Shows
CrunchTime: Fantasy Football PodcastSpecial Folge: Auto Sub für Niklas 🔄Heute ist alles anders bei CrunchTime. Niklas hat lange gekämpft, aber am Ende hat es nicht gereicht und er ist Out. Zum Glück steht Sarah bereit und liefert gleich richtig ab. 🫡Am Anfang geht es aber trotzdem erstmal um Niklas, denn er hat das Playoff Battle zwischen ihm und Thibault gewonnen. Entsprechend sachlich berichtet Thibault später über seine Entscheidung Herbert über Lawrence aufzustellen. 🤭Statt Takeaways gibt es heute Mini Interviews, statt dem Touchdown der Woche die Playoff Heroes und das alles wird mit fetzigen Punchlines garniert, die Sarah v...
2025-12-161h 02
The Side WooLive on Radio Tomada: A Tarot Reading from Doña Tules with Matthew Chase-DanielsThis week's episode was recorded and broadcasted live from the Axel Contemporary Truck onto Radio Tomada in Santa Fe. Thibault talks with Mathew and gives a tarot reading through the lens of Doña Tules (Maria Gertrudis Barceló), a figure from New Mexican history, and a featured personality in the SITE Santa Fe International show. Doña Tules has advice for artists, and anyone trying to make their way in the world as an entrepreneur. The tarot cards are the official Grateful Dead tarot cards, second edition. About Radio TomadaRadio Tomada 87.9 is a mobile radio broadcast project...
2025-09-1221 minThe Side WooLive on Radio Tomada in Santa Fe: Zina Al Shukri, Matthew Chase-Daniel and Jerry WellmanThis week's episode was recorded and broadcasted live from the Axel Contemporary Truck onto Radio Tomada in Santa Fe. Thibault talks with Mathew and Jerry about woo, and talks with Zina about the sound bath she did at Electra Gallery, living in Arkansas, and the art world. About Radio TomadaRadio Tomada 87.9 is a mobile radio broadcast project organized by Autumn Chacon for SITE Santa Fe's International Biennial curated by Cecila Alemani. Zina Al ShukriZina Al-Shukri was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1978. She moved...
2025-09-0441 minThe Side WooTalking About the Power of Tits with Sarah Thornton, Author of Tits UpThis week Thibault talks with best-selling author Sarah Thornton about her latest book "Tits Up: Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts", which was listed as one of the New Yorker Best Books of 2024. After her own botched breast reconstruction surgery, Thornton delved into what breasts/tits/titties mean to women all over the world from the sex work industry to witches and everyone in between.
About Sarah Thornton
Sarah Thornton is a writer, ethnographer and sociologist of culture.[1] Thornton has authored four...
2025-01-161h 06The Side WooQueer Indigenous Storytelling with Filmmaker Roberto FatalThis week on The Side Woo, Sarah talks with grad school buddy Roberto Fatal about their beautiful short films, student loan debt, using grant money for good and the hilarity of sci-fi's white apocalypses.
About Roberto Fatal
Roberto Fatal [they/them/ellos] is a Meztize Chicana filmmaker and storyteller. They come from Rarámuri, Genízaro, and Spanish ancestry. Their Queer, gender fluid, Mestize/Mixed identity informs the sci-fi, films they make. Their work centers on humans who sit at the intersections of time, space and culture. From this unique vantage point, the...
2024-09-261h 14The Side WooRunning a Clay Studio as an Artist with Holly ColeyThis week Sarah sits down with Bay Area artist, owner of Pinckney Clay and karaoke aficionado, Holly Coley.
About Holly Coley
Holly Coley lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Born in LA county and raised in the desert of Southern California. Coley comes from a family of artists and craftspeople. An artist and educator, she is the owner of Pinckney Clay Studio in San Francisco. Coley studied drawing, painting, and sculpture at The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State, and SFCC.
As an artist working in education, she...
2024-09-131h 03The Side WooLive: Iva Gueorguieva on her show Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri at Night GallerySarah interviews Iva about her solo exhibition Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri for the closing reception at Night Gallery in Los Angeles. Recorded on August 24, 2024.
About Iva GueorguievaBorn in 1974 in Sofia, Bulgaria, Iva Gueorguieva is an artist living and working in Los Angeles California. Notable solo exhibitions include at Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2024) GAVLAK Gallery, Palm Beach, FL (2022) Frederic Snitzer, Miami, FL (2016, 2018); Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe, New York, NY (2011, 2012, 2014, 2016); ACME, Los Angeles, CA (2013, 2015); Samson Projects, Boston, MA (2014); Galerie Stefan Roepke, Cologne, Germany (2013); Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, Washington, D.C. (2013); Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects...
2024-08-3056 minThe Side WooBritish Pop Star NEO 10Y On Overcoming Childhood Bullying, Embracing Queerness & A Holographic UniverseThis week's guest, Nik Thakkar, aka NEO 10Y, was born same date that Freddie Mercury died - coincidence or reincarnation? You decide in this week's episode.
Sarah and NEO 10Y chat about what it's like living his pop star fantasy, his vegan activism, taking 8 grams of mushrooms for a British reality show and growing up queer - among other things.
About NEO 10Y
NEO 10Y is a recording artist, media personality, and spiritual revolutionary from London. His purpose is to help manifest a protopian dimension of peace...
2024-08-231h 12The Side WooInterview with Scott Ogden, Director of Shrine GalleryAs a follow up to the book release and live talk with Hayley Barker on July 28th at Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth DTLA, Sarah sits down to talk with Scott Ogden about his gallery, Shrine Gallery, why he loves self-educated artists and even a couple of ghost stories.
2024-08-1542 minThe Side WooLive: Artist Hayley Barker on Painting, Being a Witch and Her New Catalog "ALTAR"Sarah sits down for a live chat with Hayley Barker at Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth DTLA in honor of her new catalog release, co-produced with Shrine Gallery,
About Hayley Barker
Hayley Barker (b.1973) is a Los Angeles based painter whose bold and beautiful paintings combine apparently prosaic personal details of her immediate surroundings in her home and studio in LA, with an awareness of time passing and the contradiction of painting as a means of both measuring time and freezing the moment. Her subjects are sometimes explicitly rendered from life – the tree from he...
2024-08-0849 minThe Side WooArtist Amir Fallah Shares His Origin StorySarah talks this week with LA-based artist Amir Fallah about his family of origin, immigrating to the US when he was 7, speaking at the recent UCLA School of Arts and Architecture commencement, and all the hard work that it took to get where he is now.
About Amir
Amir H. Fallah received his BFA in Fine Art & Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA in painting at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad...
2024-07-251h 23The Side WooNavigating Artist Collectives & Ocean Waves with Artist Natalja KentThis week we share a convesration between Sarah and friend of the pod, artist Natalja Kent. They cover so much ground from childhood stuff to Natalja's storied career in artist collectives, Sasha the Flute, and queer surfing.
About Natalja KentNatalja Kent is a Czech-American artist based in Los Angeles,CA. Her work investigates process, materiality and embodimentthrough the expanding parameters of photograms, painting andsculpture. Solo Exhibitions includeLight Wavesat Oolong Galleryin San Diego, CA 2024;Light Waves Broken Watersat And PensGallery 2024 andLight Movesat Situations Gallery/ForelandCatskill, July 2022. She was recently included in group exhibitionsat...
