A Brush With Life

About A Brush With Life

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.

Publisher

Susan Waughtal

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Mar 2025

Latest episode

29 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

28 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Apr 2026

   #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 installing nesting boxes throughout the region in appropriate landscapes. But he is most beloved in the community for teaching youth and families about the wonders of the natural world f...

2. 

   7 Apr 2026

   #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.

3. 

   11 Mar 2026

   #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 most days. She painstakingly carves her design into a linoleum block, rolls ink onto the surface, and presses it onto paper — but that's just one of many ways Tamsin makes an impression! Tamsin Barlow Instagram KTTC Interview with Tamsin

Who has been a guest on A Brush With Life

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Teresa Walter
• Marie Marvin
• John Sievers
• Amy Johnson
• Heidi Kern

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 14 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

14

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32