Brooklyn-based film producer NADIA TAHOUN learned the value of artistic collaboration at an early age in Miami when she helped start the punk art venue The Granary.  In Episode 15 of the ARTish Plunge podcast, Nadia shares how her education and experiences in film production have allowed her to curate visual art experiences, including the new community-focused arts and fabrication studio Flower Shop Collective that supports skill sharing and work space for underrepresented artists.

Find Nadia:
Website:  nadiatahoun.com
Instagram:   @flowershopcollective  
 
Mentioned:

•  This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color, by Cherríe Moraga (read)
• Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, by Ariella Azoulay (read)
• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell (read)
•  “Confirmation,” Justin Bieber music video (watch)  
• Daniel Arsham, artist  (see) (TIP: Click “weightless” for extra fun!)
• Arsham's Future Relic series, trailer for imaginary film (watch) 
•  “Isa,” video featured on PBS (watch) (TIP: start at the 8:27 marker)
• 2020 Spring/Break Art Show New York (see)
•  Jess Bass  (see)  
• Flower Shop Collective  (explore)  
• Sixty Hotel, Flower Shop Collective event (learn)
• Slow Process Summer (learn)

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Instagram:  kristybattaniart
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Episode 14:  

Oklahoma native Christopher Nick uses his classically-trained painting skills to create accurately detailed illustrations for major brands, children’s books and historical portraits for the Oklahoma State Capitol. In this episode, Christopher shares how a tiny retro delivery truck named Kirby gave him some financial breathing room and an unexpected introduction to his newest, and arguably most authentic, illustration style and character.

Find Christopher:
Website:     christopher-nick-portfolio

 Mentioned:
Minneapolis Institute of Art (visit) 
First Avenue Club (visit)
The Atelier: Studio Program of Fine Art (learn)
Katie McCollow (see)   (listen)
Mike Wimmer (see) 
The Room in My Heart, by Beverly Evans, illustrated by Christopher Nick  (read)  
D-Day: American Character, by Steve Lessman  (read)
Dust Storm, by Jane McKellips, illustrated by Christopher Nick (read)
Oklahoma Senate Art Collection (see)
Oklahoma Hall of Fame, artist profile  (see)
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (visit)
Donut Man (visit)  

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Instagram:  kristybattaniart
Facebook:  kristybattaniart

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After a career in education that included roles as a kindergarten teacher, principal, grant writer and consultant, Canadian-born ISBELLE ALESSANDRA finally heeded her mother’s final advice to become a full-time artist.

 The ARTish Plunge podcast explores how Isabelle, now a resident of southern California, channeled the same drive and work ethic that fueled her as a young figure skater into her artmaking and marketing, resulting in impressive art sales, magazine features and the gallery of her dreams.

Find Isabelle:
Website: isabelle-alessandra-artist.com
Instagram:   @isabelle_alessandra_artist
Facebook:  isabellealessandraartist

Mentioned:

• Zero 7 (listen)
• Nicholas Wilton (see)
• Art To Life (explore)
• Creative Visionary Program /CVP (explore)
• Featured in Vanity Fair UK,  (see) & GQ-UK  (see)
• Offspring,  Australian television series (watch)
• Mary Oliver, poet (read)

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 Website:   https://www.kristybattani.com
Instagram:  kristybattaniart
Facebook:  kristybattaniart

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For over twenty years JOAN HANLEY has balanced artmaking with a meditative practice. The ARTish Plunge podcast explores how Joan’s spiritual and art explorations around the world have influenced her practice, as reflected in her book Art & Yoga. 

Using oils, gouache, or ink, Joan creates large and small scale works with contemplative, emotional depth from her historic Harrisville, New Hampshire studio. In addition to creating thought-provoking public installations, Joan also works with other artists to help them find their own creative balance.

Find Joan
Website: www.hanleystudio.com
Instagram:   @ hanleystudio 
Facebook:  Joan Hanley 

Mentioned:

Art & Yoga, Joan Hanley Hari Kirin (read)  
Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore (read) 
Original Self, Thomas Moore, illustrated Joan Hanley (read)
Alice Neel exhibit, The Met Museum (see)
Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa (read)
Becoming Astrid (watch)
"Breath of the Forest" exhibit, Rochester Museum of Fine Arts (visit)

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Instagram:  kristybattaniart
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Native Minnesotan KATIE McCOLLOW is a self-professed “Jill of some trades.” A voice actor, regular-type actor, artist and writer with a contagious laugh and quick wit, Katie is that super-talented friend you wished lived next door. Her oversized family portraits and dreamy watercolor pieces take top billing, but you may recognize her voice from commercials for some of your favorite brands.

