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.
A Brush With Life is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeast Minnesota Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Podcasting since 2025 • 26 episodes
A Brush With Life
Latest Episodes
#25 Making a Great Impression- With Tamsin Barlow
Tamsin Barlow is a full-time Printmaker and Painter, who also squeezes in a couple of hours teaching Zumba exercise classes most days. She painstakingly carves her design into a linoleum block, rolls ink onto the surface, and presse...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 25
•
35:38
#24 Going Wild - with Jeff Feece
Jeff Feece lives right in in the city, but he can listen to the tree frogs trilling at night, watch hawks hunting in his back yard and he sometimes finds the dried nymph shells where dragonflies have hatched out in his tiny pond.
•
42:45
#23 - Bucking Tradition, with Cassandra Buck
Cassandra Buck never met an art medium she didn't love. She is a painter, muralist, jewelry-maker, weaver, embroiderer, and more - and she often combines those traditional mediums in untraditional ways. Cassandra is not one of those artis...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 23
•
38:25
#22 - Extreme Green - With Robin Greenfield
"Be the Change You Wish to See in the World." That pretty much sums up Robin Greenfield's life and philosophy. Once a successful businessman and aspiring young millionaire, Robin had a revelation about how his lifestyle was ha...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 22
•
45:03
#21 Fiddling Around - with Teresa Walter
Teresa Walter grew up playing classical violin, and she was really good at it, but she took a 20-year hiatus from music to focus on family and career. When her daughters were grown, she picked up the violin again and started to play casually at...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 21
•
34:01
Podcasts we love
Check out these other fine podcasts recommended by us, not an algorithm.
Rochester Local Podcast
Rebecca Montpetit
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
Fresh Air
NPR
The Lonely Palette
Tamar Avishai
Radiolab
WNYC Studios