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Just Make Art

Just Make Art

Ty Nathan Clark and Nathan Terborg 63 Episodes Aug 13, 2026

Just Make Art is a podcast where artists Ty Nathan Clark and Nathan Terborg discuss the creative journey. Each episode uses a quote from a famous artist as a springboard for conversation. They share personal stories and practical advice for overcoming artistic obstacles. The show aims to inspire both seasoned and aspiring artists.

Episodes

The Long Game: Rafael Nadal and Georg Baselitz: Kind of Part 1
The Long Game: Rafael Nadal and Georg Baselitz: Kind of Part 1 Aug 13, 2026 3626 Ty Nathan Clark and Nathan Terborg are back! A career that ends because your body says “no” forces a kind of honesty most of us try to avoid. That’s why the Rafael Nadal Netflix documentary hit us so hard and why we couldn’t stop talking about it as artists.We trace Nadal’s mindset back to the studio: the way victory fades fast, the way difficulty becomes the real teacher, and the way motivation c
Breathwork And Nervous System Resets with Michael Gazzo
Breathwork And Nervous System Resets with Michael Gazzo Jul 23, 2026 4840 The fastest way to kill creative flow is to turn art into an identity you have to defend. Nathan sits down with special guest host Michael Gazzo (@Michaelvgazzo), a coach, rebirth breathwork facilitator, master NLP practitioner, and platinum-selling music producer, to talk about what happens when external success still leaves you empty and what it takes to create from a more honest place.We trace
How Music Builds Memory And Momentum In Art
How Music Builds Memory And Momentum In Art Jun 18, 2026 4238 One song can pull you back to a room you haven’t seen in 30 years, and that same song can push you into the studio with a totally different kind of courage. Nathan Terborg and Ty Nathan Clark go all-in on the music that formed their taste and still shapes their creative process, from early mixtapes and older-sibling tape raids to the ritual of Tower Records, used CD bins, and the album art that ta
How Cameron Crowe’s Memoir Teaches Artists To Keep Going
How Cameron Crowe’s Memoir Teaches Artists To Keep Going Jun 4, 2026 4636 Cameron Crowe wrote for Rolling Stone as a teenager, rode alongside the biggest bands of the era, and somehow stayed human enough to turn those years into art. We use his memoir The Uncool as a springboard to talk about the real creative process: the awkward beginnings, the brutal winters, and the small daily choices that keep an artist moving when nobody is clapping yet.We pull quotes and stories
De-Romanticizing Art And What It Gives Back
De-Romanticizing Art And What It Gives Back Apr 30, 2026 3609 Art-making isn’t a vibe. It’s a practice that can feel exhausting, confusing, and sometimes flat-out miserable, yet we still wake up wanting to go back. We sit with a blunt question that every working artist eventually faces: what is making art giving us even when it doesn’t feel good?We start by de-romanticizing the work through Hugo Winder-Lind’s reminder that painting doesn’t always feel good,
Cy Twombly And The Beauty Of Contamination In Art
Cy Twombly And The Beauty Of Contamination In Art Apr 9, 2026 2396 This is a replay from Season 1. A single line from Cy Twombly cracks open a huge question for artists: “One must desire the ultimate essence even if it is contaminated.” We sit with that tension between purity and grit and ask what “essence” really means in abstract expressionism, mark making, and the real studio process where rust, dust, scraps, and revisions refuse to stay out of the frame.From
Make The Art No One Is Asking For with Jeff Musser
Make The Art No One Is Asking For with Jeff Musser Mar 26, 2026 4613 Nobody is asking you to make your art. Jeff Musser thinks that’s exactly why you have to make it anyway.Jeff is a Northern California figurative painter who builds images from collage, family photographs, sketches, and historical source material. We talk about painting as a primal need to make marks, why the studio can feel like a scratch-off ticket you keep buying with your time, and how the best
Art Friendships That Fuel The Work
Art Friendships That Fuel The Work Mar 5, 2026 5139 Three artists. One exhibition. A decade of friendship that turned into fuel for making braver work. Ty sits down with Vy Ngo and Eric Breish to explore how creative community shapes everything—from the courage to apply, to the way we process rejection, to the rituals that help us recover after the lights go down.We start with origin stories and the rush of seeing our pieces hang together at Art Ce
Art is Hard. What If The Hard Part Is The Point. We Are In A Fight With The Work.
Art is Hard. What If The Hard Part Is The Point. We Are In A Fight With The Work. Jan 29, 2026 3101 What if the hardest days in the studio are not detours, but the path itself? We open up about the real fight behind the work—those sessions where flow vanishes, doubt gets loud, and the canvas refuses to cooperate—and why that tension can become your most reliable teacher. Drawing from Rashid Johnson’s candid reflection with Carrie Scott on battling the work, we unpack the difference between inspi
Jack Whitten, Gimmicks, And The Grind Of Abstraction with Jamele Wright Senior.
Jack Whitten, Gimmicks, And The Grind Of Abstraction with Jamele Wright Senior. Jan 15, 2026 3992 What if paint could hold fear, wonder, and the cosmos all at once? That question runs through this conversation with guest host Jamele Wright Sr., where we explore Jack Whitten’s radical break from gesture and the relentless search to make painting enough on its own terms. From turning acrylic into “glass” to trapping forms on a truly flat plane, we trace how Whitten rebuilt painting through mecha
Perspectives on Jack Whitten and the Birth of Abstraction with Jamele Wright, Sr.
Perspectives on Jack Whitten and the Birth of Abstraction with Jamele Wright, Sr. Dec 24, 2025 4035 What if paint is the vehicle and you are the medium? We dive deep into Jack Whitten’s Notes from the Woodshed with guest host Jamel Wright Sr., tracing how a life shaped by the Jim Crow South, pre-med rigor, and carpentry precision produced a studio practice built on invention. From the famed developer tool to a crow’s nest for high vantage points, Whitten redesigned the act of making—choosing sys
The Fearless Experiment: Q&A on Unconventional Materials & Artist Mindset
The Fearless Experiment: Q&A on Unconventional Materials & Artist Mindset Dec 4, 2025 3562 What if the most exciting art materials aren’t on a shelf, but in a scrap bin behind the shop? We dig into the joy and rigor of working with nontraditional sources—HVAC steel, coroplast misprints, billboard tarps, even feedbags—and how renewable streams of “improper” materials unlock fearless experimentation. That freedom matters because it fuels the process-first mindset we lean on when the work

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