The Artist In Me Is Dead – Détails, épisodes et analyse

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 @thejealouscurator

Notes from the show:

Danielle’s Books: Amazon Author Page

Your Inner Critic Is A Big Jerk
Creative Block
Collage
A Big Important Art Book (Now With Women)
A Big Important Artists: A womanula

Danielle’s Children’s Books:
How To Spot An Artist - This Might Get Messy
ART and JOY: Best Friends Forever

Workshops:
July 15-26, 2024, Venice, Italy: European Cultural Academy: https://eca.art/courses/art/contemporary-art-framework

Sold Out Workshop: Santa Fe, NM May 6-10, 2024, Jen Tough Gallery AIR STUDIOS

Solo Exhibition at Jen Tough Gallery, Opens May 4 with an opening reception May 10, 2024

TEDx Nashville talk: How to cut creativity out of your life.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrhfH-hTSMs&t=16s

Podcast: Art for Your Ear (over 200 episodes)

Blog: https://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/art-for-your-ear-podcast/

Instagram: @daniellekrysaart @thejealouscurator

Websites: http://www.krysa.com/danielle/about.htm

Artists Mentioned in the Episode + their Instagram:
Petah Coyne @petahcoyne
Debra Broz @zebrazorb
Elsa Pratt
Mando Marie @seeyouthroughit

Podcast: www.theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com Instagram: @theartistinmeisdeadpodcast
Host Information: www.rhondawillers.com Instagram: @r_willers

Studio Mix #16 :|: Danielle Krysa
She’s a Bitch by Missy Elliot
Welcome to New York by Taylor Swift
Boys by Lizzo
Boss Bitch by Doja Cat
Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3GQAvgmIZL4RZZR4Ujh2lN

Danielle 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.com

Notes from the show:
Fragile handle with care: https://www.rahelehfilsoofi.com/blank
Bite: https://www.rahelehfilsoofi.com/bite
Say Their Names: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0d0IJMTdE4

Podcast: www.theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com Instagram: @theartistinmeisdeadpodcast
Host Information: www.rhondawillers.com Instagram: @r_willers

Studio Mix #15 :|: Raheleh Filsoofi
Reza Filsoofi: Whispers of Persia
Bamboo Water Fountain 24/7
Best Oud Instrumentals (Mixed by Billy Esteban)
National Arab Orchestra - Ahwak - Chadi Kassem
Erkan Ogur 

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kQf78hfOk3QVxHKFasYWO

Raheleh 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, Jazmin Swanson.

Jazmin is a ceramic artist and teacher currently living in Oceanside, California. At one point after graduating from art school, she told herself “I’m never going to be an artist again,” because it felt safe to say this, but as you’ll hear that only lasted for a bit of time because her creativity and urge to make came back. 

We explore what it means to find your voice again after a creative break and how she has always had this way of confidently doing things and knowing herself well enough to advocate for what she needs. Jazmin also shares how she avoids burnout by keeping her creativity and herself at a quick walking pace, not running and not strolling, but a quick walking pace that keeps her ideas and self growing. 

To learn more about Jazmin’s work and practice:
Follow Jazmin on Instagram: @jazmincolette.studios

Studio Mix #7 :|: Jazmin Swanson
LăVǐNDŭR by KAMAUU
What’s Up? by 4 Non Blondes
Binz by Solange
Sweet Disposition by The Temper Trap
Die Young by Max Frost - replace with 
Did you think by Arlie 
There She Go by Garren Sean

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ebPszBK0KM3kxJYJC0rmE

Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Theresa Schneveis, a multimedia artist, arts educator, and arts administrator living in Virginia. Her connection and conversations with her creativity started at a very early age. You’ll hear about her early mentors and artist community and how community remains an important part of keeping her creativity full of vitality. As we are in real time emerging from winter in the Upper Midwest, Theresa’s expression that her creativity is currently hibernating seems very fitting to share as this week’s episode. 

CW // domestic abuse 

Topic notice: Later in the conversation, Theresa shares a bit about being in a domestic abuse situation and art making that followed (47 minute marker - 49 minute marker). If this is a topic that would cause harm to your being, please skip this section of the conversation or skip this episode. Lisa does pause to alert listeners to the topic. 
 

To learn more about Theresa's work and practice:

Follow Theresa on Instagram: @theresasnow

Studio Mix #6 :|: Theresa Schneveis
Alaska by Caiola
San Luis by Gregory Alan Isakov
Menswear by the 1975
Running Away by VANO 3000
Bodies by The Knocks and MUNA

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3HHVKCaXDH5TTzyoJd28Hh

Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Olivia House, a Black designer based in Chicago. Social change is at the core of her practice, and Olivia uses design to teach, heal, and build community. 

You’ll hear how a realization prompted a summer-long research project that became so much more. She describes her immersive research approach to her project: Where are all the black designers? 

Olivia and Rhonda talk about what advocacy looks like in combination with design and about how a little seed of agency grew in her and can grow in each of us to realize our own capacity to create change. 

To learn more about Olivia's work and practice:
Follow Olivia on Instagram: @livs_house
Website: https://www.oh497.com/

Studio Mix #5 :|: Olivia House
Transparent Soul by Willow
Truth Hurts by Lizzo
Industry Baby by Lil Nas X 
Garden (say it like that) by SZA
Butter by BTS
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7CcW2hE9vAsIau4620nlnb

Organizations & Books Mentioned in our Conversation
Books: The Lightmaker’s Manifesto: How to Work for Change without Losing your Joy by Karen Walrond
Organizations: For Freedoms Project

Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Anders Dickson. During one of his artist residencies, there was a requirement to keep your door open on Tuesdays. In this episode, you’ll hear that while that was a physical rule, it’s also a great metaphor for his approach to art making and creative exploration. 

