Award-winning illustrator! David Wiesner is a prolific and stunningly talented illustrator who has won the Caldecott medal three times in his career, for Tuesday (1992), The Three Pigs (2002), and Flotsam (2007). If you have kids, you just might have these beautiful and strange books on your shelf. He was in town for the opening...

Award-winning jazz drummer and composer! Luis Muñoz is on the show today. He’s an award-winning jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer, who has been recording in America since the 1990s. He’s won several ACAM awards for his work, regularly has his work written up as best Latin Jazz albums of whatever year they are coming out....

Kinetic Sculptor! Ken Bortolazzo is on the show today. He’s a sculptor who works in stainless steel, from very large scale works to the current selection of small pieces on show this month and next at Sullivan Goss. He calls these pieces optikinetics, which are kinetic sculptures that produce interestic moire patterns when they move....

Abstract painter! Karen Lehrer is on the show today. She’s an abstract artist, a new FunkZone resident, a longtime Santa Barbara resident, former full-time therapist, and owner of the cutest dog ever, Stan. Last FunkZone Art Walk I popped into her studio and we had a brief chat and agreed we should in the... The post Episode #102: Karen Lehrer appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

For the last two months I’ve been talking with artists about what art means now that a certain authoritarian is about to ascend to power. Some are nervous, some are fearful, some are despondent, some are revitalized, some are radicalized. I wanted to do something different for this 2016/2017 podcast, so I put the call out... The post Episode #101: Art in the Age of Trump appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Two artists explore gender in a multimedia work and gallery show! On today’s show I talk with photographer Patricia Clarke and multimedia artist Stuart Carey. Their collaborative show, “Erasing Lines: Chrysalis” opens at SBCAST Decemeber 1 and continues for a month. However, it’s the Saturday, Dec. 3, that you really much catch. (This is a... The post Episode #100: Patricia Clarke and Stuart Carey appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Ambient musician and arts writer! Richie DeMaria is our guest today on the show. He’s a local arts writer here for the Santa Barbara Independent and also, much more importantly, he along with his brother are the musicians behind the ambient group Voices of Where, who back in July released Vast, and just a month... The post Episode #099: Richie DeMaria appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Executive Director of Out of the Box Theatre! Samantha Eve is on the show today. Seven years ago she started Out of the Box Theatre Company in Santa Barbara and brought to our town some of the newest and edgiest musicals out there, starting with Reefer Madness and the blood-spattered Evil Dead: The Musical, and... The post Episode #098: Samantha Eve appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

The casting and voice director behind your favorite ’90s cartoons and beyond! Andrea Romano is on the show today, and if you haven’t heard of her by name, you will know of the numerous shows she’s worked on over the years, casting and directing the voice actors for Batman: The Animated Series, Tiny Toon Adventures,... The post Episode #097: Andrea Romano appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Sol Hill, photographer, painter, installation artist! Sol Hill is back on the show today. We talked so much last week about his photography that we barely got into his new installation work that I asked for a second interview and got one. We dive deep into our world’s current obsession with surveillance and secrecy and... The post Episode #096: Sol Hill, Part Two appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.