Living Arts of Tulsa Podcast

Living Arts of Tulsa Podcast

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Living Arts of Tulsa Podcast episodes

  • A Deep Conversation With Artist Katrinka Booth

    TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/_2tD0BCSpLE

    Jeff sits down with artist Katrinka Booth to hear her reflect about the very deep and connected relationship between her life experiences and between each work of art that she creates.

    She also shares very deeply about her process, about where her inspiration comes from, and about how she got started creating works of art.

    To learn more about Katrinka and her work, visit
    Facebook/Pinterest: Wallflowers by Katrinka Booth
    Instagram: @wallflowersbykb Linkedin: Katrinka Booth

    Katrinka Booth was born in South Central Missouri and raised in Bentonville Arkansas. Her influences include her family, her love of textiles, her years spent as a seamstress of couture clothing, and the landscapes and terrain of Arkansas and the surrounding areas. 

    Her art began as a relentless recurring dream of her stitching a wallflower on her simple sewing machine. The dream didn’t stop until she stitched her first piece. 

    Each piece of art teaches her something about the next one to come. 

    Katrinka expresses the elation and freedom she experiences stitching these detailed, Elaborate pieces. She hopes the viewer is transported to another place, where time is suspended and you can “be free in your wildness.” 

    Much of her work is accomplished using fabric and thread on a humble domestic sewing machine in a free hand style. 

    Recently she shelved her art practice to make over 2,000 masks, and has invented a new method of embroidery involving yarn as paint on a canvas, having dubbed it “Neo-Embroidery”.

    55 min
  • A Visit With Nichole Montgomery

    TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/w4wkgymjT2M

    Jeff sits down with Nichole Montgomery as she shares about her art, her work with American Legion Post 1, and about why family, friends, and community are so important to her and how her art is connected to these various parts of her life. 

    To learn more about her artwork, visit 
    https://nicholemontgomery.com

    38 min
  • A Visit With Steve Liggett-Former Artistic Director of Living Arts Of Tulsa About His Life And Work

    TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/tXifEuiLfss

    Jeff sits down with Steve Liggett, former Artistic Director of Living Arts of Tulsa and owner of Liggett Studio to hear about his life and work since he came to Tulsa in the 1970's.

    He shares deeply from the beginning of his affiliation with the founder of Living Arts, Virginia Myers and about some of the highlights of his career there. He also reflects about the impact of Living Arts on the arts community and culture in Tulsa.

    Steve Liggett has been an arts advocate, teacher and artist in the Tulsa community for over 40 years. He is the recipient of the Harwelden Award, Jingle Feldman Award, Governor’s Art Award and John Hope Franklin Award for his artistic work in social justice. His own studio work has evolved from his ceramics and papermaking background to performance/video/installation work. He is the past Artistic Director for Living Arts of Tulsa and presently runs Liggett Studio.

    50 min
  • Panel Discussion For Project Hope, Unity, and Compassion Exhibit


    TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/yfWKcz4Nfyw

    Jeff sits down with Brandi Ross and Tyler Huffman to hear about their experiences in participating in the recent exhibit at Living Arts, Project Hope, Unity, and Compassion.

    EXHIBITION STATEMENT
    Throughout history, downtowns and town squares have served as the foundation of society’s freedom of expression and the center of community discourse. Downtown Tulsa is certainly no different. 

    At an incredibly tense time in our community, and in the midst of
    planning for unprecedented events, we found an opportunity to showcase Downtown Tulsa’s core values on temporary canvases throughout Downtown.

    More than 300 artists responded to a last-minute call for art on June 18, 2020. Within hours, commissioned artists began painting storefronts thanks to permission from businesses and the generosity of an anonymous donor. 

    Within two days, we were able to mobilize more than a dozen artists to paint murals and messages inspiring hope, unity, and compassion throughout Downtown.

    While the storefronts were restored and businesses reopened the following week, the conversations sparked by this art and the core values it represents continue.

    25 min
  • A Deep Conversation With Artist Krystie Bunch

    TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/k4Nc3ZagJG0

    Jeff sits down with artist Krystie Bunch to hear her share deeply about her work and about how she got started creating art.

    She also speaks in a very heartfelt, moving, and a compelling way about the importance of community and culture and about what her experiences have been like facilitating and teaching art classes and participating in Downtown Tulsa & Living Arts Of Tulsa's recent project, Project Hope, Unity, and Compassion.

    Artist Bio:  I’m a Tulsa-based interdisciplinary artist. I utilize art as a portal, allowing outsiders a glimpse into the beautifully complex layers of my daily existence. I’m a Black American female who lives as a lifelong creative, full-time mom, community activist, youth advocate and human who experiences a neurological disorder called misophonia/misokinesia. Life is a constant state of processing and readjusting. In my art I allow myself the opportunity to be still, heal and move in hope.


