On this podcast episode, I meet Sfera Louis. Sfera is a painter living in Brooklyn New York. Sfera describes their paintings as Spherealism and works on several paintings simultaneously. With a background in working with music promotion, Sfera has a solid grassroots method of promoting creative work, which has led to making their own studio home to open mics for creatives and gallery salons!

Sfera Louis website https://www.sferalouis.com

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On this podcast episode, I meet Damone Harris of Mone Media. Damone is a video creator living in Milwaukee WI. I found out about Damone on YouTube a few years back because they have a weekly video series recreating Saturday Morning cartoon broadcasts from the 1980s and earlier. And I mean the commercials, station breaks, cartoon lineup, and everything!

But Damone also has a unique way of telling stories through other types of videos and short films they create.

Mone Media on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@monemedia

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On this podcast episode, I meet Melanie Sartori. Melanie is an artist living here in Madison WI. Melanie is a multidisciplinary, experimental self-taught artist creating abstract and surreal scenes with acrylic, oil and plaster. Melanie started selling artwork publicly in 2018 and one thing that worked was posting it on Facebook Marketplace!

Melanie Sartori on Etsy

Melanie Sartori on Instagram

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On this podcast episode, I meet Peter Schenck. Peter is an artist living in Brooklyn, New York. Their artwork is abstract, with what Peter calls a cartoonish language of his own world of symbols. We talk about how Peter got started and how their paintings have found their way into galleries and more!

Peter Schenck's website https://www.peterschenck.com

Peter Schenck on Instagram http://instagram.com/pbschenck

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On this podcast episode, I meet Drew Sternitzky. Drew is an artist living in Wisconsin who draws a comic called Mr. Hugh’s History. It's a weekly comic strip about events big and small that have shaped our collective history. And it's also available now in a new book!

Mr. Hugh's History on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mrhughshistory

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On this podcast episode, I meet Stephen Gilpin. Stephen Gilpin has been working professionally as an illustrator since 2001. He’s illustrated numerous picture books, chapter books, graphic novels and illustrations for a host of clients including Disney/Hyperion, Simon and Schuster, Harper, MacMillan, Scholastic and others. Since 2016 he's done a regular comic strip page for Scout Life (Boys' Life) Magazine.

We talk about how Stephen is currently trying to break out with his own comic ideas these days and trying to set their own path.

Stephen Gilpin's website https://sgilpin.com

Stephen Gilpin on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sparkgilpin

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On this podcast episode, I meet Joseph Iorio. Joseph is an artist living in New Jersey. Joseph had pursued art in the past but somehow it got away from him. Then a few years ago he found inspiration again and started painting again and working on getting his pieces out there and even showing them in galleries. We find out how he has been going through the steps to restart his art career.

Joseph Iorio on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ioriojoseph

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On this podcast episode, I meet Ryan Haugland. Ryan is an artist I know from Instagram who I knew as a musician. But recently Ryan has started painting and I was very interested in the paintings they were posting. So we got together to talk about how this new painting pursuit started and the answer kind of surprised me!

Ryan Haugland on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mosswedo

Ryan Haugland on Bandcamp https://mosswedo.bandcamp.com/album/north-flowing-rivers

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On this podcast episode, I meet writer Liora Paniz. Liora tells me about how a combination of dancing and Mediation led to being a writer. And how a vacation trip inspired Liora with the idea to start making children's books.

Miss Lynnie The Librarian Website https://sbgpublishing.com/product/miss-lynnie-the-librarian

Liora Paniz on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/liorapaniz

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On this podcast episode, I talk with artist Rob Parkinson. Rob is a graphic designer who has worked as an artist for different companies and eventually went into business for himself as a full-time freelance designer. Rob also started an online t-shirt company of his own called Relik Ragwear where he recreates logos of Wisconsin places from the past that have gone out of business.

Rob and I used to work together when I was in high school at a store called Artwave where we hand-painted custom t-shirts.

Relik Ragwear Website https://relikragwear.com

Relik Ragwear on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/relikragwear_wisconsin

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