Podcast – Adventures in Arting Podcast

By Julie Fei-Fan Balzer

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June 06, 2019090: Back to Business
Today’s podcast is all about working smarter, not harder. I’ve been taking my business apart — looking at how I spend my time and what my business actually does. On today’s podcast, I talk all about what I’ve been doing behind-the-scenes; the ways in which I’m trying to make my business fit my life. Working from home is complicated and I tend to be a workaholic. I’m trying to avoid burnout and do my best along the way!

Some references for you from the podcast:
This is the book.
This is the batching podcast. (She also wrote a blog post about it.)
This is the post about my Bullet Journal.
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48min
April 07, 2019 089: The Art of Pairing with Jenn Mason

I’m super excited about today’s podcast because it’s one of our few repeat guests. Mom and I have been doing this podcast since 2011!!! And we’ve only ever had a few people loop back during that time. Today’s guest is Jenn Mason, the former Editor-in-Chief of Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine. Jenn and I have been friends for many many years:

As I’m sure you can tell from the photos, we share a goofy sense of humor. And here she is now in her new home, Curds & Co.

And here are a few photos I pulled from the Curdbox instagram:

If you’d like to learn more about Jenn’s Curdbox kickstarter, click HERE. If you’d like to listen to an episode of the Curdcast, click HERE.
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1h 12min
March 14, 2019 088: Big House Craft Project

As you probably know, the biggest craft project I’m working on is a home renovation. And renovation doesn’t really seem to cover what it is. It’s kind of building a new house inside of the old house shell. Here are a few pics of the before and current situation:

It’s going to be amazing some day. I can’t wait! Thanks for stopping by!
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51min
February 07, 2019 087: Dina Wakley Media

I’m so pleased to share a chat I recently had with my friend, Dina Wakley

Dina is a mixed-media artist and teacher.

She loves everything about art: creating it, thinking about it, looking at it, and teaching it. She has been scrapbooking since 1995, stamping since 1996, and art journaling since 2004. She believes in writing yourself down, expressing yourself, and making your mark on the world.
As a Ranger Signature Designer, Dina designs a line of mixed-media art supplies that includes acrylic paints, mediums, brushes, rubber stamps, stencils, and more.
Dina lives in Arizona with her husband and 3 boys (affectionately termed “the fellas”). With a love of teaching and traveling, Dina travels the world to teach and share her art passion with students on every continent.
Finally, here is a quick video of Dina and me from one of the many times when she was a guest on Make it Artsy!
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1h 7min
January 24, 2019 086: Creativation 2019

I’m back from Creativation — aka the craft industry’s annual industry-only trade show. This year I planned ahead and Mom and I did half the podcast before our trip and half the podcast after our trip. I get pretty deep into some thoughts on the state of the industry in this one. I hope you enjoy it!
A few photos from the show:
The photo wall at the back of the Brother booth.
My demo station.
Doing my thing.
Eyes closed, but so many new stencils! Yay!
One of the photos of me that was by the registration desk.

Also, you can watch this week’s vlog to see some video from Creativation:
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55min
January 10, 2019085: Hadley Powell: Art Advisor
Our first podcast of 2019 features a conversation with art advisor, Hadley Powell.

On the podcast we discuss her job, her path to her job, art vs. craft, seeing art, being a new mother, and much more! Hadley’s experience spans from Old Master prints to Contemporary art. She started her career at Christie’s, New York as a specialist in the Prints & Multiples department where she researched and cataloged prints from Rembrandt to Rauschenberg.
Working with contemporary art gallery Callan Contemporary at their booth in Miami.
Subsequently in the Impressionist & Modern Art department, she worked on the high profile evening sales, where she advised clients buying and selling at auction and assisted in private collection management and fine art appraisals.
Installation shot from a client’s home in Brookline. Artist: Peter Brooke
Hadley received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and a minor in Economics from Union College.
In the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennial, artist Mark Bradford.
She holds a Master’s degree in Modern Art, Connoisseurship and the History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education, New York. Her prize-winning thesis studied the impact of the 1913 Armory Show on George Bellows’s Monhegan Island, Maine paintings.
Installation shot from a client’s home in Cambridge. Artist: Peri Schwartz.
She resides in Brookline, MA.
Giving a talk to the Harvard Business School art group
Some useful links from our conversation:
Art Market Monitor – publication/membership site
Jeffrey Gibson – artist
Beatriz Milhazes – artist
Vitamin C: Clay & Ceramic in Contemporary Art – book
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1h 6min
December 25, 2018084: 2018 in Review
Today’s podcast is the first of several posts, looking back at the year that has been. Goodbye, 2018. You were a good year. Some of the things referenced in the podcast include:
Quilt-a-Month Project
Sewing Clothes
Crow Barn
#100DaysofArtTweets
4×4 Abstracts
Online Classes
On the podcast we discuss “failed” or abandoned projects, choosing priorities, and what’s coming in 2019!
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October 24, 2018 032: Skill Building

