In this episode of State of Art, Bree Anne Pappan sits down with artist, creative, and producer James Beck for a wide-ranging conversation about artificial intelligence and the future of creativity. Building on her June story about AI, Bree explores the implications of this rapidly evolving technology for artists, storytellers, cultural workers, and the broader creative community. Together, they discuss both the promise and the uncertainty of AI, from new tools for production and imagination to deeper questions about authorship, originality, ethics, and what it means to create in a changing world.

State of Art, a Voices of Pueblo podcast, explores the people, ideas and creative forces shaping the cultural life of our community.

In this episode, Bree Anne Pappan leads a conversation about a remarkable new chapter for Pueblo: the opening of the Leonardo da Vinci Museum, a project that connects southern Colorado to audiences, ideas and cultural conversations around the world.

The featured guest is Dr. Sara Taglialagamba, an internationally recognized Leonardo scholar whose work has helped bring the museum’s vision to life. The conversation explores the museum’s opening, its significance for Pueblo, and what it means for the city to become part of a global conversation about creativity, education, art and discovery.

State of Art: “Leonardo da Vinci Museum Opens Pueblo to the World” — a conversation with Dr. Sara Taglialagamba.

In this special episode of the Voices of Pueblo podcast, the Pueblo Star Journal marks the opening of the new Leonardo da Vinci Museum of North America and STEAM Center in downtown Pueblo.

Producer and narrator Andy Koen takes listeners inside the story of how a world-class cultural attraction, featuring exhibits created by the renowned Artisans of Florence, found its North American home along Pueblo’s Historic Arkansas Riverwalk. Guests Joe Arrigo and Craig Eliot Cisney share the vision, partnerships and persistence behind the museum’s creation, as well as its promise to inspire curiosity, creativity and hands-on learning for students and visitors across Southern Colorado.

The episode also features original Renaissance-inspired music created with the innovative AI platform Suno.com, designed to evoke the sound and spirit of Leonardo da Vinci’s time.

Guests: Joe Arrigo and Craig Eliot Cisney | Leonardo da Vinci Museum of North America | https://davincisteam.org/

Host: Andy Koen Presented by: Pueblo Star Journal's Voices of Pueblo Podcast Series