MixedMedia Talks

Vicki Burns is a jazz vocalist and music teacher living and performing in New York City. She has been singing her whole life and made a decision to be a musician when she was 6 years old on a cold snowy afternoon in Maine. She is excited to release her third studio album, “Lotus Blossom Days” in April ‘22!
In episode eight, we talk loving our bandmates, Scat, the underbelly of New York's Jazz scene, loving and learning from Ella Fitzgerald, and beloved recording studio habits and ways of thinking about the music we make and the history and future of Jazz. Listen through for a chance to understand the tie between Peggy Lee and the muppets.
you can find her music at: www.vickiburnsjazz.com
IG: @vbjazzle and on FB, Vicki Burns
as well as CDBaby, Amazon, Soundcloud, Bandcamp and more.
CW: mention of sexual assault from 30:38 to 35:00

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Costello Darling identifies as a maker more than an artist and sees the ways things COULD be done. and questions the way 'Most People' do things is often unknown to him. They make things that he wants personally and that 'Most People' don't seem to know to want yet (because they don't exist) like a ukulele with the size and strings of a guitar. ** They make more traditional art around the given audience of a moment with the experience made as a reflection of that interaction. His focus is on performance art, and temporal art for the moment, about sharing experiences across many senses are some of the many ways he makes. Fashion: Man in layered skirts look/ DIY sleeves for listeners
Projects have included: * Food: DIY braised meat / DIY Mandala cake, * Burning Man Porta Pottie Beacons : Art FAIL, * Human Powered Trebuchet. * Burning Teeter Totter called The Hotter Totter, * Mask making before the CDC figured out airborne disease is spread through coughing,* Snow angel / Snow arm, *information tables in public spaces, and more.
In this episode, Costello and I explore expectations of what elements of daily life CAN be art, what role whimsy plays in making things, and tailoring art to the perceptions of the audience, the time, and place in which one finds it, why we do it, what's important when you're your own audience, and what is the art of the moment.
Costello Darling can be found on YouTube.com/CostelloReflections, and
Facebook/ social media platforms, and anywhere they happen to be.
Special thanks to Richard Mandel for intro music.
Intro Music, Irish Trad tune: The Micky Dam- guitar instrumental by Richard Mandel
of Three Mile Stone, and the Jammy Dodgers, https://thejammydodgers.com/Richard_Mandel.html with Permission for MixedMedia Talks

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In this episode my guest is lifelong New York Artist, Judy Wong and We talk about the essential human need to be creative, and how "Art is life and life is art" as well as growing up in NY as a child professional, bullying and identity, formal and informal arts education, escaping performance to find what we love about it when we choose to do it for ourselves.
We then wander through some nostalgia about how the performing arts fields have changed over time, finding why she does her art, many philosophical gems, the pearls of wisdom gained from arts communities with Vaudevillian colleagues, sleeping almost anywhere, formal arts training and the costs of being a child professional. and then what?!?!? Finding her way into parenting, and furniture design, woodworking, ceramics, photography, growing up in New York and the farms outside of Manhattan, and teaching kids using pathways found through many arts.
Judy Wong is an International Educator /Consultant /Life Coach and Speaker in the performing & visual arts, various education & business industries. She is an Energy Healer and a certified Silva Method practitioner. Judy is on a mission for those, like her, who are over 60, 70, 80 & 90 to Raise their Fountain of Life and Live Life for Living!
Her Career spans performing in Carnegie Hall as a toddler, through dance, acting, singing,puppeteering, and onward into life coaching with all that experience finding what the art is to living.
https://www.facebook.com/thejudywong
https://www.imdb.me/thejudywong
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thejudywong/
https://livingoutloudaintoveryet.com/home
https://eflmagazine.com/judy-wong-international-educator-life-coach-entrepreneur-and-much-more/
https://www.spunkyoldbroad.com/judy-wong-episode-124-part-1/ https://www.spunkyoldbroad.com/judy-wong-episode-124-part-2/
Intro Music, Irish Trad tune: The Micky Dam- guitar instrumental by Richard Mandel
of Three Mile Stone, and the Jammy Dodgers, https://thejammydodgers.com/Richard_Mandel.html with Permission for MixedMedia Talks

