Scratching the surface with City Kitty

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m talking with Toastoro about our most recent travels, my trip to New Orleans and his trip to Tokyo. 

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m talking to life long clown, Clown Kong. Clown Kong’s career in clowning started in the 1980’s when he attended Ringling Brothers Clown College. He then spent two years on the road with Ringling Brothers traveling 11 months out of the year. But his latest iteration of clowning, Clown Kong was created when he moved to NYC in 2002. It was great to talk with Clown Kong a...

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m talking to curator Rachael N. Clark from Queen of Hearts Global. We’re discussing her journey over the past five years leading up to her 5 year anniversary show “Got Heart” opening this Saturday Feb 10th at 115 Bowery 2nd Floor. 

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m talking with my good friend Matt Marialke. After recently loosing my grandmother and dealing with a number of nurses during her final months I thought I would sit down with my friend Matt who has been a nurse for over 20 years. We’re taking about loss, healthcare, why he became a nurse and how he continues to love this profession after so many years.

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m talking with street artist Fire Flower. I first started seeing Fire flower’s work on the streets of NYC in 2019.  Since then she’s been developing her character and style with her brightly colored, eye catching wheatpastes. It was nice to catch up with Fire Flower to discuss what started her street art journey and where she sees her work heading in the years to come....

Send us Fan Mail This week we're coming to you live from the Brooklyn Art Haus in NYC as part of the East Coast Sticker Movie premiere weekend.  I got to sit down with Agent 5 Smith, Chilly Willy, Tori Luecking, She Posse, Jim Tozzie, Chris RWK and discuss the movie, their journey to reach this point and what's next for the film.

Send us Fan Mail This week I'm talking to Rheytchul Kimmel owner and operator of Lumiere Photo, a custom print shop, frame shop and gallery based in Rochester NY.

Send us Fan Mail This week I'm Discussing the 2022 Film Daliland with my old Professor Maureen Brilla-Fitzparick.

Send us Fan Mail This week Im talk with Tara Gaddy. After Her husband Paul retired they were trying to envision what the next phase of their lives would look like.  After growing up in NYC, living in California and Arizona and spending a number of years back in the TriState area they decided to try living in Europe. After a few months in Portugal they are back in the Tristate area. I wanted to cat...

Send us Fan Mail This week I'm in Syracuse NY speaking with sculptor Weird Society. I was first introduced to Weird Society's work a year or two ago when I was tagged in one of his miniature street art scenes. So I headed out to Syracuse to talk to him about what got him started down this path and where he sees his work headed in the future. 

Send us Fan Mail For the past 40 Episodes I've been making fake ads at the end of each episode. If you've paid attention I appreciate it. If not here's a cut of all the nonsense I've thought up

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m back talking with my old professor Maureen Brilla Fitzpatrick. She liked our last interview so much she wanted to do a topical series. This week we’re discussing the diffrence between narratives and illustration. 

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m in Barcelona talking  with fellow street artist Toastoro. Toastoro has been on a bit of a tour in the past month getting up in Brazil, LA, Barcelona and Portland where he also attended the premier of the Sticker Movie. Join us as we catch up and talk about his travels. 

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m talking with Barcelona based street artist El Cono De. Even though he’s a newer artist in the scene, getting started during the pandemic, you will see his unique variety of hand painted cones all over the streets of Barcelona. So it was great to meet him on this trip and talk to him about what got him into streetart, where his artist name came from and where he sees...

Send us Fan Mail This week I'm in Barcelona for the 2nd annual paste up festival. I'm talking withBritish paste up artist D7606. This is D7606's 2nd year in Barcelona for the paste up festival and he's no stranger to paste up walls. He's been apart of the London Paste up Festival the past few years he's also curated his own collage paste up walls in Manchester and the...

Send us Fan Mail This week I'm back talking with my professor and mentor teacher from undergrad Maureen Brilla-Fitzpatrick. It's been a year and a half since we last recorded so it was nice to catch up and chat about the artistic process, why we create art and some of the things we've learned along the way. 

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m talking with photographer Brett Lindell. I met Brett back in 2010 when I was showing at the Fountain Art Fair and I’ve been a fan of his work ever since. We’re talking about what got him in to photography, his artistic journey and his new book “UNRAVELING”.

Send us Fan Mail This week I'm sharing with you the music that I use for the podcast. Back in 2013 I wanted to make a Lo-Fi electronic album. I recorded this using a korg kaossilator,  I then played guitar over the top and my brother played bass.  The last track is a song I wrote on a different album at the same time. I was looking to get an MC to rap on the track but I changed directions and...

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m talking to photographer Quajay Donell. We’re talking about what got him into Photography, his work with Wall Therapy and what got him photographing street art and graffiti. If your in the Rochester area this Friday Sept. 15 stop by Quajay’s solo show “Spread Your Light” at the Joy Gallery. 

Send us Fan Mail This week I'm talking with street artist Appleton Pictures. I met Appleton in the streets about 7 years ago but I'd been following his work for awhile before that. Aside from his bold imagery one thing that always stuck out is his use of street art as a platform to raise awareness for diabetes. It was great to catch up with him at his studio to see what he's been wo...

Send us Fan Mail This week I'm talking with painter Matthew Miller.  Matthew was one of the first artists I met in NYC when I moved there for the summer of 2008 before starting my last year of grad school. I was instantly draw to the high quality of Matthew’s work, having never seen anyone paint in this style. It's was great to meet up with Matthew at his studio and see what he's be...

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m talking with artist Wizard Skull. From paintings to wheat pastes, vinyl toys, skateboard designs and zines Wizard Skull has done it all. It was great to meet at his art studio to discuss his roots and see what he’s been working on. 

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m speaking with toy designer, illustrator and sticker artist MCA of evil designs. I’ve know about MCA’s work for a number of years but this was the first time we met in person. I was excited to run around the streets with him on his recent trip to NYC and talk about what he’s learned over the years in the vinyl toy and sticker worlds.

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m talking with artist and actual Doctor, Dr. Scott. I met Dr. Scott back in 2017 on one of his trips to NYC. Over the years we’ve collaborated on a number of pieces and even traveled to Europe together. It was great catching up with him on his trip here last week and having him paint the 2nd ave mural wall. Make sure to stop by and see his piece which is up for the mon...

Send us Fan Mail This week I'm talking to Koz from Silver Tuna Studios and LULU from collect with LULU. After representing artists on their own they are joining forces with their new gallery KXL projects. I wanted to talk to them about how they got together, their projects at City Point and Brooklyn Art Haus in Brooklyn and what it's like working with many artists in the under-represente...