The Art Box

Linda and her granddaughter Natalie scored big by landing quite an entertainer Terry Wayne of the Terry Wayne Project who frequently play at Mesquites Casablanca Resort.  You are going to love this interview as Terry will wow you with his live story, his goodness and his incredible talent. Natalie in her debut as a podcast host will make you smile and think what a wonderful life is ahead for this...

Paul's most recent article in the NY Times. Where Are All the Wild Things, Daddy? A father worries that his favorite children’s books promise his daughter a vibrant natural world that will no longer exist. ABOUT PAUL Paul Bogard is author of The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light, published in North America by Little, Brown, and in the UK and around the worl...

Steve has been following the Monica & Felina story now for two years on Facebook as Monica's husband Robert has chronicled via video's the wonderful progress. Enjoy this episode about determination, creativity, overcoming fear and yes love. Read below for info on Monica. Monica Tarr I am not a creator of things from scratch. My talents lie in perfecting, changing, tweaking and bringing out the bes...

Linda met Floyd at his home studio to get a sneak peek at his work for the July exhibition.

Linda and Floyd recorded a few short episodes at Floyd's house/studio. This quickie is them discussing light and shadow. 

We were honored to meet Jen Urso during the research phase of " Modern Desert Markings " exhibition sponsored by Nevadans for Cultural Preservation and the Marjorie Barrick Museum on the campus of the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Linda and Steve so enjoyed our time with Jen, we learned, we laughed, we cried, we understood, and we left as better people. Many hugs to Jen for gracing us with her t...

Welcome to the 100th episode and 1st year anniversary of the Art Box Podcast. ​ It was last April when Rachelle Knight and Steve Dudrow dreamed up a podcast for the VVAA and in May the BoD approved us to move forward. We would like to thank the 2022 BoD for giving us the green light to start on our journey. ​ In early June Tyler Roylance was our first guest and we were off and running, we crept al...

Drop in this June to view and purchase the amazing art created by the June Artist of the Month. Displaying the fill month of June in the Mesa Galley @ Mesquite Fine Art Center 15 W. Mesquite, Blvd.

Our friend Matt Harper provided Linda and Steve contact info for Alina Lindquist and wow are we ever glad he did, what a talent. Direct experience with the landscape is a cornerstone of my artistic practice. I primarily paint en plein air with oil to capture my initial experience on location. Sometimes I will use watercolor or gouache, depending on how much I want to carry that day. No matter what...

Our friends Diane Alexanian and Jill Waters combined their super Hollywood powers to bring us acclaimed director and all around nice guy Shelley Jensen for a rousing hour interview.   This is a great listen. Catch you in an hour when you can drop us a line at artboxvv@gmail.com to tell us how much you loved this episode.  We loved his quote: "Life is a fun ride and it’s really up to the individual...

Linda and Steve sit down with Mesquite Women's History and Culture Center founder Jean Watkins and General Manager Carol Saldivar for a heartwarming and enlightening interview. You will be inspired. "Bloom where you're planted" Learn more about these local heroes making impacts nationally. https://whccmesquitenv.org/

This was a Sunday recording episode to beat all, meet Alex Harper, Community and Education Chair for the Red Rock Audubon Society. Linda and Steve could have talked/learned from Alex for hours, but alas he needed to get home to Las Vegas.  Avian field work brought Alex from South Florida to Las Vegas in 2015, and he has been finding rarities in the desert ever since. He first began guiding as a vo...

Oh my goodness Linda and Steve got their luck on this week when we interviewed Oakland based artist Rachelle Reichart, this is an interview we did not want to end, but alas it was Friday and Rachelle needed to go help her daughter pick some Kale for dinner. Rachelle Reichert lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. She creates drawings, mixed media works, sculptures and art books to consider...

Sue McPherson and Randy Bauman discuss the Mesquite Fine Art's Center Photographic Society May exhibition "Through the Photographer's Eyes" in this Ten Minutes With podcast. 

Diane Alexanian super guest recruiter and now podcast co-host brought us long time friend and famous Hollywood Stuntman Chuck Waters for our 92nd episode. This is a MUST listen!  The picture is Chuck on the set of High Plains Drifter from 1972. Chuck Waters is an American stuntman and actor who has worked on more than 130 films. Waters was born on September 14, 1934, in Libertyville, Illinois and...

Doreen Kinkade Doreen entered the art world in 1974 when she signed up for adult art education classes at Chaffey College in Ontario, California. Her very talented teacher, Dee Cole, opened Doreen's world. She learned Batik, off-loom weaving, fabric collage, and slab pottery in three short years. After being transferred to Kentucky, she taught Macrame and off-loom weaving. A year later, they were...

Please let your heart and soul enjoy a poem written by Ms. AyeVee during one of our artist visits to the Jean Dry Lake Bed for the Modern Desert Markings exhibition.  Ms. AyeVee is an award-winning poet and curator from Las Vegas. Her work has been published by Zeitgeist Press, Red Rock Review, Nevada Humanities, and Las Vegas Review-Journal, to name a few. She also curates poetry workshops, event...

The best thing about Hikmet's interview with us was that I got to edit it and listen to it again about another twenty times.  You may know her as Katie Hoffman's co_curator for the Modern Desert Markings exhibit at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, we know her as the consummate art professional and friend that we could have talked to for days. Born and raise...

Emily Budd Linda and Steve were ever so privileged to sit with Emily at her metal shop @ UNLV for a wide ranging interview on all things art, paleontology, desert trash and Rhyolite. If it wasn't for schedules, parking fines and the need for humans to nourish themselves with food we would likely still be there.  Listen in to a great interview. More about Emily. Emily is a queer artist specializing...

Mark Brest van Kempen Steve must thank Mark for his take on the Modern Desert Markings exhibit that the 50 year old art became real art as the land has taken it back. Mark Brest van Kempen has created a variety of artworks using the landscape itself as sculptural material. From the Free Speech Monument on the UC Berkeley campus to Land Exchange at the National Academy of Art in China, his work exp...

Paige Bockman Meet the unsung hero of the Modern Desert Markings exhibit at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art @ UNLV. You could find her on the field trips, find her arranging for art deliveries, coordinating artists, installing art and yes, even watering our special Mojave plants.  Growing up in a small town in eastern Nebraska where everyone knew everyone, I was always  interested in stories an...

What a fantastic interview we had with Alisha, from front yard gardens, to use of snail mail, lunch bag art for her daughter and the possibilities of cloning to facilitate 24 hour work days. All who listen know of our final question "What has inspired you this week?" Well, Alisha gave inspirational answers three times, I am sure she could have gone on. GREAT podcast! Alisha Kerlin encourages dialo...

Steve made his way via horse drawn ATV out to Lizard, Nevada this evening to chat with the zany residents. We talked to the cast "in-character" on the stage, was it noisy, yes, was it funny, OMG yes. The scene stealing donkey even got in the act. See what all the fuss is about, get out to our theatre 150 N Yucca St, Mesquite, NV 89027 this weekend or next for a fun time.  Tickets can be purchased...

The first time I heard the term Land Art was in college. My ecology instructor showed us images of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty. We learned how creating the spiral altered the environment enough to cause the tiny microscopic organisms to change the color of the water surrounding it to red.  Living in southern Nevada, I knew we had a few key Land Art pieces in the area. I had heard rumors about H...

Rayette and I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with Deanne and chatting about her many roles at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at UNLV as well as her unique art and believe it or not the ins and outs of why the fifth sense is not a museum staple.