A Creative Excuse
A Creative Excuse is a reason to build relationships with artists and talk about how art actually gets made. Hosted by Santa Fe–based couple Frank Rose, a gallerist and curator, and Kara Duval, an artist, dancer, and bodyworker, the podcast is an open-ended conversation with artists from New Mexico and beyond. Each guest is in the midst of - or has just completed - a body of work for an exhibition, so the work, the doubts, the obsessions, and the everyday realities of creative life are all part of the exchange. Presented by Hecho a Mano, A Creative Excuse is less about answers and more about paying attention: to process, presence, and the strange, necessary act of making things.
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Sunday May 26, 2019
Sunday May 26, 2019
Terran Last Gun, Saakwaynaamah’kaa (Last Gun), (b. 1989, Browning, Montana) is a Piikani (Blackfeet) citizen and visual artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Piikani of Montana are one of four nations that make up the Blackfoot Confederacy and are collectively referred to as the Niitsitapi (Real People). Last Gun’s work draws influence from color, shape, land, cosmos, cultural narratives, and experiences. He works with various media, including printmaking, painting, photography, and ledger drawing.
https://hechoamano.org/artist/terran-last-gunterranlastgun.com
Saturday Apr 27, 2019
Saturday Apr 27, 2019
Bob Ebendorf is an American metalsmith and jeweler, known for craft, art and studio jewelry, often using found objects. In 2003–2004, the Smithsonian American Art Museum organized an exhibition of 95 pieces, titled The Jewelry of Robert Ebendorf: A Retrospective of Forty Years.
Monday Apr 22, 2019
Monday Apr 22, 2019
Erin Elder is an artist, writer, and curator guided by interests in land use, experimental collaboration, and non-traditional modes of expression. Her research-driven projects take highly participatory forms, working with a broad definition of art to bring audiences into a direct experience of particular places.
https://www.erinelder.com/
Nina Elder is an American transdisciplinary artist, writer, muralist, and educator. Her practice is informed by science, field research, and social justice movements. Elder's research based processes result in realistic drawings, performative lectures, and video work.
https://www.ninaelder.com/
Friday Apr 19, 2019
Friday Apr 19, 2019
Ian Kualiʻi is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) and Mescalero Apache ancestry working in murals, large-scale hand-cut paper, and site-specific installation. Ian fluidly merges urban contemporary art with his ancestral iconography and history, drawing from occult symbolism, Indigenous politics, and Native Hawaiian cultural practices. From a single sheet of paper using only an x-acto blade as his tool, Ian’s portraits and compositions are carefully rendered in hand-cut paper, blending boldly geometric traditional patterns with delicate lenticular linework. Ian describes his creative approach as “a meditative process of destroying to create.”
https://www.iankualiiart.com/
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019
Jared is a painter working and residing in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2015 and his BFA in 2009 from the Columbus College of Art and Design.
Wednesday Mar 20, 2019
Wednesday Mar 20, 2019
Lauren Tresp is publisher and editor-in-chief at Southwest Contemporary. She has a Master of Arts in Humanities from the University of Chicago, where she studied Medieval and Renaissance Art History, and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and History from UCLA. She also offers consulting services to artists and arts businesses at laurentresp.com.
Tuesday Mar 12, 2019