past 25 years he has dedicated himself to formin...
Episode 75: Karen Offutt
Austin Art Talk - November 10, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“My goal has always been to make a painting breathe with realism, but when you get up to it you can really see the brush quality. That is what I’ve always been drawn to when I look at work. That has been my obsession since I was very young.” Karen Offutt is a figurative realist painter and one o...
Episode 74: Susannah Morgan - For The Love Of Art
Austin Art Talk - October 30, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"The nature of the business is relationship building. With clients, with artists, with framers and installers. The people that make up this whole ecosystem we call the art world. Even people who come and pack the work and ship it, even they need to understand. Building up trust with all of these ...
Episode 73: Dave McClinton
Austin Art Talk - October 22, 2019 21:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“The things that I think people don’t understand or misunderstand about me is that sometimes when I’m hanging out with friends or hanging out with piers, I can't help but make a joke or a comment about race. Because it is literally always there. It’s just always there. It’s an odd thing to consta...
Episode 72: Fort Lonesome - Kathie Sever
Austin Art Talk - October 11, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"At this point what makes me the most excited about the business, is trying to figure out how to build something that can be a sustainable platform for a number of different artists. It’s so hard to make a living in Austin as an artist or musician. Being able to bring people in and have us all wo...
Episode 71: Deborah Roberts
Austin Art Talk - October 04, 2019 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"I’m going to continue to push my work forward. The work has always come first. It has to be the work, because it’s no good if it’s not. That’s my philosophy. I don’t push that on anyone else. That’s just always been my thing. That the work has to do what it needs to do." In this highly anticipa...
Episode 70: Beili Liu - Resilience
Austin Art Talk - September 23, 2019 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"There are all these pressures and talks about how do you make your career. How do you make a living? How do you make it sustainable? How do you be an entrepreneur as an artist. And they are all great sounding, very trendy. But at the same time I want to come back and say, why did you want to be ...
Episode 69: Women & Their Work - Chris Cowden
Austin Art Talk - September 10, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"I think artists are extremely inspirational people. You need a lot of mental discipline to continue to affirm the role of creativity and your voice in the conversation. That’s why I think artists are so important because it's just a really important point of view and perception in this cacophony...
Episode 68: Jan Heaton - Love, Gratitude & Family
Austin Art Talk - September 02, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“I’m always trying to be tranquil. I’ve experienced a lot of sadness and crisis and trauma in the last 10 years. I think there is a part of me that could have gone that direction and you would have been able to see it in my work. I have done some small pieces where they do look angry. But as far...
Episode 67: Sydney Yeager
Austin Art Talk - August 24, 2019 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"My most recent work there seems to be more of an embrace going on between parts as opposed to these diverse parts fitting together, maintaining their diversity. They seem now to be more a part of each other. That’s a mystery to me." Sydney Yeager is an artist who describes her current painting ...
Episode 66: GD Wright - Impossible Until It's Done
Austin Art Talk - July 28, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"I just think that we have a greater strength en masse. The more we can come together and support each other the greater our potential. Don’t build walls. Don’t tell people they cant do it. Show up for the people you think that you can, and you have the strength to." GD Wright (http://gdwright.c...
Episode 65: Brinston
Austin Art Talk - July 22, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“I’m not solely an artist, that’s not my identity. I’m not just an artist, I’m a vessel. You are not defined by your occupation. You are not defined by the person that you spend your life with. You’re a creation that’s meant for more than just being an accountant, or a photographer, or a painter,...
Episode 64: Werrick Armstrong - Faith & Inspiration
Austin Art Talk - July 13, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"All of us as artists have inspiration that comes from a myriad of places. I felt just through a couple situations that had occurred, where I had not intended to do something, that the art had taken a life of its own separate from me. And I had seen the positive aspects associated with it, so it ...
Episode 63: Taja Lindley - There's Work To Be Done
Austin Art Talk - May 25, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"I think more and more now people are interested in this conversation of the intersection of art and culture with social movements. Art & culture have always been a part of social movements, but being strategic with artists inside of campaigns and things that we are trying to move forward, there’...
