“Art and anxiety and mental health, they go hand in hand,” said Las Vegas artist Lance L. Smith. “And whether your art is your cooking or your parenting or your gardening … you have a right to allow those things to be a container for things that other folks can’t hold.”
On this season of the Double Scoop Podcast, guest host Holly Hutchings talks with Lance and three other artists—Rob Garrett, Jessica Schimpf, and Sogand Tabatabaei—about art and mental health.
Lance told Holly that, at a young age, they realized that art was the avenue to help channel the feelings that didn’t have anywhere else to go.
LISTEN: Double Scoop Podcast Episode 21—The Art + Mental Health Series with Lance L. Smith
“Ours Do Overcome” was part of Lance L. Smith’s 2020/21 exhibition In the Interest of Action, part of the Womxn of Color Arts Festival, at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at UNLV. Photo: Lonnie Timmons III/UNLV Photo Services
Lance L. Smith’s “Untitled Botanical Rendering” is part of the exhibition I’m OK, I’m Not OK at UNR’s Student Galleries South through Aug. 5. Photo: Kris Vagner.
A detail of “Ours Do Overcome” from the exhibition I’m OK, I’m Not OK at UNR’s Student Galleries South through Aug. 5. Photo: Kris Vagner.
You can learn more about Lance L. Smith and their work in the article “Lance Smith’s imagery is a toolkit for decolonization” by Brent Holmes, published on Double Scoop in 2020.
Lance’s work is featured in Double Scoop’s exhibition I‘m OK, I’m not OK at UNR’s Student Galleries South through Aug. 5.
This podcast was funded by a grant from Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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