Studio Noize: Black Art Podcast

Welcome, Zsudayka Nzinga Terrell to the Studio Noize fam! Zsudayka is living her best art life in DC with her artist husband, James Terrell, her artsy kids, her art practice, and recently became vice president of Black Artist of DC (BADC). She has done murals, art commissions, and much more to support herself and keep living her dream. We get into some great stories about her growth from not knowing what an artist's call was to collaborating with her husband and building her practice over the years.

Episode 111 topics include:

working on art commissions

navigating galleries as a Black artist

the art scene in DC

collaborating on art with your spouse

being an artist, a wife, and a mother

mentorship/growing as an artist

making it through the pandemic as an artist

making proposals for an art show

Zsudayka Nzinga is a self-taught artist. She specializes in curating art exhibitions and arts-based special events. She has curated with a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and helps other artists create flourishing art careers.

See More: www.terrellartsdc.com + @zsudayka

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This week the one and only, Juan Logan, joins Studio Noize!

Juan is an incredibly prolific and creative artist whose work touches on all kinds of materials and issues. Using his head symbol he has created paintings, sculptures, installations, prints, and videos questioning America’s status quo and expressing his thoughts on the Black experience. We talk about Juan’s amazing 7,100 sq ft studio, how he is constantly working, the various levels of meaning to the symbols he uses, and how his passion for art translates to his collecting.

Episode 110 topics include:

creating work in a series

exploring different mediums and materials

using symbols to discuss heavy subjects

the reasons to collect art

the real-life effects of racial bias

handling a shipping disaster

how studio space affects your art practice

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Juan Logan now lives and works in Belmont, North Carolina. Logan’s artworks address subjects relevant to the American experience. At once abstract and representational, his paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, and videos address the interconnections of race, place, and power. They make visible how hierarchical relations and social stereotypes shape individuals, institutions, and the material and mental landscapes of contemporary life.

Juan Logan is currently the Conservation Manager at the Vollis Simpson Whirligig Project. This project is actively restoring thirty-one large-scale sculptures created by artist Vollis Simpson for the city of Wilson, NC.

See More: www.juanlogan.com + @juan.logan

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Evita Tezeno takes a break from selling out shows to talk with the Noize! JBarber caught Evita before she flew out to the closing of her solo show “Better Days” at Lois De Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles to talk about new series of work and her long career in art. She tells us about the dream that changed her work, the courage it took to go full time as an artist, and how she gets all the wonderful textures into her collages

Episode 109 topics include:

sketching and drawing as a practice

dealing with multiple galleries

the problems with making larger art

working with celebrity clients

making a living off your passion

Evita Tezeno Port Arthur, Texas native, and graduate of Lamar University. Her works of art consist of collages with cubism influences. Her bold use of color, texture, and shape are the core of her collages. Inspired by images that she sees in her sleep, Evita translates these visions through mixed media, combining handmade papers, acrylic paints, and found objects. Pulling from experiences and children’s stories, she creates whimsical images that provoke laughter, thought and help to enrich the soul.

Evita’s work has been commissioned by the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, Dallas’ Deep Ellum Film Festival, the 30th annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

See More: www.evitatezeno.com + @evitatezeno

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We’re kicking off a new season of Studio Noize with artist and printmaker Rashaun Rucker!

Rashaun recently debuted a new body of print work called Up From the Red Clay at M Contemporary Art in Detroit. In a series of linocut prints, monoprints, and drawings Rashaun prints the stories of his family. Using photographs from his grandma he reveals the layers of history, life, and love that exist in Warrenton, NC. JBarber and Rashaun reminisce about living in rural North Carolina and get into all the printmaking nitty-gritty details.

Episode 108 topics include:

What makes relief printmaking the preferred way to tell these Southern stories

How artists should think about making work

Honoring the people you love in your art

Printing linocut editions at home

Why community is so important in small, rural towns

The payoff in the process of making work

See more: www.rashaunrucker.com + @ruckerarts

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It’s a new season! A new era of Studio Noize!

