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• 04.16.2024

  AART: S1E16 - Erin Haynes, Cinematographer

  American cinematographer Erin Haynes is making her way in an industry that she believes has a long way to go to increase diversity among its crews. Erin was born in New Orleans in 1999—one of two daughters to Denise and...

  
• 04.09.2024

  AART: S2E15 - Weatherly Stroh, Equestrian & Landscape Artist

  This week the American equestrian artist, oil painter, landscape artist and retreat host Weatherly Stroh. Her unique palette and eye for horses brings a soft light to her work as she captures the gestures and movement of her subjects She...

  
• 04.02.2024

  AART: S2E14 - Kire Godal, Filmmaker

  This week the filmmaker Kire Godal whose focus on African culture and wildlife has reached audiences through National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, BBC, Amazon Prime among others. Her purpose and goal is to capture and memorialize important stories that she...

  
• 03.26.2024

  AART: S2E13 - Carylon Cooper, Contemporary Artist

  Carylon Cooper is an American contemporary artist whose work includes abstract, figurative, still life and animal portraits. Carylon was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1948, one of two daughters to Imogene & Herschel Cooper. She attended High School in Nashville...

  
• 03.19.2024

  AART: S2E12 Eleanor Cardozo, Portrait Artist, Sculptor

  English portrait artist and sculptor, Eleanor Cardozo, is known for her bronze sculptures and the dynamic movement in her work. Eleanor was born in London in 1965, the second of 10 children to Colonel Benedict Cardozo, a Military Attaché in...

  
• 03.12.2024

  AART: S2E11; Kasumi, Media Artist

  This week's guest is the media artist Kasumi whose career ranges from musician, filmmaker, author, designer, illustrator and painter. Her work features short and feature length experimental films, live shows, VJ, and public art projection, creating looping electronic sculptures, designing...

  
• 03.05.2024

  AART: S2E10 - Anna Echols, Cake Artist & Designer

  Anna Echols is a cake artist, designer and bakery owner who creates life-like cakes celebrating every occasion. With painstaking attention to detail, her goal is to produce a cake that is hard to decipher from the real thing; almost too...

  
• 02.27.2024

  AART: S2E9 - Felicity Starr, Realism Artist

  Felicity Starr is a contemporary realism artist who seeks to ‘celebrate life and excite the soul’ through her paintings, which portray still life, landscapes and portraits. Felicity was born in Colchester, England in 1982, the eldest of three daughters to...

  
• 02.20.2024

  AART: S2E8 - Tamar Cohen, Minaturist

  Tamar Cohen is a self-taught creator of miniatures and diorama. Her work reflects her passion for architecture, particularly European gothic, castles and art nouveau. Tamar was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1981, one of four children; she has an...

  
• 02.13.2024

  AART: S2E7 - Marit van Ekelenburg, Macro Photographer

  Marit van Ekelenburg is a macro photographer who specializes in photographing insects and spiders in their natural habitat. She seeks out her subjects in the early morning light creating colorful backgrounds that compliment each creature. Marit works as an editor...

  
• 02.06.2024

  AART: S2E6 - Kerry September, Hair Stylist & Make-up Artist

  Kerry September is a British Hair Stylist & Make-up Artist who has worked in theater, film, TV, music, fashion and beyond in her 30-year career. Kerry was born in 1971 in Bridgend, Wales. the oldest of five children; she has...

  
• 01.30.2024

  AART: S2E5 -Julia Bangert, Book Illustrator

  Julia Bangert is a book illustrator who crafts hand-made designs into text. Her work with the Gutenberg Society led to combine her passion for painting with theoretical knowledge and she worked for the Gutenberg Shop in Mainz, which reproduces individual...

  
• 01.23.2024

  AART: S2E4 - Jana Buttner, Figurative Sculptor

  Jana Büttner is a figurative sculptor who focuses on sculpting from life from her studios in Salzburg and Florence. Jana was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1997 and has what she describes as three half siblings. Her mother Petra, an...

  
• 01.16.2024

  AART: S2E3 - Chris Wairegi; Cinematographer

  Chris Wairegi is a New York based cinematographer, local 600 camera operator, ASC Mentee and creator of 600 Black Women. Chris was born in Cleveland, OH to parents, who are both entrepreneurs, and she has an older brother. A keen...

  
• 01.09.2024

  AART: S2E2 - Christine Lashley - Painterly, Realism Oil Painter

  Christine Lashley is a American landscape oil painter who says the beauty of a moment held in memory and fusing reality and the abstract, are key elements of her style. Christine was born in San Francisco in 1967 but moved...

  
• 01.02.2024

  AART: S2E1 - Natalee Watts; TV Producer, Showrunner, Director

  Our first guest of season two is Emmy-nominated TV producer, showrunner, and director Natalee Watts. Among her many credits, Natalee was Chef Jamie Oliver’s Producer for two seasons of ABC’s Emmy Award winning, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, and was a...

