This week Sarah reads for artist, activist, and podcast host Nikki Nolan. They talk about how to break from the patterns of perfectionism and let your inner Leo take center stage.

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For the first Artist Tarot Reading episode, Sarah does a reading for LA artist and curator Vivien Chung who is wondering about making a big career move.

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This week Sarah talks with Sonny Smith about the creative process and what he has learned about sustaining inspiration for his music over multiple decades and many style changes. Recorded at The Space Program in July 2023.

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This week is an off week, so I thought I would take it as an opportunity to share another project I work on called Free Agent.  As part of my substack newsletter, Art Date, every month I record interviews with artists, writers, musicians, and other creative folk who have stepped outside the traditional career models to carve out their own path. Was it good? Was it bad? I want to hear about it.  This episode is an interview I did with a previous guest of The Side Woo, Nicole Mueller of the Beyond The Studio podcast.   I interview about hand constructing a mosaic for a large-scale public art project she did in Tempe, AZ. This is definitely more hands on than most artists who hire a fabrication studio to produce their mosaic for them.

To watch the video interview and see behind-the-scenes photos, go to https://artdate.substack.com/p/free-agent-nicole-mueller-on-how

Right now I am running a promotion.  Free Agent interviews are typically for paid subscribers only, but as a way to share what I am learning with a new audience and get people caught up with my archive of interviews, I am offering full access to all my content for the next two months - ending at the end of September. Starting October 1st, if you’d like to check out Free Agent, you can support my Substack at either $6/ month or $50/a year. Or, if you’d like to become a foundational member with a minimum donation of $250/year you’ll receive a framed, limited-edition print of one of my paintings. Go to my substack about page to learn more - artdate.substack.com/about  If you’re a member of Medium.com you can also follow me there as a paid member which is $5/month but gets you unlimited access to all the content on the platform. Find me at ⁠medium.com/@sarahthibault

I’ll be back next week with The Side Woo. I’ll be interviewing the wise and talented artist Christopher Martin so stay tuned for that. Thank you for listening!

Sarah talks with Bay Area artist Jud Bergeron, the co-founder of The Space Program where the episode is being recorded in San Francisco, CA. This episode covers a lot of ground, but the main throughline is talking about how to cultivate personal freedom, for yourself and how to offer space and resources for others to experience it too.  Other topics include following the Grateful Dead on tour (for years), using psychedelics, close calls with serial killers, getting California sober, and what it’s like running a residency from behind the scenes.

About Jud Bergeron

Jud Bergeron is a Bay Area sculptor residing in San Francisco, his sculpture has been exhibited through out North America with a focus on New York and San Francisco. Bergeron works in myriad styles and materials but generally gravitates towards permanent materials such as bronze, stainless steel, and mild steel. Bergeron has been awarded public art commissions in a number of cities around the country and his sculpture has been in museum shows and is included in many important private collections. In addition to his practice, Bergeron is co-founder and director of The Space Program SF, an artist in residency program in San Francisco. Jud Bergeron is represented by Nancy Toomey Fine Art in San Francisco and Gallery Poulsen in Copenhagen, Denmark.

About The Side Woo

Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault

Sound & Content Editing: Sarah Thibault

Studio & Equipment provided by The Space Program

Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle

The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com

For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email [email protected]

Sarah sits down with Bay Area artist Ron Moultrie Saunders to talk about the ways in which he cultivates and tends to his many communities, with a focus on supporting African American artists in San Francisco through projects like the Black [Space] Residency and the 3.9 Collective. We talk ancestry.com, giant plants, and what it means to get art to communities who don't usually go to museums through public art. This interview was recorded at The Space Program residency.

About Ron Moultrie Saunders

Ron Moultrie Saunders, a co-founding member of the 3.9 Art Collective, is a photographic artist and landscape architect. Originally from Jamaica, Queens, New York, he currently lives in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco. He creates photograms: photographs that are made without the use of a camera. His art work is in the San Francisco Arts Commission Civic Art Collection for projects he completed for the San Francisco Library, Linda Brooks-Burton Bayview Branch, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, Laguna Honda Hospital and, Public Utilities Commission New Headquarters in San Francisco. He was commissioned to create works for VM Ware, Inc. in Palo Alto, CA and Dallas, TX and, for The San Francisco Travel Association (formerly SF Convention and Visitors Bureau) new offices. His art has been exhibited throughout the US including “The Secret Life of Plants”, solo shows (San Francisco International Airport and CordenPotts Gallery, San Francisco, CA), and group shows "Echoes of Bauhaus Photography Cast Long Shadows" at Ruth's Table, San Francisco, California (2020),“Self:Scape” at Middlesex County College, New Jersey(2012), “Exposed: Today’s Photography/Yesterday’s Technology” (San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art), “Measure of Time”(Oakland Museum of California at City Center). His work is published in several books including “Self Exposure: The Male Nude Self-Portrait” and “From Art to Landscape”. Recently he completed an artist-in-residence at STAR (Shipyard Trust for the Arts) in the Hunter’s Point Shipyard in San Francisco. His studio is located at Minnesota Street Project Studio in the Dogpatch area of San Francisco.

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About The Side Woo

Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault

Sound & Content Editing: Sarah Thibault

Studio & Equipment provided by The Space Program

Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle

The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com

For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email [email protected]

In this episode, Sarah talks with podcast host, psychotherapist, and tarot aficionado Shannon Knight of The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast. They discuss synchronicities, the collective unconscious, and ways to engage with tarot beyond traditional divination.

About Shannon Knight
Shannon Knight (she/her) is a queer psychotherapist licensed in both Arizona and Florida where she specializes in working with individuals and couples. Shannon received her B.A. in Applied Clinical Psychology from the Florida Institute of Technology and her M.S. in Mental Health Counseling from Johns Hopkins University. She is the host of The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast and creator/facilitator of The Symposium community where she invites folks to meet at the intersection of tarot and mental health to explore tarot’s inherent psychological function of promoting self-reflection and healing.

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About The Side Woo

Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault

Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault

Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle

The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com

For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email [email protected]

This is the first of 10 episodes that I recorded and produced at The Space Program Residency in San Francisco. The first in the series is a conversation with artist and educator Libby Black. We talk about sobriety, lesbian visibility, teaching before and after the pandemic, and that time she swam The Rock, yes Alcatraz.

About Libby Black

Libby Black is a painter, drawer, and sculptural installation artist living in Berkeley, CA. Her artwork charts a path through personal history and a broader cultural context to explore the intersection of politics, feminism, LGBTQ+ identity, consumerism, addiction, notions of value, and desire. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with such shows as “California Love” at Galerie Droste in Wupertal, Germany; “Bay Area Now 4” at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; “California Biennial” at the Orange County Museum of Art; and at numerous galleries in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Black has been an artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA; Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA; and Spaces in Cleveland, OH. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, Flash Art, and The New York Times. She received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1999 and an MFA at the California College of the Arts in 2001. Libby is an Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University.

About The Side Woo

Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault

On-site Producer: Bryan Lovett

Sound & Content Editing: Sarah Thibault

Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle

The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com

For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email [email protected]