The Art Box

Jane Tolar creates baskets inspired by Gullah sweetgrass and Native American pine needle baskets, both ancient traditions of coiled and stitched natural materials.  Jane uses pine needles and grasses, the coils bound with thread or cord. Jane urges you to touch her art, saying “I would like everyone to pick up a basket, then feel its textures and inhale its scent. I want people to look at my work...

Getting our musical art on last week, we invited Skip Anderson (Batman) and Julie (a.k.a. Robin) into our STEAM Center studio for an ultra fun chat about all things growing up music. Skip is the lead guitarist for the Terry Wayne Project, quite often playing at the Casablanca. We laughed and learned alot about the ins and outs of this amazing lifelong musician.  Click here to visit Skip on his Ins...

Linda and Steve were over the moon recently when Cory Clemetson dropped by the studio for an interview. Cory and his brother Chad are owners of one of the top golf courses in the world, Wolf Creek in Mesquite, Nevada . Besides golf Cory is the newly named head basketball coach at Wardlaw+Hartridge School located in Edison, New Jersey,  Cory and Chad founded Kids For Sports , a 501C3 organization t...

Enjoy a recent sit-down Linda and Steve had with Mesquite, Nevada mayor Allan Litman. We talk Lahaina, local disaster preparedness, housing, loving your job and of course Trader Joe's.  The emergency alert app the mayor discussed. NIXLE https://www.nixle.com/

Steve's new favorite podcast "Night Sky Tourist" host Vickey Derksen graciously was our guest for a super-duper interview chatting about dark skies, home schooling, US Rt. 89, light polution and of course podcasting. Vicky Derksen Night Sky Tourist Bio Vicky Derksen fell in love with the night sky while teaching naked-eye astronomy to local students in Fountain Hills, Arizona. Her passion for star...

It was Linda and Steve's extreme pleasure to interview nic recently to chat about their art career, passions and work included in the  Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at University of Nevada Las Vegas ,  Modern Desert Markings exhibition  sponsored by  Nevadans for Cultural Preservation . nicholas b jacobsen is a seventh-generation Utah-Mormon, trans-nonbinary settler raised in Nuwu homelands. As a...

Bethany Overland-Green our Art Box episode 50 guest brings two of her daughters in to talk all things creativity and just in case you cannot tell, we had fun. Also, you will meet the VVAA's newest member Sasha Green. Sasha has an exhibition in the Mesa gallery during August 2023. Make sure you get by the Mesquite Fine Arts Campus at 15 W. Mesquite Blvd and see it.  

There is not enough room to say how much we love Lizz Larson. She put the STEAM in the STEAM Center, she made it possible for our little podcast to have a professional studio, allowed us to host a Podcasting 101 class, is our cheerleader, makes things happen and like I said there is not enough room. Linda and Steve had the pleasure of interviewing Lizz and could have talked for hours. Lizz ozzes h...

Adriana Chavez (they/them/she/her) - Performance and Visual Artist Linda and Steve on a field trip to an opening in Las Vegas happened upon the Lulu Gallery, we ran into Adriana Chavez and our lives might never be the same. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G human and we could have talked to her for days. Let Adriana explain: Adriana is a Queer, Latinx clown with Spanish, Portuguese, and Indigenous Mexican roots. They...

Linda and Steve had a marvelous interview with Vernon Robison, owner, editor and everything of our local paper The Progress newspaper. https://mvprogress.com/    

Linda sits down with Steve to chat about his upcoming stint as the Mesquite Fine Arts Center Artist of the Month for August 2023. 

The Art Box in collaboration with Nevadans for Cultural Preservation and Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art @ UNLV present a conversation with Bryant Robison the contractor for Michael Heizer's art piece "Double Negative" completed in 1969 on the Mormon Mesa near Overton, Nevada.  Listen in as Katie Hoffman and Rayette Martin sit down with Bryant and his nephew Vernon Robison at the Lost City Museum. ...

Linda and her granddaughter Natalie scored big by landing quite an entertainer Terry Wayne of the Terry Wayne Project who frequently play at Mesquites Casablanca Resort.  You are going to love this interview as Terry will wow you with his live story, his goodness and his incredible talent. Natalie in her debut as a podcast host will make you smile and think what a wonderful life is ahead for this...

Paul's most recent article in the NY Times. Where Are All the Wild Things, Daddy? A father worries that his favorite children’s books promise his daughter a vibrant natural world that will no longer exist. ABOUT PAUL Paul Bogard is author of The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light, published in North America by Little, Brown, and in the UK and around the worl...

Steve has been following the Monica & Felina story now for two years on Facebook as Monica's husband Robert has chronicled via video's the wonderful progress. Enjoy this episode about determination, creativity, overcoming fear and yes love. Read below for info on Monica. Monica Tarr I am not a creator of things from scratch. My talents lie in perfecting, changing, tweaking and bringing out the bes...

Linda met Floyd at his home studio to get a sneak peek at his work for the July exhibition.

Linda and Floyd recorded a few short episodes at Floyd's house/studio. This quickie is them discussing light and shadow. 

We were honored to meet Jen Urso during the research phase of " Modern Desert Markings " exhibition sponsored by Nevadans for Cultural Preservation and the Marjorie Barrick Museum on the campus of the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Linda and Steve so enjoyed our time with Jen, we learned, we laughed, we cried, we understood, and we left as better people. Many hugs to Jen for gracing us with her t...

Welcome to the 100th episode and 1st year anniversary of the Art Box Podcast. ​ It was last April when Rachelle Knight and Steve Dudrow dreamed up a podcast for the VVAA and in May the BoD approved us to move forward. We would like to thank the 2022 BoD for giving us the green light to start on our journey. ​ In early June Tyler Roylance was our first guest and we were off and running, we crept al...

Drop in this June to view and purchase the amazing art created by the June Artist of the Month. Displaying the fill month of June in the Mesa Galley @ Mesquite Fine Art Center 15 W. Mesquite, Blvd.

Our friend Matt Harper provided Linda and Steve contact info for Alina Lindquist and wow are we ever glad he did, what a talent. Direct experience with the landscape is a cornerstone of my artistic practice. I primarily paint en plein air with oil to capture my initial experience on location. Sometimes I will use watercolor or gouache, depending on how much I want to carry that day. No matter what...

Our friends Diane Alexanian and Jill Waters combined their super Hollywood powers to bring us acclaimed director and all around nice guy Shelley Jensen for a rousing hour interview.   This is a great listen. Catch you in an hour when you can drop us a line at artboxvv@gmail.com to tell us how much you loved this episode.  We loved his quote: "Life is a fun ride and it’s really up to the individual...

Linda and Steve sit down with Mesquite Women's History and Culture Center founder Jean Watkins and General Manager Carol Saldivar for a heartwarming and enlightening interview. You will be inspired. "Bloom where you're planted" Learn more about these local heroes making impacts nationally. https://whccmesquitenv.org/

This was a Sunday recording episode to beat all, meet Alex Harper, Community and Education Chair for the Red Rock Audubon Society. Linda and Steve could have talked/learned from Alex for hours, but alas he needed to get home to Las Vegas.  Avian field work brought Alex from South Florida to Las Vegas in 2015, and he has been finding rarities in the desert ever since. He first began guiding as a vo...

Oh my goodness Linda and Steve got their luck on this week when we interviewed Oakland based artist Rachelle Reichart, this is an interview we did not want to end, but alas it was Friday and Rachelle needed to go help her daughter pick some Kale for dinner. Rachelle Reichert lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. She creates drawings, mixed media works, sculptures and art books to consider...