I’m very excited to share my interview with the talented and creative Heather Dawson. She is a Brooklyn based artist who turned her hobby of handcrafted fused, stained glass into her career! She details how she did it and how she runs her company. It was a joy to pull back the curtain on her creative process and her entrepreneurial journey. Heather shares that she was let go from her job, which ultimately turned out to be a blessing in disguise. It gave her that needed push to go all in with her...
Aug 23, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Rachel Clark is on the podcast! She was a recent contestant in HBO Max’s Full Bloom Season 2. It is so great to have her on the podcast. She is truly an inspiration. Her creative journey was largely undefined until as Rachel says “flowers found her”. In this episode, she tells her story of how she landed onto the HBO Max show Full Bloom and how she approaches creativity. It was a great honor to spend some time with her as she shares some amazing pearls of wisdom to all creatives and artists. She...
Jul 26, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Illustrator, Designer and Founder of Novel Swim based in New York City. She is a Jew-Dominican who had a dream to be in the fashion world with her own line. She was working in the corporate world, where she could have stayed and likely been promoted, comfortable and finically set. However, after the passing of her beloved grandma, she knew her life and her work needed to be lived at her fullest potential creating. She took the leap and quit her corporate job to pursue a life in fashion. Laura kn...
Jul 19, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Preparing Your Creative Mind Sydney Rahimtoola is a photographer, filmmaker, and performer, Rahimtoola aims to increase the visibility and accessibility of stories of black and brown communities. She is from Queens, New York and a graduate from the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague based in the Nederland’s. Her interview is simply inspiring. She talks about her creative process, the importance of discipline and moving out of love and not fear. She also shares her experience working with Psilocyb...
Jun 28, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 14
This week's episode is about the Creative Recovery. There is no guest this week just a reflection on my creative recovery. Here are some highlights below. Creative Recovery This is the BIGGEST block to your creativity! The answer is your ANXIETY For the past 10 years, I have been creativity blocked, though I did not know why. I found myself consuming massive amounts of content but not creating anything in return. I felt like a failure and just worthless. As hard as I tried, I kept startin...
Jun 21, 2021•10 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Today's episode we have writer Audrey Alunan who details her personal history of creating and battling creative blocks in her life. At 17 years old, she wrote for Seventeen Magazine on their Style Counsel for the fashion shows she was attending. Around that time, she was Tumblr famous from her personal essays and blog posts. After those amazing experiences were coming to an end, she entered into a depression and encounter a prolonged writers block. She talks about how she overcomes blocks in her...
Jun 14, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Dave Justice is the creator and CEO of the Kamilwok Clothing Brand based in Brooklyn, NY. His message to creatives is simple: never give up on your dreams and to keep being great and believe in yourself. His positivity message is what sets him a part from his competition. Though, it is more than a good line, Dave lives and breathes his message. As a young black business owner in Brooklyn, Dave is a self-made artist and he is inspiring others to do the same. He talks on creating as a way to free ...
Jun 08, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 11
How To Create In An Algorithm World On the pod is our friend Travis Atwell. This episode is a good one! You will find some pearls here for sure, I know I did. Travis is a musician who was born in the birthplace of country music Bristol Tennessee. He is a self identified “content creator” who lives and performs in NYC. He is here to talk with us about creativity, how to create in an algorithm and metric driven world and his main tips for all creators. Visit his website at http://www.travisatwell....
May 31, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 10
I am honored to have a friend and a designer Matt Varner on the pod this week. You have seen his design work for Warner Records, Harry Potter’s Wizarding World, SNL season 46 title intro and Snoop Dogg’s Pounds premier water pipes and smoking accessories. It was a joy to have Matt on the show. He dropped some great insight on what it means to be creative, the importance of forgiving yourself as a creative. why we should stop “shoulding” ourselves, and much more. Creativity can be an elusive conc...
