Art Basel discussion with Toastoro

This week I’m talking to life long clown, Clown Kong. Clown Kong’s career in clowning started in the 1980’s when he attended Ringling Brothers Clown College. He then spent two years on the road with Ringling Brothers traveling 11 months out of the year. But his latest iteration of clowning, Clown Kong was created when he moved to NYC in 2002. It was great to talk with Clown Kong about his experience in the circus and how this type of clowning differs from what he does with Clown Kong. 

This week I’m talking to curator Rachael N. Clark from Queen of Hearts Global. We’re discussing her journey over the past five years leading up to her 5 year anniversary show “Got Heart” opening this Saturday Feb 10th at 115 Bowery 2nd Floor. 

This week I’m talking with my good friend Matt Marialke. After recently loosing my grandmother and dealing with a number of nurses during her final months I thought I would sit down with my friend Matt who has been a nurse for over 20 years. We’re taking about loss, healthcare, why he became a nurse and how he continues to love this profession after so many years.

This week I’m talking with street artist Fire Flower. I first started seeing Fire flower’s work on the streets of NYC in 2019.  Since then she’s been developing her character and style with her brightly colored, eye catching wheatpastes. It was nice to catch up with Fire Flower to discuss what started her street art journey and where she sees her work heading in the years to come. 

This week we're coming to you live from the Brooklyn Art Haus in NYC as part of the East Coast Sticker Movie premiere weekend.  I got to sit down with Agent 5 Smith, Chilly Willy, Tori Luecking, She Posse, Jim Tozzie, Chris RWK and discuss the movie, their journey to reach this point and what's next for the film.

This week I'm talking to Rheytchul Kimmel owner and operator of Lumiere Photo, a custom print shop, frame shop and gallery based in Rochester NY.

This week I'm Discussing the 2022 Film Daliland with my old Professor Maureen Brilla-Fitzparick.

This week Im talk with Tara Gaddy. After Her husband Paul retired they were trying to envision what the next phase of their lives would look like.  After growing up in NYC, living in California and Arizona and spending a number of years back in the TriState area they decided to try living in Europe. After a few months in Portugal they are back in the Tristate area. I wanted to catch up with Tara to hear about their time in Europe and if she sees it as the place to settle down.

This week I'm in Syracuse NY speaking with sculptor Weird Society. I was first introduced to Weird Society's work a year or two ago when I was tagged in one of his miniature street art scenes. So I headed out to Syracuse to talk to him about what got him started down this path and where he sees his work headed in the future.