Conversations from the Miami Art Scene with host, Miami artist Alette Simmons-Jimenez.

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Intro and preview by the host of Art & Company: Miami artist Alette Simmons-Jimenez.  Art & Company is a new biweekly podcast of spontaneous conversation on art and creativity in Miami and beyond.  This short trailer includes audio samples from upcoming guests Neil Ramsey, Thais Fontanel, Dennis Scholl, and Debra Scholl.

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An introduction with the host of Art & Company, Alette Simmons-Jimenez / Trailer #0

Welcome! We're super happy to air our 1st full-length podcast.  Today we bring together 5 creatives based in Miami that have really crossed the line.  Listen to an energized conversation around lunch in the host's studio with our guests Neil Ramsay, an economist, professor, and art curator; Thais Fontenelle, director of Minotti Miami and curator; Natasha Duwin, former president and co-founder of Kipu Systems, artist, and creative activist; Nina Surel, artist, and director of Collective 62; and Cat Taylor, a business entrepreneur and creative strategist.

Neil Ramsay, Thais Fontenelle, Natasha Duwin, Nina Surel, and Cat Taylor: Creative Crossovers  / #1

Art & Company takes you to the Chavon School of Design in the Dominican Republic for a talk with the school's rector, and two artists who teach and head up programs there.   We got together in the rector's office in the beautiful artist's village at Altos de Chavon. For more images and details on our guests visit: http://www.artandcompanypodcast.com

Stephen Kaplan, Raúl Miyar, Gustavo Fermín: The View From Chavon, Art Residency-Design School  / #2

Our exciting 1st "Couples" series: Miami artists Kathleen Hudspeth and Adler Guerrier.  A true Miami story including clothespin dolls, growing up in Haiti, teaching, learning, working the system, and the path to gaining poetics in your work.  Kathleen is a master printmaker, art educator, and founder-director of Turn-Based Press.  Adler creates visual dialogues between multiple media. He was born in Haiti, is a graduate of New World School of the Arts, and has exhibited extensively including in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

Couples - Kathleen Hudspeth & Adler Guerrier, Making Work and Making It Work / #3

Three Miami curators to follow! We sat down to talk about the effect of politics on art and funding, curating for the Venice Biennale, Utah's MOCA and examining man-made violence, and Miami's own floating art+science residency. Guest images and links on artandcompanypodcast.com

Tami Katz-Freiman/Susan Caraballo/Ombretta Agró Andruff: Talking Art, Politics, & Curating   / #4

On hand in Miami from the stellar firm ICRAVE in NY, two designers make a quick drive-by visit before their flight back to NY.  Their new project is going up near the BASS Museum on Miami Beach.   Listen in on how hanging with friends can lead to a super successful career, about selecting artwork and baking designer cupcakes.

Mariela Alvarez and Jesse MacDougall - Live, Sleep, Eat Art: New York Designers Visit Miami / #5

This may be their most important tip: How the alphabet might inspire the rest of your life! The passionate lives of this Miami couple are creating a legacy for the Miami Art Community.

Couples: Dennis & Debra Scholl, Up Close with Miami Collectors and Arts Activists / #6

Have you ever stopped to think how big the French community is here? It's BIG! Our guests speak about the non-profit organization they founded and co-direct, The French Arts Associates, opening doors and creating cultural events for the French community in Miami and for everyone who wants to meet some very interesting people.

Sophie Blachet & Helène Filipecki: French/Miami Community Within Community / #8

Guests today comment on beauty, domestic violence, ghosts, and monsters.  Artists, Cat del Buono and Yeon Jin Kim, discuss working in new media and film, and their most recent projects.  We spoke about what led their studio practice in this direction and other thoughts on why a great percentage of women dominate the world of film and video art.  
**SEE MORE: http://www.catdelbuono & http://www.yeonjinkim.com

Cat del Buono and Yeon Jin Kim: Women Artists and the Allure of New Media:  / #9

In this Couples Series, an artist and a furniture designer/woodworker tell us about their separate journeys from opposite corners of the globe heading straight to Florida and the art community here.  It's all about the smell of soil and fresh cut wood and mulberries.  Oh - and yes cats - the must-have studio cats.

Couples: Anja Marais, Artist & Rudi Repenning, Designer / #10

From Boston to Delray Beach to Miami to Brooklyn to Mexico and all the way to the Amazon Rain Forest, these artists don't stand still.  In a short time, they've made a big impression here.  For them the key is connections and communities with no boundaries.

Lauren Shapiro, Alex Nuñez, Deming King Harriman: Miami's Bright Young Artists / #11

Living and working in Miami since 1992, today's guest is the founder and creative director of 305 Creative Group, a boutique creative agency in Wynwood specializing in Branding, Social Media, Photography and Marketing. Kerry delivers the whole story on the origins of the Miami Art Scene. An "idea" person, she's always been inspired to do outstanding work collaborating with our city's creative people. She personifies Miami with a wildly mixed-media heritage: Irish - German - Spanish - Haitian.

Kerry McLaney: Past, Present, Future Miami Art Scene / #13

A look into the very diverse yet perfectly matched lives and careers of a landscape architect/educator/arts advocate and a graphic designer/visual artist and what happens when they make art happen together.

Couples: Randy Burman & Manita Brug-Chmielenska

Musical talent "Haute Tension" (High Voltage)a Miami band with the trio Alexandre Merbouti, Monica McGivern, and Nabedi Osorio, delivers a highly charged new sound.  Get the scoop on their debut album and the details of the band's unique heritage.  We have some sample tracks to perk up your ears and wake up your senses.

