MixedMedia Talks

 Dr. Jacqueline Dilworth is a a poet and writer of poems who plays, writes them as well as stories and non-fiction, and translates old French texts. She's also a musician who uses her musical skills in writing, performance art, spoken word, and to create radio shows of eclectic and free form music and spoken word on The Jackalope Hour out of Beautiful Uptight Downtown Goldfield Nevada. She's also the Mayor of the celebrated NadaDada Performance art series. .  In this episode we discuss what is, DADA, the role of deceit, theft, and fabrication vs, found art, the confluences of thinking dualistically about Darkness vs light and why she's drawn to the one over the other, hiding stories in performance art, and of course, her muppet analog. You can find and support her work by visiting her Linktree: Linktree: Intro Music, Irish Trad tune: The Micky Dam- guitar instrumental by Richard Mandelof the Jammy Dodgers, https://thejammydodgers.com/Richard_Mandel.htmlwith Permission for MixedMedia TalksTo support the podcast, please visit: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ameliahoganSupport the show

LisaRuth Elliott is a visual artist using found material to create her paper collages. She is also a fiber artist, weaver, experimenter of plant dyes on textiles, and public muralist. Inspired by beauty in the textures and patterns around her and what has been cast aside, she transforms the banal into new and dynamic combinations showcasing human occupation. She is prompted by the stories and landscape of San Francisco, of Yelamu and its creatures, as she learns about and stewards unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land as an urban farmer and is deeply interested in the exploration and understanding of place. It infuses all of her work, from being a public historian to creating art.In this episode we discuss what's unique in the landscapes that offer gifts of materials for creative composition, both found and grown.  We also discuss seasonality and sustainability of native plant materials in landscapes, and the fact that tracking changes through time is a part of the process, listening to the materials, and having conversations through abstract/ non-representational art. You can find and support her current and future offerings through her website: www.lisaruthcreates.com more up to date work on IG at @lisaruthcreates or @sfurbanwanderer.Her collaborative poetry collage exhibition of the book What unseen thing blows wishes across my surface? with San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck is on display at the San Francisco Public Library main branch, 6th floor: until 16 February 2023.  a collaborative poetry/collage project showcasing the daily work done during the pandemic.  https://sfpl.org/exhibits/2022/11/05/what-unseen-thing-blows-wishes-across-my-surface#and LisaRuth  isthe Irish Consulate of San Francisco’s chosen artist to participate in a global project: “Common Threads” in celebration of St. Brigid’s Day 2023. As an Irish-American using materials endemic to this place where she lives, she contributes a small part of a larger cloak/quilt to be assembled from pieces coming from all over the world and to be exhibited in Dublin in February 2023. Her textile square is made of plant-dyed silk with cotton backing using California native plants as dyes. https://www.ireland.ie/en/st-brigids-day/common-threads/Intro Music, Irish Trad tune: The Micky Dam- guitar instrumental by Richard Mandelof the Jammy Dodgers, https://thejammydodgers.com/Richard_Mandel.htmlwith Permission for MixedMedia TalksSupport this and future shows at Patreon.com/mixedmedia_talksSupport the show

CW: mentions of addiction, recovery, swearingKarina Blackheart is a Writer, teacher, mentor, ritualist--intent on elevating our daily experience from mundane, ordinary and irritating to meaningful, delightful, nd sacred.  Whether she's weaving words, provoking, kneeding bread, walking the dog, or leading or teaching others how to lead a firewalking ceremony, she's stalking beauty, power and meaning and is rarely disappointed. In this episode, Karina discusses art up close vs at a safe distance,  being a provacateur, transformation. Then we wander into ceremony, tradition, addiction and accessing ecstasy through our own body's chemicals and emotional states. And finish the winding conversation with the importance of silence and accountabilibuddies. Finally, we go over where to find the connections that remind us of our sacredness exactly as we are, and which muppet she would be. You can find and support her current and future offerings through her website: https://Karinabheart.com. Her transformative firewalking sessions at https://GLOWfirewalking.com her Patreon subscription works at https://www.patreon.com/karinabheartand her  Book: Distillations through her website, and The Witch's Book of Silence on AmazonIntro Music, Irish Trad tune: The Micky Dam- guitar instrumental by Richard Mandelof the Jammy Dodgers, https://thejammydodgers.com/Richard_Mandel.htmlwith Permission for MixedMedia TalksSupport this and future shows at Patreon.com/mixedmedia_talksSupport the show

