Awesomeness Studios is the name Marlene S. uses for all the webcomics and drawings she makes online. Awesomeness Studios has created several different series and story ideas on the webcomics website Tapas.io. We talk about how she got started, how she came up with all of her comic ideas and how she would like to go to school for art, comics, and animation.

Awesomeness Studios Doing Fine, Supine Webcomic on Tapas https://tapas.io/series/Doing-Fine-Supine

Awesomeness Studios on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/awesomeness.studios/

Podcast website - https://www.tomrayswebsite.com

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Thann Clark is a photographer who lives in California who not only does personal artistic photos but found a way to do it professionally for an auction house. He takes pictures of older items that they sell but also gets the chance to photograph crazy Hollywood studio memorabilia! 

Links

Thann Clark - Website

https://www.thannclark.com

Thann Clark on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/thann_clark/

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Podcast Website

https://www.tomrayswebsite.com

Mark Piotrowski is an artist in Michigan who has been painting public works since high school. He also creates his own personal work painting on large custom cut aluminum sheets. Recently he's turned all of this into a business called MARKed ARTs that he runs when his teaching position is on summer vacation.

Mark Piotrowski on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/markedarts

Mark Piotrowski on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/markedart

Mark Piotrowski on Ello https://ello.co/markedarts

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Jessie Taylor is a painter living in New Jersey who also hosts a podcast called Dream a little dream. We talk about her artwork and how she manages to carve out time to pursue her passions while working a full-time job.

Links

Jessie Taylor's website - https://www.jessietaylorpaints.com/

Jessie Taylor on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jessietaylorpaints

Tom Ray's Art Podcast Website - https://www.tomrayswebsite.com

Angela Puerta is a Colombian singer-songwriter and guitarist based in Madison. We talk about music, making videos and about how she also works with city planning and trying to bring a more diverse culture to music venues and festivals.

Angela Puerta music website https://www.angelapuertamusic.com

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Mr. Hydde is a painter based in Canada in the greater Toronto area. He tells me how he went to Japan and while there got the chance to meet artists in the field of printmaking. He's done gallery shows and painted murals in different cities. He was inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat and from that inspiration created a style he calls Low Brow. We also talk about why he goes by the name Mr. Hydde.

Mr. Hydde on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mrhydde_artist

Mr. Hydde website https://mrhydde.com

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Lynda Edwards is a freelance artist who not only paints but has created an art school in the community where she lives. We talk about the interesting background of her family, her interest in expressing the history of things in her paintings and taking her art school teaching online.

Lynda Edwards on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lyndaedwardsart

Lynda Edwards website http://artandasanas.com

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Keysha Monique Mabra is an artist here in Madison WI. She draws, paints, makes collages & music. She also has started working in large scale murals. We talk about how she took it upon herself to start finding projects in the city to work on and some of the ways that she comes up with ideas for her work.

Links

Keysha Monique Mabra on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/luego_dreamer

Keysha Monique Mabra's website

https://www.keyshamonique.com/

Visit Tom Ray's Podcast website at https://www.tomrayswebsite.com

John Hazard & Lisa Burdige are a couple that creates the autobiographical webcomic Background Noise Comic. John spent over a decade working at Nickelodeon where he provided game design, online animation and avatar character creation for the brand website. Lisa has published short fiction, essays, and plays. She also works for agencies and has developed award-winning ideas and content strategy for top brands.  We talk about creating their comics, promoting it, the experiences they've had since starting Background Noise Comic and more!  

Background Noise Comic on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/background_noise_comic 

Background Noise Comic website https://backgroundnoisecomic.com

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Sophia Voelker is an artist here in Madison who is a painter but also works with mixed media using alternate material, such as joint compound, paper products, cement and layered gesso texturing in her artwork. Sophia works online under the name Black butterfly Studio. We talk about how she came to live in Madison and the process of some of the different kinds of mixed media pieces she has made.

Sophia's Links

Black Butterfly Studio Website - https://www.blackbutterflystudio.com

Black Butterfly Studio on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theblackbutterflystudio

Podcast website - https://www.tomrayswebsite.com