Dear Listener, join me and a few cups of wine as I sit with Esteban Covo, for what is officially “The Drunk Episode”. Meet Esteban who is co-founder of Magic Hammer, a CG animation studio in Merida and is also part of the Donia Way dynasty! Listen in as he talks about how his upbringing empowered his curiosity and confidence to explore, learn and launch his very own CG school at the age of 18. Esteban also shares the many love stories that are playing out in his family including his very own...

Meet Emanuel Toledo, a soft spoken culture powerhouse with a renewable energy engineering background. Listen in as we chat about his cultural and hospitality project La Casa Casa and how his father’s legacy enriches his mission. We look back at our short and well lived feasts with other artists and friends in Merida. Join the conversation and get the insight on mezcal one of his side passions he generously shares with all.

Grab your notebooks, activate your sketch books, I am sharing with you some practical magic. This is my Grimoire, listen in to learn how I use my notebook as a tool to travel time, shape shift and connect to a higher power. If you are an artist or a creative person, no initiation required. Learn some tips to protect yourself from creative blocks and boredom. Any notebook will do, I found mine on a sidewalk, in front of Molasses bookstore in Brooklyn, just bring your heart and soul into it.

Come take a walk with me in Parque Santa Lucia, the heart and center of my Merida experience. Join me on the safest way to travel together, via an audio tour! I will share with you my favorite coffee spot, which will come as no surprise, but will be surrounded by opulence and history. Then we’ll go for books, food and meet new friendly and fascinating people along the way. Follow the link bellow and down load the google map I created of this walk. I hope this episode inspires you to envision...

I am far enough from the states to see and feel that the last block in my life is to forgive the country I was born in, the one that has rejected me and brainwashed me to believe I am less than and inadequate in every way. Listen in as I share why I must forgive… why what ever happens next I will be lighting a proverbial cigarette from the fire in my belly, the fire America has lit in me- making me believe it is my right to want and have more, even though it had no intentions of giving any of...

Meet the mighty Donia Way! The trail blazing character created by the Architect and Anthropologist duo Javier Covo and Ileana Reyes. Initially created by Covo as a lens to understand and celebrate his wife and her culture, Donia Way has become a passion project that is now a thriving family business with a mission. Listen in as I speak with Irene Covo Reyes and Maria Camila Guerrero, the daughter and daughter in-law of the creators, who tell me about the important role this beloved...

Join me as I relish in an unexpected encounter in Mexico. While my last episode was about creating bubbles of safe isolation, the Universe granted me a set of experiences here on my visit to my ancestral land of Merida, that has filled me with connection and legacy. Listen in as I share my story of meeting distant relatives and how this has filled me with a sense of resolution I did not know I could feel. It is a magic adventure into the light at my roots. Come with me, there is day of the...

I am reporting from Merida Mexico! We are still in the era of Covid and we move differently. Listen in as I share how differently the Mexican people are interacting with each other and tourists like me. I share my first key to traveling, only to then brake it and talk about how our environment shapes us. I also share my thoughts about living in a bubble and some tips on starting your own bubble, wherever you are. I am going back to my roots in the tropics, join me.

Meet artist and recent art school graduate Selena Lozano. I’m so excited to have Selena in the studio, live in person, six feet apart but so close with GREAT sound for this no Skype episode. Selena talks about spiritual awakenings, pricing her work from a place of generosity and we cheese out on our mutual love for Avatar! We also talk about the latent power of connecting with the greater Latin American world as Latinx people. Join us!

Get together! Do you know what a “Master Mind” is? This once occult practice which was appropriated by American self-help capitalism, is a great way to continuously build a community around your art career and practice. Master Mind groups are constructed spaces where you give and receive very specific advice, attention and build on what you and others know. Listen in as I talk about my own Master Minds, some real, most made up. Join the conversation as share my experience with Septembrollage...

Meet Quinn Antonio Briceño, a Nicaraguan Irish American artist working in Saint Louis, Missouri. I got to speak with Quinn right before his first gallery solo show “Como Tu” at Houska Gallery. The artist’s work is a mix of hyper realism with a mix of exciting patterns and vivid colors influenced by Nicaragua and the Latinx diaspora. Listen in as Quinn talks about how he reconnects to his roots and mother tough through his work. Also, get the load down on “Bean Paper” and “Math Rock”!

I am thrilled to chat with Arlene Dávila, Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at New York University. Her new book Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics wields her first hand experiences in the art world and leverages her tenured academic voice to bring together conversations that affect Latinx Artists across the country. Latinx poses questions that could be the playbook for what the new paradigm of the Latinx art and other Latinx endeavors, can look like in a post Covid...

There is a window of opportunity right now. We can create new ways of functioning and thriving as artists. Listen in as I talk about my first group show since covid and how different it all is. I talk about how the initiative of artists have created amazing opportunities for other artists and performers as in the back story of A Chorus Line and like the “Septembrollage” challenge, that has really been activating my studio. But before we take on this new work and look ahead into the next six...

