September 5, 2025
This week Jo Locke joins the podcast to discuss her studio practice exploring social practice and collaborative works in a wide variety of traditional and found materials. 
Jo’s work will be featured in the group exhibition, Only Dust Know’s What’s Left Behind, at Presa House Gallery.
Jo was selected as a 2024 Studio Break Student Competition podcast winner by our juror Natalie Pivoney.
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This week Ryan Paluczak joins the podcast to talk about his journey as a studio artist exploring a range of mixed media that includes print, sound, sculpture, and most recently photography.
In the episode, we discuss Ryan’s solo exhibition entitled “People Pleaser” that opens Friday March 7th 4-7PM at ARX Gallery at Southeastern Missouri State University; the exhibition runs Feb 21st - March 21st.
 Read MoreThis week Lillian Young joins the podcast to talk about her work, which utilizes lost or forgotten moments of Black history through painting and mixed media installation works.
Lillian currently has work in the exhibition She/Her, at Ro2 Art Gallery in Dallas (TX) through April 29th as well as an upcoming solo exhibition at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center in June of 23’.
 Read MoreAmy Sacksteder joins the podcast to talk about her studio practice that includes, painting, mixed media, and installation based works. Her work is currently being exhibited in “There Just Isn’t” at Tiger Strikes Gallery in Greensville (SC) & “18: A collection of abstract works at Janice Charach Gallery in West Bloomfield (MI).
 Read MoreLea Anderson joins the podcast to discuss her studio practice, that uses a wide range of materials and processes to create variety of 2D, 3D, and installation based works.
 Read MoreKelda Martensen is a printmaker utilizing woodblock and other techniques to create prints, collage, and artist books.
 Read MoreJoshua Jay Johnson is known for his print and drawing based works that take anywhere from three to nine months work to complete.
 Read MoreThis week Megan Hinds, Nichole Roller, and David Linneweh sit down for a group discussion about their work for the three person exhibition entitled “Pathways” that runs April 23rd-June 4th at McLean County Art Center in Bloomington (IL).
 Read MoreSean Caufield joins the podcast this week to discuss his abstracted environmental landscapes that explore the boundaries of the biological and mechanical.
 Read MoreDoug Russell joins us to talk about his amazingly detailed drawings, which explore themes of history, decay, and renewal through a variety of works based off ruins, travel, imagination, intuition, and observation.
 Read MoreBethanie Irons joins the podcast to discuss her recent series of Vanitas Still Life Paintings/Illustrations that use symbols to explore ideas of life, death, and the passage of time during the global pandemic of 2020.
 Read MoreNick Satinover returns to the podcast to share his latest series of print and mixed media works which will be accompanied by a series of original recordings using a Tascam 4-Track recorder.
 Read MoreThis week Matthew T. McLaughlin joins the podcast from the Washington D.C. area to talk about his multimedia works which incorporate printmaking, drawing, and installation based works, which explore the environment, landscape, and boundaries.
 Read MoreLisa Lofgren joins the podcast this week to discuss her work which explores a multitude of printmaking techniques to create layered prints as well as installations that based on her experiences of landscape.
 Read MoreThis week Erika B. Hess joins the podcast to discuss her paintings that explore the figure, landscape, and still life, which create narratives in her work from daily observations.
 Read MoreDiana Baumbach returns to the podcast to discuss her current work, which focusing on repetition and the hand-made.
 Read MoreIlaria Rosselli Del Turco joins the podcast to discuss her studio practice which focuses on paintings of still life and portraits under direct observation.
 Read MoreThis week Taro Takizawa joins the podcast to discuss his recent drawings, prints and vinyl wall installations.
 Read MoreJason Urban joins us from Austin to provide an overview of his studio practice which explores a wide range of printmaking, sculpture, and installation art.
 Read MoreThis week Amanda Kralovic joins us and delves into her studio practice which explores the medium of print and other mixed media.
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