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"It’s always scary to stop doing something. But if you don’t stop doing something, you can't do something new. Every time I’ve stopped doing something other opportunities came, or I had time to try something new." Keith Kreeger loves clay. For the past 25 years he has dedicated himself to forming and shaping various types and colors of that material, into beautiful bowls, vases, plates, and many other objects that are intended to be used and enjoyed. After college he set up his first potters studio in Cape Cod, where he grew and honed his artistic and business skills. Then a move to Austin shifted the aesthetic of his work to more simple forms with subtle lines. The look and profile of his business has also evolved over the years as he has strived to stay in tune with his core values and maintain a balance between work, family, what feels right, and what makes sense. His customers are people who care about where the things in their life come from and how they are made. Objects matter. Keith and I talk a lot about his business but also delve into his history in ceramics and his philosophies about his art, his customers, and how he figured out where he is headed. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/4/41335247-836c-4f4a-8a8b-aeca55f3227a/UKdPFt78.jpg Photo by Chad Wadsworth Text courtesy of Keith's website. Meet Keith Besides being the proud owner of 32” paella pan, Keith is an artist, designer and maker. Hailing from the East Coast, Keith got to Austin as quickly as possibly with this wife and three children. Previously he had a studio and contemporary craft gallery on Cape Cod for 12 years. Keith’s aesthetic comes from the singular idea that “objects matter,” and his work reflects that simple phrase, exemplifying clean, polished and modern design. A past-president of the board of Big Medium, the arts nonprofit that produces the East Austin Studio Tour, West Austin Studio Tour and the Texas Biennial, Keith currently sits on the board of the Austin Food and Wine Alliance, the advisory board of Austin Bat Cave and is an active supporter and advocate for the Andy Roddick Foundation. When he’s not behind the wheel, he can be found making strong espresso, epic playlists, hosting as many rad events in town as possible and driving his kids to their soccer games. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/4/41335247-836c-4f4a-8a8b-aeca55f3227a/dRWhGyTi.jpg Keith's Austin showroom Normal hours - Wednesday-Friday, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm 916 Springdale Rd Bldg 3-104, Austin, TX 78702 EAST AUSTIN STUDIO TOUR November 16–17 & 23–24, 2019 12pm-6pm Some of the subjects we discuss: Canopy Labels Making the shift Instagram Standing out What drives him Being a potter Traditional path True fans/new people Working with chefs Selling wholesale Something new Art of the pot Convention life Supportive partners Anniversary Sharing the work Social media Fun opportunities Connections Hand of the maker 1000 years old In the moment Capacity Something lasting What we are making Defining for yourself Largest order Re-evaluating College in NY In love with ceramics Success/failure Toshiko Takaezu Working with a legend Do it now Cape Cod Studio Collectors/tradition Reduction firing Change of aesthetic What is porcelain Move to Austin Getting established Cobra stuidos/EAST Functional objects Dinnerware Made to order Using molds Expectations Size of studio Making decisions Starting/finishing This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Intro music generously provided by Stan Killian (http://stankillian.com/main/) Support this podcast. (http://www.austinarttalk.com/supportpodcast)

