City of Muses – Details, episodes & analysis

When my friend told me she wanted to get a tattoo of Henry James on her arm, I’ll admit I was skeptical, but this week’s guest, Phu Phi Nguyen, did a spectacular job. Phu Phi doesn’t usually tattoo portraits at all, saving them for her paintings and murals. Her usual tattoo style is incredibly fine-lined, detailed, and beautiful. True works of art, often reserved for flowers and plants. Now co-owner of her own Parisian tattoo shop, Monkeys Factory, Phu Phi also specializes in “therapeutic tattoos” for breast cancer survivors with mastectomy scars, burn victims, and other survivors.

What is it that draws Phu Phi to fine-line tattooing and bold, graphic murals? How does she bring these two seemingly-opposite worlds together? Listen now to find out!


https://www.phuphi-art.com/
https://www.instagram.com/phuphi_artwork/
https://www.instagram.com/monkeys_factory_tattoo/
https://www.monkeys-factory.com/


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Host and Producer: Jennifer Geraghty. https://parisundergroundradio.com/jenniferfoxgeraghty @jennyphoria; Website: http://jennyphoria.com

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Beyond Inspiration juqboxmusic License: 1F36635C-8CE84C39-98B2531B-FEAA8727 

About Us
Who will be the world's next Salvador Dali, Thierry Mugler, or Josephine Baker, launching a new wave of the avant-garde? How are new artforms created, developed, honed? And where exactly do today's artists and creatives find their inspirations?   

Each week, join City of Muses host Jennifer Geraghty as she sits down with contemporary artists, poets, dancers, designers, and performers to explore what inspires them, what their creative processes are like, where their ideas come from, and how Paris has helped or hindered their dreams come true. 

Inspiration and creativity meet in Paris, the City of Muses.

When Chelsey Pippin Mizzi first learned about tarot, she was skeptical. But when she discovered how it could help her tap into her creativity and unlock those blocks, she dove in feet first. Now, after more than 10 years of using tarot creatively both for hersekf and her clients, Chelsey is releasing her second book, “Tarot for Creativity.”

What advice would Chelsey give to those new to tarot or to those who say they’re just not creative? Listen now to find out!

https://www.tarotforcreativity.com
https://theshuffle.substack.com/
https://www.instagram.com/pipcardstarot


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Host and Producer: Jennifer Geraghty. https://parisundergroundradio.com/jenniferfoxgeraghty @jennyphoria; Website: http://jennyphoria.com

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Beyond Inspiration juqboxmusic License: 1F36635C-8CE84C39-98B2531B-FEAA8727 

About Us
Who will be the world's next Salvador Dali, Thierry Mugler, or Josephine Baker, launching a new wave of the avant-garde? How are new artforms created, developed, honed? And where exactly do today's artists and creatives find their inspirations?   

Each week, join City of Muses host Jennifer Geraghty as she sits down with contemporary artists, poets, dancers, designers, and performers to explore what inspires them, what their creative processes are like, where their ideas come from, and how Paris has helped or hindered their dreams come true. 

Inspiration and creativity meet in Paris, the City of Muses.

My guest this week is luxury fashion designer Ricardo Bernardino. I’m speaking to Ricardo mere weeks before his debut at Paris Fashion Week, where he will unveil his new “Sea to Silk Collection.” This bright and bold luxury collection features the artwork of Michel Deville, who was inspired by the coral reefs of the Indian Ocean. Michel has been painting for 70 years, but has refused to sell any of his paintings because he considers them all as his children.

So, how did one chance jogging encounter transform Michel’s art into a collection by first-time designer Ricardo? Listen now to find out!

https://www.ricardobernardino.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ricardobernardino_brand/
Nudibranch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7V8DRfZBQI


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Host and Producer: Jennifer Geraghty. https://parisundergroundradio.com/jenniferfoxgeraghty @jennyphoria; Website: http://jennyphoria.com

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Beyond Inspiration juqboxmusic License: 1F36635C-8CE84C39-98B2531B-FEAA8727

About Us
Who will be the world's next Salvador Dali, Thierry Mugler, or Josephine Baker, launching a new wave of the avant-garde? How are new artforms created, developed, honed? And where exactly do today's artists and creatives find their inspirations?

Each week, join City of Muses host Jennifer Geraghty as she sits down with contemporary artists, poets, dancers, designers, and performers to explore what inspires them, what their creative processes are like, where their ideas come from, and how Paris has helped or hindered their dreams come true.

Inspiration and creativity meet in Paris, the City of Muses.

My guest this week is Khalif Tahir Thompson, a young African-American visual artist who is just about to graduate from the Yale School of Arts and will be having his very first solo exhibit in Paris, beginning this Thursday, March 28th. Kalif is a painter, printmaker and papermaker who creates bright and bold portraits, mixing textures, colors, and symbols, on large-scale canvases. 

Khalif has been called a prodigy, a virtuoso, and "a rising star in contemporary Black portraiture.” In our conversation, Khalif shares the evolution of his work, how family portraits can reveal the universal, how Scooby Doo and Amy Winehouse changed his life, and so much more.

