Studio Noize: Black Art Podcast

LaToya Hobbs returns to Studio Noize! LaToya has been on an amazing run with her latest work since her last time on the podcast. We catch back up with her in hearing all about her exciting show and successes including the phenomenal Carving Time installation that is currently on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art through April 3. She talks about how she was inspired by Kerry James Marshall to cre...

Studio Noize bringing in the big guns to discuss the wide world of Black art. In episode 133 we talk to the curator, writer, and cultural historian TK Smith about his work creating and explaining the context in which Black art is produced. We get into his curatorial practice which includes shows at the Zuckerman Museum of Art in Kennesaw, GA, and the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia. Tk has wri...

Welcome back public theologian, writer, and activist Dr. Christena Cleveland to the Noize! Christena’ new book God Is A Black Woman is out now and she returns to the podcast to talk about it. We talk about her journey finding the Black Madonnas, the revelations that come from accepting her sacredness, and how art and theology intersect with our spiritual beliefs. We talk more about her love for ar...

Studio Noize goes live! Painter and artist Demetri Burke called on your boy JBarber to moderate his artist talk for his solo exhibition, And Then We Heard Thunder, at Mint Gallery in Atlanta. The crowd was great and you get to hear Demetri talk about his work in a strong way. We discuss pieces hanging in the show, his process of creating this body of work, and how he’s developing and growing as an...

Studio Noize welcomes oil painter Rae Denise to the fam! Rae creates wonderful fantasy portraits that blend cultures, mythologies, and narratives. We talk with her about her recent solo show Sisters of Twine and Gold, how she approaches building her audience and exploring new concepts outside of the world we know. Rae shares her process and talks about her switch from digital to physical painting....

Muralist, George F. Baker III, joins the Studio Noize fam! George is a graphic designer and muralist in the Atlanta area. He’s developed a unique, colorful style and has been doing murals for some of the biggest companies in the world. His clients include Nike, ESPN Gameday, RedBull, Adobe, and MailChimp. George tells us about how he developed his style, how he learned to be good at making murals,...

Sarah Matthews comes through to kick off season 7 of Studio Noize! Sarah is a printmaker and book artist that uses layering and color to create her wonderfully textured work. She talks about her latest solo exhibition, Overcomer, which is on view at the Annmarrie Sculpture Garden & Art Center from January 15 - February 27. Sarah talks about how the pandemic influenced her work, the different w...

Studio Noize teams up with the good folks at Print Austin to bring you interviews with the winners of the 2022 Print Austin 5x5. This annual juried show features 5 amazing printmakers with a fantastic range of skill and experience. Ryan O’Malley is an artist, educator, event organizer, and teaches at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Ryan talks about his philosophy on teaching, how his stud...

Studio Noize teams up with the good folks at Print Austin to bring you interviews with the winners of the 2022 Print Austin 5x5. This annual juried show features 5 amazing printmakers with a fantastic range of skill and experience. Linda Whitney is a long-time educator and internationally known mezzotinter. We talk about her amazing prints that highlight the movement and magnificent regalia of the...

Shoccara Marcus is our first in-studio guest to the new Midtown Atlanta location! Shoccara is a fantastic photographer that focuses her camera on dancers. We talk about her background in modern dance and how she got behind the lens capturing movement. She tells us about her love for locations, making some of her favorite series, all her adventure in grad school at Savanna College of Art and Design...

Jesse Howard channels his passion for social issues into his mixed-media drawings and we’re happy to have him on this episode of Studio Noize! We just jump right into the conversation discussing a wide-ranging list of topics from proper critique etiquette, to maintaining gestures in drawings, blending media, and using homeless people as subjects in his work. There is a lot to learn from an artist...

We’re excited to have Grace Lynne Haynes on the Noize! Grace is a wonderful young artist whose career is off to a tremendous start. From working on two magazine covers for the New Yorker , attending Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock residency , to solo shows with  Band of Vices and Luce Gallery in Italy , Grace’s career is already some other people’s bucket list. We talk about the underlining concep...