“The things that I think people don’t understand or misunderstand about me is that sometimes when I’m hanging out with friends or hanging out with piers, I can't help but make a joke or a comment about race. Because it is literally always there. It’s just always there. It’s an odd thing to constantly have that in your face all of the time. It’s heavy. I think it’s why black men die sooner than everyone else. That psychological weight is always there. And sometimes I wish I could explain to my friends what that's like. I wish there was a way to convey to people, and maybe that’s what I am trying to do with the art, what that constant pressure feels like, because it is literally constant” Dave McClinton is an artist and graphic designer who after doing design work for decades decided to funnel his life experiences, ideas, and emotions into often provocative, graphically intricate, and colorfully rendered, digitally collaged portraits and landscapes. The artworks aim to tell stories, start hard conversations, and to help visually define current and historical black identity and inner life. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/4/41335247-836c-4f4a-8a8b-aeca55f3227a/nqfTx2Rt.jpg Lo and Behold IV Statement's courtesty of Dave's website. ARTIST STATEMENT | as it pertains to the culturally based imagery. In the African American community, we are slowly rediscovering our history that has not been fully illustrated. It’s my job as visual communicator to review historical information and inform the community by bringing these concepts to life and help visually define our identity. And to distribute these stories about the strengths and trials of the African American community. I want to illustrate the life-cycle of the inner life of a black person. From innocent to informed. From recklessly defiant to determined. How the weight of American history can either crush you or harden you. And, how either result often has to be hidden from view just to get through the day. The anger of the African-American community is often portrayed as a threat. The anger of “traditional’ communities is depicted as righteous. This paradigm feeds stress and despair back into black lives and thus stokes the fires we try to simultaneously hide and harness. Currently, there is a newly intensified wave of empathetic consciousness in all forms of artistic output. I want the community to seize this moment in history to create work that tells a story and compels them to seek out empathy and activism for the sake of others. My hope is the work I’m creating can help do that. I want to spark conversations that have, historically, been hard to start. ARTIST STATEMENT | Concerning the landscapes. I create free standing crumpled paper still lifes, then photograph them and manipulate the images until I’ve created something that straddles reality and fantasy. I want to show you something familiar and then alter your perspective. These shapes and “views” are familiar but I want to you conjure up places you have been and seen. Not simply reproduce a vista for it’s own sake. I combine my love of photography, art and graphic design to create works that speak to the viewer by communicating something specific and obvious but also harboring subtexts that require repeated viewing or discussion. My work as a graphic designer has been to communicate quickly and efficiently through logo and branding work. That economy of message can be applied to art. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/4/41335247-836c-4f4a-8a8b-aeca55f3227a/lr0_Vv0X.png Resurgence Current and upcomming Laura Caffrey and Dave McClinton: CARRY THE REMAINDER October 11 - November 17, 2019 Atleier 1205 1205 E Cesar Chavez St., Austin, TX 78702 Gallery hours: 11am-6pm, Thursdays and Fridays, by appointment on other days and evenings Meet the artists during the first weekend of East Austin Studio Tour: 11am-6pm, Saturday and Sunday, November 16-17 https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/4/41335247-836c-4f4a-8a8b-aeca55f3227a/qxrI4zdu.jpg 2019 Texas Book Festival Weekend Saturday, October 26th 10:00AM – 5:00PM Sunday, October 27th 11:00AM – 5:00PM Saturday - 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM Meet 2019 Texas Book Festival Poster Artist Dave McClinton The Contemporary Austin-Jones Center (700 Congress Avenue) Meet the official 2019 Texas Book Festival Poster artist, Dave McClinton, as he shares his work, including the dramatic image for this year’s poster, Burgeoning, a mixed-media digital collage made from crumpled paper, photographed and rendered as a mountain landscape. The idea for McClinton’s crumpled paper series was sparked when he noticed the discarded gift wrapping on his kitchen table looked like a miniature mountain sculpture. Some of the subjects we discuss: Questions/reactions Experiences/stereotypes New conversations The mission Cultural work Code switching Textures/bodies Facial elements/features Eye contact/defiant Generational trauma Conflicting messages Addiction/genetics Using historical texts Replacing the nouns The word “likely” Graphic design Rewriting texts The Landscapes Crumpled paper Scars on the land Vietnam Memorial People as resources Other Art Fair Crowd reactions Tough conversations Bulletproof explanations Defending the work Who gets the work Woman at WEST Suit and noose Talking point piece Studying art in school Influential teachers Printing fascination All the names Starting to make art Using the skill set Story importance Evolution of work Showing emotions Sense of injustice Dealing with life Using humor Pride/embarrassment Me too/All men Righteousness Thomas Jefferson 3/5ths of a person The 1619 Project Texas Book Festival DJ Stout/Pentagram Atelier 1205 Landscapes Get out there/friends Davis Gallery show New plexi work Branding/logo work Creative freedom This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Intro music generously provided by Stan Killian (http://stankillian.com/main/) Support this podcast. (http://www.austinarttalk.com/supportpodcast)

We celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8 on Shades of Green. International Women’s Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities. On this day we celebrate all the many women leaders and extraordinary women in Austin, Texas. Our guests were: Shibiya Sabu who is Originally from India, is a Transportation Planner with the Planning Dept. of CH2M, an international engineering consulting firm specializing in water and several layers of Technology and Planning. She focuses on optimizing the transportation flow and facilities to perform better, with projects involving bike-ped planning, corridor planning (at interstate level to FM roads). Her specialty includes sustainable urbanism, multi-modal transportation planning and community engagement. She is also the Chapter lead of the Global Women’s Network at CH2M. She has been doing Henna Professionally for 11 years now at various events, at weddings, and social/communal gathering. And, she was invited to be a Henna Artist at the East Austin Studio Tour. Hala N. Ballouz has been a lead consultant in the electric power industry since 1991. She is the President of Electric Power Engineers and she has over 20 years of experience in power systems and energy market. Ms. Ballouz is also the former president of the Texas Renewables Energy Alliance (TREIA) and currently serves as board member of several organizations. She is a registered Professional Engineer in several states as well as other countries. We also had in the studio Janis Bookout and Andrea Alfaro, two influential Austin women representing Earth Day Austin.

We celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8 on Shades of Green. International Women’s Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities. On this day we celebrate all the many women leaders and extraordinary women in Austin, Texas. Our first guest was: Shibiya Sabu who is Originally from India, is a Transportation Planner with the Planning Dept. of CH2M, an international engineering consulting firm specializing in water and several layers of Technology and Planning. She focuses on optimizing the transportation flow and facilities to perform better, with projects involving bike-ped planning, corridor planning (at interstate level to FM roads). Her specialty includes sustainable urbanism, multi-modal transportation planning and community engagement. She is also the Chapter lead of the Global Women’s Network at CH2M. She has been doing Henna Professionally for 11 years now at various events, at weddings, and social/communal gathering. And, she was invited to be a Henna Artist at the East Austin Studio Tour.

If you have been in Austin long and are into art you have probably heard of the East Austin Studio Tour or Big Medium. One person at the center of both from the beginning has been Shea Little. With EAST 2017 coming up it made sense to sit down with Shea and find out how it all started, how he got involved in art, and what the future might look like. Some of the subjects we discuss: How does Big Medium support artists E.A.S.T, W.E.S.T. differences Texas Biennial explanation and history Beginnings in art and school Having a job and making art Sodailtas collaboration Evolution of his art style History of E.A.S.T. and Big Medium Talking about and pricing your art Generous Art/Creative Standard EAST present and future East Austin Studio Tour 2017 Big Medium's East Austin Studio Tour (EAST) is a free, annual, self-guided art event spanning two weekends in November. EAST provides opportunities for the public to meet the artists and artisans of Austin in their creative spaces. Dates & Times Free and open on November 11-12 & 18-19, 2017 from 11am-6pm. Tour boundaries East of I-35 West of HHW 183 South of HWY 290 North of Riverside Big Medium at Canopy 916 Springdale Rd, Bldg 2 #101 Austin, TX 78702 Big Medium at Bolm Studios 5305 Bolm Rd #9-12 Austin, TX 78721

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: US Government bitcoins, skeumorphic bitcoins, TSA coin-flips, twitter drops a dime on the US government, OSS payload this Federal IT award season, our $.02 on RHEL 6.5 and Fedora 20. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes. Uzoma Nwosu likes Google Reminders and Keep, now part of Google Now on Android. Location-based reminders! GTDAgenda folks want Gunnar to try their stuff East Austin Studio Tour Will Cordis recommends Flight001 luggage Dave suggests that the Housekeeping Olympics add a Traveler category for Gunnar to dominate Boston Cops Outraged Over Plans to Watch Their Movements Using GPS GovLoop report on the Agency of the Future, featuring open source HT Matt Micene: TSA is a coin flip Twitter announces perfect forward secrecy HT Dave’s wife Melissa: U.S. Agencies to Say Bitcoins Offer Legitimate Benefits Related: As China Looms, the U.S. Ponders Ways Not to Destroy Bitcoin HT Tony James: Coin Gunnar makes annual pilgrimage to Vegas for Gartner Data Center boondoggle, Dec 9-12 Dave making a guest appearance at Patrick Regan‘s presentation on FreeIPA at the Akron LUG on Dec 5 Fedora 20 is just around the corner RHEL 6.5 is chock-full of public sector goodness including SCAP 1.2, ECC and Suite B crypto, and smart card enabled SSH! Bonus link: A (relatively easy to understand) primer on elliptic curve cryptography Brian Harrington’s magnificent beard + OpenShift makes Robin Price think of “Battle Gnome cosplay” A partner we like: Autonomic gets DOD FedRAMP approval This week in sucking up: Paul Smith wins FedScoop 50 this year Fierce Government’s 2013 Fierce 15 honors tons of government open source advocates: Matthew Burton, Michael Byrne, Doug Maughan, Jason Kahn, Keith Trippie A customer we like: FCC and their Android App Lets You Test Wireless Broadband Speeds Dropbox Buys Supercomputing Startup — And That Makes Perfect Sense The Credit Belongs to the Man in the Arena by Teddy Roosevelt “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” Cutting Room Floor Blood-chilling Lorde cover by creepy sad clown We Give Thanks Uzoma Nwosu, Will Cordis, Matt Micene, Tony James, Patrick Regan, Robin Price, and Mrs. Egts for giving Dave and Gunnar things to talk about Bonus points for Mrs. Egts for being married to Mr. Egts