The Artist In Me Is Dead

This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Danielle Krysa.This fifth episode features a conversation with artist, curator, and author Danielle Krysa. Danielle is known for her many books and her 15 years curating, writing, and podcasting as The Jealous Curator. Her own creative practice involves collage, painting, sculpture, and ceramics…and of course HUMOR!  Dig into Danielle’s breadth of work from her 7 books, including two children’s books: How to Spot an Artist and Art and Joy: Best Friends Forever, to her TEDx Nashville Talk: How to cut creativity out of your life  - to her witty, expressive art! This May she will have a solo show at Jen Tough Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico - check it out!And if you dream of learning from her in-person and traveling to Venice, Italy - you’re in luck! There are still spots available in her workshop for July 15-26, 2024 which is hosted by the European Cultural Academy. A link to register is found in the show notes for this episode, on this podcast’s website: www.theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com and on Danielle’s Instagram Accounts: @daniellekrysaart and @thejealouscuratorNotes from the show:Danielle’s Books: Amazon Author PageYour Inner Critic Is A Big JerkCreative BlockCollageA Big Important Art Book (Now With Women)A Big Important Artists: A womanulaDanielle’s Children’s Books:How To Spot An Artist - This Might Get MessyART and JOY: Best Friends ForeverWorkshops:July 15-26, 2024, Venice, Italy: European Cultural Academy: https://eca.art/courses/art/contemporary-art-frameworkSold Out Workshop: Santa Fe, NM May 6-10, 2024, Jen Tough Gallery AIR STUDIOSSolo Exhibition at Jen Tough Gallery, Opens May 4 with an opening reception May 10, 2024TEDx Nashville talk: How to cut creativity out of your life.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrhfH-hTSMs&t=16sPodcast: Art for Your Ear (over 200 episodes)Blog: https://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/art-for-your-ear-podcast/Instagram: @daniellekrysaart @thejealouscuratorWebsites: http://www.krysa.com/danielle/about.htmArtists Mentioned in the Episode + their Instagram:Petah Coyne @petahcoyneDebra Broz @zebrazorbElsa PrattMando Marie @seeyouthroughitPodcast: www.theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com Instagram: @theartistinmeisdeadpodcastHost Information: www.rhondawillers.com Instagram: @r_willersStudio Mix #16 :|: Danielle KrysaShe’s a Bitch by Missy ElliotWelcome to New York by Taylor SwiftBoys by LizzoBoss Bitch by Doja CatDog Days Are Over by Florence + The MachineListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3GQAvgmIZL4RZZR4Ujh2lNDanielle Krysa’s Biography:Danielle Krysa has a BFA in Visual Arts, and a post-grad in graphic design. She is the writer behind the contemporary art site, The Jealous Curator (est.2009), and has curated art shows all over North America. Danielle is also an artist herself, and her narrative mixed media work is held in private collections worldwide. She is the author of several art books, including “Creative Block”, “Your Inner Critic Is A Big Jerk”, “A Big Important Art Book - Now with Women”, and two children’s books; “How To Spot An Artist” and “Art and Joy”. Danielle has had the great pleasure of speaking at TEDx, PIXAR, Creative Mornings, and was interviewed in series of video segments on oprah.com about breaking through creative blocks and self-doubt.Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Raheleh Filsoofi.Raheleh is based in Nashville, Tennessee. Born in Tehran and raised during the post-Islamic Revolution era and eight years of war with Iraq that followed, she is a keen observer of the world, integrating the subtleties of experiences within her performances and art. When we spoke, Raheleh was in her third week of an artist residency at MacDowell in New Hampshire. She had recently completed an incredible year that included multiple significant exhibitions and performances, and as part of her residency she was taking time to reflect on the work she had completed in the past year. Be sure to listen to the end of our conversation where she shares part of her newest poem.To learn more about Raheleh follow her on Instagram @rahafilsoofi and check out her website www.rahelehfilsoofi.comNotes from the show:Fragile handle with care: https://www.rahelehfilsoofi.com/blankBite: https://www.rahelehfilsoofi.com/biteSay Their Names: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0d0IJMTdE4Podcast: www.theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com Instagram: @theartistinmeisdeadpodcastHost Information: