A podcast offering encouraging words to all those shuffling along the artist’s road - with your host, Amy Talluto. Stop by the Pepisodes for artist interviews, art book reviews and host-made audio essays - all made to offer serious artists advice, encouragement and fun studio listening because - we deserve it.
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Latest episodes
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Ep 100: Paul Klee's Pluralism (Plus Magritte)
Paul Klee loved working in a wide variety of styles at once in his paintings: abstract, representational, runic or symbolic. His oeuvre literally contains multitudes. I r
Sep 28 42 min
Ep 99: Collage, Lee Krasner and Jess w/ Jennifer Coates
We're talking collage! Jennifer Coates joins me in a quest to get to the heart of why collage is such a powerful generator in the studio. We also take a look at 2 artists
Aug 20 1 h 49 min
Ep 98: Book Talks: Drawings & Observations by Louise Bourgeois / Lawrence Rinder w/ Mandolyn Wilson Rosen
Louise Bourgeois Part 2!
Mandolyn Wilson Rosen is back in her Book Talks seat to help me dissect a new delicious art book: Drawings & Observations by Louise Bourgeois wi
Jul 5 1 h 15 min
Ep 97: Visiting the Louise Bourgeois House w Beka Goedde and Mandolyn Wilson Rosen
Beka Goedde and Mandolyn Wilson Rosen join me this episode to unpack our experience visiting renowned artist, Louise Bourgeois' home in NYC. We entered her historic brown
May 25 1 h 02 min
Ep 96: Book Talks: Notes from the Woodshed by Jack Whitten w/ Mandolyn Wilson Rosen
In this new Book Talks episode, Mandolyn Wilson Rosen is back to help me review a new art book: Jack Whitten: Notes From the Woodshed, Edited by Katy Siegel for Hauser &
Mar 12 1 h 35 min
Ep 95: About Dawn Clements w/ Judy Glantzman
Artist, Judy Glantzman, is back on the pod this week to discuss her friend and incredible artist, Dawn Clements (1958-2018). Come along with me as I hear more about this
Jan 26 1 h 03 min
Ep 94: Women Mystics in Art w/ Jennifer Coates (Part 2)
We're back for Part 2! Artist, Jennifer Coates joins me again to discuss 2 modern-day women mystic artists: Cornish Visionary, Ithell Colquhoun and Desert Transcendentali
Dec 6 2025 59 min
Ep 93: Women Mystics in Art w/ Jennifer Coates (Part 1)
In this episode, Jennifer Coates returns to help me explore the spookily wonderful topic of Women Mystics and their connection to art and artists. In Part 1, we cover mys
Nov 14 2025 1 h 15 min
Ep 92: Some Thoughts on Drawing (Part 3)
Artists, Jennifer Coates, David Humphrey and Catherine Haggarty and are back for Part 3 of our series on Drawing. This time we switched things up and each artist brought
Oct 20 2025 1 h 30 min
Ep 91: Dare to Be Stupid in the Studio
This is an episode about how acting on dumb ideas in the studio can be just the thing to get you out of artist's block or help you make a big change. Get ready for some c
Sep 16 2025 17 min
Ep 90: How to Survive a Residency Rejection (*explicit)
*Disclaimer: This episode is meant to be funny and Amy would love to attend any of the aforementioned residencies. Please accept her if you find yourself on a panel. End
Jul 28 2025 8 min
Ep 89: El Greco and the Whale
This is a little episode about how I think a one-of-a-kind whale is kind of like the 16th -17th century Mannerist artist El Greco, and also like us. It sounds a little fa
Jun 23 2025 20 min
Ep 88: Resilience Through Research (Pt5) w/ Jennifer Coates
::CW: during the Kathe Kollwitz section, we discuss a print dealing with sexual assault::
Jennifer and I are back with our bushel baskets of researched artists of the pa
May 26 2025 1 h 40 min
Ep 87: CounterPointe Report w/ Elisabeth Condon & Jennifer Coates
Today's episode is a special conversation and recap of Elisabeth Condon and my experiences collaborating as visual artists in the ballet project CounterPointe (now in its
Apr 18 2025 1 h 23 min
Ep 86: The Source Channeler & The Market Child
In this audio essay, I roam from post-war France to the abstract expressionists to the artists of the East Village and even to outer space to consider times in art histor
Mar 25 2025 25 min
Ep 85: Meret Oppenheim's Titles
I'm offering for you here a new mini ep about what I've been thinking about lately: the wackiness of Meret Oppenheim's titles - and how they expand the mystery of her ima
Feb 27 2025 11 min
Ep 84: "Lifeline: Clifford Still" Film Review (Part 2) w/ Mandolyn Wilson Rosen
This is Part 2 of Mandolyn Wilson Rosen and my review of "Lifeline: Clyfford Still" 2019 directed by Dennis Scholl. It's a juicy art bio tell-all with a crusty curmudgeon
Jan 31 2025 1 h 15 min
Ep 83: "Lifeline: Clyfford Still" Film Review (Part 1) w/ Mandolyn Wilson Rosen
Mandolyn Wilson Rosen is back on the podcast! This time, instead of a book we are talking about an artist documentary. The film is called "Lifeline: Clyfford Still" 2019
Jan 23 2025 1 h 03 min
Ep 82: Resilience Through Research (Pt 4) w/ Jennifer Coates
Jennifer Coates is back with me this week to cohost Part 4 of our series about researching our way to feeling better as artists. This time we go all the way back to 1306
Jan 10 2025 1 h 29 min
Ep 81: Elisabeth Condon Describes a Christina Ramberg Retrospective
Welcome back, Elisabeth! This time I am very excited to be speaking to Artist, Elisabeth Condon, about one of my favorite Chicago Imagists: Christina Ramberg.
The Art In
Dec 24 2024 1 h 24 min
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I appreciate how Amy so uniquely combines her rigorous research, cross disciplinary creative interests and quirky real life observations to create really exciting connections in a fun and very genuine experience! I am always grabbing one of her anecdotes for my work- I love Amy!
jonkyjan 9 · May 2023
Amy’s honesty, humor & experience to speak to those of us who have been creating our way through the art world/s. Great deep dives into the messy spaces of making art. Love the Book Talks & her way with metaphors - she speaks my language!
Andrea Cote · Oct 2022
This is a great podcast—unpretentious, admittedly geeky and just a great listen. Amy is always prepared, brings out candid and interesting conversation in guests and I really appreciate how I don’t feel like I want to slit my wrists—which is what most of artist focused podcasts do. Also—really loving John Berger episode and potentially a new podcast venture?—all the ‘canons’ one reads and then a revisiting and assessment of how they hold up or don’t!! Well done Amy!
Skipper patrol · Aug 2022
I enjoy this podcast so much! Amy is a master of curiosity and investigation, and shares humorous insights and connections in a way that is endlessly entertaining. I’ve also picked up books she’s discussed and looked up artists that she interviews, and it’s all been very enriching. It’s the perfect accompaniment to time in the studio, highly recommend!
amycarmac · Jul 2022
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