Authentic Obsessions

Episodes

April 9, 2024

Bela Suresh Roongta - Journals

Feedback loops in the art world, finding ways to accumulate more moments of joy, the in-between spaces, writing vs. storytelling, not fitting into a box, and the orange couch are all part of Bela Suresh Roongta’s story.

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March 26, 2024

Susan Lerner - Nostalgia

Contemporary hand-cut collage artist Susan Lerner talks about tag sales, boundaries, trying new things, taking pauses, and challenges of selling your work.

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March 12, 2024

Denise Daffara - Cups & Chairs

Self-confidence, self-compassion, self-acceptance, self-responsibility, along with color, tables, tea, and light all play an important role in Denise Daffara's creative life.

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Feb. 27, 2024

Nirmal Raja - Material Intimacy

The monumental labors of women that often go unnoticed, and the resilience of women under the invisible weight they carry are themes interwoven in the current work of interdisciplinary artist Nirmal Raja.

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Feb. 13, 2024

Rena Diana - Line & Pattern

Stones, learning, confidence, pattern and line, expressing beauty, and promoting your work are just a few topics artist Rena Diana covers today. After retiring from a fulfilling career as an educator in Baltimore, Rena started focusing full time on her …

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Jan. 30, 2024

Nick Petrie - Creativity

The challenges of creating on a deadline, having faith and trust in the thing you’re doing, and the feelings that arise when switching from the act of writing to marketing and promotion all come up during my conversation with author …

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Oct. 3, 2023

Carol Paik - Looking Closely

Carol Paik, a New York based artist, is interested in many different media, but really found meaning working with repurposed textiles.

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Sept. 19, 2023

K. Woodman-Maynard - Emotional Expression

K. Woodman-Maynard’s obsession with emotional expression comes out not only in her graphic novels but also through anger journaling and diary comics.

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Sept. 5, 2023

Andryea Natkin - Being True to Myself

From chenille bedspreads & fringe vests to mosaics & ceramics, Andryea Natkin shares her journey as a seeker, always on the lookout for what is truly hers so she can express it.

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Aug. 22, 2023

Joanne Olney - Fragility & Delicacy

Joanne's obsession with fragility and delicacy is linked to her fascination with awe and transience, resiliency, and mortality.

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Aug. 8, 2023

Brianna Martray - The Exquisite Interconnectedness of All Things

Weather, layers, inner worlds, thick living and 10,000 folded paper cranes.

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July 25, 2023

Rachael Singleton - Stone

Rachael is an experimental textile and mixed media artist living in West Yorkshire, England.

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July 11, 2023

Anna van der Putte - Beauty & Psychology

Anna is a self-taught multi-media artist who makes assemblages, installations, and paper and textile art. During our chat, Anna talks about receptacles, the Minystery of Consideration, discovering and processing beauty, permission, belonging, and what makes us tick.

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June 28, 2023

Nicole Kronzer - Belonging

Finding your people, measures of success, optimistic teenagers, and soft pants vs. hard pants with high school English teacher, former professional actor, and author Nicole Kronzer! There’s also some chatter about thinking you’re too weird for the world, and how …

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June 6, 2023

Lisa Kellner - Nature & Being Present

From an island off the coast of Maine: space, discomfort, trust, and abundance.

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June 21, 2022

Robin Davisson - Material Surprises

Robin shares her life changing week at The Penland School, the importance of doing experiments to get to the truth, and the exhilaration of discovery and curiosity. Robin's lyrical, process-driven work is rooted in eclectic curiosity and the material surprises …

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June 7, 2022

Lea Ann Slotkin - Nature & Color

Lea Ann creates bold and colorful mixed media paintings and collages. Lea Ann focuses on the background layers, which gives her work a lot of energy and visual excitement and leaves little hints of magic peeking through to leave space …

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May 26, 2022

Tina Norén - Wanderlust

Wanderlust, giving ourselves permission to do more than one thing and the inspiring non-fiction books that are holding our interest these days are just a few topics we chat about as we go down the beautiful meandering path of Tina …

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May 10, 2022

Samantha Downing - Storytelling

Samantha writes domestic psychological thrillers filled with snark and dark humor and shows us that murder doesn’t have to be bleak. During our chat Sam talks about unreliable narrators, success and her boundaries around social media. She is the author …

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April 26, 2022

Duncan Petrie - The Yearning

Duncan Petrie is a photographer using spare, striking composition and the best natural light to emphasize emotion over the literal image and truth over objectivity, in hopes that he might one day capture how it feels to truly see. During …

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April 12, 2022

Phoebe Gander - Curiosity, Light & Shadow

Phoebe Gander is a landscape, abstract and still life painter, inspired by the beautiful ocean, skies and landscape where she lives with her family in Wainui Beach on the east coast of New Zealand. Phoebe started her journey of self-discovery …

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March 15, 2022

Marissa Huber - Searching for Meaning

Marissa Huber is an artist, connector, and creative instigator for the Carve Out Time for Art community and co-author of “The Motherhood of Art.” She works primarily in water-based mediums like gouache and acrylic, cut paper, and digital mediums and …

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March 1, 2022

Liz Dexter - Materials

Liz Dexter is a mixed media artist and architect who spends her days finding beauty and joy in the imperfect, unfolding layers of our lives, and discovering awe and wonder in our midst. Liz develops her paintings using many layers …

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Feb. 8, 2022

Poppy Dodge - Color

Poppy Dodge is an abstract painter and a Color Maximalist who delights in creating harmony and balance using all the colors. Her work explores her obsession with stacking color and shapes and is influenced by modern improvisational quilting and abstract …

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