2024-07-181h 19The Side WooLive: Imagining a Digital-Free Future of Fluid Sexuality with Painter Vivien Ebright ChungThis week's epsiode is a live podcast taping of a talk with artist Vivien Ebright Chung about her solo exhibition "Verdant Arcadia" at The Trophy Room LA in Los Angeles. Sarah asks Vivien about her sexually fluid vision for the future, her past life in Paris, and what inspires her color palette.
About Vivien Ebright Chung
Vivien Ebright Chung (b. Santa Cruz, CA), is an artist working in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, where she took interdisciplinary classes in both fashion and painting...
2024-07-1150 minThe Side WooArtist Alexander Brewington on the First Solo Show After Grad SchoolSarah talks with NY based artist and recent MFA grad Alexander Brewington about his solo show "What Burns Beneath", leaving grad school and the significance of fire in his paintings. The conversation was recorded in April 2024.
About Alexander Brewington
Alexander Brewington is a Brooklyn based figurative painter, received his MFA from Pratt Institute, 2023. His painting practice is about forming a contemporary narrative between the intersection of classical mythology and urban environments. Brewington was commissioned to paint the Joseph Branch Creek mural in Silver Spring, MD. His work has been featured in Hyperallergic an...
2024-06-201h 02The Side WooLive: Artist talk with Sarah and Elisabeth Workman at Dreamsong Gallery, May 2024This week we share a live recorded conversation Sarah hosted as part of her solo exhibition, Things Worth Saving, at Dreamsong Gallery in Minneapolis. Elisabeth Workman flips the script and asks Sarah questions this time. Let's get nerdy about painting!
About Elisabeth Workman
Elisabeth Workman is a writer and poet with a background in dance. Originally from the pharmaceutical suburbs of Philadelphia, she has since lived in Boston, rural Pennsylvania, the Netherlands, the Standing Rock Nation of the Dakotas, Qatar, and now Minneapolis.A recipient of a Jerome Emerging Writer Fellowship, a...
2024-05-3043 minThe Side WooAnnouncements! Plus a live show on Gutsy RadioThis week, Sarah takes a break from the reguarly scheduled program to announce a new live radio show on Friday April 26, from 8-10pm Pacific Time. The show will be once aired monthly on their platform, and then recorded and shared somewhere as yet to be determined. To listen you can go to https://gutsyradio.org/. The guest this week will be an encore presentation of our interview with Elisabeth Elektra, along with songs from her new EP.
Plus Sarah shares her proof that vision boards work, information about her upcoming solo show, and...
2024-04-2509 minThe Side WooOh! the Horror with Basement VHS hosts Luca Antonucci and Mitsu OkuboThis week Sarah chats with Basement VHS podcast and filmscreening hosts, Luca Antonucci and Mitsu Okubo. Sarah asks them about their love of horror and why it might be the best thing to get over the nighttime scaries.
About Basement VHS
The premier VHS seed bank of San Francisco! Highlights from our +3000 and counting vhs library. Basement Radio Fridays 6-8pm on Radio Valencia. Hosted by Luca and Mitsu.
Show Notes:
Basement VHS on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/basementvhs/
Colpa Press https://www.instagram.com/colpa...
2024-04-111h 10The Side WooGood Endings, Breast Cancer and Loving Your Worst Characters with Author & Educator Natalie SerberThis week Sarah talks with author and educator Natalie Serber, a former mentor of hers that she met randomly - so random - during the pandemic. They talk about writing good endings, loving your worst characters, and how Natalie thrived after her breast cancer diagnosis.
About Natalie Serber:
Natalie Serber is a fiction writer, essayist, and educator. She is the author of Shout Her Lovely Name, a book that was reviewed by the NY Times Book Review, O Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle. She also wrote Community Chest, a compilation of e...
2024-04-041h 10The Side WooArt & Community with Filmmaker and Gallery Director Griff Williams of Gallery 16Sarah sat down for a chat at the Space Program Recording Studios in November 2023 to ask Griff Williams, Founder of Gallery 16 about his 30+ years running a San Francisco-gallery. We also talk about his documentary "Tell them we were here" about 8 artists making art outside the gallery system and the impact they have made on the Bay Area's many diverse and underrepresented communities.
About Gallery 16
Gallery 16 was founded in 1993 by artist Griff Williams with the primary focus of representing and advocating for the work of living contemporary artists. In addition to the regular...
2024-03-281h 06The Side WooLive Panel Talk on Resilience & Joy in Art with Tara Daly, Mary Finlayson and Rachel KayeAs part of the Pure Beauty exhibition at Eleanor Harwood, Sarah hosted a live panel discussion on Resilience and Joy with artists Tara Daly, Mary Finlayson, and Rachel Kaye. Everyone shares the trials and triumphs they have faced over the course of their careers and fields audience questions.
The conversation was recorded on March 13, 2024. To inquire about any work in the show, reach out to the gallery directly.
Show Notes
Pure Beauty at Eleanor Harwood Gallery https://eleanorharwood.com/exhibitions/124-pure-beauty-a-group-show-with-tara-daly-mary-finlayson/works/
Tara Daly on Instagram https://www...
2024-03-211h 13The Side WooMoney Loves You with Author & Life Coach Sarah McCrumThis week host Sarah talks with author, energy worker and life coach Sarah McCrum who channeled / wrote the book Love Money, Money Loves You. Sarah M shares what money wants you to know about getting rich, enjoying life more and finding balance between woo woo stuff and the reality of the world.
About Sarah McCrum
Sarah believes in a society that is fundamentally based in love, generosity and a deep understanding of the essence of being human. Her purpose is to contribute to creating a world that works for 100% of humanity. She's...
2024-03-141h 03The Side WooDigital Detoxing with Joe Hollier, the Co-Creator of The Light PhoneIn honor of the end of Flip Phone February, this week Sarah talks with the co-creator of the Light Phone, a "dumbphone" made to help people spend less time using their phones. Most recently Light Phone has done a collaboration with Kendrick Lamar for their instantly sold-out Light Phone II this past fall.
Joe shares how he and his partner Kaiwei Tang came up with the idea for the phone, and what impact running a business has made on his creative life. We also talk about the very real addiction most of us have to our smartphones...
2024-02-291h 00The Side WooStories That Free Us with Artist, Filmmaker & Queer Activist Jason HanasikThis week Sarah is in San Francisco and gets the chance to talk with artist Jason Hanasik about his career as a photographer and filmmaker. Jason talks about creating GAP’s contribution to the It Gets Better Campaign, losing a sister to mental health challenges and what personal liberation can look like. Sarah shares some personal news.
About Jason
Jason Hanasik is a filmmaker, artist, journalist, and curator. His work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, screened at various international film festivals, and featured on the BBC, The Guar...
2024-02-151h 03
The Residuals: A Paranormal PodcastCats & Ghosts - An Interview with Sarah Thibault (The Side Woo Podcast)This week The Residuals sit down with Sarah Thibault of The Side Woo Podcast. Let’s get into ghosts, cats, ghost dogs, cremains, seances, carrying trauma, hotel time portals, mental health, coffee, tattoo therapy, and (believe it or not) more! This one runs pretty long, so get cozy and make sure you have some snacks nearby. Please check out The Side Woo Podcast for mental health, spirituality, tarot readings, and artist interviews! * * * * * * * * * * * * * Between the present & past there are memories held in the walls & earth. Join Emily & Joy as they explore the spaces between the living & th...
2024-01-311h 44The Side WooQuilting for Metal Dudes with Bay Area Artist Ben VenomThis week I talk with Ben Venom, textile artist and studio manager at The Space Program. We recorded our conversation in July 2023 at The Space Program's recording studio.
