The (art)Scene Podcast

Today’s guest is Karen Vidángos, creator of the blog “A Latina in Museums” and her instagram project titled “Latinx Curated”. We discuss her background, her motivation for exploring underrepresented …

Today’s guest is artist, curator and cultural producer Lady PheOnix. We discuss her past career in food & beverage distribution and eventual transition to the art world; YESUNIVERSE, the global visua…

For today’s episode, Marcel Pardo Ariza returns to the podcast to discuss their inclusion in the YBCA’s Bay Area Now (BAN 8) exhibition; the Womxn* Art Handlers group they co-founded & the recent exh…

It is Oscars week and so my guest today is Omar Lopex, a local San Diego video artist and now filmmaker. Omar came onto the podcast to discuss his first feature length film titled “Ana, Who They Pull…

My first guest of 2019 is Christo Oropeza, owner and co-founder of Incline Gallery in San Francisco. A native San Franciscan, Christo discusses his early beginnings as an artist and his current role …

My guest for this special Thanksgiving week episode is Susie Kantor, Associate Curator of Visual Arts at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA).  In our conversation today you’ll hear us discuss …

Today’s guest is Soleil Summer, Exhibitions Associate at the Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD). We discuss her journey to the West Coast and into the art world including her time at the Betti Ono Gal…

After a long summer hiatus, I return with a brand new guest: Mark Sabb from the Museum of African Diaspora or MoAD for short. Aside from being the Director of Marketing & Communications at MoAD, Mark…

This week’s guest is Brock Brake, owner of Pt.2 Gallery in Oakland and director/curator at First Amendment Gallery in San Francisco. We discussed his skateboarding and photojournalism background, wha…

Today’s guest is Stephanie Rholfs, Bay Area artist and former co-director of City Limits Gallery. We talked about her East Coast background, what led her to the Bay Area and her art practice. We also…

Today my guest is Bay Area Artist Muzae Sesay who recently opened his first solo show at Part 2 Gallery in Oakland titled Domestic Dive. I hung out with Muzae in his studio to discuss the ideas behin…

On this week’s episode my guest is Bay Area Artist Lena Gustafson whose work ranges from prints & art books to paintings & murals. All of which utilize beautiful bright colors and the female form. Wi…

This week I had the pleasure to take the podcast on the road again, and this time, to my hometown of Oceanside, CA. While there, I visited the Oceanside Museum of Art to see one of the many art shows…

For this week’s podcast I visited New Mexico where I met with Steve Brisk, a soundscape artist and member of the Sante Fe art collective called Meow Wolf. We spoke about the type of art and music he …

My guest this week is Rio Yañez, an artist/curator born and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. I met up with Rio at his home in the East Bay where he shared about his time growing up in the …

These week I am joined by David Kasprzak, the other half of the Colpa Press team in San Francisco. I met up with David at the Colpa Press basement in the Mission district where we discussed his time …

After being on hiatus for a bit, I am back this week with a brand new guest: San Francisco-based artist, Marcel Pardo Ariza, whose recent show at R/SF Projects titled Slow Clap was featured in Photog…

This week the 2nd annual SF Art Book Fair opens at the Minnesota Street Project. To talk more about the fair I have invited one of its co-founders Luca Antonucci, back onto the podcast to discuss it …

This week I catch up with a former classmate of mine and fellow intern, Martin Strickland who now currently works at the YBCA (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) as an Exhibitions Associate, Registrati…

I’m joined today by David Lasley, a Bay Area based painter. I recently visited his studio in Oakland where we discussed his experience growing up in the Midwest and his time living and working as an …