{"id":2653,"date":"2015-05-01T06:21:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T06:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/arts-culture\/podcast-artist-michael-stearns-causing-questions-2\/"},"modified":"2015-05-01T06:21:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T06:21:19","slug":"podcast-artist-michael-stearns-causing-questions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/podcast-artist-michael-stearns-causing-questions-2","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Artist Michael Stearns, Causing Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-37576\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Michael-Stearns-edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"383\" \/><em>Photo by Sander Roscoe Wolff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For decades, Michael Stearns has worked professionally as an artist and gallery owner. Although he still lives in Long Beach, he&#8217;s now working and curating art shows in San Pedro. This Saturday, he&#8217;s presenting &#8220;Crossing Bridges,&#8221; an exhibition of enhanced gicle\u00e9 prints, at Paradise Caf\u00e9, located at 1800 E. Broadway in Long Beach. The show opens at 4:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>In this audio interview, we talk at length about the struggles of &#8216;making it&#8217; as an arts professional, the challenges of working in Long Beach, and the benefits of having a studio in San Pedro.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/203395366&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" seamless=\"\" style=\"outline: 0; border: 0;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Michael&#8217;s work at <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelstearnsstudio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MichaelStearnsStudio.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>{FG_GEOMAP [33.7673226,-118.16952359999999] FG_GEOMAP}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, long time artist and gallery owner Michael Stearns will present an exhibition of new enhanced gicle\u00e9 prints at Paradise Caf\u00e9. In this audio interview, he speaks at length about the challenges of being a successful arts professional in Long Beach, the opportunities he&#8217;s found in San Pedro, and takes time to share his love of painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":67972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[856],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-culture-agent","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}