www.rhondawillers.com Instagram: @r_willersStudio Mix #15 :|: Raheleh FilsoofiReza Filsoofi: Whispers of PersiaBamboo Water Fountain 24/7Best Oud Instrumentals (Mixed by Billy Esteban)National Arab Orchestra - Ahwak - Chadi KassemErkan Ogur Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kQf78hfOk3QVxHKFasYWORaheleh Filsoofi’s Biography:Filsoofi is collector of soil and sound, an itinerant artist, and a feminist curator. Her geographical, disciplinary and conceptual practice take on critical narratives about movement, immigration, and social activism. Clay and sound are the nexus of her practice and act as expressive mediums, with their cryptic and architectural qualities engendering new narratives through diverse aesthetic strategies such as multimedia installations and immersive sound performances.  Her art disrupts the borders that exist between us and seeks a more inclusive world, illuminating and challenging policies and politics.  Her current and recent exhibitions include Imagined Boundaries, an interactive multimedia installation at Gibbes Museum in Charleston, SC (2023-2024), and Only Sound Remains, an interactive multimedia installation at the Sharjah Biennial 15, Thinking Historically in the Present in Sharjah, UAE (2023).Filsoofi’s Imagined Boundaries, a multimedia installation, consisting of two separate exhibitions, debuted concurrently in a solo exhibition at the Abad Gallery in Tehran and group exhibition Dual Frequency at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida in 2017. The installation in each country connected audiences in the U.S. and Iran for few hours in the night of the show opening.Raheleh's project, 'Listening: The Fourth String,' in collaboration with musician Reza Filsoofi, introduces an interactive instrument and platform called ShahTár. Through public performances, it highlights the contributions of the silenced Iranian musician and Sufi, Moshtagh Ali Shah, to music while emphasizing the power of listening to drive community engagement and promote social change.She has been the 2022 Winner of the 1858 Contemporary Southern Art Award and the recipient of the 2021 Southern Prize Tennessee State Fellowship. She is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics in the Department of Art at Vanderbilt University and holds the secondary appointment at the Blair School of Music. She received her M.F.A. in Fine Arts from Florida Atlantic University and a B.F.A. in Ceramics from Al-Zahra University in Tehran, Iran.Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Sara Nishikawa.Sara is based in Detroit, Michigan. Her sculptural practice coexists with a profession in nonprofit administration. Her approach to studio practice is one of desired balance, but also recognizing the peaks and valleys of creativity and life. As part of her creative practice, she hosts one-day baking residencies, known as Mostly Butter. Throughout our conversation, Sara comes back to the importance of your community of support as a lifeline to keeping creativity alive. Please enjoy this episode with Sara Nishikawa.To learn more about Sara’s work follow her on Instagram @supersarebear and @mostlybutter and her website www.saranishikawa.comPodcast: www.theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com Instagram: @theartistinmeisdeadpodcastHost Information: www.rhondawillers.com Instagram: @r_willersStudio Mix #15 :|: Sara NishikawaPork Soda by Glass Animals DLZ by TV on the radio Maps by Yeah Yeah yeahsYour Dog by Soccer Mommy Intro by The XXListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7oC95RgS8f6epQTv4EBvylSara Nishikawa’s Biography:Born and raised in Honolulu, HI, Sara Nishikawa is an artist and arts worker based in Detroit, MI. She is currently the artist-in-residence at Greenwich House Pottery in New York and has exhibited her work at Simone DeSousa Gallery and Spaysky Fine Art Gallery LLC. She runs Mostly Butter, an artist residency where she and an artist bake something they’ve always wanted to bake. She holds a BA in Psychology from Loyola Marymount University, MA in Visual Arts from CSUN, and an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Arts. She has a small dog named Angus and a cat named Kitty.Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Carmen Radley I met Carmen through the online writing community and newsletter, The Isolation Journals, where she serves as the managing editor and host of the monthly writing hour called The Hatch. In this conversation you’ll hear how Carmen became a co-collaborator with the founder, author Suleika Jaouad, and how The Isolation Journals has evolved in so many beautiful ways. Carmen is based in Austin, Texas, and her family has been rooted in Texas since the early 1900s. Before coming to her present role and work, Carmen was a k-12 educator, hospital ship journalist, and professional biography writer. As we talked, she shared that her current personal project is focusing on reclaiming her hometown of Sour Lake, Texas, as a forgotten place. She is writing this book with no promise that it will be published, but this allows her to explore and evolve it before the pressures of the market come on it. Carmen’s love of literature and her poetics are so evident in this conversation - I can’t wait for you to experience it!Please enjoy this episode with Carmen Radley.To learn more about Carmen’s work follow her on Instagram via @theisolationjournals and check out the community at TheIsolationJournals.com and on substack: https://theisolationjournals.substack.comStudio Mix #14 :|: Carmen Radley Fast Car by Tracy ChapmanThe Promise by Sturgill Simpson (When in Rome cover)16, Maybe Less by Calexico, Iron & Wine Texas Sun by Khruangbin & Leon BridgesSummer's End by John PrineListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2apnzasqONvzmEuhNMOjIDCarmen Radley’s Biography:Carmen Radley is the editor of the Isolation Journals. She’s currently writing a climate change memoir about her hometown of Sour Lake, Texas, an early twentieth-century oil boomtown where her family has worked in the oilfield for more than a century. A graduate of the University of Texas and Bennington College, she lives in Austin, Texas.Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Pam Kravetz. Pam Kravetz, “a mural makin’, street paintin’ quilt sewin’, yarnbombin’, curatin’, flashmobin’, tutu wearin’ rootin’ tootin’ art monster.” She is a regionally & nationally recognized visual artist with more than 50 art exhibits & installations.Pam is the epitome of “come join me” for all the fun! Pam is based in Cincinnati, Ohio, where May 21st is officially Pam Kravetz Day and after our conversation, I’m sure you’ll understand why she is celebrated not only by her city, but also by anyone who meets her. She is an advocate and empowers those around her. She did throughout her k-12 teaching career and she continues to do so through her collaborative art making process, known as Pam & Co.We cover so much of Pam’s amazing life in this conversation: from elementary art teaching to advocacy to starting her own synchronized swimming team and becoming a lifeguard at age 61! Give yourself the gift of getting to know Pam through this conversation. Please enjoy this conversation with Pam Kravetz. To learn more about Pam, check out her instagram @pamkravetz and her soon to be revealed new website pamkravetz.comStudio Mix #13 :|: Pam Kravetz These Boots Were Made For Walkin' by  Nancy Sinatra Brick House by The Commodores Talk to the Animals by Rex Harrison (Dr DoLittle) Love Shack by The B52's Ohio River by Jake Speed & the FreddiesListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4roohnY6SPlTkj61moO2I2Pam Kravetz’s Biography:Pam Kravetz - She’s a mural makin’, street paintin’ quilt sewin’, yarnbombin’, curatin’, flashmobin’, tutu wearin’ rootin’ tootin’ art monster. She is a regionally & nationally recognized visual artist with more than 50 art exhibits & installations.With Pam, Contemporary Art is not a spectator sport – it is understandable, accessible, interactive and community oriented. Truly, she is inspired by the beauty in the chaos of the everyday. Her artwork ranges from street art, Artworks installations at Cincinnati’s Children’s Hospital to monumental Memory Quilts in the lobby of the Contemporary Arts center. Recently Kravetz was the Art Director for The Blink Parade, a Board Trustee for Artworks ,The Art Academy of Cincinnati, Ish Festival, HRC (Human Rights Campaign), and was a Co-Onsite Liaison for the National Council for the Ceramics Arts (NCECA) Conference in Cincinnati.She is the creator & face of CAC-tV and the curator of the live art performances. Her alter ego, Pinky Shears is the notorious Mastermind of the Yarn-Bombing Collective – the Bombshells of Cincinnati and the performance art collective The Polyester Spy Club. Her current exhibit on view at the Cincinnati Art Museum Rosenthal Education Center – Ace Ramone, Mr. Doodle-Boy & the Peanut puts the best parts of herself & her art into an interactive wonderland. Her interactive exhibition, I Think My Uncle Gershun Was A Golem, at The Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati, Ms. Kravetz used her artist voice and platform to talk about her family, her Jewishness and antisemitism. Currently, she has an installation at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center in the Creativity Center’s UnMuseum, titled Pinkolicious Pamajama’s House of Wonder and Silly Scooter’s Playhouse. Kravetz is also a CityBeat newspaper Best Artist of 2022, an Enquirer Cincinnati Women of the Year 2017. She has numerous awards and recognitions as both an artist and art educator. Pam is always up for the next larger-than-life art bonanza!!Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Zahra Hooshyar Zahra is an interdisciplinary artist based in Northern California, who describes herself as constantly stuck in diasporic liminal spaces. Zahra and I met at Anderson Ranch Arts Center where she was working as a ceramics intern. She was my workshop assistant for a week-long terra sigillata workshop, which we can now fondly refer to as t-siggy thanks to Zahra. She’s one of those people who feels like magic when you meet her. She engages with a desire to be submerged fully in the wholeness of life. Zahra is a first generation Iranian-American, who was born and raised in West Virginia to a cute and short pair of Iranian immigrants. We recorded this episode on the day her BFA thesis show opened. She is graduating from the University of California-Davis with a degree in Studio Art and a minor in Persian Studies, and as you’ll hear from our conversation, Zahra is a human containing multitudes of experiences and knowledge. Please enjoy this episode with ZahraTo learn more about Zahra’s work follow her on Instagram @zazahoosh and check out her website http://www.zhooshyarstudios.comStudio Mix #12 :|: Zahra HooshyarBe Careful by Greentea PengPrelude by Ali AzimiLamp Lady by SevdalizaIt Never Rains Here Morteza by KioskNo Bus by lophiileListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/42rb0A0IahbU54upMbEcxW Zahra Hooshyar Biography:Zahra Hooshyar is an interdisciplinary artist with an emphasis on ceramics. Born and raised in West Virginia to a cute and short pair of Iranian immigrants. She is a first generation Iranian-American that is constantly stuck in diasporic liminal spaces. Hooshyar will be graduating from the University of California-Davis with a degree in Studio Art and a minor in Persian Studies.Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Emily Romens. Emily’s creative practice has evolved from that of art student to arts administrator to presently new mom. We discuss the importance of self-compassion when it comes to your creative practice and how to recognize when you might be missing or lacking your own creative motion. Emily shares ways artists can advocate for themselves when they are beginning careers or jobs in arts administration. She offers ideas for how you can ask for your creative practice to be part of your employment agreement. We also dive into the feelings of shame that bubble up when someone tells us “it’s so easy to make” and yet we are struggling to take that first step and how it requires a lot of energy to be spontaneously creative. Please enjoy this episode with Emily Romens.To learn more about Emily’s work and practice, follow her on Instagram: @emlyrmnsStudio Mix #11 :|: Emily RomensSexy Villain by Remi WolfThe Chain by Fleetwood MacHappier Than Ever by Billie EilishParalysed by The StavesSummer Girl by HAIMPodcasts:Armchair expertLoreThis American lifeMike Bribiglia’s Working It OutListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4BggKksXt1YtOrRBUO9NUVEmily Romens Brief Biography:Emily Romens received her BFA in Ceramics from the University of Wisconsin - River Falls in 2017. I make non-objective objects, based on very objective things. I am an object maker, and a bellyacher. I find myself most attracted to patterns of domestic life - each beautiful, overwhelming, insignificant, sexy, humorous, caring, heavy, vague, charming, ordinary, moment. How I get my hands moving has changed a lot over the last five years, but the wonders of my gross domestic life has remained. I am now a mother to my child, the first human who has ever deserved my mothering. And somewhere in there is that object maker.Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Hannah Kane. Hannah moves through the world as an artist and wanderer. In our conversation, you’ll hear how she prioritizes wonder in her life. And then we meander through Hannah’s seeking nature and the teachers that have mentored her along the way, including the ocean.  