S2: EP5 - Creative Tasting Session with Emerging Artist and Arts Educator Erin Kendrick - a podcast by Taste Test Live

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👏👏New Podcast Episode! 👏👏

Taste Test Live is a weekly music review podcast series hosted by Damien Lamar and his co-hosts Blue Franswa & MJbaker. The show features a revolving cast of local creatives, artists, singers, entrepreneurs, story-tellers and more to discuss the diverse selection of local and international music tastes. Tuesday night was jammed packed with fun and the most interesting conversations! This week's "Put This In Your Mouth" segment the crew reviews the latest in industry updates & music news with several laughs. Topics include details about the new Coming to America sequel, Tyler Perry Studios, Monica Arnold and Shannon Brown divorce, possible new music from Justin Bieber, and Grammy-winning gospel artist Kirk franklin edited by GMA (Dove Awards)

Also on this week’s episode, we sat down and discuss arts, education and had a creative tasting session with Erin Kendrick.

About Erin Kendrick

Erin Kendrick is a visual artist and arts educator from Jacksonville, Florida. Her color-rich, acrylic ink-stained works of art and transformative installations seek to inspire a dialogue about contemporary spectatorship and the power of language as it relates to perceptions of and about black women. She has exhibited work in museums, galleries and alternative spaces throughout the southeastern United States. After receiving her formal art training at Florida State University (BFA, Studio Art, 1999) and Georgia State University (MFA, Drawing & Painting, 2003), she worked for many years as a Studio Artist and Arts Educator in Atlanta, Georgia.

She is currently the Lead Visual Art Instructor at Jacksonville Arts & Music School and a Teacher Artist for Cathedral Arts Project. She has also been an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Florida, Columbia College Jacksonville, and an art teacher for Duval County Public Schools. Erin was recently named the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville’s 2019 Art Educator of the Year. In 2018, she was voted Best Visual Artist, Best Art Exhibition, and Best Arts Educator in Folio Weekly’s Best of Jax 2018 poll. She is a former Community First Foundation Art Ventures Individual Artist Grant recipient, a two-time “Lift Every Student” Artist-In-Residence grant recipient and a member of the Arts Advisory Board for DCPS. Erin maintains a studio at CoRK Arts District. Her current initiative, Artists Types, helps practicing artists with career advancement by providing workshops, mini-courses, and templates for CV writing, artist statements, proposals, and more. As an educator she lives by Elbert Hubbard’s quote, “Art is not a thing. It is a way.”

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Damien Lamar (Host, Executive Producer & Audio Engineer)

Blue Franswa (co-Host)

MJbaker (co-Host)

Jihan Grant White (show music)

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