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Casual conversations with artists, musicians, farmers and so many other creative, fascinating folks from southeast Minnesota. Let's find out how they got here, what inspires them, what challenges them and how they work.
A Brush With Life is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeast Minnesota Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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#27 Hawk Talk - with Kirk Payne
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!Kirk Payne is enraptured by raptors! Kirk is a practitioner of the ancient sport of Falconry - training wild hawks to hunt for quarry. He is also an…
S2E26 #26 Metamorphosis into Iron Butterfly - with Deb Majerus & Joel McDonald
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!Deb Majerus and Joel McDonald share the surprising story of love and flowers literally growing out of the ashes, as they launched Iron Butterfly Flower…
S2E25 #25 Making a Great Impression- With Tamsin Barlow
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!Tamsin Barlow is a full-time Printmaker and Painter, who also squeezes in a couple of hours teaching Zumba exercise classes every week.She painstakingly…
#24 Going Wild - with Jeff Feece
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!Jeff Feece lives right in in the city, but he can listen to the tree frogs trilling at night, watch hawks hunting in his back yard and he sometimes finds…
S2E23 #23 - Bucking Tradition, with Cassandra Buck
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!Cassandra Buck never met an art medium she didn't love. She is a painter, muralist, jewelry-maker, weaver, embroiderer, and more - and she often combines…
S1E22 #22 - Extreme Green - With Robin Greenfield
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here! "Be the Change You Wish to See in the World." That pretty much sums up Robin Greenfield's life and philosophy. Once a successful businessman and aspiring…
S2E21 #21 Fiddling Around - with Teresa Walter
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!Teresa Walter grew up playing classical violin, and she was really good at it, but she took a 20-year hiatus from music to focus on family and career.…
S1E21 Happy Holidays, Dear Listeners!
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!It has been so much fun creating these podcasts, interviewing so many fascinating folks, and sharing the conversations with you! I appreciate you, all of…
S1E20 #20 - The Road to Crossings at Carnegie - with Marie Marvin
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!With plenty of guts and gusto, Marie Marvin turned an old Carnegie Library in Zumbrota, MN, into a hub of creativity. The building was bursting with…
S1E19 #19 Siren Songs - Of Trombones & Mermaids, with John Sievers
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!John Sievers is not one to toot his own horn, but he does let it slide. John is a trombonist who plays in many bands, a poet who writes a haiku a day, an…
S1E18 #18 Enamored by Enamel, with Amy Johnson
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!Amy Johnson is an enamel artist who creates copper and silver jewelry with gorgeous, colorful glass designs fused to the surface. Amy tells us how she …
S1E17 #17 - Little Homestead in the City - with Heidi Kern
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!As a young girl, Heidi Kern was inspired by "Little House on the Prairie" and dreamed of creating a self-sufficient life where she grew all her own food…
S1E16 #16 - Well-Versed in Community - with Jean Prokott
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!Jean Prokott is Rochester, MInesota's Poet Laureate! As the community's official artistic wordsmith, she writes poems for community events and creates an…
S1E15 #15 - It's a Big World -with Oliver Books
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!Oliver Books is passionate about all things sound. He is a singer-songwriter who performs solo and in a 7-member band called Oliver Books and The Big,…
S1E14 #14 - Raising Her Voice - with Leann Eriksson
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!LeAnn Eriksson speaks softly but carries a big voice. Music has always been a huge part of her life, beginning with growing up on an Iowa farm, playing…
S1E13 #13 - Dreaming, Playing and Creating with Susan Davies
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!Susan M. Davies Sue Davies is a painter who approaches her work from many directions - abstract, animals, landscape, sumi-e,meditative, whimsical...but…
S1E12 #12 - The Zen of Daring to Be Darin - with Darin Podulke-Smith
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!Darin Podulke-Smith is an artist, improv actor, stained-glass creator, banjo-player and Buddhist priest. In this episode, we talk to Darin about banjo…
S1E11 #11 - Deb D'Souza - Putting the Pieces Together
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!Artist Deb D'Souza is devoted to the ancient art of mosaic and has traveled the world to study it, but she also incorporates innovative techniques. …
S1E10 #10 - Eva Barr, the Dream Acres Dream Maker
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!Eva Barr puts the culture in agriculture! Eva and her partner Todd started Dream Acres Farm, near Wykoff, Minnesota, as a land collective where they…
S1E9 #9 Drawing Us In- with Lynette Yencho
Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!Lynette Yencho has a lifetime of experience as a commercial artist, from drawing school buildings and class ring designs at age 16 and for Jostens, to…
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A Brush With Life has published 28 episodes since March 2025, covering topics in Arts.
A Brush With Life is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 34m.