About Ben Venom
Ben Venom graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007 with a Master of Fine Arts degree. His work has been shown both nationally and internationally including the Levi Strauss Museum (Germany), National Folk Museum of Korea, HPGRP Gallery (Tokyo), Fort Wayne Museum, Charlotte Fogh Gallery (Denmark), Taubman Museum of Art, Gregg Museum of Art and Design, and the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. He has...
2024-01-181h 10The Side WooThe Aesthetics of Grief with Artist Amber Jean YoungThis week Sarah talks with Bay Area artist Amber Jean Young about her work, grief from losing her mother, and then why she chose to have a double mastectomy and an oophorectomy after the birth of her second child.
About Amber Jean Young
Amber Jean Young (b. 1984) is an interdisciplinary artist residing in Berkeley California. Young’s work explores ideas about place, grief, and resilience across mediums, creating vibrant patterns and plant imagery in her compositions. She has exhibited nationally including Bryant Street Gallery in Palo Alto, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Hashimoto Contemporary, an...
2024-01-061h 19The Side WooTarot & Taschen's Library of Esoterica with Jess HundleyThis week Sarah talks with editor, creative director and co-writer of Taschen's Library of Esoterica books, Jess Hundley. Jess shares her plan for creating the as of today four encyclopedic books, Tarot, Astrology, Witchcraft and Plant Magick, and the important part the Philosophical Research Society played in finding materials for the books.
About Jess Hundley Jessica Hundley is a Creative Director, Writer & Producer specializing in music, film, counterculture, magick and psychedelia.
As an author and editor, Hundley is currently engaged on projects for book publishers Abrams, Phaidon and Rizzoli. Hundley...
2023-12-2159 minThe Side WooManifesting with the Moon with Moonology Creator Yasmin BolandEver since she picked up Moonology in 2019, Sarah has been wanting to talk with Yasmin Boland, creator of Moonology the book and oracle decks inspired by the phases of the moon. Finally, this week, Sarah shares her conversation with Yasmin in early November 2023. During their conversation, Yasmin shares her career path from Journalist to Witchy Astrologer, and what led her to create a system of New Moon and Full Moon rituals to help her manifest her life goals and dreams.
About Yasmin Boland
Yasmin Boland is an award-winning astrologer and the Sunday...
2023-12-0753 minThe Side WooWhat Comes After Addiction Recovery with Amir Hamaoui, Creator of the Welldim Journey DeckThis week Sarah talks with Amir Hamaoui, friend and husband of former guest Rachel Dawson. He shares his journey through recovery and how he answered the inevitable question after any major life change, "What now?" As part of his recovery process, he created a new wellness-focused oracle deck called Welldim Journey that helps people along their path to transcendence and inner peace. Plus they talk about Amir's insane adventures in kite surfing in the San Francisco Bay.
About Amir Hamaoui
Born, raised, and residing in California, Amir studied and practiced engineering during his early profession. Despite what most would...
2023-11-301h 04
Le maudit poidsS2-E36 Schéma alimentaire, chirurgie bariatrique et autisme avec Sarah-Kathryn Rivard*TW: Mention de chirurgie bariatrique, perte de poids, chirurgie de reconstruction [Si tu es en démarche de guérison d'un trouble alimentaire cet épisode n'est peut-être pas pour toi.]
Pour cet épisode j'ai eu le grand plaisir de recevoir Sarah-Kathryn Rivard qui est venue nous parler de son expérience personnelle avec un schéma alimentaire de type vortex (on salue le livre ''L'approche des schémas alimentaires'' de Evelyne Bergevin et sa collègue Stéphanie Thibault) et de son vécu avec la chirurgie bariatrique et les chirurgies de reconstruction qui en ont suivie, le tout dans u...
2023-11-261h 57The Side WooThe Side Woo Live at The ICA San Francisco - Rupy C. Tut, Heesoo Kwon and Cate WhiteOn November 5, 2023 Sarah hosted three guest artists at the Institute of Contemporary Art - San Francisco for a live panel discussion on creativity and what blocks it.
During their conversations they discuss where ideas come from, why do we as artists get creatively blocked and what can we do about it.
Show Notes
Rupy C. Tut https://www.rupyctut.com/
Rupy's show at the ICA SF: Out of Place https://www.icasf.org/exhibitions/5-out-of-place
Heesoo Kwon welcome video https://heesookwon.com/filter/installaion/welcome-from-Heesoo
Heesoo's show at...
2023-11-231h 12The Side WooBuilding Queer Archives with Artist Jamil HelluThis week we share a conversation with Sarah and Bay Area artist Jamil Hellu. They talked during a shared artist residency at the Space Program in August 2023.
About Jamil Hellu
Jamil Hellu is a visual artist whose work focuses on the fluidity of identity, cultural heritage, and queer representation, often pointing to the tensions found in the evolving discourses about sexuality. He is a Photography Lecturer in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University and is represented by Rebecca Camacho Presents in San Francisco.Through a multidisciplinary practice rooted in photog...
2023-11-161h 19The Side WooGoodbye To All That (Art World Edition) with Artist Delia BrownThis week Sarah talks Delia Brown, an artist and psychedelic-therapist-in-training living in the Bay Area. Delia shares her ups and downs of having a multi-decade career in the art world and why she is leaving it all behind.
She shares her experience getting diagnosed with cancer, her subsequent recovery, and how she came to her new career path in psychedelic therapies.
About Delia Brown
Delia Brown's work is primarily engaged in exploring desire as an individuated experience that connects the personal to the collective unconscious, often mediated through advertising and c...
2023-11-021h 33The Side WooArtist Tarot Reading: Perfectionism and the ShadowThis week Sarah reads for artist, activist, and podcast host Nikki Nolan. They talk about how to break from the patterns of perfectionism and let your inner Leo take center stage.
Show Notes
Instagram: @thenikkinolan
TikTok: @theonlynikkinolan
Get your human design chart https://www.ihdschool.com/get-your-chart
The AI, Data, Ethics, Privacy & Security Association: https://theassociation.ai/
https://www.instagram.com/thenikkinolan
2023-10-2637 min
The Tarot DiagnosisThe Reality of The Wheel of Fortune: A conversation with Sarah ThibaultThis week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, join me for a candid and personal conversation about the Wheel of Fortune and how we can humanize an often elusive, or superficial archetype. Sarah Thibault, host of The Side Woo podcast joins me and together we talk about how we can reclaim the Wheel of Fortune by viewing it through the lens of power and control, karma, comparison, radical acceptance, and ritual. Yes - all of that. And somehow it all works.
We also explore traditional and modern depictions of this archetype while exploring how the im...
2023-10-2243 minThe Side WooHealing Through EMDR & The Fluidity Of Time With Artist Ranu MukherjeeThis week Sarah talks with Ranu Mukherjee, a professor at California College of the Arts and a prolific artist in many different mediums including painting and new media installations. During our chat they talk a lot about Ranu's Indian ancestry and how that has influenced her work and her outlook as an artist. They also talk about her more recent challenges with addiction in her family and the EMDR treatments that she did to heal from them.
About Ranu Mukherjee
Ranu Mukherjee’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles (2022-2023) de Yo...
2023-10-191h 19The Side WooArtist Tarot Reading: Looking for a Career MakeoverFor the first Artist Tarot Reading episode, Sarah does a reading for LA artist and curator Vivien Chung who is wondering about making a big career move.
