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Spend a few minutes thinking of all the terrible stereotypes of artists and see how angry or sad you get. While you certainly may know a person or two who fits into those spaces, the stereotype is definitely not where you want to spend your time. Now think of all the terrible stereotypes of entrepreneurs; ...

You’ve seen his work almost everywhere during your entire life, but you have likely never heard his name. Saul Bass’s career started when he was young and only came more prolific as he worked on some of history’s most iconic logos, film title sequences and eventually became one of Hollywood’s most sought-after visual stylists. From ...

In any given day, we are likely to come across more information and more content than our ancestors may have experienced in a year or several years or maybe even their lives. We are constantly being handed things to discover, ideas to interpret and news to accept without a second thought. We are saturated by ...

In any given day, we are likely to come across more information and more content than our ancestors may have experienced in a year or several years or maybe even their lives. We are constantly being handed things to discover, ideas to interpret and news to accept without a second thought. We are saturated by ...

In any given day, we are likely to come across more information and more content than our ancestors may have experienced in a year or several years or maybe even their lives. We are constantly being handed things to discover, ideas to interpret and news to accept without a second thought. We are saturated by ...

You’ve heard us say it at least a few times on this podcast: art and design. These two fields are so closely aligned, but can seem miles apart from one another. Historically, we see the separation of design from the larger body of art around the middle of the nineteenth century, but the fracturing in ...

During art school, having someone come into your studio and talk about your work seems like a normal thing: your friends come in, your studiomates come in, and your professors come in. But after graduation, when the studio is in your home, or in your backyard, those visits are fewer and farther between. Outside of ...

Milton Glaser is easily one of the three best known graphic designers in the United States, and his storied career has been marked by a constant pursuit of art and craft. He has had the distinction of one-man-shows at the Museum of Modern Art and the Georges Pompidou Center. He was selected for the lifetime ...

We see every episode as a chance to open up a conversation and provide a few handles so you can dig deeper into the ideas or thoughts we present. We never expect to be comprehensive in how we approach a topic. We are just a few folks with experiences and knowledge that we want to ...

As with everything else we talk about, a deep dive into freewill implicates a number of assumptions and ideas that we have about how and why the world works. Something simple has many moving parts, so it follows that something more complex (like the concept of freewill) has so many more including choice, responsibility, hiding, blame shifting and more. This week, Ryan and Garreth sit down to talk again about choice and how much of it we actually have. They are joined by friend of the gallery, Cody Godwin. Cody has been a part of Shockoe Artspace for over ten years and brings a wealth of insight and knowledge to the arts and how it relates to culture at all levels. We are on Patreon!All of our episodes are sponsored by all the fantastic people we are pleased to call our listeners. You’ve all been a great audience and we want to give you more: more content, more types of shows, and more in-depth talks with more of your favorite artists and designers. Even $1.00 a month can make a huge difference. Check out more at patreon.com/shockoeartspace. Stream our documentary The Builder!For a limited time, our documentary The Builder is available to stream on Vimeo! The film centers on the art scene in Richmond, Virginia, with a focus on Oregon Hill native and contractor Don Childress, who–to the surprise of many–has an incredible contemporary art collection. This collection includes work from Francisco Clemente, Ron Johnson, and Bill Fisher to name just a few. Check out more at The Builder’s website. Help Ken Gilbertson and Hatchback Gallery!Our good friend Ken is trying to update Hatchback Gallery to better serve his new city and its art lovers. While he won’t let anyone touch the outside of the gallery, he does want to get a few new parts and build some new walls. We are helping Ken launch a GoFundMe; even a few bucks can be a big help!

For most of the world, it is assumed that everyday when we wake up we retain all the agency and choice for our lives. We choose our future, we choose our jobs, we choose our friends, and we choose where we live. We believe–as the poet William Ernest Henley wrote and Winston Churchill mused–that we are the masters of our own fate. But what is freewill and how might it actually function? Or maybe it’s just a fever dream that doesn’t exist. This week, Ryan and Garreth sit down to talk about choice and how much of it we actually have. How we view freewill impacts what we do in life, how we make, and what our studio practice actually looks like. While the idea of unmitigated freewill is thrown around a lot in conversations by people with a lot of education and very little difficulty in life, our actions and the reality of the world we live in pushes against this no-holds-barred view we have of personal freedom, choice and how we can impact a world that existed long before we did. We are on Patreon!All of our episodes are sponsored by all the fantastic people we are pleased to call our listeners. You’ve all been a great audience and we want to give you more: more content, more types of shows, and more in-depth talks with more of your favorite artists and designers. Even $1.00 a month can make a huge difference. Check out more at patreon.com/shockoeartspace. Stream our documentary The Builder!For a limited time, our documentary The Builder is available to stream on Vimeo! The film centers on the art scene in Richmond, Virginia, with a focus on Oregon Hill native and contractor Don Childress, who–to the surprise of many–has an incredible contemporary art collection. This collection includes work from Francisco Clemente, Ron Johnson, and Bill Fisher to name just a few. Check out more at The Builder’s website. Help Ken Gilbertson and Hatchback Gallery!Our good friend Ken is trying to update Hatchback Gallery to better serve his new city and its art lovers. While he won’t let anyone touch the outside of the gallery, he does want to get a few new parts and build some new walls. We are helping Ken launch a GoFundMe; even a few bucks can be a big help!

