Foreground/Background with Noah Scalin

Pallavi Sen is a multi-talented artist from Bombay, India who works with installation, printmaking, textiles, and intuitive movement. Pallavi has obtained an array of creative jobs in addition to receiving a handful of artist residencies and currently teaches as an Assistant Professor of Art at Williams College. Her recent art-making has focused on nature in the form of landscaping.

Foreground/Background is a conversation between working artists – pulling back the curtain on the real day-to-day efforts that go into making a living from our passions and the realities of dealing with the art word.

Noah on Patreon: patreon.com/noahscalin

Pallavi Sen: https://www.hoophouse.org/

Pallavi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superfeministgirl/

Music by Jantrax: @jantr4x

Matt Bilfield is self-described fastidious minimalist. He is an LA based artist who combines pointillism with wood dowels to create dynamic, dimensional images. His work has been internationally showcased in multiple galleries and when he’s not fitting round pegs into round holes he makes on-air television graphics.

Foreground/Background is a conversation between working artists – pulling back the curtain on the real day-to-day efforts that go into making a living from our passions and the realities of dealing with the art word.

Noah on Patreon: http://patreon.com/noahscalin

Matt Bilfield: http://www.mattbilfield.com/

Music by Jantrax: https://soundcloud.com/jantr4x

On this episode I’m interviewing Eva Rocha. Eva is a multimedia artist from Brazil who’s studied Theater, Cultural Studies, and Fine Art. she has an MFA in Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work has been shown in museums internationally including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Eva also happens to be my neighbor!

Foreground/Background is a conversation between working artists – pulling back the curtain on the real day-to-day efforts that go into making a living from our passions and the realities of dealing with the art word.

Noah on Patreon: patreon.com/noahscalin

Eva Rocha: http://evarocha.com/

Music by Jantrax: @jantr4x

On this episode I interview George Ferrandi, a Brooklyn based artist whose performative work focuses on experimental approaches to human imperfections. George currently teaches Sculpture and Performance Art at Pratt Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University, as well as at the Rhode Island School of Design and runs a small business which specializes in restoring statues at churches.

Foreground/Background is a conversation between working artists – pulling back the curtain on the real day-to-day efforts that go into making a living from our passions and the realities of dealing with the art word.

Noah on Patreon: patreon.com/noahscalin

George Ferrandi: http://www.georgeferrandi.com/

Music by Jantrax: https://soundcloud.com/jantr4x

Foreground/Background is a conversation between working artists – pulling back the curtain on the real day-to-day efforts that go into making a living from our passions and the realities of dealing with the art word.

On this episode I interview Gary Lockwood AKA Freehand Profit. This LA-based artist is internationally known for his work transforming highly sought after sneakers into one-of-a-kind masks! We first met years ago when he shared his Mask365 project, which was inspired by my own Skull-A-Day yearlong daily creativity project! In this interview we talk about our mutual experiences as working artists, attempting to make a living from our passions.

Noah on Patreon: http://patreon.com/noahscalin

Freehand Profit: http://freehandprofit.com

Music: ProleteR https://freemusicarchive.org/music/ProleteR/Curses_From_The_Past/