Author: Peter Hawley

Teaching in the Arts has tenure! Actually, we have John Philbin, my first guest who is a tenured faculty member. John and I talk about the GVSU Summer Film Project, John’s journey from Oak Park, IL to New York, L.A.,

This is Yuri and me late last Friday night.  I was shooting a project for a client and staying at a suburban Chicago hotel.  When I recorded the podcast, I forgot to get a photo.  Lucky for me, Yuri was

Marisa Dickens and Asha Lodhia were in my Intro to Production class this spring at Loyola.  After grades were posted and they were no longer technically my students, I wanted to have them on to talk about being a student

That’s Perry Harovas in a sound studio at World Wrestling Entertainment Headquarters in Connecticut.  Perry does animation and VFX for WWE, but I know him from when we were colleagues in Chicago at Flashpoint Media Arts Academy.  Perry was the

Look at those scarves!  It was cold in Chicago last Friday when Andrea Bunch from the Old Town School of Folk Music came by for a chat. Andrea has been at Old Town since 2001.  We discuss her journey from Iowa

On this week’s episode I have a great chat with Amy Berk from the San Francisco Art Institute.  She runs the City Studio Program at SFAI, which serves Bay Area youth We talk about City Studio as well as her

Hey, That’s Joe Pollock! Joe Pollock was my student during the summer of 1996 at Columbia College Chicago, and he was the first student I selected to be my teaching assistant. Joe has taught K-12 Art, and is now teaching

All the way from Bournemouth University in England Brad Gyori joins me to talk about his journey from being the head writer of Talk Soup to getting his PhD from ASU, to teaching in Chicago and now Bournemouth. We also

Another double header day!  This time two folks from the (relatively) new Harold Ramis Film School in Chicago.  First up, Program Director Jack Newell.  Jack tells us all about the school, and their focus on comedy films.  Then Dania Kahn,

This week I talk with folks from Free Spirit Media.  First up is Jeff McCarter, Free Spirit’s Founder and Executive Director.  Jeff shares FSM’s beginnings from Hoops High, to where they are today.  Jeff is followed up by two Free