Kristine Mays has been “breathing life into wire” for a long time. We’re excited to have her on the Noize because she can talk so eloquently about listening to your artistic intuition. Since she started using wire as her main medium she’s been collected and represented across the country. Kristine talks with us about her artistic growth, how she constructs her ethereal forms and we go in-depth on...

You boy JBarber lets you know all the info on the new JBarberStudio/Studio Noize space in Midtown Atlanta! Jamaal was selected as one of the artists in the new Midtown Arts Alliance residency program, Heart of the Arts . He just moved into a new studio space that he will have for the next year. After explaining the crazy life stuff that made this episode so late, he breaks down all the changes hap...

Superstar painter Abi Salami joins the Studio Noize fam! JBarber selected one of Abi’s paintings for a show this summer with the I Love Your Work podcast but has been a fan for a long time. Abi has incredible energy and talks about moving from her accounting job to embracing her passion as an artist. We talked about how she developed her style, what fuels her artistic drive, why she’s focused on r...

We’re celebrating the legacy of Black art today with Napoleon Jones-Henderson, a member of the legendary collective, AfriCOBRA. Napoleon talks with us about the early years of AfriCOBRA and how that experience helped him grow as an artist. We talk about his working with different materials over the years, passing on his knowledge to the next generation, and how he feels looking back at some of the...

Our guest this week is Dr. Imo Nse Imeh professor of art and art history at Wayne State University. Imo is an amazing draftsman that intertwines his drawing practice with his art history practice. We get to the love and passion behind his amazing drawings including his Benediction series. We discuss his approach to teaching in 2021, give a shout-out to the people that inspired Imo to pursue art hi...

Studio Noize is back with none other than the creative director of the McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Jonell Logan. Jonell is an amazing accomplished woman that exemplifies exactly the type of leadership we need in these arts organizations. She talks with your boy JBarber about her career in the arts leadership that includes the Whitney Museum of Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, the Harvey B. Gantt...

Jamele Wright Sr. joins the Studio Noize family! Your boy JBarber is back from vacation and is live in the studio talking abstraction with Jamele. He tells us about his turn to abstraction and how seeing a piece by Clyfford Still gave him the breakthrough that he needed. Jamele talks about his family history that inspired his series In Transit and how all the textures, color,s and materials tell a...

In partnership with Stay Home Gallery , I present Inward, a virtual exhibition curated by Jasmine Wilson, one of the 2021 curatorial fellows. You should think of these special episodes as mini-artist talks for the virtual exhibition. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be dropping mini-episodes featuring all the artists in the show talking about their inspiration and artistic process. In this episode,...

In partnership with Stay Home Gallery , I present Inward, a virtual exhibition curated by Jasmine Wilson, one of the 2021 curatorial fellows. You should think of these special episodes as mini-artist talks for the virtual exhibition. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be dropping mini-episodes featuring all the artists in the show talking about their inspiration and artistic process. In this episode,...

In partnership with Stay Home Gallery , I present Inward, a virtual exhibition curated by Jasmine Wilson, one of the 2021 curatorial fellows. You should think of these special episodes as mini-artist talks for the virtual exhibition. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be dropping mini-episodes featuring all the artists in the show talking about their inspiration and artistic process. In this episode,...

In partnership with Stay Home Gallery, I present Inward, a virtual exhibition curated by Jasmine Wilson, one of the 2021 curatorial fellows. You should think of these special episodes as mini-artist talks for the virtual exhibition. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be dropping mini-episodes featuring all the artists in the show talking about their inspiration and artistic process. In this episode, w...

In partnership with Stay Home Gallery, I present Inward, a virtual exhibition curated by Jasmine Wilson, one of the 2021 curatorial fellows. You should think of these special episodes as mini-artist talks for the virtual exhibition. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be dropping mini-episodes featuring all the artists in the show talking about their inspiration and artistic process. In this episode, w...

In partnership with Stay Home Gallery , I present Inward, a virtual exhibition curated by Jasmine Wilson, one of the 2021 curatorial fellows. You should think of these special episodes as mini-artist talks for the virtual exhibition. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be dropping mini-episodes featuring all the artists in the show talking about their inspiration and artistic process. In this episode,...