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Step into a world where imagination becomes a living document in Drawing the Moment: An Intimate Conversation with Flash Rosenberg, Visual Storyteller on the AART Podcast with Chris Stafford. In this deeply personal and delightfully curious episode, internationally acclaimed visual storyteller, illustrator, photographer, and performance artist Flash Rosenberg invites us into her creative universe—where ideas move, pictures speak, and humor reveals truth. With her signature blend of sharp wit, emotional insight, and visual language, Flash reflects on her journey as a Guggenheim Fellow, a live sketch documentarian, and a pioneering creator on stages from New York City to the digital realm. She offers a rare look into the playful seriousness of drawing on the spot, translating conversations into art, and telling stories that celebrate the fleeting beauty of lived experience. Listeners will hear about:

• Flash’s evolution as a visual storyteller & conceptual artist
• How she captures the “heartbeat” of a moment with line and gesture
• The relationship between humor, honesty, and creativity
• What it means to “draw thinking” in real time
• How curiosity drives her artistic practice
• Personal stories behind some of her most iconic works

Whether you are an artist, creative thinker, or someone who loves seeing the world through a new lens, this episode offers an inspiring and intimate encounter with one of the most dynamic and original minds in contemporary visual culture.

Discover the joy of seeing—and feeling—ideas come alive. 🎧 Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, and YouTube.

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Visual storyteller Flash Rosenberg, is a self described 'Attention Span for Hire' who photographs, draws, writes and talks as a performer. Flash was the pioneering artist in residence for ‘LIVE from the New York Public Library’ for seven years, capturing live-drawings of literary discussions in real-time to create panels and animated summaries known as “Conversation Portraits Flash was born in Mt. Vernon, NY; one of three children—she has a younger brother and sister— to Marilyn, an early childhood educator, and David, a chemical engineer and rocket scientist. Her family moved to Delaware when she was four years old. Flash attended the University of Delaware where she graduated with a BS in Graphic Design as a Dean’s Scholar in Visual Communication. In 2011, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts. Her animations have been commissioned for Broadway shows. Her Main Stage stories for ‘The Moth’ have been broadcast nationally on NPR. “FlashThink Cartoons” were a weekly, online feature on the Conde Nast site, Archetypes.com. Flash has had an elaborate and original teaching career, specializing in provocative approaches to art, including workshops in Visual Humor, and a Perception Studies class conducted entirely in the NYC subways for Cooper Union. She lives in Harlem, NY.
 
Websites: http://flashrosenberg.com/ https://www.archetypes.com/flash-rosenberg (http://www.nypl.org/live/conversation-portraits
Instagram: @flashrosenberg
https://www.instagram.com/flashrosenberg/
 
Flash’s playlist: Blackbird - The Beatles

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