ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Art in the Raw is a podcast exploring the bold and unfiltered world of queer art. Hosted by David Smith of Salon Naturale, each episode features intimate conversations with LGBTQ+ artists who push boundaries in nude art, photography, painting, and multimedia. Discover the inspirations, struggles, and creative processes behind their work - raw, vulnerable, and unapologetically queer. New episodes every other Sunday.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 22 days
Average audio length:
46 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
25 episodes
since Feb. 26, 2025
episodic
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What happens when your art disappears without warning? This episode explores the hidden crisis of artistic censorship on social media platforms, where algorithms and content moderation policies are silencing queer artists, nude photographers, and anyone whose work challenges corporate comfo…
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Oz shares his raw journey from a creative kid in East Texas, stifled by self-doubt and societal noise, to a daily painting practice that finally unleashes his abstract surrealist voice. Through stories of suppression, late-life urgency, and the joy of protest art, he reveals how painting ce…
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Join host David Smith in a warm, candid conversation with artist Steven Thomas, who blends vivid acrylic and ink on canvas with digital design to reimagine queer icons in vibrant rainbow colors. Steven shares how his journey from advertising to fine art intersects with his coming out, infl…
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Join host David Smith in a warm, candid conversation with artist Steven Thomas, who blends vivid acrylic and ink on canvas with digital design to reimagine queer icons in vibrant rainbow colors. Steven shares how his journey from advertising to fine art intersects with his coming out, infl…
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Joe Boatfield joins host David Smith for a candid, vulnerable conversation about art, identity, and the spaces—from high school classrooms to Dallas’s gay bars—where they intersect. Joe shares how a transformative relationship with an art teacher led him from academic disengagement to a pas…
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Ignacio Darnaude takes us on a vivid journey into the hidden queer histories embedded in some of the world’s most famous artworks. From classical mythologies and religious imagery to coded visual symbols, he reveals how queer artists navigated repression across centuries. This episode exp…
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Artist Charlie Cole joins David Smith and Gabe Vasquez for a candid exploration of how sobriety, queer identity, and spirituality shape creative expression. From childhood art experiments to the erotic themes of his current work, Cole shares how his journey is marked by vulnerability, humor…
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Jerome Larez shares his artistic journey and the founding story of Artitude, an organization dedicated to uplifting LGBTQ+ and marginalized artists in Dallas and beyond. We explore themes of representation, community-building, and the power of reclaiming words through art. Jerome also discu…
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Joey Brock, a queer mixed-media artist with a background in corporate America and fashion merchandising, shares his poignant journey embracing self-love and identity through his evocative portrait work. From confronting religious shame to celebrating queer bodies as sacred, Joey blends phot…
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Join host David Smith in conversation with DR Mann-Hanson (he/him), founder of CinéWild, a vibrant Dallas-based queer film series dedicated to showcasing films made by LGBTQ creators. From its origins as a protest alternative in 2014 to a beloved community space celebrating queer ar…
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