Painter and Abuela Mami co-founder Kiki Valdés on art, creativity, and Cuban care packages Pan Con Podcast

Whether painting for live audiences at nightclubs, showing his work at galleries or creating hand-drawn covers for the zines he bought from Miami record stores, Kiki Valdés has been making art consistently since he was a kid. His work has been inspired by religion, cartoons, secret societies, and the color characters he encountered while painting at those clubs. Along with his brother, he also created Abuela Mami, a Cuban care package company that’s expanded with its own premium coffee brand with the same name. Kiki joined Mike Beltrán to talk about art, creativity, finding your voice in your work, and the business sides of painting, coffee and subscription services.
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