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Art Sisters Podcast

Valentine Svihalek & Kristi Lei

An uplifting space for raw conversation between SISTERS IN ART by Abstract Painter and Art Connect Society Founder & Director Valentine Svihalek. Highlighting thriving artists as they navigate their many roles!
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11/28/22 • 67 min

Join Mona and Lindsay Dauphinee, a self-taught emerging artist currently building her dream home and studio in Belize, as they chat about Lindsay's re-entry into the art world. After weeks of exposure to inspiring art while spending time in the waiting room of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with her first son, Lindsay knew that her calling needed to be heard. She left the corporate world to fully embrace her creativity and started her healing process through art. Her practice focuses on colorful impressionistic landscapes and is inspired by nature scenes that evoke sentimental nostalgia, connection to Earth and one's adventurous inner child. She uses color theory associated with spirituality and the chakras to illustrate the incredible powers of nature and art.
www.mementomoria.design/collect
@mementomoria.design
@artmumseurope
@artmumsunited

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11/28/22 • 67 min

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11/22/22 • 33 min

Join Valentine and Atlanta, Georgia based, Leslie Anne as they dig into the behind the scenes. Leslie shares about the benefits of staying open and seeking collaboration with other visual and performing artists, and trusting what feels good. Her intuition leading her into claiming her unique space as she creates her art world.

Leslie Anne is a self-taught contemporary artist based in Atlanta, Georgia by way of East St. Louis, Illinois. Leslie describe's her work as emotionally expressive, colorful, conceptual, and Afrofuturistic. Her art is inspired by prominent themes in her own life, like motherhood, race, relationships, gender, and personal expression. She uses bold contrasting elements to create interesting mixed media works; usually featuring bold colors, glitter, and visions of the sky like clouds and stars. By looking at the art, her hope is that you will find a sense of interconnectedness with all. And ultimately explore more of yourself.
Making art is like opening a portal and letting pure creation manifest. I am intentional about centering Black people and women in my pieces as a way to celebrate our culture and beauty with nuance. I want to show Black subjects as inherently valuable and worthy of being admired, which is often why my work incorporates crowns and gold elements. My art is as much about the process as it is the physical piece, as creating art opens the space for me to explore myself. I create self portraits as a way to honor my feelings and memorialize that specific time in my life. I'm inspired by the beauty and personal expression of Black people. My references are often individuals from my own life or intriguing images of Black subjects that inspire me in some way. My intention is to give the subject honor, express emotion, and showcase their humanity. In addition to painting, I create collage style digital artwork, incorporating photography, color, glitter, and lots of layers.
@myleslieanne
@bellavalentinaart

@artconnectwomen
@artconnectsociety

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11/22/22 • 33 min

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Join Mona as she interviews Antoaneta Tica, a Romanian visual artist and art educator whose practice includes performances, wearable arts and textile works. Follow Antoaneta's journey as she describes many years of experience in fashion and costume design and how she began experimenting with unconventional materials during her college years.

Currently, she is deeply involved in sustainable art, which, in her opinion, is also conceptual. She believes that art must be beautiful, but it also has a message to be passed on to the viewer. Through sustainable art, artists not only express their thoughts or talents but also bring to light the problems of today's society by addressing concepts of major interest: environmental pollution, climate change, social issues and much more.

Antoaneta focuses on several art projects highlighting the danger we are currently facing, namely the increasingly acute pollution of the environment.
@antoanetatica
@artmumseurope
@artmumsunited

