Creative Contemplation Podcast

Join Creative Contemplation Podcast Host & Creator Suzanne Lago Arthur as she has engaging discussions with creative professionals about their work, what inspires them and how we can all learn from them.

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Season 2

S2E1 Jotham Malavé Maldonado

Season 2 of the Creative Contemplation Podcast returns with a discussion between host & creator, Suzanne Lago Arthur and Puerto Rican painter, Jotham Malavé Maldonado about his work, his formation as an artist and his inspiration.

Season 1

S1E7 Trisha Adams

Creative Contemplation host and creator, Suzanne Lago Arthur and Contemporary Representational Painter, Trisha Adams discuss her work and her journey to painting as well as outline New Years’ Goals that you can implement in 2023 to help make your creative business thrive.

S1E6 Edmond Praybe

Creative Contemplation host and creator Suzanne Lago Arthur has an illuminating conversation with oil painter, Edmond “Ed” Praybe about his work, his training and early influences and how he became the painter her is today. Ed generously shares his insight on how other artists can hone their own intuition, artistic vision and unique style.

S1E5 Jeff Huntington and Julia Gibb

Creative Contemplation Podcast host and creator, Suzanne Lago Arthur interviews Annapolis based husband and wife duo, Jeff Huntington (aka JAHRU) and Julia Gibb. In addition to pursuing their own artistic careers, Jeff and Julia are the founders of the nonprofit Future History Now which creates public murals by mentoring and collaborating with at-risk youths. One of their most celebrated projects is the 7,000-square-foot portrait of Breonna Taylor created in 2020.

Breonna Taylor Mural Project, mural by Future History Now, Chambers Park, Annapolis MD (photo credit Maurice Taylor),

S1E4 Janis Goodman

Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator, Suzanne Lago Arthur interviews Washington DC oil painter, Fine Arts Professor and TV Arts Commentator on WETA's Around Town, Janis Goodman. Janis and Suzanne discuss what inspires her work, her education and training, the importance of residencies for an artist, the closure of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and rebirth of the Corcoran School of Art as the GW Corcoran School of the Arts & Design.

S1E3 Kathleen Speranza

Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator, Suzanne Lago Arthur interviews oil painter Kathleen Speranza about her work, her education and training, and her advice to painters who want to make their work more emotive, Suzanne and Kathleen go deep on discussing the sublime in art and its influences in her work. This episode is an ode to the rose, which is a frequent subject in Kathleen's work.

This Kathleen Speranza podcast is also available on Youtube. And be sure to check out the “Workshop Wednesday” blog post detailing one of Speranza’s in-person workshops by clicking here.