Being An Artist With Tom Judd

Nicholas James Harris - a realist painter, and plein air master, can spend months on a single painting. Meticulous by nature, he combines old world painterly practices with contemporary technology, to create masterful paintings with impeccable attention to detail. Spending hours on the banks of the Wissahickon River in Philadelphia, he immerses himself in the subject matter of the landscape. This...

Syd Carpenter, known primarily as a Ceramicist/scluptor,  investigates the intersection of art and gardens, African American history, agriculture ,the land, and the human form. The scope and extraordinary range of her 50 year art career is being celebrated in an unprecedented retrospective that is being exhibited in 3 different museums….Woodmere Art Museum, the Maguire Art Museum at Saint Joseph's...

Filmmaker Jeremiah Zagar is interested in telling stories, and getting personal. Known for both his intimate documentaries such as "In a Dream", a film about his father, and his Hollywood feature films "We the Animals" and "Hustle", he has put together a career in filmmaking that is independent, authentic and original. His work has won major awards at Sundance, Doville, and South by Southwest, to...

Philadelphia artist Larry Spaid has spent over 12 years of his artistic life travelling the planet,living and teaching in different countries and experiencing different cultures. His expansive output of art includes painting, printing and various experiments with mixed media. He taught at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University for thirty-seven years. This included teaching in Rome, Italy and T...

Gbadebo's use of materials centers on her family history of enslavement in the American South, while her ceramics draw inspiration from traditional African pottery techniques, calling on her Nigerian ancestry. Fueled by research and a commitment to the archival record, Gbadebo's multidisciplinary approach investigates the complex relationships between land, matter, and memory. Grounded in historic...

Nigerian born but living in America since the age of one, Odili Donald Odita's work explores color on the grand scale and his hard-edge large paintings and mural installations have redefined abstract painting in the context of sociopolitical concerns. Most of Odita's work is inspired by the vibrant textiles of his home country, Nigeria, mixed with patterns from Western modernity. He has exhibited...

A Chicago painter with an endless amount of surprises that unfold inside her landscapes of the Rococo and fantastical. Her work represents a continuation of the Chicago Imagists of the 60's with an interest in combining eccentric figuration with abstraction. "Bramson incorporates the passionate complexity of eastern mythology, the sexual innuendos of soap operas, and sometimes the happy endings of...

My guest today is Henry Burmudez. He became a major artist in his home country of Venezuela in the 70's through the early 2000's. He made a good living and prospered as a creative force in his home town of Caracas. Among his other accomplishments, he represented Venezuela at the 1986 Venice Biennale. In 1998 , with the election of Cesar Chavez, his world began to fall apart. With the collapse of t...

Chip is a photographer, an international public street artist and activist who worked as a physician on the Navajo nation between Monument Valley and The Grand Canyon in Arizona for 36 years retiring in 2023. In 2012 he formed the Painted Desert Project – a community project which resulted in a constellation of murals across the Navajo Nation painted by reservation artists and artists from  all ov...

The independent filmmaker based in  Salt Lake City , Utah has created his own very distinct and unique style of filmmaking. In 2013, Indiewire proclaimed Harris "The Best Underground Filmmaker You Don't Know — But Should." [5] Harris' films have been featured at various festivals and museums worldwide, including renowned venues like Sundance , the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , the British F...

"I appreciate the Rococo for its extravagance and theatricality, as it appeals to my love of kitsch."- STUART NETSKY      Netsky is a conceptual artist making paintings, mixed media sculptures, prints and other objects. An original voice and artist whose work jumps off the canvas and confronts us with the eclectic absurdity of our image inundated culture. A lover of the theatrical, mixed with his...

Donald Camp is a renowned Philadelphia artist and photographer known for his large scale images that explore the dignity and nobility that can be found in the human face. Camp's unique printing methods are based on early 19th Century non-silver photographic processes. In 1990 Camp began his most acclaimed series, Dust Shaped Hearts. These large photographic monoprints are created with raw earth pi...

Dan Rizzie is an artist of the heart, whose work is playful yet sophisticated and combines a rich variety of medium and textures. His images and subject matter conjure a world of memory and symbols.   Born in  Poughkeepsie , NY  in 1951,  he grew up in India, Egypt, Jordan and Jamaica. Rizzie lives in  Sag Harbor , New York. [1] Dan  is a painter, printmaker, and collage artist. He attended  Hendr...

Sarah McEneaney's art is singular and unique in its focus on the everyday existence of the artist. Living in the middle of the very busy and complicated city of Philadelphia, she has created a lifestyle of almost monastic discipline as an artist. McEneaney is also an activist and community leader including the formation of the Callowhill Neighborhood Association in 2001, and the co-founding of the...

Judith Schaechter:  Stain glass artist that has redefined the scope of contemporary art in both materials and subject matter. She has created a startling body of work, using hi-tech and low tech, if not centuries-old techniques. She has chosen for her subject matter an equally archaic focus that seems to bring the suffering and story telling of ancient religious iconography into the 21st century....

Gail Ann Dorsey, most famous for being David Bowie's bass player and collaborator, has, with her voice and stage presence, made an art of being a session player with other top bands and artists, bringing her unique sound to a long list of important bands and recordings, including Tears for Fears, The National, Lenny Kravitz, Bryan Ferry, Ani Difranco, to name a few. She has written, recorded, and...

Stuart Rome, a world-renowned photographer, has produced one of the most eclectic and compelling bodies of work imaginable. He also established the photography department at Drexel University, exhibited his work in top galleries, and is featured in the collections of many major museums. Moreover, he has published books of his work and has been featured in numerous art publications. In 2015, he rec...

Mahogany L. Browne, poet, writer, and artist, is currently the executive director at Bowery Poetry Club and the artistic director at Urban Word NYC. She is also the author of several books, including children's books, stage plays, articles, and audio recordings. As the founder of Penmanship Books, Browne holds the distinction of being the first-ever poet-in-residence at New York City's Lincoln Cen...

Terry Tempest Williams is a towering cultural figure as a writer, educator, and conservationist and activist. Her writing is rooted in the American West, and she is an unstoppable stand for this vulnerable and fragile landscape.  

Richard Watson is a fixture and legend in the city of Philadelphia. His idea of being an artist includes the way he dresses with great care and style. He's an activist and committed to the breaking down of racial exclusion in the arts and elsewhere.

On today's episode I'll be talking to Rosanne Cash; singer, songwriter and author.  She has reinvented herself and her art many times, on her way to finding her own very original voice. 

Derrick Velasquez is an artist and exhibition organizer who lives and works in Denver, Colorado. His most recent exhibitions include solo shows at The Herron School of Art and Design, The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Robischon Gallery, Pentimenti, and The Black Cube Nomadic Museum. He has had recent group exhibitions at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Carvalho Park and Transmitter in N...

A legend in his own time, Peter Paone is a fixture in the Philadelphia art world. He has exhibited his artwork internationally including New York, London, Vienna and Germany... and in major cities across the US.   His work is in many prestigious collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The National Gallery in Washington DC, and the Yale University Art Galler...

Mikel  presently makes his home in Germantown Philadelphia, but has travelled the world on his way to being the established and formidable artist he is today.    He  has been featured in international publications and media,  including commercial television, and feature films. He earned a  BFA degree in painting from U Arts in 1986 and also studied at The School of Visual Arts in New York. In 1987...

Brooke Larsen has had a remarkable career that includes single handedly starting an art program at the Richard Stockton University in Pomona, New Jersey in the early seventies. He was the only teacher! Then, after moving to New York City, he became an integral part of the early eighties art scene in New York. Along with his artwork, he became one of the most important frame designers and makers of...