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  • Cindy Cheng talks Leaving Higher Education, Making Big Career Pivots, and Embracing Change

    Cindy Cheng talks Leaving Higher Education, Making Big Career Pivots, and Embracing Change
    Dec 4 2025

    Hear more from Cindy Cheng on the movement towards unionizing a well-known arts institution, leaving behind a full-time teaching job in pursuit of making a living through her art, pivoting from large sculptural installations to making wearable jewelry, and embracing change while growing a profitable practice.

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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • We'll Be Right Back!

    We'll Be Right Back!
    Nov 27 2025
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    2 mins
  • Mookntaka talks Finding Joy in Challenging Times, Collaborating as a Couple, and the Importance of Play

    Mookntaka talks Finding Joy in Challenging Times, Collaborating as a Couple, and the Importance of Play
    Oct 30 2025
    Hear more from Mark Zlotsky and Karyn Lao of Mookntaka on making art more accessible with their larger-than-life inflatables, infusing public spaces with play and spontaneity, finding funding and support for temporary or ephemeral work, collaborating as a couple, and setting a 'north star' for attaining creative goals.

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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • Amanda and Nicole talk Financial Therapy for Artists

    Amanda and Nicole talk Financial Therapy for Artists
    Sep 25 2025
    Hear more from Amanda and Nicole in their most vulnerable finance episode yet, as they reflect back on their actual 2024 numbers, getting out of debt, increasing your financial runway when income is variable, the huge role that personal psychology and location play in your financial situation, and the added pressures artists face to carve their own path within an increasingly challenging landscape.

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    1 hr and 57 mins
  • Beyond the Studio Returns!

    Beyond the Studio Returns!
    Aug 28 2025
    Hear more from Amanda and Nicole as they catch up after a long hiatus, discuss the emotional highs and lows of putting work out there, inherent risks in working with galleries, the willingness to make big shifts in your creative practice or business, aligning your work with personal values, while viewing time and energy as valuable, non-renewable resources.

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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • Lianne Pflug talks Patreon, Connecting Over Shared Interests, and Working with Chronic Illness

    Lianne Pflug talks Patreon, Connecting Over Shared Interests, and Working with Chronic Illness
    Apr 25 2024
    Hear more from Lianne Pflug on graduating from art school into the pandemic, how's she's built a community of engaged followers online, connecting with her audience through Patreon while social media becomes more unreliable, staying attuned to her needs as an artist working with chronic illness, and how she's promoting eco-friendly practices in her business. - Find links to resources mentioned throughout the episode here in our show notes: beyondthe.studio - Submit to our Listener Spotlight:

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Teri Henderson talks Carving Out Space, Creating Platforms for Community, and Balancing Creative Energy

    Teri Henderson talks Carving Out Space, Creating Platforms for Community, and Balancing Creative Energy
    Apr 11 2024
    Hear more from Teri Henderson on allowing her career to develop organically while pivoting from law school to a career as an arts writer, curator, and now Arts and Culture Editor at the Baltimore Beat, overcoming imposter syndrome and carving out her own space, platforming other artists through her curatorial work and Instagram page turned book Black Collagists, and taking care of her emotional wellbeing while balancing her creative energies across projects. - Find links to resources mentioned throughout the episode here in our show notes: beyondthe.studio - Submit to our Listener Spotlight:

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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • BTS x Creatives Rebuild New York - Guaranteed Income for Artists

    BTS x Creatives Rebuild New York - Guaranteed Income for Artists
    Mar 28 2024
    Hear more from Sarah Calderon and Maura Cuffie-Peterson from Creatives Rebuild New York on how they're building a movement around guaranteed income for artists, the value in regular, no-strings-attached cash payments, how this differs from other sources of funding like grants, redefining the way we think about artists' work, what CRNY has learned in their time as an organization designed to sunset, and how this could apply to artists everywhere as they look ahead to the future and to similar initiatives around the world. - Find links to resources mentioned throughout the episode here in our show notes: beyondthe.studio - Submit to our Listener Spotlight:

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    1 hr and 17 mins