FunkZone Podcast

FunkZone Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode #080: Michael Long
June 22, 2016

Assemblage artist, musician, and Knight of the Rondo! I am very happy to have on the show this week Mr. Michael Long, assemblage artist, musician, and one of the Knights of the Rondo, as he has come to be known in my part of town. I've known him...

Episode #079: Marlyn Daggett
June 15, 2016

Oil painter of large canvases and new Funk Zone resident! Today on the show we have artist Marlyn Daggett, who just recently moved into a studio space down here in the FunkZone at the M.Cubed gallery at 111 Santa Barbara St. and I've been checking her...

Episode #078: Lewis deSoto
June 08, 2016

The artist behind Santa Barbara Museum of Art's giant inflatable Buddha installation!   Today on the show we have photographer, sculptor, and installation artist Lewis deSoto, who currently is filling up a large part of the Santa Barbara Museum...

Episode #077: Rafael Perea de Cabada
June 01, 2016

Multi-media artist and instructor! Today on the show we have artist Rafael Perea de Cabada, who spends part of his time painting, part of his time sculpting, part of his time doing neither in a multi-media kind of way, and part of the time teaching at...

Episode #076: Danny Meza
May 25, 2016

Fine artist, illustrator and tattoo artist Today on the show we have artist Danny Meza, who is both an amazing up and coming illustrator, mashing together Japanese and Mexican popular arts in his recent work, but he is the resident tattoo artist in...

Episode #075 Joseph Bottoms
May 18, 2016

Joseph Bottoms, right, as he appears in Yankee Tavern at Center Stage Theater. Star of stage and screen, from The Dove and The Black Hole to Yankee Tavern Today on the show we have actor Joseph Bottoms, best known for starring in television...

Episode #074: Phoebe Brunner
May 11, 2016

Magical realist landscape painter! Today on the show we have painter Phoebe Brunner, whose most recent series of landscapes are showing at Sullivan Goss through May 29, and if you haven't checked out her magical realist work before, you really must...

Episode #073 Si Jie Loo
May 04, 2016

Today on the show we have painter, drummer, and musician CJ Loo, who hails from Malaysia, but has taken up residence in Santa Barbara and is bringing her Chinese brush art to galleries around town, starting with Bella Rosa Gallery, where we first met....

Episode #072: Live at MichaelKate R. Eddie Hall and Stuart Carey
April 27, 2016

Two artists together for the first time! Today on the show we have a live recording from last Friday's opening at MichaelKate Interiors, where I interviewed R. Eddie Hall and Stuart Carey, two very different artists from Carpinteria who curator Jan...

Episode #071 Bryan Snyder
April 20, 2016

Outdoors writer who likes to go Off the Map and Further Off the Map Today on the show we have backpacker, environmental educator, and author Bryan Snyder. Bryan recently put out a sequel to his first book of nature and hiking essays Off the Map...

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