Art Beyond Walls: Exploring Baltimore's Hot Sauce Artist Collective with Brenton, Kira, Ayodoyin, Gen, and Alpha - Promoting Art Accessibility and Exploration in Unique Gallery Spaces
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Art Beyond Walls: Exploring Baltimore's Hot Sauce Artist Collective with Brenton, Kira, Ayodoyin, Gen, and Alpha - Promoting Art Accessibility and Exploration in Unique Gallery Spaces

Get ready to be mesmerized by the art world's wonders as Rob Lee shares the truth behind masterful creations on this podcast. Together with representatives from The Hot Sauce Artist Collective, an artist-run organization based in Baltimore, offering opportunities to emerging and established artists to showcase their artwork in unique gallery spaces like parking lots, city parks, and trails. The collective comprises Brenton, Kira, Ayodoyin, Gen, and Alpha, each contributing their distinct artistic styles. Brenton explores the fusion of nature and technology through digital art, while Kira focuses on portraiture and texture through painting and printmaking. Ayodoyin combines his culinary skills with creativity, Gen experiments with various mediums exploring identity, and Alpha's charcoal drawings resemble intricate paintings. Together, they form a diverse and dynamic collective, promoting art accessibility and exploration.

For today's topic:

  • Discover how The Hot Sauce Artist Collective promotes art accessibility and engages with the community.
  • Explore how COVID-19 has affected opportunities for emerging artists and reshaped the art landscape.
  • Delve into the collective's belief in the transformative power of art to foster connections and meaningful conversations.
  • Learn about the emphasis on learning and collaboration within The Hot Sauce Artist Collective and its impact on the artists' growth.
  • Uncover how art serves as a powerful tool for self-expression, and how it allows artists to delve into themes of identity and connection.

Tune in for an eye-opening conversation with representatives from The Hot Sauce Artist Collective. Each member brings their unique artistic style and background to the group, creating a diverse and dynamic collective. They discuss their motivations for pursuing art, the importance of public spaces for art, and the benefits of working within a collective. They also share their favorite pieces of art and describe their creative processes.


Mentioned in this episode:
CIAA The 3-Point Pop-Up Marketplace
Kira McMillan kiramcmillan.com
Brenton Lim @Brent0box
J. Alpha Massaquoi Jr (Founder) @art_nerd19


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Host: Rob Lee
Music: Original music by Daniel Alexis Music with additional music from Chipzard and TeTresSeis.
Production:
  • Produced by Rob Lee & Daniel Alexis
  • Edited by Daniel Alexis
  • Show Notes courtesy of Rob Lee and Transistor
Photos:
  • Rob Lee photos by Vicente Martin for The Truth In This Art and Contrarian Aquarian Media.
  • Guest photos courtesy of the guest, unless otherwise noted.
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Creators and Guests

Rob Lee
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Rob Lee
The Truth In This Art is an interview series featuring artists, entrepreneurs and tastemakers in & around Baltimore.
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Ayodoyin Olorunsola
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Ayodoyin Olorunsola
Ayodoyin Olorunsola is a local to the Baltimore area. A graduate of Salisbury University. A Volunteer at Hot Sauce.
Brenton Lim
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Brenton Lim
Brenton Lim is a digital-experimental artist & designer based in Baltimore, Maryland. He explores differences between digital and physical human interaction through digital media. He creates using various digital software and analog tools by translating them into immersive visuals. A theme he is constantly exploring is digital rot – the decomposition of digital images and material.
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Gen Fraser
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Gen Fraser
Gen Fraser has been involved in the arts for several years. She has performed in stage productions, dance troupes, as a choral singer and musician; but first and foremost, she is a visual artist. She graduated with a B.A. in Art History, a second major in African American Studies, a minor in History, and a certificate in Community Engagement from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2016. She has taught workshops, displayed and sold work at various venues both locally and around the country.
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J. Alpha Massaquoi Jr
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J. Alpha Massaquoi Jr
Baltimore based artist, James ALPHA Massaquoi Jr., is an emerging artist that works primarily with large drawings made with charcoal and pastels. Alpha was born in West African, Liberia, as the youngest of four to an upper middle-class family, where his father worked as a florist for the United States embassy to Liberia, and his mother was a Fashion designer with a small charcoal business. Alpha attended Towson University where he studied painting, drawing, and printmaking. Alpha has been a part of some major group shows in Baltimore City, like the “B_19” at Baltimore city hall, and “Our World” at Eubie Blakes, “25 Emerging Artist” Creative Alliance, “Beyond the classroom” Portico Gallery and an upcoming solo show at Current Space gallery titled “Black Noise”.
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Kira McMillan
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Kira McMillan
An emerging artist from P.G. county Maryland, Kira McMillan majored in Art and Design at Towson University, and graduated in 2020, with a concentration in Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking. During that time she grew into an eclectic expressionistic style, occasionally bringing in unconventional materials to enhance subject. Her work is self-reflective and explorers many of the physical and emotional feelings of being alive.
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