At age 20, Anders, an American, started a semester abroad experience in Germany and then remained in Europe for the past 15 years. 

One of my favorite parts from his artist statement is:  My studio is like a forest of accumulated items wherein I intuitively incorporate images, and gestures from the environment into assemblages…My role is to move between items like a spider: drawing parallels and connecting narratives into a network with its own internal logic.

He currently lives and works between Holland and Paris. 

Please enjoy this episode with Anders Dickson. 

Find Anders on Instagram: @dicksonanders

Studio Mix #4 :|: Anders Dickson
Sunflower River Blues- John Fahey
Storm - Godspeed 
You! - Black Emperor 
Anywhere I Lay My Head- Scarlett Johansson
Wildflowers- Tom Petty 
Might as Well - Acetone
Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ - The Velvet Underground

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6bCJGBOpZqciJRaSoo8RHD

Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

Books, Artists, Residencies Mentioned in our Discussion

Books:
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
Tell Them I Said No, Martin Herbert (curator & author)
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M Pirsig 
The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard

Artists:
Harry Smith
Donna Harroway
Lucy McKenzie
Susan Cianciolo

Schools & Residencies:
Fine Arts Academy in Karlsruhe (Deutschland/Germany)
Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg (Deutschland/Germany)
Städelschule in Frankfurt (Deutschland/Germany)
De Ateliers, Amsterdam (Netherlands), artist residency
 

Hey There! Welcome to The Artist In Me Is Dead Podcast, I’m your host, Rhonda Willers. This week the podcast is on Spring Break! In the meantime, catch up on the first three episodes with Lisa Vang, Stephanie Lenertz, and Ira Elliot Corbett - you’re sure to find some inspiration in these conversations. 

I’ll return with a new episode next week. I’m so excited about the next set of conversations coming your way in the weeks ahead. Thanks to all of you who have been listening during the first three weeks! 

If you’ve been enjoying the conversations, please rate, review, and share with your friends and communities. 

And as always, subscribe and listen to The Artist In Me Is Dead wherever you get your podcasts. 

This episode features a conversation between host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Ira Elliot Corbett. Ira is a nonbinary transgender artist living and working in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. 

In our conversation I was struck by their practice of asking themselves questions, such as what do they want to share from a happy place of making and exploration? 

You’ll also hear how BTS lyrics from their song, Black Swan, inspired Ira to ask, am I having my first death of my creativity right now? And how Ira feels a bit like a baby deer learning to walk after recognizing this first death. 

You will want to hear their studio wrap up answers. One of Ira’s responses connected and hit me so deeply, I was moved to tears, literally. 

Find Ira on Instagram: @iraires_

Studio Mix #3 :|: Ira Elliot Corbett
Late Night Love Letter-Luxid
OUTTA MY MIND- Monsune
Outro:Ego - BTS
Take You Back (The Iron Horse Cattle Call), Orville Peck
Moon - BTS

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3rcq9r4mdJo7YTkk2brpvX

Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

In this episode, host Rhonda Willers and guest Stephanie Lenertz discuss Stephanie’s uninhibited and joyful approach to art making. She says, “If it doesn’t make you giggle, it’s useless!” We explore what it means to be an artist, where she finds inspiration and materials, and how she uses time intentionally, even while cleaning her studio. You’ll hear how during the pandemic, she decided to host her own art exhibition in…wait for it… her bedroom!

Find Stephanie on Instagram: @stephlenertz
http://stephanielenertz.com

Potential Art Materials for Giggle-Filled Making:
Bubble wrap
Silly string
Play doh
Pearler beads
Rhinestones
Glitter
Plasti-dip
Googly eyes
Feather boa
Pipe cleaner
Birthday candles
Grocery twist ties

Studio Mix #2 :|: Stephanie Lenertz
Starsign by Litany
Woo! by Remi Wolf
You've Got Your Whole Life Ahead Of You Baby by IDER 
Oops!... I Did It Again by Britney Spears
The Girl from Ipanema by Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and Stan Getz (but really any version will do)
The ‘90s by FINNEAS

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/16Y3Vg7HNClMO9S3zcpn9b

Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

In this episode host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Lisa Vang, discuss how Lisa's creative practice has changed since graduating with an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts. She shares how she explores her creativity today through food and culture and how she is reviving her inner artist by preparing a space for her art making to come back into her day to day. 

Find Lisa on Instagram: @l.h.vang
https://www.instagram.com/l.h.vang/

Studio Mix #1 :|: Lisa Vang 
Dateline - Podcast
Crime Junkie - Podcast
Lord of the Rings- Soundtrack & Movies
Harry Potter- Soundtrack & Movies
Criminal Minds - TV
Somebody Feed Phil - TV

Listen to Lisa's Studio Mix on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1QwSgLpnrsySBswWTMsNRy

CW // child predators 
Sensitive topic notice: Later in the conversation, Lisa shares about a specific artwork she created about child predators. If this is a topic that would cause harm to your being, please skip this section of the conversation or skip this episode. Lisa does pause to alert listeners to the topic. 

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