This week, the Art Pros dive deep into the world of art history’s favorite people: privileged white male artists. In today’s art world, the shift in access and power has just begun, and our previous kings of art are beginning to feel the effects of social justice. Artists are becoming Justin Bieber impersonators, and the sons of presidents are even making backdoor deals overseas for their performance art. Please join us for this special fireside chat, and bring your smore supplies because today ...
Dec 17, 2021•1 hr 17 min
When was the last time you put your hands in the air and waved them like you just don’t care? In this episode, this is exactly what the Art Pros did. Does art have to be so serious all the time? Does making smart art make you a better artist? We don’t always think so. So come have some fun with us, let your hair down and let's live a little. This week, Gage and Renz talk about how important it is to have fun when you make art. Gage comes out as a capitalist, Renz’s recording sounds horrible beca...
Sep 10, 2021•1 hr
It’s been a long summer interns. Here’s a new episode. This week the art pros end their hiatus(we have lives!) and talk about accessibility in the art world. The audience needs to be able to understand your work otherwise you aren’t going to get any money, we drop some thoughts on that. We also talk about: Cake art, Neil Degrasse Tyson Chicken Nuggets, the Mark Wahlberg question, Xbox Dos Equis, Dababy, and more. We swear all of it makes sense together and is on topic. Welcome back to the world’...
Sep 01, 2021•1 hr 3 min
This week is a little true crime, and a little art pros. It’s a sick, sick, world out there. Darkness lurks in every alley, and there is only one thing standing between good and evil... FORENSIC ARTISTS . Forensic Artists are artists who use their skills every day in true crime scenarios, to catch bad guys and give victims solace. This week the Art Pros Podcast about family annihilator James Emil List, Suspect sketches, skeleton identifying, Tom Brady smooches, and finally a reason to study art ...
Apr 10, 2021•48 min
Pssst hey, wanna make some money off the blockchain with your art? In this epic conclusion to the Art Professionals Podcast “nOn-FuNgIbLe ToKen” arc, the Renz and Gage offer some much needed clarity. In this episode we address the ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF CRYPTOCURRENCY, the publication costs i.e. ETHEREUM GAS FEES, and potential unique use-cases for the non-fungible token(feet pic algorithm anyone?) While NFTs could be your ticket to gravy-town (as demonstrated by the artist Beeple’s meteoric ri...
Mar 26, 2021•45 min
Are you a digital artist? Do you want to become a rich, and successful digital artist, and do you want it to happen FAST? If you do, then you’ve come to the right place because we’re here to tell you that it probably won’t happen. We’re sorry. We’re so sorry that we want to help, because we know that it’s possible and we’ll tell you how in this episode. If you want to have a chance at getting rich FAST with your digital art, you probably want to look into NFTs. It’s not too late, because someone...
Mar 05, 2021•56 min
Why don't people like Hitler's Art? Why don't people like Contemporary Art? What is the greatest latte art?!!! This week the Art Pros Podcast answer's ARTS GREATEST QUESTIONS. Using our solid, crowd-sourced, and big-league art questions, we have secured the common person's biggest questions. Questions that museums are scared to answer, questions that curators cower in fear to acknowledge, questions that weaker painters refuse to address... The Art Pros aren't scared to put everything on the line...
Feb 16, 2021•51 min
January was a tough month, take a break and relax with the art pros, you’ve earned it. This week the Art Pros Podcast about the world’s most expensive art piece IN THE WORLD, created by none other than the illustrious artist: Natural Light . The art pros also address the biggest labor crises in the world, the automation of the art studio . Where are we going to find unpaid internships at now?! We at the art pros have a duty to inform our listeners on the goings-on of the art world so that when y...
Feb 01, 2021•54 min
Watch your fingers because this episode is HOT. The Art Pros are MAD in this episode. We’re MAD because of all the fake organizations that treat equitable practice like it's a fad. We’re mad because we feel like some organizations' hiring practices feel like big virtue signaling energy. The Art Pros are all for justice, but when so many people who used to not care about inclusivity start to suddenly care, things get a little weird. We're here to set the record straight as great Allies to our BIP...
Dec 10, 2020•1 hr
This week the art pros podcast about grant writing, and other ways to get paid. How come Grimes was able to get her record label; CRYSTAL MATH RECORDS, INC, a sweet grant of $90k from the Canadian Government? Believe it or not the Art pros have some experience writing grants that actually get artist projects PAID for, and in this episode we give our most common sense tips that may seem like DOY OF COURSE WHY DIDNT I THINK OF THAT, but you didn’t think of it and we did. We’re trying to get you FU...