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Paul Mason Barnes is an accomplished theatre director specializing in Shakespeare (though he also directs musicals, classics, and new work). He is a teacher, and arts administrator (Artistic Director, Education Director, etc.). Most recently, he has also ventured into publishing with a memoir about his experience as a grassroots fundraiser for Pete Buttigieg's campaign for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination and a member of his Arts Policy Advisory Committee (and later, Joe and Kamala's APAC), "Paul for Pete: Politics. Theatre. Art. One Man's Adventures (or, How I Became a Septuagenarian Fanboy)" has just been released and is experiencing brisk sales and a third Printing. (Wahoo!) visit the website PaulForPete.com for updates on the audio book release.
In this episode we discuss, Rhythms of Shakespeare, What activism inspires art, and transforms despair into something powerful, the process of utilizing his experience as a freelance director, finding new ways to interpret favorite plays, surprises in finding himself with a seat at the political table re: art, and the role of arts in a hopeful future. Supporting independent bookstores, and lifting other artists up. We finish out the conversation with my favorite question: What muppet or combination of muppets would you be?
"I can say unequivocally and without hesitation that "The Muppets" is one of the best available antidotes for depression I know. Sometimes I feel like one of those two cranky guys in the box seats; other times, like Miss Piggy (we have a Miss Piggy Christmas tree ornament that has a special place on our hearth; comes out every year). I admire Kermit for his openness, sensitivity, and curiosity . . . beyond that, I'm hard pressed to comment.

Paul can be found at http://paulbarnesdirector.com/welcome.html
(and for the book: https://paulforpete.com/ - art mixed with politics)
to contact directly, go to paulmasonbarnes at gmail dot com
Intro Music, Irish Trad tune: The Micky Dam- guitar instrumental by Richard Mandel
of Three Mile Stone, and the Jammy Dodgers, https://thejammydodgers.com/Richard_Mandel.html with Permission for MixedMedia Talks

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LisaRuth Elliott is a visual artist using found material to create her paper collages. She is also a fiber artist, weaver, experimenter of plant dyes on textiles, and public muralist. Inspired by beauty in the textures and patterns around her and what has been cast aside, she transforms the banal into new and dynamic combinations showcasing human occupation. She is prompted by the stories and landscape of San Francisco, of Yelamu and its creatures, as she learns about and stewards unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land as an urban farmer and is deeply interested in the exploration and understanding of place. It infuses all of her work, from being a public historian to creating art.
In this episode we discuss what's unique in the landscapes that offer gifts of materials for creative composition, both found and grown. We also discuss seasonality and sustainability of native plant materials in landscapes, and the fact that tracking changes through time is a part of the process, listening to the materials, and having conversations through abstract/ non-representational art.
You can find and support her current and future offerings through her website:
www.lisaruthcreates.com
more up to date work on IG at @lisaruthcreates or @sfurbanwanderer.
Her collaborative poetry collage exhibition of the book
What unseen thing blows wishes across my surface? with San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck is on display at the San Francisco Public Library main branch, 6th floor:
until 16 February 2023. a collaborative poetry/collage project showcasing the daily work done during the pandemic. https://sfpl.org/exhibits/2022/11/05/what-unseen-thing-blows-wishes-across-my-surface#
andLisaRuth isthe Irish Consulate of San Francisco’s chosen artist to participate in a global project: “Common Threads” in celebration of St. Brigid’s Day 2023. As an Irish-American using materials endemic to this place where she lives, she contributes a small part of a larger cloak/quilt to be assembled from pieces coming from all over the world and to be exhibited in Dublin in February 2023. Her textile square is made of plant-dyed silk with cotton backing using California native plants as dyes. https://www.ireland.ie/en/st-brigids-day/common-threads/
Intro Music, Irish Trad tune: The Micky Dam- guitar instrumental by Richard Mandel
of the Jammy Dodgers, https://thejammydodgers.com/Richard_Mandel.html
with Permission for MixedMedia Talks
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