This week on The Heart of Art, we have a conversation with an up and coming Americana Folk singer & songwriter, Peyton Jones. We have a great conversation about how his troubled relationships have fueled his songwriting, how performing has changed him, and his plans for the future in his career.

This week on The Heart of Art we speak to Priscilla Salisbury, winner of the Best Female Signer at the Catholic Music Awards. We have a great conversation about her love for opera, how she plans to blend that with mariachi music, and why acting is so important to singing.

This week on The Heart of Art, we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Downtown Bryan’s First Friday! This special episode highlights the vendors who make First Friday so memorable. From glasswork to graphic design, Hector interviews creators of all ages and styles to share their stories and inspiration.

This week on The Heart of Art we speak to Jennifer Morehead, member of the Board of Directors for the Friends of Chamber Music. She presents the FCM's 30th Season and we analyze why she values the power of music for our community.

This week on The Heart of Art we speak to Corby Maupin, current Construction Science major at TAMU, 10 year Army Combat Engineer Veteran and recently acquired the title of multimedia artist. He began his art journey making sketches of TAMU architecture as a way to process the stress of his wartime experiences. That has now become a passion that he wishes to share with the world.

This week on The Heart of Art we speak to Kathi Appelt '72. She is known for her children's & Y.A books and has won numerous awards such as National Book Award finalist, Newberry Honor Book and PEN USA Award. We have a great conversation about why it is that she writes, how the setting guides her stories, and why she began writing books after originally not even wanting to have children herself.

This week on THOA we have the crossover episode that everyone has been waiting for! Hector sits with the host of Garden Success, Stephen Brueggerhoff. Apart from being a AgriLife Extension Horticulturalist, he is also a musician having 45 years of experience playing the bass guitar. We have a great conversation about his love for music and how it affects his gardening, as well as his new passion, mastering the Mbira, a traditional instrument from Zimbabwe.

This week on The Heart of Art we speak to Leann Hale, artist & art educator as well as founder & owner of Purple Turtle Art Studio. Leann specializes in teaching children with a variety of needs and we analyze how she has tailored her teaching for each individual child, how teaching elementary school students gave her the necessary skills to open her own art studio, and how exactly children are empowered through art education.

This week on The Heart of Art we speak to Martha Wells '86, author of "The Murderbot Diaries" that recently was adapted for screen and streaming on Apple TV+. We speak about how her background in IT helped her receive the knowledge that would later contribute to creating Murderbot's world, the implications of artificial intelligence getting smarter, and what the process was for adapting the novella into a film series.

This week on The Heart of Art we speak to Scott Petty, a pastel painter with a background in construction and special education. We analyze why he uses such vibrant colors in his paintings, how he decides what colors to use, and how his background in construction has influenced his painting.