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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 300+ of them for you to enjoy. Listen to us at your leisure on Apple, Spotify, Podbean, Samsung, iHeartRadio, 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.

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The Art Box - Episode 363 - Faces Seen, Voices Heard...

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2025/10/21

If you listen to one podcast all year, this is the one. In this powerful episode of The Art Box, host MJ speaks with Dr. Lena Cavusoglu, professor at Pacific University, about her remarkable art-based research project, Faces Seen, Voices Heard. Blending academic inquiry with visual storytelling, Dr. Cavusoglu’s work explores how society responds to people with visible facial differences—those living with birthmarks, scars, burns, or other variations that often provoke bias and misunderstanding

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The Art Box – Episode 366 - “Life Behind the Music:...

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2025/10/20

In this special three-part series of The Art Box, host MJ takes us home to Oregon for an intimate look at the stories, friendships, and creative spark that drive Petty Fever, the award-winning Tom Petty tribute band beloved across the Northwest and beyond. Through personal connections with the band and their families, MJ explores the music that shaped their lives, the heart behind their performances, and the shared passion that keeps classic rock alive for a new generation. Life Behind the Music

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47:43

The Art Box – Episode 365 - “Life Behind the Music:...

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2025/10/20

In this special three-part series of The Art Box, host MJ takes us home to Oregon for an intimate look at the stories, friendships, and creative spark that drive Petty Fever, the award-winning Tom Petty tribute band beloved across the Northwest and beyond. Through personal connections with the band and their families, MJ explores the music that shaped their lives, the heart behind their performances, and the shared passion that keeps classic rock alive for a new generation. Life Behind the Music

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56:41

The Art Box – Episode 364 - “Life Behind the Music:...

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2025/10/20

In this special three-part series of The Art Box, host MJ takes us home to Oregon for an intimate look at the stories, friendships, and creative spark that drive Petty Fever, the award-winning Tom Petty tribute band beloved across the Northwest and beyond. Through personal connections with the band and their families, MJ explores the music that shaped their lives, the heart behind their performances, and the shared passion that keeps classic rock alive for a new generation. Life Behind the Music

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15:05

The Art Box - Episode 362 - Between Brushstrokes: A...

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2025/10/15

In this special episode, co-founder Steve Dudrow takes a thoughtful pause to share what’s been happening behind the scenes at The Art Box Podcast. After a brief lull between episodes, Steve catches listeners up on the many creative directions the team has been pursuing, from public art projects and poetry collections to new podcast adventures and community outreach.Hear updates on Mesquite Works STEAM Center’s “STEAM into 2026” campaign, the Mesquite First Friday Family Art Walk, and a sneak peek

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The Art Box - Episode 361 - Ideas and Dreams at...

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2025/10/06

The Art Box travels to Las Vegas to explore one of the valley’s most dynamic creative spaces — the Winchester Dondero Cultural Center. Our guest is Irma Varela, the visionary Cultural Program Supervisor who has spent decades shaping a place where artists, performers, and neighbors gather to imagine and create.Irma shares the story behind the Center’s mission to nurture community through the arts, from neighborhood murals and cross-cultural festivals to intimate performances and workshops that give

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The Art Box - Episode 353 - Desert Love: Growing...

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2025/08/30

In this episode of The Art Box, we sat down at Mystery Ranch, with Kym Martin, Outreach Coordinator for Desert Love Native Plants, a nonprofit nursery rooted at Cactus Joe’s near the Red Rock Canyon foothills. Desert Love is more than a nursery, it’s a movement to make native plants accessible while inspiring communities to reimagine their landscapes and become stewards of the desert.Kym shares her journey from 15 years of teaching English to cultivating a new classroom in the desert, where lessons

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The Art Box - Episode 350 - Desert Roots to Vegas...

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2025/08/21

MJ welcomes back Paul and Linda of the Mesquite Café Blues Band for a fresh conversation about their musical journey. Since their last appearance on The Art Box in early 2023 (with hosts Linda Harris and Rachel Washington), the band has been on the rise, splitting their performances between Mesquite, Las Vegas, and Laughlin. Known for blending soulful blues with driving rock, their sound now reaches wider audiences while still staying true to their hometown roots. In this episode, Paul and Linda

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The Art Box - Episode 349 – Dulce Sol: Poetry in...

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2025/08/19

In this episode of The Art Box, we welcome Dulce Sol, an emerging Las Vegas poet whose words are steeped in dreams, travel, and self-discovery. Since beginning her poetic journey at just 17, Dulce has evolved into a voice that blends the surreal with the lived, weaving imagination and memory into verses that resonate with honesty and wonder.We explore how her dreams often spark poetic imagery, how world travel expanded her vision and deepened her creative vocabulary, and how her growth as a poet

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34:51

The Art Box - Episode 341 - Honoring Legacy – The...

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2025/07/12

In this special episode of The Art Box, host Steve sits down with Ian Wright and Lexie Little, leaders of the Utah Cultural Site Stewardship Program, to discuss a powerful intersection of history, preservation, and storytelling.Ian and Lexie share the journey behind their extensive research and collaboration to create the Buffalo Soldiers Heritage Trail, a statewide interpretive project that shines a long-overdue spotlight on the Black soldiers who served in the American West. Their efforts

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The Art Box - Episode 340 - Crafted Confidence: The...