You can check out Vivien's work on her website http://www.vivienchung.com/ and her Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vivienpaints/
Reserve your spot at the Live Talk on Creativity and What Blocks It hosted by The Side Woo @ICA SF
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2023-10-1223 minThe Side WooFollowing The Creative Path Wherever It Leads With Sonny Smith of Sonny & The SunsetsThis week Sarah talks with Sonny Smith about the creative process and what he has learned about sustaining inspiration for his music over multiple decades and many style changes. Recorded at The Space Program in July 2023.
About Sonny Smith
Sonny Smith (born 1972) is an American musician, playwright and multimedia artist from San Francisco. He has released fourteen albums since 2000, largely with group Sonny & The Sunsets. His work has variously encompassed blues, folk, pop and rock elements. AllMusic noted that his 2002 album, This Is My Story, This Is My Song, lifted him from obscurity to cult status.
Smith is a songwrite...
2023-10-051h 02The Side WooMaking the Invisible Visible with Bay Area Artist and Tattooist Christopher Martin
This week, Sarah talks with Bay Area artist and tatooist Christopher Martin who was a resident at The Space Program in San Francisco this summer.
About Christopher Martin
Christopher Martin is a multidisciplinary artist from North Carolina exploring the African Diaspora and Indigenous histories. Driven by a desire to push cultural narratives, Martin confronts aesthetic perceptions of contemporary injustice. Cotton fibers are the primary medium of storytelling in order to reclaim the roots of the Atlantic slave trade. Christopher’s hand-cut and sewn monumental tapestry banners in contrasted black and white images tell a surreal story of religion, captivity, and fre...
2023-09-211h 29The Side WooIntroducing Free Agent with Sarah Thibault: Nicole Mueller on how to make a mosaic mural one tiny piece at a timeThis week is an off week, so I thought I would take it as an opportunity to share another project I work on called Free Agent. As part of my substack newsletter, Art Date, every month I record interviews with artists, writers, musicians, and other creative folk who have stepped outside the traditional career models to carve out their own path. Was it good? Was it bad? I want to hear about it. This episode is an interview I did with a previous guest of The Side Woo, Nicole Mueller of the Beyond The Studio podcast. I interview about hand...
2023-09-1335 minThe Side WooCultivating Personal Freedom through Art & Psychedelics with Artist Jud Bergeron, Co-Founder of The Space ProgramSarah talks with Bay Area artist Jud Bergeron, the co-founder of The Space Program where the episode is being recorded in San Francisco, CA. This episode covers a lot of ground, but the main throughline is talking about how to cultivate personal freedom, for yourself and how to offer space and resources for others to experience it too. Other topics include following the Grateful Dead on tour (for years), using psychedelics, close calls with serial killers, getting California sober, and what it’s like running a residency from behind the scenes.
About Jud Bergeron
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2023-09-071h 04The Side WooTending a Community and a Garden with Artist Ron Moultrie SaundersSarah sits down with Bay Area artist Ron Moultrie Saunders to talk about the ways in which he cultivates and tends to his many communities, with a focus on supporting African American artists in San Francisco through projects like the Black [Space] Residency and the 3.9 Collective. We talk ancestry.com, giant plants, and what it means to get art to communities who don't usually go to museums through public art. This interview was recorded at The Space Program residency.
About Ron Moultrie Saunders
Ron Moultrie Saunders, a co-founding member of the 3.9 Art C...
2023-08-241h 00
The Side WooTarot & The Collective Unconscious with Shannon Knight of The Tarot Diagnosis PodcastIn this episode, Sarah talks with podcast host, psychotherapist, and tarot aficionado Shannon Knight of The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast. They discuss synchronicities, the collective unconscious, and ways to engage with tarot beyond traditional divination.
About Shannon KnightShannon Knight (she/her) is a queer psychotherapist licensed in both Arizona and Florida where she specializes in working with individuals and couples. Shannon received her B.A. in Applied Clinical Psychology from the Florida Institute of Technology and her M.S. in Mental Health Counseling from Johns Hopkins University. She is the host of The T...
2023-08-101h 06The Side WooArtist Libby Black on Learning to Stay Present with Addiction, Lesbian Visibility and Swimming The RockThis is the first of 10 episodes that I recorded and produced at The Space Program Residency in San Francisco. The first in the series is a conversation with artist and educator Libby Black. We talk about sobriety, lesbian visibility, teaching before and after the pandemic, and that time she swam The Rock, yes Alcatraz.
About Libby Black
Libby Black is a painter, drawer, and sculptural installation artist living in Berkeley, CA. Her artwork charts a path through personal history and a broader cultural context to explore the intersection of politics, feminism, LGBTQ+...
2023-07-271h 06The Side WooSatellite & Land Art with Artist Rachelle ReichertFor this week’s episode, Sarah talks with artist Rachelle Reichert. Rachelle shares more information about her process, her undying interest in rocks, and what she does to stay positive despite the bleak news around the climate crisis and industrialization.
About Rachelle Reichert
Rachelle Reichert is a visual artist and art educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California (Chochenyo Ohlone territory). Rachelle works in a variety of media to explore landscapes permanently altered by climate change and industrialization. She is interested in earth observation satellite imagery- how nature is composed in images and then circulated to a pu...
2023-07-1347 minThe Side WooWhat Role Does Our Inner Voice Have in Medicine with Researcher Tracy PoffFor this week’s episode, Sarah talks with researcher Tracy Poff who is doing her PhD on Medical Intuitives. After visiting a medical medium for an unexplained illness in her family, she felt compelled to study transpersonal psychology and then pursue her doctorate in medical intuitive practices. We talk about what exactly that is, how to discern a good one when meeting someone for the first time, and a general discussion of how intuition can inform all our decisions to make us more in tune with ourselves - a favorite topic on The Side Woo.
A...
2023-06-291h 05The Side WooRestorative Justice with Artist Amy M. HoSarah talks with artist and activist Amy M. Ho. Amy talks about her work as an art teacher for an art-in-prison program at San Quentin Correctional Facility and how in 2021, her father was tragically killed during a mugging in downtown Oakland. Amy shares how her background in social justice activism with the prison system, has reinforced her belief in restorative justice, despite being touched personally by violent crime.
About Amy M. Ho
Amy M. Ho builds video and spatial installations that bring attention to our existence as both physical and psychological beings...
2023-06-151h 02The Side WooBattling Toxic Masculinity with Trans Artist Eli ThorneThis week, to kick off Pride Month, Liz and Sarah talk with trans artist, Eli Thorne. We talk with Eli about his experience coming out and transitioning as a trans man, dating as a man for the first time on the hellscape known as Tinder (where he ended up finding love), the Faustian bargain of Instagram success, and how he feels about becoming a dad with his long-time partner.
About Eli Thorne
Eli Thorne was b.1986 in Harrogate, England, and raised in the mountains of Santa
Cruz, California. He received...
2023-06-011h 21The Side WooInara George Of The Bird and The Bee On Beauty and Aging As a PerformerThis week on The Side Woo Sarah talks with musician and songwriter, Inara George. Inara shares her experience growing older as a cis woman and as an artist. They talk about what it means to embody beauty as a woman and whether getting older might mean stepping away from the spotlight, and taking on more of a mentorship role to younger generations.
About Inara George
Inara George is an American singer-songwriter and musician, one half of The Bird and the Bee, a member of the band Merrick, with Bryony Atkinson, and a member of the trio The Living Sisters, with Ele...
2023-05-2542 minThe Side WooHarnessing Intuition with Artist, Educator and Intuitive Rachel Dawson + Paranormal in SedonaThis week Sarah talks with friend of the show, Rachel Dawson. Rachel shares the way her connection to her intuition has evolved throughout her life.
