Hannah Cole is a tax expert who specializes in working with self-employed people, especially creative and mission-driven ones. A long-time working artist herself, she’s helped tens of thousands of self-employed people skill up with accessible tax and money education, through her Money Bootcamp program, tax workshops from Florida to Alaska, and on the Sunlight Tax podcast. Her forthcoming book, Taxes for Humans: Simplify Your Taxes and Change the World When You’re Self-Employed, is the most funny and empowering tax guide you’ll ever read. Hannah is the founder of Sunlight Tax. LINKS: Taxes for Humans is an essential read for all freelancers, creatives, and ⁠ self-employed people seeking to understand, take control of, and reduce stress surrounding their tax.⁠ ⁠ It’s here, ready for pre-order.⁠ ⁠ It ships in November, in time for holiday gifts for all your freelance friends and family. ⁠ ⁠ Pre-Order Hannah's book: Taxes for Humans https://www.sunlighttax.com/book   https://www.sunlighttax.com     @sunlighttax     @sunlighttax on Youtube & @sunlighttax on TikTok   Artist Shoutout:    Peter Glenn Oakley: https://www.instagram.com/peter_glenn_oakley/?hl=en https://artsuite.com/collections/peter-oakley?srsltid=AfmBOop0A_aYaKIr8NNn72UCb346Lghnf-OAY41VnHYh11Kl33VGDbKe   I Like Your Work Links: Pre-order our catalog: https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/resources   Have a question you want Erika to discuss in a mini episode? Email it to [email protected] with the subject "mini eps"    Apply to the Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program: art.chq.org   Join the Works Membership! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say “hi” on Instagram

Joe Wardwell is currently a Professor of Painting at Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) and is the founder the Brandeis-in-Siena program. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Washington (Seattle, WA). He received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Boston University (Boston, MA). Currently on view, Wardwell has a large-scale wall drawing, “Hello America: 40 Hits from the 50 States,” commissioned for the renovation of building 6 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. In 2022, he completed his first large scale public art project for the Boston Public Library, Roxbury Branch. Wardwell has also completed large scale installations for the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, citizenM Hotels, Facebook Inc., and the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk, VA and the Cape Cod Museum of Art. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (Lincoln, MA), the Rollins Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and Wardwell’s work is in the permanent collection of each.  Wardwell has been a recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Painting and was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Creative Arts at Boston University. In addition to numerous group exhibitions throughout the region, Wardwell has held solo exhibitions in New York, New Haven, Boston, Seattle, and Montreal. His work has been reviewed by Art Forum, Art in America, the Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, Boston Magazine, as well as many other publications. Wardwell lives with his family in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, his studio is in Dorchester, MA, and is represented by the LaMontagne Gallery.   LINKS:   joewardwell.com   @joe_wardwell       I Like Your Work Links: Thank you to our Sponsor, Rise and Repaint. Ever wish your biggest career questions actually had answers? Like — Am I pricing my art right? or What do galleries and curators really want to see? That’s exactly what you’ll find inside the Rise and Repaint Network — built for women and non-binary artists. You’ll connect with galleries, plan exhibitions, and learn how to price your work with confidence, all while being supported by a global artist community.And because you’re a listener, you get first dibs before the public — plus a discount with code ILYW25. But hurry, doors close October 17th. Visit riseandrepaint.com today.    Have a question you want Erika to discuss in a mini episode? Email it to [email protected] with the subject "mini eps"    Apply to the Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program: art.chq.org   Join the Works Membership! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say “hi” on Instagram

In this mini episode of I Like Your Work,  I'm talking about the myths and limiting beliefs that often hold artists back. I'm also exploring the importance of building stability and confidence as an artist by challenging outdated tropes and taking small, proactive steps toward the life and practice you want.   I Like Your Work Links: Thank you to our Sponsor, Rise and Repaint. Ever wish your biggest career questions actually had answers? Like — Am I pricing my art right? or What do galleries and curators really want to see? That’s exactly what you’ll find inside the Rise and Repaint Network — built for women and non-binary artists. You’ll connect with galleries, plan exhibitions, and learn how to price your work with confidence, all while being supported by a global artist community.And because you’re a listener, you get first dibs before the public — plus a discount with code ILYW25. But hurry, doors close October 17th. Visit riseandrepaint.com today.    Have a question you want Erika to discuss in a mini episode? Email it to [email protected] with the subject "mini eps"    Apply to the Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program: art.chq.org   Join the Works Membership! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say “hi” on Instagram

