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Produced and Edited by Arts and Craft.
Theme Music: Sound Gallery by Dmitry Taras.

AnnMarie Milazzo is a Tony, Grammy, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award-nominated vocal designer. She’s also a vocalist, lyricist, and composer who’s worked on Broadway and internationally. On this episode, AnnMarie gets vocal about vocal design and her writing and editing process while preparing for the June opening of her newest Broadway musical, “JOY: A New True Musical.”

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Lucky Us (co-music & lyrics with David Foster), A Walk On The Moon, The Snow Guardian, Pretty Dead Girl, (winner of the Special Jury Award Sundance Film Festival) and Joy. As Vocal Designer: Spring Awakening, Next to Normal, If/Then, Finding Neverland, revival of Carrie, Bright Lights Big City, Superhero, Dangerous Beauty, Prometheus Bound, Some Lovers, Dave, A Walk On The Moon, revival of 1776, Almost Famous, A Beautiful Noise. As Co-Orchestrator of Once On This Island, AnnMarie was nominated for a Tony, Grammy, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award. She is the Grammy-nominated female vocalist for East Village Opera Company.

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Debbie Taylor-Kerman is a contemporary mixed media artist and painter who put aside her successful commercial design career to focus on creating abstract figurative art that empowers diversity and humanity. Her engaging art is now in private collections throughout the United States and around the world. On this episode we explore the world of licensing graphic art, transitioning from corporate to personal art, and following your voice. www.debbietaylorkerman.com

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Debbie Taylor-Kerman is a Scottish artist who came to New York City to work as a textile designer in 1991. She fell in love with the city and her husband Elliott, and they moved to Harlem where they raised their two sons and still reside. She studied her Foundation Course at St Martins School of Art in London, received her BA in Printed Textiles from Liverpool School of art and pursued further fine art studies with the Creative Visionary Program for 4 consecutive years, led by artist Nicholas Wilton. During the pandemic, Debbie finally decided to paint fine art full time, and left her successful commercial art career of more than three decades. Since then Debbie has exhibited primarily in the New York area and she is represented by Globe Fine Art in Santa Fe, NM and Dean Street Fine Art in Tampa. Her work can be found in private collections throughout the United States and around the world.

Artist Statement

I need to find hope in this fragile and divided world by creating the beauty of diversity. I believe it's critical for everyone to feel seen and to feel hope that we can coexist in peace. I create abstract figurative art by using a multitude of tools to build a substantial history of abstract paint and collage, from where my figures can emerge. While adjusting the measure of abstract versus figurative, I'm constantly asking myself the question, what needs to be said and what needs to be left unsaid. I don't want to tell the whole story. Creating a dynamic composition for initial impact is key to capturing viewers’ attention, by first making them stop and look, then enticing them to stay and discover the subtlety within the paintings. Just like life, there is more to us than what initially meets the eye. My art conveys how our diversity is what makes us beautiful, that we are all connected regardless of our differences, and that we need to spend time discovering the “whole picture”.

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Produced and Edited by Arts and Craft.
Theme Music: Sound Gallery by Dmitry Taras.