Brandon Zech, William Sarradet, and Nicholas Frank answer Glasstire readers' questions about pricing art, working with galleries, and exhibiting in alternative spaces.

“Showing up to everything you can is the first step… talk to the galleries who show work that you like, ask them questions about their program, and learn what they’re interested in. It’s really about continuous engagement with people and building relationships, which doesn’t happen over night. But, the more you focus on it, the more you start to see those results.”

See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2025/08/23/art-dirt-pricing-your-art-gallery-representation-alternative-spaces/

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Art Dirt: Pricing Your Art, Gallery Representation & Alternative Spaces

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.

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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

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Art Dirt: Pricing Your Art, Gallery Representation & Alternative Spaces

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