Art, in its various forms, can profoundly affect individuals and societies. It can inspire, challenge, provoke, and entertain us. It can also be a means of expressing ideas, emotions, and perspectives, as well as a way of preserving cultural heritage and history. Our conversations focus on creatives of all types and what it means to be an artist. We talk with musicians, filmmakers, writers, painters; you name it! We delve into processes, projects, and how art influences each artist and the w ...
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Jan Phillips | Award-winning author, activist and modern-day prophetess on trusting yourself and living into your sacred power.
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Jan Phillips is a visionary thought leader, award-winning author and dynamic speaker. She is co-founder and executive director of the Livingkindness Foundation. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Ms. Magazine, Sun, Newsday, People Magazine, and the Christian Science Monitor. She is co-founder and executive director of Livingkindness…
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Tim Dillinger and Ray Curenton | Nashville-based singer-songwriters on growing up in deeply religious families, building unique identities, and cr...
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Tim Dillinger is an award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer, poet, speaker, and historian whose career spans more than 20 years. His work has been featured on NPR, Huffington Post, and ColorLines magazine. He has released five albums. Ray Curenton grew up in a singing family and has recorded two independent albums, dedicated to love in all i…
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Jen Murdza | LA-based singer-songwriter and software engineer, working to help independent labels keep more of their money.
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I talk with Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, Jen Murdza. Her songwriting style has been described as "an ironic marriage of somber lyrics and playful, rhythmic grooves." The Boston Globe wrote, "vocal standout, Jen Murdza, has beaten the pack by continually defying genres." Recording artist, Brandy Carlisle said, "I got to see Jen’s set and tho…
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Ilene Cutler | Documentary filmmaker, activist and artist amplifying the voices of immigrants, , people of color, Holocaust survivors and others.
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Ilene Cutler is an activist, artist, and founder of IC Film, where she utilizes media to address important social issues. Her latest documentary project, “We Remember,” follows a group of Hudson Valley singer-songwriters as they meet and spend time with Holocaust Survivors – and then write music based on the stories. Ilene’s other projects include …
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Elizabeth Cunningham | NY-based author, poet and musician - best known for the Maeve Chronicles featuring a feisty Celtic Mary Magdalen.
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Elizabeth Cunningham is best known for The Maeve Chronicles, a series of award-winning novels featuring a feisty Celtic Mary Magdalen. She also recorded MaevenSong, an album of original music from The Maeve Chronicles. Elizabeth has published four collections of poems, a mystery novel, Murder at the Rummage Sale, and All the Perils of this Night, a…
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Shirl Roccapriore | When you know you’re an artist.
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Shirl Roccapriore's circuitous path to becoming a full-time artist sent her climbing Mt. Kilamonjaro and trekking in Nepal, barely surviving survival courses in the desert, and – after 12 years in the hot seat, walking away from her corporate job. What does it take to become a full-time artist? Shirl recounts her adventures, artistic process – and …
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I’m Deb Ondo – this is What’s Art Got to Do With It? My new podcast about aesthetic experiences and approaches to art and life. I do marketing and communications and I’m an oil painter – picked up the brushes again after a long dry spell when the initial COVID pandemic pause changed all of our lives in 2020. As I ramp up my fine art business, I’m t…
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