Listen in on this Spanglish gem of an episode with Chicago based artist Jaqui Almaguer . I haven’t laughed this much in a while. I literally get my Chicano card revoked and get a well rounded education on some Mexican and Chicano culture. The artist talks about growing up in Los Angeles and Chicago, and how Bob Ross and cholo culture influenced her art and studio practice. Jaqui shares some entrepreneurial tips for artists and some technical advice on going live while listening to your...

Listen in as I get to chat with artist Francisco Donoso about his studio practice. The artist talks about how keeping a studio outside his home, gives him the opportunity to spread out, explore and forge a community in the South Bronx where his first studio is located. We talk about gentrification and the cycles of artist neighborhoods that often end up in the displacement of people of color. Donoso also talks about the use of “chainlink fences” in his work and how he has reframed them...

Meet fellow Angelino, Wesly Thomas, an American musician in Medellin Colombia. It is so exciting to talk to a young talented artist with so much passion and fire in his soul, to create, share and make more art. Listen in to how Wesley landed in Medellin and his goals of learning the language, sharing his adventures and experiences with other Asian men. Wesley talks about being an expat in Latin America and how being an “other” in his new environment has inspired his youtube channel to...

What would you create if you knew you were “The Last Artist”? Join host Luis Martin/ The Art Engineer in this monolog that asks “What would you create, if this was it? What needs to come out?” Listen in as he poses a few questions and asks you to imagine your work outside of the gallery context. What role can an art practice play in the new paradigm that is slowly and painful emerging. Let’s talk about what can ease our collective vertigo and put out the flames of the world we have inherited...

Meet Gary Carlson as he shares his stories of being at the center of the 80’s New York art scene, with his partner, the late artist Robert Loughlin, famously known for his iconic “Brute” pop art paintings. I visit with Gary at his home in Seattle to what would be one of my last one-on-one interviews before covid. I set out to document a queer love story because we don’t often hear or see LGBTQ love stories told or reflected. There is something to be cherish of a life lived and loved. This...

Listen in as I get to chat with artist and art entrepreneur Rachel Wilkins. The artist talks about her recent monumental project “Shoulders of Giants”. Everyday during pride month, June 2020, Rachel created a work of art that celebrates the life and contribution of an LGBTQ leader. The artist further rallied her community by inviting others to be part of the project by way of writing letters to the leaders at the center of her work. To further the impact and resonance with the trail blazer of...

This conversation is in response to a question I received recently, a question I get asked about often and one I think about a lot myself, its about: visibility. My favorite answer to this question and it is my favorite answer to most questions is “Create your own opportunities to shine”. Listen in as I directly address my new friend “K” about visibility and what it takes to get ready. It’s closer than you think and the people that really matter are already watching and supporting you. Listen...

Meet Jasmine Zelaya a multi disciplinary artist based in Houston Texas. The “ritual ornamentation” in her work stopped me in my tracks. Listen in to how Jasmine goes into the zone listening to disco and finds extreme joy and pleasure in a repetitive art practice. Jasmine talks about her connection to religious iconography and her love of Bernini for the tension of joy and pain in his work. The artist also shares some of her recent and exciting accomplishments that include being on the cover...

Meet Haitian-American artist and interior designer Franck Hodelin. I had to connect with Franck about his recent Instagram post, of a painting he made based on a painting his mother painted several years prior. Listen in as we talk about the beautiful and complicated legacies we inherit from family, country and systems of oppression. The artist shares the connection between the Black Lives Matter movement and the historic and doomed rebellion that lead to Haitian independence. Join the...

I am recording from what feels like the bottom of my empty well. Here in the dark, I look to recharge and plant my seeds. Even from here in my very same yet significant and meaningful ways, I can dismantle the patriarchy and take on white supremacy. Don’t be afraid. You are not alone, this is a collective darkness. Wake up, we can give what we don’t have, only to realize that we had it all along… yah I know, it is easier than it sounds though! It will all make sense once you give yourself the...

Meet Juan-Carlos Perez, a soft spoken powerhouse of an artist. Listen in as the artist shares his stories about arriving in Pasadena, California from Mexico. We talks about the experiences that shaped his understanding of racial issues and how it plays out in his art work. Juan-Carlos talks about his deep rooted relationship to Chicago and his recent return to Southern California. The artist discusses how he and his community has utilized art education as a way to process social issues and...

Meet Aaron Marin, a collage artist based in New York. We reconnect after technical difficulties during our fist conversation, which seems indicative of our current tumultuous times. Listen in as we talk about his collage practice and the call to action he hears from artists and writers that have come before him. Get shook to the core as I did, as we talk about how our art should document this moment in time because history books will never do justice to truth. Chime in as we discuss the...