
A Brush With Life
Casual conversations with artists, musicians, farmers and so many other creative, fascinating folks from southeast Minnesota. Let's find out how they got here, what inspires them, what challenges them and how they work.
Podcasting since 2025 • 9 episodes
A Brush With Life
Latest Episodes
#9 Drawing Us In- with Lynette Yencho
Lynette Yencho has a lifetime of experience as a commercial artist, from drawing school buildings and class ring designs at age 16 and for Jostens, to designing collectible figurines, to being agraphic designer for the Minneapolis Star newspape...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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37:04

#8 -Life About Face w/Kevin Ian Reid
Kevin Ian Reid was the Orofacial Pain Specialist at Rochester's Mayo Clinic for 26 years. He had never studied art, but in order to cope with the strain of working with so many people suffering from pain, he began painting, especially abs...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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31:37

#7 BlueGrass Songs & Prairie Grass Paintings - with Becky Schlegel
Becky Schlegel grew up in South Dakota singing classic country music. When she moved to Minnesota, she fell in love with bluegrass music and with her banjo-pickin' husband, Heath Loy. Now Becky is a singer with a voice as sweet as nectar...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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38:23

#6. The Colorful Land of Judy - with Judy Onofrio!
Judy Onofrio's work has spanned from firing ceramics to burning huge structures in fiery performances, elaborate, quirky brooches to elegant sculptures assembled from bones, celebrations of nature to divas, acrobats and other colorful character...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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28:05

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