This week we share a live recorded conversation Sarah hosted as part of her solo exhibition, Things Worth Saving, at Dreamsong Gallery in Minneapolis. Elisabeth Workman flips the script and asks Sarah questions this time. Let's get nerdy about painting!

About Elisabeth Workman

Elisabeth Workman is a writer and poet with a background in dance. Originally from the pharmaceutical suburbs of Philadelphia, she has since lived in Boston, rural Pennsylvania, the Netherlands, the Standing Rock Nation of the Dakotas, Qatar, and now Minneapolis.
A recipient of a Jerome Emerging Writer Fellowship, a McKnight Artist Fellowship in Poetry, a University of Minnesota Marcella DuBourg Fellowship, and honors from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Minnesota State Arts Board, Workman has collaborated on numerous projects with visual artists and other poets. She is the author of twelve chapbooks—including ANY RIP A THRESHOLD (Shirt Pocket Press 2015) and with Michael Sikkema, TERRORISM IS WHAT WHALE (Grey Book Press 2014)—and the full-length collections ULTRAMEGAPRAIRIELAND (Bloof Books 2014) and ENDLESSNESS IS NO DESOLATION (Dusie Press 2016). She teaches creative writing and poetry at Minneapolis College of Art & Design.

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This week, Sarah takes a break from the reguarly scheduled program to announce a new live radio show on Friday April 26, from 8-10pm Pacific Time. The show will be once aired monthly on their platform, and then recorded and shared somewhere as yet to be determined. To listen you can go to https://gutsyradio.org/. The guest this week will be an encore presentation of our interview with Elisabeth Elektra, along with songs from her new EP.

Plus Sarah shares her proof that vision boards work, information about her upcoming solo show, and the guest for the next episode.

Xiao Wang (b. 1990), is a Chinese born, New York based figurative painter primarily working with oil paint. Wang’s work combines dramatic and moody color palettes with a realism approach. He creates constructed scenes from photographs of still lifes, foliage, interior spaces, landscapes, himself, his friends, and loved ones. The contents of these scenes are rooted in everyday life, while the attention to atmosphere and emotion pushes the paintings to an uncanny space. With the use of theatrical lighting and distortion or exaggeration of colors, the world depicted in Wang’s paintings is elevated to a dreamlike space. At the center of this space are human figures, often in solitude, unaware of the fourth-wall in front.

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This week Sarah chats with Basement VHS podcast and filmscreening hosts, Luca Antonucci and Mitsu Okubo. Sarah asks them about their love of horror and why it might be the best thing to get over the nighttime scaries.

About Basement VHS

The premier VHS seed bank of San Francisco! Highlights from our +3000 and counting vhs library. Basement Radio Fridays 6-8pm on Radio Valencia. Hosted by Luca and Mitsu.

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This week Sarah talks with author and educator Natalie Serber, a former mentor of hers that she met randomly - so random - during the pandemic. They talk about writing good endings, loving your worst characters, and how Natalie thrived after her breast cancer diagnosis.

About Natalie Serber:

Natalie Serber is a fiction writer, essayist, and educator. She is the author of Shout Her Lovely Name, a book that was reviewed by the NY Times Book Review, O Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle. She also wrote Community Chest, a compilation of essays written during her recovery from breast cancer.

Natalie received an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in The Bellingham Review and Gulf Coast, among others, and her awards include the Tobias Wolff Award. She teaches writing at various universities and lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.

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Sarah sat down for a chat at the Space Program Recording Studios in November 2023 to ask Griff Williams, Founder of Gallery 16 about his 30+ years running a San Francisco-gallery. We also talk about his documentary "Tell them we were here" about 8 artists making art outside the gallery system and the impact they have made on the Bay Area's many diverse and underrepresented communities.

About Gallery 16

Gallery 16 was founded in 1993 by artist Griff Williams with the primary focus of representing and advocating for the work of living contemporary artists. In addition to the regular exhibition schedule, the gallery sponsors artists talks, and hosts performances and music throughout the year. It’s our belief that the brick and mortar gallery model, to be culturally relevant, needs to embody new strategies for facilitating and presenting artist’s projects. The space, as Williams describes it, “allows for the artist to fail. We don’t create exhibitions around curatorial agendas, but extend an invitation to artists we trust and hope they use the opportunity to challenge themselves without restrictions.

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As part of the Pure Beauty exhibition at Eleanor Harwood, Sarah hosted a live panel discussion on Resilience and Joy with artists Tara Daly, Mary Finlayson, and Rachel Kaye. Everyone shares the trials and triumphs they have faced over the course of their careers and fields audience questions.

The conversation was recorded on March 13, 2024. To inquire about any work in the show, reach out to the gallery directly.

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This week host Sarah talks with author, energy worker and life coach Sarah McCrum who channeled / wrote the book Love Money, Money Loves You. Sarah M shares what money wants you to know about getting rich, enjoying life more and finding balance between woo woo stuff and the reality of the world.

About Sarah McCrum

Sarah believes in a society that is fundamentally based in love, generosity and a deep understanding of the essence of being human. Her purpose is to contribute to creating a world that works for 100% of humanity. She's an author, educator and business innovator. She's the Founder of Liberate Humanity, which is a place for learning and sharing the skills for liberation of the human spirit.Sarah has spent more than 20 years teaching and coaching business owners and their families. She's the creator of the innovative program, Thank You Money, based on the principles of her book, Love Money, Money Loves You. Over 10,000 people have completed courses with Sarah, building a relationship with money that's founded in love, abundance, generosity and nature. She's also co-Originator of LOVE TO, a group of Mutual companies that have created new financial products, backed by the regeneration and protection of nature and human quality of life. LOVE TO has been built from the ground up on the principles of Sarah's book and work. It's an example of what's possible when we build businesses based in the spirit of generosity.

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In honor of the end of Flip Phone February, this week Sarah talks with the co-creator of the Light Phone, a "dumbphone" made to help people spend less time using their phones. Most recently Light Phone has done a collaboration with Kendrick Lamar for their instantly sold-out Light Phone II this past fall.

Joe shares how he and his partner Kaiwei Tang came up with the idea for the phone, and what impact running a business has made on his creative life. We also talk about the very real addiction most of us have to our smartphones, and some strategies for stepping back from the most unproductive digital habits.

About Joe Hollier

Joe Hollier is a multi-disciplinary artist from Brooklyn. He studied design at the School of Visual Arts. He's a filmmaker, designer, director, and entrepreneur. He likes to make stop animations, collages, patterns and drawings, music videos, documentaries, and books.

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This week Sarah is in San Francisco and gets the chance to talk with artist Jason Hanasik about his career as a photographer and filmmaker. Jason talks about creating GAP’s contribution to the It Gets Better Campaign, losing a sister to mental health challenges and what personal liberation can look like. Sarah shares some personal news.

About Jason

Jason Hanasik is a filmmaker, artist, journalist, and curator. His work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, screened at various international film festivals, and featured on the BBC, The Guardian and in The Los Angeles Times. He has curated exhibitions for the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and his scholarship has been published in the academic journal “Critical Military Studies.” Hanasik’s photography monograph, "I slowly watched him disappear," is in the research collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA NYC, and other institutions.

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