The ADHD Artist Podcast

Sarah Gise
The ADHD Artist Podcast

The podcast where we explore and celebrate the lives of ARTISTS with ADHD. Life, art, superpowers, and... wait what was I saying?! Hosted by Sarah Gise, your fellow ADHD artist. We'll have interviews with all different types of artists with ADHD, as well as some mental health experts. Hear stories, jot down some tips, fight the stigma, and have a great time hanging out with us! Original music for this podcast was composed by Christopher Aaron Knarr. You can find more of his work at www.ChristopherAaronKnarr.com. Podcast Artwork design by Joseph Ramski. For inquiries, please contact him directly at jramski3@gmail.com

  1. Dancing with ADHD, Learning Choreography, Ballet Culture, Muscle Memory, and Rehearsals vs Performances

    OCT 17

    Dancing with ADHD, Learning Choreography, Ballet Culture, Muscle Memory, and Rehearsals vs Performances

    Tiana's Article in Pointe Magazine: https://pointemagazine.com/dancing-with-adhd/ Chattanooga Ballet: https://www.chaballet.org/ Learn more about host Sarah Gise in this interview style article on Canvas Rebel! This one delves into coaching style, living in the "gray area", finding a career you didn't know existed, and an exploration of empathy: https://canvasrebel.com/meet-sarah-gise/ Episode 18 guest bio: Tiana Ozolins was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar and grew up in Southwest Virginia. She began dancing at the Center of Dance under Carol Crawford-Smith, a former dancer with Dance Theater of Harlem. She continued with Southwest Virginia Ballet, dancing in their junior and senior pre-professional company. Under Pedro Szalay’s direction, she participated in community outreach for local elementary schoolers. Throughout her pre-professional training, she attended intensives at American Ballet Theater, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, and Cincinnati Ballet. In 2017, she graduated and went on to work towards a BA in Dance with a minor in professional writing at Goucher College. Through Dancers of Color Coalition on campus, she choreographed a five minute work on five dancers. She performed in Jessica Lang’s Prayers and Durante Verzola’s Symphony Dramatique. During her undergraduate education, she studied dance abroad in Paris, France, taking movement workshops with Nathalie Pubellier and Heidi Weiss. After graduating, she danced with Milwaukee Ballet II and Rochester City Ballet as an apprentice. In 2023, she joined Chattanooga Ballet as a company artist and got to perform works by Silas Farley, My’Kal Stromile, and Dwight Rhoden, to name a few. She is now entering her second season with Chattanooga Ballet. Chattanooga Ballet: https://www.chaballet.org/ Tiana's Article in Pointe Magazine: https://pointemagazine.com/dancing-with-adhd/ Learn more about host Sarah Gise in this interview style article on Canvas Rebel! This one delves into coaching style, living in the "gray area", finding a career you didn't know existed, and an exploration of empathy: https://canvasrebel.com/meet-sarah-gise/

    54 min
  2. JUL 31

    Kyla Yager- Art Battles, Maximalism, "NOPE" Days, Fidget Fine Art, and Collaboration Over Competition

    About Kyla:   Kyla is a Toronto based, New Orleans bred Visual Artist with a passion for painting, intuitively portraying emotions and mindsets through her work. Struggling with ADHD and Mental Health, Kyla uses these as a tool to create her compositions. As her thoughts move a mile a minute, so does her paintbrush. Use of hyper-detail, layering, and hidden imagery within her work tricks the eye into multiple perspectives, leading each and every viewer to see something different depending on how they look at it. Ultimately, Kyla hopes to inspire neurodivergent individuals to utilize their disabilities as positive and unique traits, rather than as setbacks in life.   Kyla received her BFA in Visual Art from York University in 2018 and officially launched her art business, Kyla Yager Artwork, in January 2020. She has been drawing and painting since early childhood, leading to a consistent art practice for over 20 years.    You can find her work in online publications such as Art Habens, Beyond Words, and The Button Eye Review. View her work in-person at the Riverdale Gallery in Toronto and at Fly Right Galaxy Gift and Studio in New Orleans.  If interested in murals, commissions, collaborations, workshops, or live painting, please email Kyla at Artby.KylaY@gmail.com.                    🗣️ Quotes from Kyla Yager   "The best thing you can do as an ADHD person is just do what you are most passionate about every day, because then you'll never get bored."   "My process is so freaking fun. I just love making what I make. When I finish it, it's just because I've run out of room on the canvas."   "The biggest detriment that you can do to a creative professional career is putting in some work and then stopping because you feel like it's not working."   "I want to be a famous artist, not for the vanity of fame and fortune, but because I want to start a movement and make an impact on the fine art world."   "Collaboration over competition all the way."   For more information and to explore Kyla's art, visit her website at www.kylayagerartwork.com. Follow her on social media to stay updated on her latest projects and exhibitions.