Khalif’s exhibit “Chilly Winds Don’t Blow” opens this Thursday, March 28th in the Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery.


https://www.instagram.com/khaliftahir/
https://zidoun-bossuyt.com/news/summer-wheat-at-fondazione-mudima-milan-9-june-14-july-2023/


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Host and Producer: Jennifer Geraghty. https://parisundergroundradio.com/jenniferfoxgeraghty @jennyphoria; Website: http://jennyphoria.com

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Beyond Inspiration juqboxmusic License: 1F36635C-8CE84C39-98B2531B-FEAA8727 

About Us Who will be the world's next Salvador Dali, Thierry Mugler, or Josephine Baker, launching a new wave of the avant-garde? How are new artforms created, developed, honed? And where exactly do today's artists and creatives find their inspirations?   

Each week, join City of Muses host Jennifer Geraghty as she sits down with contemporary artists, poets, dancers, designers, and performers to explore what inspires them, what their creative processes are like, where their ideas come from, and how Paris has helped or hindered their dreams come true. 

Inspiration and creativity meet in Paris, the City of Muses.

Have you ever wondered if telepathy is real? Does magic exist? Can the future be predicted? Can a complete stranger read your mind? My guest this week is mentalist, coach, and actor Fabrice Ferra, who has been performing in stage shows all over the world, astounding audiences with his mind-reading abilities.

In the lead up to his new show, “Mentalism à la Parisienne,” which opens in English in Paris on March 30th, I sit down with Fabrice to discover where his abilities come from, if some minds are more “readable” than others, and whether you need to be as charming as Omar Sy in Lupin to be a successful mentalist.

For tickets to his show, click here: https://ferrafabrice.com/
https://www.instagram.com/fabriceferra/
https://www.facebook.com/fabrice.ferra


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Host and Producer: Jennifer Geraghty. https://parisundergroundradio.com/jenniferfoxgeraghty @jennyphoria; Website: http://jennyphoria.com

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Beyond Inspiration juqboxmusic License: 1F36635C-8CE84C39-98B2531B-FEAA8727

About Us
Who will be the world's next Salvador Dali, Thierry Mugler, or Josephine Baker, launching a new wave of the avant-garde? How are new artforms created, developed, honed? And where exactly do today's artists and creatives find their inspirations?

Each week, join City of Muses host Jennifer Geraghty as she sits down with contemporary artists, poets, dancers, designers, and performers to explore what inspires them, what their creative processes are like, where their ideas come from, and how Paris has helped or hindered their dreams come true.

Inspiration and creativity meet in Paris, the City of Muses.

For the Season Three premiere of City of Muses, I am thrilled to introduce you to Jase King, a multidisciplinary artist from Australia, living in the City of Light. Jase is a talented painter, sculptor, and photographer, but its his avant-garde face masks, or face sculptures, that I was immediately obsessed with. You can see some of his brilliant work on the Paris Underground Radio Instagram account.

Jase’s work has been shown at Art Basel, New York Fashion Week, the IFA Paris Instanbul Fashion show, among others, and he most recently creative directed three shows at AQUA Art Miami.

In our conversation, Jase shares how a global pandemic inspired a new art form, how he transforms an abstract feeling into a concrete piece, and how one plate of pasta started it all.

https://www.jaseking.eu/
https://www.instagram.com/jaseking


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Host and Producer: Jennifer Geraghty. https://parisundergroundradio.com/jenniferfoxgeraghty @jennyphoria; Website: http://jennyphoria.com

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Beyond Inspiration juqboxmusic License: 1F36635C-8CE84C39-98B2531B-FEAA8727

About Us
Who will be the world's next Salvador Dali, Thierry Mugler, or Josephine Baker, launching a new wave of the avant-garde? How are new artforms created, developed, honed? And where exactly do today's artists and creatives find their inspirations?

Each week, join City of Muses host Jennifer Geraghty as she sits down with contemporary artists, poets, dancers, designers, and performers to explore what inspires them, what their creative processes are like, where their ideas come from, and how Paris has helped or hindered their dreams come true.

Inspiration and creativity meet in Paris, the City of Muses.

Molly Wilkinson has always loved baking. One day, years into her career in a digital marketing agency, she decided to fly to France and enroll in Le Cordon Bleu. Once she was trained as a pastry chef, there was no stopping her.

Now, Molly lives in Versailles and works full-time as a pastry teacher. She gives classes online and in person and her desserts are delicious, adorable, and designed to make French baking accessible. She published a cookbook called “French Pastry Made Simple” in 2021 and is herself the subject of this year’s children’s book “Let Them Eat Cake.”


https://www.mollyjwilk.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MollyJWilk
https://www.instagram.com/mollyjwilk/
https://www.pinterest.fr/mollywilk/
https://www.tiktok.com/@mollyjwilk/


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Host and Producer: Jennifer Geraghty. https://parisundergroundradio.com/jenniferfoxgeraghty @jennyphoria; Website: http://jennyphoria.com

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Beyond Inspiration juqboxmusic License: 1F36635C-8CE84C39-98B2531B-FEAA8727

About Us
Who will be the world's next Salvador Dali, Thierry Mugler, or Josephine Baker, launching a new wave of the avant-garde? How are new artforms created, developed, honed? And where exactly do today's artists and creatives find their inspirations?

