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079: Time & Perspective

August 1, 2018 by balzerdesigns 1 Comment

For the first time in podcast history, Mom and I are in the same room to record this episode of the Adventures in Arting Podcast! I wonder if there’s any difference in how the podcast feels? You’ll have to let me know!

As mentioned on the podcast, I’ve got a bunch of teaching gigs coming up:

August 31-September 2: 3 Classes at Whimsodoodle in Florida.
September 22-23: I’ll be at The Ink Pad in NYC.
October 13-14: ScanNCut for Artists in the Boston area.
November 2-4: co-teaching a 3-day class with Nat Kalbach in the UK

I hope to see you in class!

075: Wrapping Up 2017

December 24, 2017 by balzerdesigns 3 Comments

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In today’s podcast Mom and I chat about the year gone by and set some art goals for 2018! Here is a photo from the Yayoi Kusama exhibit I talk about on the podcast. More photos to come in a later post!

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067: Still Younger Than Mom ;)

May 3, 2017 by balzerdesigns 2 Comments

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Today’s podcast features a conversation about the Nari Ward opening at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Art in Bloom at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), my prize winning painting, and more! I will be sharing some long blog posts with lots of photos of the ICA Opening and the Art in Bloom stuff in the upcoming weeks, but if you’d like to peek at them in the meantime, you can see them in this week’s vlog:

Here is a photo of my painting that won first prize in the oil/acrylic category at the Watertown Art Association show:

We’re going to be doing a “listener mail” episode soon, so please leave us your comments and questions!

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063: Julie Loves Learning

February 15, 2017 by balzerdesigns 3 Comments

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I’m delighted to bring you another episode of the Adventures in Arting Podcast! Today’s podcast features a conversation about learning in general and four particular learning experiences — the marbling class I shared in yesterday’s blog post, a lecture on Winslow Homer’s Summer Night (see a bit in this vlog), the connoisseurship dinner at the Museum of Fine Arts (see a bit in this vlog) and then a quilting class I took last weekend (photos below):

Class started with our instructor, Timna Tarr, sharing some of her quilts:

After some brief instructions….

…we were off and running with our own improvisational piecing!

The picture above is the quilt top that I finished in class. Kind of a hot mess, but I’m letting it marinate.

I don’t have a lot of photos because of the snow that day…

…most of the students left class early to get home before the roads got too bad. I was one of the few who stayed the whole day and at the end of the day, I took my little red wagon, and headed home!

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051: Attitude (Episode #51)

July 26, 2016 by balzerdesigns 1 Comment

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I’m delighted to bring you another episode of the Adventures in Arting Podcast! Today’s episode covers a lot of ground. I titled it “Attitude” because I was trying to think how to capture all the disparate strands of our conversation and in the end I decided that they all boiled down to attitude. Much like yesterday’s blog post — which we discuss on today’s podcast and I share some reader comments — attitude is one of the determining factors to contentment with what you create and even who you are.

Here are two links to things we discussed:

Mary Delany — I am planning to do a full blog post about her, but here’s one photo of her work in the meantime:

My new “just for fun” instagram account: whatjulieate:

There have been some really fantastic listener comments lately, so next podcast (two weeks from now) we are going to do a show based on all of those awesome ideas and questions! If you want to add your thoughts, we’d love to include them in our conversation, so leave us a comment!

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