Deep Conversations Podcast

An Incredibly Deep Conversation With Comedian Zach Amon

A Deeply Meaningful And Uplifting Conversation With Anthony Crawford, Jr.

A Deep Conversation With Artist Karina Cunningham

To learn more about Karina and her work, visit INSTAGRAM / ​ karina_whitney Karina Cunningham is an emerging black artist residing in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her art focuses on deconstructing and reconstructing traumatic events from her realities and surroundings through toys, balloons and surrealist landscapes. Many of Karina’s works touch deeply on topics that have sculpted her reality as a black queer person such as rape, assault, political violence, abuse, depression, anxiety, racism and adulthood....

An Evening With David Boynton In His Studio

To learn more about David and his work, visit ttps://www.dabakhstudios.com

A Deep Conversation With Original Flow, A Wordsmith With A Message

Jeff sits down with hip hop artist, poet and producer Original Flow for an incredibly enlightening conversation about his craft, how he got started, and how he has evolved as an artist and human being and some very formative lessons learned along the way. He shares some very compelling information about what makes him and his particular craft very fresh and unique. To learn more about him and to hear his spoken word and music, visit https://www.theflowmentality.com...

A Deep Conversation With Comedian Sondra Slade

To learn more about Sondra and her comedy, visit https://www.facebook.com/sondraslade https://www.instagram.com/sondraslade https://twitter.com/sondraslade https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGegBHzFL0HFkAuzw2S2cfg

A Deep Conversation With Jaime Mathews

To learn more about Jaime and her book, Sunroofs and Shoeboxes, visit https://thesweetlife.co https://www.instagram.com/jaimeleemathews Jaime L. Mathews is the author of Sunroofs and Shoeboxes, a collection of the little nuggets of wisdom she has found in the little things of everyday life. Educated as a journalist and a holistic health educator, Jaime has had an eclectic career path that gave her the tool kit to become a mother. The journey of writing Sunroofs and Shoeboxes prepared Jaime for m...

A Deep Conversation With David Goad About Kali Ra, His Current Musical Project And His Life Journey

Jeff sits down with David Goad to hear some very deep thoughts about how Kali Ra came into being, about his life journey and formative experiences, some very deep reflections about the music that resonates most deeply with him, and about his process of composition and songwriting.

A Very Moving And Inspirational Life Story Shared By "Trail Blazer," Historian, Author, And Community Leader Anita Arnold

Jeff sits down with "trail blazer," historian, author, community leader, and lovely human being Anita Arnold to hear about her very uplifting and inspirational life journey as she has truly led a very full life filled with making great strides and really making a difference in the lives of so many people all over the United States.

A Deep Conversation With Lara Sabanosh

To learn more about Lara and her new book, Caged , visit https://www.larasabanosh.com Lara Sabanosh, the author of Caged , has dedicated her life to helping others. Beginning in her youth as a volunteer and continuing through her career, she has made it a priority to aid individuals in finding and meeting their emotional, educational, or professional goals. From counseling children and families to facilitating civilian and military members in social and educational leadership—as Director for Fle...

A Deep Conversation With Artist Eleanor Kipping

Eleanor (she/her) is a New York-based artist, educator, and arts administrator. Her interdisciplinary practice explores the experience of the Black Diasporic female body in the united states of amerikkka through the examination and deconstruction of historical and contemporary narratives. She is interested in the public, private, and civic negotiations of race, gender, and class in addition to the effect and practice of violence, and surveillance on the body. This hybrid work exists as performan...

A Visit With Warren Ross, President & Chairman Of Ross Group At Their Headquarters In Downtown Tulsa

Jeff sits down with Warren Ross, President & Chairman of Ross Group at their downtown Tulsa headquarters to hear his reflections about the importance of their connection to downtown and to the city as a whole and about what the company's mission and vision mean to him at a deeper level. He also shares about his life journey and career and how he got started in the construction business and about some very formative lessons that he has learned along the way....

