Latest Austin art Podcast Episodes
Episode 49: Darden Smith - The Habit Of Noticing
Austin Art Talk - November 17, 2018 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"Getting in the habit of noticing is what is essential to actually being an artist. You have to first off get in the habit seeing things and noticing. It's not only visually seeing, it’s hearing, and listening, and tasting and using your senses. Wake up and think, what am I going to notice today,...
Episode 48: Randal Ford - The Animal Kindgom
Austin Art Talk - October 27, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“We have literally been depicting animals since we could make artwork, since we could paint on the walls of caves. It’s pretty much across every culture and civilization in history, animals have been part of artwork that’s been created. I just found that so fascinating and when I was thinking abo...
Episode 47: Maura Grace Ambrose - Folk Fibers
Austin Art Talk - October 22, 2018 01:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"Being a parent I can relate. I know what it’s like now to not be able to work on projects that I want to work on. And those are like real life obstacles, whether it’s a day job, or a sick family member, or a young child that needs taken care of. There are a lot of obstacles in our life that keep...
Episode 46: Shawn Camp - Dualities of Existence
Austin Art Talk - October 12, 2018 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"A single object can be these extremely different things depending on the context. When the lights are bright in the gallery a whole bunch of what that painting is becomes completely obscured, it’s not even present at all or barely visible or not even there. And when the lights cycle off it's the...
Episode 45: Dameon Lester - Serene Disturbance
Austin Art Talk - October 06, 2018 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"I had never been to a glacier. I had this vision of them being these giant massive things that were just there. I never really thought about how much of a living organism they are. Growing and retreating, melting, and expanding and changing. When we went on hikes on the glacier the pathway chang...
Episode 44: Vy Ngo - Present In This Moment
Austin Art Talk - September 24, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"We are all connected. We need to be a village for each other and raise and support each other through everything. Being in the art community what I have found is that I've finally found my tribe. I found my tribe in the people that understand the emotional roller coaster ride of being an artist ...
Episode 43: Vincent Valdez - The Beginning is Near
Austin Art Talk - September 17, 2018 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"These images like murals are images that can speak to people and that people can identify with. You don’t have to be from a certain background or certain city or community or ethnicity or political belief or religious belief. These are my visual memorials to the epic and endless struggle of the ...
Episode 42: Marjorie Moore - Drawn from Nature
Austin Art Talk - September 08, 2018 22:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“I don’t remember what artist said this but I’ve always liked this. She said ‘There are no dumb ideas.’ And I always keep that in my head. Maybe you are not going like it when you get to that point of is this done or isn’t or who cares. You have to try it. You have to see where it goes. That’s wh...
Episode 41: Valerie Fowler - Layers of Meaning
Austin Art Talk - August 25, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"For me it only becomes an artwork if it has the potential to have a lot of layers of meaning. I have my themes that I always want to emphasize and I’m always looking for ways buoy those themes and so I’m on the look out. The aesthetics are never the thing that get me. It’s if there is something ...
Episode 40: John Paul Caponigro - Find Your Way
Austin Art Talk - August 18, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"You really need to define success for yourself, separately from the reactions of other people. If you are waiting to publish the book or get collected by museum X or all of those things that depend on other people, you need to reframe success for yourself. You can't control them nor should you r...
Episode 39: Caitlin G McCollom - Following My Vision
Austin Art Talk - August 06, 2018 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"You have to cultivate your own ability to be inspired. As I become more mature as an artist its how do I create the circumstances to cultivate the mood and the mental state I need to be in to really connect with my vision as an artist." Four years ago when she hit a low point in her life, artis...
Episode 38: Claude Van Lingen
Austin Art Talk - July 31, 2018 02:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“My advice would be to work as hard as you can on your work and get interested. Use anything you can, get hold of anything you can. Study that and work at it. You have to work at it a lot. Research, do your work, and get as much knowledge as you can from as many people as you can. That’s about i...
Episode 37: Pooneh Ghana - For the Love of Music
Austin Art Talk - July 21, 2018 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"It’s easy to get stagnant with what you are doing. I just want to keep staying motivated and keep getting better. But also just not being so hard on myself. It’s easy to be your own worst critic and just think everything you are doing is horrible and getting in those ruts. But to be able to just...
Episode 36: William T. Carson & Rebecca Rothfus Harrell - SOURCE MATERIAL
Austin Art Talk - July 16, 2018 00:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“In one of our early meetings I expressed to Rebecca that I was having some confusion around how do I continue to present things and ideas that I have worked on in the past. Working with this material of coal but also introduce something new and explore new territory. She really didn’t hesitate a...
Episode 35: Madeline Irvine - Naturally Curious
Austin Art Talk - July 08, 2018 04:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"I just love learning from the work. Just leaving it open and learning. It’s part of my being in the world. I try to be patient with myself and my artwork. There were years where it felt like it didn’t connect to the larger art world. But I just had to keep working. And I think you never know wha...
