Pep Talks for Artists
A podcast offering encouraging words to all those shuffling along the artist’s road - with your host, Amy Talluto. Check out the pep-isodes for artist interviews, art book reviews and host-made audio essays - all made to offer artists advice, encouragement and fun studio listening.
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Nov. 14, 2025
Ep 84: Women Mystics in Art w/ Jennifer Coates (Part 1)
In this episode, Jennifer Coates returns to help me explore the spookily wonderful topic of Women Mystics and their connection to art and artists. In Part 1, we cover mystics from the Pythia of Ancient Greece to ecstatic visi...
Oct. 20, 2025
Ep 83: Some Thoughts on Drawing (Part 3)
Artists, Jennifer Coates , David Humphrey and Catherine Haggarty and are back for Part 3 of our series on Drawing. This time we switched things up and each artist brought both an artwork from art history and a related work of...
Sept. 16, 2025
Ep 82: Dare to Be Stupid in the Studio
This is an episode about how acting on dumb ideas in the studio can be just the thing to get you out of artist's block or help you make a big change. Get ready for some choice bon mots from the likes of Weird Al Yankovic, Lau...
July 28, 2025
Ep 81: How to Survive a Residency Rejection (*explicit)
*Disclaimer: This episode is meant to be funny and Amy would love to attend any of the aforementioned residencies. Please accept her if you find yourself on a panel. End disclaimer.* Just got rejected from an artists' residen...
June 23, 2025
Ep 89: El Greco and the Whale
This is a little episode about how I think a one-of-a-kind whale is kind of like the 16th -17th century Mannerist artist El Greco, and also like us. It sounds a little far fetched but admit it, you like me when I’m weird, you...
May 26, 2025
Ep 88: Resilience Through Research (Pt5) w/ Jennifer Coates
::CW: during the Kathe Kollwitz section, we discuss a print dealing with sexual assault:: Jennifer and I are back with our bushel baskets of researched artists of the past to soothe our shattered nerves. Tune in to hear about...
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