A Deep Conversation With Artist Irie Blues

About Irie Blues: Photography is the portal to how my brain communicates life visually. Ever since mental health became an important element in my life, I have asked myself "How can I live a better life and remain at peace with the blues?" Presenting color psychology, light and harmony through the world of photography are my creative practices. By blending a multitude of elements to produce many forms of harmony are my experiments for socially conscious connections. I have been able to not only ...

A Deep Conversation With Artist And Creative Changemaker Nicole Poole

Jeff sits down with Nicole Poole as she shares very deeply about her life journey, about her work in the community that is making love cool again in Oklahoma City through SPARK! and her pandemic street art, about her evolution as a human being, an artist, and as a creative changemaker. To learn more about Nicole and her projects, visit https://www.nicolepoole.com To learn about SPARK! visit https://www.sparklahoma.com ABOUT NICOLE I am a broker of delightful disruption hell-bent on making love c...

A Deep Conversation With Artist Daniel Sutliff

Jeff sits down with artist Daniel Sutliff as he shares deeply about his process, his perspective, and about his evolution as an artist and as a human being. To learn more about Daniel and his work, visit www.danielsutliff.com www.instagram.com/daniel_sutliff www.facebook.com/daniel.sutliff.9 Music: danielsutliff.bandcamp.com To learn about Daniel's current exhibit at Liggett Studio that is up through October 30th, Byte Sized Mind, visit https://www.liggettstudio.com/current-exhibits GALLERY HOUR...

A Deep Conversation With Carlos Moreno About The Victory Of Greenwood

Jeff sits down with Carlos Moreno, the author of The Victory of Greenwood, to hear about his life journey since he moved to Tulsa years ago and about his work in the Greenwood community. He speaks very compellingly about what the process of researching, connecting with all of the people in Greenwood, and writing this book means to him at a deeper level. Carlos reflects deeply about the impact of this work and the book has had in the Tulsa area and beyond.

A Deep Conversation With Artist Ame Hernandez

Jeff sits down with Ame Hernandez as she shares about her artistic perspective, her process, her influences and evolution, and about what it all means to her at a deeper level. To learn more about Ame and her work, visit https://www.amegalerie.com Instagram @artbyameh

A Deep Conversation With Meg Sutherland About The Victory of Greenwood Project

Jeff sits down with Meg Sutherland as she shares deeply about her inner journey through the process of creation of The Victory of Greenwood project and what it all means to her personally. She also speaks very compellingly about her own evolution through this process. To learn more about The Victory of Greenwood project and the book, visit https://thevictoryofgreenwood.com Meg Sutherland is a communications and marketing professional with over 15 years of experience. Much of her focus has been o...

A Deep Conversation With Carissa Pankey

A Deep Conversation With Jenny and Adam Brand, Co-Founders Of Theatre Crude Fringe Festival In OKC

Jeff sits down with Jenny and Adam Brand as they share deeply about their experiences in facilitating this Festival since 2019, about how they have evolved, and about how this artform has impacted both performers and audience members. This year's Theatre Crude Fringe Festival opens on Friday, October 1st and runs through October 10th with both in-person performances at Factory Obscura as well as virtual performances. For more information, visit their website at https://www.theatrecrude.org Faceb...

A Deep Conversation With Artist Rhiana Deck In Uptown OKC

Rhiana Deck is of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She works primarily with acrylic paint, aerosols, and occasional beadwork for family and friends. Her work has been displayed and exhibited in Oklahoma, Colorado, and Georgia. Since the age of four, she has used her art as her creative outlet. It is a part of who she is. Deck paints in her own unique style, purposely evoking emotions, arousing curiosity, inspiring ambition, and stimulating the imagination. Her style changes and grows with her. Sh...

