Pardon My Art - Unlocking the Business of Creativity
The Pardon My Art podcast is a show that focuses on creatives who are painters, sculptors, illustrators, comic book writers & artists, makers, fiction authors, screenwriters, poets, playwrights, filmmakers, crafters, photographers, animators, graphic artists, and more. The show highlights the "creativepreneuer" and those who have made their art their business.
Pardon My Art is for artists and creatives of all types who are looking to learn from other artists so they can stay focused and productive with their creative enterprises. Specifically, the show is made to help artists who are struggling with being entrepreneurial, or who are looking for ways to make their art their business, to find inspiration that will help them to take their creative work to the next level.
Pardon My Art is also for those who love art and want to learn about amazing things being produced by rock star artists in the Pardon My Art network.
Pardon My Art is hosted by Oskar Castro, a visual artist, poet, graphic artist, public speaker, and writer. The show is based in Philadelphia, PA, and is produced by Bohiti Fotuto Productions, LLC.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 35
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2024
Yujiro Seki - Carving the Divine - 015
Today’s guest is Yujiro Seki, a visionary director whose passion has shaped a mesmerizing feature-length documentary, 'Carving the Divine.'
In Carving the Divine,' we witness the preservation and ev…
Mantel Amey - Capturing the Beauty of Life in Color - 014
Today's guest is Mantel Amey, an experienced Visual Artist with a demonstrated history of working in the arts and crafts industry. Mantel and I have been social media friends for a number of years, a…
Alex Smith - Breaking Boundaries/Crushing Stereotypes - 013
Today’s guest is my friend and accomplice, Alex Smith. Alex is a speculative fiction writer, collage artist, vocalist, keyboardist, and lyricist in avant-garde punk bands Rainbow Crimes and Solarized…
Petrova - The Art of Space - 012
Today’s guest is Petrova, a self-taught artist born and raised in New York City with Puerto Rican roots, now based in Orlando, Florida. For the past three years, Petrova has dedicated herself to pain…
Julia Lopez - Boricua Brilliance: A Puerto Rican Artist's Journey Through the Arts - 011
Julia and I have been friends for a very long time. She’s like a big sister to me and aside from being an inspiration creatively, she was one of the Boricuas I met in my college years who helped me t…
Brooke Dean - The Art of Erotic Fiction - 010
Today’s guest is Brooke Dean. Brooke and I have been friends since the mid-90’s when I used to work for Inroads, Inc., an organization that supports talented youth of color in their goals of developi…
Yasmín Hernández - Art & Liberation - 009
Today’s guest is Yasmín Hernández, a Brooklyn-born and raised artist, based in el oeste de Borikén. Yasmin and I have a number of mutual friends and associates and watching her share her art and her …
Amy Havens - Make Art Not War -008
Amy and have known each other for over 30 year as we went to college together in South Jersey ages ago and, I think she may have been one of the first people to introduce me to the Grateful Dead. Lif…
Lynda Grace Black - Philly Fiber/Weaving & Knitting the Souls of the City - 007
Lynda and I are both Quakers and happen to be members of the same Quaker Meeting in Philadelphia. She was one of the first people I met after I joined the Quaker community and I’ve always known her a…
Kara Mshinda - Making an Art Career from the Ground Up - 006
Kara Mshinda (she, her, hers) is an abstract artist with roots in photography and collage art who contributes to current visual dialogues that shape diverse and changing meanings of otherness and art…
Anthony Carlos Molden - Waste Not/Want Not - LET’S MAKE ART - 005
Anthony is a self-taught mixed media painter and sculptor with a 20 plus year career in construction creation and restoration of decorative architecture. He has been drawing since the age of three an…
Roger Wing - Making Art with Natural Resources - 004
Born in Columbus, Ohio in 1968, from an early age travel and world cultures inspired his love of art prompting him to engage in the creation of art ultimately describing himself as an artist when he …
Bernard Collins - Renaissance Man - 003
Bernard is a proud South Philadelphia native who now resides in my hometown of Lawnside, NJ, a historic place in South Jersey connected to the Underground Railroad that became the only antebellum, Bl…
Misty Sol and the Art of the Black Family - 002
Today’s Guest is Misty Sol
Misty and I met over social media a couple of years ago when we were introduced by a mutual friend and fellow art aficionado. An interdisciplinary artist, Misty uses the gi…
Charles Edward Mason - Creator/Inventor/Artist - 001
An accomplished culinary artist, that’s not what we are going to talk about with our guest Charles Mason today. Charles is also an accomplished maker who is known publicly for his time spent on the r…