This episode features a conversation with artist Dawn Scarfe.

Episode 41: Craig Colorusso

"Truth is a knife..." So begins a short essay from 1975 by Richard Herbert Howe--an artist, photographer, and creator of New York in Plain Sight: The Manhattan Street Corners--written, I think, when he was a student of the iconic composer Herbert Br

This episode features a conversation with writer, performer and producer Deborah Pearson.

This episode features a conversation with Hal Rammel: musical instrument inventor, composer/improvisor and visual artist.

This episode features part two of my conversation with percussionist, arts administrator, and composer Jan Williams.

This week's episode is part 1 of my conversation with percussionist Jan Williams.

This episode features a conversation with Nathan McLaughlin: musician, composer, and sound artist.

In 2007 we hosted composer John Luther Adams at Sam Houston State University for our annual Contemporary Music Festival. Part of his visit included a session with young composers. In one of the classes he talked about his process of first using a pencil a

Drawing by Austin Kleon from his book Show Your Work. I recently discovered two terrific books about creativity by Austin Kleon: Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work. The latter was particularly resonant, gi