Art & Company Podcast

Welcome! We're super happy to air our 1st full-length podcast. Today we bring together 5 creatives based in Miami that have really crossed the line. Listen to an energized conversation around lunch in the host's studio with our guests Neil Ramsay, an economist, professor, and art curator; Thais Fontenelle, director of Minotti Miami and curator; Natasha Duwin, former president and co-founder of Kip...

Art & Company takes you to the Chavon School of Design in the Dominican Republic for a talk with the school's rector, and two artists who teach and head up programs there. We got together in the rector's office in the beautiful artist's village at Altos de Chavon. For more images and details on our guests visit: http://www.artandcompanypodcast.com

Our exciting 1st "Couples" series: Miami artists Kathleen Hudspeth and Adler Guerrier. A true Miami story including clothespin dolls, growing up in Haiti, teaching, learning, working the system, and the path to gaining poetics in your work. Kathleen is a master printmaker, art educator, and founder-director of Turn-Based Press. Adler creates visual dialogues between multiple media. He was born in...

Three Miami curators to follow! We sat down to talk about the effect of politics on art and funding, curating for the Venice Biennale, Utah's MOCA and examining man-made violence, and Miami's own floating art+science residency. Guest images and links on artandcompanypodcast.com

On hand in Miami from the stellar firm ICRAVE in NY, two designers make a quick drive-by visit before their flight back to NY. Their new project is going up near the BASS Museum on Miami Beach. Listen in on how hanging with friends can lead to a super successful career, about selecting artwork and baking designer cupcakes.

This may be their most important tip: How the alphabet might inspire the rest of your life! The passionate lives of this Miami couple are creating a legacy for the Miami Art Community.

A woman way ahead of her time, journalist Nellie Bly, working in 1887, has inspired artist Jessica Mitrani to create a fantastical journey for the equally daring. Join the artist, along with curator Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig, and co-curator and Miami's project host, Rhonda Mitrani as we go behind the scene. **SEE MORE: Francine: https://bit.ly/2Ev560s & http://www.jessicamitranistudio.com/ &...

Have you ever stopped to think how big the French community is here? It's BIG! Our guests speak about the non-profit organization they founded and co-direct, The French Arts Associates, opening doors and creating cultural events for the French community in Miami and for everyone who wants to meet some very interesting people.

Guests today comment on beauty, domestic violence, ghosts, and monsters. Artists, Cat del Buono and Yeon Jin Kim, discuss working in new media and film, and their most recent projects. We spoke about what led their studio practice in this direction and other thoughts on why a great percentage of women dominate the world of film and video art. **SEE MORE: http://www.catdelbuono & http://www.yeonjin...

In this Couples Series, an artist and a furniture designer/woodworker tell us about their separate journeys from opposite corners of the globe heading straight to Florida and the art community here. It's all about the smell of soil and fresh cut wood and mulberries. Oh - and yes cats - the must-have studio cats.

Living and working in Miami since 1992, today's guest is the founder and creative director of 305 Creative Group, a boutique creative agency in Wynwood specializing in Branding, Social Media, Photography and Marketing. Kerry delivers the whole story on the origins of the Miami Art Scene. An "idea" person, she's always been inspired to do outstanding work collaborating with our city's creative peop...

Musical talent "Haute Tension" (High Voltage)a Miami band with the trio Alexandre Merbouti, Monica McGivern, and Nabedi Osorio, delivers a highly charged new sound. Get the scoop on their debut album and the details of the band's unique heritage. We have some sample tracks to perk up your ears and wake up your senses.

From placing cutting-edge art in affluent suburban communities to coffee shops to planting seeds to German spies, we covered it all. Listen to these two phenomenal and focused Miami-based women artists, curators, and activists here to initiate change.

We're talking about facing and fighting irrelevance in today’s art systems and the big market, that strange parallel universe of the art market. Arts writers Elisa Turner and Anne Tschida discuss the creative writing process that parallels the practice of artists of any discipline today.

This episode's artist couple will inspire your life. They go from teaching and making art to breeding bunnies and shaping bonsai, from making music with sewing machines and bicycles to driving cattle. They've gone from Wyoming, Montana, and Missouri, to London and finally Miami. This is not your everyday life.

The leading ladies of alternative spaces in Miami chat with Art & Company. Lorie Mertes of Locust Projects and Beth Boone of Miami Light Projects share the stories of their own struggles and successes and the inspiration that got them where they are today.

#20 - Uber Talented Pamela Salem And Mitchell Berkman of Miami Radio Players by Alette Simmons-Jimenez

Eysa D. Batista and Maria Theresa Barbist are BABA Collective. Getting a hold of these ladies is quite a job. They're super busy podcasting, teaching, making art, writing grants and fundraising for their projects. Listen to their stories here since you won't be seeing them around anytime soon. Make way for the second edition of the BABA Collective show featuring 50 artists of the RCS Podcast Seaso...

Renowned Miami experimental sound artist, Gustavo Matamoros and his partner, graphic designer/collaborator, Claudia Ariano talk to us about navigating a world of sounds and shapes - their journey to discovering how to design the shape of sound. Listen in on what Gustavo defines as the essence of "art" ... we think he's got it right!

Shana Beth Mason and Aramis Gutierrez are great friends. They met when Shana appeared on the Miami art scene and Aramis was a rising local talent. We caught up with them to chat about their intersecting paths, London, the movies, Instagram, Cooper Union, Siena, Gucci, Vuitton, Versace, and James Bond.

With our newest "Couples" episode we talk to Miami artists/painters Clara Varas and Jee Park. One is from Cuba, the other from South Korea, and then in New York, their work brought them together. We're happy they shared with us their common language of table saws, swatches of fabric, family, wood, nails, missing fingers, and expressive mark-making.

Guest artist and cultural producer Charo Oquet shares stories and common experiences with host/artist Alette Simmons-Jimenez. From opposite sides of the world, their shared experiences crisscross from the Dominican Republic to Miami, New Zealand to New York to London and back again. Talks cover creating as an outsider, getting in the mix, excelling, and giving back.

Leo Castaneda and Lauren Monzon make a hyper-harmonious personal and professional partnership. From Carrollton School to Columbia University and Cooper Union to Hunter College, then to Locust Projects, to Oolite Arts, to Borscht Corp. - listen and learn what magic Miami conjures to hold on to these two!

This episode's guest Onajide Shabaka, Miami based artist and cultural practitioner, takes us along on an imaginary canoe trip. His artwork manifests itself as a mirror of where his life and research have led him. You can almost hear the endless river winding its way from Ohio and California, to the coast of Africa, to Surinam, Florida, and Minnesota.

Claire sat with us in the studio and we caught up with news about her super busy schedule and her upcoming projects in Miami and others around the globe. Our fave was the organized art focused trips down to El Salvador. Sign me up!