    28 min
  • A Deep Conversation With Terren Zinbi

    TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/NzyhpFgyS8U

    Jeff sits down with artist Terren Zinbi as she shares deeply about her artistic journey, about how she got started creating art, and about her experiences since she started working as an artist full time.

    She shares very compellingly and in a very inspirational tone about her experiences in working through her emotions as she creates her work and about the importance of putting herself and her work out there and taking chances in her career.

    To learn more about Terren and her work, visit
    https://www.terrenzinbi.com

    About Terren:
    "I am a 26 year old modern artist currently calling Tulsa my home with my bf, dog, + houseplants. i am a true enneagram type 7 wing 6. i believe that variety is the spice of life + fomo is real!! i’m always looking forward to my next big adventure + making plans with people i love. i’m an eternal optimist + i think my biggest asset is being able to find joy in every little thing! 

    Because a huge part of my life ever since i could remember. creative work is truly my passion in life and biggest outlet.  i love getting to make art + designs that show a glimpse into my heart + creating things that point you to knowing + loving God more. my biggest hope in my work is that i am creating pieces that help you find joy in the little + the big things, and that they may help celebrate the everyday!"

    36 min
  • A Deep Conversation With Natty Watson And Lauran Drummond With Cult Love Sound Tapes

    TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT  https://youtu.be/TApB_QMFM1U

    Jeff sits down with Natty Watson and Lauran Drummond with Cult Love Sound Tapes to hear about how their collective got started, about their vision and passion for supporting the Tulsa DIY music and art community, and about what their work and dedication to this community means to them at a deeper level. 

    Cult Love Sound Tapes is a D.I.Y. community-based cassette tape, music, and art collective specializing in rare and limited releases from a wide variety of genres. 

    They also have a large project, the Cult House, nearing its unveiling. Since the project's beginning in December, the Cult House, a 2 story 100-year old family residence, has been covered floor to ceiling in murals painted by local artists.


    53 min
  • Panel Discussion With Jose Torres Tama and Rodrigo Dorfman, The Directors Of "This Taco Truck Kills Fascists" And Miguel J. Crespo, The Director of "Utopía de la Mariposa."
    Jessica Dewey sat down with the directors of two documentaries shared for virtual programming as part of our Día de los Muertos Arts Festival.   

    Jose Torres Tama and Rodrigo Dorfman are the directors of "This Taco Truck Kills Fascists" and Miguel J. Crespo is the director of "Utopía de la Mariposa." "This Taco Truck Kills Fascists"

    "This Taco Truck Kills Fascists"

    This Taco Truck Kills Fascists weaves two narratives: the classic “against all odds” story of an immigrant artist of color bringing the voices of radical Black performers and undocumented workers out of the shadows and the story of a father struggling to raise his two boys into political consciousness in the Age of Trump.  Seen through the eyes Diego (7) and Darius (10) who become members of their father's radical performance ensemble, This Taco Truck Kills Fascists invites the audience to navigate with them the line between innocence and knowledge, anger and love, agency and apathy; a challenge we all must face in order to heal our nation’s open wounds. This epic coming of age journey is born out of the urgency of the now and our responsibility to engage and confront white supremacy with the weaponized beauty of Art.


    "Utopía de la Mariposa" 

    Mexico is an indolent country. This is territory so violent that it has normalized the murders, disappearances, human rights violations, femicides, and other crimes that, due to corruption or omission of the authorities, almost always go unpunished. Lukas Avendaño is the most important and recognized artist in the muxe community. He was born in the Istmo of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. At the age of seven, he used to tantrum so his father wouldn't take him to the country to work. He wanted to do other things like study, dance, feel, and fly like a butterfly.  His strength on stage, the transgressive and anarchic of his speech, using his body as a performatic tool, has taken him to countries in Europe and Latin America. Even with all the virtuous and brilliant Lukas is, he has not been exempt from suffering a forced disappearance. On May 10, 2018, his brother Bruno Alonso Avendaño disappeared. Bruno was an active element of the Navy when his disappearance occurred. The response of the Secretary of the Navy was: "the element causes leave for absent three consecutive days to their work".  How can you introduce yourself to work when you are missing? How do you demand and force an institution like the Secretary of the Navy that your duty was to look for Bruno? How do you move that bureaucratic and incapable elephant that is the Mexican judicial system? Lukas has used his body and the performing and digital theater scene to present his missing brother and in turn denounce the total absence of citizen guarantees of the right to life by the State. Lukas' search has not stopped a single day. "To think that we will find it is an utopia, because those other 40 thousand disappeared deny you," says Lukas. For him, Bruno is an offering, an emancipation that squeezes an open sore that we all want to stop: the missing in Mexico.


    1 hr 14 min
  • A Visit With Elyse Wright

    TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/WGurHV8YHAo

    Jeff sits down with Elyse Wright to hear about her work in designing a recent exhibit at Living Arts of Tulsa, about her studies in Interior Design, and about her future goals.

    16 min

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