  
• 12.30.2023

  AART: S1E40 - Hope Hall

  My guest this week is filmmaker and cinematographer Hope Hall who has built a career that includes assuming the role as Principal Presidential Videographer to President Obama, a position that she considered was the best job in the world. Her...

  
• 12.23.2023

  AART: S1E39 - Aimee Erickson

  American artist Aimee Erickson, is an internationally renowned oil painter, teacher, and author. Aimee has exhibited and painted all over the world, and has won numerous awards. Aimee was born in 1967 at the American Hospital in Paris’s 16th arrondissement....

  
• 12.16.2023

  AART: S1E38 - Hannah Epstein

  This week’s guest is Director of Photography and Cinematographer Hannah Epstein has been with National Football League (NFL) since 2012 and is the first female camera operator on the staff. Hannah was born in Pennington, NJ in 1990 to Terri,...

  
• 12.09.2023

  AART: S1E37 - Leah Jeffery

  American sculptor Leah Jeffery transforms scrap metal into beautiful pieces of art depicting birds and animals. Leah was born in 2000 in Tampa, Florida one of eight children to Suzanne, a home-maker and home-schooler, and Craig, a business consultant. At...

  
• 12.02.2023

  AART S1E36 - Sandra Wording

  Sweden’s Sandra Wörding has established herself as a leading Director of Photography in the male dominated world of sports photography. In 2021 she was named the Sports Photographer of the Year and is regarded as the top female sports camera...

  
• 11.25.2023

  AART: S1E35 - Zoey Frank

  Zoey Frank is a Colorado-based painter who works one large multiple figure compositions and still lifes in oil. And a new mother. She received her MFA in painting from Laguna College of Art and Design, California after studying for...

  
• 11.18.2023

  AART: S1E34 - Ana Amortegui

  Ana Amortegui, ADFC DP, is a Colombian Director of Photography with a string of credits, including Resident Alien, Black Lightning, Into the Dark, Twenties S2, Gentrified, the web series, Heal and Quantum Leap S1 and S2 which is currently in...

  
• 11.11.2023

  AART: S1E33 - Poppy Balser

  Poppy Balser is a Canadian painter of maritime life and seascapes centered around the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. Poppy was born in St Stephen, New Brunswick growing up in its environs before crossing the bay to settle in...

  
• 11.04.2023

  AART: S1E32 - Ashley Barron

  Ashley Barron ACS is an international, award-winning Director of Photography with a string of credits across commercials, music videos, short films, TV and feature films. She is known for her work on Starz/Lionsgate's production Dangerous Liaisons, as well as the...

  
• 10.28.2023

  AART: S1E31 -Amy Dury

  English artist Amy Dury paints people by extracting figures from photographs from the pre-digital age found in family photographs or home movies. She is most often drawn to peoples’ roles in society, the hierarchies and dynamics of power. Amy says:...

  
• 10.21.2023

  AART: S1E30 - Gretchen Warthen

  Gretchen Warthen is an American cinematographer whose work has taken her from Hollywood sound stages to shooting from the back of a camel in India, an elephant in Thailand, the bow of a boat off Venezuela, hovering over Alaskan glaciers...

  
• 10.14.2023

  AART: S1E29 - Nazafarin Lotfi

  Nazafarin Lotfi is an Iranian multi-disciplinary artist who studies how the self and notions of identity are understood in relationship to architecture, landscape, space, and place. She explores humanness in relation to non-human bodies and places that are defined by...

  
• 10.07.2023

  AART: S1E28 - Cammi Climaco

  This week’s guest is Cammi Climaco a ceramicist, multidisciplinary artist, educator and erstwhile stand-up comedian based in New York. Cammi’s art moves between performance, sculptural and functional pieces and ruminates on the history of women in ceramics, finding joy in...

  
• 09.30.2023

  AART: S1E27 - Robin Antar

  Robin Antar is an American rock sculptor who moves seamlessly between Realism and Expressionism. From hyper-realistic icons of American pop culture influenced by Robin’s wry sense of humor, her art explores personal and social trauma and conflict. Robin’s parallel and...

  
• 09.25.2023

  WiSP News Desk: Ethiopia's Tigist Assefa Smashes Marathon World Record

  Chris & Nancy are back with a round-up of news which includes the Solheim Cup, which, once again favored Europe, the Berlin Marathon where Ethiopia's Tigist Assefa smashed women's marathon world record, a review of the Tennis Grand Slams which...

  
• 09.23.2023

  AART: S1E26 - Genevieve Leavold

  This week the English contemporary abstract artist Genevieve Leavold. A self-taught painter who draws on her love of eastern philosophy and organic forms found in nature as foundations for her work. Her intuitive process has developed initially through deep observation...

  
• 09.16.2023

  AART: S1E25 - Michelle Im

  This week guest is Korean-American ceramicist Michelle Im aka RATxCHICKS. Michelle was born in Atlanta, GA in 1984 to Kun Sook Im, a home-maker, and Jong Seong Im, an environmental engineer. She has one brother; Sewon Im, who is a...

