Pointillist abstract painter Kerrie Smith. Today on the show we have artist Kerrie Smith. As well as being an abstract pointillist painter and working in bold colors and angular designs, she has long been a champion for supporting artists with disabilities, and is the founder and creative director of Art Walk for Kids and Adults... The post Episode #085: Kerrie Smith appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Sara Lytle, large scale painter Today on the show we have artist Sara Lytle. After a long career in the fiber arts she started a late career change into large, bold paintings, some abstract and some cartoonish in their large crow characters. Many of these you can now see in the gallery space called Abolish... The post Episode #084: Sara Lytle appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Choreographer and artistic director of Invertigo Dance Theatre, Laura Karlin! Today on the show we have choreographer Laura Karlin. Since 2007, she’s been the artistic director of Invertigo Dance Theatre in Los Angeles, which is currently touring with After It Happened an intense night of dance set in the aftermath of a cataclysmic event…but with... The post Episode #083: Laura Karlin appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Santa Barbara’s premiere porcelain artist! Today on the show we have ceramicist Joan Rosenberg Dent, who came to Santa Barbara just over 15 years ago and found the change of scenery and people in our lovely town just what she needed. Her art over the last decade has gone up to a new level, where... The post Episode #082: Joan Rosenberg Dent appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Chance Encounter Specialist! Today on the show we have Maiza Hixson, a curator and artist who comes to Santa Barbara from working in Delaware, where she helped transform Wilmington’s art scene. She creates experiences, she looks at venues that people would not consider a space for art, and transforms them into something new, and that’s... The post Episode #081: Maiza Hixson appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Assemblage artist, musician, and Knight of the Rondo! I am very happy to have on the show this week Mr. Michael Long, assemblage artist, musician, and one of the Knights of the Rondo, as he has come to be known in my part of town. I’ve known him since 2006, when I saw his work... The post Episode #080: Michael Long appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Oil painter of large canvases and new Funk Zone resident! Today on the show we have artist Marlyn Daggett, who just recently moved into a studio space down here in the FunkZone at the M.Cubed gallery at 111 Santa Barbara St. and I’ve been checking her stuff out in person and online on her Facebook... The post Episode #079: Marlyn Daggett appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

The artist behind Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s giant inflatable Buddha installation! Today on the show we have photographer, sculptor, and installation artist Lewis deSoto, who currently is filling up a large part of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art with his inflatable reclining Buddha, entitled “Paranirvana (Self-Portrait)”. It has made for some great conversation... The post Episode #078: Lewis deSoto appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Multi-media artist and instructor! Today on the show we have artist Rafael Perea de Cabada, who spends part of his time painting, part of his time sculpting, part of his time doing neither in a multi-media kind of way, and part of the time teaching at SBCC. I didn’t know that last part until I... The post Episode #077: Rafael Perea de Cabada appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Fine artist, illustrator and tattoo artist Today on the show we have artist Danny Meza, who is both an amazing up and coming illustrator, mashing together Japanese and Mexican popular arts in his recent work, but he is the resident tattoo artist in downtown Santa Barbara at 805 Ink…and possibly coming to a tattoo convention... The post Episode #076: Danny Meza appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.