Susan Klein is an artist living in Charleston, SC. Recent exhibitions include I Should Have Been a Pair of Ragged Claws at the Wassaic Project, A Window Scrubbed for the Moon at Asya Geisberg Gallery, NYC, and Volcano Lovers at Frontviews, Berlin. Klein is a 2020-2021 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Other awards include an Artist-in-Residence at the Dunedin School of Art in New Zealand, a Hambidge Center Residency, Watershed Center for Ceramics Art Residency, Wassaic Project Residency, residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, an Ox-bow Artist-in-Residence Summer Fellowship, an Otis College of Art and Design Summer Residency, and residency at Arteles Creative Research Center in Finland. Klein received her MFA in 2004 from the University of Oregon, a BFA in 2001 from the University of New Hampshire, and studied art at NYU from 1997-99. She is an Associate Professor of Art and Chair of the Art Department at the College of Charleston.  LINKS: susankleinart.com   @sklein79     Artist Shout Out:   Hannah Barnes, hannahbarnesart.com, @hannahmbarnes Kerri Ammirata, @kerri_ammirata, https://kerriammirata.com Sky Gilkerson, https://www.skyegilkerson.com/, @skyegilkerson Cristina Victor, @sabiaceramics, cristinavictor.com       I Like Your Work Links: Thank you to our Sponsor, Rise and Repaint. Ever wish your biggest career questions actually had answers? Like — Am I pricing my art right? or What do galleries and curators really want to see? That’s exactly what you’ll find inside the Rise and Repaint Network — built for women and non-binary artists. You’ll connect with galleries, plan exhibitions, and learn how to price your work with confidence, all while being supported by a global artist community.And because you’re a listener, you get first dibs before the public — plus a discount with code ILYW25. But hurry, doors close October 17th. Visit riseandrepaint.com today.    Have a question you want Erika to discuss in a mini episode? Email it to [email protected] with the subject "mini eps"    Apply to the Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program: art.chq.org   Join the Works Membership! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say “hi” on Instagram

In this mini episode of I Like Your Work, I explore the superpower artists share: our ability to create alternative spaces and community. From non-traditional classrooms and DIY galleries to zines and podcasts, these platforms expand the art ecosystem. As artists, our superpower is creating the spaces we wish existed. When we act, we make room for others, build community, and keep the art world vibrant.   I Like Your Work Links: Join the Works Membership! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say “hi” on Instagram

Sam King has exhibited at galleries, artist-run spaces, and universities across the country, including The Painting Center (NYC), Unrequited Leisure (Nashville), Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati), Oneoneone Gallery (Chapel Hill), Laconia Gallery (Boston), The Provincial (Kaleva, MI), Living Arts of Tulsa, MIXD (Rogers, AR), the University of North Carolina Greensboro, the University of Tulsa, Lower Columbia College, and Western Connecticut State University. In 2020, King was a resident of Hambidge Center, supported by the Lee and Margaret Echols fellowship for musicians (he records and performs improvisational, microtonal guitar music under the name Untight). In 2019, he curated Shelters, Monuments, featuring the work of artists Whiting Tennis and Sarah Norsworthy, for The Provincial, an artist-run space in Kaleva, MI. With Christopher Lowrance, King co-founded MW Capacity, a website devoted primarily to painting in the Midwest. With Stephanie Pierce, he co-founded Lalaland, a DIY community projects space in Fayetteville, AR, active 2011-2019. He has also been a resident artist at Vermont Studio Center and Ox-Bow School of Art, an affiliated fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and a recipient of the Arkansas Arts Council’s Individual Artist Fellowship. His work is held in a number of public and private collections. King earned a Bachelor Fine Arts degree from the University of Tulsa (2003) and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University (2005). He resides in Fayetteville, AR, where he serves as an Associate Director of the University of Arkansas School of Art. "Much of the meaning of my work is embedded in its physicality, process, and composition. I am enamored of the material trappings of painting: not just paint and canvas, but staple-holes, tears, creases, and off-cuts, and at times, the artifacts of digital and hybrid formats. My process is improvisational, and I tend to work on a lot of paintings at once. If a painting is not going well (or it was at one point "finished," and no longer seems sufficiently resolved), I take it off its stretchers, cut it up, and use the pieces to start new works. In this way, a single, failing painting might be the germ of five or ten new ones. By alternatingly reinforcing and transgressing conventions of visual perception, I hope to engage, perhaps even implicate, the viewer in the work. I arrived at this method of making art after years of experimentation and interrogation of painting as a vehicle for communication. I rarely seek out source material, in the sense of a specific painting serving to record a particular scene, moment, or emotion, but also, I think of painting in terms of metaphor and embodiment. My work tends to exist in a suspended, liminal state, like something is there to be recognized, reassembled, or decoded. I can't quite say why I started working this way, but I've indulged a persistent, gnawing instinct to rework old paintings for many years, long before they look like they do now. There is something in them, for me, about the interconnectedness and malleability of our collective and individual experiences, tensions between structure and intuition, and the slipperiness of time, narrative, memory, and interpretation."   LINKS: sam-king.com   @__s__a__m__k             Artist Shout Out:     Stephanie Pierce (@stephanie_lalaland, https://stephanie-pierce.com) Matt Murphy (@7mrm8, https://www.m-murphy.net), Mark Lewis (@marklewis2245, https://www.marklewispaintingstudio.com), & my colleagues at The University of Arkansas School of Art (some of whom have been past guests on ILYW - Marc, Neil)     I Like Your Work Links: Join the Works Membership! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say “hi” on Instagram

