Craft Works Dialogue

Please join lighting designer Mark Figueredo and I as we sit down for an in depth conversation at the kitchen table at Cloud Tree. I met Mark, who moved to Austin a year or so back from New York, while putting on the Secret Lighting show last year. Listen in and learn about Marks interesting journey from master electrician to fine lighting guru.

This is the 4th in a special series of artists joining me for Ground Light Sound. Ryan is maybe my favorite potter of all time. And he's a good friend. And he really loves Louie. I am stoked to collaborate with him for GLS and we had a blast discussing his work and his life. Enjoy.

This is the third in a special series of interviews with my collaborating artists for the Ground Light Sound project. Though I will be collaborating with Adele on lighting for the project, she is a talented multi media artist with a robust drive to make and design. Listen in as we discuss her background growing up in Austin, her thoughts on quilting, her discovery of an ancient knife at a archeological dig as a kid & more!

Pull up a chair, open your ears and prepare your mind for a great conversation with one sweet human. In Ep. 29 of CWD I sit down with sound artist and percussionist Chris Cogburn. Chris also happens to be my grant writer as well as the organizer and master mind of the No Idea Festival which just had its 15th year in Austin this past February. Furthermore, Chris has played a major role in helping me conceive of and initiate the Ground Light Sound collaborative art project and is one of six artists involved in the project. Listen in as we discuss all these things and more! Find out more about No Idea Festival at http://noideafestival.com/ and also check out some recent work by Chris and a trio he plays with in Mexico City here: https://anahuac.bandcamp.com/

In Ep. 28 I sit down with drummer and sound artist Lisa Cameron. Lisa is one of six artists I am collaborating with for Ground Light Sound, a collaborative art project and opening funded in part by the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division. The opening will be September 28th at Cloud Tree on east 5th in Austin. Lisa Cameron played drums professionally with the band Brave Combo in Denton from 1977 until she moved to Austin in 1981. She went on to play with Roky Erickson, the Lotions, Glass Eye , Squat Thrust, Three Day Stubble, Daniel Johnston, Moist Fist, JSAS (Jherri Siggenfeld's Atrophied Sac), ST 37, and numerous others throughout the Eighties and Nineties. She has been working additionally with experimental music since the late 70's and its a real honor to be working with her.

This is a 3 minute long example excerpt of the podcast Craft Works Dialogue hosted by Brian David Johnson.

This is a talk I recorded with Leslie in her home town of Springville, Utah quite a ways back and thought I'd never get to post it so am super happy to do so. We discuss her back ground as an artist growing up in Utah and how she found her way to full time oil painting. Check out more of her work at http://lesliedukeart.com/. Enjoy, its a good one!

Listen in as I sit down with the sweet and mercurial Adam Young of Austin. This is a special edition of CWD as it is a companion interview to go along with The Secret Series, three large group art shows I am currently hosting at Cloud Tree in East Austin. Adam's piece "First Light" was one of the hits of the show and we sat down to discuss it along with his career and what a legendary Austin skater he is :). You can see some photos of his lamp piece First Light from the Secret Lighting show here: https://www.bdj.gallery/blog/2017/5/9/first-light You can see more about Adam's work here : http://oldcrowaustin.com/. To find out more about the Secret Series go here: https://www.bdj.gallery/blog/2017/5/7/the-secret-series. Thanks!

We are back! After an almost 8 month break CWD has returned with a talk recorded in 2015 with San Antonio musician Erik Sanden of the band Buttercup. Brian and Erik go back almost 22 years so listen in as they discuss Erik's growth as a musician, the band that Brian used to manage in the early 90's that Erik was a member of and mucho more!!! To find out more about Erik and his San Antonio art rock band go to @http://www.buttercult.com/content/home/.

In the 6th special edition interview for the Ground Light Sound collaborative project I sit down with the amazing Alejandra Almuelle. A native of Arequipa, Peru, Alejandra has been turning out some truly stunning figurative sculpture in recent years and it was a real honor to work with her. Enjoy our sweet convo from the kitchen table.