We’ve all come across someone in life who we thought was just a bit too serious. And we’ve all come across other folks who were never serious enough. We know these folks, and what each leaning is missing is a nice mixture of humor and seriousness. It is actually possible (and some might argue preferable) to live your life in such a way that you can think deeply on a subject and still maintain enough humor to live with joy. We’d like to think we embody a bit of that on this podcast, at least in our best moments. This week, Ryan and Garreth sit down to clear up some of the differences between serious thinking and overly serious living. While we tend to lean one way, it is good to balance out whichever side of the equation you naturally lean into. We thought today would be a great chance to talk about this, because we don’t want anyone thinking that we are setting up a way of seeing the world that doesn’t have room for a bit of levity. We are on Patreon!All of our episodes are sponsored by all the fantastic people we are pleased to call our listeners. You’ve all been a great audience and we want to give you more: more content, more types of shows, and more in-depth talks with more of your favorite artists and designers. Even $1.00 a month can make a huge difference. Check out more at patreon.com/shockoeartspace. Stream our documentary The Builder!For a limited time, our documentary The Builder is available to stream on Vimeo! The film centers on the art scene in Richmond, Virginia, with a focus on Oregon Hill native and contractor Don Childress, who–to the surprise of many–has an incredible contemporary art collection. This collection includes work from Francisco Clemente, Ron Johnson, and Bill Fisher to name just a few. Check out more at The Builder’s website. Help Ken Gilbertson and Hatchback Gallery!Our good friend Ken is trying to update Hatchback Gallery to better serve his new city and its art lovers. While he won’t let anyone touch the outside of the gallery, he does want to get a few new parts and build some new walls. We are helping Ken launch a GoFundMe; even a few bucks can be a big help!

What’s a job anyway? Some folks are brought up thinking it’s just a thing we do in between sleeping. We always get asked what we’re going to do when we grow up, but did anyone ever really talk about how that choice happens? Or if it is even a choice at all? Whatever the case may be, the work we fill our days with has a lot of bearing on our lives. It’s the activities we define ourselves by, and it’s the worth we often apply to ourselves and others. There’s probably a large margin of error wrapped up in thinking about things this way; perhaps, there’s a bit more to it. This week, Ryan and Garreth sit down to discuss something more than a job. Calling, vocation, work, job, career: these are not different words for the same thing. Even though we may intuitively know this, we still have a tendency to use them interchangeably. But what do they actually mean? And how can we think better about their differences? We are on Patreon!All of our episodes are sponsored by all the fantastic people we are pleased to call our listeners. You’ve all been a great audience and we want to give you more: more content, more types of shows, and more in-depth talks with more of your favorite artists and designers. Even $1.00 a month can make a huge difference. Check out more at patreon.com/shockoeartspace. Stream our documentary The Builder!For a limited time, our documentary The Builder is available to stream on Vimeo! The film centers on the art scene in Richmond, Virginia, with a focus on Oregon Hill native and contractor Don Childress, who–to the surprise of many–has an incredible contemporary art collection. This collection includes work from Francisco Clemente, Ron Johnson, and Bill Fisher to name just a few. Check out more at The Builder’s website. Help Ken Gilbertson and Hatchback Gallery!Our good friend Ken is trying to update Hatchback Gallery to better serve his new city and its art lovers. While he won’t let anyone touch the outside of the gallery, he does want to get a few new parts and build some new walls. We are helping Ken launch a GoFundMe; even a few bucks can be a big help!

The thing about Twitter is that, just like Dave Chappelle said, it’s not a real place. Sure, you can grab a headline or string together a few sentences into a thread, but at the end of the day it’s just another virtual space with disembodied experiences. Twitter may live on as the internet’s comment section, but it’s never going to take the place of solid, well-formed art criticism. But a few people haven’t gotten the memo. This week, Ryan and Garreth (at least as much as his voice can stand) sit down to introduce a new semi-regular segment to the show. In Deconstructing Jerry’s Tweets, they discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of the constant stream of critical thoughts that a certain New York critic throws out into the Twitterverse. We are on Patreon!All of our episodes are sponsored by all the fantastic people we are pleased to call our listeners. You’ve all been a great audience and we want to give you more: more content, more types of shows, and more in-depth talks with more of your favorite artists and designers. Even $1.00 a month can make a huge difference. Check out more at patreon.com/shockoeartspace. Stream our documentary The Builder!For a limited time, our documentary The Builder is available to stream on Vimeo! The film centers on the art scene in Richmond, Virginia, with a focus on Oregon Hill native and contractor Don Childress, who–to the surprise of many–has an incredible contemporary art collection. This collection includes work from Francisco Clemente, Ron Johnson, and Bill Fisher to name just a few. Check out more at The Builder’s website. Help Ken Gilbertson and Hatchback Gallery!Our good friend Ken is trying to update Hatchback Gallery to better serve his new city and its art lovers. While he won’t let anyone touch the outside of the gallery, he does want to get a few new parts and build some new walls. We are helping Ken launch a GoFundMe; even a few bucks can be a big help!