About Rachel Dawson
Rachel Dawson is an artist, educator, and intuitive located in Oakland, CA. She makes connections between her artistic practice and metaphysical processes, seeking to render the invisible visible and to materialize the immaterial. She is interested in how spiritual wellness practices are attached to a “feminine” space, such as the history of witchcraft and its connection to agency, medicines, and
power objects. As a...
2023-05-1855 minThe Side WooWhen Old Structures No Longer Fit with Artist Rebekah GoldsteinThis week Sarah sits down with Bay Area artist, Rebekah Goldstein. They talk about the way we define success and failures and look back at an ArtForum article, The Loser Thing, which examines a period in the 90s where failure was at the forefront of people's minds. Sarah and Rebekah discuss whether failure, and it's artistic counterpoint, the masterpiece, are useful in terms of how we look at art. Rebekah shares how her experience becoming a mother and how that transformed her painting.
The Side Woo is now a weekly podcast! Join us every...
2023-05-1148 minThe Side WooOn Building An Art Career After Bankruptcy With Artist Kelly Lynn Jones + A Ghost StoryThis week on the Side Woo we talk with LA-based artist and former long-time Bay Area resident Kelly Lynn Jones. I was really inspired by Kelly’s story and asked her to come on to talk about how she in 2018 she made the decision to file for bankruptcy for her store Little Paper Planes, which was a super cute boutique on Valencia Street in the Mission District of SF. It came as a bit of a shock to those on the outside and I was really impressed by how transparent Kelly was while going through this challenging time that many...
2023-05-041h 10The Side WooProphetic Dreams, Channeling Prince & the Power of Music with Elisabeth ElektraThis week Liz and Sarah talk with Glasgow-based, cosmic-pop musician, performer and magickal practitioner Elisabeth Elektra about their magickal tendencies and prophetic dreams, including one in which they dreamt about the bombing of the Machester Ariana Grande concert the night that it happened. They share their love and affinity for both Prince and yes, Freddie Mercury, as well as what they see as the power of performing and music to connect people.
About Elisabeth Elektra
Glasgow-based musician Elisabeth Elektra (she/they) delivers poignant, deeply melodic art-pop anthems. Elektra released their self-produced debut ‘Me...
2023-04-201h 24The Side WooCarissa Potter Of People I've Loved On The Never Ending Quest For MeaningThis week we talk with the prolific Carissa Potter. She’s the founder of People I’ve Loved, and the host of the podcast Bad at Keeping Secrets. Carissa’s illustrations are gentle line drawings that tackle big subjects like emotional messiness, boundaries, and the search for meaning in a wild, imperfect world. Her newsletter and podcast interviews get into the nitty gritty of what it means to be alive and exist in a body while embodying the different roles of woman, mother, wife, and artist. We talk about much of this and more in our episode while unpacking the str...
2023-04-0659 min
The Side WooTaking Back Control: Advocating for Patient Consent with Bay Area Artist, Podcast Host and Activist Nikki NolanIn this episode, Patron Saint of The Side Woo, Nikki Nolan shares her story about how she began advocating for patient rights, specifically a requirement for stricter regulations around medical consent. After a traumatic experience with a Bay Area medical facility in which her requests for an all-female staff during an ob-gyn procedure were denied, Nikki began researching how to implement policies that favor the agency of patients within medical institutions. Sarah shares her own traumatic experiences within the medical industry. And Nikki and Sarah discuss the benefits of having an internal locus of control on one's sense of...
2023-03-2352 minThe Side WooOn The Elder and The Outcast with San Francisco-based Adobe Books Director Heather HoltThis week on The Side Woo, we talk with Adobe Books Director, former SECA Coordinator, and long-time Bay Area native Heather Holt. The conversation looks at what it means to be queen of a scene, and what it was like on the outside after Heather left her former husband for a married man. Plus, bonus shout out to Valley Girl culture.
About Heather Holt
Heather Holt graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an emphasis in photography and performance. She currently oversees all aspects of Adobe Books organizational sy...
2023-03-091h 15The Side WooRevolutionizing Mental Health with Integrative & Addiction Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist Dr. Raghu AppasaniOur guest this week, Dr. Raghu Appasani, an integrative & addiction psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and neuroscientist, is trying to revolutionize mental health from the inside out. We unpack alternative modes of healing and how can we start to transform the way mental health is diagnosed and treated. He shares his work serving as the Chief Medical Officer of PYM (Prepare Your Mind), a wellness brand that produces supplements based on amino acids to support mental health, and why they work.
About Raghu Appasani
Dr. Raghu Kiran Appasani is an Integrative Psychiatrist, Neuroscientist, and Social Entrep...
2023-02-021h 15The Side WooEnergetic Boundaries for Empaths with Small Spells Founder Rachel HoweSarah and Liz talk with Rachel Howe, an LA-based witch, healer and illustrator of the Small Spells tarot deck about her book Witch Ethics. They talk astrology, mercury in Pisces and the importance of creating good energetic boundaries between you and the (spirit) world.
Rachel is a Los Angeles-based illustrator, reiki healer, stick and poke tattoo artist, a potter, a tarot card reader, and a writer.
Show Notes
Rachel Howe / Small Spells Instagram
SmallSpells.com
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Host: Elizabeth Bernstein
...
2023-01-191h 05The Side WooOn Democratizing the Spiritualist Community with Wiccan Spiritualist Minister Cody BlairThis week's episode we get into a discussion about whether reincarnation is real with our guest, Spiritualist Minister Cody Blair. We also talk about his issues with hierarchy in the Spiritualist church, and what he wants to do about it.
About Cody Blair
Cody Blair is a Psychic-Medium that has worked in many Spiritualist churches and circles throughout his home state of Texas, the United States, and Canada. He led a very successful Mediumship development circle for 10 years in his hometown of Austin, Texas and several of his students have moved into successful careers as metaphysical ministers and owners of t...
2023-01-051h 16The Side WooFreddie Mercury and Other Ghost Celebrities with Shannon TaggartWe invite back photographer and spiritualism scholar Shannon Taggert to tell us her stories about Freddie Mercury from the Spiritualism community. She tells us celebrity ghost stories about Freddie, Michael Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, and Elvis. Plus, we dish on the idea of sex with ghosts ( first dibs on Sex With Ghosts as a band name).
About Shannon Taggart
Shannon Taggart is an artist and author based in St. Paul, MN. In a past life, she contributed to printed publications, including TIME, Newsweek, New York Times Magazine, Discover, New York, Wall Street Journal, and Reader’s Digest. Her ph...
2022-12-201h 11The Side WooTarot is F'ing Cool with Amelia of the Carnelian KeepAbout Amelia Whitehouse
Hello! I am Amelia of The Carnelian Keep- a Tarot Reader, Dream Interpreter, Events coordinator, Podcaster, Illustrator, Tarot Teacher, Writer, and astrology enthusiast- living and working in sexy Edinburgh, Scotland. I have been reading and studying Tarot cards for over 20 years, reading for friends for 12 years, reading for clients in Edinburgh (and globally) for 7 years and teaching Tarot online for 2 years. During that time I have read cards at countless events, in shops, at hen parties, in cars and, through the magic of technology for people all over the world! Astrology is a part...
2022-12-011h 08The Side WooUnderstanding Energy Work with Usui Reiki Master & Writer Erica Wallace MooreErica Wallace Moore is an Usui-trained Reiki Master Instructor. She conducts in-person and Remote Reiki sessions with included intuitive guided conversation. She specializes is providing a safe and welcoming environment to utilize relaxation as a focus to connect with inner being and Spirit. She listens and helps to clear energetic blockages, helps clients to discover the vibrational energetic self, and to focus on intention setting for the life and well-being most desired.
