Being a creative can be incredibly lonely. Plain Air aims to go beyond the walls of an artist’s studio and form deeper connections by sharing their unique stories and perspectives. Join illustrators AJ Dungo and Sally Deng as they attempt to introduce a little more camaraderie in today’s creative industry through insightful conversations with artists and friends they admire.
Our distinguished guest today is John Cody Clark. Like all of our previous guests, John is incredibly talented, especially in traditional media and life drawing. John also has an uniquely inspiring story about his journey to becoming a professional artist. In spite of all his hardships, John remains eager to learn more about art and share what he’s learned with anyone willing to listen. He truly encapsulates what it means to be a student of life.
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Sally Deng
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Plain Air
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8 Aug 2025
Catching up w/ AJ & Sally
Ok, we did an episode with no guest, just to catch up with each other and chill. We recorded in May…and we’re releasing it now….lolll. As always, life and work priorities got away from us. So many things have happened since then and we’ll probably need an another catch up/update pretty soon. Until then!
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Plain Air
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27 Jun 2025
Collaborating w/ Pearlyn Lii
Interdisciplinary artist Pearlyn Lii discusses her work exploring human experiences like pain and loss through video game animation, augmented reality, and performance art in an interview with AJ Dungo and Sally Deng.
9 May 2025
Green Light w/ Chuy Hartman
We're back! This is an episode we recorded back in October with Chuy Hartman, an LA based illustrator most known for his on location drawings and paintings of live bands and performers. He's drawn over 3000 performances and is still going strong!
At the time he was promoting his landmark 10-year retrospective at the punk rock museum. Unfortunately, we got caught up with work and life so we missed the mark on releasing this episode but we’re working on our time management. Huge thanks to Chuy and for everyone's patience.
Also, you may have noticed some sound issues throughout the episode. Yeah...we re figuring it out.
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Plain Air
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4 Oct 2024
Gratitude w/ Agnes Lee
With simple yet bold brush strokes, comic artist Agnes Lee highlights the quiet beauty of the everyday. Despite originally studying in a different field, her love for art drew her back to school to pursue an illustration career. Agnes shares the story behind her debut graphic novel, “49 DAYS”, and talks about how her personal experience with grief, gratitude and growth ultimately led to its creation.
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AJ Dungo
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Sally Deng
insta @sa.deng
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Plain Air
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20 Sept 2024
Paying Attention w/ Brian Rea
On this episode, award winning illustrator and teacher extraordinaire, Brian Rea joins us in the PA studio! Brian talks about his journey as an artist—from discovering drawings created by his grandfather to creating art for museum exhibitions in South Korea. Throughout our conversation, Brian emphasizes the importance of living life, trusting your instincts and most importantly of all, paying attention.
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AJ Dungo @agedungs
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26 Jul 2024
Wandering w/ Maggie Chiang
On this episode of Plain Air, multi-talented illustrator Maggie Chiang talks about her journey as a multidisciplinary creative and her influences outside of art. Maggie shares her struggles with depression and how she used that experience to grow not only as an artist but into a more confident person as well.
Note: In case it wasn’t clear, we’re actually NOT sponsored by Patagonia, lol.
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Plain Air @plainairpodcast
28 Jun 2024
Resilience w/ Médar de la Cruz
On the very first episode of Plain Air, Pulitzer-prize winning illustrator Médar de la Cruz discusses the importance of libraries and his life-changing experience working in the New York prison system. Médar explains how he tackles heavy subject matter, maintains joy in hopeless situations, how art and humor relates to resilience, and much, much more.
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19 Jun 2024
Plain Air Trailer
Being a creative can be incredibly lonely. Plain Air aims to go beyond the walls of an artist’s studio and form deeper connections by sharing their unique stories and perspectives. Join illustrators AJ Dungo and Sally Deng as they attempt to introduce a little more unity and camaraderies in today’s creative industry through insightful conversations with artists and friends they admire.
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YouTube views
319
Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
3 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
5 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 26 / 100
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YouTube
66
Engagement
32
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