Jessica Fuentes speaks with Glasstire's recently appointed News Editor Nicholas Frank about growing up in Milwaukee, his artistic practice, and his writing career.

“I felt right at home here... [Milwaukee and San Antonio are both] cities where the major redevelopments in the city are based on old German breweries. Both cities hinge their downtown redevelopment on the River Walk... they are both located 77 miles from the state capitol... so that determines cultural things.”

See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2025/07/27/art-dirt-getting-to-know-nicholas-frank

This week’s podcast is sponsored in part by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Cool down from the summer heat with CAMH's newest exhibition, "Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe." This mid-career survey of the Houston-born artist brings together nearly a decade of work across disciplines, spanning textiles, paper, archival images, and more. Colliding histories intersect with color theory in the vibrant and multifaceted pieces that scrutinize mechanisms of societal power and recognize the triumphs for the empowerment of communities of color. The exhibition is on view through March 29, 2026, and admission to the museum is always free.

Art Dirt: Getting to Know Nicholas Frank

For its third episode, Not A Hobby interviews Heyd Fontenot who has balanced jobs with his art career over the last 30 years. He has been the wonderful director at Centraltrak in Dallas for the last 5 years.

"If you can keep making art, you win."

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03 Not A Hobby: Heyd Fontenot

A KRTS Youth Media podcast about teenage life in Marfa, TX. Produced by 10 students at Marfa ISD with help from Sally Beauvais, Zoe Kurland, and Marfa Public Radio. The podcast includes segments on tourism, housing, cruising around town (a favorite student pastime), Marfa’s various forms of trailer park, and The xx’s music video shoot in Marfa.

This concludes our 5th season of KRTS Youth Media. Congratulations to this year’s student reporters: Coy Dominguez, Kaci Flores, Ricky Guevara, Damian Hernandez, Kat Hinojos, Christian Muench, Alyssa Olvera, Lalli Sanchez, Kendra Serrano, and Erik Vasquez.

What's it like to be a teenager in a tourist town?

In the aftermath and psychic static of Hurricane Harvey, Peter Lucas brings us this special 2-hour radio show featuring a ton of Houston music and catching up with a handful of Houston musicians and DJs along the way. Blues, r&b, soul, jazz, funk, folk, psychedelic rock, punk, and more. May this homespun broadcast help you feel, deal, and replace the sheetrock of your soul.

Houston Recovery Radio

Peter Plagens: Artist-Slash-Critic

A selection of music by Italian composer/arranger Ennio Morricone, including music from a dozen films of the 1960s and 70s. Mix by Peter Lucas.

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Artist On Artist is Glasstire’s video and audio podcast series in which Glasstire’s News Editor Christopher Blay, also an artist, hosts Texas-based artists and art professionals in one-on-one conversations.

This week, Christopher Blay speaks with Austin-based artist Betelhem Makonnen, who uses video, photography and installation as she considers perception, presence, and place. This conversation touches on the unreliability of memory, how the artist perceives time, and how her work deals with where we currently find ourselves.

“I think that is ultimately what is at the foundation of my practice — it is an insistence on mobility, which is like freedom and liberation. To move.”

Artist On Artist: Betelhem Makonnen

Expanding the conversation about art in Texas. Founded in 2001, Glasstire is the first Texas Art Digital Media Company. Find features on Texas Artists, News, and the Top 5 Art Exhibits to See Each Week.  The full shebang is at glasstire.com.

Art Dirt: Getting to Know Nicholas Frank

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