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FIND US AT OUR NEW HOME: amateurcurators.podiant.co Mike Lacerte and Corey Nachman tackle halls of fame that will never be built, never should be built, but will be discussed regardless.
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Two Geeks Talking is a podcast created for you, the Listener, the Creator, the Professional, the Amateur. If you are looking for inspiration, motivation, and advice during your daily commute, drawing, or just "yourself" time, Kurt Sasso delivers a show that caters to you. Each episode brings you an Influencer in their creative field. This person who shares their successes, failures, Eureka! moments and so much more. Each episodes leaves you with a powerful message that you have to listen at ...
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Every human being has creativity within, but not everyone feels the call to be an Artist. An artist is someone who answers the call to create again and again, and there is beauty and value in that, because if to be human is to be creative, who better to learn about creativity than from working artists? I'm your host, Mandy Harmon, a film director, creative marketer, and sometimes with teeth gritted, consider myself an artist. Sometimes an amateur one, and I’m working on not feeling any shame ...
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Artificial vs. Real Life, Immigration, and Originality as a Visual Artist & Curator
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With Nancy Rivera, a visual artist, curator, and arts administrator based in Salt Lake City, Utah. As an artist, she works primarily in the fields of photography, video, sculpture, and installation. Her practice is influenced by her dual cultural identity and its effects, such as code-switching, cultural assimilation, and displacement. We talk abou…
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Religious Art, Depictions of God, and the Sublime as a Sculptor and Painter
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With artist J. Kirk Richards, a visual artist of many mediums, but primarily known for his sculpture and oil painting work, specializing in Judeo-Christian themes. I’d recommend seeing his award-winning art for yourself instagram @jkirkrichards or www.jkirkrichards.com. You can also follow @jkirkrichards on tiktok for oil painting tips and more art…
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Finding Your Niche, Saying Yes, and “Work/Life balance” as a Music Producer and Composer
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with Randy Slaugh, music producer and composer. Randy Slaugh is a music producer and composer based in Salt Lake City, UT. He has worked on Grammy®️-nominated, Juno award-winning and Billboard #1 records for world-class musicians including Architects, The Amity Affliction, Periphery, Devin Townsend, David Archuleta, TesseracT, Sleeping with Sirens,…
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Hey everyone! The podcast release cadence is going to be tweaked to be every two weeks! Tune in next week for the full episode. Art Breakers is also on the hunt for an audio person to assist with editing episodes and even potentially helping record them (preferably in the Utah area but not necessarily). Hours are low, and pay is also low as this po…
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Image, Art as Language, Death & Renewal as a Cinematographer
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With Bianca Cline, cinematographer. We talk about originality, the importance of representation behind and in front of the camera, authenticity in art, and a bit of Bianca’s transgender journey as a transwoman and woman in the film world. Near the end of the episode, Bianca opens up a little bit about how she’s recently been dealing with ideas arou…
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Depth Work, Substance Abuse, and Daemons as a Musician
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With pianist and musician Jared Ray Gilmore. We talk about the broke, miserable artist trope, substance abuse and addiction, depth work, which is a process of therapy drawn from the work of Carl Jung, and Daemons (both as terms for the shadow self and also as the name of his EP album), sex as creative energy, and other aspects of reconciling the ps…
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Taking this week off for MLK Day. In the meantime...
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There won't be a full episode this week in observance of MLK Day. I encourage you to instead take this time to commit to doing one thing to further educate or learn about the ongoing issues of systemic racism in the US. Personally, in the next couple months, I will be reading So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. As a white person, I think…
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Stability & Gumption - as a Cinematographer
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When young Oscar Jiménez looked ahead to potential education and career paths, none of them placed him behind a camera. He certainly didn’t envision what would happen: 6 months after graduating from film school in 2019, Jiménez received an American Society of Cinematographers’ Student Heritage Award for his work on the short film, Gather. Then in 2…
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Resilience, Passion, & Grief - as a Jazz Singer, Musician, & Actress
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With artist Jazzy Olivo. We talk about her history for the first 20 minutes, then we get into her artistic process: the importance of resetting, ideas on grief and healing (Jazzy's had more than her fair share of tragedy), and why creativity needs silence and space. Finish listening to Broken Bloody Heart here, or anywhere you listen to music. You …
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Vulnerability in Creativity - as a Filmmaker & VFX Artist
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With artist Bryan Fugal. The first 20 or so minutes is Bryan's history, followed by a focus on The Long Haul, a short film inspired by Bryan's dad's eventual coming-out, rocking the family, who are also members of the Mormon faith. Bryan is an accomplished filmmaker and VFX artist, working on short films, documentaries, and some high profile music …
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Presence in the Process - as a Painter
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With artist Lis Pardoe. First 20 or so minutes is Lis’s earlier history, then we spend time talking about generational connection, her artistic philosophies, and how she keeps presence in her life and as a painter. You can see more of her work on lispardoe.com and keep up with her on instagram @lispardoe. If you happen to be in Utah, you can experi…
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Welcome to Art Breakers, a conversation podcast with working artists, sharing the kind of vulnerability and philosophies that deepen your creative work in meaningful ways. Whether or not you personally identify as an artist, if you feel a call to be creative as all humans eventually do, there are valuable lessons to learn from full-time creative pe…
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Fans of curation! Welcome to the introduction Season Two of Amateur Curators! This season, things will go a little bit differently than before. We plan to focus our seasons on a specific topic, and work within it to develop our latest halls of fame. Check out this episode now to find out more about the season and upcoming episodes!Subscribe now on …
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Super powers are supposed to be for those destined for greatness... But, who is really destined to become a superhero? Sam Johnson comes on the show to talk about his original story of Geek Girl as we discuss what it means to be a superhero, writing style and engaging the audience with thought provoking main and supporting characters. We go into Is…
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Richard Crouse is a film critic for many years and also the festival curator at the Cineplex Flashback Film Festival. He stops by the show to promote an amazing nostalgic festival that takes films like: Air Force One, Blade Runner: The Final Cut, The Fugitive, Cohen Brothers: Blood Simple and Fargo, Fight Club, Heat, Groundhog Day, Jurassic Park, L…
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Brad LaDouceur is the Vice President of Events at Cineplex. A Windsor Ontario native, he stops by the show to promote an amazing nostalgic festival that takes films like: Air Force One, Blade Runner: The Final Cut, The Fugitive, Cohen Brothers: Blood Simple and Fargo, Fight Club, Heat, Groundhog Day, Jurassic Park, Legend, Shallow Grave, Pulp Ficti…
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"Doc" aka Carlo San Juan, MD and Eisner nominated Rod Espinosa stopped by on Two Geeks Talking to discuss their newest graphic novel "Immortal Wings", this was their first interview promoting Antarctic Press' book due later this year. We also discussed how they meet, their passions and interests and my patented four questions at the end of every in…
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