Today’s podcast is packed with fun art-related talk: my pottery obsession…er, class, the MFA Museum Council, and work by Yayoi Kusama and Cecilia Vicuña. I will do a long post all about pottery class very soon. But in the meantime, here is the instagram video I talk about on the podcast with the guy making the little pots. It’s AMAZING (and if you don’t see it, here is a direct link).
I also wanted to share two photos from the Yayoi Kusama installation (the first is inside the installation and the second is a photo of one of the “peepholes”):

And this is the Cecilia Vicuña piece:

And here is an historical quipu:

You can read more about quipus here.
Finally, here is a link to the Museum Council instagram account. I posted a video of the Yayoi Kusama experience to that account:
And a video of Cecilia Vicuña singing:
(If you don’t see the two videos above, click through to my blog.)
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49min
October 08, 2018 082: Team Teaching with Nathalie Kalbach
Today’s podcast is about team teaching and features a conversation with Nathalie Kalbach. Nathalie is a self-taught mixed media artist.

She was born in Germany and lived most of her adult life in Hamburg before moving to the United States in September 2013. She now lives in Jersey City, NJ.

“For the last decade I have been exploring the possibilities of creating dimension and texture by layering different materials and paint media. I have worked in art journals and on canvas, incorporating collage and found objects.

For me, creating art is a dialogue between my skills and the supplies I use. It is not so much a battle as an ongoing attempt to work out the connections between ideas and techniques.

In my mixed media canvases I emphasize urban subject matter, especially gentrification. I depict the vibrancy as well as the decay that I see in the cities around me from multiple viewpoints, represented by layering and tactile dimension.”
On the podcast we discuss the more than decade long friendship Nathalie and I share…

…and some thoughts on the benefits of team teaching, as that’s what we’ll be doing at the beginning of next month.

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51min
September 08, 2018 081: Listener Mail

Mom and I are doing our best to get back into the podcast swing of things. We’ve been podcasting since 2012 (6 YEARS!!!) but we’re not great about frequency. This will be just our sixth podcast in 2018. (Note to self: put podcast in calendar as a “to do.”) All of that said, today’s podcast is a particularly good one, because it’s a conversation with YOU! We chose a few of the awesome comments you’ve left to share and discuss.

Mom and I would also love it if you would take a few minutes to take this four question survey about the podcast and why you do or don’t listen to it. Should take you less than one minute to complete.
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Thank you for your time!
Finally, a quick reminder that I’ve got a bunch of teaching gigs coming up:
September 22-23: I’ll be at The Ink Pad in NYC.
Saturday is “Interesting Faces” where I’ll be sharing my techniques and ideas for creating truly unique faces. It’s time to play beyond the edges of your imagination!

Sunday is “Painted Paper Collage.” In this class I’ll be sharing some of the techniques that I use over and over for projects big and small, including this fabulous collaged dress:

October 13-14: ScanNCut for Artists in the Boston area
I’m super excited to be teaching an in-person ScanNCut class. This is the first one I’ve taught that is open to the public and it is focused on using the ScanNCut as an art tool to make stamps, stencils, screens, and more!

November 2-4: co-teaching a 3-day class with Nat Kalbach in the UK
Nat and I are both so psyched to take you through the process of creating mixed media collages from two different perspectives. I think it’s going to be an amazing class!

I hope to see you in class! Thanks for stopping by!
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55min

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The podcast currently has 171 episodes available.