Each week, join City of Muses host Jennifer Geraghty as she sits down with contemporary artists, poets, dancers, designers, and performers to explore what inspires them, what their creative processes are like, where their ideas come from, and how Paris has helped or hindered their dreams come true.

Inspiration and creativity meet in Paris, the City of Muses.

Anne Silver Mondinot worked with trauma survivors as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in America for 15 years, before moving to France, where she has fully embraced her artistic passions. Most of Anne’s work is photography-based, and she loves to experiment with new styles and techniques. She captures whole worlds in a single image, inspiring us to storytell. Her art is vulnerable, poetic, and beautiful. She uses it her heal herself and, in so doing, invites us to heal ourselves along with her.

https://www.instagram.com/anne_silver_/
http://www.poeticimageryfineartphotography.com/
https://annesilver.bigcartel.com/


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Host and Producer: Jennifer Geraghty. https://parisundergroundradio.com/jenniferfoxgeraghty @jennyphoria; Website: http://jennyphoria.com

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Beyond Inspiration juqboxmusic License: 1F36635C-8CE84C39-98B2531B-FEAA8727

About Us
Who will be the world's next Salvador Dali, Thierry Mugler, or Josephine Baker, launching a new wave of the avant-garde? How are new artforms created, developed, honed? And where exactly do today's artists and creatives find their inspirations?

Each week, join City of Muses host Jennifer Geraghty as she sits down with contemporary artists, poets, dancers, designers, and performers to explore what inspires them, what their creative processes are like, where their ideas come from, and how Paris has helped or hindered their dreams come true.

Inspiration and creativity meet in Paris, the City of Muses.

This week, my guest is Victor Schegin, a native Parisian whose first foray into the art world was as a 15-year-old street artist. As a painter, Victor explores vulnerability through his portraiture, often blending emotive, introspective models with bright, bold colors and abstract elements. Victor is generous with his time and talent, offering tips and tricks to his followers online. He is also an art teacher and has created a Facebook group of artists helping and supporting other artists numbering over 120,000.

In our conversation, Victor shares how he fell in love with painting and what it took to finally get him to pursue it full-time. He tackles some of the biggest ideas in the art world today: where is the line between street art and vandalism, what does it take to be great, and how does that corrolate to a career where you’ve “made it.”

https://www.instagram.com/seehundart/?hl=en
https://seehundart.com/ https://twitter.com/seehundart


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Host and Producer: Jennifer Geraghty. https://parisundergroundradio.com/jenniferfoxgeraghty @jennyphoria; Website: http://jennyphoria.com

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Beyond Inspiration juqboxmusic License: 1F36635C-8CE84C39-98B2531B-FEAA8727

About Us
Who will be the world's next Salvador Dali, Thierry Mugler, or Josephine Baker, launching a new wave of the avant-garde? How are new artforms created, developed, honed? And where exactly do today's artists and creatives find their inspirations?

Each week, join City of Muses host Jennifer Geraghty as she sits down with contemporary artists, poets, dancers, designers, and performers to explore what inspires them, what their creative processes are like, where their ideas come from, and how Paris has helped or hindered their dreams come true.

Inspiration and creativity meet in Paris, the City of Muses.

Laurie Catherine Winkel is an American actress and voice over artist who followed her passions to Paris, where she graduated from the prestigious Cours Florent acting school. As an actress performing in both France and the US, in shows like MacGyver and Squidbillies, and films like Father of the Bride and They Wait in the Dark, Laurie is in a unique position to talk about what it’s like to work in both countries and what she sees as key differences in their approaches to acting.

From Disney princess to Rabbid video game rabbit, Laurie shares her personal experiences in the industry and how they’ve shaped her path. Discover why not all of the more than 200 audiobooks she’s narrated are under her name, what it sounds like to be punched in the stomach in a video game, the red carpet answer she wishes she could take back, and more.


https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3212274/
https://www.instagram.com/lauriecatwinks/


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Host and Producer: Jennifer Geraghty. https://parisundergroundradio.com/jenniferfoxgeraghty @jennyphoria; Website: http://jennyphoria.com

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Beyond Inspiration juqboxmusic License: 1F36635C-8CE84C39-98B2531B-FEAA8727

About Us
Who will be the world's next Salvador Dali, Thierry Mugler, or Josephine Baker, launching a new wave of the avant-garde? How are new artforms created, developed, honed? And where exactly do today's artists and creatives find their inspirations?

Each week, join City of Muses host Jennifer Geraghty as she sits down with contemporary artists, poets, dancers, designers, and performers to explore what inspires them, what their creative processes are like, where their ideas come from, and how Paris has helped or hindered their dreams come true.

Inspiration and creativity meet in Paris, the City of Muses.