Pardon My Art - Unlocking the Business of Creativity
The Pardon My Art podcast is a show that focuses on creatives who are painters, sculptors, illustrators, comic book writers & artists, makers, fiction authors, screenwriters, poets, playwrights, filmmakers, crafters, photographers, animators, graphic artists, and more. The show highlights the "creativepreneuer" and those who have made their art their business.
Pardon My Art is for artists and creatives of all types who are looking to learn from other artists so they can stay focused and productive with their creative enterprises. Specifically, the show is made to help artists who are struggling with being entrepreneurial, or who are looking for ways to make their art their business, to find inspiration that will help them to take their creative work to the next level.
Pardon My Art is also for those who love art and want to learn about amazing things being produced by rock star artists in the Pardon My Art network.
Pardon My Art is hosted by Oskar Castro, a visual artist, poet, graphic artist, public speaker, and writer. The show is based in Philadelphia, PA, and is produced by Bohiti Fotuto Productions, LLC.
Pardon My Art - Unlocking the Business of Creativity
Bernard Collins - Renaissance Man - 003
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Bernard is a proud South Philadelphia native who now resides in my hometown of Lawnside, NJ, a historic place in South Jersey connected to the Underground Railroad that became the only antebellum, Black community in NJ founded and incorporated by Black folk prior to desegregation in the United States. And it is important to note that as Lawnside was once well known for the kind of culture that Bernard honors through his creative energy.
Bernard is a visual artist, poet, lyricist, muralist and educator who has shared his art across New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. A figurative artist, I am always drawn in by Bernard’s portrait work which to me is beyond amazing as his use of color and his command of composition are masterful.
Bernard has this to say about his fine art, "My paintings are a reflection of my desire to understand the human body and soul. As an African American artist, I have had to balance my educational background which has been firmly grounded in European (traditional) techniques such as glazing, under-painting etc. and my desire to capture the liveliness and innovativeness that is present in African American culture.”
Bernard and I have been friends and contemporaries for close to 30 years now and I consider him one of the greatest creatives of my generation.
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