The Light Grey Art Lab Podcast

The holidays are upon us and it's time for festive parties, family excursions, group activities, and plenty of cutthroat competition! What better way to liven up your next holiday jubilee than to pull out a rousing boardgame for all to enjoy! On this week's podcast, Lindsay, Chris and Jenny share a slew of our favorite board/card/tabletop games for every situation imaginable. If you're looking for your next party hit, a game that's good for the whole family, or something to play with your significant other on a chilly night, we've got you covered with plenty of recommendations that are sure to please!

On this week's podcast, Jenny, Francesca, Lindsay and Chris talk about the good, the bad, and the awkward. We cover a range of topic, such as the sacrifices it takes to do what you love, forcing yourself to network and meet new people even if it goes against your hermit-like tendencies, the joys of a shared distraction, and much more.

Thanksgiving is over in Minneapolis and now the Light Grey Art Lab team is cold, overbooked, overstuffed, overstressed and SOME of us are already sick of this long, frosty season. On this week's podcast, Lindsay, Francesca, and Chris talk about our own remedies for staying cheery in this season of joylessness and our plans to tackle this godforsaken time of forced reflection and solitude.

Lady Luck can be a cruel mistress and after a string of bad luck, Lindsay, Chris and Francesca chat about that wild dice roll we call life. When it comes to your career, your health, your love life, and your D&D sessions, sometimes you strike it rich and sometimes you fall right down a treacherous ravine.

Estimation is a difficult but crucial skill for an artist for hire. It helps determine the worth of your time, the feasibility of a project, and shapes how you are able to build your career. On this week's podcast, Lindsay, Jenny, Chris, and Francesca talk about estimating for clients, for scheduling, for grant writing, and for your own sanity.

After spending the week reading dozens of artist statements from both well-established professional artists and new students, Jenny, Chris, Lindsay, and Francesca discuss the specificities of being specific. From art making to grant writing to career planning, being specific can help you set goals, define your schedule, and understand your own work.

Who is the coolest old man; Patrick Stewart or John Cleese? Or maybe it's David Attenborough? Of course, the answer is nearly impossible for our brains to process, but on this week's podcast we share a method of comparison that could help you reason it out for yourself. Alternatively, it could be used to determine what city you should move to, what's the next job you should take, or which project on your endless to-do list you should tackle next.

Halloween is nearly upon us, and the Light Grey team are getting in the mood for fright! On this week's podcast, Lindsay, Jenny, Chris, and Francesca talk about what they do to get in the spooky spirit. That leads us to think about things we can do to set the mood for other occasions, like hunkering down for a productive work session, or getting in the mood to be outgoing and social when all you really want to do is sit in your pajamas and draw all night.

On this week's podcast Jenny, Chris, Lindsay, and Francesca talk about the art of quick introductions. How do you sum up who you are and what you do - to your grandmother, an interested peer, or just a stranger on an elevator - in just a sentence or two? How do you see yourself, what language is able to cross barriers, and when is too much information really too much? We share out thoughts and talk about some odd situations where we've had to condense our personality and life experiences into 15 minutes or less.

Skate Or Die is here! And on this week's podcast, Lindsay, Chris, Francesca, and Jenny talk about the days and weeks leading up the final reveal for 60 hand-decaled, artist-designed skateboard decks. We talk about the inception of the project, our history with skateboarding, and the physical process of making the boards for the exhibition.

On this week's podcast, Lindsay, Francesca, and Chris talk about everyone's favorite place for public discourse on the internet, the comments section! We discuss why comments sections are an unending supply of joy (or anger, depending on the person), how Facebook integration changed comments forever, and Francesca shares her wild ride into the world of owning and operating her very own forum!

On this week's podcast, Lindsay and Chris discuss how they ALMOST got a new kitten... which leads into a winding conversation about pets, obsessive collections, hobbies for retirement, building secret passages, and the amazingly clever adventures of Encyclopedia Brown.

On this week's podcast Lindsay, Jenny, Chris, and Francesca talk about the life you miss while you're working... or the work you miss while you're living. Some people dedicate themselves to a singular goal, while others find a balance. How do you decide what your highest priorities should be, what are the different things that make a person feel fulfilled, and how much time do you dedicate to a project before it's taken up too much space?

Dream Arcade is FINALLY HERE! On this week's podcast, Chris, Lindsay, Jenny, and Francesca are once again joined by Dream Arcade super-friend Ian Gorton. The morning after Dream Arcade's opening reception, we reflect on the final hours leading up the big reveal (spoiler alert: we didn't sleep and it was very tense). We share our pulse-pounding thoughts, our flirtations with disaster, and our eventual success! It was a whirlwind adventure and there's plenty to talk about, and we end the show with a few thoughts about what comes next - from taking a moment for a little R&R, to new projects, to possible next-steps after Dream Arcade!

We're working around the clock to put the finishing touches on Dream Arcade, and on this week's podcast we take a break to talk about… more videogames! Chris, Francesca, Ian, and Lindsay gather around to talk about our first experiences with games, share some of the videogames especially close to our hearts, discuss our thoughts on making games, and lots more.