The Light Grey Art Lab Podcast

On this week's podcast, Lindsay, Chris, and Jenny talk about that moment you realize you've found your people. The people that, until that moment, you might not have realized even existed, but who share all the same obsessive and esoteric interests as you. When should you wear your heart on your sleeve, keep a few secrets when creating a dating profile, or reveal the number of cats you own to the world?

This week's podcast features Teagan White's artist lecture, which took place at Light Grey Art Lab this past Friday, prior to the Patches + Stitches Opening Reception. Teagan is a freelance illustrator, who does commercial work, children's books, and gallery work, with clients ranging from Penguin Random House, Nike, and Wired Magazine. Teagan's work gravitates to nature-inspired imagery, and she talks about her connection to the natural world, how she gathers inspiration, and how she balances her client work with personal exploration.

Patches + Stitches opens this week, and the juxtaposition between gritty themes and traditional craft techniques has Lindsay, Chris and Jenny asking just what it takes to be a tough granny. We discuss our grandma/grandpa personas, the divide between art and craft, and what it takes to transition between the two.

We're back from Light Grey Art Camp, an artist retreat to Bryce Canyon and Zion, Utah! After a fun-filled week of hiking, drawing, adventure, and slowly drying out in the arid desert heat, Lindsay, Jenny, and Chris reflect on our experiences of traveling with a group of artists, seeing the night sky in perfect clarity, and the joys of pushing past your comfort zone.

We've been busy studying astral bodies as we create the oracle deck guidebook for the Cosmos project, while simultaneously packing and planning for next week's Light Grey Art Camp at Bryce Canyon & Zion, Utah. We're eyeballs deep in the symbology, science, and mythology of the heavens, and on this week's podcast we talk about the process of working on through the Cosmos project, finding and interpreting celestial metaphors, and what it means when you're looking to stars for guidance.

We've got travel, workshops, residencies, and more coming up in the very near future and on this week's podcast Lindsay, Jenny, and Chris talk about preparing for adventure. Starting with our questionable choice in clothing, we branch out into predicting and solving possible problems, avoiding danger, and being open to veering off the script. True adventure means encountering the unexpected, and we celebrate that chaotic fact before we embark on our own summer excursions!

On this week's podcast, Jenny FINALLY reveals what was buried in the shallow grave hidden in her backyard! This shocking revelation leads us into a conversation about time capsules, precious collections, and the importance of remembering, and why you should peep into stranger's windows at night.

This week's podcast features Sam Bosma's artist lecture, which took place at Light Grey Art Lab this past Friday, prior to the Iceland Residency Exhibition Opening Reception. Sam Bosma is an illustrator and comic artist who's work has won awards from the Society of Illustrators, Spectrum Fantastic Art, and the Ignatz Committee, as well as being nominated for an Annie Award for his work on Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe. Sam talks about his progress as an artist, moving between illustration, animation, and comics, his process and inspirations, and more.

New and exciting things are always happening in the world of art; people are innovating, movements are happening, and ideas are being shared. On this week's podcast, Jenny, Lindsay, and Chris talk about ownership. When is an original idea no longer original, and hen do you claim ownership over an idea, a piece of artwork, or an experience?

As our current exhibition, Guts: What Lies Within, comes to a close, we decided to take the topic in a more literal direction, and reached out to Pajau (PJ) Vangay, a researcher who's working on her PhD in Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology. A lot of PJ's research revolves around our guts, or more specifically the microbes within them. On this week's podcast Lindsay and Jenny pick PJ's brain about all kinds of guts-related topics, like how our fixation on cleanliness might be changing our bodies, fecal transplants, how your microbiome might shape your life more thank you know, and how your pets can help build a microbiological bridge to a loved one, and more.

The summer is almost upon us, and people are thinking about new jobs, new paths, and new projects! With half of us being teachers, there's a lot of questions and anticipation flying around and it's got us thinking; how much agency do you really have when starting, and advancing, your professional career? On this week's podcast, Jenny, Lindsay, and Chris talk about searching out options, making goals, knowing what's right for you, and happy circumstances.

On this week's podcast, Jenny, Chris, and Lindsay talk about what, if anything, constitutes a waste of time? How do you balance and keep from dedicating too much time to anything unworthy of your master plan? We touch on failed projects vs experimentation, recreation vs practice, and planning vs execution, plus a whole lot more.

The Guts exhibition is finally here, and on this week's podcast we talk to featured artist Lana Crooks. Lana is a member of the OhNo!Doom collective and gallery director for Clutter Gallery. She constructs creatures from fabrics and found objects as a textile sculptor and purveyor of faux specimens and soft curiosities. We talk with Lana about everything from her past, her process, her thoughts on mixing client work and gallery work, and much, much more.

Our new exhibition Guts opens this weekend, a show all about what lies within. This has us thinking about the similarities between preparing food and preparing an exhibition. On this week's podcast, Jenny, Lindsay, and Chris talk about working with the ingredients you have, what counts as 'fat' and how much of the process should be visible on the end consumer.

The Light Grey team has spent the last few weekends speaking on several convention panels about art, games, publishing, and community projects. Convention panels are a wonderful place for sparking insightful discourse between knowledgeable peers. On the other side of the coin, there's a lot of ways that a conversation with complete strangers in front of a crowd of even more strangers can go off the rails and crash and burn. On this week's podcast, Chris, Jenny, and Lindsay plan their contingency plans in case of a panel emergency.