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"There's no place for being careful when making art." This episode is with Rapid City, South Dakota artist, Matt Schaefer. Schaefer's beginnings with art worked in tandem with playing music. Painting shortly took over his focus and his unique ways of studying art history was born. He let's you in on his thoughts over an important artist that has let him down. He also share's his feelings on planni...

This interview is with Prince Edward Island artist, Stephen B. MacInnis. Parts of the process MacInnis enjoys most is the "history of the accidents that occur" along with the "ghost images" that sometimes appear will working on multiple layered paintings. Catch some of the thinking that went into titling his ongoing "Long Series" and how studying art can bring a creative freedom. The artist's webs...

Words of the day: work and work and work and work, destroy. Meg Lipke joins ahtcast for this interview. Working out of Brooklyn and drawing and collaborating with the past to create a modern conversation. Carrying the experience of an art filled background, Lipke shares that an artist has to work with a "faith" to get through creative blocks and figure it out. She also describes where, and how, th...

Words of the day: pause. confusion. change and interested. This interview is with Bloomington, Indiana artist, Peter Shear. I asked about the beginnings of becoming an artist, and Shear talked about it as being a kind of attraction to it, and that can be what makes one an artist. I asked about education and a bit of the response I got was about "self-educating" without shortcuts, and much more. On...

Ahtcast talks with Ashley Garrett for this interview. You will discover great descriptions of experiences that are both universal and specific in their private nature. To Garrett, art making is the tapping into the "energy and/or space that hovers around us all the time." It brings us together, both artist and non-artist. According to Garrett, there may be no such thing as 'non-artist.' Her work n...

Ahtcast revisits the work of artist, Lorri Ott, in this episode. Lorri Ott and I originally spoke in February of 2012 and I thought it would be interesting to see what she has been up to in her studio as of late. We also talk about past work and how it has changed as well as how the work has, in a sense, come full circle. Thanks for listening. The artist's website: http://lorriott.net/home.html (p...

T J Donovan, a South Dakota native finishing his studies in Chicago, discusses his work and philosophies on art making. Donovan likes to preserve a space for abstract making and direct address in his work. He believes that working through a creative block is important, and feels that action will automatically "yield to something different." Listen in as he also describes his experience on playing...

Santa Monica, California artist, Julia Schwartz, joins ahtcast for this interview. Schwartz describes how she paints regardless of creative block and feels that social media has become a great artist community. Schwartz goes on to detail how she is open to the world and how it unfolds, and takes her experiences into the studio. "The more I've been painting, the more wordless I become." Listen in!...

Interview with Brooklyn based artist, Ky Anderson. We chat about her views on how important it is to "work regularly" and to develop good habits when dealing with the internet, as it can become a big distraction. Anderson goes on to detail her upbringing and how she "grew up in a world of pretty amazing and really creative people." Anderson on art: "I love it, it's fun." The artist's website: http...

To curate. To collaborate. To D.I.Y. Join ahtcast in this conversation with Julie Torres and Brian Edmonds. Both artists and curators etc. In this episode, they have shared the details of their experiences in curating along with a bit about their other projects and things on the horizon. Listen in as we are taken into how their respective projects have come together via connecting with other artis...

Join ahtcast for this interview with Winchester, Hampshire UK artist, Alastair Eales. A real virtuoso regarding process and developing simplified palette possibilities. Eales talks about how it can be tricky to maintain the spontaneity of smaller works and sketches when translated into larger work. The subject of how these sketches can bring a greater focus to larger works also comes up. His ambig...

London based artist, EC joins ahtcast for this interview. We discuss the value of preliminary work and all of it's different forms. EC also talks about the beginnings of a painting and how "automatic writing" plays a big part of the initial marks on the canvas. Responding intuitively and improvisation are important to EC's process as well. Some great quotes shared in this one! Please listen for mo...

Suzanne Kammin, a Newark, New Jersey based artist, takes us into her process and thoughts on being a painter who likes to play with the reversal of figure ground only to flip it back again. Suzanne talks about the processes she uses to "eliminate the anxiety of destroying a work." She also speaks of her highly experimental past and what enjoying both representational and abstract painting can do t...

