TALK ARTY TO ME

Jennifer Peart is a contemporary landscape painter based in Sacramento, California. She grew up in the nearby Sierra Nevada foothills where she developed a deep relationship with landscape and place. She studied drawing and painting through Sacramento community colleges before transferring to Mills College, Oakland where she received her degree in Studio Art. She then taught for over ten years in...

Ashley Ragan is a contemporary visual artist based in Sacramento, CA with a primary focus on movement, color, and intuition. Her paintings encapsulate a surreal body of shapes that challenge the viewer to discover hidden images and feelings brought up by one’s own subconscious. Ashley utilizes art as an emotional expression - a mechanism for transforming the spectrum of emotions into concrete bodi...

Jaya King is an interdisciplinary artist and California native who has been showing, teaching, and demonstrating her work since 2003. Her dynamic paintings marry the balance of technique while pushing the boundaries of texture and color. Her favorite mediums are acrylic and encaustic. Her love affair with painting extends far beyond the gallery wall and onto massive exterior walls with her mural p...

Keia Kodama is an influencer and Multidisciplinary Artist artist passionate about sneaker culture, style and design. Her work is dedicated to documenting storytelling through her everyday style and art pieces, including thrift hauls, new sneaker pick-ups and her multimedia works and exhibitions. In this episode we talk about her sneaker head origins, recognizing herself an artist, and all the deta...

This episode’s guests are Samuel Rose @samuelroseworld and Mallory Maupin @mallory_maupin, the duo behind Topstitch Production @topstitch.production, a soft goods production house and needle trade incubator specializing in community education, workforce development, economic enrichment and sacramento-based manufacturing. We talk about their origin stories, fashion, supporting growth of Sacramento...

We Are Sacramento ( @wearesacramento916 ) recently opened up The Gallery ( @thegallery_916 ) and event space at 1019 Del Paso Blvd and I was invited to be one of the curators there. So I wanted to share with you all a little more about the Gallery and have you get to know the other curators Gabe and Michelle! Gabriel Lopez ( @gsultimatic ). He is a veteran graff writer turned fine art artist and m...

Faith J. McKinnie is a curator and cultural organizer and through curatorial intervention and critical discourse, she interrogates visual culture with deliberate thoughts and notes on its relationship to post-colonialism, feminist & race theories, migration, land degradation, and the historicity of the personal narrative. We talk about curation, Coordinates: ICE PAC, and the great work she is...

Welcome to Talk Arty to Me, the podcast where we get down and dirty with the most creative minds in the art world. Join me, your host Uli Smith (@paintbyuli), as I satisfy your art cravings by getting up close and personal with Artists and their creative process.  Follow along for all the juicy visuals on IG at @talkartytomepod– and let’s talk arty!