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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

955 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 955 episodes, alongside 109 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 710 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 2 days ago, with 53 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2022, with 320 episodes published. Published by Contrarian Aquarian Media.

Episodes
955
Running
2019–2026 · 7y
Median length
42 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.

Latest Episodes

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

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

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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

MJ On The Wall: Engineer Turned Self-Taught Painter Miles Johnson on His Art

Jul 2, 20261h 1m

Bernard Feinsod on 17 Years Behind the Scenes In Media Production from Vice Media to Going Solo

Jun 29, 20261h 17m

Jacob Ming-Trent on 'How Shakespeare Saved My Life'

Jun 27, 202651 min

Solana Rostick

Jun 25, 202657 min

Artist Tyreek Morrison Discusses Fatherhood, Generational Legacy, and the Art of Collage

Jun 21, 20261h 10m

Maurice Scarlett III, Baltimore-Based Visual Artist, on Using Pain as Power and Re-Imagining Black Representation in Art

Jun 18, 20261h 0m

Kris Fulton of Sophomore Coffee on Building Trust Through Consistency and Why Physical Presence Still Matters

Jun 15, 20261h 10m

Megan Elcrat Discusses Urban Revitalization, Creative Spaces, and Station North

Jun 9, 202659 min

Dr. David O. Fakunle II

Jun 2, 20261h 22m

Shaun Stewart of Patterson Pins

May 26, 20261h 4m
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