One of my previous guests on the podcast, Cathy Carey, has moved to a new endeavor in the San Diego art scene and is creating some incredible programming at the Front Porch Gallery in Carlsbad, CA.

Nicole Miller just recently came from New Jersey to San Diego, CA, and has already made a name for herself! She painted over 150 surfboards, works as a live painting artist at the events, and dreams about opening her gallery.

She is currently in TX and is filling up her calendar with mural and event requests!

https://www.artbynicolemiller.com/

https://www.instagram.com/artbynicoleemiller

In this short update, I wanted to explain my decision to rebrand the ITAS podcast and make it a part of the San Diego Art Directory. What does that mean for the future of the podcast? Take a few minutes to hear me out.

My guest on this episode takes a strong stance on the role of AI in the arts. For some artists, his point of view may seem controversial and it already got him into trouble. Listen to my interview with photographer and digital artist Larry Vogel and let me know in the comments where you stand on this topic!

By 2020, Alessandra Moctezuma had dedicated 10 years working as a professor and gallery director at San Diego Mesa College. She primarily teaches Chicano art and Museum Studies and Gallery Exhibition Skills courses. She is a public art enthusiast and activist to create spaces for artists of color speaking on social justice issues and to shift focus to include San Diego community arts organizations.

I am a huge fan of Erik Abel's art! His style is absolutely unique and his whirlwind of career is a dream for any visual artist out there. I asked Erik to tell his story and was surprised to hear his thoughts on what it means to be a "successful artist" and why he is not sharing his new art project with the public.

Bea Gold, a 97-year-old working artist, writer, and a great friend of mine, invited me to be a part of the exciting project. She wrote and illustrated her second memoir and asked me to help her with designing, publishing, and promoting it. How could I say no?

In this episode, Bea and I share our experience as amateurs in the book publishing world and talk about her inspiration and the process of creating this book.

https://beagoldartist.com/

You guys, It's the first episode ever that features music artists. I'm so excited to have the mind-blowingly-creative, award-winning October Project on the show! We talk about the inspiration, about meaning of art for essentially healing the world, and about their collaborations with visual artists from around the world to create multi-sensory art experience for their audience.

One such artist is Kseniya Simonova, a world-renowned sand painting artist from Ukraine. I'm happy to include a paragraph about her down below.

Listen to our INSPIRING conversation in this episode on In The Art Scene!

Jen Brown is another extraordinary artist from San Diego who seems to have an open channel with the Universe itself. A portrait photographer, Jen decided to venture into the new paradigm and became a host of the live drawing sessions -- and that's when the magic happened.

Listen to my conversation with Jen on this episode and learn more about her mystical adventures.

https://www.ofstardustandearth.com/

https://www.instagram.com/ofstardustandearth/

Surfing Madonna Oceans Project is a community who are inspired by Mark Patterson’s Surfing Madonna mosaic which started as an illegal public art project, and was almost torn down but was saved by a local community.

Cathy Carey, a local San Diego artist and the President and Executive Director of the Surfing Madonna Project tells a full story of how this mosaic and an organization came to be in this episode of our art podcast.

https://www.surfingmadonna.org/

https://www.artstudiosandiego.com/