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A new podcast about art and creativity from artist and creator Sari Shryack, founder of Not Sorry Art and Not Sorry Art School.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Sari Shryack connects studio technique, creative work and art's emotional uses through practical, encouraging conversations.
Sari Shryack treats art as something people make, study, discuss and build a working life around. Not Sorry Art Podcast moves between book-club conversations, interviews with artists and arts professionals, and practical art education.
Painting is where your eyes get caught lying to you, and somehow that's the encouraging part.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A reflective art conversation that treats taste as learned and turns that idea into creative confidence.
Sari Shrike keeps the conversation centered on how taste is learned, tying preference to family, culture, mentoring, and habit rather than treating it as something sealed off from context.
A quiet case for rest, space, and creative momentum.
Sari Schreich treats Jenny O'Dell's How to Do Nothing as a case for unstructured time in creative work. She starts with the demands of making art, then lets the piece wander through Don Draper naps, hermits, Emerson, the 1960s drop-out movement, and communes.
A candid, reflective look at burnout, creativity, and play.
Sari Shrike opens from burnout and moves through creativity, play, guilt, shame, self-doubt, and class without forcing the pieces apart. The strongest part is the way those pressures are treated as part of artistic life, not as a separate issue to be solved from the outside.
Practical studio advice for making awkward rooms work.
Ella Nilsson and Sari Shrike spend the episode on a familiar problem: how to make a space work when the room is awkward or just too small. The best parts stay concrete, with examples like a weird niche, a dining room table setup, and the basic challenge of keeping tools where…
A generous defense of making art that still takes class and access seriously.
Sari Shrike opens with a plain answer before turning to the harder question of what actually shapes a creative life when art school is not the only path.
A clear, practical look at how painting retreats tend to feel.
This episode looks at painting retreats, with Sari Shrike answering Instagram questions about what they are, how they differ from workshops, and who usually signs up.
An art conversation about looking, making, and how bias shapes what the eye thinks it sees.
Not Sorry Art turns an art-and-creativity conversation into something closer to a study of attention, bias, and the discipline of making things.
A grounded conversation about making art without letting perfection take over.
Erica Lamar's visit to Not Sorry Art keeps its focus on the plain work of staying an artist while teaching. The conversation spends time on process, perfectionism, and the rhythm of making every day, and Sari lets those ideas breathe instead of pushing for a neat takeaway.
Art historian Tamar Avishai interviews critics, curators, and writers about single paintings and ideas.
Jennifer Dasal narrates art history's overlooked lives, from Picasso's police file to Rauschenberg and Twombly's romance.
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament interview artists about their materials, biography, and process.
Cinematographer Roger Deakins and James Deakins interview film crew about the craft behind specific shots.
Robert Bound interviews artists and reviews new film, book, and music releases with critics.
Sound art from places, recordings, and memory.
Sari Shrike interviews Leah Fanning, founder and CEO of Natural Earth Paint, about solvent-free oil painting and the company’s newer plastic-free acrylic paints.
Sari Shrike talks with Danielle Bayard Jackson, the female friendship coach behind Better Female Friendships, about how creatives can build relationships that are both personal and professional.
Sari Shrike talks with Coca Trevino, curator and director of programming at Big Medium in Austin.
Sari Schreich centers the episode on Jenny Odell's How to Do Nothing.
I started making art when I was 30, just after my doctorate, and it became a way to process trauma and offer my community gifts of resilience.
Three essential techniques: underpainting, glazing, and impasto.
Most creatives are burning out but still not pushing themselves where it matters.
Sari Shrike uses listener questions to map the difference between painting retreats and workshops, from meals and accommodations to travel, supplies, and room tiers at places like Wimberley.
Sari Schreik and Megan E.
Piera Brown, a registered art therapist in Chicago, describes how a ceramics professor pushed her toward art therapy after she had been planning for psychology and teaching.
Sari Schreich frames this Not Sorry Art episode as a practical guide to how artists can edit their media consumption, with references to Jenny O'Dell's How to Do Nothing and David Lynch's idea that artists “fish for ideas.” She argues that entertainment tolerance, curiosity, and creativity are malleable, using memories of childhood cable, MTV, and later college TV habits to show how stimulation changes what feels engaging.
Breakthrough moments are myths; the elephant gets eaten one bite at a time, always.
Not Sorry Art Podcast features Sari Shrike and artist-gallery owner Ella Nilsson, who spent 15 years at Ikea and later ran Hanger Art Studio in Central Austin.
Sari Shrike frames “constraintivity” as the idea that limitations can become strengths, using Pink Floyd, Alice Neel, and her own disco ball paintings as examples.
Sari Shrike argues that you do not need an art degree to be a working artist, but she says insecurity still follows people through BFA and MFA culture.
Sari Shrike frames Not Sorry Art Podcast: The Science of Observation as an argument that observation is a skill, not a talent, and ties it to plein air painting as April approaches.
Sari Shrike centers the episode on burnout, creativity, and play.
Sari Schreich talks with Mac Cumpian, an arts professional from Southeast Texas who now works in New York City as a museum educator, studio manager, adjunct professor, and TikTok creator at “Mac Facts.” Mac describes using a junior college background, Lamar University, and a scholarship to get into NYU Museum Studies, where classmates named Berkeley, UCLA, Notre Dame, and Pratt while she named schools few people recognized.
I have a deep love of people in general I'm rooting for us I love humans and I think we can be together
Sari Shrike opens with a bright plug for her own book, Modern Still Life from Fruit Bowls to Disco Balls, then moves into the second annual summer book club.
Sari opens by introducing Erica Lamar, a full-time artist and high school art teacher working in Laredo, Texas.
Sari Schreich uses “State of the Studio” to explain why she is putting the Not Sorry Art Podcast on pause while she rebuilds her schedule around Not Sorry Art School, YouTube, and family responsibilities.
Sari Shrike uses a TikTok by Christy Paints — “you’re cringey until you blow up” — to argue that art should not be judged by whether it already looks successful.
Sari Schreich opens Not Sorry Art Podcast season 3 by answering Kayla Bynum-Coates’s question about identity, autism, social media, and capitalism.
Success in art looks accidental but is meticulously calculated
Artist and educator Sari Shrike examines how context and cultural capital determine whose art gets taken seriously.