Hungarian Intuitive, abstract painter Beáta Bősze spent twenty years as an intensely focused economist for financial giants like AXA Insurance, when, on the verge of burnout, she received a mysterious flyer for “How to Be a Creative, Happy Woman.” Thus began a journey towards self-discovery and the expressive, abstract paintings that now fill both her personal and professional lives.

 Find Beata:

 Website: www.beatabosze.com
Instagram:  @beatabosze     

 Mentioned:

• The Profit Canvas, Alexis Fedor online course (learn) 
• Creative Visionary Program, Nicholas Wilton’s Art2Life online course (learn) 
• Art NXT Level, Sergio & Dr. Yanina Gomez online course (learn) 
• Nancy Hillis, online course  (learn)
• The Artist’s Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity, Nancy Hillis (read)  
• ArtPlacer, online art curatorial tool (learn) 
• Kunstmatrix, online art curatorial tool (learn)
• Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti, movie (watch) 
• The Moon and Sixpence, novel based on Gauguin’s life, W. Somerset Maugham, (read) 
• Price of Everything, documentary (watch) 

Find Me, Kristy Darnell Battani:
Website:    https://www.kristybattani.com
Instagram:  kristybattaniart
Facebook:  kristybattaniart

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From her teenage years surrounded by haute couture in Milan, Cecilia Roger has always had an eye for luxurious details. Initially, she trained her eye to spot the details in ancient manuscripts as a paleographer. Even though she transitioned to handling the details of the family wine business, Cecilia’s hands were always busy with a different kind of detail—sewing and embroidery. Cecilia still makes exquisitely embroidered and beaded handbags but has also embraced the meticulous details of Japanese embroidery.

Find Cecilia:
Website: www.japaneseembroideryacademy.com
Website:  www.ceciliaroger.com
Instagram:  @ceciliaroger   

 Mentioned:

• Saanen, Switzerland (visit) 
• Teatro alla Scala (visit) 
• Paleography (learn)  
•  “Hands are the exit of the spirit.” (learn) 
• Kakejiku, Japanese hanging scrolls (learn) 
• Japanese Embroidery Center/ Atlanta, Georgia, US (learn)
• Nuido, The Way of Embroidery (learn)
• Cecilia's Online Classes (explore) 

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Spirituality.   Love.   Impatience of the young.   Power of the female human being.

Twenty-seven-year-old  Austrian poet and novelist RAINER MARIA RILKE managed to tackle all of those weighty topics in his letters to a young aspiring artist in the early 1900s. Collected and published after his death, Letters to a Young Poet addresses all that we fear and question about the life as a creative. But as Rilke attests, the quieter we are, the closer we move towards our art. Fate emerges from within us.

If you missed the first episode of this two-part series, I encourage you to begin with Episode 22.

 Mentioned:

• Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (read) 
• The Poetry of Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke (read)  
• Isn’t Love A Grand Old Thing, Billy Murrary and Ada Jones (1909), available through the Library of Congress (hear) 
• Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke, Paula Modersohn Becker (1909) (see)

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For all of us who have struggled with the questions of “Am I an artist?” “Am I any good?” “What does it mean to be an artist?” —and I dare say that is all of us—I hope you will come along with me to 1903 to a small Parisian apartment where 27-year-old Austrian poet and novelist RAINER MARIA RILKE has taken pen to paper to respond to an aspiring young writer’s inquiry, “Are my poems any good?” 

In the ten letters that follow, Rilke captures all that torments and inspires those who cannot escape the need to create. Whether this is your first or fiftieth time to consider Rilke’s words, it is impossible to leave the experience uninspired or uncomforted.

 Mentioned:

• Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (read) 
• The Poetry of Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke (read)  
• Isn’t Love A Grand Old Thing, Billy Murrary and Ada Jones (1909), available through the Library of Congress (hear) 
• Niels Lyhne, Jens Peter Jacobsen (read) 
• Marie Grubbe, Jens Peter Jacobsen (read) 
• Richard Dehmel, poet (learn) 
• Visual interpretations of Letters to a Young Poet (see) 
• Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke, Paula Modersohn Becker (1909) (see)

Find Me, Kristy Darnell Battani:
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British printmaker and painter ALISON SAUNDERS makes no bones about it—she doesn’t like boring beige! While her bold use of color belies her initial career as an accountant, in Episode 21 of the ARTish Plunge podcast Alison generously offers her professional insight on how to track expenses for art shows, weekly business check-ins and an old-school index card system to manage inventory. 

Alison also shares personal stories about growing up in a family of artists and making art during times of emotional upheaval.

 Find Alison:

Website: alisongsaunders.art 
Instagram:  @alisonsaunders
Facebook: facebook.com/AlisonGSaunders
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/agsaunders61

Mentioned:

• Norm Ackroyd, printmaker (see) 
• Alison’s blog (read)
• Ginger Cactus Art, artist collective (explore)  
• Artwork Archives, artist inventory platform (learn)
• Bound: 15 Beautiful Bookbinding Projects, Rachel Hazell (read) 
• Making Collagraph Prints, Suzie MacKenzie (read) 
• Life Force: A Painter's Response to the Nature Poetry of Ted Hughes,
   Louise Fletcher (pre-order)
• Art Juice , David Mankin podcast interview (listen)
• Remembering in Paint, David Mankin  (pre-order)

Find Me, Kristy Darnell Battani:
Website:    https://www.kristybattani.com
Instagram:  kristybattaniart
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The Artish Plunge shares an uplifting chat with Liz Murphy, a New Jersey-based painter, interior designer, illustrator and graphic designer who grew up in Surrey, England. Inspired by her mother’s ability to inject joy and stability through art and creativity into an otherwise turbulent home life, Liz has used her design skills to create meaningful spaces, and ultimately, found her own voice and truth through painting. 

