The Art Box

A quick review on our 2023 Podcasts for The Art Box and Clouds in the Sand.

Hosts Linda Harris and Jean Watkins sat down with the Mesquite Hertitage Museum Coordinator Elspeth Kuta to discuss the early history of Bunkerville and Mesquite. Enjoy this heartfelt episode and learn about our founding familes. It should be noted Elspeth will be retiring this month, if you can drop by the museum before December 21, stop in to say hi to one of our Mesquite Heroes.  Learn more abo...

Tyler popped into our STEAM Center studio on Thanksgiving eve with his sons to record a quick episode about  the genisis of his unique "Imagine That" exhibition entry that garnered a first place in the photography category. The October exhibition was sposored by Sherry Gosdis. Enjoy.

There are a few places in the world where Steve is complete awe, one of them is the Pando tree in Fishlake National Forest, Utah. I have visted, I have camped and each time I am content to sit and listen to the Aspen leaves in the wind, they are soothing to my soul, laying in my sleeping bag memsurized at night as the Milky Way makes its way across the sky, stars apprearing and dispearing amongst...

Several years ago, in a galaxy far, far away Steve on his way to a State Historic Preservation Office meeting happened upon Don painting an incredible cat on a traffic control box at the corner of Decatur and Vegas Avenues. It has taken me this long to finally drag the recording equipment to Don’s studio at the Domsky Glass Gallery in downtown Las Vegas. We could have talked for hours. In this uni...

It took a while to sync schedules but we finally were able to connect with Los Angeles based artist Marisa Futernick . Last in our series of Majorie Barrick - Modern Desert Markings exhibition artists, Linda and I totally enjoyed our chat with Marisa. It is full of discussions on conceptual art, creativity, her wide range of art, London flats, what is Americaness, and Frozen Enchiladas...... and o...

What does one do between podcasts guests? Linda and I just started recording and talking about her and Ron's uninvited house guest. Silly yes, but we can say we recorded an episode less than 10 minutes. If you have a name for their guest please feel free to send it to us at: artboxvv@gmail.com

Listen in as Linda and Steve dropped by much beloved and award winning artist Floyd Johnson's studio to chat about creating his latest "Best in Show" art piece "Billy the Kid" for the November-December 2023 "Lucky 13" exhibition. Yes, there is a good story! We love you Floyd.  

We think one can define Denis Feehan as an unbound bundle of literary and musical energy. This is an episode that no one will want to end, Denis a Mesquite based author, actor, director, professor, poet and musician graces us with his infectious attitute talking about his art and of course his upcoming holiday special "Rocking and Singing Christmas" on December 2 at the Mesquite Theatre (150 North...

Paul Atkinson is a self-taught American artist working in the photographic medium.  His work celebrates not only the natural landscape, but also explores the human landscape from a detached examination of what is left behind.  He employs the assumed truthfulness of the camera to present a reality that frequently transcends the limits of human visual perception, through both night photography and b...

Meet our friend Jesus Baeza Jr, creator of business, smoothies and heart.

Linda and I happily release our friend Diana Lee Rose first episode of her Opportunivore podcast. Diana's first guest is Victoria Hafen an inspirational nutrition and weight loss coach for the Mesquite Recreation Center. Besides eating and exercise, Victoria touches on sleeping and social media habits as they pertain to healthy living. Diana and Victoria hit the ball out of the park on this first...

Linda and Steve were honored to host Las Vegas artist and College of Southern Nevada art professor Mark Brandvik at our Mesquite Works STEAM Center studio.  Mark graduated from UNLV with a BFA in 1996, then from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a MFA in 1998. In his artist statement he writes: “The figure/ground and palette of most the architectural landscape works reflect my t...

Jane Tolar creates baskets inspired by Gullah sweetgrass and Native American pine needle baskets, both ancient traditions of coiled and stitched natural materials.  Jane uses pine needles and grasses, the coils bound with thread or cord. Jane urges you to touch her art, saying “I would like everyone to pick up a basket, then feel its textures and inhale its scent. I want people to look at my work...

Getting our musical art on last week, we invited Skip Anderson (Batman) and Julie (a.k.a. Robin) into our STEAM Center studio for an ultra fun chat about all things growing up music. Skip is the lead guitarist for the Terry Wayne Project, quite often playing at the Casablanca. We laughed and learned alot about the ins and outs of this amazing lifelong musician.  Click here to visit Skip on his Ins...

Linda and Steve were over the moon recently when Cory Clemetson dropped by the studio for an interview. Cory and his brother Chad are owners of one of the top golf courses in the world, Wolf Creek in Mesquite, Nevada . Besides golf Cory is the newly named head basketball coach at Wardlaw+Hartridge School located in Edison, New Jersey,  Cory and Chad founded Kids For Sports , a 501C3 organization t...

Enjoy a recent sit-down Linda and Steve had with Mesquite, Nevada mayor Allan Litman. We talk Lahaina, local disaster preparedness, housing, loving your job and of course Trader Joe's.  The emergency alert app the mayor discussed. NIXLE https://www.nixle.com/

Steve's new favorite podcast "Night Sky Tourist" host Vickey Derksen graciously was our guest for a super-duper interview chatting about dark skies, home schooling, US Rt. 89, light polution and of course podcasting. Vicky Derksen Night Sky Tourist Bio Vicky Derksen fell in love with the night sky while teaching naked-eye astronomy to local students in Fountain Hills, Arizona. Her passion for star...

It was Linda and Steve's extreme pleasure to interview nic recently to chat about their art career, passions and work included in the  Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at University of Nevada Las Vegas ,  Modern Desert Markings exhibition  sponsored by  Nevadans for Cultural Preservation . nicholas b jacobsen is a seventh-generation Utah-Mormon, trans-nonbinary settler raised in Nuwu homelands. As a...

Bethany Overland-Green our Art Box episode 50 guest brings two of her daughters in to talk all things creativity and just in case you cannot tell, we had fun. Also, you will meet the VVAA's newest member Sasha Green. Sasha has an exhibition in the Mesa gallery during August 2023. Make sure you get by the Mesquite Fine Arts Campus at 15 W. Mesquite Blvd and see it.  

There is not enough room to say how much we love Lizz Larson. She put the STEAM in the STEAM Center, she made it possible for our little podcast to have a professional studio, allowed us to host a Podcasting 101 class, is our cheerleader, makes things happen and like I said there is not enough room. Linda and Steve had the pleasure of interviewing Lizz and could have talked for hours. Lizz ozzes h...

Adriana Chavez (they/them/she/her) - Performance and Visual Artist Linda and Steve on a field trip to an opening in Las Vegas happened upon the Lulu Gallery, we ran into Adriana Chavez and our lives might never be the same. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G human and we could have talked to her for days. Let Adriana explain: Adriana is a Queer, Latinx clown with Spanish, Portuguese, and Indigenous Mexican roots. They...

Linda and Steve had a marvelous interview with Vernon Robison, owner, editor and everything of our local paper The Progress newspaper. https://mvprogress.com/    

Linda sits down with Steve to chat about his upcoming stint as the Mesquite Fine Arts Center Artist of the Month for August 2023. 

The Art Box in collaboration with Nevadans for Cultural Preservation and Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art @ UNLV present a conversation with Bryant Robison the contractor for Michael Heizer's art piece "Double Negative" completed in 1969 on the Mormon Mesa near Overton, Nevada.  Listen in as Katie Hoffman and Rayette Martin sit down with Bryant and his nephew Vernon Robison at the Lost City Museum. ...