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What’s Happening at Miami Art Week 2025: Artist Takeaways from Art Basel, NADA, Untitled & SCOPE

If you’ve been watching the Miami energy from afar and wondering what it all means for your studio practice, this episode gives you the trends, themes, and takeaways that actually matter for artists. In this episode, Erika covers: • The big-picture trends shaping Miami Art Week 2025: – Institutional validation and residencies becoming more influential – The shift toward sustainable careers and long-term practice – Experiential installations dominating many fairs – Latin

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This week's Featured Artist:

Each month, we proudly feature incredible artists from around the world on our site. Dive into their world through online interviews and get a behind-the-scenes look at their studios with our exclusive video tours!

Artist Danielle Mysliwiec

Danielle Mysliwiec holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from Hunter College. Mysliwiec has participated in exhibitions at Asya Geisberg Gallery, Good Naked, Brintz+County, Untitled Art Fair, The Peale Museum, McKenzie Fine Art, Transmitter, Mixed Greens, Novella, Vox Populi, Kent State University, and The Center for Craft among other venues. Mysliwiec’s paintings have been featured and reviewed in publications including The Brooklyn Rail, Maake Magazine, New America

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What’s Happening at Miami Art Week 2025: Artist Takeaways from Art Basel, NADA, Untitled & SCOPE

If you’ve been watching the Miami energy from afar and wondering what it all means for your studio practice, this episode gives you the trends, themes, and takeaways that actually matter for artists. In this episode, Erika covers: • The big-picture trends shaping Miami Art Week 2025: – Institutional validation and residencies becoming more influential – The shift toward sustainable careers and long-term practice – Experiential installations dominating many fairs – Latin

Podcast Interview

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Italian Journey: Corot, Goethe & the Self We Discover

In this episode, Erika explores how observation, travel, and memory shape artistic practice, inspired by her upcoming class in Italy, The Symbolic Landscape . Drawing from Corot’s plein air studies and Goethe’s Italian Journey , she reflects on how artists discover themselves through what they see—whether in a distant landscape or a simple daily moment. The episode invites listeners to make space for beauty and reflection, wherever they are, and to see art as both a return

Podcast Interview

Nov 28

Understanding Your Experience with Painter Gail Spaien

Gail Spaien (b. 1958, Hartford, Connecticut) is an American artist and educator based in Maine. Her studio practice centers around the idea that a painting is a site of connection; an object that transmits emotion from one person to another. She is of a lineage of artists who think craft and beauty shape and build a more relational world. Spaien has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Ucross Foundation (2024), Varda Artist Residency Program, Djerassi Fo

Podcast Interview

Nov 21

Most Overlooked Area in Open Calls

In this episode, I'm diving into open calls including what jurors look for when reviewing applications, and why the description box is crucial for providing context about your artwork. I'm also sharing practical tips on how artists can use detailed descriptions to make their submissions stand out and highlighting resources for artists to improve their application process. I Like Your Work Links: Thank you to our sponsor, Sunlight Tax. https://www.sunlighttax.com Apply

Podcast Interview

Nov 14

The Life of Objects with Painter Gwen Strahle

Gwen Strahle is a painter living and working in northeast CT. She teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. She shows her work at Nancy Devine Gallery in RI. Strahle has received several awards including the Connecticut Artist Fellowship, the Purchase Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Honorarium from the Drawing Center. Strahle earned her MFA from Yale University in 1983. "I have been making paintings of objects arrange

Podcast Interview

Nov 7

Mystery and Philip Guston

In this episode, I touch on mystery in art—the space between knowing and not knowing that drives us to create and share Philip Guston’s essay “Faith, Hope, and Impossibility”. Faith, Hope, and Impossibility- Philip Guston “There are so many things in the world—in the cities—so much to see. Does art need to represent this variety and contribute to its proliferation? Can art be that free? The difficulties begin when you understand what it is that the soul will not permit the h

Podcast Interview

Oct 31

Exploring Cyanotype Printing and Mushrooms with Madge Evers

Madge Evers (b. 1961, Norwalk, CT) explores the transformative cycles of dormancy, decay, and ecstatic growth in plant life. Her work combines alternative photography, mushroom spores, and painting to depict landscape details and imagined flora. Evers earned a BA from Suffolk University in Boston and an MA from the University of Rhode Island. Her work has been exhibited at the New Britain Museum of American Art (CT), Danforth Museum of Art (Framingham, MA), Brattleboro Museum

Season 8

Oct 24

Say Yes: Painting, Printmaking and Murals with Artist Joseph Wardwell

Joe Wardwell is currently a Professor of Painting at Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) and is the founder the Brandeis-in-Siena program....

Podcast Interview

Oct 10

Finding Stability as an Artist: Truths and Lies

In this mini episode of I Like Your Work, I'm talking about the myths and limiting beliefs that often hold artists back. I'm also...

Podcast Interview

Oct 3

Susan Klein on Collaboration, Color, and Creative Process

Susan Klein is an artist living in Charleston, SC. Recent exhibitions include I Should Have Been a Pair of Ragged Claws at the Wassaic...

Podcast Interview

Sep 26

This week on the Podcast:

What’s Happening at Miami Art Week 2025: Artist Takeaways from Art Basel, NADA, Untitled & SCOPE

This week's Featured Artist:

Artist Danielle Mysliwiec

I believe in supporting artists by creating space and resources for them to thrive Enrollment for 2025 has ended

Our Recent Episodes

What’s Happening at Miami Art Week 2025: Artist Takeaways from Art Basel, NADA, Untitled & SCOPE

Italian Journey: Corot, Goethe & the Self We Discover

Understanding Your Experience with Painter Gail Spaien

Most Overlooked Area in Open Calls

The Life of Objects with Painter Gwen Strahle

Mystery and Philip Guston

Exploring Cyanotype Printing and Mushrooms with Madge Evers

Say Yes: Painting, Printmaking and Murals with Artist Joseph Wardwell

Finding Stability as an Artist: Truths and Lies

Susan Klein on Collaboration, Color, and Creative Process

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