Art & Company Podcast

Alette Simmons-Jimenez

Grab a front-row seat for conversations from the Miami Art Scene. Tune in for informative stories on living and building a creative life in the 305. Miami artist Alette Simmons-Jimenez brings this rapidly transforming, cultural community into focus featuring notable figures, hidden gems, and special guests.

  1. #1 - Neil Ramsay, Thais Fontenelle, Natasha Duwin, Nina Surel, and Cat Taylor: Creative Crossovers

    11/23/2024

    #1 - Neil Ramsay, Thais Fontenelle, Natasha Duwin, Nina Surel, and Cat Taylor: Creative Crossovers

    Welcome! We're super happy to air our 1st full-length podcast. Today we bring together 5 creatives based in Miami that have really crossed the line. Listen to an energized conversation around lunch in the host's studio with our guests Neil Ramsay, an economist, professor, and art curator; Thais Fontenelle, director of Minotti Miami and curator; Natasha Duwin, former president and co-founder of Kipu Systems, artist, and creative activist; Nina Surel, artist, and director of Collective 62; and Cat Taylor, a business entrepreneur and creative strategist.

    35 min
  2. #10 - Couples: Anja Marais, Artist & Rudi Repenning, Designer

    11/23/2024

    #10 - Couples: Anja Marais, Artist & Rudi Repenning, Designer

    In this Couples Series, an artist and a furniture designer/woodworker tell us about their separate journeys from opposite corners of the globe heading straight to Florida and the art community here. It's all about the smell of soil and fresh cut wood and mulberries. Oh - and yes cats - the must-have studio cats.

    59 min
  3. #13 - Kerry McLaney: Past, Present, Future Miami Art Scene

    11/23/2024

    #13 - Kerry McLaney: Past, Present, Future Miami Art Scene

    Living and working in Miami since 1992, today's guest is the founder and creative director of 305 Creative Group, a boutique creative agency in Wynwood specializing in Branding, Social Media, Photography and Marketing. Kerry delivers the whole story on the origins of the Miami Art Scene. An "idea" person, she's always been inspired to do outstanding work collaborating with our city's creative people. She personifies Miami with a wildly mixed-media heritage: Irish - German - Spanish - Haitian.

    51 min
  4. #15 - Alexandre Merbouti, Monica McGivern, Nabedi Osorio: Surf Noir with Haute Tension

    11/23/2024

    #15 - Alexandre Merbouti, Monica McGivern, Nabedi Osorio: Surf Noir with Haute Tension

    Musical talent "Haute Tension" (High Voltage)a Miami band with the trio Alexandre Merbouti, Monica McGivern, and Nabedi Osorio, delivers a highly charged new sound. Get the scoop on their debut album and the details of the band's unique heritage. We have some sample tracks to perk up your ears and wake up your senses.

    59 min
  5. #16 - Carola Bravo & Rochi Llaneza Talk About Harvest Project

    11/23/2024

    #16 - Carola Bravo & Rochi Llaneza Talk About Harvest Project

    From placing cutting-edge art in affluent suburban communities to coffee shops to planting seeds to German spies, we covered it all. Listen to these two phenomenal and focused Miami-based women artists, curators, and activists here to initiate change.

    57 min
  6. #17 - Anne Tschida & Elisa Turner: Arts Writers Speak Up

    11/23/2024

    #17 - Anne Tschida & Elisa Turner: Arts Writers Speak Up

    We're talking about facing and fighting irrelevance in today’s art systems and the big market, that strange parallel universe of the art market. Arts writers Elisa Turner and Anne Tschida discuss the creative writing process that parallels the practice of artists of any discipline today.

    57 min
  7. #18 - Couples: Pip & Duane Brant - Coloring Way Outside the Lines

    11/23/2024

    #18 - Couples: Pip & Duane Brant - Coloring Way Outside the Lines

    This episode's artist couple will inspire your life. They go from teaching and making art to breeding bunnies and shaping bonsai, from making music with sewing machines and bicycles to driving cattle. They've gone from Wyoming, Montana, and Missouri, to London and finally Miami. This is not your everyday life.

    56 min
  8. #19 - Lorie Mertes & Beth Boone: Making Art Happen

    11/23/2024

    #19 - Lorie Mertes & Beth Boone: Making Art Happen

    The leading ladies of alternative spaces in Miami chat with Art & Company. Lorie Mertes of Locust Projects and Beth Boone of Miami Light Projects share the stories of their own struggles and successes and the inspiration that got them where they are today.

    1h 13m
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Grab a front-row seat for conversations from the Miami Art Scene. Tune in for informative stories on living and building a creative life in the 305. Miami artist Alette Simmons-Jimenez brings this rapidly transforming, cultural community into focus featuring notable figures, hidden gems, and special guests.

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  • Creator
    Alette Simmons-Jimenez
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2024
  • Episodes
    33
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © All rights reserved
  • Show Website
    Art & Company Podcast