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cool WIP episode 37: coolin with James McAnally

It's Coyote Time. We are sitting down with one of St. Louis's most influential figures… a man-of-many-hyphens, James McAnally, the executive director of Counterpublic.

cool WIP episode 36: coolin with Sam Hamilton

WE ARE SO BACK! New season... new co-host... Kalaija Mallery

cool WIP episode 35: coolin with Midwest Art Quarterly aka Troy Sherman

THE MAQ IS BACK!  Surprise surprise… Troy Sherman, Curator at University Galleries of Illinois State University aka the founder, editor, and writer of St. Louis' most c

cool WIP episode 34: coolin with Betsy Zeitler-Ellison

RUN RUN RUN! To hear our SEASON FOUR opener, Betsy Zeitler-Ellison This episode is getting released just as Betsy's first solo exhibition RUN RUN RUN closes at Monaco,

cool WIP episode 33: coolin with Nathaniel C. Praska

BUT WAIT there's more! We have a special returning guest joining Nathaniel - just 4 U! We're talkin' Nathaniel's latest show of large scale paintings Like a Pile of Mud

cool WIP episode 32: coolin with Emily Mueller

Granny getchur square because we're makin paaaaaper with practicing artist Emily Mueller! We're talkin' sad girls, couture crochet, Ferris Bueller vs. Risky Business, t

cool WIP episode 31: coolin' with Kalan Strauss

Great walls of fire! We're coolin' with the director of The Latent Space / master of mediums, practicing artist Kalan Strauss. We're talkin' Los Angeles, manifesting, L

cool WIP episode 30: coolin with Esther Ruiz

Welcome to Esthercom!!! Anything is possible with the neon queen… the incredible Brooklyn based sculptor Esther Ruiz.  She traveled ACROSS THE COUNTRY to come cool with

cool WIP episode 29: coolin with Connor Dolan

OMG!!! The dog ate my bacteria!!! This week, we're wiggin out over visual artist / young mad scientist Connor Dolan.   This week, we're coolin with our youngest, most

cool WIP episode 28: coolin with Kalaija Mallery

Call her mother. We're kicking off season three with Kalaija Mallery - everyone's favorite organizer, artist, and metaphorical mother hen. Holy freaking smokes, it's sz

cool WIP episode 27: coolin with Edo Rosenblith and Erik S Peterson

It's another meaty one… This week we're coolin' with longtime friends Edo Rosenblith and Erik S Peterson! We're talking about EVERYTHING including their show Monument Val

cool WIP episode 26: coolin' with Howard Krohn

This week we're coolin' with one of the biggest weirdos we know, Howard Krohn! We're talking Monaco, manifesting cable, hamster deaths, the lack of oblique agendas, and t

cool WIP episode 25: coolin with Reuben Hemmer

It's spooky SZN and this week we're investigating the Roswell Incident, a man named Stump, and a bounce blastin' rodeo… it's the one, the only, Reuben Hemmer. Reuben's ph

cool WIP episode 24: coolin with Rachel Hayden

Rachel Hayden, badass Brooklyn based painter and bat-wing liner enthusiast, manifests order out of chaos. Through the paradoxical power of painting parameters, Hayden all

cool WIP episode 23: coolin with Vaughn Davis Jr.

Vaughn Davis Jr. has centered his incredibly prolific practice around breaking all the rules as he locates himself within the gallery and by extension, the world. We're t

cool WIP episode 22: coolin with Chloe West

Representational painter Chloe West isn't judging you for looking, but she wants you to know that she knows. Bone collecting, the Devil's Tower, vanitas, modern dance, mi

cool WIP episode 21: coolin with Rachel Lebo

Character studies, cerebral darts, flash fiction, the uncertainty of ochre, Carl Jung; Rachel Lebo's work has the unique ability to shuttle you into the discomfort of amb

cool WIP episode 20: coolin with Cullen Curtis

It's another I-70 series matchup with Kansas City based painter / sculptor / bad boy Kombucha brewmeister Cullen Curtis! We're talkin' death, destruction, termites, Primo

cool WIP episode 19: coolin with Bianca Fields

That's her name, don't wear it out! It's Bianca Fields everybody!! We caught up with painter, sculptor, and all around bad gal, Bianca Fields to discuss her latest show a

cool WIP episode 18: coolin with SOFT

It's szn 2 episode 2 and we are coolin' it down with some SOFT serve. This week co-founders Brittany Jasin and Ariana Velazquez share how the courage to be vulnerable spa