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It’s the first Friday of the month, and there’s two things you should be doing — going to Mainframe Studio’s first Friday event, and listening to the fourth episode of my new podcast, “FolkArtwork and Friends”.

Longtime friend and champion of self-taught, disabled, and overlooked artists from around the world joins me — Jennifer Gilbert of Jennlifer Lauren Gallery in Manchester joins me for the fourth episode of this brilliant conversation. Jennifer shares her background and her work as a curator and advocate for inclusive art, from studying graphic design to discovering outsider art through her work with artists with schizophrenia, as well as curating her recent exhibit “Look Everywhere” with the artists whose work made up the beautiful show.

All that, and more, including her outsider art collection series, what galleries and museums can do to be more inclusive, and meeting the one and only Shinichi Sawada.

Plus, a look into the life and work of Japanese ceramicist Shinichi Sawada, who spent almost two decades baking bread in his mornings and creating out-of-this-world clay creatures in the afternoon — all on the side of a mountain, firing his creations in a traditional wood fire oven, and becoming an internationally renowned artist. 

And you can catch me at this month’s “First Friday” event at Mainframe Studios in Des Moines, with the wonderful Ashley Mary as she opens her studio doors to me and self-taught artist Reneesha Mccoy and Canadian folk artist Jackie Bradshaw to sell some art.

Episodes will come out every first Friday of the month, on your favorite podcasts player — Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and with video on YouTube. Like, subscribe, share and keep coming back for more. Thanks so much!

Watch the latest epsiodes of “FolkArtwork and Friends” here.

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