Shockoe Artspeak

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171 episodes

164. Design Stuff: Anni Albers

Anni Albers is widely considered to be the foremost textile designer of the 20th century. She made major innovations in the field of functional materials and at the same time she expanded the possibilities of single weavings and individual artworks. She was also an adventurous graphic artist who took printmaking technique into previously uncharted territory. ...

56m
Jun 20, 2023
163. AI and its Promise of Utopia – Part 5 – Carey Kight Returns

Seemingly overnight, every company and social media platform has an AI presence that promises you a better experience, a more efficient engagement, and all the promises of better tomorrows, greater wealth, and a four hour workweek. While science fiction, the harbinger of all things new, shiny and terrifying, has been telling us this was coming ...

1h 25m
Jun 05, 2023
162. AI and its Promise of Utopia – Part 4 – Carey Kight and AI in Advertising

Seemingly overnight, every company and social media platform has an AI presence that promises you a better experience, a more efficient engagement, and all the promises of better tomorrows, greater wealth, and a four hour workweek. While science fiction, the harbinger of all things new, shiny and terrifying, has been telling us this was coming ...

1h 12m
May 29, 2023
161. AI and its Promise of Utopia – Part 3

Seemingly overnight, every company and social media platform has an AI presence that promises you a better experience, a more efficient engagement, and all the promises of better tomorrows, greater wealth, and a four hour workweek. While science fiction, the harbinger of all things new, shiny and terrifying, has been telling us this was coming ...

1h 21m
May 23, 2023
160. AI and its Promise of Utopia – Part 2

Seemingly overnight, every company and social media platform has an AI presence that promises you a better experience, a more efficient engagement, and all the promises of better tomorrows, greater wealth, and a four hour workweek. While science fiction, the harbinger of all things new, shiny and terrifying, has been telling us this was coming ...

42m
May 16, 2023
159. AI and its Promise of Utopia

Seemingly overnight, every company and social media platform has an AI presence that promises you a better experience, a more efficient engagement, and all the promises of better tomorrows, greater wealth, and a four hour workweek. While science fiction, the harbinger of all things new, shiny and terrifying, has been telling us this was coming ...

37m
May 01, 2023
158. Knock Turn: A Conversation with Rachel Jeffers

This week Ryan, Garreth, and Sam Taylor sit down to talk with Richmond-area painter Rachel Jeffers. In Jeffers’ paintings, domestic objects take on the role of characters, forming a new tableau from one painting to the next. Each painting presents her with new visual problems to solve. A precarious, subconscious logic guides her way to ...

1h 23m
Apr 17, 2023
157. Travel and Place, Episode 2

The American imagination has always had a sticky friend in travel. Movement from place to place has defined humanity for as long as we can recount, and travel–justifiably–has occupied our minds not just as a necessary pursuit, but also as a pleasure. Travel is known for many of its finer qualities from education and exposure ...

1h 0m
Mar 27, 2023
156. Travel and Place, Episode 1

The American imagination has always had a sticky friend in travel. Movement from place to place has defined humanity for as long as we can recount, and travel–justifiably–has occupied our minds not just as a necessary pursuit, but also as a pleasure. Travel is known for many of its finer qualities from education and exposure ...

57m
Mar 20, 2023
155. We’ve Got Some Questions on Our Minds, Episode 4

You’ve likely seen the movie Apollo 13 where actor Ed Harris plays Gene Kranz, the Flight Director for the titular space mission. After some rather drastic problems threaten to strand a crew of American astronauts in space, Kranz utters the phrase “failure is not an option.” Now the situation at hand for Kranz and the ...

51m
Feb 26, 2023
154. We’ve Got Some Questions on Our Minds, Episode 3

Throughout human history, it has always been true that technology is ubiquitous. Paper is technology, pencils are technology, dig troughs for water to irrigate fields is technology. But technology changes, and we cannot assume that all technology is equal. Our digital age has given a great deal toward our perceived advancement, and has left us ...

39m
Feb 20, 2023
153. We’ve Got Some Questions on Our Minds, Episode 2

Stories and narrative are so interwoven into our lives that we likely don’t realize how many times in a day we tell or listen to a story, and we definitely don’t take notice of the way we weave narratives into the reasons and explanations for why we do certain or actions or made certain choices. ...

50m
Feb 13, 2023
152. We’ve Got Some Questions on Our Minds

We’re back! We know, it’s been a minute, but between the new semester, being sick, and general life, things got a bit hectic, but we are all back on track, well, and staving off life for long enough to be in the studio for a few hours. This week Ryan, Garreth and Cody sit down ...

56m
Feb 07, 2023
151. A Christmas Carol Bonus: Resolutions

It twas the Season, and it now tis the season: the season for resolutions. Every year, countless folks look back and look forward, hoping to have a new start in a new year. These resolutions have a tendency to all look the same, and the numbers say that it will only be a few weeks ...

1h 10m
Jan 09, 2023
150. A Christmas Carol: The Ghost of Artistic Joy

Go to any bookstore or do a quick scan of books on Amazon, and you will likely see a number of titles touting joy. They will either be dealing with a topic you should be experiencing joy with like cooking or hiking or some other activity, or they will be self-helping you into a sense ...

