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    Beyond the Studio - A Podcast for Artists

    Beyond the Studio is a podcast about the business of being an artist, brought to you by hosts Amanda Adams and Nicole Mueller.
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    Episodes (134)

    Beyond the Studio is Back!

    Beyond the Studio is Back!

    Hear more from Amanda and Nicole on what they’ve been up to since taking a break from the podcast last year, how each of their careers have grown, stepping into new disciplines while achieving better work/life balance, and what’s ahead for Beyond the Studio this year.

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    Amanda and Nicole talk Boundaries, Burnout, and Shifting Expectations

    Amanda and Nicole talk Boundaries, Burnout, and Shifting Expectations

    Hear more from Amanda and Nicole on Beyond the Studio’s “summer break,” resisting the urge to self-sacrifice for their creative work, the real effects of burnout on artists, prioritizing care over hustle, how to be flexible with yourself and your goals, and keeping long-term sustainability in mind when it comes to building a creative life.

     
    Astropad Studio — Podcast sponsor, the ultimate iPad app for artists that turns your iPad into a drawing tablet for your Mac or PC. Start your 30-day free trial of Astropad Studio today via THIS LINK just for Beyond the Studio listeners! Plus, save 10% on your first year when you enter the promo code BEYOND at checkout.
     
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    Taili Wu talks Personal Projects, Collaborating with Others, and Choosing Work That Makes You Happy

    Taili Wu talks Personal Projects, Collaborating with Others, and Choosing Work That Makes You Happy

    Hear more from Taili Wu on discovering stop-motion animation, building her portfolio through personal projects, allowing work to come to her by focusing on the work that brings her happiness, collaborating with other independent animators, and the importance of open communication.

     
    Astropad Studio — Podcast sponsor, the ultimate iPad app for artists that turns your iPad into a drawing tablet for your Mac or PC. Start your 30-day free trial of Astropad Studio today via THIS LINK just for Beyond the Studio listeners! Plus, save 10% on your first year when you enter the promo code BEYOND at checkout.
     
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    Intro and Ad Music by: Suahn

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    Jen Hewett talks Pivoting Your Business, Staying Small and Sustainable, and Setting Boundaries

    Jen Hewett talks Pivoting Your Business, Staying Small and Sustainable, and Setting Boundaries

    Hear more from Jen Hewett on aligning her business with her personal values, the willingness to pivot and make big career changes, resisting the hustle mindset and prioritizing care, slow and consistent growth over time as the key to her success, and navigating the worlds of licensing and book publishing.

     
    Astropad Studio — Podcast sponsor, the ultimate iPad app for artists that turns your iPad into a drawing tablet for your Mac or PC. Start your 30-day free trial of Astropad Studio today via THIS LINK just for Beyond the Studio listeners! Plus, save 10% on your first year when you enter the promo code BEYOND at checkout.
     
    *Please note: Promo code is only valid at astropad.com (not on the App Store)
     
     

    Intro and Ad Music by: Suahn

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    Ash Keating talks Being Resourceful, Making Massive Work, and Creating Art for Public Spaces

    Ash Keating talks Being Resourceful, Making Massive Work, and Creating Art for Public Spaces
    Hear more from Ash Keating on making massive, environmentally scaled paintings, being resourceful early on in his career, using storytelling to gain community support while working with limited resources, leveraging small opportunities and budgets to create larger ones, and balancing personal and commercial projects when working in public spaces.
     
     
    Astropad Studio — Podcast sponsor, the ultimate iPad app for artists that turns your iPad into a drawing tablet for your Mac or PC. Start your 30-day free trial of Astropad Studio today via THIS LINK just for Beyond the Studio listeners! Plus, save 10% on your first year when you enter the promo code BEYOND at checkout.
     
    *Please note: Promo code is only valid at astropad.com (not on the App Store)
     
     

    Intro and Ad Music by: Suahn

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    Marie Watt talks Expanding Your Team, Running Your Practice Like a Business, and Navigating Life as a Mid-Career Artist

    Marie Watt talks Expanding Your Team, Running Your Practice Like a Business, and Navigating Life as a Mid-Career Artist

    Hear more from Marie Watt on leaving the safety net of teaching to pursue her artistic practice full-time, what she learned about professional practices by teaching it to her students, expanding her team, navigating life as a mid-career artist, the importance of archiving, and finding support for community-driven work.

     

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    BTS x The Side Woo - Balancing the Spiritual and Practical Sides of a Creative Career

    BTS x The Side Woo - Balancing the Spiritual and Practical Sides of a Creative Career

    Hear more from Amanda & Nicole, along with Sarah Thibault & Liz Bernstein, co-hosts of The Side Woo, in our first podcaster roundtable, on cultivating our inner voice to make better decisions, manifesting money, using tarot and astrology to better understand ourselves and our work, and balancing the spiritual and the practical while building a creative career.

     

     

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    Laura Baisden talks Discovering Printmaking, Making Art Fun, and Finding Belonging

    Laura Baisden talks Discovering Printmaking, Making Art Fun, and Finding Belonging

    Hear more from Laura Baisden on not fitting in at art school, caught between the pressure to make serious conceptual art and a desire to make art for pure fun and a love of craft, discovering letterpress on first moving to Nashville, finding belonging within the printmaking community, cutting her teeth at big-name studios before starting her own business Camp Nevernice, and embracing the uncertainty of running a small business.

