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This week, Wes and Todd talk with Brooke VanDevelder. Brooke talks about art as refuge, inspirations, horror films, education, traveling, finding her voice, the role of illustration, editorial illustration, her folklore series, empathy, commissions, and the blessing and curse of being a perfectionist. Check out Brooke VanDevelder’s website at www.vandevelder.com Follow Brooke VanDevelder on Social...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Ira Sherman. Sherman talks about how he got his start in art, his mechanized sculpture, his series “Panaceas to Persistent Problems”, Chastity Couture – Impenetrable Devices, public art projects, jewelry, esthetic mechanical engineering & design, fashion shows, process & technique, Bitfactory, air muscles, flea market mechanisms, public art projects, jewel...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Talya Feldman. Feldman talks about her journey that led her to pursue her MFA in Germany, what the MFA program at Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg is like, the catalyst that led her to her current work that confronts right-wing extremism and imparts healing and hope, and how one can support oneself as an Artist doing social-political art.   Check out work...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Cody Kuehl. Kuehl talks about reassessing his art life during Covid, journaling, art festivals, creativity, work ethic, the origination of the Western themes in his work, contrasting the myth of the West with the reality of history, challenging stereotypes, narrative and storytelling, comics, influences, Bill Watterson, integrity and making better art, Red Wolf, t...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with artboss Co-Founders, Julia Rymer Brucker & Jessica Loving-Campos. They discuss how artboss came about, art schools and business education, art business mentoring, email newsletters, co-op galleries, empowering fellow creatives, workshops, pivot + polish, diversifying income streams, Covid and creative thinking, process, combating artistic burnout, children and...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Carl Corey. Corey talks about being a Documentarian, his interest in photography at age nine, his start in commercial photography, honesty and truth in photography, following your voice, the state of the photography world, editing your work, influences, process, rural life, photography books, publishing books, prints, galleries, portraits, one print for one month...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Paul Weiner. Weiner talks about infusing social commentary into his art, art and Covid, Covid lexicon, process, Instagram, art and the American flag, free speech, Pierre Soulages, patriotism, art as investment, collecting, zombie abstraction, gallery representation, residencies, Kehinde Wiley, pricing, and legacy. Join us for an incredibly informative conversation...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Mary Chiaramonte. Chiaramonte talks about narrative, nature, work ethic, her struggles with an autoimmune disorder, histamines, childhood, self-criticism, competitions, voice and vision, influences, mystery, death, favorite authors, and optimism for the future. Join us as we share laughs and ponder art and life with the phenomenal Artist, Mary Chiaramonte. Check o...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Peter Strange Yumi. Yumi talks about his name, optimism, exploring painting and technique, Art Historians and Zoologists, imagery, mediums, self-examination, photography, Eugene Delacroix, voice, process, routines, social satire, Autonation , Fruitland , roller disco, sex and sexuality, the unified mind, buffoonery, science fiction, Yumicorp International Studios...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Curator, Rose Fredrick and Coordinator, Krista Hanley of the Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale. They discuss how they have had to pivot to an online format due to the pandemic, how the Young Guns and Coors Western online auctions will work, virtual events, and the ongoing online artist talk series, Inside the Artist’s Studio .  The Young Guns art auction ends 1...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with the Artist, Matt Sesow, from his Washington, D.C., studio. Sesow talks about how he got into painting, influences, Basquiat and Bukowski, goals, saving money, investing, the 30-year plan, and how to go indie. Join us for a great conversation about art and business. Check out Matt Sesow’s work at his website: www.sesow.com To see Matt’s newest work, go to http://ne...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with the phenomenal Denver Artist, Arlette Lucero. Lucero talks about art sales during the pandemic, being a two-artist family, inspiration, being an Art Educator, trees, prominent women in her work, Carlos Castaneda, illustrating books, CHAC, Year of La Chicana, Hecho en Colorado, and leaves us with some great advice for aspiring Artists. Join us for a wonderful conve...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with A.L. Lummus, aka Amy Lee Lummus. Lummus talks about art in the time of Covid, pop-up shows, influences, art education, balancing family with an art career, the journey to becoming a full-time artist, pricing, artist statements, time, some of her favorite pieces from her new series, and regales us with a poem that she wrote for Bend the Iron . Join us for a passion...