Episode 62: Sev Coursen
Austin Art Talk - April 22, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"It’s about looking, and continually trying to hone that and develop an eye." Sev Coursen (http://arcaneworld.com/) is an artist working in multiple media including photography, sculpture, film and video. His work has been presented in exhibitions and screenings in the United States and Europe. ...
Episode 61: Julie Speed - Moments Of Clarity
Austin Art Talk - April 13, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"If I close it off then it’s not right. If you look at it and there’s only one answer, then it’s not right. So when I was talking about my older work, maybe it’s not technically good, but it brings up a question that everybody would give a different answer to. And not just other people. Quite oft...
Episode 60: Brooke Axtell - Beautiful Justice
Austin Art Talk - April 03, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"I feel that my capacity to create, in so many different forms of media, to step into my work as an activist, to speak in a very vulnerable way in the types of spaces I’ve been invited into, really began with writing about and sharing my deepest shame. And once I had finally illuminated that, and...
Episode 59: Elizabeth Chapin - Deconstructing Nostalgia
Austin Art Talk - March 21, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"I was aware of the culture I grew up in, but I was unaware of the cost for other people, and also unaware of the cost for me. I think when you are raised in a culture like that you have definitions for yourself that feel very comfortable and safe and you’re not even really aware of that. And so ...
Episode 58: Stella Alesi - Journeying
Austin Art Talk - March 12, 2019 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"When I was eleven I said I was going to be an artist, it’s just part of the process. You have to make bad work sometimes, it’s part of the deal. If you are not willing to make bad art then you are not willing to take chances. You have to make bad art to get to the good stuff. It’s just part of i...
Episode 57: Ariel René Jackson
Austin Art Talk - March 04, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"For me the success of a piece is if I’m able to create a weird sense of peace and disturbance to keep people there longer to sort of sit with it. Sometimes it can be hard because a lot of my work on the surface level you’re not able to see that research, you’re not able to receive that informati...
Episode 56: Koichi Yamamato - Making A Mark
Austin Art Talk - February 11, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"Failure or success is really subjective, and it’s conditional. The one moment I might consider a failure, I learned something so I guess since I learned something maybe it wasn’t a failure. By having those prints I will open up another possibility that I didn’t even consider thinking of. I think...
Episode 55: Alyssa Taylor Wendt
Austin Art Talk - January 28, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"As an artist you have to remember that you are always working. And you’re not just working when you are in the studio actually making something. You are working when you’re sleeping, dreaming, reading, looking at other peoples art, having conversations, and tripping over a rock. It’s all a part ...
Episode 54: Alejandra Almuelle - Revealing the Presence
Austin Art Talk - January 21, 2019 13:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"Seriously it's like being in love, staying in the studio." Alejandra Almuelle (https://www.alejandraalmuelle.com/) is a full time ceramic artist who creates sculptures and pottery that often merge traditional and contemporary styles and often feature the human figure. Her most recent and larges...
Episode 53: Seth Orion Schwaiger
Austin Art Talk - January 08, 2019 00:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"In a way you can use words as a lure to get people to think in a way that’s more expansive. To think in visuals, and in space, and in symbol that’s beyond language. To find meaning between words. So writing about art is really fun. Because art can mean things that really can’t be touched on with...
Episode 52: Sharon Bridgforth - Circles Of Relationship
Austin Art Talk - December 17, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"We need to not only find ourselves but we need to find a way to each other. It’s really hard to show up fully for others if you haven’t shown up for yourself. It’s really hard to have the hard conversations we need to have right now, so that we can move together collectively, so that we can tend...
Episode 51: Drew Riley - Gender Portraits
Austin Art Talk - December 10, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"One of the things that helped me be a better ally to other communities is to believe people. Generally you don’t need evidence to trust if a whole community is saying something. If a whole community is saying we experience this or if a whole community is saying this hurts us. Trust that they kno...
Episode 50: Tammie Rubin - Everything You Ever
Austin Art Talk - December 03, 2018 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"I think that the thread has definitely been that it’s all sculptural. I’m truly a 3D person. The idea and the making of the work kind of happen at the same time. Or maybe I cant identify exactly what comes first but I feel like I am pushed forward in the studio though making itself. Researching ...
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