This interview is with Philadelphia based artist, Tim McFarlane. In the interview, McFarlane mentions how he discovered art in High-School and the effect it had on him. He also describes his process, in detail, and how the computer is sometimes a part of his practice. Dealing with creative block is also part of the discussion and how he has come to accept that taking a day away from the studio can...

This interview is a special one. It made it's way into more of casual conversation, and one where Susan Carr and I interviewed each other. Carr, a Cape Cod based artist, decided to visit my home and studio. During the visit, we sat and talked about the aspects of our work and process. I found that we shared some of the same views based on the interview questions. We viewed each others work and it...

"The less thinking you do, the more freedom you have." Join ahtcast as we are brought into the thoughts and process of Pennsylvania based artist, David T Miller. Miller describes his process as a "one person collaborative event" along with speaking of the "call and response" element of making art. Listen in and see why his work has been said to have a "twang." Enjoy! Artist's website: http://david...

Inspiration from the ocean, weather patterns and the color of Cyprus, are all things that bring artist Bridget Fahy closer to her paintings. Fahy believes that the internet brings us to art as it's emerging and that creative block is something one has to deal with by "riding out the storm." Listen in. The artist's website: http://bridgetfahy.com/ (podcast intro/outro music by Ani DiFranco and Utah...

"If I make it, I just let it live." Explore the thoughts and process of Whittier, California artist, Paul Urban. Urban details his experimental process and how he likes to keep things fresh. He strives for his work to be immediate and not heavy-handed, and pulls a great deal of inspiration from Nature. Talk a listen! The Artist's website: https://paulurban.artspan.com/ (podcast intro/outro music b...

Michigan artist, Dennis Michael Jones, details his inspirations and process. Jones goes into the importance of making notations to fuel his work, and how he respects the digital side of making art. He works with both text and spacial explorations with color and abstraction, and feels that there is an inherent "directness" with words and a "slippery meaning" when dealing with abstraction. Take a li...

This episode is an interview with Cumbria, United Kingdom based artist, Carol McDermott. McDermott goes on to state how important feelings and imagination are to her process. She also expresses her love of sketchbooks and how meditation is one of the important factors that help with feeding her work. Take a listen. The Artist's blog: http://carolmcdermott.blogspot.co.uk/ (podcast intro/outro music...

Step inside the art and process of Sydney, Australia artist, Inga Dalrymple. She describes her process as "building a character up"  and how intuition plays a big role while working. Dalrymple also feels that art school "gave me my voice and my eye." Listen in. The Artist's website: http://ingadalrymple.net/home.html (podcast intro/outro music by Ani DiFranco and Utah Phillips)

Join ahtcast in this interview with California based artist, Connie Goldman. Goldman goes on to say that "Work comes from the work" and "It's healthy to stretch out in different directions." Her work appears to move in space and are very inspiring. Take a listen. The Artist's website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/conniegoldman (podcast intro/outro music by Ani DiFranco and Utah Phillips)

The rush, the hassle, the anxiety, the battle, the surprise, are all things that drive Germany based Artist Sabine Tress. "Now, I really know this is who I am, and this is what I want to do for the rest of my life." Join ahtcast in this conversation where the subject is on the perils and high points of painting. As a special episode where Sabine Tress turns and asks me the very same questions I po...

Constructing paintings with "creative free-ness" utilizing grids and structures.  Join me, and ahtcast, in this conversation with New York based artist, Louise P. Sloane, as she details her process and inspiration and how she has come to change her mind about the benefits of an artist's website. The Artist's website: http://www.louisepsloane.com/ (intro/outro music by Ani DiFranco and Utah Phillip...

Paul Behnke - "(Painting is about)... a slow experience between the actual piece of art and the viewer." Listen in as, New York based Painter, Paul Behnke details some of his process and ideas, the importance of Art History and his interests in the "spontaneous act" of painting. Artist's website: http://www.paulbehnke.net/ (podcast intro/outro music by Ani DiFranco and Utah Phillips)