Episode 629: Listen as I chat with international artist, writer, & founder of The Working Artist, Crista Cloutier. Crista has done it all in every aspect of the art world. Then, at the top of her game in NYC, she gave it all up to move to Paris, France, with no connections, no plan B, nothing. I was especially interested in her mentor, Jaune Quick-to See Smith [check out my interview with the curator of one of her exhibitions]. Crista talks about how art literally saved her life. This episode is packed with great stuff!

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Episode 628: Sketchbook Skool Author & Artist, Danny Gregory thinks anyone can be an artist. He talks to me about how carrying a sketchbook can change your life. He has written several books on how creating a habit of sketching everyday objects in your free time will turn you into an artist and help you live your best creative life.

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Episode 627: Listen as I chat with Seattle artist, Hallie Edlund. We talk about her role at Artsy Shark, a business her mother, Carolyn Edlund created which provides business strategies and solutions for artists. Hallie manages their social media and their Youtube channel. She tells me how it all started and she also gives me some inside marketing tips. You don’t want to miss this one!

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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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