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2025/07/12

Welcome to The Art Box! I’m your host, MJ Stiles, and today we’re recording from our Mesquite Works STEAM Center studio with someone who’s been lighting up the local art scene since his early teens. Liam Gutierrez has been a featured artist at Juniper Outpost Boutique in Mesquite, Nevada since he was just 14 years old. Beloved by customers and deeply appreciated by shop owners Charlotte and David, Liam’s work is a staple of the boutique’s vibrant, creative atmosphere. Whether it’s intricate crochet,

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The Art Box - Episode 339 - From Ashes, Roses Bloom -...

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2025/07/11

Welcome to The Art Box. If you're one of our many loyal listeners tuning in from across all 50 states and 59 countries, you know that while we often focus on the arts, we occasionally wander—intentionally—into other realms of creativity, heart, and human experience. After all, we believe that nearly everything in life holds an element of art. Today, we’re joined once again by our friend and frequent guest, Shannon McConnell, in our recording studio at the Mesquite Works STEAM Center. Shannon is no

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The Art Box - Episode 338 - Color, Courage, and...

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2025/07/07

In this vibrant episode of The Art Box, MJ sits down with her friend and fellow creative spirit, Melissa Osburg, for a wide-ranging and heartfelt conversation about art, healing, and finding joy through color. A self-taught abstract and mixed media artist originally from New Orleans and now based in Texas, Melissa shares how painting became a form of therapy during a challenging time in her life.Since 2016, Melissa has embraced art not just as an outlet, but as a powerful emotional language, one

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The Art Box - Episode 337 - Ara & Juan: Listening to...

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2025/07/06

In this heartwarming episode, Steve had the pleasure of sitting down with his friends, and the dynamic brother-sister duo, Ara and Juan Fernanda, at the Mesquite Works STEAM Center studio. Together, they share the story behind Fat Dough Bakery, where baking is more than a craft, it’s a sensory experience and a service-driven passion. We journey back to their childhood memories of the aromas and flavors from their hometown bakeries in Mexico and explore how those early impressions shaped

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The Art Box – Episode 332 - Where Art Meets...

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2025/06/23

Welcome to The Art Box Podcast! This is the final of five special episodes recorded on the road in Goldfield, Nevada, a place where creativity meets resilience in the heart of the high desert.In this episode we sit down with artist and community leader Astrid Larsen, whose creative vision reaches far beyond her own studio walls. Astrid is a founder of the Esmeralda High Desert Institute (EHDI), a dynamic nonprofit working to organize and grow the arts community in Goldfield and across central

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The Art Box – Episode 331 - Signs, Stanzas, and the...

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2025/06/23

Welcome to The Art Box Podcast! This is the fourth of five special episodes recorded on the road in Goldfield, Nevada, a place where creativity meets resilience in the heart of the high desert. Our featured guest is Bob Dewhurst—known locally and lovingly as Sign Painter Bob. With over 50 years of experience painting large-scale signs across San Francisco and the vast stretches of Nevada, Bob shares stories that stretch as far and wide as the landscapes he’s worked in. But his artistry doesn’t stop

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The Art Box – Episode 330 - Dreamwork and Design with...

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2025/06/22

Welcome to The Art Box Podcast! This is the third of five special episodes recorded on the road in Goldfield, Nevada, a place where creativity meets resilience in the heart of the high desert. In this episode of The Art Box, we sit down with Adrianne Beard, a creative cornerstone of Main Street Goldfield, manager of the whimsical Rusty Cove Boutique, and an artist whose work dances between the intuitive and the intricately imagined. Adrianne is a gifted jewelry maker, a passionate chronicler of her

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The Art Box – Episode 326 – Clay, Legacy, and the...

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2025/06/18

Welcome to our fifteenth and last episode of The Art Box recorded at the Tuscarora Pottery School in the spring of 2025, thanks in part to a grant by the Nevada Arts Council. In this episode of The Art Box, we’re honored to sit down with Ben Parks, a true giant in the world of ceramics and former director of the Tuscarora Pottery School. As the son of renowned potter and founder Dennis Parks, Ben has spent a lifetime immersed in the legacy, innovation, and gritty beauty of pottery in Nevada’s high

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The Art Box - Episode 316 - Teaching Inspiration -...

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2025/06/15

In the fifth episode of our Tuscarora Pottery School series, made possible in part by a generous grant from the Nevada Arts Council, we sit down with Julie Shelton, a dedicated art teacher from Boise, Idaho. Julie’s time at Tuscarora was both a personal creative retreat and a professional development opportunity. As she reconnected with her own artistic practice, she also explored new techniques and ideas to take back to her classroom and share with her students. It’s a heartfelt conversation about

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The Art Box - Episode 302 - "Murals, Pens, Paper and...

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2025/04/16

In this compelling episode of The Art Box, we’re joined by Erika G. Abad; writer, scholar, educator, and unapologetic storyteller. Known for her work in Latinx studies, queer feminist theory, and community-driven narratives, Dr. Abad shares how she uses storytelling as a tool for healing, resistance, and cultural preservation.We explore how her personal history, academic journey, and creative work intersect to amplify underrepresented voices. From her reflections on teaching at Nevada State

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