Had Mick Doellinger on today. Wow. He has got an interesting life. At 18 months old his family experiences an extremely traumatic event when the ship that his parents are taking to emigrate from Germany to Australia sinks in the Indian Ocean. So that's where it starts, folks. It's clear to me when I listen to this man talk that he was always meant to be a sculptor. He had to find his calling by wading through the different trials and components of a life where staying afloat is the main priority...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 232
Some people are just meant to be artists. John Fawcett is one of those individuals. He has a great story and I had a wonderful time talking with him. You see, John was a veterinarian before becoming a full-time artist. He worked with small animals and big animals alike and loved horses since he was a kid, having bought his first horse at age ten. For a long while, John was committed to building a respected veterinary practice, but at his core, he was an artist. Finally, he got to the point where...
Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 231
I had Andrew Walker on today and he's the Executive Director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Andrew was kind enough to fly out to Tucson to do this in person at my studio and wow, it was really worth it for me and I think for him as well. Also, the podcast went for 2 whole hours so we're going to make this into a two-part podcast. The thing that's unique about this podcast is that we really got into what it means to be a museum. The things that you have to look out for in the future a...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 230
I had Andrew Walker on today and he's the Executive Director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Andrew was kind enough to fly out to Tucson to do this in person at my studio and wow, it was really worth it for me and I think for him as well. Also, the podcast went for 2 whole hours so we're going to make this into a two-part podcast. The thing that's unique about this podcast is that we really got into what it means to be a museum. The things that you have to look out for in the future a...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 229
Very interesting podcast today with an illustrator who's done illustration for 50+ years, Robert Rodriguez. He was dropping off a piece for our upcoming exhibition: Rodeo de Tucson (opening Feb. 3) and we figured why not record a podcast while he's here. Those that illustrate are such unique people. They really are. You know, they're driven. They have to be driven because they're on deadlines all the time. The individuals that I have worked with either in my gallery or just interviewed - they al...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 228
Wow, what a fun podcast I had today with Ezra Tucker. He's just a unique human being and a joy to get to talk to and to get to know. He spent most of his career in the illustration world doing all sorts of things, working for Hallmark for four years, going to Hollywood and working there for 20 years, and doing some amazing movie posters. You name it, he probably did it in L.A. in terms of advertising for big-time companies, whether it's Coca-Cola or Anheuser-Busch, Ezra worked across the entire ...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 227
Wow, what a fun podcast I had today with Ezra Tucker. He's just a unique human being and a joy to get to talk to and to get to know. He spent most of his career in the illustration world doing all sorts of things, working for Hallmark for four years, going to Hollywood and working there for 20 years, and doing some amazing movie posters. You name it, he probably did it in L.A. in terms of advertising for big-time companies, whether it's Coca-Cola or Anheuser-Busch, Ezra worked across the entire ...
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 226
I had such a fun podcast today with Maeve Eichelberger. I like to call her simply "Maeve" because it's just such an interesting, unique name and sometimes you have one of these iconic-sounding names where the entire thing can just be one-word. In my opinion, her name and her personality are equally interesting because she's so full of life and has an exciting presence. Maeve happens to be at an interesting point in her career. A point that is fun to watch as an art dealer. She's in her mid-thirt...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 225
I had Thomas Blackshear on today... What a fun podcast. He's such an animated, interesting human being who's had a unique story from day one. Thomas was meant to be an artist. He's done things as varied as doing plates for collectibles. He was also intimately involved in a series of black figurines - sculptures in the collectible world, the series being a number-one seller for like 20 years. Thomas has had to face difficulties as most of us do in life. Sometimes we have obstacles that are larger...
Dec 28, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 224
I had Thomas Blackshear on today... What a fun podcast. He's such an animated, interesting human being who's had a unique story from day one. Thomas was meant to be an artist. He's done things as varied as doing plates for collectibles. He was also intimately involved in a series of black figurines - sculptures in the collectible world, the series being a number-one seller for like 20 years. Thomas has had to face difficulties as most of us do in life. Sometimes we have obstacles that are larger...
