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Where Art and Grief MeetEp.9 Tim RogersEpisode 9 Tim RogersTim Rogers gives his audience the impression that he's leaving nothing in reserve when he puts on a show. His authenticity and energy is something I have admired for decades. So I literally did a happy dance the day Tim agreed to talk to me for Where Art and Grief Meet. I. Did. A. Jig.Although I had prepared a list of questions and themes in advance of our conversation, it all flew out the window when we sat across the ether and chatted about creativity and grief and the benefits to...2022-11-0754 min
Where Art and Grief MeetEp.8 Garry MooreEpisode 8This episode has been a little delayed. Apologies.Creativity is an intrinsic part of Garry Moore's expression. He has worked with a camera in hand for almost 40 years, mostly in the commercial space, but has always been able to find ways of expressing his creative compulsion no matter what.Garry and I talk about his creative background and what value creativity lends to his life. He discusses his creative process, and talks about how his awareness and intent lends value to his personal pursuits and experiences.Garry's website contains some...2022-11-011h 07
Where Art and Grief MeetEp.7 Marina StrocchiEpisode 7I felt very privileged to meet Marina Strocchi and thrilled all over again when I had the chance to revisit our conversation to edit this episode.Marina is an artist whose work I have loved for well over a decade, What was unbelievably special was that when I approached her for a chat I really only the most cursory idea of her story and none of the depth of her insight into artmaking and its relationship to healing and growth, particularly in Australia's remote indigenous communities.Marina has a terrific website and...2022-09-3054 min
Awaken the SaintSts. Cosmas & Damian: Charitable DoctorsAccepting no payment for their services, these doctors truly understood what it meant to be charitable workers of Christ!Saints Cosmas and Damian Martyred 303 A.D. Feast day: September 26.Show Host: Sophia BauerWebsite: https://awakenthesaint.showLike our 3 minute saint stories? Check out Awaken the Word:https://awakentheword.showSpoke Streethttps://spokestreet.com/Awaken Catholichttps://awakencatholic.churchGet the AWAKEN Catholic app athttps://theawakenapp.io2022-09-2603 min
Where Art and Grief MeetEp.6 Margo TantauEpisode 6It's an odd thing for me to be introducing Margo Tantau, given her veteran status in the podcasting realm, but there you have it. Margo has published over 100 episodes of the iconic Windowsill Chats podcast where she talks about creativity with artists and the artistically inclined. She is warm, practical and extremely generous as she shares the benefits borne of her vast industry and personal experience.In this very free ranging talk Margo and I exchange tales of the gifts that can be found in the ashes of grief, some unexplained phenomena and the...2022-09-1252 min
Where Art and Grief MeetEp.5 Liz GambergEpisode 5.Introducing Liz Gamberg, Seattle based multi-disciplinary creative, to the Where Art and Grief Meet universe,In the exchange between Liz and host Sophia we discover many welcome parallels in lived experience and explore a shared love of creative process and how external factors impact process and creations.See more about Liz at www.lizgamberg.com and instagram @lizgamberg.More infö about Where Art and Grief Meet is here and Sophia's daily creations are here.Please feel most welcome to indicate an interest if you'd like to participate in t...2022-08-2653 min
Where Art and Grief MeetEp 4. Jes ReyesJes Reyes is a creative powerhouse: an interdisciplinary artist based in Minnesota. Jes heard about Where Art and Grief Meet on Margo Tantau's Windowsill Chats podcast.Jes' invaluable insights into her own creative life and process, her story and and forging a wholly creative existence have made her an invaluable member of the Where Art and Grief Meet community.You can find out more about Jes on her website and follow her on Instagram.. The cinema project she mentions is Moonplay Cinema.You can find out more about Where Art and...2022-08-1059 min
Where Art and Grief MeetEp.3 Bonus Commemorating HectorThe first month of Where Art & Grief Meet is dedicated to my brother, Hector. He was a beautiful man and a truly gifted musician, with his chosen speciality being Rembetika/Smyrnaika. This audio is from his final public performance, recorded at Armenistis in Athens at 3am on 7 March, 2012. He died on the night of 8 March 2012.This is the story of how he came to be playing this song this night, and why is was so fortuitously captured,This is the video.2022-07-3111 min
Where Art and Grief MeetEp 2. Sharon "Nullsie" NullmeyerSharon Nullmeyer has been through the wringer and has a LOT of feelings. She exercises her artistic voice to express everything with absolutely no apologies, but she also uses art as a means of working through the complexities that envelope her life. A glimpse at her instagram feed reveals a visual feast the likes of which you're not likely to see anywhere else. Sharon's instagram. Sharon is an unashamed art course junkie but the first one she did was with Mary Ann Moss found here: SketchbookerySharon also mentions classes with...2022-07-3052 min
Where Art and Grief MeetEp 1. Debbi KraseyDebbi Krasey is born to make. Gently but ever so rhythmically you can hear her knitting needles clacking as we talk. Deb and I have been friends for 35 years. She is a trooper and a survivor, all the while compulsively making... ...but during the course of this conversation I discovered that Deb has a passion, a part of her artistic identity, I wasn't even aware of. She mentions instagram maker @paquiliztli.Debbi's IG is @dkraseyClick here for more information about the project Where Art & Grief Meet, The project is running on passion...2022-07-2335 min
Where Art and Grief MeetBefore we begin...A prelude to the yearlong project Where Art & Grief Meet in which Sophia discusses the project and the purpose: exploring with artists how grief, loss and adversity informs their creative process. Website: www.sophandson.com Theme song by Dallas Cosmas, “Good Goodbye” from album “The Memory Keys”. Thank you to BlueAnt for the tech.2022-07-0305 min
Windowsill ChatsArtmaking as a Response to Grief. Sophia Cosmas Embraces Artmaking as a Metaphor for Life Living Itself.Margo is joined by Sophia Cosmas to discuss the subject of artmaking as a response to grief stemming from her own personal experiences. Sophia observed that over the last 20 years, with five significant losses, her grief has been compounded, but her response has, each time, been to immerse herself in intensive art making. In her experience grief takes innumerable forms and is not something that is "gotten over", "worked through" or necessarily ever resolved. She aims to create and to celebrate the perfect imperfection of life by being fully immersed in process learning and problem solving. Artmaking as a...2022-06-081h 06