The Boulder Artist

About The Boulder Artist

Get informed, inspired, and involved. The Boulder Artist is about those making an impact, both with their work and with the lives they lead as creatives. But it’s also about culture and community, how place informs our arts, and vice versa. Brought to you by the NoBo Art District, created by Becca Saulsberry, and hosted by Kevin Hoth & Becca Saulsberry. Listen monthly. Enjoy the show? Consider making a donation towards our podcast fund using the link in the show notes or become a podcast sponsor and receive an on-air business feature. Get in touch!

Publisher

NoBo Art District

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Sept 2023

Latest episode

3 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

31 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Jul 2026

   Toni Oswald

   Toni Oswald is a writer (https://tonioswald.blogspot.com/), musician (https://tonioswald.bandcamp.com/), performer, filmmaker, and visual artist who currently lives in Boulder, Colorado with her partner Max Davies and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin. Her work has been shown in Los Angeles, Amsterdam and New York. She has performed across the United States and Europe with Anne Waldman, John Frusciante, Max Davies, Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, Cecilia Vicuna, Josh Klinghoffer, and many others. Toni’s underground rock journalism has been published in magazines here and abroad, along with literary work in The Oyez Review, Tattered Press, and Bombay Gin. She is currently working on a novel about a fourteen year old girl clown set in the 1950's entitled, The Gorgeous Funeral. Her hybrid poetry book Sirens (https://www.gesturebooks.org/press/p/sirens)⁠ is available now from us, Gesture Press. The second edition of Sirens⁠ (https://www.gesturebooks.org/press/p/sirens)⁠ is out now and the companion album (https://www.gesturebooks.org/press/p/sirensalbum) will be released at the end of July. Kevin sat down with Toni to discuss her early theater days, her time in the late 80's LA punk scene, the second edition of her book and companion album Sirens⁠⁠ (https://www.gesturebooks.org/press/p/sirens)⁠ , and how what we really need more of is DIY art spaces, mystery, clowning as societal medicine, and the freedom to make mistakes. SIRENS https://www.gesturepressandjournal.com/press/sirens-toni-oswald (https://www.gesturepressandjournal.com/press/sirens-toni-oswald) Toni's music on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/0hMRz9u8SjyzXYsBxcYatn (https://open.spotify.com/artist/0hMRz9u8SjyzXYsBxcYatn) Her Art Diary Blog http://tonioswald.blogspot.com/ (http://tonioswald.blogspot.com/)

2. 

   9 Apr 2026

   Julia Vandenoever

   Julia Vandenoever (https://www.juliavandenoever.com/) is a freelance photographer based in Boulder, Colorado.  She grew up in Chappaqua, NY and Norwich, Vermont. During her years at Smith College, Julia studied Art History and Photography. In addition, she attended the SALT Center for Documentary studies as well as SEA Semester. Photography led Julia to freelance at the Valley News, work with Wendy Ewald’s Literacy Through Photography program, and an 11 year Photo Editor career at Backpacker, Skiing, and Outside magazine.  In 2021, Still Breathing, received a solo show at the Center for Photography at Woodstock as well as a Critical Mass Top 200 Finalist. Still Breathing, was published as a monograph by Gray Sky Press in 2022 and was recently acquired by Smith College Rare Books. In this episode we speak with Julia about her upcoming show Becoming Grayson, (https://www.eastwindow.org/being-grayson) which is an ongoing collaborative photography project with her sixteen-year-old son Grayson. We also cover her other deeply personal projects documenting her immediate family and navigating its complex history through creative photographic practices.

3. 

   27 Jan 2026

   Joel Swanson

   Joel Swanson (https://joelswanson.art/) is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the complex relationships between language, materiality, and technology. Working across discursive media—from neon text-based sculpture and obsessively detailed works on paper to new media works and large-scale public art—he investigates how linguistic tools and technologies subtly but profoundly shape meaning. As director of the TYPO Lab (https://www.typolab.org/) at the University of Colorado Boulder's ATLAS Institute, where he serves as Associate Professor, Swanson leads experimental investigations into the boundaries of text-based technologies. Unsurprisingly, Joel is the son of a nuclear engineer! We get into his upbringing in a Christian Conservative family, the influence of a caring teacher, his approach to public art, and his more recent embrace of more personal, punchy, and pink (but still clever, as always) art making. I've known Joel for a long time but it was a real treat to get to know him and his work better. Joel's website (http://joelswanson.art/)

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

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Quality

46

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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