Dec 21, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 223
Today was fun. I had Lisa Danielle on and we've been trying to arrange a podcast for about three years. One day and she's down here in Tucson and she came in and we just had a great talk. I've represented Lisa for almost 20 years or maybe even a little bit longer... but we've never had an in-depth conversation about her backstory. You see, that's one of the beautiful things about this podcast, is that through interviewing these individuals, I get a deeper sense of who the person is and why they ...
Dec 14, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 222
Today was fun. I had Lisa Danielle on and we've been trying to arrange a podcast for about three years. One day and she's down here in Tucson and she came in and we just had a great talk. I've represented Lisa for almost 20 years or maybe even a little bit longer... but we've never had an in-depth conversation about her backstory. You see, that's one of the beautiful things about this podcast, is that through interviewing these individuals, I get a deeper sense of who the person is and why they ...
Dec 07, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 221
So, the title of my podcast is Art Dealer Diaries, and I named it that because it's all about the people that come through my life coincidentally and also by design. Well, today happened to be one of those special coincidental days. An artist happened to come into the gallery to poke around the Maynard Dixon Museum and it was like, "Oh, I love your material." I'd never known her, never met her. I wasn't familiar with her work, but when I saw a portfolio of one Whitney Gardner, it just resonated ...
Nov 30, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 220
I had Norah Diedrich on today, and she is going to be our new executive director running the Tucson Museum of Art, which we're very excited about. She's an interesting lady who has followed a unique and interesting path, as so many guests on this podcast have. When she was first involved with art, she thought she would be a fine artist. At one point she was showing her photographs in galleries, but ultimately found the path she has been following for most of her life, which was through the museu...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 219
I had Kevin Chupik on the podcast today and wow, what an interesting guy. I love this podcast on so many levels because, you know, he's had this really tough road to get where he is and not just from a point of just trying to make it as an artist. It's always a hard road. But Kevin was a very active, athletic individual who was doing guided trips, you know, teaching biking and mountain biking and really spending lots of time in the back woods. Then he had a major accident and crushed his T-12, w...
Nov 16, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 218
I had Thomas Minckler on today and he is an art dealer, historian, book aficionado, photograph expert, you name it, he's probably an expert on it. He really is erudite in those fields, which is one of the reasons I've enjoyed spending time with him, though I haven't spent as much time with him over the last 30 years as I have recently. It's amazing what you can learn if you spend time with your colleagues. It's my main takeaway from doing this podcast. That it's important to spend time with the ...
Nov 09, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 217
I had Thomas Minckler on today and he is an art dealer, historian, book aficionado, photograph expert, you name it, he's probably an expert on it. He really is erudite in those fields, which is one of the reasons I've enjoyed spending time with him, though I haven't spent as much time with him over the last 30 years as I have recently. It's amazing what you can learn if you spend time with your colleagues. It's my main takeaway from doing this podcast. That it's important to spend time with the ...
Nov 02, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 216
I had Howard Post on the podcast today. We're talking about his new show "From Above" which opens on October 22nd here at Medicine Man Gallery in Tucson and It'll run through the first couple of weeks in November. Howard is just such an interesting guy. I love his work and his dedication to being an artist. I've represented him for 25 years and he has an amazing story. I mean he's a real rodeo guy. Howard was all-around rodeo champion in high school, he competed in college and even went on to co...
Oct 19, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 215
I had Peggy Judy on the podcast today and she was just delightful. I love this kind of story where you have someone who's an artist, they're born with that special knack for art, but because of the way things play out in life, they don't end up getting into the fine art world right away. In Peggy's case, she worked as an illustrator, sort of orbiting a world in which she'd eventually be a fixture. You see, Peggy got her BFA in illustration, but she put it on the side and worked with horses, rais...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 214
I had plein air painter Linda Tippetts on the podcast today. I actually met Linda at the C. M. Russell Museum when I was there giving a lecture on Maynard Dixon during their annual group show. There must have been close to 100 artists, if not more. It's a really fun experience and anybody who has not gone to that show should plan for next year. It’s typically in the third week of August, and when I went to visit the weather was beautiful and all the exhibits were amazing. I walked into Linda’s e...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 213
I had Lance Laber on the podcast today. He's the Executive Director for the Ted DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun and he's been working with the museum for 40 years, the last 20 as the Executive Director. The DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun has been around since the 1980s and is in the same general area as Medicine Man Gallery in Tucson's Catalina Foothills. Ted DeGrazia was a very well-known artist and at one time Ted would say that he was the best-known artist in the world because of cards UNICEF produc...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 212
Today's guest was Shiloh Thurman and he's the Museum Director of the Woolaroc Museum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Now, might have not heard of this museum, but it's always been a personal favorite of mine. The Woolaroc is a hidden gem of a museum up in northeastern Oklahoma, an hour out of Tulsa and I encourage you, if you're in that area, to go see it as it's not your run-of-the-mill educational institution. I don't say that in a bad way at all. It's not normal because it has herds of regional an...