Show Notes:
Erica Wallace Moore website
"Los Desparecidos" on Watson Review
National Alliance on Mental Illness
What is Reiki
Show Partners
Tech...
2022-11-171h 05The Side WooPurging Obsession, Revenge and Secrets with Artist and Podcast Host Kate RhoadesAbout Kate Rhoades
Kate Rhoades’ lives and works in Oakland, California. Her videos, paintings and publications probe the ever-mutating art world. Her work has been presented in the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Santa Fe International New Media Festival. Rhoades has participated in exhibitions at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, Southern Exposure in San Francisco, and various venues, publications, hotel rooms and alleyways across North America and Europe. Since 2014 she has co-hosted the Bay Area's number one arts and culture podcast, Congratulations Pine Tree. Rhoades is also one of the Fleishhacker Foundation's Eureka Fellowship grantees for 2018.
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2022-11-031h 09The Side WooSpiritualism and Photography with Shannon TaggartAbout Shannon Taggart
Shannon Taggart is an artist and author based in St. Paul, MN. In a past life, she contributed to printed publications, including TIME, Newsweek, New York Times Magazine, Discover, New York, Wall Street Journal, and Reader’s Digest. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally and recognized by PDN, Nikon, Magnum Photos + Inge Morath Foundation, American Photography, International Photography Awards, and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace. Her first monograph, SÉANCE (Fulgur Press, 2019), was named ‘One of the Best Photobooks of 2019’ by TIME and will be re-released by Atelier Éditions in December 2022. Currently, Shannon is working on an illustrat...
2022-10-201h 13The Side WooFolk Magic and the Occult Humanities Conference with Jesse BransfordAbout Jesse Bransford
Jesse Bransford is a New York-based artist whose work is exhibited internationally at venues including The Carnegie Museum of Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center and the CCA Wattis Museum among others. He holds degrees from the New School for Social Research (BA), Parsons School of Design (BFA) and Columbia University (MFA). An associate professor of art at New York University, Bransford's work has been involved with belief and the visual systems it creates since the 1990s. Recent work has focused on the folk magic of the Norse traditions, specifically the t...
2022-10-061h 19The Side WooHealing PTSD Though Surf Therapy with Author & Journalist Michael Scott MooreOn this episode of The Side Woo, guest Michael Scott Moore talks about his long-time love of surfing and how it has helped him cope with PTSD in the years since he returned from Somalia. What he was interested to discover is that Surf Therapy, or Ocean Therpy as it is informally called, is now being used to successfully treat 1000s of veterans and abuse victims around the world. Sarah continues to unpack her own experiences with PTSD and OCD. Michael and The Side Woo gals consider how to create a neutral framework for challenging emotions.
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2022-09-221h 14The Side WooThe Journey from Artist to Wellness Practitioner with Desiree HolmanThis week on the show, guest Desiree Holman. Holman is a former art-star turned Nurse Practitioner-in-training. As the Founder of Face, a radical wellness clinic in Oakland, CA, she is trying to help people cultivate better relationships to their appearance through body-positive, age-positive and gender-affirming wellness services. During their conversation, Desiree and The Side Woo unpack issues around physical beauty that are both personal and taking place on a larger, socio-political scale.
About Desiree Holman
Hi, I’m Desiree. I adore my clients and the non-invasive well-aging products & services I offer. FACE, my beauty, and wellnes...
2022-09-081h 13
The Side WooMotherhood and Art-Making with Photographer Klea McKennaLiz and Sarah talk with Bay Area artist Klea McKenna. Liz fan-girls about Klea's work and the history of photography. Klea talks about making work as a mom, and how her artwork propelled her through the stress of the pandemic.
About Klea McKenna
McKenna was born in Freestone, CA in 1980 and received a BA from the University of California in Santa Cruz and an MFA from the California College of the Arts. Recent exhibitions include: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; Heckscher Museum of A...
2022-08-041h 01
The Side WooFinding Your Inner Power with Art Agent Emily McElwreathLiz and Sarah sit down with podcast host, art agent, and gallerist Emily McElwreath. They talk about falling in love at a silent retreat, mental health, challenging authority figures, and how to use anger constructively.
Show Notes:
The Art Career Podcast with Emily McElwreath
McElwreath Advisory
Instagram
Show Partners
Tech For Campaigns
Acorns App
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Host: Elizabeth Bernstein
Sound editing: Sarah Thibault
Content editing: Sarah Thib...
2022-07-2157 min
The Side WooCreative Problem-Solving as a We (and Woo) with Clairvoyants Alice Shaw and Lisa SzeLiz and Sarah talk to another Bay Area duo, photographers and clairvoyants Alice Shaw and Lisa Sze. Alice and Lisa share their psychic awakening stories, talk about their channeling videos on YouTube where they channel universal knowledge on current events, and the group discusses how there is a push towards creative problem-solving as a "we."
About the Pivot Workshops
Pivot Workshops teaches people to connect to their inner knowledge. Alice and Lisa do not teach a belief system. They guide their students to trust their own inner wisdom. At the foundational level th...
2022-07-071h 09
The Side WooColor Magic and A Tarot Reading with Professional Witch & Psychic Medium Sarah PotterThis week Sarah and Liz talk with the dazzling professional witch, tarot reader, psychic medium, and writer Sarah Potter who is giving off Big Venus Energy. They talk about marching to the beat of your own drummer, and what exactly is color magic. Finally, Sarah Potter gives them both tarot readings. Liz asks a question about love and Sarah asks about work - which is very on-brand for both of them.
About Sarah Potter
Sarah Potter is a professional witch, Tarot Reader and practitioner of Color Magic, a means of using specific hue...
2022-06-231h 14
The Side WooSarah Comes Out as a Witch & MediumIn this episode Liz gets what she wants: more reveal from Sarah. Sarah shares for the first time publically that she is a practicing witch and medium. They talk about overcoming fears while building a relationship with the spirit world, past life trauma, and visions Sarah has had about her family members who have passed, including her father who died in May 2021.
Show Notes
Amy Major, Episode 17
Holly Shantara
Buddha's Brain
Zen and the Brain
Tyler Henry Medium
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Host: Elizabeth Bernste...
2022-06-0955 min
The Side WooPhotorealism & Cancer Recovery Realness with Artist Jaq GrantfordSarah and Liz talk with Aussie Artist Jaq Grantford about her photorealist paintings, working with models of all shapes and ages, recovering from cancer, and what she's up to next. Sarah gives Jaq a tarot reading.
About Jaq Grantford
Jaq Grantford is an award-winning portrait artist, with work held in the National Gallery of Victoria, the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) Barcelona Spain, and other collections worldwide. Her work is a favourite with gallery-goers often winning the People’s Choice. She has been recognised by Portrait Society of America a number of...
2022-05-261h 07
The Conversation Art PodcastEpis. 319: Sarah Thibault, S.F.-based artist, on residency hopping, conversing with ghosts and the FairchainSan Francisco-based artist Sarah Thibault talks about: How she's the last artist in S.F., or at least so it seems; a ghost encounter she experienced in Edinburgh (Scotland), as well as her engaging in Tarot cards and other new-age spiritual pursuits, largely as a byproduct of the pandemic; her experiences going to a range of artist residencies, from remote ones with just a couple fellow residents in Portugal, to a more professionalized one at Plop in London; the Minnesota Street Project, a subsidized artist studio and gallery complex in SF where Sarah has a long-term lease...
