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Interested in knowing more about the super-creative minds that create the art and create the instructions that help you do the art? Mixed media artists and artist interviews galore! Here is the place where you can get the inside scoop on all your favorite inspirational mixed media artists. Whether you are looking for recordings of art podcasts or straight up informational artist profiles , this is the place to find the stories behind the people who bring you the mixed media projects, the art journaling prompts and the collage art secrets.

Interested in knowing more about the super-creative minds that create the art and create the instructions that help you do the art? Mixed media artists and artist interviews galore! Here is the place where you can get the inside scoop on all your favorite inspirational mixed media artists. Whether you are looking for recordings of art podcasts or straight up informational artist profiles , this is the place to find the stories behind the people who bring you the mixed media projects, the art journaling prompts and the collage art secrets.

Podcast with Mary Beth Shaw about CHA

In this brand-new podcast, Mary Beth Shaw reports on her recent trip to the Craft and Hobby Association’s annual trade show in Anaheim. Think life-sized elephants, Famous People, and a VW bus.

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Podcast with The Fabulous Christi Friesen: On Travel

In this podcast, polymer clay artist Christi Friesen talks about how she collects and saves the inspiration she gets while traveling the globe to teach workshops.

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Art Chooses You: YOU—The Most Powerful of Marketing Tools

Of all the marketing tools in your toolbox, the most powerful one you have is you! Self-promotion is a delicate balance between passion and subtlety and Jen shares how she sees Jeanie Thorn as having the perfect mix.

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Artist Profile: Tammy Kushnir

Tammy Kushnir’s work will soon be featured in the forthcoming North Light book, Crafty Birds and we wanted to find out a little more about her. Check out Tammy’s guilty pleasure, her other job reporting for Starry Constellation Magazine and her awesome phone skin designs!

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Encaustic Podcast with Michelle Belto

Ricë always thought encaustic was gorgeous but just way, way too much trouble to try. When she heard Michelle Belto dispel all the common myths about the medium, she wanted to help spread the word. Listen to Michelle share the truth about the medium she loves.

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Another Fun Conversation with The Fabulous Jill Berry

In this conversation, Ricë and Jill talk about knees, dogs, road trips, stencils, 2012 and 2013, teenagers, libraries–and, well, just a bunch of other stuff, and they invite you to pull up a chair and join them~~

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Artist Profile: Susan Tuttle

  Susan Tuttle is the author of Photo Craft: Creative mixed Media Approaches to Transforming Your Photographs (co-written with Christy Hydeck) and two previous North Light books, Digital Expressions: Creating Digital Art with Adobe Photoshop Elements and Exhibition 36: Mixed-Media …

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Podcast with Tammy Garcia of Daisy Yellow

In this podcast, Ricë gets to talk again to Tammy Garcia of Daisy Yellow, which is more fun than just about anything. You probably don’t want to be drinking anything while you listen~~

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Podcast with Mary Beth Shaw: Finding Inspiration in Unusual Places

In this podcast, Mary Beth Shaw talks to Ricë about finding inspiration in unusual places. Also about toenail clippings and dead animals in Candy Jernigan’s freezer, but mostly about inspiration.

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Fabric Art Podcast with Chris Roberts-Antieau

Ricë has been a fan of Chris Roberts-Antieau’s fabric paintings since forever, and she was delighted to get to talk to her this month about her art and her passion for pop-up galleries–including her current one in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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