The Artist's Mindset

The Golden Girls in Isolation: Loneliness versus Being Alone ...

What if the the missing puzzle pieces of your life could be found among the artifacts of your past? We mine the cultural and personal importance of The Golden Girls, a television show which ran for seven seasons between 1985 and 1992, in search of its relevance and impact on the issues of aging, loneliness and isolation.

The Shining and the Virus of Fear and Isolation ...

The Shining is more than a horror tale about a man driven to violence by a haunted hotel. The Shining is also a story about how isolation, addiction, guilt and imagination can impair the human psyche. In this podcast we discuss all things King and Kubrick as we unravel the visual symbolism and hidden meanings within the book and film that have left indelible marks on our culture-- including  themes and buried narratives that continue to fascinate us with their uncanny ability to still be relevant after all this time.

Thin Places, Dead Muses and Conversations with Ghosts

Thin places are places where we find ourselves closer to our muses--where the space between heaven and earth has narrowed and we find ourselves connected across space and time to our past and future selves. In this podcast, we discover how to navigate thin places, resurrect dead muses and converse with the ghosts who seek to both haunt and delight us.

Redemption for Sharon Tate -- How Quentin Tarantino Reclaims Hope from the Era of Charles Manson and the Family.

Join us as we discuss how the Manson Murders has left a stain on both of our psyches and how Quentin Tarantino’s movie, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood shows us how artists use art and film to take the power back from the troubling narratives that haunt us and follow our lives through the decades.

Art History in Detail: A conversation about Bob Ross. His Life, Art, Teaching and Legacy.

Welcome to The Artist's Mindset. Hosted by Courtney Abruzzo and Steffan Piper ... Bob Ross has nothing to do with low cost garment chain stores across the American Retail Landscape, but he did dress for less. Our conversation centers on understanding the world and legacy of Bob Ross and what he left behind for all of us. Bob Ross was the ever-present, always televised art teacher brought to the general public by PBS in the 80s and 90s. His large following was not only heroic during his lifetime, but awe-inspiring and now. almost 25 years after his death, he's facing a resurgence in the modern framework thanks to Netflix and Youtube. School children across the globe have flocked to his shows as have curious adults.