Ep. 008 Leo Tanguma - Chicano Muralist

Wes and Todd visit with Chicano Muralist, Leo Tanguma. Leo talks about growing up in Beeville, Texas and what set him on his path to becoming an artist, meeting the great Muralist, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and how it influenced his work, and discusses some of his incredibly powerful and significant murals like "Rebirth of Our Nationality.”

Join us for this fantastic episode with Leo Tanguma, Artist, Muralist, and Sage, as he recounts stories about his life, gives us some history lessons and imbues us with his words of wisdom.

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Ep. 007 Cynthia Ramu - Pueblo Levee Mural Project Coordinator/Muralist and Art Educator

The Tenet podcast travels to Pueblo, Colorado to interview artist and art educator, Cynthia Ramu.

Wes and Todd talk with Cynthia Ramu about her start as an artist, moving to Pueblo to paint murals on the levee, and the importance of art education for children in the community. Cynthia also talks about the history of the Pueblo Levee Mural Project and what the future holds for the levee and a new era of murals in Pueblo.

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Ep. 004 Stevon Lucero, Part 1

Please join us in listening to part one of our three part series with this legendary artist Stevon Lucero as we discuss art, philosophy and the divine. As a Denver Artist, Stevon Lucero, Painter, Poet, Philosopher and Visionary tells us about his different styles of painting, Metarealism, Neo-Precolumbian and the traditional. Stevon then treats us to a reading of one of his poems “The Mad Man.”

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Ep. 003 Jerry & Jay Jaramillo - Artists, Father & Son, Murals, Painting, & Sculpture

Hosts, Wes Brown and Todd Pierson, sit down with father and son artists, Jerry and Jay Jaramillo. Jerry talks about how he got his start as an artist and Jay talks about how his father mentored him to become an artist…Jerry and Jay talk about the importance of art in the community and the value it brings to those that live there.

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Ep. 002 Bob Ragland, Non-Starving Artist, Denver Art Legend

In this episode Wes Brown and Todd Pierson visit with long-time Denver Artist, Bob Ragland. Bob talks about his youth in Cleveland, Ohio, and how he got his start as an artist. The discussion then turns to art business tactics and his "Non-Starving Artist" project.

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