Dr. Jacqueline Dilworth is a a poet and writer of poems who plays, writes them as well as stories and non-fiction, and translates old French texts. She's also a musician who uses her musical skills in writing, performance art, spoken word, and to create radio shows of eclectic and free form music and spoken word on The Jackalope Hour out of Beautiful Uptight Downtown Goldfield Nevada. She's also the Mayor of the celebrated NadaDada Performance art series. . In this episode we di...

LisaRuth Elliott is a visual artist using found material to create her paper collages. She is also a fiber artist, weaver, experimenter of plant dyes on textiles, and public muralist. Inspired by beauty in the textures and patterns around her and what has been cast aside, she transforms the banal into new and dynamic combinations showcasing human occupation. She is prompted by the stories and landscape of San Francisco, of Yelamu and its creatures, as she learns about and stewards unceded Ram...

CW: mentions of addiction, recovery, swearing Karina Blackheart is a Writer, teacher, mentor, ritualist--intent on elevating our daily experience from mundane, ordinary and irritating to meaningful, delightful, nd sacred. Whether she's weaving words, provoking, kneeding bread, walking the dog, or leading or teaching others how to lead a firewalking ceremony, she's stalking beauty, power and meaning and is rarely disappointed. In this episode, Karina discusses art up close vs at a sa...

LisaMaria Martinez (LM) is a blind mom living in the SF bay Area. She rocks a weekly FB Live episode with her bestie, Blind broad Serena Olsen, called The Blind Grind. She loves breaking down origami and and loves to teach it and other artforms non-visually to other blind people, and not blind people. LM also makes her own beauty products such as lotion, chapstick, and face cleansers and... life-coaching to help you access your greatest sense of joy. Serena Olsen is the Fr...

In This Episode we speak with, Sheldon Epps who has directed major productions on and off Broadway, in London and at many theatres across America. In addition, he has had an active television career helming some of the classic shows of recent years, Frasier, Girlfriends, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, Sister Sister and more. He was the artistic director of the renowned Pasadena playhouse for two decades, and currently serves as senior artistic advisor at historic Ford's Theatre in Washingt...

Miss Post Mortem is a Mortician, aesthetician, costume/ theatrical make-up specialist, and Baker, who brings care and dedication to her craft of transforming loved ones's experiences with their dead, through skill and heart. We talk aaaallll about death. This needs ALL the content Warnings, throughout. For mature audiences only. Explicit depictions, mentions of violence, We include many things gruesome, graphic, gross, shunning, mutilation, organ harvesting, What ARE embalmers willin...

Wendy Bliss is a Textile artist, Master Costumer, Instructor, and Scholar of all things fiber arts who began sewing very young, and doing her own patterning by the time she was 14 - fiber has always spoken clearly. Her work includes historical costume/ cosplay and dyeing for over thirty years and she cut her teeth on historical German Renaissance era garments. Then moved into fourteenth century French, and then hit 9-10th century Slavic as areas of primary research & reconstruction. She a...

Costello Darling identifies as a maker more than an artist and sees the ways things COULD be done. and questions the way 'Most People' do things is often unknown to him. They make things that he wants personally and that 'Most People' don't seem to know to want yet (because they don't exist) like a ukulele with the size and strings of a guitar. ** They make more traditional art around the given audience of a moment with the experience made as a reflection of that interaction. His focus is on ...

T. Thorn Coyle is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, photographer, teacher, singer, dancer, non-fiction and Now FIction writer who has written a cozy fiction series and is about to launch the kickstarter to finish the Pride Street Paranormal Cozy Mystery series: http://kck.st/3zAYDyE August 9, 2022 In this episode we talk about the why of which kinds of arts for which emotional spaces, and the necessity of fun art, what feels like failures is giving up, the politics of using your voice for joy...

In this episode my guest is lifelong New York Artist, Judy Wong and We talk about the essential human need to be creative, and how "Art is life and life is art" as well as growing up in NY as a child professional, bullying and identity, formal and informal arts education, escaping performance to find what we love about it when we choose to do it for ourselves. We then wander through some nostalgia about how the performing arts fields have changed over time, finding why she does her art...

