Studio Noize: Black Art Podcast

Muralist, George F. Baker III, joins the Studio Noize fam! George is a graphic designer and muralist in the Atlanta area. He’s developed a unique, colorful style and has been doing murals for some of the biggest companies in the world. His clients include Nike, ESPN Gameday, RedBull, Adobe, and MailChimp. George tells us about how he developed his style, how he learned to be good at making murals, and why he feels like he makes work for everyday people. George is also part of the Midtown Alliance Heart of the Arts residency in midtown Atlanta. This was recorded in JBarber’s residency studio. We talk about how he’s using his space. Listen, subscribe, and share!

Episode 129 topics include:

developing a style

drawing

YouTube university

getting into murals

wild mural projects

building a business around your art

the Midtown Alliance Heart of the Arts residency

George F. Baker III, also known as GFB3, is a Nebraska-born, Detroit Grown, and Atlanta-Raised Creator. Using his instruments of design, illustration, and production, he employs a playful childlike spirit to engage the inner-child we all have. Currently, he is the Creative Director of Foster, a studio-collective striving to make people unafraid to play.

See More: https://www.gfbthree.com + George F Baker III IG @gfb3

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Sarah Matthews comes through to kick off season 7 of Studio Noize! Sarah is a printmaker and book artist that uses layering and color to create her wonderfully textured work. She talks about her latest solo exhibition, Overcomer, which is on view at the Annmarrie Sculpture Garden & Art Center from January 15 - February 27. Sarah talks about how the pandemic influenced her work, the different ways she approaches new projects, printmaking as play, and much more. Listen, subscribe, and share!

Episode 128 topics include:

printmaking

creating patterns vs making faces

her solo exhibition Overcomer

themes in Sarah Matthews practice

making art during the pandemic

teaching printmaking

finding inspiration in art

Sarah Matthews is a MA Art & the Book graduate from the Corcoran College of Arts and Design at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Matthews also received an MBA with a Marketing Concentration in 2005 and a BS in Sociology in 2000 from Bowie State University in Bowie, MD. Mrs. Matthews’ work has been exhibited in the US and is a part of the permanent collections of Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, George Washington University’s Gelman Library, University of Puget Sound, and Samford University. Mrs. Matthews is currently the Alma Thomas Fellow at the Studio Gallery in Washington, DC. She currently teaches bookbinding and printmaking.

See More: https://www.iamsarahmatthews.com + Sarah Matthews IG @iamsarahmatthews

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Studio Noize teams up with the good folks at Print Austin to bring you interviews with the winners of the 2022 Print Austin 5x5. This annual juried show features 5 amazing printmakers with a fantastic range of skill and experience. Ryan O’Malley is an artist, educator, event organizer, and teaches at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Ryan talks about his philosophy on teaching, how his students have affected his personal work over the years, and how he is finally creating the work he wants. Listen, subscribe, and share!

Episode topics include:

printmaking philosophy

creating a good teaching environment

working in different print mediums

traveling

teaching vs personal work

Print Austin

Ryan O’Malley is an artist, educator, event organizer, and traveler based in Corpus Christi, Texas. He works in a variety of media with a focus on the expansive realm of printmaking. His love of people and process is explored in his ongoing body of work Shapeshifter. Transmuting traditional and technology-driven techniques, O’Malley contrasts their static and dynamic properties and navigates the spaces between precision and imperfection; between the ephemeral, and perpetual.

As an artist, educator, and member of the Outlaw Printmakers, his work has been included in numerous national and international exhibitions, publications, and portfolios. He has shown internationally including in Canada, Estonia, Russia, Japan, France China, Mexico, Italy, Latvia, and Iran. His expertise is included in Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Process, Second Edition, by Fick and Grabowski, and his work is in numerous collections including the Mint Museum of Art and the U.S. Library of Congress.

O’Malley’s commitment to education includes serving as Professor of Art and Graduate Coordinator at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi.

See More: www.ryanomalleyart.com

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Studio Noize teams up with the good folks at Print Austin to bring you interviews with the winners of the 2022 Print Austin 5x5. This annual juried show features 5 amazing printmakers with a fantastic range of skill and experience. Linda Whitney is a long-time educator and internationally known mezzotinter. We talk about her amazing prints that highlight the movement and magnificent regalia of the powwow, the indigenous dance celebration. Linda talks about her husband and her connection to indigenous culture, the process of mezzotint, and what inspired her work. Listen, subscribe, and share!

Episode topics include:

powwow dancing and regalia

mezzotint printing

indigenous culture

making art about tough subjects

teaching in university

Print Austin

Linda Whitney was born in Minnesota and raised in North Dakota. She began her art career early, earning a first place for one of her woodcuts in 6th grade. As an adult she earned her MFA (University of North Dakota) in art with an emphasis in printmaking. There she developed a reputation throughout the US for her full color intaglio prints and won several awards in juried exhibitions. She was also awarded national grants for her work with abused children, the subject matter of her intaglio prints.