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11/14/22 • 20 min

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10/24/22 • 78 min

Join Valentine and Camille as they dive openly into the behind the scenes of building a cohesive practice as a multipassionate artist.
Camille Myles is a French-Canadian multi-disciplinary contemporary artist and conservation activist exploring imagery that is grounded in our identity and reflects our impacts on the environment. Working in public art, painting, sculpture and installation, she creates art that tells a story linked to community connection, self-reflection and the restorative effects of nature. She received her BFA in Sculpture & Installation at Ottawa University and her MA in Heritage Conservation at Carleton University. Marrying her passion for conservation and art, she has worked as an archaeologist, in artist-run centres, the National Art Gallery in Ottawa, ICCROM in Rome, Canada’s National Trust and was a Park Superintendent at Parks Canada. Myles has exhibited extensively including Quest Art Gallery, Ottawa Art Gallery, BHA Gallery, Arts Mums United, Visionary Art Collective, Arts to Hearts Project, PxP Contemporary, Ottawa Art Gallery, Gallery 115, among others. In 2022, she was invited in 2022 to join the International Broken Forests Art Collective. She has been awarded an art residency in June 2022 at Studio H Canada in Victoria BC where she developed her new painting collection of “Crying Landscapes” - a plea for change as well as “I Stand Alone” an interactive drawing installation which has being exhibited at Quest Art Gallery in August-Sept 2022. Being drawn to the power of public art as a social community conversation, the artist has been creating murals and large-scale public art sculptures in Midland and in Penetanguishene. Her work has been featured by the Art Seen Magazine, Jealous Curator, Toronto Star, Create! Magazine, Visionary Art Collective, Arts to Hearts Project, Women United in Art Magazine and podcasts including Arts Mums United, Hot Mess to Awesomeness & CFRH. She’s won the Diamond Jubilee Medal and finalist of the Canadian RBC New Painting Competition. She’s a founding artist member of the Art Queens and The Works by Erika B Hess from I like your Work. Originally from Gatineau, Quebec, she now lives along the shores of Georgian Bay, in Tiny Ontario with her husband and three young children.
www.camillemylesart.com
www.artconnectsociety.com

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10/24/22 • 78 min

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10/17/22 • 44 min

In this episode, Mona had the pleasure of interviewing Sarah Clinton, a visual artist from Nashville, TN, who uses her art as a visual journal, capturing and processing the emotions of her daily life. When her second child was born with a rare genetic disorder and diagnosed with both autism and intellectual disabilities, Sarah stayed home to manage the complex needs of her family, which led her to fully embracing her creativity and diving into her art practice. Listen to her inspiring story as she describes her journey, gives valuable tips and advice and shares her love for ordinary objects and places that invoke deep connections we have with our environment.
www.sarahclintonart.com
@artmumseurope
@artmumsunited

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10/17/22 • 44 min

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09/26/22 • 62 min

Join Valentine as she gets to know an incredibly inspirational mother of three who does it all while creating community and maintaining her own art practice. Shannon is such a talented, passionate, and experienced artist and arts educator. That passion led this New Yorker to found the Institute For Visual Arts Los Angeles a community based space to serve preschool through high school students, as well as adults. Be sure to check out this episode for a kick in the ARTist way! This one is packed with so many great tips and anecdotes about doing the work and being the hero of your own story!
@shannonraefincke
www.shannonraefincke.com
@bellavalentinaart
@artmumseurope
@artmumsunited

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09/26/22 • 62 min

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08/28/22 • 51 min

Stephanie Barbetta is a truly dynamic international artist from Geneva, Switzerland. Valentine and Stephanie discuss both philosophical and practical components of her work. Here's a little taste of the topics and experiences they discussed in episode 21.
She always found a refuge in words. As she says, "writings take care of what bodies fear: caresses and blows. Words materialize my sensations and weave a skin that is put outside my mouth on pages. I've studied philosophy and literature in Arts Faculty at the University of Geneva to grasp myself through texts and to penetrate and analyze others' language, in their sinuous paths. I became more and more attached to styles of writing, as well as to individuals because I felt an authentic discourse that revealed rich inner lands. However, my studies lacked the body. Theatre made me realize that my body spoke more than my words in a language that no one could translate, including me. Dance and performance sketched inimitable movements. The scores can be reproduced indefinitely, but the embodiment changes each time and it's this uniqueness that animates me. During my professional training as an actress at the Geneva Conservatory and at the Ecole Supérieure des Teintureries de Lausanne, encounters with artists such as Frédéric Fonteyne, Gian Manuel Rau, Emilie Blaser, Marco Cantalupo, Olivier Dubois, Jean-Baptiste Roybon and Massimo Furlan have carved rich inner grooves. The body in space is essential to me. My visual influences converge as much with Sophie Calle, who transcends private space by immersing the public, as with Spencer Tunick, who saturates public space with a crowd of individuals, blurring the boundaries between private and public. The art in which I identify myself is an art that gives an equal importance to places, objects, lights and people, whether this art is performative, choreographic, cinematographic or theatrical. I created the substance brute project from what I call Traum-a, a place between dream (Traum) and trauma. The result is a raw, unaltered material, bringing together my creations in various artistic fields."
@substancebrute
www.substancebrute.com
@artmumseurope
www.artmumseurope.org
@artmumsunited
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08/28/22 • 51 min