Here we are in 2022, and we are pumped to be throwing more great conversation and topics your way. After a few weeks off and Garreth losing his voice, it is time to get back into the studio and focus on what it is we are doing as creative professionals and why it matters so much. And not just to us as practitioners, but to a world that is starving for the work we do. This week, Ryan and Garreth sit down to open up a fresh can of worms: calling. This is something a lot of us feel, but not very many of us can understand it. That weird something that keeps bringing you back to creative work, that feels stretched and limber when you use your hands to create something, that feeling that just feels satisfied when you are in the studio listening to us and making great stuff. It’s a hairy beast of a topic, but we love those things. Strap in; we’ve got a few rounds to go with this one. We are on Patreon!All of our episodes are sponsored by all the fantastic people we are pleased to call our listeners. You’ve all been a great audience and we want to give you more: more content, more types of shows, and more in-depth talks with more of your favorite artists and designers. Even $1.00 a month can make a huge difference. Check out more at patreon.com/shockoeartspace. Stream our documentary The Builder!For a limited time, our documentary The Builder is available to stream on Vimeo! The film centers on the art scene in Richmond, Virginia, with a focus on Oregon Hill native and contractor Don Childress, who–to the surprise of many–has an incredible contemporary art collection. This collection includes work from Francisco Clemente, Ron Johnson, and Bill Fisher to name just a few. Check out more at The Builder’s website. Help Ken Gilbertson and Hatchback Gallery!Our good friend Ken is trying to update Hatchback Gallery to better serve his new city and its art lovers. While he won’t let anyone touch the outside of the gallery, he does want to get a few new parts and build some new walls. We are helping Ken launch a GoFundMe; even a few bucks can be a big help!

Like most of y’all, we spend the end of our year thinking back and dreaming forward. New Year’s Resolutions, or whatever you may call them, are fun ways to think about what the next twelve months may have in store. They are also good ways to plan for the work you hope to do. This week, Ryan and Garreth sit down to talk with fashion designer, painter and entrepreneur Alexander Britto about his work, his drive and we even throw in a live collaborative thinking session. Every relationship is an opportunity to merge your practice and skillset with another artist or designer. After all, if we are to know and be know by other artists, we will have to work across our boundaries to make new things. We are on Patreon!All of our episodes are sponsored by all the fantastic people we are pleased to call our listeners. You’ve all been a great audience and we want to give you more: more content, more types of shows, and more in-depth talks with more of your favorite artists and designers. Even $1.00 a month can make a huge difference. Check out more at patreon.com/shockoeartspace. Stream our documentary The Builder!For a limited time, our documentary The Builder is available to stream on Vimeo! The film centers on the art scene in Richmond, Virginia, with a focus on Oregon Hill native and contractor Don Childress, who–to the surprise of many–has an incredible contemporary art collection. This collection includes work from Francisco Clemente, Ron Johnson, and Bill Fisher to name just a few. Check out more at The Builder’s website. Help Ken Gilbertson and Hatchback Gallery!Our good friend Ken is trying to update Hatchback Gallery to better serve his new city and its art lovers. While he won’t let anyone touch the outside of the gallery, he does want to get a few new parts and build some new walls. We are helping Ken launch a GoFundMe; even a few bucks can be a big help!

Here we are folks: we’ve finally made it to Christmas, and everyone deserves a break. We thought 2021 would be a rebound from 2020, but it was just as hard. Just like you, we will be taking a break, but we have a bit more in store before that happens. This week, Ryan and Garreth talk about upcoming episodes in 2022 and discuss their wishlists for a few things they would love to see under the tree. And we can’t forget all the gratitude and appreciation we have for our amazing audience. We wouldn’t be doin this without you all…so THANK YOU! We are on Patreon!All of our episodes are sponsored by all the fantastic people we are pleased to call our listeners. You’ve all been a great audience and we want to give you more: more content, more types of shows, and more in-depth talks with more of your favorite artists and designers. Even $1.00 a month can make a huge difference. Check out more at patreon.com/shockoeartspace. Stream our documentary The Builder!For a limited time, our documentary The Builder is available to stream on Vimeo! The film centers on the art scene in Richmond, Virginia, with a focus on Oregon Hill native and contractor Don Childress, who–to the surprise of many–has an incredible contemporary art collection. This collection includes work from Francisco Clemente, Ron Johnson, and Bill Fisher to name just a few. Check out more at The Builder’s website. Help Ken Gilbertson and Hatchback Gallery!Our good friend Ken is trying to update Hatchback Gallery to better serve his new city and its art lovers. While he won’t let anyone touch the outside of the gallery, he does want to get a few new parts and build some new walls. We are helping Ken launch a GoFundMe; even a few bucks can be a big help!