In 1994 she was hired as an assistant professor of art and chair of the art department at Valley City State University where she taught a variety of art courses including history, printmaking, theory, painting, drawing and design.

She retired as professor emeritus in 2014 and now her focus is on mezzotint printmaking

See More: www.lwhitneystudio.com/

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Shoccara Marcus is our first in-studio guest to the new Midtown Atlanta location! Shoccara is a fantastic photographer that focuses her camera on dancers. We talk about her background in modern dance and how she got behind the lens capturing movement. She tells us about her love for locations, making some of her favorite series, all her adventure in grad school at Savanna College of Art and Design, and her new project Pose Now Flex, posing cards for photographers and dancers. Listen, subscribe, and share!

Episode 127 topics include:

the joy of dancing

photographing dancers

going to SCAD for grad school

traveling and photographing

art residency doing the pandemic

Point Now Flex dance posing cards

finding inspiration in art

Shoccara Marcus is self-described as, “Dancer first. Photographer second.”  From plies and tendu to snapshots and photo albums, her love for dance would soon find her capturing its fluidity through a different lens. It was at Howard University where she picked up a camera in collaboration with her dancing. She later received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, with a minor in Visual Arts-Photography and continued on to obtain her Master of Fine Art degree in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design (Atlanta, GA)

Since then she has worked extensively both nationally and internationally. Some of her accomplishments include completing SCAD's study-abroad program in Lacoste, France, as well as, showcasing work at China Jinan International Photography Biennial, Exposition des étudiants in France, Hammonds House, Lucinda Bunnen Selects at Atlanta Photo Group (APG), Gallery 72, Peachtree Avenue, Wa Na Wari, and Museum of Contemporary Art (Atlanta, GA) where images from her series, Choreographing my Past, is part of their permanent collection.

See More: www.shoccaramarcus.com + Shoccara Marcus IG @shocphoto

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Jesse Howard channels his passion for social issues into his mixed-media drawings and we’re happy to have him on this episode of Studio Noize! We just jump right into the conversation discussing a wide-ranging list of topics from proper critique etiquette, to maintaining gestures in drawings, blending media, and using homeless people as subjects in his work. There is a lot to learn from an artist and that is committed to being honest and revealing truth in his work. Another great art conversation for you. Listen, subscribe, and share!

Episode 126 topics include:

critique etiquette

the importance of drawing

finding your voice

working with homeless subjects

distorting the figure

black women as the foundation of community

different ways of teaching

Since the 1980s, Jesse Howard’s socially-concerned drawings have focused on the plight of the homeless and the disenfranchised, particularly African Americans in urban environments. Informed by his own unsettling upbringing on Chicago’s West side and his lived experience as a black man, Howard is sensitive to the way these populations are viewed, treated and often dismissed. As the artist explains, “At times, [a black man] is a prisoner within himself and/or the neighborhood he’s trapped in, usually because of his race or circumstances; one could argue that he was dead before birth.” Produced in charcoal, watercolor and collage, his figures are typically distorted, reflecting the pressure and anxiety the individuals feel inside as well as the perceptions and expectations imposed upon them by society. In addition, the physical presence of urban life is often evident through bits of newspaper, receipts or various other scraps affixed to the surface of the portraits.

See More: www.jessehowardstudio.com + Jesse Howard IG @stormbeforethecrisis

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We’re excited to have Grace Lynne Haynes on the Noize! Grace is a wonderful young artist whose career is off to a tremendous start. From working on two magazine covers for the New Yorker, attending Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock residency, to solo shows with Band of Vices and Luce Gallery in Italy, Grace’s career is already some other people’s bucket list. We talk about the underlining concepts of her work and how she’s handling such rapid success. You know your boy can’t help but get a little art nerdy about her materials and relationship to color. It's an all-around great conversation with one of the talented young Black woman artist that is redefining the image of Black women in art. Listen, subscribe, and share!

Episode 125 topics include:

creating covers for the New Yorker

Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock residency

evolving as an artist

pursuing an MFA

redefining the image of Black women in fine art

the meaning of color

texture and material in artwork

Grace Lynne Haynes is a California born visual artist currently based in New Jersey. She creates lusciously composed paintings containing bright textures and patterns. Intricate moments are juxtaposed against flat, black swaths of paint shaped to represent black female bodies. The artist’s painterly devices lead the viewer to question the very nature of color and how historically symbolic meanings surrounding colors and shades, especially black, are constructed. In Haynes’s work, black appears aspirational, dignified, and sublime. The result is a network of images addressing complex topics and stereotypes surrounding black femininity.

