The Art Box

Linda and Steve had the absolute pleasure to welcome Simon Kim, Development Services Director for the City of Mesquite, Nevada to our Mesquite Works STEAM Center recording studio. Simon is just THE BEST! What about Cezanne, Picasso and Cubism? You will need to listen to the podcast to understand.  Simon has a total of 34-year professional experience in planning and developments: Among those, 22 ye...

Suzie White welcomed a Mesquite fixture Bobbie Green to our Mesquite Works STEAM Center recording studio to talk about the early days of Desert Dames . You see Bobbie all around town at events in her role as a reporter for The Progress newspaper . Enjoy.

Linda Harris and Becky Boyd gathered the 2024 contestants in the Mesquite Works STEAM Center recording studio for a great conversation taking you behind the scenes and into the hearts of these amazing ladies. Enjoy. 

Gracing our Mesquite Works STEAM Center recording studio was Jean Watkins, founder of the Ms. Senior Mesquite Pageant and the first Ms. Senior Mesquite and Becky Boyd Pageant President. Grab a cup of coffee and join us for an interesting chat. If you would like to support the Ms. Sr. Mesquite pageant with a donation it can be sent to WHCC PO Box 1502 Mesquite, NV 89024.

The Art Box hosted royalty recently as we welcomed newly crowned Ms. Sr. Mesquite Bronzie Dabney to our Mesquite Works STEAM Center recording studio.  As Ms. Sr. Mesquite, Dabney will also hold the title of Ms. Senior Nevada and go on to compete in the national Ms. Senior America Pageant, which is based on the belief that seniors are the foundation of America and our most valuable treasure.

We had the pleasure of meeting Romy Umholtz at the " At the County Fair " exhibition held at the Rotunda Gallery in the Clark County Government Center, Las Vegas. We titled this episode "The Heart of Creativity" to capture Romy's deep and heartfelt passion for creativity in all its remarkable forms. You can find Romy on Facebook .

We finally did it! Linda and Steve sat down for an exclusive interview with ChatGPT, or Jessica as Linda is allowed to call them. We pulled out every question in our repertoire, covering a wide array of topics. While it was certainly informative, we found it, in our humble opinion, a bit on the dull side. But don't just take our word for it—judge for yourself. Dive into the interview and let us kn...

WOWser is what we have to say about Lindsey's mosaic art! She captured numerous awards at this months "Blessings of Nature" exhibition at the Mesquite Fine Arts Gallery . Lindsey has nurtured her creative spirit since childhood, ultimately elevating her passion for Art and Design through dedicated college studies. Trained in various artistic mediums and interior design, she earned a Bachelor of Ar...

In this episode of The Art Box podcast, Linda and Steve step outside of our normal subject of art as we are honored to feature Captain Kevin Smith, US Navy Retired, and former Top Gun instructor. Captain Smith brings a wealth of expertise and thrilling experiences from his distinguished career in naval aviation. He will share riveting stories from his time developing the elite Navy Fighter Weapons...

May 2024 Blessing of Nature exhibition Best in Show award winner Lynn Craven.  You get magic when you have two well respected award winning artists sit down for a chat at the Mesquite Fine Arts Center. In the second of our series of exhibition Best in Show interviews our host Floyd Johnson grabbed Award winner Lynn Craven to talk about his unique art work.  Only 9 minutes, enjoy and smile.

After meeting Jeannie at her exhibition, "Invisible Memories," at Core Contemporary co-curated by Mylène Lachance-Paquin and Nancy Good we just knew she was our next guest. Her exhibition is described as dynamic, multi-layered paintings and collages fearlessly travel through concepts of cultural migration, historical and contemporary racism, fraught emotional territories, and confrontational chang...

We had the delightful opportunity to attend the "Celebrating Life! Masters' Exhibition 2024" held at the Charleston Heights Art Center Gallery in the vibrant city of Las Vegas. Amidst the breathtaking artwork, we had the pleasure of sitting down with artists Bobbie Ann Howell and Robin Stark to delve into their creative processes and inspirations. Kick back and enjoy a wonderful art conversation. ...

Boom, this hit our wheelhouse of nature, public lands, native culture and creativity, Linda and Steve thought they were in heaven interviewing Fairbanks based naturalist, wilderness guide and writer Michael Engelhard. Come join us for an interview touching on how Michaels western adventures shapes his writing.  Click here for Micheals website. Click here to purchase Michels books. Check back now a...