    1 hr
  3. 07/14/2021

    SEASON 1 FINALE: Dani Bagel- Playing Piano through Panic Attacks, Tapping into your Uniqueness, Art and Music as Healing, Creating External Structure, and Making Music through Generations

    Dani Bagel: Playing Piano through Panic Attacks, Tapping into your Uniqueness, Art and Music as Healing, Creating External Structure, and Making Music through Generations         Dani Bagel Bio “I make music for myself”. With this statement, Cape-Town based artist Dani Bagel announces her debut solo project, “Magic in Her Hair”. The musician has created an EP that is unapologetically made on her own terms and produced under her own label. These songs are less distinct artistic approaches, than a reflection of different parts of the same person. “They are all just me”, Dani says, “it’s not like I’m acting like somebody else”. Audiences were first introduced to her sound four years ago, with her features on several singles. First, came the release of Keagan John Moore’s “Lay it on Tonight” under the alias Gabrielle, with the Cartel. In 2017, however, she released the first single as Dani Bagel, ‘Where Did We Go Wrong’. The deeply honest and atmospheric dancefloor sizzler, co- written with Caleb Williams, introduced the strength of her pen. Since then, her collaborations include Lebo Lukewarm (Swimming Practice), Omar Morto (Cruise Control) and Gina Jeans (Smoke and Mirrors, co-written with Jimmy Nevis). With Magic In Her Hair, however, Dani is stepping directly into the spotlight and into a new era of her career – one completely driven by a commitment to making the music she wants to create, embracing both individuality and collaboration. The classically-trained musician took on co-executive producer role for the project alongside engineer, Eldon Quirk (Sunset Studios) and Kooldrink – the young producer who has worked with the likes of Sho Madjozi, Diplo, DJ Maphorisa and Youngsta CPT. Magic in Her Hair draws together 6 producers between 5 eclectic songs, while paying homage to all of her coming-of-age 1990s R&B albums. This EP is her version of seeking to create this kind of work for a new generation. What draws the different songs together is Dani’s musical DNA as a musician, and clear creative vision. She describes this project as both an offering to audiences, and a dare directed at herself, rooted in genuine passion and joy. With her collaborators, she explains that “there was so much space given to just trying any idea” kind of idea. The result is an eclectic, yet connected EP that makes space for experimentation, play and the different moods and moments that reflect the diversity of what it means to exist and experience life. The strength of her songwriting, commitment to honest lyrics, exploration of deep feeling, playful extravagance and classical training are the album’s defining elements. Azul is an interlude that Dani describes as a ‘whirlpool of thoughts’ written during a panic attack, where she met her piano as a centering force. Okay (Co-written with Caleb Williams) is a sentimental, emotion-filled conversation, that she explains that could be a way of ‘singing to yourself or someone else’, as the chorus constantly returns to the repetition of “I’m ok”. Rooted in deep vulnerability the song finds the artist asking for permission to be herself. Sturvy turns an insult into an anthem. Dani explains that her social anxiety and naturally inward nature often led to her being labelled and assumed to be “sturvy” by those who don’t know her. The song is about dealing with and subverting these perceptions, and while she starts out singing, by the end of it she blasts into bars. The anthemic Testing repeats the refrain “testing the water”. As the song that builds and grows from its initial impulses, it could be the motto of the entire project – which is unafraid to experiment and enter new musical territories. The album’s inspiration, too, draws from an eclectic set of artists - from Doja Cat’s exciting experimental approach to Ariana Grande’s layered choral-esque vocal harmonies and HER and Snoh Aalegra’s modern take on R&B. What connects these influences is their creation of “women-led music”, as Dani gravitates towards artists who directly express their grit and effortlessly move between genres and styles. Magic In Her Hair is an EP that aims to intrigue. On her hopes for the project, Dani says, “A person who listens to me for the first time will kind of be, I hope, intrigued by the kind of artist that I can be”. She later definitively adds, “The kind of artist I am”. For more information and interview requests, please contact admin@danibagel.co.za Her Latest single “Testing” can be streamed https://lnkfi.re/Danibagel-Testing Testing is a shout-out to loud long lekker nights full of debauchery and bubble. The Naughty Nineties repurposed and packaged for our modern ears. The anthem for ‘Remember that party’. But the music and the vibe is not the only groove you will witness. Jimmy Nevis makes his directorial debut in this music video which combines the drama of drag, the energy of extravagance and somehow makes kitsch cool. The story line begins with trans Drag Queen and make-up artist Maxine Wild getting ready for a night on stage after we find Dani Bagel alone in an empty club. She is powerfully alluring and as the energy builds in the song we see this reflected in her sense of confidence as it expounds into a playful and entertaining opportunity to tantalize our ears and eyes with a fun-loving, lively, exuberant and down right frisky display of a good time. The finale celebrates diversity and here we are left wanting more while cheering for a nostalgic soul-train dance tunnel you wished you could be a part of.

