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by Douglas Sigwarth/ Will Armstrong
Visual Artists! You are not alone! IAP gives voice to the working artist. Inspirational and entertaining conversations with successful road show artists. Every story delves into the process of self-discovery behind the work and the career path that creates financial success. Douglas Sigwarth is a glassblower, and Will Armstrong is a mixed-media artist. Both have been working as independent artists for over 20 years on the art fair circuit. As cohosts, their contrasting experiences and styles make for comical and relatable talks that affect today’s contemporary artists.
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- Aug 10, 202657 min
How's Your Summer Season Going? (part 2)
How's Your Summer Season Going? – Part 2 We're back with Part 2 of our summer catch-up. After months of traveling to art fairs on different schedules, Douglas and Will reconnect to compare notes on how the season has unfolded. What starts as a conversation about recent shows—including Madison's Art Fair on the Square—quickly branches into some of the biggest topics artists are talking about this summer. We unpack Madison's fortuitous relationship with Epic Systems' renowned art-buying p...
- Aug 3, 20261h 3m
How's Your Summer Season Going? (part 1)
Welcome to The Independent Artist Podcast with your hosts Douglas and Will — the show where we pull back the curtain on the real life of working artists. How's Your Summer Season Going? (Part 1 of 2) After months of traveling on separate schedules, Douglas and Will finally sit down to catch up on how the summer art fair season has really been going. In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, they discuss the severe storms that have disrupted art fairs and threatened artists' livelihoods, ...
- Jun 1, 20261h 14m
Art Fair Bingo: Stories You Can't Make Up
Welcome to The Independent Artist Podcast with your hosts Douglas and Will — the show where we pull back the curtain on the real life of working artists. Art Fair Bingo: Stories You Can't Make Up What do threatening storms, celebrity sightings, unsolicited business advice, and tens of thousands of customer interactions have in common? They all happened during our recent whirlwind through some of the country's biggest art events. In this episode, Douglas and Will unpack the wild, funny...
- Apr 13, 20261h 4m
Juggling Act
Welcome to The Independent Artist Podcast with your hosts Douglas and Will — the show where we pull back the curtain on the real life of working artists. As spring show season ramps up, co-hosts Douglas Sigwarth and Will Armstrong dive into the real-life balancing act of being a working artist on the road. Fresh off a demanding Florida circuit and gearing up for a run of Texas art festivals, they unpack what it takes to juggle family life, studio production, and the nonstop pace of trav...
- Mar 9, 20261h 48m
Manifestation of the Soul/ Nathalia Toledo Barcia
Welcome to The Independent Artist Podcast with your hosts Douglas and Will — the show where we pull back the curtain on the real life of working artists. Fresh off winning Best in Show at the Coconut Grove Arts Festival, Ecuadorian artist Nathalia Toledo Barcia joins us for a deeply moving conversation about culture, soul, and the stories embedded in her work. Nathalia’s art lives at the intersection of painting and porcelain—where delicate surfaces become artifacts of memory and identi...
- Feb 9, 20261h 59m
Art That Speaks to This Moment/ Erin Curry
Welcome to The Independent Artist Podcast with your hosts Douglas and Will — the show where we pull back the curtain on the real life of working artists. Visual artists Douglas Sigwarth (https://www.sigwarthglass.com/) and Will Armstrong (http://www.willarmstrongart.com/) co-host and discuss topics affecting working artists. In this episode, we sit down with Erin Curry (https://erincurryart.storenvy.com/), an artist whose work is deeply informed by both science and lived experience. Wit...
- Jan 19, 20261h 14m
Switching Gears in '26
Welcome to The Independent Artist Podcast with your hosts Douglas and Will — the show where we pull back the curtain on the real life of working artists. Visual artists Douglas Sigwarth (https://www.sigwarthglass.com/) and Will Armstrong (http://www.willarmstrongart.com/) co-host and discuss topics affecting working artists. Switching Gears in '26 is a candid conversation about what it means to keep making work when the ground feels uncertain. We talk about the influence of legendary gl...
- Dec 15, 20251h 45m
Am I the Artist, or Am I the Art?/ Elissa Brown
Welcome to The Independent Artist Podcast with your hosts Douglas and Will — the show where we pull back the curtain on the real life of working artists. Before we dive into today’s conversation, Will and Douglas kick things off by talking about the whirlwind of doing the One of a Kind Show—the highs, the hustle, and what it takes to say yes to an opportunity before it slips away. They reflect on the importance of moving quickly when the window opens, trusting your instincts, and learning to ...
About The Independent Artist Podcast
Visual Artists! You are not alone! IAP gives voice to the working artist. Inspirational and entertaining conversations with successful road show artists. Every story delves into the process of self-discovery behind the work and the career path that creates financial success. Douglas Sigwarth is a glassblower, and Will Armstrong is a mixed-media artist. Both have been working as independent artists for over 20 years on the art fair circuit. As cohosts, their contrasting experiences and styles make for comical and relatable talks that affect today’s contemporary artists.
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