Haute Tension

Dano Instrumental

Alexandre Merbouti, Monica McGivern, Nabedi Osorio: Surf Noir with Haute Tension

From placing cutting-edge art in affluent suburban communities to coffee shops to planting seeds to German spies, we covered it all.  Listen to these two phenomenal and focused Miami-based women artists, curators, and activists here to initiate change.

Carola Bravo & Rochi Llaneza Talk About Harvest Project

We're talking about facing and fighting irrelevance in today’s art systems and the big market, that strange parallel universe of the art market.  Arts writers Elisa Turner and Anne Tschida discuss the creative writing process that parallels the practice of artists of any discipline today.

Anne Tschida & Elisa Turner: Arts Writers Speak Up

This episode's artist couple will inspire your life.  They go from teaching and making art to breeding bunnies and shaping bonsai, from making music with sewing machines and bicycles to driving cattle.  They've gone from Wyoming, Montana, and Missouri, to London and finally Miami.  This is not your everyday life.

Couples: Pip & Duane Brant - Coloring Way Outside the Lines

The leading ladies of alternative spaces in Miami chat with Art & Company. Lorie Mertes of Locust Projects and Beth Boone of Miami Light Projects share the stories of their own struggles and successes and the inspiration that got them where they are today.

Lorie Mertes & Beth Boone: Making Art Happen

Uber Talented Pamela Salem And Mitchell Berkman  of Miami Radio Players

Eysa D. Batista and Maria Theresa Barbist are BABA Collective. Getting a hold of these ladies is quite a job. They're super busy podcasting, teaching, making art, writing grants and fundraising for their projects.  Listen to their stories here since you won't be seeing them around anytime soon.  Make way for the second edition of the BABA Collective show featuring 50 artists of the RCS Podcast Season II.  Opening this February 28th!

BABA Collective on the Rise: Elysa D. Batista & Maria Theresa Barbist

Renowned Miami experimental sound artist, Gustavo Matamoros and his partner, graphic designer/collaborator, Claudia Ariano talk to us about navigating a world of sounds and shapes - their journey to discovering how to design the shape of sound.   Listen in on what Gustavo defines as the essence of "art" ... we think he's got it right!

Couples: Gustavo Matamoros & Claudia Ariano

Shana Beth Mason and Aramis Gutierrez are great friends.  They met when Shana appeared on the Miami art scene and Aramis was a rising local talent.  We caught up with them to chat about their intersecting paths, London, the movies, Instagram, Cooper Union, Siena, Gucci, Vuitton, Versace, and James Bond.

Shana Beth Mason & Aramis Gutierrez: Comparing Notes

With our newest "Couples" episode we talk to Miami artists/painters Clara Varas and Jee Park.  One is from Cuba, the other from South Korea, and then in New York, their work brought them together.  We're happy they shared with us their common language of table saws, swatches of fabric, family, wood, nails, missing fingers, and expressive mark-making.

Couples: Clara Varas & Jee Park - Work Life Balance

Guest artist and cultural producer Charo Oquet shares stories and common experiences with host/artist Alette Simmons-Jimenez.  From opposite sides of the world, their shared experiences crisscross from the Dominican Republic to Miami, New Zealand to New York to London and back again.  Talks cover creating as an outsider, getting in the mix, excelling, and giving back.

Charo Oquet: Outsider to Outsider, Getting in the Mix

Leo Castaneda and Lauren Monzon make a hyper-harmonious personal and professional partnership.  From Carrollton School to Columbia University and Cooper Union to Hunter College, then to Locust Projects, to Oolite Arts, to Borscht Corp. - listen and learn what magic Miami conjures to hold on to these two!

"Ice and Chilli"

Couples: Leo Castaneda & Lauren Monzon

This episode's guest Onajide Shabaka, Miami based artist and cultural practitioner, takes us along on an imaginary canoe trip.  His artwork manifests itself as a mirror of where his life and research have led him.  You can almost hear the endless river winding its way from Ohio and California, to the coast of Africa, to Surinam, Florida, and Minnesota.

Onajide Shabaka: Art Making on an Endless River

Claire sat with us in the studio and we caught up with news about her super busy schedule and her upcoming projects in Miami and others around the globe.  Our fave was the organized art focused trips down to El Salvador.  Sign me up!

Catching Up with Miami Curator Claire Breukel

A book worm and a seeker of truths, Tom Virgin collaborates with art communities, artists, poets, and writers, young and old, making words and thoughts sing visually through the art print process.

Tom Virgin is Printing

Miami based Grela Orihuela has developed a successful creative career by always seeing beyond the surface and being a "take charge" person in a sophisticated game of Connect the Dots.  Listen in about the long, winding road to her current endeavor "Place" an experiential art and design project opening this February in Los Angeles.

Grela Orihuela Puts Design & Art in its Place

We're happy to bring you our very first recording session in front of a live audience.  As a special event in the Miami Design District and within my current solo show at S|223, I invited the project's founder and director, Tiffany Chestler, to talk about her career, the history, mission, and future of S|223.  Listen in and discover what makes this a truly special art space.

Miami Design District's Tiffany Chestler Hands You the Keys to S|223

We go on-site at the Sagamore Hotel with our first podcast after the beginning of the Covid Pandemic last March.  It's good to be back (with safety measures in place) speaking face to face with the curators and select artists showing work up at the historic Art Hotel during the 2020 Miami Art Week and into 2021.  Listen to Grela Orihuela, Maggy Cuesta, and Gabrielle Neuman along with artists Gavin Perry, Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Beatriz Monteavaro, and Miami newcomer Joyce Billet.

We Have A Story To Tell

Grab a front-row seat for conversations from the Miami Art Scene.  Tune in for informative stories on living and building a creative life in the 305.   Miami artist Alette Simmons-Jimenez brings this rapidly transforming, cultural community into focus featuring notable figures, hidden gems, and special guests.

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