2022-05-141h 24
The Side WooEveryone Can Be A Medium with Spirit Rescue Specialist, Reverend Amy MajorIn the most woo episode yet, Sarah and Liz talk with Spirit Rescue Specialist Amy Major about helping lost souls cross over, the reality of ghosts and the importance of democratizing access to the metaphysical world.
About Amy Major
Amy Major is a top professional Psychic, Medium, Rescue Medium, Channel, Healer, Teacher and Published Author. A successful Medium and healer in the New England area for 25 years, she has both studied and worked at the New Millennium Psychic Center in Derry, NH, and was also the lead medium in the Psychic Ghostbusters Team, conducting many...
2022-05-121h 06
The Side WooOvercoming Loss & Addiction with Artist Rema GhuloumSarah and Liz talk with artist Rema Ghuloum about overcoming great loss, and the importance of art in the face of tragedy. Trigger warning: this episode contains some conversation about addiction, mental illness, and self-harming.
If you or someone you know needs support, the Suicide Hotline number is 800 273 8255.
About Rema Ghuloum
Rema lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach in 2007 and her MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2010. Rema has been the recipient of mul...
2022-04-281h 10
The Side WooSupernatural America with Minneapolis Institute of Art Curator and Scorpio, Robert CozzolinoSarah sits down with curator and fellow Scorpio, Robert Cozzolino, to talk about his new exhibition Supernatural America: the Paranormal in American Art which is in its last leg of a three-stop national tour at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
About the Supernatural America exhibition
America is haunted. Ghosts from its violent history—the genocide of Indigenous peoples, slavery, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and traumatic wars—are an inescapable and unsettled part of the nation’s heritage. Not merely in the realm of metaphor but present and tangible, urgently calling for contact, these otherworldly visitors...
2022-04-141h 04The Side WooBig Capricorn Energy with Beyond The Studio PodcastLiz and Sarah talk with the co-hosts of the Beyond The Studio podcast, artist Nicole Mueller and designer Amanda Adams. They discuss their strong Capricorn energy, how to maintain a spiritual connection to art while having a career and manifesting money.
About Beyond The Studio
Beyond the Studio is a podcast about the career paths of working contemporary artists— how they're supporting and sustaining themselves and their creative work. Co-hosted by artists Nicole Mueller (San Francisco, CA) and Amanda Adams (Baltimore, MD), Beyond the Studio features candid conversations with contemporary artists, makers, and art world profe...
2022-03-311h 14The Side WooA Course in Miracles 101 with Writer & Life Coach Joanne Menonmakersloft.co
Sarah and Liz talk with writer, life coach, and mystic Joanne Menon about the spiritual text A Course in Miracles. How do you let go of your ego in an instant? What do miracles look like in the everyday? Joanne shares her experiences putting ACIM concepts to use in her life and fields questions about the more controversial aspects of the text.
About Joanne Menon
As a Spiritual & Creative Wellness Coach and non-fiction writer, Joanne merges the spiritual realms and deep love of mysticism with the power of creativity. With her...
2022-03-1754 minThe Side WooDeeper Into The Woo with New Co-Host Elizabeth BernsteinOn the first full episode of Season 2 of The Side Woo, Sarah & Liz talk about Liz’s aging mom, woo stuff, watching someone discover Queen for the first time on Youtube and more. Plus, another love tarot reading for Liz.
About Elizabeth Bernstein
Elizabeth Darrow Bernstein, the new co-host of The Side Woo, is an artist, educator, entrepreneur and former gallery director who lives in Oakland, California. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007. In addition to co-founding the Royal NoneSuch Gallery, she was visiting faculty in the photography department at the Sa...
2022-03-041h 00
The Side WooHow to Create an Artist Residency in Greece with Mathew HalpinSarah talks with guest Mathew Halpin, friend and residency director of Lakkos Art Residency and Ano Asites Residency on the Greek island of Crete. Mathew talks about living on Crete as an Australian, how he started up his artist residency, and a little about his new book called AIR, now available on Amazon.
About Mathew Halpin
Mathew is an Australian visual artist/ theatre set designer and new author. His latest projects involved inviting contemporary artists to engage with communities and improve the image of depressed neighborhoods. He currently calls the Greek island of Crete his ho...
2021-12-0948 minThe Side WooHonoring Miscarriages with Kiwi Dancer Kerryn McMurdoSarah starts the episode with a short anecdote about her run-in with some guitar store snobs, and does a mini-tarot reading for the show. Then Sarah and guest, the dancer, healer, writer, and former Nes Artist Residency Co-Director, Kerryn McMurdo talk about Kerryn's background in contemporary dance, life in a small town at a residency in the north of Iceland, and her recent experiences with fertility challenges.
About Kerryn McMurdo
Kerryn trained in contemporary dance, improvisation & choreography in New Zealand from 1997 -2000, (graduating with a BPSA degree) and worked as a professional freelance dancer/performer, ch...
2021-12-011h 19The Side WooWriting Checks Your Butt Can't Cash with Documentary Filmmaker Katrine ThuesenSarah and documentarian Anna Katrine (Kat) Thuesen talk about the challenge of finding the right day job as an artist, red flags to look out for when talking to a new prospective employer, and why everyone should revisit Thuesen's favorite, canonical 80's film, Top Gun, especially the opening sequence. Bonus content: Kat and Sarah take the quiz, Which Top Gun character are you? The answers may surprise you!
About Kat Thuesen
Anna Katrine Thuesen is the creator of Bella Tola Films. She is an MFA in Film Directing, producer, kitesurfer, ex-telemark skier, photographer, video gamer, mountain l...
2021-11-181h 19
The Side WooHow to Show Your Creativity, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent through Self-Portraiture with Artist Gabi MagalySarah talks with guest, Gabi Magaly, an artist and educator based in San Antonio, TX. They discuss their shared love of RuPaul's Drag Race, Gabi's MFA show which opened at the start of the pandemic, her relationship to religion, growing up with strong female role models, and Gabi's most recent body of work - a series of portraits of her Mexican grandmother.
About Gabi Magaly
Gabi Magaly is an emerging artist born in Bryan, Texas. Magaly received her BFA in photography at Sam Houston State University in 2015 and received her MFA in Visual Arts at the...
2021-11-1148 minThe Side WooEnergy & Money with Activist Nikki NolanOn this, the first episode of The Side Woo podcast, host Sarah Thibault and guest Nikki Nolan talk about the connection between money and energy. Why? Because money touches everything, and money is really about energy, and energy is all there is.
About Nikki Nolan
Nikki Nolan is a Product Designer. She accrued all of her student debt when she got her MFA in Interactive Media at Pratt Institute. Before studying at Pratt, she was debt-free while earning her BFA in Sculpture and Photography, with a minor in art history and theatrical technical design from Col...
2021-11-111h 13The Side WooWelcome to The Side WooThis is the Trailer for The Side Woo. The first three episodes will be launching 11/11/21! Subscribe to be the first to know.
Host and Creator: Sarah Thibault
All editing done by Sarah Thibault on GarageBand
Music by: LewisP-Audio on Audio Jungle
2021-11-0601 min
Artists + TravelAIDS Survivor in the Age of Coronavirus with Artist & LGBTQ Activist Daniel Dallabrida / San Francisco, California USAThis episode was recorded in early May 2020 and is previously unpublished.
