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In this episode I interview Soledad Arias, an artist in New York who works as a medical interpreter. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Soledad has lived in NYC for almost 20 years. Being bilingual, her life, artwork, and (luckily) her job revolve around language. She is interested in exploring the human condition through the medium of speech. At a time when words seem to be thrown around bl...

In our latest Art Dirt podcast, Rainey Knudson speaks with Houston artist David McGee, who is the subject of two exhibitions in Houston this fall, at Texas Gallery and the Houston Museum of African American Culture. "Listen, Donald Trump should be the president of Sharknado."

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees discuss the week's art news: the return of the Texas Biennial, the Guggenheim's decision to pull controversial videos from a new show, and the death of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner (that's Lauren Hutton in her bunny outfit from the 1960s).

In the aftermath and psychic static of Hurricane Harvey, Peter Lucas brings us this special 2-hour radio show featuring a ton of Houston music and catching up with a handful of Houston musicians and DJs along the way. Blues, r&b, soul, jazz, funk, folk, psychedelic rock, punk, and more. May this homespun broadcast help you feel, deal, and replace the sheetrock of your soul.

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees discuss the response to Rainey's article about painted electrical boxes as public art.

This episode is about Cathy Fairbanks, an artist living and working in LA who truly sees herself as having a dual career as a nurse. She primarily identifies with working in sculpture, specifically ceramics. But her work doesn’t really look like your traditional ceramics - they kind of morph into wonky yet delicate assemblages with materials like paper mache. You can find out more about her work a...

Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson discuss the week's news.

Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson discuss the week's art news. "One of the protest signs said 'When Did Blasphemy Become Art?' and I just had to have a chuckle."

This is Tommy Gregory, an artist living in Houston, TX. And, probably like everyone listening, he’s had his share of good and bad jobs over the years. After getting his MFA from UT San Antonio, he landed a job at the City as their Public Art Specialist. He then moved to Houston to be the Project Manager for Public Art at the Houston Arts Alliance. Currently he’s the public art program curator and...

Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson discuss the recent spate of removals of Confederate statues, and last week's dismantling of a Sam Durant outdoor sculpture at the Walker Art Center. Image of Robert E. Lee statue removal by Matthew Hinton, via the New Orleans Advocate: http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_40dccfac-3c91-11e7-8121-83e3757dd400.html

This is an interview with Dixie Friend Gay, an artist living and working in Houston. She had grown up in western Oklahoma on a cattle ranch, made her way to New York to be an artist and eventually settled in Houston. Her work focuses on the sacredness of nature, looking specifically at the wild southern native landscape. Her detailed lush paintings have led her to create large mosaic murals and sc...

Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson discuss celebrities doing performance art, and the issue of artists gentrifying poor neighborhoods. Also discussed: killing animals for food + favorite music videos from the 80s!

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on art that's a cry for attention; whether artists should have to talk about their art; and whether it's a good idea to cross over from the nonprofit to the commercial side (or vice versa) of the art world. BONUS: they disagree on John Currin!

A conversation between the photographer Catherine Opie and Eileen Myles, author of "Chelsea Girls" and numerous volumes of poetry, in Houston on April 29, 2017.

The sixth episode of Not A Hobby features Rahul Mitra. He was born in Hyderabad, India, and lives in Houston. His work is heavily drawing based - mostly black ink on paper - through which he’s created his own visual vocabulary. He sees his work much like notes and his drawings like an extension of his handwriting. Rahul is also a scientist. He is the program director at The Center for RNA Interfer...

Art Dirt 3: Texas Art Fairs: the Good, the Bad, and the Dallas by Glasstire

In Glasstire's Art Dirt podcast, Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson discuss the controversy over Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till in the Whitney Biennial.

In Glasstire's new Art Dirt podcast, Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson discuss whether it's too soon for happy art, the new Moody Center at Rice University (and the demise of Rice Art Gallery), and Spring Break plans.

Dallas artist Thor Johnson weaves a tall tale of international art-crime intrigue in the Panhandle.

This episode is a little different than the previous Not A Hobby interviews - our guest is Dirk Rathke, an artist living and working in Berlin, Germany, and he does not have a full time job that he balances with his art career. But I wanted to interview him anyways since I feel like there is a fascination among the artist community in the US that longingly looks to their European colleagues. There...

Shannon Duncan, an artist in Houston, does not have a full-time job - she has about 4 part-time jobs that make up her approximately 50 hour work. She certainly isn’t alone in cobbling together various jobs to make ends meet, but through it all she has had a decade-long commitment to working at Starbucks. Listen to Shannon discuss her work, her multiple jobs, the fun of adjunct teaching, and hopes...

Ariane Roesch interviews three artists - Martha Hughes, Julian Mock, and Alyce Santoro - that all live and work in Marfa about what drew them to the city and the logistics of being an artist in the middle of nowhere. This podcast is sponsored by Eric Jarvis and crushpad productions in Houston.

For its third episode, Not A Hobby interviews Heyd Fontenot who has balanced jobs with his art career over the last 30 years. He has been the wonderful director at Centraltrak in Dallas for the last 5 years. "If you can keep making art, you win."

Being an artist is a lot of work. Not only do you have to continuously come up with good ideas and then execute them, but you also have to deal with the professional side of things, including promoting yourself, which often has no relation to the creative part of making work. And still, most artists don't make their living off of their art work. But they don't stop being artists. So to make ends m...

In Episode 2 of Not A Hobby, Ariane Roesch interviews Krista Birnbaum. Her work ranges from photographic to sculptural and is somewhat whimsical, very detail oriented, and deals with control over nature.