{"id":38356,"date":"2021-05-14T20:42:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T03:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=38356"},"modified":"2021-05-15T11:52:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T18:52:28","slug":"dont-lose-the-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/14\/dont-lose-the-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;don&#8217;t lose the joy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/14\/dont-lose-the-joy\/anthony_sonnenberg1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38358\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/anthony_sonnenberg1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"817\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/19113617\/height\/26\/theme\/standard-mini\/thumbnail\/no\/direction\/backward\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"26\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Leopard print pants and a Garfield t-shirt? How can you <em>not<\/em> want to be friends with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/anthonysonnenberg\/\">Anthony Sonnenberg\u00a0<\/a> &#8230; that&#8217;s what I imagine he&#8217;s saying in this photo. I&#8217;m so excited to have Anthony on the podcast today because I&#8217;ve been following him on Instagram for years, but we&#8217;ve never spoken until today. I was feeling a little shy, but with photos like the one above all over his feed, I was pretty sure he&#8217;d be a friggin&#8217; delight&#8230; and I was right! Listen right up there under Anthony enjoying the great outdoors, or subscribe on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/jealous-curator-art-for-your\/id996338562\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0and\/or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2ELjX4nIVWpI3XMNW139WN\">Spotify.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t sure where to start because Anthony does so many amazing things, but let&#8217;s go with his ceramic sculpture:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/14\/dont-lose-the-joy\/anthony_sonnenberg2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38359\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/anthony_sonnenberg2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"6221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So gorgeous! The final sculpture above is from quite a few years ago, but I&#8217;m almost 100% sure it was the piece that made me click FOLLOW on Instagram. Looooove.<\/p>\n<p>Oh boy, and speaking of love&#8230; ANTHONY&#8217;S JEWELRY:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/14\/dont-lose-the-joy\/anthony_sonnenberg3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38360\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/anthony_sonnenberg3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"3894\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whoa. So big, so ornate, so <em>everything<\/em>. I can&#8217;t wait to see where he goes with this work&#8230; it&#8217;s going to be ridiculously good.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I chose to start this post with a photo of Anthony enjoying the fresh mountain air, but I could have easily gone with one of these:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/14\/dont-lose-the-joy\/anthony_sonnenberg4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38361\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/anthony_sonnenberg4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"2256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/anthony_sonnenberg4.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/anthony_sonnenberg4-398x1536.jpg 398w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/anthony_sonnenberg4-530x2048.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yep, you want to be friends with him&#8230; I know, me too. See? I told you he makes and does zillions of things, and all of them are fabulous!<\/p>\n<p>And finally, this. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarah-ball.co.uk\/work\/anthony\">the painting of Anthony<\/a> by UK based artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarah-ball.co.uk\/\">Sarah Ball,<\/a> and the photographic inspiration:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/14\/dont-lose-the-joy\/anthony_sonnenberg5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38362\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/anthony_sonnenberg5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"1161\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that lovely? <em>Sigh.<\/em> So good. Thank you so much to Anthony for recording his first ever podcast interview with <em>me<\/em>&#8230; and for not pursuing his career as a &#8220;sandwich artist&#8221;!\u00a0 As always, huge thanks to you for listening to yet another episode of ART FOR YOUR EAR&#8230; there&#8217;ll be a brand new episode next weekend.<\/p>\n<p><em>Other links:<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/anthonysonnenberg\/\">Anthony on Instagram<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavlakgallery.com\/exhibitions\/anthony-sonnenberg-im-not-here-this-isnt-happening\">&#8220;I\u2019m not here. This isn\u2019t happening.&#8221;<\/a> at GAVLAK Palm Beach \/ June 9 &#8211; July 25, 2021<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/conduitgallery\/\"><em>Conduit Gallery, Dallas Texas<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/archiebray.org\/\">Archie Bray Foundation<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leopard print pants and a Garfield t-shirt? How can you not want to be friends with Anthony Sonnenberg\u00a0 &#8230; that&#8217;s what I imagine he&#8217;s saying in this photo. I&#8217;m so excited to have Anthony on the podcast today because I&#8217;ve been following him on Instagram for years, but we&#8217;ve never spoken until today. 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