Episode 540: Today I chat with Charlotte entrepreneur and ArtPop Street Gallery founder, Wendy Hickey. She transformed a career selling billboards into fine art, literally turning our streets into a gallery and featuring local art on billboards and signal boxes and supporting artists, as well. I talked to her in Episode 116, when she was starting, out doing it all herself. Now she and her staff are able to support and promote artists than she ever dreamed. She tells me how she did it.

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Episode 539: Listen as I chat with Dr. Terry Glaspey, author of books like 75 Masterpieces Every Christian Should Know and Finding God Through the Arts. His books are much needed. He believes art can enrich any life and he is working hard to bring it to the masses…even people who might not think they need it.

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Episode 540: Today I talk to photographer and super realist painter, Phil Bower [No relation to Steven Bowers from a few episodes ago]. Phil reached out to me from the UK after I had featured him in my Coup de Coeurs. He’s a fabulous Mod artist. He’s also in the Saatchi gallery.

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Episode 538: Listen as I chat with Italian figurative photographer, Anna Ferrara…all the way in Italy…. about her photographs and her inspirations. She takes me into her portrait studio where she explores the topic of solitude, finding it interesting how some find freedom in it and others find restriction. Her pictures seem to tell a story and you want to find out more.

Anna is also in the No Name Collective Gallery UK.

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Episode 537: Seasoned gallery director and new gallery owner, Cassandra Richardson talks about opening the Lexicon Gallery and her inaugural exhibition, The Garden of Earthly Delights, which she has been planning for 21 years. We talk for over an hour. It was such a great [and valuable] conversation that I didn’t cut anything out.

Just a few highlights from the exhibition…

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Brooke and Lulu discuss Brooke’s pick, Andy Warhol’s Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. This is a part of his Reigning Queens series, which includes 4 ruling queens at the time: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, Queen Beatrix of Netherlands, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, and Queen Ntfombi Twala of Swaziland.

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Episode 536: Today I talk to L.A. photographer, Steven Bower about his new project: taking pictures of the people who live on Skid Row. He talks about the people he met, which includes a very enterprising homeless population, how he was promised protection by a gang member, and why they feel forgotten.

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Episode 535: Today I talk to Ohio artist, Melodie Thompson about her current exhibition, Rosebud, at the Sarah Gormley Gallery. We talk about creating the pieces for this show, pivoting from landscapes to people, her recent magazine feature, & the transforming power of art.

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Episode 534: Today I talk to pastry chef Jason Lemon of Lemonchoux for the first time in 20 years. He creates the best kind of art…the kind you can eat. We talk about why he calls what he does a craft as opposed to an art, why consistency is so important, how he handles the business side of things & how he lets off steam playing music.

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Episode 536: Today I talk art with photographer, curator, & editor of the No Name Collective magazine, Vanessa Ruscis. The No Name Collective features emerging artists. We will actually be working together to build a bridge of sorts from the US to Europe. She is indulging me with an audio interview. She was really nervous about her English, but I think she did great! Enjoy!

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