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08/19/22 • 44 min

Listen to Ellen as she takes us on the journey of a young artist who found herself in Mexico after graduating in the Netherlands and building her career in spatial design in her home country upon return. She describes the importance of listening to your inner voice and following your dreams as she embraces the artist identity. She creates her intimate space by renting a studio and completing a body of work she's been exhibiting both in person and online.

www.ellenholleman.nl
@ellen_holleman
www.artmumseurope.org
@artmumseurope
www.artmumsunited.com
@artmumsunited

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08/19/22 • 44 min

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Join Valentine as she talks to Allison about how she found the confidence to push out of her comfort zone and start believing in her work. She unpacks the journey that took her from Pennsylvania to Seattle (soon California) and the ways that coaching and supportive community enabled her to let the joy back into her thriving art practice.
Allison Rohland is an American painter whose work represents the integration and celebration of the fragmented parts of ourselves. Since 2014, she’s instructed artists with intellectual disabilities and Autism, and been honing her own craft. Her body of work consists of emotive abstracts using bold texture and color through mixed media. Her work has shown internationally as well as on the East and West Coast of the US. She currently works out of her home studio in Seattle, WA.
www.allisonrohlandart.com
@allisonrohlandart
@bellavalentinaart
www.artmumseurope.org
www.artmumsunited.com
@artmumseurope
@artmumsunited

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08/10/22 • 46 min

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Valentine speaks with dear friend Marianna Jimenez Edwards. Marianna has developed a clear voice and vision for her work over the years. She shares about the hard work she's putting in and how being specific about how you share and where you show up can support you in your goals.
Frequent trips to stay with family in Mexico exposed Marianna to the roots of her Mexican culture. Curiosity to investigate and create was nourished by her family. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, receiving a BFA in Painting.

Further awareness of her indigenous heritage and Chicano culture blossomed during art school. Also, during that time, visiting her grandmother’s village in Oaxaca and various archaeological sites in Central Mexico and Chiapas on separate occasions transformed that awareness into the passion and central ideas for her work.

After art school, Marianna taught drawing and painting at two separate private studios. One of those studios belonged to classically trained, Venezuelan artist, Conchita Firgau, which led Marianna to want to explore a blend of Western realism and Pre-Columbian themes and subject matter. The drips, lines, and marks explore ideas of the fraying of time woven into a sense of existing within two different and distinct cultures.

www.mariannajimenezedwards.art
www.artconnectsociety.com
@nanachicanaart
@bellavalentinaart
@isadorastowe
@ellenburgin

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12/06/22 • 55 min

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FAQ

How many episodes does Art Sisters Podcast have?

Art Sisters Podcast currently has 47 episodes available.

What topics does Art Sisters Podcast cover?

The podcast is about Visual Arts, Podcasts, Arts and Performing Arts.

What is the most popular episode on Art Sisters Podcast?

The episode title 'From Darkness To Paradise With Lindsay Dauphinee' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Art Sisters Podcast?

The average episode length on Art Sisters Podcast is 45 minutes.

How often are episodes of Art Sisters Podcast released?

Episodes of Art Sisters Podcast are typically released every 8 days, 5 hours.

When was the first episode of Art Sisters Podcast?

The first episode of Art Sisters Podcast was released on Jan 1, 2022.

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