    58 min
  4. 02/15/2021

    Juliet Morse Aucreman- Music, Occupational Therapy, Piano Lessons, and Making a User's Manual for Your ADHD Mind

    Check out episode 11 with Juliet, where we discuss playing piano, occupational therapy, learning how to learn, and much more!   Juliet Morse Aucreman is a piano teacher, composer, writer, artist, and occupational therapist living in San Clemente, California. Juliet was a piano performance major at Eastman School of Music, holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Rochester and an MS in Occupational Therapy from Boston University. She has pursued advanced coach training through ADDCA (the ADD Coaching Academy). Juliet is a SIPT-Certified pediatric occupational therapist. She has published over 80 humorous and thoughtful pieces in national and local print publications including Attention Magazine. In 2019, Juliet released her book and music album Fireflies of the Mind: A Journey into Mindfulness and Inner Strength. Fireflies of the Mind is a literary, musical, artistic, and philosophical journey for multiple age groups. Through playful thoughtfulness and whimsical imagery, readers and listeners come to embrace parts of themselves they may have rejected, and discover new ways to see strengths in their individual differences. Fireflies of the Mind, inspired by the wonderful coursework from the ADD coaching academy, celebrates individuality and unique brain wiring and helps participants actively see new ways of being, growing, and joining the world around them. Juliet is currently at work on her second book/music album, The Crimson Heartstone: A Journey towards Courage and Heart. ADD characteristics can easily be spotted in the main characters of both books.    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliet.multi.media/ Fireflies of the Mind: https://www.firefliesofthemind.com/

    52 min
5
out of 5
25 Ratings

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The podcast where we explore and celebrate the lives of ARTISTS with ADHD. Life, art, superpowers, and... wait what was I saying?! Hosted by Sarah Gise, your fellow ADHD artist. We'll have interviews with all different types of artists with ADHD, as well as some mental health experts. Hear stories, jot down some tips, fight the stigma, and have a great time hanging out with us! Original music for this podcast was composed by Christopher Aaron Knarr. You can find more of his work at www.ChristopherAaronKnarr.com. Podcast Artwork design by Joseph Ramski. For inquiries, please contact him directly at jramski3@gmail.com

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