Episode 34: Dawn Okoro - Punk Noir
Austin Art Talk - June 23, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"For me authenticity is being truthful, and just allowing yourself to be vulnerable." "I express myself through fashion by just letting it flow and just walking into my closet and kind of treating it like a palette and just wearing what I feel and grabbing pieces that I feel work for me instinct...
Episode 33: Paul Soileau
Austin Art Talk - June 16, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"It’s not easy but for me it’s very enjoyable to put on these wigs and be these people. One mainly because I am an entertainer and I like to entertain people and I like what these characters do to people, and to me. But then in a deeper sense I’m very much exploring and reclaiming a lot things ab...
Episode 32: Laura Caffrey - Reject/Respect
Austin Art Talk - June 09, 2018 19:45 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"I am generally not thinking about what it means because I don’t know that I am imbuing it with any particular sort of meaning. I’m more inclined to let the viewer take what they want from it. I’m not generally sending a message. Except, look at this amazing old stuff. That is the message. Look a...
Episode 31: Charles Heppner - Moved by Beauty
Austin Art Talk - June 03, 2018 17:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“This is what I want, this is what makes me fulfilled, is to make work. I need to do that. In order to go further, in order to grow, as an artist you have to do! You can’t ask why all the time. You can ask why later.” Visual artist Charles Heppner’s work spans many different mediums and has many...
Episode 30: Jason Phelps - The Creative Self
Austin Art Talk - May 26, 2018 10:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"Who are the people in your life that inspire you, that support you, that you can connect with on a regular basis, to keep that creative spirit going, to inspire you to explore things that you maybe never have?" "If you have something that lights your fire, that really inspires you, find a way t...
Episode 29: America Martin - It's Not Enough Just to Look
Austin Art Talk - May 19, 2018 21:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"The way that I look at things, anything, even this big storm brewing outside, I feel like my eyes aren’t acknowledging it enough. I feel almost restless that I’m not able to look at it and be satisfied. I want to capture it again. I want to hold the moment again through my hand or a gesture of t...
Episode 28: Elizabeth Chiles - Weave
Austin Art Talk - May 12, 2018 21:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"What are the sensual takeaways from being in a place? When I think about how it feels to be lying in my backyard in the hammock watching the pecan trees it's not static images of green leaves. It's spectral light, it's rainbow light moving through. It has pink and it has orange and it has all o...
Episode 27: Faustinus - El Subconsciente
Austin Art Talk - May 05, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"We all are photographers. Everybody will have their own excuses to take photos. But to me just being able to keep shooting I think it is already in my veins, in my mind, in my heart, in my soul." Photographer Faustinus Deraet (http://www.faustinusderaet.com/) learns more about himself every tim...
Episode 26: Karen Hawkins - The Pink Bow Project
Austin Art Talk - April 29, 2018 22:30 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"I am just grateful that people are finding this as an outlet to be able to say that this happened to them. As a way of walking through and finding some semblance of healing in it or using it as their very first outcry. There are people who have reached out to me who have never told anyone else……...
Episode 25: Jenn Hassin - A Life Of Service
Austin Art Talk - April 22, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"If everyone that wants to make a difference, just started making and taking those steps to actually make a difference, then imagine the world we would live in. I think that doing good today is invaluable and we need it. Just do it. Just start. Just take the necessary steps to make it happen." ...
Episode 24: AKIRASH
Austin Art Talk - April 14, 2018 16:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"People they are the cloth that protect me, that cover me. Without them, I’m nothing, I can't do anything. So they take me to this level. They should not leave me here. They should continue. Be behind me. Be forward. Be at the back. Be at the side. And I will also do my best and continue to be th...
Episode 23: Ron Berry - Fusebox Festival
Austin Art Talk - April 08, 2018 01:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"Within our festival there’s space for really different kinds of expression of art, and some of those are perhaps harder immediately to relate to. But we’re holding space for those artists to challenge things, to experiment, to tinker. To help us as people, as artists, think about things in new w...
Episode 22: Elizabeth Hendley - The Power of Art Therapy
Austin Art Talk - March 31, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“Giving people compassion and respect, it just goes such a long way to healing. You never know what somebody is going through or what could happen in their lives.” A lot of people don’t know what art therapy is but for those who do they probably understand and appreciate its power and potential....
Episode 21: Natalia Sylvester - Everyone Knows You Go Home
Austin Art Talk - March 24, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“We all have creativity in us and we’re all very imaginative people but we also have all these voices that tell us we’re not. I just don’t give myself credit for it. I don’t think any of us do.” Novelist Natalia Sylvester (https://www.nataliasylvester.com/) says of her most recent book, she is w...
Episode 20: Griffon Ramsey - Chainsaw Art
Austin Art Talk - March 17, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"That's the thing that got me excited about being creative is that you start with nothing and then something happens. We have so much power as creatives." If you get to the point in your artistic career where you are invited to help carve and build a church and sculptures out of ice in Slovakia f...
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