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Art Yap

Hosted by Shawna Vesco Ahern · arts · EN

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About this Podcast:

Convos with the creative folk shaping the arts and culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hosted by Shawna Vesco Ahern.

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Contact path

Public web form

Booking probability

29%

Guest openness

Selective

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Questions about Art Yap

What is Art Yap about?

Convos with the creative folk shaping the arts and culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hosted by Shawna Vesco Ahern.

Who hosts Art Yap?

Art Yap is hosted by Shawna Vesco Ahern. The show has published 20 episodes to date.

What has Art Yap covered recently?

Recent episodes include "19 - Crowded Fire Theater, Nailah + Adin" (28 August 2026, 32 minutes), "18 - Suzy Varadi, The Yenta of SFMOMA" (22 July 2026, 31 minutes), and "17- Demetri Broxton, Building an Artistic Future Bead By Bead" (20 June 2026, 39 minutes).

How often does Art Yap publish?

Art Yap publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 34 minutes across 20 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Art Yap?

Booking probability for Art Yap is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Art Yap requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Art Yap's contact route on record: public web form.

Who should pitch Art Yap?

The strongest fits for Art Yap are Artists, Writers & Performers and Museums, Zoos & Historic Sites. Art Yap has an arts audience.

About the host

Shawna Vesco Ahern hosts Art Yap, an arts podcast with 20 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Aug 28, 202632 min

    BOGO tickets for Manning with code: YAPPERS Welcome back to Art Yap, where I gab, gossip, and otherwise chitchat with San Francisco Bay Area arts and culture baddies about how they build community through creativity...

  • Jul 22, 202631 min

    Before she was brokering multi-million dollar partnerships at SFMOMA, Suzy was training monkeys to play computer games in a neuropsychopharmacology lab. In this episode, she talks about her winding path from grad school...

  • Feb 14, 202616 minS0

    <p>The night before Valentine’s Day, artists gathered at SOMA Arts to talk about saving the San Francisco art scene.</p><p>It felt less like a policy meeting and more like couples therapy.</p><p><br>In this special Art...

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  • Sep 26, 202535 minS0

    <p>In this episode of Art Yap, I sit down with Richard Koscher (RMK)--artist, filmmaker, creative director, and bold experimenter--whose newest project GHOSTS OF THE ICE asks us to look directly at what's disappearing...

  • Aug 15, 202542 minS0

    <p>Today’s guest is Jackie von Treskow, Senior Program Manager for Public Art at the San Francisco Arts Commission.</p><p>Jackie’s journey into the arts wasn’t a straight line—it involved mythical Asheville forests...

  • Jul 25, 202540 minS0

    <p>This week’s guest is Tina Wiley Crawford, recruitment manager at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She is also a talented graphic designer, a champion for youth programs, and—by her own words—a Swiss Army knife...

  • Jul 18, 202534 minS0

    <p>In this week’s episode I head down to the dump to trash talk...pardon me, talk trash with Deborah Munk, who’s been running the Artist in Residence program at Recology San Francisco for over 25 years, and Bryan Keith...

  • Jul 11, 202531 minS0

    <p>Today’s guest is Micah Ruiz, the founder of Orion Custom Framing. Micah is the kind of person who makes you feel like you can build something beautiful from scratch—whether it’s a frame, a business, or an entire...

  • Jun 27, 202532 minS0

    <p>Today’s episode features Allison Gamlen, a lifelong arts advocate who now serves as the Visual and Performing Arts Coordinator for the San Mateo County Office of Education.</p><p><br>We talk about growing up in the...

  • Jun 13, 202525 minS0

    <p>Today’s guest is Jonathan Carver Moore—a gallerist, curator, and unapologetic advocate for emerging artists, especially artists of color and queer voices. Jonathan runs his namesake gallery in San Francisco’s budding...

  • Jun 13, 202528 minS0

    <p>In today’s episode I sit down with LE BohemianMuse in her beautiful sunlit SF studio in the mission. LE is first generation Ghanian Bay Area-ian, and I just love talking art and life with her. She’s a philosophical...

  • Jun 13, 202542 minS0

    <p>Today’s episode features Anna Lisa Escobedo a true community building baddie from LA. Anna Lisa’s creative project management connects artists with opportunities, each other, and the public. She pours herself heart...

  • Jun 13, 202533 minS0

    <p>In today’s episode I sit down with Stella Lochman, a joy-driven community programming visionary with deep roots in San Francisco, the city where she was born and raised. Carrying forward the legacy of the city’s...

  • Jun 13, 202541 minS0

    <p>Today’s guest is Craig McIntire—a self-taught painter, a practicing speech-language pathologist, and the kind of person who instantly feels like a friend you’ve known forever. He’s warm, funny, endlessly curious, and...

  • May 14, 20252 minS0

    <p>Shawna Vesco Ahern gabs, gossips, and otherwise chitchats with San Francisco Bay Area arts and culture baddies about how they build community through creativity—and the winding life paths that led them there. Art Yap...

Recent guests

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Nailah Harper-Malveaux

Crowded Fire

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Connie Wurz

SFO Museum

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Jackie von Treskow

San Francisco Arts Commission

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Raquel Espana

Peninsula Book Collaborative

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