LisaMaria Martinez (LM) is a blind mom living in the SF bay Area. She rocks a weekly FB Live episode with her bestie, Blind broad Serena Olsen,  called The Blind Grind. She loves breaking down origami and and loves to teach it and other artforms non-visually to other blind people, and not blind people. LM also  makes her own beauty products such as lotion, chapstick, and face cleansers and... life-coaching to help you access your greatest sense of joy.  Serena Olsen is the Frugal Foodie, writer, culinarian, and food creative adventuring at the intersection of food & happiness. Superpowers: sweeping the fridge & repurposing leftovers, and sniffing and tasting. Feed the body & feed the soul.❤️‍🔥 Her other arts include textile and writing arts, and podcast co-creation. In this episode we start with and three way conversation between me and other podcast hosts!!! from the FB live series, the Blind Grind, and dive right into the very notion of creativity, and valuation of art, breaking barriers of what people believe you're capable of with audio descriptions for art forms, intersections of accessibility, time as a finite resource vs. outsourcing it using the privilege of capital, travel and what being among other cultures teaches, reclaiming identity, breaking assumptive limitations, and the vulnerability of being seen being creative. You can find and support their current and future projects at: https://.itstartswithquiche.com and on facebook, for weekly live sessions. email them directly at LM at bayareablindmom dot com and theblindgrindpod at gmail dot comIntro Music, Irish Trad tune: The Micky Dam- guitar instrumental by Richard Mandelof the Jammy Dodgers, https://thejammydodgers.com/Richard_Mandel.htmlwith Permission for MixedMedia TalksSupport the show

In This Episode we speak with, Sheldon Epps who has directed major productions on and off Broadway, in London and at many theatres across America. In addition, he has had an active television career helming some of the classic shows of recent years, Frasier, Girlfriends, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, Sister Sister and more. He was the artistic director of the renowned Pasadena playhouse for two decades, and currently serves as senior artistic advisor at historic Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.In this episode we speak about the trajectory from loving theater at age 8, learning everything about theater and moving from acting, to finally reaching his calling as an American director. We discuss  the responsibilities of artists and audiences, getting the best of other creators by letting them work their magic, the particular intersections of art forms that comprise theater, what are some of the hurdles to black directors successes, racism by omission and the roles people don't even consider you for, getting surprising responses from an audience as the highest compliment, the nature of beauty, writing his memoir on finding joy and overcoming, beautiful moments, and doing the things no one imagined you'd do, in  his recent book, My Own Directions, available now at independent retailers nationwide and, at https://www.amazon.com/My-Own-Directions-Journey-American/dp/1476688583 We also discuss his upcoming release, Christmas Party Crashers, premiering, Nov 17 on BET+.Contact his publicist, Lesley Brandon at [email protected] for engagements and inquiries.Intro Music, Irish Trad tune: The Micky Dam- guitar instrumental by Richard Mandelof the Jammy Dodgers, https://thejammydodgers.com/Richard_Mandel.htmlwith Permission for MixedMedia TalksSupport this and future shows at Patreon.com/mixedmedia_talksSupport the show

Miss Post Mortem is a Mortician, aesthetician, costume/ theatrical make-up specialist, and Baker, who brings care and dedication to her craft of transforming loved ones's experiences with their dead, through skill and heart. We talk aaaallll about death.  This needs ALL the content Warnings, throughout. For mature audiences only. Explicit depictions, mentions of violence, We include many things gruesome, graphic, gross, shunning, mutilation, organ harvesting, What ARE embalmers willing to do for families vs, what's legally and ethically off-limits, trans-rights and changes in law over time.In this episode, including almost 45 minutes of bonus content specifically for Halloween. we speak candidly about: Death and funerary practices as art, spiritual calling, and sacred trust. We go deeeeep into hard topics that relate to all things that happen as the body breaks down, we pull apart the sinew of stereotypes surrounding mortuary practices, depictions of embalming technique, the weirdly funny things that come up or get covered up,.Never ask a mortician about the funerary N word. relating goth sensibilities to her work, practices from around the world, Learning on an apprentice program, and continuing education at movie special effects trade shows, and what muppets she'd be. You can email her questions directly at misspostmortem at gmail dot com or find her as MissPostMorten Intro Music, Irish Trad tune: The Micky Dam- guitar instrumental by Richard Mandel of the Jammy Dodgers, https://thejammydodgers.com/Richard_Mandel.htmlwith Permission for MixedMedia TalksAnd you can support this and future shows at Patreon.com/mixedmedia_talksSupport the show

Wendy Bliss is a Textile artist, Master Costumer, Instructor, and Scholar of all things fiber arts who began sewing very young, and doing her own patterning by the time she was 14 - fiber has always spoken clearly. Her work includes historical costume/ cosplay and dyeing for over thirty years and she cut her teeth on historical German Renaissance era garments. Then moved into fourteenth century French, and then hit 9-10th century Slavic as areas of primary research & reconstruction. She also creates jewelry with designs springboarded from history, and lately has branched out into soft sculpture and quilt design, as well as Silk Velvet pumpkins and  mushrooms. It's all about making things with shape and color and texture.In This episode we explore the primordial elements of being drawn to work on mushrooms, How to construct and compose them, and their decompositional nature. We discuss the importance of curiosity, and exploration in developing ones' skills, how everybody makes mistakes and the importance of showing them especially to students, fabric engineering, the breadth of techniques employed in the use of different materials, The ways that various fabric behaves, what to do with that project you made that has bad associations, and what possible future collaborations might look like. You can find her work on social media at https://www.facebook.com/wendy.bliss.31/photos_byand emailing her directly for classes, workshops, commissions, some of those brilliant Silk velvet pumpkins and mushrooms at wendy.bliss at gmail dot comIntro Music, Irish Trad tune: The Micky Dam- guitar instrumental by Richard Mandel of the Jammy Dodgers, https://thejammydodgers.com/Richard_Mandel.htmlwith Permission for MixedMedia TalksSupport the show

