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The Truth In This Art: Stories That Matter

The Truth In This Art: Stories That Matter

The Truth In This Art with Rob Lee is an arts and culture interview podcast connecting arts, culture, and community.

Rob Lee · Contrarian Aquarian Media

965 episodesEN-US

Show overview

The Truth In This Art: Stories That Matter has been publishing since 2019, and across the 7 years since has built a catalogue of 965 episodes, alongside 109 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 720 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence, with the show now in its 11th season.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 35 min and 52 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Society & Culture show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 63 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2022, with 320 episodes published. Published by Contrarian Aquarian Media.

Episodes
965
Running
2019–2026 · 7y
Median length
43 min
Cadence
Several per week

From the publisher

The Truth In This Art with Rob Lee is an arts and culture interview podcast connecting arts, culture, and community. Sharing stories that matter through in-depth conversations with artists and creatives — photographers, filmmakers, designers, musicians, chefs, writers, and more. Guests share studio routines, community roots, career insights, and the ideas and choices that shape their projects. New episodes, show notes, and transcripts available here.

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Rée the Interdisciplinarian on Impact Producing, Education, and Baltimore

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Maryland Humanities Alexandra Cenatus on Public Humanities, Haitian Food, and Community

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Actor, Author, and Artist Victoria Rowell on her MICA Exhibition 'A Woman Becomes...'

Sep 26, 202658 min

Festival Producers Keith Dukes III and Tony Diallo on Pixal Fest 2026 DMV Short Film Festival

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Shakespearean Actress Renea Brown Explains Why Justice in ‘Measure for Measure’ Still Resonates Today

Sep 22, 202658 min

From Materials to New Media: Johab Silva on Art, AI, and Urban Development

Sep 14, 20261h 2m

Glass Artist Dany Green on Chaos, Order, and Letting Things Break

Sep 9, 202655 min

Farrah Skeiky on Photography, Grief, and Staying Connected to People

Sep 7, 20261h 2m

Yes, Please and Thank You — Georgina Coka Treviño on Cultural Strategy, Art, and Connection

Aug 25, 20261h 20m

Instrumental Hip-Hop Producer LuvJonez: How To Make Beats, Blend Genres & Build A Music Community

Aug 18, 20261h 5m

Dominican artist Jose Duran on Reclaiming Black Femininity Through Baroque and Rococo Opulence

Aug 11, 20261h 5m

Dominican artist Bony Ramirez - Anchoring Caribbean Memory to Surreal, Renaissance-Inspired Figures

Aug 4, 20261h 19m

DMV Visual Artist Khadija Jahmila Turns Reclaimed Materials Into Diasporic Storytelling

Jul 30, 20261h 16m

Sand Is Still Sand: DC Artist Dina AZ. Salem on Memory, Texture, and Transformation

Jul 27, 20261h 9m

Building Baltimore Food Culture with Charm City Table Founder Simone Phillips

Jul 23, 20261h 6m

French-American Painter Louis-Antoine Gilbert on Cubism, Moebius & Art Deco

Jul 13, 20261h 9m

A Revolution Called Love's Zoë Poindexter on Black Love Day, Filmmaking and Storytelling for Us

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Artist Paloma Vianey on Painting "The Most Dangerous City"

Jul 6, 202653 min
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