Your boy JBarber is fresh out of grad school and I’m still committed to bringing you inspiring art conversations with the beautiful melanated people all over the art world. Come every Tuesday for a new episode of Studio Noize to hear the voices of Black Art. You’ll walk away charged up and ready to go back to your studio to make some Noize!

New episodes of Studio Noize start on April 20th.

Go call two art lovers and tell them the Noize is back!

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On the last Thesis Tape, your boy, JBarber answers all your questions about grad school. This series has followed Jamaal on his way to his thesis show and it’s almost time for the big show. Fullness opens at Mint Gallery in Atlanta, GA on April 24.

Questions: 

Would you recommend a 3 or 2-year program?

How many schools did you apply to at first?

What’s your best advice for working on a portfolio?

What was the most important thing you learned in grad school?

Were you nervous to start grad school?

What degree are you seeking? What was your main reason for going? Did you get funding?

How important was the faculty you had? Did you look for anything specific? What do you wish you had looked for?

Would you have made the same work without going to grad school?

What are your plans after you graduate?

The new season of Studio Noize starts on April 20! We’ll be back with a new look but the same awesome art conversations with Black artists all over the world.

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Your boy JBarber is deep in the thick of creating his thesis work! There's a lot of writing and making art going on in the basement. The writing has been the most difficult part of the thesis process. Finding the language to describe art is one of the hardest things to do. Jamaal talks about why it has always been so hard to put his thoughts into words and gives the three tips that have helped him get through the longest paper he’s ever had to write in life! We’re in the final stretch of the process. Fullness opens at Mint Gallery in Atlanta on April 24.

Studio Noize weekly art podcast centered around all the Black voices in the contemporary art world. Catch up on all 107 episodes of Studio Noize as we transition into our new season with more interviews with all the Black artists that you want to hear from and that you need to hear from on the Noize!  

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Your boy JBarber is deep in the thick of creating his thesis work! There's a lot of writing and making art going on in the basement. He put down his paints and picked up the mic to share some of his thoughts about his art journey. One of the more personal themes in Jamaal’s thesis work is about the relationship between fathers and sons. The day after his son’s 9th birthday he reflects on what fatherhood has meant to him and his art. He talks about how he sees his own father, why he can’t paint his son and what he is always thinking about when it comes to his kids. 

Happy birthday Avery! 

Studio Noize weekly art podcast centered around all the Black voices in the contemporary art world. Catch up on all 107 episodes of Studio Noize as we transition into our new season with more interviews with all the Black artists that you want to hear from and that you need to hear from on the Noize!  

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Your boy JBarber is deep in the thick of creating his thesis work! There's a lot of writing and making art going on in the basement. He put down his paints and picked up the mic to share some of his thoughts about his art journey. JB reflects on his relationship with other artists. Where he once had an unhealthy relationship with his art heroes and found himself trying to imitate their style, now he sees them as influences. There is a big difference in the approach to it. Finally, how influences and inspiration work hand in hand to get you out of your box, because there is always a new box and another level.

Studio Noize weekly art podcast centered around all the Black voices in the contemporary art world. Catch up on all 107 episodes of Studio Noize as we transition into our new season with more interviews with all the Black artists that you want to hear from and that you need to hear from on the Noize!  

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Your boy JBarber is deep in the thick of creating his thesis work! There's a lot of writing and making art going on in the basement. He put down his paints and picked up the mic to share some of his thoughts about his art journey. On March 1st, he's talking about creating a Post-Black History Month Mindstate. Inspired by the HBO documentary Black Art: In the Absence of Light, JB wanted to say something about the way Black History Month gets used against Black artists. Instead of being a true celebration of culture and history, museums use it to cover up the institutional biases operating below the surface. He talks about some of the experiences and what it inspires him to do to change the system.

Studio Noize weekly art podcast centered around all the Black voices in the contemporary art world. Catch up on all 107 episodes of Studio Noize as we transition into our new season with more interviews with all the Black artists that you want to hear from and that you need to hear from on the Noize!  

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