A Show of Hands

For the creatives and small business owners in our audience, Meredith gives her take on the top marketing mistakes brands often make and how to avoid them.

Meredith shares her reflections on the current Taubman Museum of Art exhibit, “Opulence and Fantasy” featuring Mindy Lam and the dialogue of contemporary art in conversation with its predecessors. Enjoy!

Today we’re talking with Maggie Perrin-Key all about the practice and process of her work and the rituals of daily living. Maggie is a painter and muralist whose works explore abstract elements of our physical world in an effort to build relationships with the subconscious. Her organic abstract oil paintings investigate the difference between observational and intuitive processes, memory, and sentimentality. @maggieperrinkey https://www.maggieperrinkey.com

Becky Swanson is an Energy Alignment Coach here to guide you back to your sacred true self. Specializing in Energy Work & Human Design, she helps clients reconnect to their purpose, unique gifts, & intuition while clearing away the layers of fear, doubt, & limitations that have been collected along the way. She helps her clients understand how their energy is designed to flow best so they can stop struggling & start experiencing clarity, confidence & delight! Becky is offering a special discount to A Show of Hands listeners, 20% off your first Human Design Energy session. To learn more about Becky, visit https://www.bloomandshine.com @bloomandshine.energydesign

Jeffrey Augustine Songco is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the complexity of self-portraiture. His autobiographical installations incorporate self-portrait photographs, videos, and sculptures. In 2008, Songco established the Society of 23 as a non-linear narrative documenting a secret brotherhood of 23 mysterious men — all portrayed by the artist himself. “As a gay American man of Filipino ethnicity, my artwork is a place of representation — an opportunity to playfully cast myself as the protagonist of a postcolonial queer narrative.” Jeffrey is currently showing in the group exhibition 'Guilty Party' at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian American Pacific Experience in Seattle, on view through May 16, and the solo exhibition 'Society of 23's Trophy Game Room' at Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh as part of 'Factory Installed 2021' on view through November 14. https://www.songco.org @songcoarts

Elyse Barton is an artist and experienced creative director. She’s a gem of a human with an eye for design and wit for days.  After years honing her professional design and advertising skills in NYC, Elyse started a family and relocated to Southern CT. There, in her new home, she established a studio space and returned to her love of making art. Her collection is a visual collage of texture, play, and color story. Elyse is available for commission work and her prints and paintings can be found at https://www.elyse-b.com/ or on social @elyseb_art

Our guest today is Charlotte Russell.  Charlotte is a curator and arts writer of contemporary art.  Her latest venture opened in January 2021, CRC Gallery, is a pop up art gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina.  She works with underrepresented, emerging, and mid-career artists. https://charlotterussellcontemporary.com @charlotterussellcontemporary_

Get to know A Show of Hands.

This is A Show of Hands, the podcast where we talk curiosity, connection, and creativity. In this episode, you'll meet your hosts and hear about their backgrounds in art and design and find out what's inspiring them right now. Hosts: Aaron Kelderhouse and Meredith Carty MacKenzie