Costello Darling identifies as a maker more than an artist and sees the ways things COULD be done. and questions the way 'Most People' do things is often unknown to him. They make things that he wants personally and that 'Most People' don't seem to know to want yet (because they don't exist) like a ukulele with the size and strings of a guitar. ** They make more traditional art around the given audience of a moment with the experience made as a reflection of that interaction. His focus is on performance art, and temporal art for the moment, about sharing experiences across many senses are some of the many ways he makes.  Fashion: Man in layered skirts look/ DIY sleeves for listenersProjects have included: * Food: DIY braised meat / DIY Mandala cake, * Burning Man Porta Pottie Beacons : Art FAIL, * Human Powered Trebuchet. * Burning Teeter Totter called The Hotter Totter, * Mask making before the CDC figured out airborne disease is spread through coughing,* Snow angel / Snow arm, *information tables in public spaces, and more. In this episode, Costello and I explore expectations of what elements of daily life CAN be art, what role whimsy plays in making things, and tailoring art to the perceptions of the audience, the time, and place in which one finds it, why we do it, what's important when you're your own audience, and what is the art of the moment. Costello Darling can be found on YouTube.com/CostelloReflections, and Facebook/ social media platforms, and anywhere they happen to be.Special thanks to Richard Mandel for intro music.Intro Music, Irish Trad tune: The Micky Dam- guitar instrumental by Richard Mandel of Three Mile Stone, and the Jammy Dodgers, https://thejammydodgers.com/Richard_Mandel.html with Permission for MixedMedia TalksSupport the show

T. Thorn Coyle is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, photographer, teacher, singer, dancer, non-fiction and Now FIction writer who has written a cozy fiction series and is about to launch the kickstarter to finish the Pride Street Paranormal Cozy Mystery series: http://kck.st/3zAYDyE August 9, 2022In this episode we talk about the why of which kinds of arts for which emotional spaces, and the necessity of fun art, what feels like failures is giving up, the politics of using your voice for joy, a history of perfectionism, where compensation fits with valuation of art, and where it's not the point, letting go of others responses to what we create, their muppet analog, and their newest fiction works ... just in time for their KS launch, TODAY! Please support their work at thorncoyle.com their newest project at http://kck.st/3zAYDyE and find your favorite local independent bookstore to support communities for independent artists everywhere. Special thanks to Richard Mandel for intro music.Intro Music, Irish Trad tune: The Micky Dam- guitar instrumental by Richard Mandel of Three Mile Stone, and the Jammy Dodgers, https://thejammydodgers.com/Richard_Mandel.html with Permission for MixedMedia TalksSupport the show

In this episode my guest is lifelong New York Artist, Judy Wong and We talk about the essential human need to be creative, and how "Art is life and life is art" as well as growing up in NY as a child professional,  bullying and identity, formal and informal arts education, escaping performance to find what we love about it when we choose to do it for ourselves. We then wander through some nostalgia about how the performing arts fields have changed over time, finding why she does her art, many philosophical gems, the pearls of wisdom gained from arts communities with Vaudevillian colleagues, sleeping almost anywhere, formal arts training and the costs of being a child professional. and then what?!?!? Finding her way into parenting, and furniture design, woodworking, ceramics, photography, growing up in New York and the farms outside of Manhattan, and teaching kids using pathways found through many arts.Judy Wong is an International Educator /Consultant /Life Coach and Speaker in the performing & visual arts, various education & business industries. She is an Energy Healer and a certified Silva Method practitioner. Judy is on a mission for those, like her, who are over 60, 70, 80 & 90 to Raise their Fountain of Life and Live Life for Living!  Her Career spans performing in Carnegie Hall as a toddler, through dance, acting, singing,puppeteering, and onward into life coaching with all that experience finding what the art is to living.  https://www.facebook.com/thejudywonghttps://www.imdb.me/thejudywonghttps://www.linkedin.com/in/thejudywong/https://livingoutloudaintoveryet.com/homehttps://eflmagazine.com/judy-wong-international-educator-life-coach-entrepreneur-and-much-more/https://www.spunkyoldbroad.com/judy-wong-episode-124-part-1/ https://www.spunkyoldbroad.com/judy-wong-episode-124-part-2/ Intro Music, Irish Trad tune: The Micky Dam- guitar instrumental by Richard Mandel of Three Mile Stone, and the Jammy Dodgers, https://thejammydodgers.com/Richard_Mandel.html with Permission for MixedMedia TalksSupport the show