Whether you know it or not, there is a name for artists to were untrained, and had only a few ways to satisfy their urge to create. Outsider Art is a movement born in European mental hospitals, but the shockwaves from this creative institution extends well into the future. Along with Cleo Wilson, your hosts trace the impact of Outsider Artists from the beginning until today.

How do you grow as an artist? Can you adopt a regimen of tasks that help you stretch outside of your comfort zone? In this hour, we examine how we have grown, and suggest ideas that will help expand your range of talents well outside their current boundaries.

Before offering your services for sale, it's important to understand who you are and what your abilities can do for clients. In this broadcast, Joshua and Nicholas are joined by returning guest Charles Riffenburg to discuss the pitfalls designers (and other creatives) often go through when exchanging their talent for legal tender.

With a returning guest on the show, we tackle what's happened in the life of our friend Molly Marshall in 84 weeks since her last visit. The latest news so far is, #PodcastClub, a listening group for passionate fans of audio entertainment. We then springboard into a discussion for those interested in creating other community driven meetups, including how to avoid common pitfalls and discouraging mistakes.

Life as a design professional can be difficult. Balancing your free time with work, setting expectations for clients, and delivering consistent results are all part of the game. A game that our guest Margot Harrington has mastered. She joins us today to discuss her life and career thus far.

Publicity is one of the hardest, and most overlooked tasks that, when ignored, makes it difficult to be heard in a noisy world. Your hosts are joined today by an advocate for independent artists, Bryan Bull, to discuss what acts should (and shouldn't) do on their rise to the top.

Sometimes it pays to have a partner. They become your best friend, sounding board, and critical voice of reason when the work just isn't right. This week, Joshua and Nicholas speak to TWINKIDS; a newly-minted electronic duo about their music, life in Chicago, Banff center residency, and more.

When you're finished creating, there's one task left: promotion. Unless you're making art for only your personal satisfaction, you'll want to share it with the world. This week, how communicating like a person - rather than a robot - will help increase your exposure.

On a never-ending bender of new projects, returning Dispatch guest Kriss Stress is driven to draw, paint, and record everything they can. Today on the program, we discuss the quest to document not only their own life, but the lives of friends though a series 400+ hand-drawn portraits, and more.

For many artists, collaboration is the lifeblood of their work. And for those who work solo, this question is never entirely off the table, as they work for small businesses, other creators, and corporations. Too often these relationships sour, and in mostly preventable ways. Today on Dispatch, how to choose your creative companions with care and discerning taste, so you avoid unreasonable discomfort, wasted money, and lost time.