Artist and LGBTQ activist Daniel Dallabrida initiated his art practice in 2003 with a move to Italy to pursue his heritage's art, culture, and language. There he apprenticed at a Venetian family foundry and started his academic study of art in
Florence. In 2011, Daniel received an MFA from California College of the Arts. He has been an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, LASALLE College of the Arts, Fondazione Pistoletto, and Kala Art Institute. Daniel has presented in Milan, Rome, Florence, Oakland, Singapore, Kansas...
2021-03-2547 minArtists + TravelHaving Your MFA Show During a Pandemic with Artist Christine Lyon / San Francisco, California USAIn this episode, recorded in May 2020, Thibault talks with artist Christine Lyon about completing her MFA program at the start of the pandemic.
About
Christine Lyon (b. Los Angeles, CA, 1992) is a painter, printmaker, and educator residing in East Bay. Working in oil, acrylic, etching, silkscreen, and soft-sculpture, Christine explores representation and methods of figurative art, and her body’s relationship to icons of this tradition in western culture and media. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College in Liberal Arts with an emphasis on Art, Literature, and Social Sciences. Af...
2021-03-2349 minArtists + TravelGoing into Lockdown in Thailand with Artist Xiuching Tsay / Chonburi, ThailandIn this episode, Thibault talks with artist Xiuching Tsay.
The episode was recorded in May 2020.
Xiuching Tsay was born in Chonburi, Thailand in 1993. She graduated in 2019 with her MA from the Royal College of Art. She is currently based between the UK and Thailand.
Links
Xiuching Tsay Instagram
Daniel Benjamin gallery
Into The Wild film
Rabbit-skin glue is made of rabbits
Perfume: the Story of a Murderer
Support Mental Health First Oakland, a grassroots initiative to reduce police presence in Oakland and support people...
2021-03-0538 minArtists + TravelGetting Your MFA in a Pandemic with Artist Pol Morton / Brooklyn, New York USAIn this interview, Thibault speaks with Brooklyn-based artist and MFA candidate at Hunter College, Pol Morton.
Original airdate April 21, 2020 in conjunction with the Minnesota Street Project.
Polwin Morton, born in Palo Alto, California, received their BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2009. After graduation, Morton lived, painted, and exhibited in Beijing, China for four years. They are currently an MFA candidate at Hunter College.
Links
Pol Morton's website
Hunter MFA Program
Support Mental Health First Oakland, a grassroots initiative to reduce police presence in Oakland and support people experiencing a mental health crisis.
Get 50% off Quickbooks Online or Quickbooks...
2021-02-2454 minArtists + TravelEarly Days of the Pandemic in the South with New York Times Best Selling Author Andra Watkins / Charleston, South Carolina USAThibault speaks with Charleston-based Andra Watkins, the New York Times best-selling author of “Not Without My Father.”
Original airdate: April 16, 2020 in conjunction with the Minnesota Street Project.
Andra Watkins is the author of four books and counting. Her acclaimed first novel To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis was published by Word Hermit Press on March 1, 2014. Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace is a memoir about her dysfunctional family adventure; it is a National Book Award nominee and a New York T...
2021-02-2428 minArtists + TravelThe Radical Upheaval of Single Moms and SFAI Professors with Artist & Entrepreneur Elizabeth Bernstein / Oakland, California USAIn this episode, Thibault speaks with Oakland-based artist, educator, former gallery director, and entrepreneur Elizabeth Bernstein.
Original airdate May 7, 2020 in conjunction with the Minnesota Street Project.
Bernstein was a visiting faculty in the photography department at the San Francisco Art Institute, and was, until its close in September 2019, the Gallery Director of Royal Nonesuch Gallery in Oakland, CA. Her photography work has been shown across the US. She is now the owner of Maker's Loft in Oakland.
Links
Makers Loft in Oakland, CA
Elizabeth Bernstein's website
...
2021-02-2448 minArtists + TravelA Pandemic Solo Show + Former SFAI Professor, Part II with Artist & Educator Danielle Lawrence / San Francisco, California USAIn this interview, Thibault speaks with San Francisco-based artist, educator, and writer Danielle Lawrence.
Original airdate May 5, 2020, presented in conjunction with Minnesota Street Project.
Danielle Lawrence is a San Francisco-based artist whose work merges unconventional materials, painted imagery and 3-dimensional form to renegotiate painting’s traditional anatomy and definition. Her practice addresses the conceptual nature of hybridity by scrambling long-standing divisions and arguments between painting and sculpture, abstraction and representation and craft and fine art. Reworking painting’s physicality creates a fluid approach to its historical form, surface and materiality opening up site...
2021-02-2453 minArtists + TravelIn Italy at the Epicenter of the Virus with Artist Victoria DeBlassie & Writer Connor Maley / Florence, ItalyIn this interview, Thibault speaks with Florence-based artist and professor Victoria DeBlassie and writer Connor Maley.
Original airdate: April 23, 2020 in conjunction with Minnesota Street Project.
Victoria DeBlassie is an MFA alumnus of California College of the Art's Fine Art's program, and a recipient of a Fulbright Grant and a Spacciamo Culture Grant.
Connor Maley is an MFA alumnus of California College of the Art's Writing Program and also a recipient of a Spacciamo Culture Grant.
Links
victoriadeblassie.com
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
...
2021-02-2452 minArtists + TravelStraddling Mexico & Texas with Independent Curator Leslie Moody Castro / Tepoztlan & Mexico City, MexicoIn this interview, Thibault speaks with independent curator, Leslie Moody Castro, who during the filming is in residence at Casa Lu in Tepotzlan, MX along with the host.
Original airdate April 28, 2020 in conjunction with the Minnesota Street Project.
Leslie Moody Castro is an independent curator and writer whose practice is based on itinerancy and collaboration. She has produced, organized, and collaborated on projects in Mexico and the United States for more than a decade, and her repertoire of critical writing is also reflective of her commitment to place. She is committed...
2021-02-2429 minArtists + TravelTotal Shutdown in Spain with Novelist & Entrepreneur Vanessa Fabiano / Madrid, SpainIn this interview, Thibault speaks with novelist and business owner Vanessa Fabiano based at the time of the interview in Madrid, Spain.
Original airdate, May 21, 2020 in conjunction with the Minnesota Street Project.
Vanessa Fabiano is the Co-Founder of the literary event series Madrid Bookie. Vanessa is now based in Copenhagen and Bornholm, Denmark.
Links
Vanessa Fabiano website
Madrid Bookie website
Nordikos popsicles
Support Mental Health First Oakland, a grassroots initiative to reduce police presence in Oakland and support people experiencing a mental...
2021-02-2439 minArtists + TravelSheltering-in-Place as an Introvert with Artist Megan Reed / Los Angeles, California USAIn this episode, Thibault speaks with Los Angeles-based artist and educator Megan Reed.
Original airdate: May 14, 2020
Reed has an MFA in painting from California College of the Arts and was the recipient of the Graduate Painting Teaching Fellowship and Rex Ray Material Support Award. She also holds an MA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from New York University. She was recently an artist-in-residence at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, where she created an installation as part of the campus's permanent art collection.
Links
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2021-02-2438 minArtists + TravelIntroducing: Artists + TravelArtists + Travel is a podcast, hosted by artist and writer Sarah Thibault, that connects listeners with artists, writers, and curators from all over the world.
After a major life upheaval. In 2018, Thibault left her home base of San Francisco to travel to artists residencies abroad. For two years, she lived out of her suitcase. In March 2020 while attending an artist residency in Mexico, the pandemic rocked the world.
In response to this phenomenon. Thibault reached out to her network of creators all over the world to hear about how they were experiencing the...
2021-02-2101 min
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