Paul Mason Barnes is an accomplished theatre director specializing in Shakespeare (though he also directs musicals, classics, and new work). He is a teacher, and arts administrator (Artistic Director, Education Director, etc.). Most recently, he has also ventured into publishing with a memoir about his experience as a grassroots fundraiser for Pete Buttigieg's campaign for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination and a member of his Arts Policy Advisory Committee (and later, Joe and ...

Lillith Era is a Sapphic actor, musician, dancer, poet, writer, and all-around performer of multiple disciplines. Based in the Bay Area, Lillith has close ties to San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre and the Berkeley Playhouse. Most recently, Lillith could be seen in the West Coast premiere of Celine Song’s “Endlings” at the Oakland Theatre Project. Prior to "Endlings", Lillith has been seen on the stages of the San Francisco Playhouse, Theatre Rhinoceros, Mills College, and more. Ou...

Cholla Soledad is a Fat, indigenous, disabled, queer, and her experiences are filtered through those lenses. She’s an academic dedicated to the pedagogy of experience. She teaches her witchcraft apprentices in the same way. She is an initiate of Anderson (Old) Faery witchcraft and lives a magical life in Oakland with two friends, two cats, two chickens, ancestors who throw things and a myriad of non-solids. In this episode we explore what it means to be queer, seen as a monster, and queen of...

In this episode, I speak with Photographer, ceramicist, digital artist and sculptor, Annie Holland, who for over twenty years has been photographing the wonderful, the absurd and beautiful images of people, places and their daily lives worldwide. she tends to venture down the road less travelled, and years ago ended up in Japan, where her passion for photography really began. After a few years working as a freelance photographer, she returned to Ireland and set up sher own studio in 2000. She...

Julie Henigan is a performing musician (vocals, guitar, banjo, dulcimer, and fiddle) of primarily traditional Irish and old-time American material, as well as original songs and instrumentals, with one CD ("American Stranger"), tracks on other albums (including "Sean-Nós cois Locha"), and two guitar books with Mel Bay. Julie is also a folklorist and literary scholar, with publications in various academic journals and a book with Routledge ("Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Iri...

Scott Rowe is a bit of a contemporary Renaissance Man. He's a cook, a teacher, a healer, a community advocate, a writer, and many other things besides. But one of his great passions is fthe art of person-to-person hospitality: and of making someone feel comfortable, safe, and restored after being his guest for a while. In this episode we look into what it means to care deeply about doing arts with intention and flow, the transformative power of Food and rest as medicine, and some of the ways...

Lea Zalinskis is an Illustrator from, ( actually from) Berkeley, CA, working primarily with hand-cut paper, photography and , more recently delving into the world of animation. In this episode we talk in depth about materials, favorite papers and adhesives, how to get dust out of a framing job (not frame- jobs), ins and outs of art school expectations, the naughty moment that visual artists often have going into museum/ gallery spaces, cramping hands and stretches, how she got started,...

Vicki Burns is a jazz vocalist and music teacher living and performing in New York City. She has been singing her whole life and made a decision to be a musician when she was 6 years old on a cold snowy afternoon in Maine. She is excited to release her third studio album, “Lotus Blossom Days” in April ‘22! In episode eight, we talk loving our bandmates, Scat, the underbelly of New York's Jazz scene, loving and learning from Ella Fitzgerald, and beloved recording studio habits and ways of thi...

Mark Fitzpatrick is an Irish writer, poet, literary scholar and professor who writes fiction and essays, and is preparing the publication of a Gothic fin de siècle thriller, as well as a book about myth. He's also an eccentric living on his family domaine in the Bordeaux region of France. CW- swearing, mentions of substance use. In part 1 we discuss how Poetry is in everything, and everything can be poetic. We wander through language, and cultural distinctions of the irish Diaspora, an...

Mark Fitzpatrick is an Irish writer, poet, literary scholar and professor who writes fiction and essays, and is preparing the publication of a Gothic fin de siècle thriller, as well as a book about myth. He's also an eccentric living on his family domaine in the Bordeaux region of France. CW- swearing, mentions of substance use. In part 1 we discuss how Poetry is in everything, and everything can be poetic. We wander through language, and cultural distinctions of the irish Diaspora, and...