     

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    Artists Over Institutions: LIVE! from Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco

    Artists Over Institutions: LIVE! from Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco

    Hear more from Beyond the Studio’s first live and in-person podcast recording at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, titled “Artists Over Institutions: How Can Arts Organizations Support the Needs of Living, Working Artists?” featuring a lineup of panelists including ICA SF’s Krieger Family Director Alison Gass, Tammy Johnson, Project Manager at Creatives in Place, Valerie Imus, Artistic Director and Co-Director of Southern Exposure Gallery, and Jessalyn Aaland, artist and creator of Organizing Power.

     

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    Maria Brito talks Keys to Creativity, Embracing Risk-Taking, and the Patterns of Successful Artists

    Maria Brito talks Keys to Creativity, Embracing Risk-Taking, and the Patterns of Successful Artists
    Hear more from Maria Brito, author of “How Creativity Rules the World,” on the overlap between successful artists and entrepreneurs, what we can learn from art history about what it takes for artists to succeed, cultivating a spirit of risk-taking, how to overcome self-limitations, and the small daily practices that can lead to enormous creative breakthroughs.

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    Kiana Honarmand talks Adaptability, Making Big Moves, and Finding Space for Your Work

    Kiana Honarmand talks Adaptability, Making Big Moves, and Finding Space for Your Work

    Hear more from Kiana Honarmand on growing up in Iran with limited access to art as a woman, making big moves from Iran to the United States and from the east to west coast, adjusting to living and working abroad, being adaptable, finding space to create and store artwork in a city with high cost of living, and having patience while building career.

    Register here for our first LIVE podcast recording at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco on March 17th, 2022

    Enter our GIVEAWAY to win a free subscription to Art World Learning by leaving us a rating & review on Apple Podcasts before March 17th, and emailing us a screenshot to: 

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    Amanda and Nicole talk Expectations vs. Realities of Being a Full-Time Artist

    Amanda and Nicole talk Expectations vs. Realities of Being a Full-Time Artist

    Hear more from Amanda and Nicole on debunking the myths around expectations vs. realities of being a full-time artist, how the boring work is the work, how to adopt the 80/20 rule when it comes to time management, and why adaptability is the most important trait for any artist’s career.

    Register here for our first LIVE podcast recording at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco on March 17th, 2022

    Enter our GIVEAWAY to win a free subscription to Art World Learning by leaving us a rating & review on Apple Podcasts before March 17th, and emailing us a screenshot to: 

    beyondthestudiopodcast@gmail.com

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    Amanda and Nicole talk Creativity and Growth Mindsets with their Partners Mike and Dave

    Amanda and Nicole talk Creativity and Growth Mindsets with their Partners Mike and Dave

    Hear more from Amanda and Nicole and their partners Mike and Dave on allowing your creative impulses to shape your life choices, adopting a growth mindset at every stage of your career, how to accelerate learning by taking risks, and finding people that share your vision to help bring creative projects to life.

    For our 100th episode of the podcast, we’re asking listeners to email us a short audio recording sharing one thing they’d like to see in the art world, as we imagine a better future.

    Please keep the recording under 3 minutes and submitted by 2/20/22. Don't forget to tell listeners where they can find you work online! Please email us your recording at beyondthestudiopodcast@gmail.com

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    What do Artists Envision for the Future of the Art World?

    What do Artists Envision for the Future of the Art World?

    Hear more from Amanda and Nicole on the end of Season 3, their first live in person event in collaboration with ICA SF, and upcoming 100th episode.

     

    For our 100th episode of the podcast, we’re asking listeners to email us a short audio recording sharing one thing they’d like to see in the art world, as we imagine a better future.

     

    Please keep the recording under 3 minutes and submitted by 2/20/22. Don't forget to tell listeners where they can find you work online! Please email us your recording at beyondthestudiopodcast@gmail.com

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    Josh Cochran talks Self-Discovery, Pushing Creative Within Client Work, and Using Routine to Stay Grounded

    Josh Cochran talks Self-Discovery, Pushing Creative Within Client Work, and Using Routine to Stay Grounded

    Hear more from Josh on how being in touch with his past informs his work and sense of self, balancing work as a freelance illustrator, teacher, and muralist, how he continually introduces variety and experimentation into professional projects, and the small daily routines that keep him grounded.

     

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    Marcus Maddox talks Materializing Your Inner Vision, Staying Curious, and Supporting a Creative Practice

    Marcus Maddox talks Materializing Your Inner Vision, Staying Curious, and Supporting a Creative Practice

    Hear more from Marcus on getting his start photographing musicians in Nashville, normalizing day jobs on the road to becoming a full-time freelance photographer, chronicling different chapters of youth with moves to Philadelphia and New York, how he remains curious, and focused on materializing his inner vision.

     

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    Katty Huertas talks Freelance Illustration, the Importance of Professionalism, and Carving out Space for Rest and Creative Outlets

    Katty Huertas talks Freelance Illustration, the Importance of Professionalism, and Carving out Space for Rest and Creative Outlets

    Hear more from Katty on getting started as a freelance illustrator, practical advice learned from working on the other side as an art director and editorial designer, why she’s holding onto her day job, and how to make space for creative outlets when your passion is your profession.

     

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    Se Jong Cho talks Art and Science, Embracing All Aspects of Identity, and Pursuing Your Curiosities

    Se Jong Cho talks Art and Science, Embracing All Aspects of Identity, and Pursuing Your Curiosities

    Hear more from Se Jong on rediscovering painting while pursuing her PhD in environmental engineering, discovering the unique intersections between art and science, embracing all her interests as a core part of her identity, and the need for more cross-disciplinary collaboration.

     

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