Summary: The gallery question of the week is: how do art and vulnerability relate to each other?  Haddy answers by throwing knives and Yassi makes the art disappear.  Then Samantha Bearman keeps it real and makes us laugh from her car. As per usual, we end with a provocation, this week’s asks you to make a space for your own art and creativity.

Samantha Bearman is an Empowerment Coach + Writing Expert. She has a master’s degree in behavior change from the University of Kentucky. She has been writing professionally in the private and non-profit sector for over a decade and is a contributing journalist for Syndrome Magazine as well as an accomplished stand up comedian.  She is a motivational maven and loves being a supportive coach who provides encouragement, due diligence, and accountability to her clients. She has also used comedy as a way to bring the community together for a cause, producing sold out comedy and variety shows that raised money for organizations including the Alzheimer's Association, Planned Parenthood and the American Heart Association. She now has her own bi-monthly room, Bear Cave Comedy in Santa Barbara.

Find Samantha online at:

www.samanthabearman.com 

www.instagram.com/sambearcomedy 

www.instagram.com/the.samantha.bearman 

Provocation (#ArtIfPodcast):

Find an area where you are not represented and create the platform to provide a space to be seen and for others to see you and so you can showcase your art and creativity!

Mentioned in this episode:

Brené Brown

Wild Bill Hickok

Buffalo Bill

Pantalone’s Dagger

Commedia Dell'arte

The Gibsons

Yana Radionova and Jayde Hansen

Forged in Fire

Old Tucson Studios

Coney Island Circus Sideshow

Luella Gallagher

Medea

Banksy’s Shredded Painting

Scientific Center of Kuwait

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Arizona MLK Day

Noah Copfer 

Chris D’Elia