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Episode #090: Benjamin Anderson
Today on the show we have painter Benjamin Anderson, whose photo-realist paintings of swimming pools--and objects like cars and planes found underwater in said pools--are unlike any others you've seen. He comes from an artistic family, his father...
Episode #089: Kathy Kissik
Kathy Kissik at CERN Photographer and artist! Today on the show we have Kathy Kissik, photographer and artist, who has a show opening at SBCAST on September 1. Her current work comes out of her residency at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in...
Episode #088: Assume Vivid Astro Focus
Today on the show we have Assume Vivid Astro Focus, a two man art team consisting of Eli Sudbrack and Christophe Hamaide-Pierson, who currently have a show at MCA called Avalances Volcanos Asteroids Floods, a wall-to-wall retrospective of their work,...
Episode #087: Gino Perez
Painter, former skater, fashion designer! Today on the show we have artist Gino Perez. Some of you might know Gino from back in the day when he was a pro skater, but at some point he retired to fully focus on painting and his art. He's been showing...
Episode #086: Jeremy Harper
2016's Official Old Spanish Days Poster Artist! Today on the show we have plein air painter Jeremy Harper. Jeremy is a part of the Oak Group, Santa Barbara's well known plein air arts group that was founded in 1985 by Ray Strong and Arturo Tello. And...
Episode #085: Kerrie Smith
Pointillist abstract painter Kerrie Smith. Today on the show we have artist Kerrie Smith. As well as being an abstract pointillist painter and working in bold colors and angular designs, she has long been a champion for supporting artists with...
Episode #084: Sara Lytle
Sara Lytle, large scale painter Today on the show we have artist Sara Lytle. After a long career in the fiber arts she started a late career change into large, bold paintings, some abstract and some cartoonish in their large crow characters. Many of...
Episode #083: Laura Karlin
Photo by George Simian Choreographer and artistic director of Invertigo Dance Theatre, Laura Karlin! Today on the show we have choreographer Laura Karlin. Since 2007, she's been the artistic director of Invertigo Dance Theatre in Los Angeles, which...
Episode #082: Joan Rosenberg Dent
Santa Barbara's premiere porcelain artist! Today on the show we have ceramicist Joan Rosenberg Dent, who came to Santa Barbara just over 15 years ago and found the change of scenery and people in our lovely town just what she needed. Tenuous...
Episode 081: Maiza Hixson
Chance Encounter Specialist! Today on the show we have Maiza Hixson, a curator and artist who comes to Santa Barbara from working in Delaware, where she helped transform Wilmington's art scene. She creates experiences, she looks at venues that people...