Episodes

Artist and Audience | RSS.com Who is your audience and what is your relationship with them? What are you providing or sharing with your audience and what do you need from them? A co-host artist’s chat, Brett and I work through everything from who we create for to whether we need an audience to why […]

Artistic Sight & the Misleading Brain | RSS.com Do you consciously look at the world through your lens as an artist? In other words, do you stop to consider how you are seeing things and make a conscious effort to look at the world without bias or expectations and with intention? Doing this takes vigilance […]

Transformational Practice | RSS.com Practice, iteration, discipline, commitment… do these concepts bring up a sense of dread or conjure images of tedious repetition when associated with your artistic process? Well, we might just change your view on that after listening to this episode. In “Transformational Practice”, I speak with Ginger Davis Allman, the head guru […]

Feed Your Muse | RSS.com What do you do to keep your Muse well-fed and happy? We know we need to feed it, know that inspiration is important to our creative endeavors but what do we actively do to ensure that happens on a regular basis. That’s what this little chat here is all about. […]

The Art of Compassionate Critique | RSS.com ~ How do you feel about critique? Do you welcome it? Do you avoid it? What does or would the purpose of critique be in your artistic process assuming you would want to take advantage of all the wonderful things it can do for you? Sound serious? Well, […]

Body of Work with Deonne Kahler | RSS.com ~ Are you looking for a challenge aimed at helping you develop a more singular focus or are you looking for ways to make your art more accessible and desirable for galleries, shows, publications, wholesale, etc? My guest Deonne Kahler and I talk about the process of […]

Your Path, Your Groove | RSS.com Do you prefer to primarily work in one medium and technique that gives you an easily identifiable style but makes you feel like a one trick pony, or do you have a variety of interests that might make your style and voice a bit difficult to pin down, but […]

AI in Art: Friend, Foe, or Fated? | RSS.com How do you feel about AI creating “art”? Is it something you’d want to explore, or have already? Or would you prefer to completely extricate it from the halls of the artistic world, never to cast it’s algorithmic shadow on us again? In this rollercoaster of […]

Growing Your Artist Self with Melanie West | RSS.com Do you see yourself as an artist? Why or why not? Do you give your artistic self the permission, love, and priority in your life that it deserves and that you need? The conversation today is centered around the idea of becoming or growing as an […]