This week Wes and Todd reflect on their first year of doing the podcast, what they expect in the coming year, what guests they would like to get on and then they are joined by surprise special guest and friend, Dan Drossman. Check out Dan’s website at www.dandrossmanart.com Follow Dan on his social media: Facebook - www.facebook.com/dandrossmanart/ Instagram - www.instagram.com/dandrossmanart/ @da...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with James Holmes. Holmes talks about lettering race cars as a kid, auto racing, his various business ventures, motorsports sponsor management, Cherokee Ranch & Castle Foundation, how to pivot during the pandemic, the incident that was the catalyst for him becoming an artist, his criteria for himself to be called an Artist, social media, collecting art, art advocac...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Eriko Tsogo. Tsogo talks about immigrating to the United States, being a DACA recipient, identity, art as calling, spirituality, art education, the various mediums that she works in, agency representation, residencies, Meow Wolf, social media, defiance, her diverse series of work, soap play, senses, Buddhism and shamanism, and the Mongolian Culture and Heritage Ce...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Adrianna Abarca, Founder of the Latino Cultural Arts Center and Curator of Hecho en Colorado at History Colorado. Abarca talks about her family history, growing up in Denver, identity, collecting art, and her vision for the Latino Cultural Arts Center, an integrated cultural campus in the Sun Valley neighborhood west of downtown Denver that will feature two museum...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Artist, Muralist and Coordinator of the Pueblo Levee Mural Project, Cynthia Ramu. Ramu fills us in on what has been happening in the arts community in Pueblo since the pandemic and the last time we talked with her. Ramu also talks about the things the Pueblo Arts Alliance has been doing to engage the Pueblo youth via various art and beautification projects around...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Artist, Director and Curator, Collin Parson. Parson talks about growing up in an artistic family, his formal and informal art education, the definition of an Artist, being an Artist as a profession, influences, process, George Carlin and Carl Sagan, his public art project for the City of Lakewood, and his favorite exhibits that he has curated for the Arvada Center...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Artist, Anna Kaye. Kaye talks about her solo exhibit, Heatwave , at Sandra Phillips Gallery, her charcoal drawings, her love of nature and science, her fascination with wildfires, environmental advocacy, Drop-in Drawing at the Denver Art Museum, aspens, Pink Progression, community art and activism. Join us for an enlightening conversation with Artist, Anna Kaye. C...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Artist, Jerry De La Cruz. De La Cruz talks about growing up in North Denver, being drafted during Vietnam, using his GI bill to go to art school, his early years as an artist in Denver, teaching at the Art Students League of Denver, art advocacy, producing Art Barn in 1987, owning a radio station in Pueblo, traveling and the Vern and Find series, Art in Action Stu...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Melissa Richardson Banks. Melissa is President and Founder of CauseConnect, a consulting firm, servicing clients nationwide on projects in the arts, education, and the environment. She is also a photographer that has documented the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles and is known by the moniker Downtown Muse. Melissa has produced, marketed, managed, and toured m...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Artist, Art Therapist and Psychotherapist, Kat Nechleba. Nechleba talks about growing up a military brat, attending art school at the Kansas City Art Institute, Art Therapy, Carl Jung, Psychotherapy, found object art, her various art series, Ruche Mére, the book she wrote entitled, This World is Strange & I Blame it on You , being kind to others and how to nav...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Denver muralist, Alexandrea Pangburn. Pangburn talks about growing up in an artistic family in Kentucky, horses, getting a degree in Animal Science, running a horse rescue, doing pet portraits, moving to Colorado and embedding herself in the art scene, doing her first mural at Crush Walls, and how she took an idea for a mural festival dedicated to women and their...

This week, Wes and Todd talk with Denver painter, Daniel Sprick. Sprick talks about his early years in Glenwood Springs and his introduction to drawing, his exploits into the outdoors to get out of the studio and paint, favorite artists, 20th century art, his portrait and still life painting, what it takes to be bold in the world of art, the importance of sleep, happiness, and his pursuit of beaut...