Curious Kirby Podcast

Welcome back to the podcast! You are in for s treat - my interview with Jacki Cohen of Jacki Cohen Glass Art Designs was so fun and she is a great example of today's topic: using Instagram stories effectively!
For more on the 10 ways to use Instagram stories, see the blog article.
Mentioned in the interview with Jacki Cohen:

• Sonoran Arts League
• Hidden in the Hills
• Arizona Glass Alliance
• Arizona Arts Guild
• Artlink Phoenix
• American Craft Council
• Laurie Spray Glass Artist
• Lisa Vogt Glass Artist
• Melissa Frost Glass Artist (not mentioned but recommended by Jacki)
• Southwest Art Glass Supply
• Pacific Art Glass
• Artsy Shark
• Joan Garry Podcast
• Business of Design Podcast

Find Jacki:

• website
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Twitter

Welcome back to Curious Kirby! Rebranding break is over and I am charging ahead. This week I am talking about photo editing apps VSCO and Snapseed! See my blog article for examples and more links!

I also get a chance to talk to Marlene Sabatina of Feather Heart Studio. Marlene is a jeweler and in charge of the gift shop at the Gallery at el Pedregal. She is a wealth of knowledge and an amazing artist. Check out her website and her Instagram account!

Welcome back to the podcast! This week is a short one. I had planned to do a much longer episode about newsletters but that will be an in-depth project so instead, I discuss why artists need a website that they control and that they can update themselves, even if they don't consider themselves technically adept. Please check out my blog post on this subject!

Next I interview the amazing Kathy Nelson of imagesinglassaz.com. Find her on Instagram as well.

Links to items discussed in the podcast:

• Wix
• FASO
• Squarespace
• Marketing School Podcast
• Back to the Drawing Board Podcast
• Gil Reynolds Glass Artist
• Las Vegas Glass and Bead Expo

Thanks again and please subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or wherever you listen!

Today I discuss 10 strategies on how to get more Instagram followers and interview the indomitable Dennis Desprois.

Check out more details on Instagram followers in the accompanying blog post, and learn more about Dennis here and here.
Info mentioned in the interview with Dennis:

• Peter Max
• Dave Gordinier
• Arizona Arts Supply
• Jerry's Artarama
• Dick Blick
• Richard Claremont

We also discussed that I now have an art marketing business (CuriousKirby.com) and that I will soon have free documents that anyone can download to learn about tools and links. I do not have that completed just yet but if you would like to keep up to date so you can download it when it is ready, sign up for my mailing list, follow me on Instagram or just check back here. It will be ready very soon!

Contrary to popular opinion, there are some people out there that are actually working harder than ever before during this quarantined crisis. Of course the health care workers, teachers, grocery store employees, deliveries and post services, etc. But I know a lot of artists that are using this time to produce produce produce. Partly to build inventory but partly to also just give their emotions and creativity an outlet. They just can't help it.

I've also been busy. I've moved all my cyber seminars online, started webinars, am creating an artist resource (coming soon) and started a 3x a week art chat. And I'm interviewing people and producing this podcast.

Actually, this specific episode of the podcast was supposed to come out last week - but kept getting bumped in my to-do list by the next urgent task as well as the huge task that editing a podcast turns out to be.

So I fa-chunked it.

This podcast's interview is with the AMAZING Rafi and Klee. If you haven't heard of them, watched their videos, or listened to their podcast yet - you're welcome. Seriously, I love this duo. And they just released a video on fa-chunking (go watch it, I'll wait) which spoke to me and resulted in this post right now!

So, listen to the podcast and don't forget to join my art chat on Monday and Friday mornings 8Pacific/11Eastern and for Wednesday happy hour at 4Pacific/7Eastern. Morning chats have a topic while the happy hour is open to anything. To join, either message me on Instagram (@curiouskirby or @kirbyplessasart) or join my Curious Kirby Creatives Facebook group.

Enjoy the podcast.