Liz talks about learning to be okay on your own and creating a sacred space to hear your inner voice. When you design and work in your own sacred temple, you create from a place of authenticity. As Liz reminds us, we all need to learn how to “show up naked.”

 Find Liz:

Art Website: www.lizmurphystudio.com/
Design Website:  www.lizmurphydesigns.com/
Instagram:   @lizmurphystudio
Facebook: @lizmurphystudio

Mentioned:

• Uplands Center, Walton, NY (visit)  
• Jodie King, artist (see) 
• CVP, Creative Vision Program (explore) 

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The Artish Plunge dives into deep conversation with Vermont-based multimedia artist, curator and professor HUMBERTO RAMIREZ, exploring the unique role of the arts as a language and the challenges —and rewards—of teaching art in an academic setting. 

Escaping the political and social turmoil in Chile of the 1970s, Humberto came to the US to study molecular biology with an eye towards medical school before he felt the tug to study art. While his early paintings and video often reflected his political and social concerns, he shares how his current work has evolved to reflect his surroundings and stage of life, using space, light and color to create contemplative, abstract botanical fantasies. 

 Find Humberto:
Website:  http://humbertoramirez.net/

 Mentioned:

• The "other" Humberto Ramirez, the jazz musician (hear) 
• Baroque music (learn) 
• Landmark College, Putney VT (learn) 
• Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT (learn) 
• Michel Foucault, French philosopher, The Archaeology of Knowledge: And the Discourse on Language (read)   
• Panel paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art (learn) 
• Kaja Silverman, The Subject of Semiotics (read)     
• Roland Barthes, Mythologies (read) 
• Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art , Mass MoCa (learn) 

Find Me, Kristy Darnell Battani:
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Continuing our conversation with metal sculptor and painter VALERIE CHAUSSONNET, we learn how Valerie’s work with the Smithsonian Institution inspired her to begin taking art classes at the Corcoran and to continue that work later in Austin, Texas. Along the way, Valerie created a French-immersion school and surrounded herself with colorful art and colorful people, all of which are reflected in the sculpture and paintings she makes today as a full-time artist.

Find Valerie:
Website:  valeriechaussonnet.com
Instagram:   @valeriechaussonnet
Facebook: valeriechaussonnetart

 Mentioned:

• Corcoran Art School (learn) 
• La Petite Provence, Valerie's French immersion classes  (learn) 
• Austin Community College, Art Department  (learn) 
• Jan Heaton, artist (see)
• Brian Johnson, artist (see)
• Polyvalent (meaning, use) FR: versatile, having  many different skills
• Midnight Library,  Matt Haig  (read) 
• Zoe Berg, artist  (see)  
• Just Kids, Patti Smith (read) 
• Hold Still, Sally Mann (read)  
• Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari (read)  
• Crazy Brave, Joy Harjo (read)  

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From the Sorbonne to hitchhiking across Canada, from Berkeley to living with the Inuit in Nunavik, metal sculptor and painter VALERIE CHAUSSONNET has drawn inspiration for her artwork from the varied adventures life has offered her. Valerie’s experiences with the Smithsonian Institution preparing a Soviet-American exhibition on Alaska and Siberia stoked her desire to create artwork as a way of better understanding the artifacts she researched.

Find Valerie:
Website:  valeriechaussonnet.com
Instagram:   @valeriechaussonnet
Facebook: valeriechaussonnetart

 Mentioned:

• Austin Art Talk, Scott David Gordon podcast, Episode No. 94 (listen)
• Sorbonne University / Paris, France (learn) 
• Laval University / Quebec City, Canada (learn) 
• Nunavik, Canada (learn)
• Inuit Art (see) 
• Kenojuak Ashevak, Inuit artist, printmaker (see) 

Find Me, Kristy Darnell Battani:
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MIKE LYON, a Kansas City-based artist creates meticulously detailed large-scale drawings using marks made by traditional tools manipulated by non-traditional means, usually computers he has built and coded to suit his artistic vision. 

The ARTish Plunge podcast explores Mike's leadership of the family cattle hide business and subsequent return to art, ultimately becoming an innovator in wood block and post digital printmaking. With an innately curious mind, Mike also creates handcrafted guitars, ukuleles and other furniture, collects Japanese ukiyo-e prints, plays the violin in the Kansas City Civic Orchestra, and holds a 4th degree black belt in karate.

Find Mike:
Website:  mlyon.com
Instagram:   @ mikelyonstudio
Facebook:  MikeLyon.ART
Twitter:  ART_MikeLyon
Guitars: lyon.gallery

 Mentioned:

• Kansas City Shotokan Karate Club: (visit)  
• Claude Mellan, “Face of Christ on St. Veronica’s Cloth,” (1649) (see) 
• Post Digital Printmaking: : CNC, Traditional and Hybrid Techniques,  Paul Catanese and Angela Geary (read) 
• Chuck Close, artist (see) 
• Ken Knowlton, artist (see) 
• V. S. Ramachandran, neuroscientist (learn) 
• The Tell-Tale Brain, V. S. Ramachandran  (read) 
• “Neurology of Aesthetics,” Scientific American,V.S. Ramachandran (read) 
• Modern Printmaking: A Guide to Traditional and Digital Techniques, Sylvie Covie (read) 
• Ukiyo-e wood block prints (learn) 
• Mike’s Ukiyo-e Collection (see) 
• Shopbot CNC Tools (see) 
• Piet Mondrian, “Broadway Boogie Woogie” (see) 

Mike’s Recommendations:

• Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Art of Mokuhanga, by April Vollmer (read)  
• Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing, by Susan Schwalb & Tom Mazzullo  (read)  

Find Me, Kristy Darnell Battani:
 Website:    https://www.kristybattani.com
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