May 24, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 9
I am honored to have a friend and an amazing Brooklyn based Photographer on the pod Tony Tripoli. In this episode, we talk about why we should stop “faking it till you make it”, knowing your worth, thinking beyond the world of social media whenever we start our creative work and much more. If you are starting out on your creative journey or have been doing this for decades, I truly believe you will learn something great here. Tony does a great job at distilling his life lesson’s so that we can a...
May 17, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 8
007 - How to make a Pizza Museum with Max Nelson I welcome you Max Nelson, the co-founder of the Pizza Museum and a fantastic guy. We talk through his favorite art--Music, how he was able to pull off making the Pizza Museum of NYC, which was NYC's craziest fads, and finally we talk about his positive outlook on life. You are going to love this episode, I know I did. ALSO BIG NEWS - We got a co-host - Casie Rubio (my wife). I have no idea why she agreed to do this with me but as you will come to ...
Apr 11, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Xindi Yan talks to me about her favorite art Narrative Art. I really enjoyed our conversation. It was very enlightening to learn about her process about how she creates. We talk about using positive psychology in overcoming our negative thoughts, her experience being Asian in America and believing in ourselves. You can see her art on http://xindiyanart.com/ - seriously GREAT STUFF. Please tune in next week as we have a BIG SURPRISE! You can reach us at nowthatsartpod@gmail.com and Like AND Subsc...
Mar 29, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 6
That's right, I am interviewing my mom for this next episode of Now That's Art. Obviously this is a personal episode, and I debated whether to post it or not. Though I ended up doing it because it has some great bits. I laughed and cried all throughout the episode and it is easily one of my favorite interviews. My mom opens up about how she chose a career in medicine and the battles she fought along the way. She also puts me on blast about some of my teenage years and the silly things I did as a...
Mar 01, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Episode 4 with my friend Dewey Miller. A filmmaker, movie whiz, a Florida Man, etc, etc. We talk about his favorite art--movies. How he got into it and where it is taking him. The conversation was a refreshing conversation talking about the struggles of creating art and why we should be always creating. You can follow him at IG @maddogdewdrop and his Youtube Series "Getting By" https://www.youtube.com/gettingbyseries Also, thank you for listening and the wonderful feedback thus far. Please subsc...
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Welcome! Today's interview is with the lovely Sara "Primary" Lieck. We had an awesome conversation about our colorful personalities, adversity and how we go through them and this weird southern tradition called cow tipping -- crazy. She is an entrepreneur, dancer and an all around hustler. She started her own entertainment company and talks through her time in NYC. Follow her on IG: @primaryone @entxprimary. Website: Entertainment X www.entxprimary.com, www.saraprimarylieck.com Thank you again f...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Christain Hill is a writer, actor who works on films. He also has a GIF, which is cool. We talk about the woes of High School, our failures in our lives and how we get through them (or don't). Also we touched base on an interesting prostate exam he had, which was very funny. You can follow him on Instagram @thechristainhill. Booking info please email me at nowthatsartpod@gmail.com. Please subscribe and tell a friend :) - Mike Ruby...
Jan 18, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to the first episode, thank you so much for tuning in. Our first guest is Mika Turbo Brooklyn-based Trans/Nonbinary Photographer and coffee buff whose works have been featured on Ru Paul's Drag Race and capturing the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riot which subsequently created the category of Drag in the US Library of Congress. They detail how that came to be. I had so much fun talking with Mika. They are multi-talented and truly loves what they do. You can follow them on instagram ...
Jan 18, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Welcome to Now That’s Art. Thank you so much for tuning in. It means the world to me. So what’s this all about? As long as I could remember, deep down, there has been something unsure of my place and purpose. An unknown longing for self-understanding. I didn’t realize, couldn’t really comprehend, all that I didn’t know. Being from a small town in Georgia then moving to NYC, I focused on protecting what I knew as sacred and didn’t want to go explore beyond that. I took a seemingly benign trip to ...
Dec 17, 2020•3 min•Season 1Ep. 1
