Ep. 065 Ira Sherman – Metalsmith, Sculptor – Chastity Couture
Wes and Todd talk with Ira Sherman. Sherman talks about how he got his start in art, his mechanized sculpture, his series “Panaceas to Persistent Problems”, Chastity Couture – Impenetrable Devices, public art projects, jewelry, esthetic mechanical engineering & design, fashion shows, process & technique, Bitfactory, air muscles, flea market mechanisms, public art projects, jewelry, and making and promoting work.
Ep. 064 Talya Feldman - Art Installation, Sound, & Film
Wes and Todd talk with Talya Feldman. Feldman talks about her journey that led her to pursue her MFA in Germany, what the MFA program at Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg is like, the catalyst that led her to her current work that confronts right-wing extremism and imparts healing and hope, and how one can support oneself as an Artist doing social-political art.
Ep. 063 Cody Kuehl - Art That Explores The Myth And Ethos Of The American West
Wes and Todd talk with Cody Kuehl. Kuehl talks about reassessing his art life during Covid, journaling, art festivals, creativity, work ethic, the origination of the Western themes in his work, contrasting the myth of the West with the reality of history, challenging stereotypes, narrative and storytelling, comics, influences, Bill Watterson, integrity and making better art, Red Wolf, taking the idea of improv and applying it to art, pricing, commissions, and selling art via social media. We unpack a lot in this episode.
Ep. 060 Paul Weiner - American Contemporary Abstract Artist
Wes and Todd talk with Paul Weiner. Weiner talks about infusing social commentary into his art, art and Covid, Covid lexicon, process, Instagram, art and the American flag, free speech, Pierre Soulages, patriotism, art as investment, collecting, zombie abstraction, gallery representation, residencies, Kehinde Wiley, pricing, and legacy.
Ep. 050 Adrianna Abarca -Founder, Latino Cultural Arts Center
Wes and Todd talk with Adrianna Abarca, Founder of the Latino Cultural Arts Center and Curator of Hecho en Colorado at History Colorado. Abarca talks about her family history, growing up in Denver, identity, collecting art, and her vision for the Latino Cultural Arts Center, an integrated cultural campus in the Sun Valley neighborhood west of downtown Denver that will feature two museums, one dedicated to Mexican heritage and the other to Latin America; with a library of Latino arts…
Ep. 049 Cynthia Ramu - Pueblo Levee Mural Project
Wes and Todd talk with Artist, Director and Curator, Collin Parson. Parson talks about growing up in an artistic family, his formal and informal art education, the definition of an Artist, being an Artist as a profession, influences, process, George Carlin and Carl Sagan, his public art project for the City of Lakewood, and his favorite exhibits that he has curated for the Arvada Center.
Ep. 048 Collin Parson - Artist, Director, Curator - Arvada Center
Wes and Todd talk with Artist, Director and Curator, Collin Parson. Parson talks about growing up in an artistic family, his formal and informal art education, the definition of an Artist, being an Artist as a profession, influences, process, George Carlin and Carl Sagan, his public art project for the City of Lakewood, and his favorite exhibits that he has curated for the Arvada Center.
Ep. 047 Anna Kaye - Charcoal Drawings
Wes and Todd talk with Artist, Anna Kaye. Kaye talks about her solo exhibit, Heatwave, at Sandra Phillips Gallery, her charcoal drawings, her love of nature and science, her fascination with wildfires, environmental advocacy, Drop-in Drawing at the Denver Art Museum, aspens, Pink Progression, community art and activism.
Ep. 022 Darla Drew - Community Arts
Wes talks with Rapid City Council Woman Darla Drew.
Darla talks about her musical career with DD & The Fayrohs, her experience on the Rapid City Common Council, city budgets and the municipal funding for the arts. She also touches on her time with the Dahl Fine Arts Center and her current position with the Black Hills Playhouse.
Ep. 021 Steve Allender - Rapid City Mayor on funding for the arts
In this episode, Wes talks with Rapid City Mayor Steve Allender.
Steve talks about his career as a police officer, why he ran for mayor, city budgets and the municipal funding for the arts. He also touches on the One Heart and Care Campus, school funding, and the volatility of sales tax.
Ep. 019 Krista Hanley - Art Advisor & Art Coordinator
Krista Hanley talks about art collecting, collection management and art appraisal. She describes the essentials of artist and collector relationships, pricing, artist residencies, and a plethora of important things that artists need to be aware of when approaching galleries and shows.
Ep. 018 Detour - Multi-disciplinary Artist and Author making a difference
In this episode, Wes and Todd are back in Denver with internationally renowned artist, Detour.
We talk Detour’s history of what led him to become a full-time artist, some of the projects that he has done, and what led him to write the phenomenal book “Be the Artist, The Interactive Guide to a Lasting Art Career,” a book that should be in every artist’s studio and part of the curriculum in every art school…
Ep. 008 Leo Tanguma - Chicano Muralist
Wes and Todd visit with Chicano Muralist, Leo Tanguma. Leo talks about growing up in Beeville, Texas and what set him on his path to becoming an artist, meeting the great Muralist, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and how it influenced his work, and discusses some of his incredibly powerful and significant murals like "Rebirth of Our Nationality.”
Join us for this fantastic episode with Leo Tanguma, Artist, Muralist, and Sage, as he recounts stories about his life, gives us some history lessons and imbues us with his words of wisdom.
Ep. 007 Cynthia Ramu - Pueblo Levee Mural Project Coordinator/Muralist and Art Educator
The Tenet podcast travels to Pueblo, Colorado to interview artist and art educator, Cynthia Ramu.
Wes and Todd talk with Cynthia Ramu about her start as an artist, moving to Pueblo to paint murals on the levee, and the importance of art education for children in the community. Cynthia also talks about the history of the Pueblo Levee Mural Project and what the future holds for the levee and a new era of murals in Pueblo.