A Deep Conversation With David Boynton About His Artistic Perspective And His Work In The Oh, Tulsa Exhibit At Living Arts Of Tulsa

Jeff sits down with David Boynton as he shares deeply about his life journey and how his experiences and evolution informs his artistic perspective and his process. To learn more about David and his work, visit https://www.dabakhstudios.com Artist Statement Custom wood and resin artwork and fine art paintings created right here in the USA by a retired Air Force 21-year veteran. My work is inspired by my career in the USAF, the aviation industry and as a master diver doing deep sea SCUBA diving. ...

A Deep Conversation With Brittany White About Her Artwork In The Oh, Tulsa Exhibit At Living Arts

Jeff sits down with Brittany White as she shares deeply about her artistic perspective, about how she got started taking photographs and film, and about her work that will be in the upcoming Oh, Tulsa exhibit at Living Arts of Tulsa. To learn more about Brittany and her work, visit Website: www.brittanykelleywhite.com Instagram handle: @brittanykelleywhite Brittany is a photographer currently based in the Tulsa area. Her work is a means of self-expression and illustrates a combination of documen...

A Deep Reflection With Maggie Boyett And Marwin Begaye About Body Acknowledgement: The Body As Land

Watch on youtube- https://youtu.be/2CeFHULhGow Jeff sits down with Maggie Boyett And Marwin Begaye as they reflect very deeply about their experiences in co-creating over the past 5 years and about what this project means to them a few weeks after the opening of their collaboration for OVAC Art 365 at Living Arts of Tulsa, Body Acknowledgement: The Body as Land Through their collaboration Body Acknowledgment: The Body as Land, printmaker Marwin Begaye and performer Maggie Boyett investigate thei...

A Deep Conversation With Evan Jarvicks And Elecktra Stanislava From Make Oklahoma Weirder

A Deep Conversation With CJ Ward

WATCH ON YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/yobsdN3UNf8 Jeff sits down with CJ Ward to hear him share some very compelling reflections about the power of conversations in bringing about healing between people and between communities. He also speaks about his experiences in contributing work to the The Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Project at Living Arts and what it has been like for him to move to Tulsa and becoming a part of the community. From CJ- "There is therapy in expression, and freedom in self-ex...

A Deep Conversation With Christina Henley, Co-Curator of The Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Project Exhibit At Living Arts

WATCH ON YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/h3DUsU27AxM Jeff sits down with Christina Henley, co-curator of the The Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Exhibit at Living Arts to hear about what this experience has meant to her at a deeper level, about her perspective on the impact of this exhibit on people who have interacted with it, and her thoughts on how this has been a "mind altering" experience for her and for many others. Artist Statement- Creating is a sensory experience for me in process and execution...

A Deep Conversation With Artist Kelsey Irvin

WATCH ON YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/nLuCmF2oA5w Jeff sits down with artist Kelsey Irvin to hear about her artistic perspective, her career, how she got started, and about how she and her work have evolved over the years. To learn more about Kelsey and her work, visit www.kelseyirvin.com www.instagram.com/kelsey.irvin https://vimeo.com/258729079 https://vimeo.com/187060686 Driven to bring new life to objects that may otherwise have been lost in time, Kelsey Irvin finds herself collecting traces of ...

A Deep Conversation With Artist Adam Carnes

WATCH ON YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/Vn8o8B75fpg Jeff sits down with artist Adam Carnes as he shares very deeply about what informs his work, about how moving to Tulsa and working here has changed his Consciousness, and about his work that is in the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Project exhibit at Living Arts of Tulsa. Adam Carnes (b. 1981), is a Tulsa transplant via Brooklyn. He received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art and BFA from the Ringling College of Art and Design. To learn more ab...

A Visit With Patrick McNicholas

WATCH ON YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/4Z5gcfO9NHw Jeff sits down with Patrick McNicholas to hear him share about all of his artistic work over the years, about how he got started, and more specific information about Time-Travel Tulsa. Patrick McNicholas is the artist behind Time-Travel Tulsa. His time-bending artwork has been featured in various museums and exhibitions since the creation in 2018. Nearing the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, McNicholas began a powerful series memorializing the ...