Nov 24, 2020•52 min
Did you know Ivanka Trump was an art collector??? us neither. This week the Art Professionals Podcast about Bulletproof-Brunch-Pods, Ivanka Trump's return to the New York Art Scene, the no malarkey oligarchy etc... lives saved by ART and where the Baltimore Museum of Art's Deaccession Scandal lies now. (What is the Deaccession Scandal? See our previous episode to find out what exactly is the cost of "an endowment for the future") Additionally check out Baltimore Based Musician STOOPBABYMO's new ...
Nov 13, 2020•56 min
Do you think it’s ok for museums to sell artwork donated to them for public preservation in order to enact their own mission? Do you trust museums that profited off of marginalization in the past to be the leading voices of equity and inclusion? The Baltimore Museum of Art aka the BMA is auctioning off some art works. We get it, times are tough and they want money… The thing is when you DEACCESSION art from a tax-exempt museum (move it from public access into the hands of a private collector) et...
Oct 23, 2020•47 min
This week the Art Pros podcast about the art of magicians, the ultimate performance artists. Mastering such concepts as sleight of hand, and straight up LYING TO YOUR FACE, magicians carry all the traits desired in an excellent artist//criminal. If you want to learn how to be a better artist, consider studying stage magic. At the intersection of art, craft, mysticism, and performance lies the stage magician. These mind-boggling stunts-men prove that art is a competition, and they may just have t...
Oct 20, 2020•10 min
This week the Art Pros podcast about hustle culture, Positive Vibes, and Big Body Whippin with the musician Mxhxrajah, aka Sid. Sid is a 19 year old educator, marketer, and “brown boy” rapper from upstate New York. He put us onto his new EP Polaroid Prince(available on Spotify). Throughout the episode we talk fashion, Young Thug, Timothy Chamelet, music, educating the youth, his wave, why TikTok is trash(for marketing experts), and most importantly, SELF-LOVE. Sid has one of the most positive vi...
Oct 09, 2020•54 min
Who needs graduate school or an MFA when you have THE ART PROS PODCAST. For a fraction of the price we can sit around and give any artist of any medium an highly reasoned opinion noone wanted or needed. In this weeks episode The Art Pros demonstrate what a REAL art CRITIQUE from a REAL ART PROFESSIONAL looks like. Aside from absolutely roasting the heady, esoteric, and EXTREMELY BASED 43 page textbook that is Santi’s work The gang figures out the role of art in SOCIETY, Which artist is most like...
Oct 06, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Psst hey can you do us a favor? Can you listen to this episode real quick? Here’s a description. It’s great we promise. Its a Bird! Its a Blaine! Wait Its the Art Pros Podcast. This week the Art Pros Podcast about David Blaine’s Ascension, Flying Cars, Volcano Sharks, and Jessica Krug[ :( ]. Each day we stray further from god’s light, it is extremely clear to us at the Art Pros that man struggles with its own ego, what right do we have trying to make cars fly when the automobile is the most dead...
Sep 16, 2020•48 min
This is an episode we put out for patreon a while back, and we’ve decided to release the full episode, FOR YOU!!!!(new episode coming out soon) This week the Art Pros podcast and demonstrate their PEAK masculinity. What does it REALLY mean to be a MAN. How do you calculate manliness IQ? How does a MAN take advantage of his male privilege? And is a man expendable? Find out in this week's episode where we take an irreverent and self-reflective look at our own masculinity. How very boyish to talk a...
Sep 15, 2020•1 hr 3 min
This week the Art Pros Podcast about the impending algorithm crisis, Epic vs the App Store, Paris Hilton Paintings, and our Mongolian Horde. UK students' futures are in the hands of the treacherous Ofqual automatic grading protocol, how far can an equation go? In true David and Goliath fashion, Fortnite challenges Tim Apple, the CEO of IPHONES. The Art Pros explore the pop art work of Paris Hilton (kinky sticker-play FOR CHARITY) and the Art Pros pitch the most advance performance art work in th...
Aug 20, 2020•1 hr 11 min
This week the Art Pros Podcast with true visionary, return guest, and artistic tour de force: Benjamin L.M. If you listen to the Art Pros Podcast you WILL learn what it means to be a great artist. It probably has something to do with love, perseverance, and luck. Money helps, and being a little edgy can be a blessing and a curse or something. Our Australian friend offers his insights on Australian Rules football(the world’s most creative sport???), EAST COAST VS WEST COAST, and his new Virtual A...
Aug 04, 2020•1 hr 4 min
We ARE BACK. This week the Art Pros Podcast about their new lives, Gage is in a new studio and Renz is a NEW FATHER...or Dog Daddy. The Art Pros spend some time discussing CHAZ/CHOP...the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. The hope of the free world...or is it?
