Lea Basile Lazarus on her upcoming solo show "The Spirit of Community"

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Artist and teacher Lea Basile Lazarus talks about her journey as an artist starting in 7th grade all the way to earning an MFA at SAIC Chicago. She owns the title “artist”, identifying herself as such on her website at leablazarus.com and is a prolific printmaker, making monoprints using her Conrad Press (which she was gifted by her husband for her 60th birthday).

In this conversation we cover where Lea finds the time and inspiration to make art, and the people she surrounds herself with to keep her creative.

Listeners in the Chicagoland area can meet Lea this September at 1100 Florence during her solo show “The Spirit of Community”, Sept. 7-17, click here for more info.

The Lisa D Show is a podcast celebrating and elevating creatives, featuring 20-minute, unedited conversations that mimic the live-radio vibe, purposefully low tech. Contact host Lisa Degliantoni at thelisadshow[at]gmail.com

The Lisa D Show with Dana De Ano

Dana De Ano is a visual artist living and creating works in Evanston, IL. Her work hangs on walls, but has three dimensional elements, using domestic castaways sewn onto paper resulting in captivating and playful landscapes, always with a tiny house somewhere in the composition.

An alum of the Art Institute of Chicago, De Ano has always made room in her life to create art, is incredibly prolific, shows at galleries across the Midwest and has works in numerous personal and professional art collections. Recently De Ano’s work has undergone a change in both size (she’s stretching herself) and color, the results are fantastic, images below.

In this conversation we talk about De Ano’s creative routine, how domestic castaways like dryer lint inspire her and why size matters. 

 See her body of work at www.danadeano.com and reach out direct for a studio visit, De Ano welcomes the conversation and chance to engage around her work.

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 The Lisa D Show is a podcast celebrates creatives. Listen to 20 minute, unedited conversations with host Lisa D. and the creatives who make our world a more connected, interesting and beautiful place to live. Podcasts will be posted at https://thelisadshow.blogspot.com

This podcast is recorded at 1100 Florence, an art event space in West Evanston, IL, owned and operated by Lisa Degliantoni and Dave Ford. It is a former Polish Grocery store, probably not the BEST place to record a podcast (boomy to say the least) but we're new and it will get better. Reach out to thelisadshow[at]gmail.com