This is a marvelous episode that artists will appreciate from beginning to end. Linda Harris masterful job of asking questions displays the breadth of her guest research and profound understanding of the creative process. Besides being a great artist, Cody is very much a conservationist, lover of all thing’s nature and a full-time ranger with the US Forest Service.  You can find out more about Cod...

A Saturday Art Box road trip to Las Vegas found us at the Blue Ox Tavern on Sahara meeting up with artist and College of Southern Nevada (CSN) professor Sean Russell for a wide-ranging and fun chat about creativity and art. Slip on the headphones, sit back, maybe grab a glass of good red wine, or an IPA and enjoy this lovely conversation. No extra charge for the neat bar sounds in the background....

In our efforts to publish community based content, today we will talk about coyotes. As Mesquite pushes boundaries deeper into coyote habitats, rapid development, driven by population growth and economic expansion, encroaches upon the once-remote territories where coyotes roam. As Mesquite expands, it brings infrastructure, residential areas, and commercial developments, fragmenting natural landsc...

Linda and Steve welcome Suzie White as our "From the Theatre" host. Suzie will be focusing on performing arts in the Virgin Valley and beyond.  Today Suzie welcomes Al Vysinka and Jim Blanco from the musical trio "Off the Rails" to our STEAM Center studio to chat about their upcoming performance at the Mesquite Community Theatre on Saturday May 18. John Maystadt their third member was vacationing...

What a pleasure it was to sit down with Brian Cornett in our Do It Best Hardware recording studio in the Mesquite Works STEAM Center. Brian is just a nice guy, with a heart for volunteering and writing. We hope you enjoy this episode with a true Mesquite upstanding citizen and artist. 

You might recognize Teresa Skye and Dave Ward from their appearance in Episode 76 - Deep Space, Volunteering and Nature Journaling - from March 10, 2023. We recorded at their campsite in Gold Butte National Monument . The Art Box has not been recorded outside since then until now. Steve drove 323 miles to Horseshoe Canyon in Canyonlands National Park to catch our amazing volunteers at their Nation...

Steve was honored in early 2023 to attend Torrey House Press Voices for the West Writers Workshop in Sprindale, Utah just outside of Zion National Park. Our fiction group was led by amazing author Kase Johnstun and included Morgan Sjogren ( Path of Light ), Stacie Shannon Denetosie ( The Missing Morningstar ), the talented Liana Morales, many others and me.  As we introduced ourselves I was enthra...

The Art Box was pleased to welcome Mesquite Public Arts Commission (MPAC) Chair Karen Miskimins to our Do It Best Hardware Studio at the Mesquite Works STEAM Center to chat about promoting public art in Mesquite. Our wide-ranging conversation ran from MPAC inauguration by the city council, to initiatives such as First Fridays, fundraising, pollinator garden, our new fire department, youth art, and...

We were graced at our Do It Best Hardware studio in the Mesquite STEAM Center with local entertainer DJ Van Dyke. Listen in as DJ recounts her journey of creativity and song that she will be sharing this May in Mesquite. DJ Van Dyke is an Iowa farm girl who made her way to Nevada by way of a short stop in Colorado that lasted 42 years.  DJ headlined a contempory rock band in the mid-70's.  Raising...

It was our pleasure to host Lydia Wolfe as a guest on the Art Box Podcast. Lydia is full of energy in her work at Get Outdoors Nevada and her many other heartfelt commitments to our local community. Those who know Steve, know that he loves quotes and Lydia gave him two "Every artist breathes life into the piece they are making" and one so amazing it is the title of this episode "Treat art like lif...

As part of our humanities programming The Virgin Valley Artists' Association and The Art Box are proud to present a podcast with Southern Nevada Health Districts health educator Pitchaya Pattasema. Pitchaya oversees the Pop-Up Produce Stands program.  The Pop-Up Produce Stands program is part of CDC’s Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program which aims to improve health, pr...

If you hang out at the Mesquite Rec Center chances are you will catch a glimpse of our two whirlwind friends Donna and Ann buzzing about, teaching classes and being happy. Linda has been working for some time to schedule a podcast and poof a week ago our Art Box studio in the STEAM Center came alive with these two dynamos. Here is a little bit about them below, then listen to an energy packed podc...