1h 14m
Jan 02, 2023
149. A Christmas Carol: The Ghost of Artistic Self-Control

The term self-control around the holidays usually is followed by some conversation on over eating or over drinking, but self-control is less about that in this conversation and more about the way we treat others and see the world around us. Our current culture prizes and even rewards reactionary outbursts as vindicating or justice, but ...

48m
Dec 28, 2022
147. A Christmas Carol: The Ghost of Artistic Gratitude

With Thanksgiving already in the past, the conversation of gratitude may seem like a non-starter for some, but gratitude is more about an entire mindset and way of seeing the world than as some Hallmark card type one-off statement whenever we may feel some guilt for our silence. Our parents, grandparents, teachers, or someone told ...

52m
Dec 19, 2022
147. A Christmas Carol: The Ghost of Artistic Patience

While patience may not be the most exciting topic you could think of, patience tells you a lot about what you are doing, why you are doing it, and how you measure success. For artists and designers, patience is easily baked into parts of their process or outlook on career, but impatience may be the ...

45m
Dec 12, 2022
146. Artist/Entrepreneurs: Supply with Ian C. Hess

I heard about a faculty member at a top-tier art school who got ridiculed by another faculty member because they were teaching art students to run successful businesses. “You’re just turning people into whores,” the faculty member said. The only thing my friend could say was “Well maybe your opinion is bad and wrong.” Just ...

1h 31m
Nov 28, 2022
145. Happy Thanksgiving! And an announcement!

It’s Turkey Day, and we just want to say thank you! We are nearly to 150 episodes, and we couldn’t have done it without YOU! We have so much to be thankful for and all our listeners and friends are definitely on that list. So enjoy the day off, have a big hunk or turkey ...

4m
Nov 24, 2022
144. Artist/Entrepreneurs: Full Time with Cameron Wilson Ritcher

Just studio work: that’s the goal, right? All day every day in your studio. Getting to make the work you want to make. Not having to juggle the hassle of a 9-5 desk job or contract work in a field you just don’t really have a passion for. But how does that actually happen? And ...

1h 28m
Nov 14, 2022
143. Presión: A Conversation with Dicho

This week Ryan, Garreth and Cody sit down with photographer, filmmaker and hip hop artist Tito Henríquez. Rapping under the name Dicho, Henríquez is the son of El Salvadoran parents who were displaced during the Civil War that lasted from the late 1970s until the early 1990s. Through family, his extensive travels to El Salvador, ...

1h 53m
Oct 31, 2022
142. Hanging with Curtis – Conversations with Our Artist Friends

This week Ryan, Garreth and Cody sit down with a long-time friend of the gallery, Richmond painter Curtis Newkirk, Jr. to hang out and just have a relaxed conversation. While the structure of a topic-based discussion is helpful in distilling information, conversations build relationships and can be more organic ways to get to topics that ...

1h 6m
Oct 24, 2022
141. RIP Soft Skills: Positivity

“College can train you for a career.” “You’ll always be taught the skills you need once you’re hired.” “There are so many resources available to help you learn to do a new job.” All of these statements have their truth, but the category of skill they each refer to is hard skills: those skills that ...

1h 17m
Oct 17, 2022
140. Checking In on Upcoming Events

This week Garreth and Cody sit down to give an update on what has been in the works for Shockoe Artspace and our team. The fellas check in with Ryan via phone about his time in Utah, and everyone gets to chat about his new solo show in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. An unexpected guest ...

8m
Oct 10, 2022
138. RIP Soft Skills: Conflict Management

“College can train you for a career.” “You’ll always be taught the skills you need once you’re hired.” “There are so many resources available to help you learn to do a new job.” All of these statements have their truth, but the category of skill they each refer to is hard skills: those skills that ...

1h 26m
Oct 03, 2022
138. RIP Soft Skills: Communication

“College can train you for a career.” “You’ll always be taught the skills you need once you’re hired.” “There are so many resources available to help you learn to do a new job.” All of these statements have their truth, but the category of skill they each refer to is hard skills: those skills that ...

1h 21m
Sep 26, 2022
137. It’ll Tickle Yore Innards: A Conversation with Casey Criddle

The most consistent thing about an artist’s career path is how consistently inconsistent they tend to be. The place we start and the place we find ourselves are often widely different, but the only way we get from Point A to Point B is by learning. Part-time jobs, jobs that use some of the skills ...

1h 32m
Sep 12, 2022
136. RIP Soft Skills: Time Management

“College can train you for a career.” “You’ll always be taught the skills you need once you’re hired.” “There are so many resources available to help you learn to do a new job.” All of these statements have their truth, but the category of skill they each refer to is hard skills: those skills that ...

1h 4m
Sep 06, 2022
135. RIP Soft Skills: An Introduction

“College can train you for a career.” “You’ll always be taught the skills you need once you’re hired.” “There are so many resources available to help you learn to do a new job.” All of these statements have their truth, but the category of skill they each refer to is hard skills: those skills that ...

36m
Aug 29, 2022