The Variety Pack Podcast

Learn how to master performance art and connect with modern audiences in this conversation with Gabe Cole-Brant and Chanel Sampson. Host Chloe Baldwin sits down with guests Gabe Cole-Brant and Chanel Sampson to discuss the evolving landscape of performance art. This episode explores the practical challenges artists face when trying to capture the attention of a distracted, modern audience. By anal...

What are the essentials of preparing a space for awe? When do you choose to control and let go? How do you tackle the biggest project you've ever done? ...and how does that apply to tupperware bins? April Jennifer Choi is a 24-time Guinness World Record holder in whips and circus arts. She is also an aerospace engineer for NASA. Her highest expertise is in the physics of whip performance and t...

What does it mean for art to truly matter? In this episode, we dive deep into one of the most important questions facing artists today: how can creative work make a real impact in a world overflowing with noise, complexity, and crisis, both personal and collective? Joining us are two extraordinary guests whose careers sit at the intersection of art and healing. Kate Smith is a Chicago-based multid...

In this second episode, host Chloe Baldwin (“Christian Rock”) sits down with two fellow drag artists, Viv Gould (“Watson Side”) and Kyle Cragle (“Scarlett Business”). We cover everything from finding artistic practices you have to grow into to the relationship between “drag” and “clown” to what audiences expect in different cities. Guests: Viv Gould @watson.side on Instagram Kyle Cragle @scarlettb...

In this inaugural episode, Chloe Baldwin sits down with Andi Gladwin & Erik Tait, two creatively comedic magicians who bridge business and art in their own performances and in their work with magic publishers Vanishing Inc. & Penguin Magic, respectively. We're coming right out the gate with with this collaborative conversation that spans everything from 10,000 hours of practice to navigati...