  
• 09.09.2023

  AART: S1E24 - Madeleine Bunbury

  Madeleine Bunbury is an English equine artist who paints life portraits of horses and ponies. At just 28, Madeleine is aspiring to follow in the footsteps of her idol, George Stubbs, aligning with other great equine painters, such as Agasse,...

  
• 09.02.2023

  AART: S1E23 - Sarah Rossetti aka Invader Girl

  Sarah Rossetti, aka Invader Girl, is a Contemporary Acrylic Artist painting evocative scenes of war, veterans, law enforcement and, more recently, horses. Sarah was born in Nonnweiler, Germany in 1987, the oldest of five children—she has a younger sister and...

  
• 08.26.2023

  AART: S1E22 - Maria Josenhans

  Maria Josenhans is a landscape artist working both outdoors and in her studio. An artist for nearly four decades, Maria's work plays back and forth between representational and abstract as she allows each painting to find its own unique...

  
• 08.22.2023

  World Cup ReCap Show

  Chris & Nancy are back with a recap of the FIFA Women’s World Cup—a round up of the highs and lows of a tournament that broke records for number of nations competing and global audience. It was a festival of...

  
• 08.21.2023

  AART: S1E21 - Michele Byrne

  Michele Byrne is a figurative Plein Air painter known for her social scenes and palette knife work. Michele is originally an East Coast girl, born in 1959 in Reading, PA, she spent her childhood growing up in the countryside. She...

  
• 08.21.2023

  AART: S1E20 - Vinnie Bagwell

  American Vinnie Bagwell is a sculptor and representational-figurative artist who has become a pioneer for African American women in her field. Her works of public art have become her raison d’etre as she strives to give a voice to underrepresented...

  
• 08.21.2023

  AART: S1E19 Ingrid Christensen

  Ingrid Christensen is a Canadian still life and figurative oil painter. Ingrid was born in 1964 in Golden, British Columbia—a small town in the mountains in western Canada. She is the third of four children with an older sister and...

  
• 08.21.2023

  AART: S1E18 - Christian Joy

  Costumiére Christian Joy Hultquist first established her name when she collaborated with Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ lead singer, Karen O to design her stage costumes, and she has never looked back. Christian was born in Marion, Iowa in 1973, the second...

  
• 08.21.2023

  AART: S1E17 - Kathryn Andrews

  American conceptual artist Kathryn Andrews was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1973. The only child of Judy, an entrepreneur, and Lamar, a salesman and erstwhile poet, Kathryn’s early days were transient because her family’s business determined where they lived. Kathryn’s...

  
• 08.21.2023

  AART: S1E16 - Akiko Stehrenberger

  This week’s guest is movie poster illustrator and designer Akiko Stehrenberger. Akiko was born in South Lake Tahoe, California in 1978. A first generation American, she is the second youngest of four children with one sister and two brothers. Akiko’s...

  
• 08.21.2023

  AART: S1E15 - Carol Woodin

  This week's guest is Botanical Artist, teacher and exhibition organizer, Carol Woodin. Carol was born in 1956 in Salamanca, Upstate New York inside the Allegany Indian Reservation, one of two governed by the Seneca Nation of New York. Her father...

  
• 08.21.2023

  AART: S1E14 - Carmen Mardonez

  Textile artist Carmen Mardonez was born in Santiago, Chile in 1988. She is the oldest of nine children with seven sisters and one brother. Her father Joaquim is an engineer and her mother, also Carmen, was a psychologist until raising...

  
• 08.21.2023

  AART: S1E13 - Rebecca Youssef

  This week mixed media artist Rebecca Youssef. Rebecca was born in Lebanon, PA in 1973. The daughter of teachers Chic & Linda Hess, she was the middle of three children; she has an older brother and younger sister. Art runs...

  
• 08.21.2023

  AART: S1E12 - Kristin Calabrese

  This week the painter and curator Kristin Calabrese. Kristin was born in 1968 in Mountain View, a suburb of San Jose, CA and spent her childhood moving back and forth between Massachusetts and Arizona. Her father, Bill, was an engineer...

  
• 08.21.2023

  AART: S1E11 - Erin Spencer

  Finding poetry in the landscape is how Erin Spencer portrays her work as she connects with nature. Born in Northern California, the second of seven children, Erin moved to Maryland as a toddler. She showed an early interest in writing,...

  
• 08.21.2023

  AART: S1E10 Maria Martinez Canas

  Cuban-born photo-based artist, María Martínez-Cañas, first came to the US at the tender age of three months with her parents, and four years later, in 1964, they relocated to Puerto Rico. Maria recalls her earliest fascination for photography as an...

  
• 08.21.2023

  AART: S1E9 - Emma Gray

  British born Emma Gray is a contemporary artist, art advisor, curator and gallerist based in Santa Monica, California. She is passionate about fostering and mentoring female artists by building private collections. A former editor of ArtReview who had studied at...