My guest this week is Rio Yañez, an artist/curator born and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. I met up with Rio at his home in the East Bay where he shared about his time growing up in the Mission District’s Chicano art scene, his fascination with Godzilla and his early beginnings as a photographer. We also discussed the various art projects he has worked on including the annual Día de los Muertos exhibition he co-curates with his father at the South of Market Cultural Center (SomArts).

Titled Remembrance and Resistance, the Día de los Muertos exhibition is currently on exhibit at SomArts til November 9th, 2017. Visit www.somarts.org for more info.

Be sure to also visit www.rioyanez.com to learn more about Rio and his past, present and future projects. You can also follow him on either Instagram or Twitter at @rioyanez.

Lastly, thanks again to Richie Cunning for the intro music.

These week I am joined by David Kasprzak, the other half of the Colpa Press team in San Francisco. I met up with David at the Colpa Press basement in the Mission district where we discussed his time growing up in Tennessee, the years he spent train hopping all over the country and the multitude of art projects he has taken on here in the Bay Area.

David’s work is currently on exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum as part of the the show, Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid. Visit www.thecjm.org for more info.

Be sure to also visit colpapress.com to learn more about past, present and future projects coming out of Colpa or if you just want to buy some cool prints for your collection. You can also follow Colpa Press on either Instagram or Twitter at @colpapress.

Lastly, thanks again to Richie Cunning for the music.

After being on hiatus for a bit, I am back this week with a brand new guest: San Francisco-based artist, Marcel Pardo Ariza, whose recent show at R/SF Projects titled Slow Clap was featured in Photograph Magazine.  Today you’ll hear them talk about their upbringing in Colombia, the time they spent at an international boarding school in Costa Rica, and how they got to attend Earlham College in Indiana. They also discussed their current art practice and growth as a photographer.

Their show, Slow Clap will be on display at R/SF Projects til October 8, 2017. Visit rsfprojects.com to get more info about the show and the closing reception that evening.

To learn more about Marcel visit their website at www.marcelapardo.com and follow them on Instagram at @marcelpardoa.

Lastly, thanks again to Richie Cunning for the music.

This week the 2nd annual SF Art Book Fair opens at the Minnesota Street Project. To talk more about the fair I have invited one of its co-founders Luca Antonucci, back onto the podcast to discuss it in more detail. Luca was kind of enough to take a break from prepping for the SF Art Book Fair to discuss how it came to be and what to look forward this weekend.

The SF Art Book Fair will run from July 21st to July 23rd. To learn more about who will be at the fair and it’s various programming, visit sfartbookfair.com. You can also follow the fair on either Instagram at @sfartbookfair.

You can also learn more about Luca and Colpa Press at www.colpapress.com

Thanks again to Richie Cunning for the music.

This week I catch up with a former classmate of mine and fellow intern, Martin Strickland who now currently works at the YBCA (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) as an Exhibitions Associate, Registration and Production. An Alabama native, Martin discusses his educational background which also includes the time he spent in New Orleans working for NO/AIDS Taskforce and the New Orleans Museum of Art. We also talk about the various positions the has held at the YBCA.

The latest show opening at the YBCA is titled Space Brainz-Yerba 3000 which features two projects by Damon Rich and Jae Shin. To learn more about it visit www.ybca.org.

Music provided by Bay Area rapper Richie Cunning (@richiecunning).

I’m joined today by David Lasley, a Bay Area based painter. I recently visited his studio in Oakland where we discussed his experience growing up in the Midwest and his time living and working as an artist in Boston. We also talked about his growth as an artist and how that is reflected in his current work.

To learn more about David and his work visit his website at www.davidlasley.org or follow him on Instagram at @_mr_lasley_.

For episode 18 of the podcast, Bay Area photographer Nando Alvarez-Perez is back to talk about his recent trip to Mexico City where his work was included in the fourth annual Material Art Fair. He also shared his thoughts on his craft, his teaching experience and the state of the photographic medium.

To learn more about Nando and his work visit his website at nandoalvarezperez.com. You can also follow Noé on Instagram at @nandodoteternity. Thanks to Richie Cunning (@richiecunning) for providing the intro music.

This week we checked back in with San Diego artist Noé Olivas, who just recently finished an artist residency at the San Diego Art Institute (SDAI) and discussed the residency itself as well as the show that came out of it titled la/el/ellas/ellos/usted quinceañera/o. Noé also shares with us the topics and themes that led to the project. We then briefly discussed his recent feature in the San Diego Union Tribune which be read here.

la/el/ellas/ellos/usted quinceañera/o will be on exhibit til May 3, 2017 at the SDAI Project Space at Horton Plaza in San Diego, CA. To learn more about la/el/ellas/ellos/usted quinceañera/o visit Noé’s website at www.noeolivas.com. You can also follow Noé on Instagram at @calmatetupedo.

Thanks to Richie Cunning (@richiecunning) for providing the intro music.