A Brush With Life
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A Brush With Life

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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.

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33 minutes
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English
United States
28 episodes
since March 11, 2025
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#27 Hawk Talk - with Kirk Payne

#27 Hawk Talk - with Kirk Payne

Please leave me your feedback and ideas here! Kirk Payne  is enraptured by raptors!  Kirk is  a practitioner of the ancient sport of Falconry - training wild hawks to hunt for quarry. He is also an ardent conservationist,  protecting and promoting the expansion of the kestrel population by installi…
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#26 Metamorphosis into Iron Butterfly - with Deb Majerus & Joel McDonald

#26 Metamorphosis into Iron Butterfly - with Deb Majerus & Joel McDonald

Please leave me your feedback and ideas here! Deb Majerus and Joel McDonald share the surprising story of love and flowers literally growing out of the ashes,  as they launched Iron Butterfly Flower Farm.
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#25 Making a Great Impression- With Tamsin Barlow

#25 Making a Great Impression- With Tamsin Barlow

Please leave me your feedback and ideas here! Tamsin Barlow is a full-time Printmaker and Painter, who also squeezes in a couple of hours teaching Zumba exercise classes every week. She painstakingly carves her design into a linoleum block, rolls ink onto the surface, and presses it onto paper — bu…
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#24 Going Wild - with Jeff Feece

#24 Going Wild - with Jeff Feece

Please leave me your feedback and ideas here! 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.  Jeff is a landscape d…
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#23 - Bucking Tradition, with Cassandra Buck

#23 - Bucking Tradition, with Cassandra Buck

Please leave me your feedback and ideas here! 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 artists who se…
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#22 - Extreme Green - With Robin Greenfield

#22 - Extreme Green - With Robin Greenfield

Please leave me your feedback and ideas here!  "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 harming the …
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#21 Fiddling Around - with Teresa Walter

#21 Fiddling Around - with Teresa Walter

Please leave me your feedback and ideas here! 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 communit…
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Happy Holidays, Dear Listeners!

Happy Holidays, Dear Listeners!

Please leave me your feedback and ideas here! It has been so much fun creating these podcasts, interviewing so many fascinating folks, and sharing the conversations with you!  I appreciate you, all of the guests, and the Southeast Minnesota Arts Council, who awarded me a grant to launch this podcas…
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#20 - The Road to Crossings at Carnegie - with Marie Marvin

#20 - The Road to Crossings at Carnegie - with Marie Marvin

Please leave me your feedback and ideas here! With plenty of guts and gusto, Marie Marvin turned an old Carnegie Library in  Zumbrota, MN, into a hub of creativity.  The building was bursting with art, whimsy, artists working, children learning, sometimes even people doing yoga. At night it  hummed…
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#19 Siren Songs - Of Trombones & Mermaids, with John Sievers

#19 Siren Songs - Of Trombones & Mermaids, with John Sievers

Please leave me your feedback and ideas here! John Sievers is not one to toot his own horn, but he does let it slide. John is a trombonist who plays in many bands, a poet who writes a haiku a day, an English professor, and Rochester's most enthusiastic music booster.  In this episode, learn ho…
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