We’ve always handed out our fair share of satellite brain debris, and this episode is no different, except that we have someone else who can roll with it just as easily. The thing about this debris is that it isn’t useless. The influences, thoughts, memories and connections we call brain debris are really just the cataloguing of all the things that one day may become a part of the work we make. It is difficult to be an artist, and it is impossible without a backlog of sources to draw from and create in relationship to. Our artist this week proves that point well. This week, Ryan and Garreth sit down with Maryland painter and educator Lindsay McCulloch into the studio to talk about the ’80s, the glisten of Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse and how her painting talks about time. Lindsay’s work blurs the boundaries between two-dimensional and three-dimensional space, between layered flatness and 2D interjections. Her work can be seen at Shockoe Artspace until the end of February 2022. We are on Patreon!All of our episodes are sponsored by all the fantastic people we are pleased to call our listeners. You’ve all been a great audience and we want to give you more: more content, more types of shows, and more in-depth talks with more of your favorite artists and designers. Even $1.00 a month can make a huge difference. Check out more at patreon.com/shockoeartspace. Stream our documentary The Builder!For a limited time, our documentary The Builder is available to stream on Vimeo! The film centers on the art scene in Richmond, Virginia, with a focus on Oregon Hill native and contractor Don Childress, who–to the surprise of many–has an incredible contemporary art collection. This collection includes work from Francisco Clemente, Ron Johnson, and Bill Fisher to name just a few. Check out more at The Builder’s website. Help Ken Gilbertson and Hatchback Gallery!Our good friend Ken is trying to update Hatchback Gallery to better serve his new city and its art lovers. While he won’t let anyone touch the outside of the gallery, he does want to get a few new parts and build some new walls. We are helping Ken launch a GoFundMe; even a few bucks can be a big help!

There is a great deal of mythology and mysticism that surrounds the arts, especially when it comes to suffering and death. For centuries artists have been seen as tortured individuals who have a special sense about life or unique view into death. Art works from around the globe show depictions of the most normal and human activity: death. So what is it about death? What does it mean to engage with this topic? And why does it seem artists have a particular ability to see and understand loss? This week Ryan and Garreth are joined once again in the studio by painters Ian C. Hess and Miguel Carter-Fisher to talk about the suffering and death in art. The first three episodes on this topic were such a hit that we had the gang come back together to go deeper with what a world without these things might be like. Help us grow on Patreon!You’ve all been a great audience and we want to give you more: more content, more types of shows, and more in-depth talks with more of your favorite artists and designers. Check out the great incentives we have for our patrons, because even $1.00 a month can make a huge difference. Check out more at patreon.com/shockoeartspace. Stream our documentary The Builder!Our award-winning film centers on the art scene in Richmond, Virginia, with a focus on Oregon Hill native and contractor Don Childress, who–to the surprise of many–has an incredible contemporary art collection. This collection includes work from Francisco Clemente, Ron Johnson, and Bill Fisher to name just a few. Check out more on Vimeo!

There is a great deal of mythology and mysticism that surrounds the arts, especially when it comes to suffering and death. For centuries artists have been seen as tortured individuals who have a special sense about life or unique view into death. Art works from around the globe show depictions of the most normal and human activity: death. So what is it about death? What does it mean to engage with this topic? And why does it seem artists have a particular ability to see and understand loss? This week Ryan and Garreth are joined once again in the studio by painters Ian C. Hess and Miguel Carter-Fisher to talk about the suffering and death in art. The first two episodes on this topic were such a hit that we had the gang come back together to go deeper with ways forward in a world with so much suffering and death. Help us grow on Patreon!You’ve all been a great audience and we want to give you more: more content, more types of shows, and more in-depth talks with more of your favorite artists and designers. Check out the great incentives we have for our patrons, because even $1.00 a month can make a huge difference. Check out more at patreon.com/shockoeartspace. Stream our documentary The Builder!Our award-winning film centers on the art scene in Richmond, Virginia, with a focus on Oregon Hill native and contractor Don Childress, who–to the surprise of many–has an incredible contemporary art collection. This collection includes work from Francisco Clemente, Ron Johnson, and Bill Fisher to name just a few. Check out more on Vimeo!