Jennifer Peart is a contemporary landscape painter based in Sacramento, California. She grew up in the nearby Sierra Nevada foothills where she developed a deep relationship with landscape and place. She studied drawing and painting through Sacramento community colleges before transferring to Mills College, Oakland where she received her degree in Studio Art. She then taught for over ten years in California public schools. On a summer hike in Yosemite, she decided to pivot away from the classroom and pursue her art full-time. Instead of teaching students to envision a better future, Peart now freely creates her own alternative realities and parallel worlds.

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Ashley Ragan is a contemporary visual artist based in Sacramento, CA with a primary focus on movement, color, and intuition. Her paintings encapsulate a surreal body of shapes that challenge the viewer to discover hidden images and feelings brought up by one’s own subconscious. Ashley utilizes art as an emotional expression - a mechanism for transforming the spectrum of emotions into concrete bodies of work.

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Jaya King is an interdisciplinary artist and California native who has been showing, teaching, and demonstrating her work since 2003. Her dynamic paintings marry the balance of technique while pushing the boundaries of texture and color. Her favorite mediums are acrylic and encaustic. Her love affair with painting extends far beyond the gallery wall and onto massive exterior walls with her mural practice.

In this episode we talk about her origin story, becoming a mural queen and rolling with the universe!💫

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Keia Kodama is an influencer and Multidisciplinary Artist artist passionate about sneaker culture, style and design. Her work is dedicated to documenting storytelling through her everyday style and art pieces, including thrift hauls, new sneaker pick-ups and her multimedia works and exhibitions.

In this episode we talk about her sneaker head origins, recognizing herself an artist, and all the details on some of her most memorable works. 

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We Are Sacramento (@wearesacramento916) recently opened up The Gallery (@thegallery_916) and event space at 1019 Del Paso Blvd and I was invited to be one of the curators there. So I wanted to share with you all a little more about the Gallery and have you get to know the other curators Gabe and Michelle!

Gabriel Lopez (@gsultimatic). He is a veteran graff writer turned fine art artist and muralist, coining the term Graffstraction to describe his art style. Gabe is the host of Have a Dope Day podcast, which was the very first podcast I was ever on as a guest! He also is an automotive painter, so like this guy gets paint. Like on a chemical level. 

Michelle Dahl (@michelledahlart) is an American artist born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Northern California who currently works in Sacramento, CA. She works primarily in oil paints, with a current focus on the contemplation of humanity through expressive personality within portraits and figures. Michelle is the Founder of Career Creatives which helps creatives turn their hobby to a sustainable business with simple, real-world experience. Michelle is the co-host of the Career Creatives podcast.

Last but definitely not least, Mario Lopez (@marichin1979) is the founder of The Gallery and We Are Sacramento, a platform dedicated to highlighting and supporting people of Sacramento. He is also a photographer, specializing in portraits, photojournalism, documentary, and event photography. You may have seen his photography on the label of the We Are Sacramento beer at Oak Park Brewing Co. that Mario brews himself! In addition to all that and producing 16 podcasts, Mario is a co-host of the We Are Sacramento podcast & Career Creatives podcast with Michelle.

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Faith J. McKinnie is a curator and cultural organizer and through curatorial intervention and critical discourse, she interrogates visual culture with deliberate thoughts and notes on its relationship to post-colonialism, feminist & race theories, migration, land degradation, and the historicity of the personal narrative.

We talk about curation, Coordinates: ICE PAC, and the great work she is doing at the Black Artist Foundry. Head over to @talkartytomepod on instagram to follow along with all the juicy visuals!

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Welcome to Talk Arty to Me, the podcast where we get down and dirty with the most creative minds in the art world. Join me, your host Uli Smith (@paintbyuli), as I satisfy your art cravings by getting up close and personal with Artists and their creative process. 

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