Jul 14, 2020•50 min
Whats Up everyone, It is the producers of the Art Pros Podcast. Today we have a special treat and little change of pace for y'all. If you're here for cutting edge Art Techniques and Professional Development this may not be the episode for you, but if you LOVE the VERY SINCERE Creative Process, this is the episode for you! We have decided to make public our VERY REAL Netflix Pitch for a new anime: Cyber Vote Patriotista . Take a step into the very PROFESSIONAL writer's room, as Gage and Renz fles...
May 26, 2020•18 min
Imagine being a humble boomer, excited about your new ability to use Zoom™ that took you a mere 6 meetings to figure out. You no longer need the help of the pompous younger generations and it is empowering. You have mastered Zoom™, the premiere online platform for video conferencing that has taken internet headlines by storm. Your significant other can now turn to you for help when they desperately wonder why “they cant hear/see me,“ because you’ve courageously found the settings and studied the...
May 19, 2020•46 min
This week the Art Pros attempt to tackle the U.S. ECONOMY. The world is in Shambles, the STONKS ARE GOING DOWN. The Art Pros Podcast about "wtf is an Negative Interest Rates" and how does that affect poor people? We find that for us small-brained artists, how an "economy" works is lost on us. Do we trust the Billionaire Warren Buffet or do we trust Donald Trump? We don't understand much beyond student loans so we have to look to leaders like Keaunu Reeves to form our opinions. When the common po...
May 14, 2020•41 min
This week's episode is a bit of a change of pace and a real treat for people who are thinking about pursuing art, but haven't taken the plunge. Benjamin L.M. is an Australian artist, and this episode's guest. He loves the classics ,most people who have studied art in school have thought about, Cezanne, Gauguin, Picasso, and Van Gogh among others. The thing that makes him so exciting is that he didn't study art, he grabbed art-making by the horns after seeing a traveling show and discovering that...
Apr 30, 2020•1 hr 9 min
In this week’s episode, Gage and Renz peruse the wild world of art headlines commonly found via google. Does News about Art Suck? Who is Andy Warhol and why is he on the front page of ArtNEWS.com ????? Have you ever heard of Animal Crossing, an absolutely adorable video game about building community, making friends, and paying off loans? Did the Getty Museum really just acknowledge this video game for CLOUT or are we just trippin? Tune in this week to the Art Pros Podcast. NEWS ART NEWS FOR REAL...
Apr 28, 2020•40 min
This week the Art Pros give some Art Hacks, some Tips and Tricks on how to really level up your work, and how to become a better artist. We talk a little bit about “Point-of-View” and how to harness the power of it. What is the point of view? What different ways can we use it to get MAXIMUM GAINZ in our work? How many different ways can you talk about a banana? Using Edward Hopper, Kara Walker, Anish Kapoor, and Jeff Koons as some of our examples we invite you to take a dive, interns, into gaini...
Apr 21, 2020•29 min
This week the Art Pros Podcast with Bailey Race AKA @raileybaceprints. Bailey is our resident professional illustrator friend, and bonafide paid artist in the music industry. He is our first return guest and in today's episode, recorded among the moonlit twilight, the Art Pros set the groundwork for their own apocalyptic young adult fiction complete with knife combat. Bailey schools us, naive illustrators, with his tips and tricks for Professional Development post-covid-19. We try to escape our ...
Apr 17, 2020•1 hr 9 min
The Art Pros Podcast is Live with Hannah and Jeff of The Fountain Institute. Master educators, expert designers, and contemporary meme crafters, the Fountain Institute brings to the table a wealth of knowledge. If you notice something buggy with the episode, it may be because we podded with our first INTERNATIONAL GUESTS. Hannah joined all the way from Germany, while Jeff, stuck in Texas (pretty much a different nation), hopped on the mic as well. Somehow, Gage and Renz were able to trick them i...
Apr 09, 2020•1 hr 39 min
This week, the Art Pros talk about the CARE act and how you may actually qualify for unemployment benefits. Things get out of control quickly as Renz starts to lose his noodles due to an apparent quarantine overdose. Gage does his best to help his dear co-host recover but the adverse effects of quarantine have gotten the best of him as well. In an incredible turn of events, Gage snaps back to reality and finishes the pod off strong, delivering the content we artists need to get paid or die tryin...
Apr 02, 2020•1 hr 8 min
This week, the Art Pros have discovered how to podcast remotely since we are both believers of the Stay at Home movement. Our priority will always be to promote the safety and well being of you, your fam, your partna’ and your squad. With that said, we decided to focus this week’s topic on how Covid-19 is affecting all of us, especially the art world because sometimes you just need to get it out of your system. With our technological savvy put to the test, the Art Pros pushed forth with gripping...
Mar 25, 2020•1 hr 3 min