Sep 21, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 211
I had artist Tom Gilleon on today, which was wonderful. He has such an interesting story. From being in the Navy to finding his way to Disney and becoming an important component in the Disney illustration world. He worked with Disney for many, many years and did some amazing work with Disney, eventually transitioning to digital illustration in 1998, selling his entire beadwork collection to get his hands on a high-powered computer. The quintessential Tom Gillleon painting is that of a tipi, but ...
Sep 14, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 210
I had Barbara Teller Ornelas on the podcast today. I've known Barbara for a very long time. She's a Diné weaver who's won Best of Show at Indian Market in Santa Fe twice which, as far as I know, has never happened with any other weaver. Barbara is an amazing individual, an artist that is completely dedicated to her art form. She does Two Great Hills tapestry weavings, typically 80 inches and greater. Her heritage is that of Edgewater Clan and The Waters Flow Together clan. We sat down and spoke ...
Sep 07, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 209
I had Roger Eiteljorg on the podcast today. I've known Roger for a very long time and this is a unique podcast because we spoke not only about Roger and his background but also about his father. You see, Roger's dad was Harrison Eiteljorg, an American philanthropist and businessman who founded the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis. It's an amazingly difficult thing to start a museum and actually have it function let alone succeed for an extended period of time. After 3 decades the Eiteljorg Museu...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 208
View the show Stephen Datz: AFTERIMAGES on medicinemangallery.com I had Stephen Datz on the podcast today. It was interesting because this is not the normal podcast where I talk about somebody's life as I've done that with Stephen before (Epi. 43 & 84). This podcast is about a show he had worked on for several years in the Grand Tetons. It was a prestigious plein-air show that he had helped start. Well, the show was canceled suddenly in 2019 and Stephen didn't get closure with this body of w...
Aug 17, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 207
Eveli Sabatie... this podcast is one of my favorites that I've done in the last 5 years. She's just a unique human being that has a story like no other so strap in and enjoy this one. It's a rollercoaster ride in a way. You're talking about this individual that was born in Algeria, grew up in Morocco, goes to Paris, has a moment where she knows she needs to come to America and she ends up in Hopi working with Charles Loloma. She lived at the Pueblo for 3 years and becomes this amazing silversmit...
Aug 10, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 206
I've known Leroy Garcia of Blue Rain Gallery for 30+ years and his trajectory and my trajectory are very similar. He opened his gallery in Taos and then moved to Santa Fe, having had another location in Scottsdale at one point as well. My gallery is in Tucson and was also in Santa Fe for a time. We share some of the same artists in our stable, as well as the way we do business. Leroy and I are both pro-artist, pro-Native American, and pro-Hispanic art. You see, Leroy is a mover and shaker in the...
Aug 03, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 205
Priya Gore. Wow, what a joyful person. I had so much fun with this podcast and I hope people that listen to it can hear the joy not only in her voice but in mine as well. If you are an artist and wondering: "how do I go about doing this? should I take that leap? Is it worth it? Can I do it?" Well, let me tell you. Priya did it. From growing up in India with 20+ cousins (essentially brothers and sisters) that are all doctors except for the one telecommunications engineer, progressing through that...
Jul 27, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 204
Every one of these podcasts I do is unique. I never know exactly what kind of flavor person I'm going pull from the box. In this particular case, I got chocolate (which is my favorite). You see, I've represented Carol Alleman for more than 15 years and I knew some of her background, but I didn't know the entire story. Not even close. Carol is somebody who struggled to become an artist. As a kid, she had to approach art and creativity through her life experiences, ultimately having an extended fa...
Jul 20, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 203