Grace Lynne Haynes, an inaugural member of Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal residency, is included in the 2020 edition of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Art & Style. Her first Los Angeles solo exhibition is in March of 2020 at the Band of Vices Gallery, and she will follow it up with a solo exhibition at Luce Gallery in Italy in 2022. Haynes has exhibited at the Ontario Museum of History and Art, Untitled Art Miami, Dallas Art Fair and Paul Robeson Gallery of Rutgers University, Newark. She was a selected artist in Daily Collector’s online article “20 Painter’s Who Are Shaping the Next Decade”, and her work has been published in LA Weekly, New American Paintings, Creative Quarterly, and Culture Type.

See More: www.bygracelynne.com + Grace Lynne Haynes IG

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Kristine Mays has been “breathing life into wire” for a long time. We’re excited to have her on the Noize because she can talk so eloquently about listening to your artistic intuition. Since she started using wire as her main medium she’s been collected and represented across the country. Kristine talks with us about her artistic growth, how she constructs her ethereal forms and we go in-depth on her latest body of work Rich Soil, which is on display at Hillwood Museum through January 9, 2022. It’s great to talk to amazing artists that also listen to the Noize! Listen, subscribe, and share!

Episode 124 topics include:

heavy gauge wire art

artistic intuition

imagining 3D space

growing up artistic

Rich Soil at Hillwood Museum in DC

standing out

representing your ancestors and history

Kristine Mays, a San Francisco native has been an exhibiting artist since 1993. She was the Grand Finale Winner in 2015 of the 5th Annual Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series National Competition. This competition not only provided an opportunity to exhibit her work at Art Basel Miami, but she had a solo exhibition at the Scope NYC Art Fair as well and was also afforded a chance to collaborate on a large-scale public mural. Her mural is on the side of the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco on Fillmore and Geary Streets. (It has large wire feathers placed among the portraits that adorn the walls, reflecting the fleeting existence of black jazz musicians in San Francisco.) In 2015 she also participated in the Hearts in San Francisco program, creating a large 400-pound heart for their annual public art installation. The heart spent a few weeks on display in Union Square before going to its final home upon purchase from AT&T.

See More: Kristine Mays Website + Kristine Mays IG @ristinemays

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You boy JBarber lets you know all the info on the new JBarberStudio/Studio Noize space in Midtown Atlanta! Jamaal was selected as one of the artists in the new Midtown Arts Alliance residency program, Heart of the Arts. He just moved into a new studio space that he will have for the next year. After explaining the crazy life stuff that made this episode so late, he breaks down all the changes happening in his life from his new job as visiting lecturer at Georgia State and all the new things coming with the podcast. As a little bonus, he gives his thoughts on setting up a new art studio space and tries to layout the goals for the next year. We are back for more Noize! Listen, subscribe, and share!

Episode 123 topics include:

life emergencies and art

new teaching job

finding the joy in teaching

new studio space

Midtown Arts Alliance - Heart of the Arts Residency

welcoming visitors to your studio

plans for Studio Noize

See More: Heart of the Arts Residency + Midtown Arts Alliance IG @midtown_atl

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Superstar painter Abi Salami joins the Studio Noize fam! JBarber selected one of Abi’s paintings for a show this summer with the I Love Your Work podcast but has been a fan for a long time. Abi has incredible energy and talks about moving from her accounting job to embracing her passion as an artist. We talked about how she developed her style, what fuels her artistic drive, why she’s focused on residencies, and what all artists should take from hearing her personal story in the art world. Hopefully, we’re inspiring some folks today with another great conversation on the Noize. Listen, subscribe, and share!

Episode 121 topics include:

winning the Hopper Prize

applying for grants

6 weeks residency in Marakesh

painting Black women

finding your artistic style

making yourself unique

networking with other artists

changing careers

left brain vs right brain

evolving as an artist

Salami is a self-taught artist who explores the uncanny in the everyday. She allows her subconscious and life experiences to inform her paintings. Salami feels compelled to create and capture moments in time and life to express her thoughts and feelings. Salami's work uses a personal lexicon made up of special symbols to explore memory, mental health, and race. Destigmatizing mental illness in African communities is a huge passion for Salami.

 Salami has been selected for the Jardin Rouge art residency with Montresso Art Foundation in the early summer of 2021. The pieces created during the residency will be included in an exhibition titled BLACK/ness at 1:54 Contemporary Art Fair and curated by artist Dr Fahamu Pecou.

 She was selected as a candidate of the Saatchi Art 2020 Rising Stars under 35 Class and a 2021 New Voices Top 100 Artists. Her work has been featured on the Washington Post, NBC5 News, FOX16 Morning News, Artsy, D Magazine and Voyage Magazine.

See More: www.abisalami.com + Abi Salami IG @abi.m.salami

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