The Art Box
Every painting, every song, every photograph, every chunk of clay, every poem, every book, every dance, every artistic creation has a human story behind it. We just happen to have 480+ of them for you to enjoy. Listen to us at your leisure on Apple, Spotify, Podbean, Samsung, iHeartRadio, Boomplay, Amazon Music, Podchaser or your favorite podcast app. The Art Box a lively and engaging discussion about creativity and humanity in the Virgin Valley of Nevada and beyond.
Episodes
Writer, poet, nurse and mother Kindall Fredricks RN, ADN joins us for a fascinating conversation about what happens when a story refuses to travel in a straight line. Kindall uses unconventional spacing, formatting and punctuation as part of the storytelling itself, allowing the page to fracture as memory and time fracture. The result is writing with a tenuous relationship to time, where p...
On Episode 488, photographer and artist Marie Nygren joins Steve and Addie for a journey across Nevada, one photograph at a time.
Marie’s love of photography began when her grandmother gave her a Kodak Brownie as a child. Decades later, a photography class reignited that spark, and a first-place award helped convince her that the camera might become much more than a hobby.
Today, Mar...
For Episode 489 of The Art Box, Mesquite Fire Rescue Chief Jayson Andrus and Maryann Mainero join Steve in the Mesquite Works STEAM Center studio for a conversation about service, community, public art, and the future of Mesquite.
At the center of our conversation is the new Fire Station #2 and the important difference it is already making by improving emergency response times for resident...
For Daniel Brady, creativity has never belonged to just one art form.
In Episode 487 of The Art Box, Steve sits down with poet, writer, musician, teacher, and performer Daniel Brady for a conversation about a creative journey that began in elementary school and took shape during the cultural upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s. Poetry, music, dreams, the moon landing, Earth Day, Civil Rights, ...
What happens when you finally achieve the dream you’ve spent your whole life chasing and discover that reaching the summit isn’t what you thought it would be?
In Episode 486 of The Art Box, Steve sits down with Jen Guyton, National Geographic Explorer, wildlife photojournalist, ecologist, and founder of Wild Beyond. Jen’s remarkable journey began as a little girl repeated...
Steve makes his annual sojourn to Baker, Nevada, gateway to Great Basin National Park, for another visit with his friends Liz Woolsey and her husband, James, and the remarkable little oasis they have created in one of Nevada’s most remote communities.
This time, Steve also arrives carrying copies of The Art of Noticing and Sandcastle Windows. Liz and James will sell the books ...
In Episode 484, Steve sits down with Matt Hancock, the creative force behind DECO-LUXE, for a conversation about electronic music, creativity, recovery, and the unexpected places where sound can take us.
Matt shares how music became part of rebuilding his life and how his earlier, darker work gradually gave way to the warmth, nostalgia, sunsets, and falling-in-love feeling of his upcoming ...
Sometimes a story is good enough to bring an old friend out of retirement.
After reading Steve’s The Art of Noticing and Sandcastle Windows, former Art Box host Linda Harris reached out with a request: she wanted to return to the studio and interview Steve about his writing.
And Steve couldn’t have been more honored.
Linda, who hosted more than 250 episodes of The Art Box, retu...
More than 475 episodes after her first visit to The Art Box, magnificent Mesquite artist Chris Picior returns—and she is still discovering new ways to create.
Chris was our guest way back on Episode 6, when we talked about her lifelong journey through art. This time, we catch up on where that journey has taken her and, perhaps more importantly, the new artistic freedom she has discov...
For nearly three decades, Larry LeMieux has been one of those people who sees something a community could use and then helps make it happen.
On Episode 481 of The Art Box, Steve sits down with Larry for a conversation that becomes something of an oral history of Mesquite. We travel from his early newspaper days and the creation of the Mesquite High Rollers to helping establish the Mesquite...
Sometimes the sweetest chapters of our lives have been quietly taking shape for decades.
On Episode 480 of The Art Box, Steve visits with Thalia “Beep” Stanton, creator of Grama Beep’s Sweets. Beep’s love of candy making began as a teenager in a friend’s kitchen and became a Christmas tradition filled with memories of family and friends. More than 50 years lat...
What happens when a moment in nature changes the direction of your life?
On this episode of The Art Box, Steve talks with Las Vegas native Shauna Walch, whose lifelong connection to the desert and a powerful moment in the McCullough Mountains inspired Compass, a growing vision for nature-based, values-driven places of hope, healing, reflection, and connection.
Making Memories Stories with Paul Benedict
Our Episode 478 guest is our good friend Paul Benedict, one of Mesquite’s most outstanding citizens and a man who describes what he does with three wonderfully simple words: “I tell stories.”
And Paul has plenty of them to tell. An Air Force veteran, longtime community leader, accomplished public speaker and familiar face on the ...
Our Episode 477 guest, Miles Woods, grew up right here in Mesquite as part of a close-knit local family filled with some truly wonderful people. Miles has left his creative mark on his hometown by painting three community murals, and he stays involved with local theater, building sets alongside his daughter, Emma.
His creativity also travels far beyond Mesquite. Miles works for Sall...
*** I LOVE this bookstore ***
For Episode 476, Steve sits down with Josh, owner of Mad Red Books in Las Vegas, for a conversation about books, curiosity, entrepreneurship, and the importance of keeping people reading.
Growing up in a family of avid readers, Josh turned a lifelong love of books into a business built around a wonderfully simple phil...
What if an empty building could become a doorway to the world?
In Episode 475, Edie and Eden join Steve to explore an ambitious vision for a multicultural creativity hub in Southern Nevada where art, technology, education, and human connection come together. Edie shares her plans to repurpose an existing space into an immersive environment using projection mapping, virtual reality, ...
In Episode 474, Dr. Chris Merritt, Utah State Historic Preservation Officer, joins Steve for a conversation about archaeology, preservation, art, and the stories hidden in the landscapes around us.
Steve and Chris have worked together on several archaeological projects exploring the lives of Chinese workers in the American West during the 1880s, giving their conversation a personal ...
Randy Bauman, Chair of the Mesquite Fine Arts Photographic Society, returns to The Art Box four years after joining us way back on Episode 7.
We pick up where we left off, exploring just how much photographic technology has changed since 2022. But our conversation quickly moves beyond cameras and equipment to something more important: what makes photography art?
In Episode 472 of The Art Box, we sit down with photographer and artist Bradley Marston to explore a creative journey that began in a small Utah town and continues today through his innovative Intelligent Mirror process.
Bradley shares memories of growing up near an artist who created statues of John Wayne. What began with mowing lawns and doing odd jobs eventually led young Bradley...
Poet, filmmaker, memoirist, and teacher Kathryn Hunt joins us for a conversation about a creative life built around curiosity and discovery. From studying with legendary artist Jacob Lawrence to premiering her first film at the Venice Film Festival, Kathryn’s path has moved through many forms of storytelling.
We explore the relationship between poetry and filmmaking, the influ...
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