Artist Spotlight with Chip Freund

Jul 18 2023

Artist Spotlight with Chip Freund Podcast artwork

Fun and engaging discussions with contemporary visual artists who answer five simple questions about their artistic journey, media, and inspirations. New episodes drop every other Tuesday.

The Artist Spotlight podcast is on indefinite hiatus effective July 18, 2023. I hope to be able to bring the show back at some point in the future. Thank you to our loyal listeners for your interest and support.

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Artist Spotlight: Peggy Van Arnam

Jul 18 2023 14 mins

Peggy Van Arnam has been making jewelry since she found herself with a skirt with which she had “nothing to wear.” During her career as a university administrator, she searched for unusual beads and stones as she traveled and made jewelry for herself and her family. In retirement she began taking classes, selling her pieces and approaching jewelry making as a business. Thus Uni

Artist Spotlight: Theresa Raines

Jun 27 2023 22 mins

Theresa is an intuitive abstract artist, creating vibrant art for memorable spaces. She specializes in mixed media, using acrylics, spray paint, ink, adhesives, and paper. Her work refuses to be contained and often extends beyond the edges of the canvas.Theresa's process has her working on multiple pieces simultaneously, flowing from one canvas to the next with big athletic strokes

Artist Spotlight: Sarah Cawn

Jun 13 2023 31 mins

Sarah Cawn’s mission is to design and create beautiful, unique, and functional glass objects.Initially using Tiffany stained glass techniques, Sarah has evolved into creating original fused glass works of art. Her innovative use of color, shapes and whimsical designs never fail to engage the viewer. She is fascinated by the captivating power of light’s interaction with glass, s

Artist Spotlight: Autumn Cobeland (Greenway Artist)

May 30 2023 25 mins

Autumn Cobeland is a painter, muralist, triathlete, and Raleigh native. She holds a degree in Fine Arts and studied art in Florence, Italy. Her prints and paintings can be seen in galleries, shops, and private collections both nationally and internationally. Autumn has created a series of paintings devoted to the Triangle Greenway System, and she donates a percentage of the proceed

Artist Spotlight: Susan Hensel

May 16 2023 35 mins

Susan Hensel’s new innovative artwork, which blends commercial embroidery processes with sculptural concerns, is gaining attention and awards. Her knowledge of materials makes it possible for her to create small to large-scale hard-edge sculpture from soft fabrics that paradoxically keep their crisp form with minimal armatures. Her knowledge of the physics of color allows her to

Artist Spotlight: Diana Hrabosky

May 02 2023 33 mins

Diana Hrabosky is a self-taught artist who is most grateful to those gifted individuals who elected to share their knowledge and talents by writing books on colored pencil, acrylic, and abstract technique and related subjects. She was inspired by an artist whose work she at an art show in Chantilly, VA but couldn't identify the medium. When Diana learned it was colored pencil, she

Artist Spotlight: Kyle Wilson - Left Behind Photography

Apr 18 2023 37 mins

Kyle Wilson is a photographer from Selma NC. He is originally from southern Maryland where he became fascinated by Rural America. Kyle uses a technique called High Dynamic Range photography (HDR). It is an evolving form of art that enables the photographer to capture and display the full range of light that can be realized by the human eye. To Kyle art is a representation of the wo

Artist Spotlight: Jim Hallenbeck

Apr 04 2023 25 mins

Growing up in Catskill, NY, Jim was constantly drawing. This led to being the art editor of his high school yearbook, majoring in Fine Arts at SUNY Plattsburgh, and obtaining a BS in Art Education from Florida International University of Miami in December 1979. Jim dreamed of being an art instructor and artist, however, that was put on a 35 year hold! Jim went to work for IBM in Se

Artist Spotlight: Maureen Scullin

Mar 21 2023 19 mins

Maureen’s story as an artist started with her dad who was a commercial and fine artist. At an early age her father discovered that he had a talent for art (it runs in the family). He decided to pursue art as his career even though his family felt that this was a terrible mistake.In addition to taking art classes, Maureen spent countless hours learning from father about art. He be

Artist Spotlight: Boots Quimby

Mar 07 2023 28 mins

Boots Quimby considers everything she has done in life a creative endeavor. From teaching high school and college to raising children and designing experiments during her doctoral work and as a cell biologist, Boots explored her creativity. In 2016 she picked up a paintbrush and decided it was time to paint, something Boots had wanted to do since childhood. The artist inside finall