Art Sisters Podcast

Art Sisters Podcast is a platform for artists and creative seekers to share, educate, and connect. Hosted by Valentine Svihalek, visual artist, international educator, and founder of Art Mums Europe, and Kristi Lei Lescinski, singer-songwriter and music educator. Join them in conversation with experts in their creative fields about the front and backstage of artist life. We want to inspire you to seize everyday opportunities, identify resources, and fulfill your creative dreams!

Valentine asks Emily Moores about the way her art transforms lives through playful engagement. Can the presence of artwork decrease the amount of medication a patient requires during a hospital stay? Can a whimsical installation stir affect? Listen in as Emily shares her experience.
Emily is a visual artist living and working in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her work consists of hand-cut and ornately layered materials, which create both wall works and large scale installations. Emily's work investigates the playful engagement of the body as essential to understanding and experiencing spaces or objects.

Emily was selected as one of the Women to Watch 2020 by the Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery in collaboration with the Ohio Advisory Group of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She created 'Let's Celebrate,' a large scale installation consisting of wood, paper and fabric.

Emily earned her BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 2008 and her MFA from The University of Cincinnati in 2014. She has shown her work regionally and nationally, including the Akron Art Museum (OH), the Contemporary Arts Center (OH), the Ruffin Gallery (VA), the Loudon House (KY), and the Dougherty Arts Center (TX). Emily Moores was a recipient of the Ohio Cultural Arts Individual Artist Award, the Summerfair Individual Artist Grant and the ArtPrize Seed Grant.
www.emilymoores.com
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Mona is beyond thrilled to share her interview with a London-based artist Joanna Pilarczyk Radecka. In her current body of work, Joanna focuses on a relaxing atmosphere, intimacy, femininity, self-awareness and her relationship with nature.

After finding herself in a new city and country 10 years ago, she started looking for opportunities to exhibit her work while learning to be braver and more confident in her abilities and skills. She shares her insights from the London art scene and gives great advice on how to increase your visibility through showing up consistently and reaching out to galleries and art organisations.

Join them as they chat about growth as an artist while creating a cohesive and recognisable body of work.

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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

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.
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