Welcome back to a brand-new season of I Like Your Work! I’m kicking things off by sharing lessons from this summer's  artist residencies at @chq.art! The top three takeaways that we all talk about with residences is time in the studio, creative community, and future opportunities which are powerful benefits of residencies but I want to go beyond and talk about my top three takeaways from the summer: risk,discovery and momentum.   I Like Your Work Links: Join the Works Membership! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say “hi” on Instagram

Whether you have a week or a weekend, a full studio or just your kitchen table, this episode will guide you through how to create your own DIY summer residency. Erika breaks down how to set your intentions, structure your time, choose a location, and more! This is about honoring your creative work and giving yourself the space you deserve.    In This Episode, You'll Learn: Why DIY residencies are powerful and accessible alternatives How to design your own residency step-by-step   I Like Your Work Links: Thank you to our Sponsor, Creativity Matters Coaching:  Naomi Vladeck & her signature 10-week spring course - Unstoppable! Starting April 28. https://www.creativitymatterscoaching.com/unstoppable   Apply to our Summer Exhibition & Publication at Chautauqua Visual Arts: https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/submitwork   Join the Works Membership! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say “hi” on Instagram        

  Taro Takizawa is an artist specializing in printmaking, wall vinyl installations, drawings, and 2D designs. His work blends both Western and Eastern aesthetics, with a deep appreciation for traditional printmaking processes and the art of mark-making. Takizawa is fascinated by the fusion of contemporary studio practices with traditional methods, exploring the boundaries between printmaking and installation art. He earned his BFA with a printmaking emphasis from Central Michigan University and completed his MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University in 2017. Takizawa has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally at prominent venues such as the Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, PARADOX European Fine Art Forum in Poland, ArtPrize 10 at the Grand Rapids Public Museum, LUX Center for the Arts, the China Printmaking Museum, Tyger Tyger Gallery, and Kai Lin Art in Atlanta, GA. He has also participated in several artist residencies, including those at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Morgan Conservatory, GoggleWorks, and Lawrence Arts Center. Takizawa currently serves as the Assistant Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Wilmington.         LINKS:   https://cargocollective.com/tarotakizawa   @tarotakizawart     Artist Shout Out:   Michael Dickins (curator) http://www.michaeldickins.com @mdickins at APSU who has been so generous to me since we met. He is generous to everyone.   Tyger Tyger Gallery at Asheville, NC who suffered greatly from the flooding. Wishing them luck and strengths and recovery - amazing team amazing space.     I Like Your Work Links: Thank you to our Sponsor, Creativity Matters Coaching:  Naomi Vladeck & her signature 10-week spring course - Unstoppable! Starting April 28. https://www.creativitymatterscoaching.com/unstoppable   Apply to our Summer Exhibition & Publication at Chautauqua Visual Arts: https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/submitwork   Join the Works Membership! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say “hi” on Instagram        

In this episode of I Like Your Work, we're talking about the real-life struggle of balancing all the creative things — your studio practice, admin work, social media, teaching, applications, and more — without burning out. I’ll walk you through why balancing projects feels so hard and share 10 clear, actionable strategies to help you bring order, clarity, and momentum back to your creative life.   I Like Your Work Links: Thank you to our Sponsor, Creativity Matters Coaching:  Starting April 7 Naomi is offering her FREE signature 5 DAY mini course - The Artist Accelerator.   Apply to our Summer Exhibition & Publication at Chautauqua Visual Arts: https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/submitwork   Join the Works Membership! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say “hi” on Instagram