Later we think about the ways in which our creativity is impacted by our romanticized beliefs about the creative paths of others.The title of this episode is inspired by Hannah’s realization that the ocean is never going to get closer to her, so she needs to put herself next to the…*bleep’n*...ocean, just like we need to put ourselves next to our creativity if we want to experience it. We started the recording after catching up and laughing for about 30 minutes, so you’ll hear us come into the conversation from that place of connection and joy. Please enjoy this episode with Hannah KaneTo learn more about Hannah’s work and practice, follow her on Instagram: @_h_kane_Studio Mix #10 :|: Hannah KaneBoa Sorte Vanessa De Mata and Ben HarperNdokulandela by Bongeziwe MabandlaFalling Water by Maggie RogersShake it out by Florence and the MachineAll I wanna do by Sheryl CrowListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/10eBrgqYCbk3phJOrNS6ahHannah Kane Brief Biography:I move through the world as an artist and a wanderer. I have been enjoying my last few years learning through travel and connection with others. I am constantly seeking new languages to connect with and some of my favorite modes are: conversation, storytelling, clay, dance, yoga, food and my newest favorite surfing. Spiritual work is the most important and interesting to me.Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Jeremy Nordin-Berghuis. Jeremy has been working in clay for 20 years. His experience began as a teen at a production pottery business in Northern Wisconsin. Today, Jeremy is moving back to Wisconsin after 5 years in Boise, Idaho, where, as you’ll hear, his path was anything but clear and certain when he first arrived. Throughout our conversation, we circle back to the power of questions. To the importance of asking questions borne from curiosity and the responsibility that instructors and educators have in posing questions. And you won’t want to miss our side note into taxidermy and how a first date at a Paint n Sip went sideways…but ended up providing a surprising bit of inspiration for Jeremy. Please enjoy this episode with Jeremy Nordin-Berghuis. To learn more about Jeremy’s work follow him on Instagram:  @jnbceramicsPS Shout out to @camp_nebagamon for giving so many boys and creatives an encouraging, supportive, and community-driven place to be in the summers. #ktfbPPS there are only three more episodes in Season 1 of @theartistinmeisdeadpodcast ! Thank you for joining us during this inaugural season - I hope you’ll come along for Season 2, which will launch in early 2023. If you’d like to support the podcast, you can donate via our website: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com/donate You can also be a sponsor of the podcast! https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com/sponsorships I’m looking for Season 2 support now. Thank you for considering!Studio Mix #9 :|: Jeremy Nordin-BerghuisMoney Machine - 100 GecsPursuit of Happiness - Steve Aoki, Remix Kid CudiStraightjacket - Quinn XCII (92)Anytime - Eve 6, Soundtrack of movie Out ColdA/B Machine - SleighbellsListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ixsQThM1G94JtEcqW4EMjEpisode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Jenn Angell. Jenn is an artist, glaze technician at a small handmade ceramic tile company, and a manager of a community clay studio. We talk about how science theory becomes science in practice through her clay and glaze work. She also shares how it can be difficult to prioritize time in her studio despite her love of working with clay. And how the pandemic era has taken a lot of mental energy away from her creativity. As an introvert Jenn shares how she hopes her art connects with people and the importance of that connection through her art because human to human connection often takes more time for her to develop.Please enjoy this episode with Jenn Angell.Color Research Resources: (there’s so many more, but here are a few to get you started)Blue by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond and Daniel MinterThe Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. ClairColor: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria FinlayWerner’s Nomenclature of Colours: Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Anatomy and the Arts by P. SymeColor Problems: a practical manual for the lay student of color by Emily Noyes VanderpoelArt Centers Mentioned: Penland School of CraftAnderson Ranch Arts CenterAdditional Resources Mentioned:Heal Your Body by Lousie HayMayim Bialik’s Breakdown PodcastTo learn more about Jenn’s work and practice: follow Jenn on Instagram: @jennxangellStudio Mix #8 :|: Jenn AngellWoman (reading) - La Dispute Bury Me - Bayside5 out of 6 - DessaOverbite - Sincere EngineerBrother’s Blood - Kevin DevineListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/15B9UXM7OKWSUFB0VaOG7QEpisode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com