Artist Spotlight with Chip Freund
Fun and engaging discussions with contemporary visual artists who answer five simple questions about their artistic journey, media, and inspirations. New episodes drop every other Tuesday.
The Artist Spotlight podcast is on indefinite hiatus effective July 18, 2023. I hope to be able to bring the show back at some point in the future. Thank you to our loyal listeners for your interest and support.
Episodes
49 episodes
Artist Spotlight: Peggy Van Arnam
Peggy Van Arnam has been making jewelry since she found herself with a skirt with which she had “nothing to wear.” During her career as a university administrator, she searched for unusual beads and stones as she traveled and made jewelry...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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14:00
Artist Spotlight: Theresa Raines
Theresa is an intuitive abstract artist, creating vibrant art for memorable spaces. She specializes in mixed media, using acrylics, spray paint, ink, adhesives, and paper. Her work refuses to be contained and often extends beyond the edges of t...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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22:50
Artist Spotlight: Sarah Cawn
Sarah Cawn’s mission is to design and create beautiful, unique, and functional glass objects.Initially using Tiffany stained glass techniques, Sarah has evolved into creating original fused glass works of art. Her innovative use of color, s...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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31:51
Artist Spotlight: Autumn Cobeland (Greenway Artist)
Autumn Cobeland is a painter, muralist, triathlete, and Raleigh native. She holds a degree in Fine Arts and studied art in Florence, Italy. Her prints and paintings can be seen in galleries, shops, and private collections both nationally and in...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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25:10
Artist Spotlight: Susan Hensel
Susan Hensel’s new innovative artwork, which blends commercial embroidery processes with sculptural concerns, is gaining attention and awards. Her knowledge of materials makes it possible for her to create small to large-scale hard-edge sculptu...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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35:48
Artist Spotlight: Diana Hrabosky
Diana Hrabosky is a self-taught artist who is most grateful to those gifted individuals who elected to share their knowledge and talents by writing books on colored pencil, acrylic, and abstract technique and related subjects. She was inspired ...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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33:55
Artist Spotlight: Kyle Wilson - Left Behind Photography
Kyle Wilson is a photographer from Selma NC. He is originally from southern Maryland where he became fascinated by Rural America. Kyle uses a technique called High Dynamic Range photography (HDR). It is an evolving form of art that...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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37:41
Artist Spotlight: Jim Hallenbeck
Growing up in Catskill, NY, Jim was constantly drawing. This led to being the art editor of his high school yearbook, majoring in Fine Arts at SUNY Plattsburgh, and obtaining a BS in Art Education from Florida International University of Miami ...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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25:38
Artist Spotlight: Maureen Scullin
Maureen’s story as an artist started with her dad who was a commercial and fine artist. At an early age her father discovered that he had a talent for art (it runs in the family). He decided to pursue art as his career even though his family fe...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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19:52
Artist Spotlight: Boots Quimby
Boots Quimby considers everything she has done in life a creative endeavor. From teaching high school and college to raising children and designing experiments during her doctoral work and as a cell biologist, Boots explored her creativit...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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28:34
Artist Spotlight: Ann Howe
Ann works in oil, encaustic (hot beeswax) and collage. Her work in oil focuses principally on landscapes, architecture, and still life. Growing up in rural Virginia she spent much of her free time outdoors and learned to know and love the natur...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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13:32
Artist Spotlight: Natacha Sochat
Natacha's practice uses experiences, seeing, touch, smell, for ideas she creates. This practice helps her be intuitive while constructing an object. Natasha creates in the space of her studio, but the memory of the actual experience and her psy...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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29:43
Artist Spotlight: Jean Cheely
Studio artist and instructor Jean Cheely has been working with fused glass techniques since 2001. She uses many approaches to transform “super cooled” liquid into art pieces. Jean is an award-winning artist who exhibits in juried glass competit...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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18:57
Artist Spotlight: David Blevins
David Blevins is a nature photographer, author, and ecologist. He combines a sense of wonder with an artistic eye to create images that tell stories about the meaning and significance of the natural world. He received a
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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34:39
Artist Spotlight: Jim Aul
Jim Aul is a pottery based in Vancouver WA. He draws inspiration for his functional pottery from his travels, the natural world, and music. Presently, Jim is a part-time craftsman with plans to devote more time to his craft once he retires.&nbs...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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25:22
Artist Spotlight: Dan Campbell
Although it can sound a bit trite when someone says they have a real passion for something, Dan really does have a burning desire to capture on a canvas the things in our lives that make us feel more ALIVE. Art has a way of making us slow...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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36:26
Artist Spotlight: Bayou Gray
Bayou Gray is intrigued by the human form. The slump of a shoulder, the refraction of light in an iris. The subtle shifts that tell a tale far more than words ever could. The breadth of Bayou's work tries to capture the intimate meaning of thos...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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15:53
Artist Spotlight: Jane Steelman
Born in Winston-Salem, NC, Jane D. Steelman worked toward a degree in Art at Appalachian State University. She studied under Bill Dunlap in drawing and painting as well as Clyde Owen in Ceramics. She is certified in art education for K-12 and t...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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25:03
Artist Spotlight: Diana Coidan
A Signature Member of Pastel Society of America, and Signature Member of Pastel Society of North Carolina, award-winning pastelist, Diana Coidan, has been an accomplished and experienced full-time professional artist for over thirty years...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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22:50
Artist Spotlight: J.J. Jiang
An oil and watercolor painter, art workshop instructor, architectural illustrator, life time ardent reader, and writer of the occasion when painting is not sufficient to express his feeling and thoughts...JJ’s childhood was spent i...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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26:28
Artist Spotlight: Angel Ingrietta
Angel Ingrietta is a self-taught artist from North Carolina. Her passion for art started many years ago as a very quiet little girl. Every piece starts out with an outline of a hat and the word Mama, which you may never see. Angel is inspired b...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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9:51
Artist Spotlight: Angela Tommaso Hellman
Understanding the “why” behind her work has been an important part of Angela’s creative process. Being sensitive in nature, she has learned to recognize how even subtle harmonies in color, shapes, visual textures etc. can affect herself and vie...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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16:02
Artist Spotlight: Teri Pohlmeier
Artist Teri Pohlmeier is a mostly self taught jewelry designer based out of Fuquay Varina, NC. She always loved pretty rocks and sparkly things, but it wasn’t until she was an adult that she discovered the world of jewelry making. She started o...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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18:39
Artist Spotlight: Jeannette (Jnet) Stevenson
When it comes to her art Jnet has always had the desire to create something of beauty made from her hands. Her love of clay focuses on two main properties: the contrasts of transforming a soft malleable material into a rock hard object that ret...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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22:34
Artist Spotlight: Lynne Miller Jones
The natural world is Lynne’s source of greatest inspiration. Beginning in early childhood, her family camped and hiked around the US, visiting all 50 states. She comes from several generations of scientists, serious gardeners and avid birders, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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26:57