Find Katie
Website: www.katiemccollow.com
Instagram:  @katie.mccollow
Facebook:  katie.mccollow
Twitter: katiemccollow
 
Mentioned:

·       Katie’s Voice Over Artist video (watch)
·       Katie’s Voice Over Commercials montage  (watch)
·       Writing for Wally: My Life With a Brilliant Idea, John Hubbell (Katie’s dad) (read)
·       Whiplash, movie (watch)        

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Instagram:  kristybattaniart
Facebook:  kristybattaniart

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B SHAWN COX is an artist, trained architect and lawyer whose early experiences in the small West Texas town of Monahans are re-emerging in his artwork through brightly patterned cowboys and sassy bouffanted-ladies. A prolific artist who admittedly creates amongst controlled chaos, Shawn shares how he juggles multiple forms of artistic expression with a need for analytical challenges and the occasional plunge down a rabbit hole.

Find Shawn
Website: www.bshawncox.com
Instagram:  @shawnathon01
 Facebook:   bshawncoxfineart
 
Mentioned:

• Blackwing pencils (buy)
• Buc-ee's (see)
• Stuckey's (see)
• The Size of Thoughts, Nicholas Baker (read)
• Bud Biggs, watercolorist (see)
• Glassell School of Art, Houston (learn)
• Dougherty Arts Center, Austin (learn)
• Davis Gallery, Austin (see)
• Flatbed Press (learn)

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Instagram:  @kristybattaniart
Facebook:  kristybattaniart

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Artist, speech pathologist, lecturer and poet DIANA SYDER creates expressive landscapes and still life paintings from her studio in the Peak District of Derbyshire, England. 

Diana started her professional life as a speech pathologist and university lecturer but concurrently wrote poetry, uniquely focused on themes of science and nature. After four books of poetry and numerous collaborations with composers, sculptors, dancers, artists, astronomers and engineers, Diana is now bringing similar energy to her evocative paintings.

Find Diana
Website: www.dianasyder.com
Instagram: instagram.com/diana_syder
 Facebook:   www.facebook.com/dianasyderart
 
Mentioned:

• Diana's poetry books:
  • Hubble (read)
  • Maxwell's Rainbow  (read)
  • String (read)
  • Planet Box (read)
• "Jupiter," moving poem (see)
• When the Telescope Came,  video (see)
• Project Phoenix, classical music  (listen)
• William Neil, composer (learn)
• SETI,  search for extraterrestrial intelligence project   (learn)
• "To Paint the Portrait of a Bird," Jacques Prévert (read) (book)

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

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Artist BARBARA BRYN KLARE works with “rescued textiles,” using thread as line and cloth as paint to explore topics such as fragility and sustainability. The ARTish Plunge podcast explores how Barbara, a Ohio resident with long-held connections to the San Francisco Bay area, worked as a surface designer and had a decades-long career as a technical writer before textiles brought her back to art as both a creator and curator.

Find Barbara:
Website: barbarabrynklare.com
Instagram: barbarabrynklare
 
Mentioned:

• Cecilia Vicuña    (see)
• Louise Bourgeois (see)
• Gee's Bend quilters (see)
• Boro and sashiko stitching (learn)
• Sri Threads (see)
• Yoshiko Wada, de Young Museum (watch)
• Center for Craft, Ashville NC (learn)
• Textile sketchbooks
• Jody Alexander (see)
• "Reveal," ThisGallery.org (learn)
• Modern Boro / Instagram (follow)
• "Vanishing," ThisGallery.org (see)
• Flowstate.fm (listen)

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

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Miniature artist BLAKE GORE exemplifies the old adage: “less is more.” Favoring .15 millimeter nib Pigma Micron pens, Blake creates tiny masterpieces on 2-inch squares — and smaller. Originally from Mississippi but now claiming Virginia as home, Blake discovered his “tiny” expertise a few years ago through consistent repetition and infinite curiosity.  

Serving as a career consultant by day, Blake explains how constraints can be a powerful tool to enhance creativity.  As Blake shares: “There’s just so much to do in a square inch.” This episode is a teeny  bit longer than most, but Blake shares a lot of sage advice for anyone contemplating a career change or shift in your art practice. Think of it as free career counseling. 

Find Blake:
Website: blakegore.com
Instagram: blakegore
 
Mentioned:

• Pigma Micron .003 pen (try) 
• Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert (read) 
• Design Thinking (watch)  
• Design Your Life, Bill Burnett (read) 
• Graphic facilitator, great example Sunni Brown (see) 
• Alphonso Dunn (See  /  Watch  )

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 Website:   https://www.kristybattani.com
Instagram:  kristybattaniart
Facebook:  kristybattaniart

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CHRIS CRANE is an abstract artist from Austin, Texas who combines metallurgy skills with a photographer’s eye for composition and color to create large-scale installation pieces, primarily for corporate collections. With a keen curiosity for innovation, Chris has found a satisfying “day job” working alongside scientists to solve client’s AI and cognitive computing issues that still allows time for him to develop innovative art processes to “pull” color from sheets of steel or his latest project, images from re-crystallization. 

Find Chris:
Website:  www.christophercrane.com
Instagram: chris.crane.fine.artist

Mentioned:

• Jennifer Jones (see)
• Fifth & West Lobby (visit)

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

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