Episode 626: Listen as I chat with Charlotte Artist and Educator, Lydia Thompson about her ceramics work. It’s amazing how it all works! Her current project investigates landscapes and relics to learn about human migration and mobility. It’s a fascinating talk.
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Episode 625: Listen as I chat with Dreammaker, Terry Hudson. He’s a speaker, author and host of rBeatz. He helps creatives find & fulfill their callings. He tells me about his 20+ years in the entertainment industry, from pro-wrestling to music to coaching.
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Episode 624: Listen as Roland de Fries chats with me about his latest body of work, Everything Must Go, where he combines drawing, painting, & graphic prints outside of their original contexts to convey his message.
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Episode 623: Listen as I chat with photographer, painter, & jewelry designer Julie Corder about our ongoing show, Lady Orchids in front of East 8th Street Vintage. This is a LTAWB popup series with a featured artist on [nice] weekends.
In today’s world, women are called to be orchids; resilient and spectacularly stalwart. Not to mention delightfully charming… as well as stunningly beautiful.
Julie Corder has captured these lush flowers in photographs and paired them with her exquisite Picasso portrait paintings of women on display in her Lady Orchids exhibition at East 8th Street Vintage.
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Episode 622: Listen as Brian Rutenberg comes on the pod to talk about his current exhibition, The Wild South at the Jerald Melberg gallery in Charlotte, NC. Brian is part philosopher and part magician [his childhood aspiration] I love talking to him because I always come away with a new perspective on things.
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Episode 621: Listen as I chat with Stefan Kuhnigk…all the way in Hamburg, Germany! He is an illustrator who discovered the art of coffee when he spilled some on paper. Since then he’s been creating Coffee Monsters every day…& created quite a business out of it. Since my two passions are coffee & art, I knew I had to talk to him.
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Episode 620: Today I talk with Nicholas Kondroprias from PAN-ART, which is an innovative company that provides sort of prepackaged art exhibitions to venues. With several world class collections of fine art featuring, Toulouse-Latrec, MC Escher, Keith Haring, Norman Rockwell, and so much more. They provide the concept, the artist, and the ART. It is the ultimate traveling gallery!
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Episode 619: Listen as I talk to Asheville painter, Mark Flowers. Mark is a lifelong artist and teacher. He just turned 70 and came to the realization that he doesn’t want to play the art game of selling. He wants to focus his efforts on projects that he cares about. He is holding a final exhibition in Asheville called Making Space at Little Animals Space in Asheville, NC. All of the proceeds will go to the gallery. We talk about his long career; the priorities, the highlights, and why he made this decision.
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Episode 618: Listen as I chat with Chadric Devin of the Columbia Museum of Art, where he’s the director of learning and engagement. I wanted to hear about Keith Haring’s Radiant Vision exhibition. We talk about his work, his beginnings on the subways of NYC, his belief that art should be accessible to everyone, and much more. You will definitely want to see it in person. It goes until February 15, 2026.
Episode 617: Listen as I chat with Karley & Tanya, two best friends & owners of the newly opened neighborhood gift store, Wiloe. From local art, to cards, to bath soaps, to books, Wiloe has you covered. I chat about why they decided to leave corporate jobs for entrepreneurship, their love of ART, & what else they’ve got going on.
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