Don Porcella_artist (pipe cleaners!), musician (Face Urchins)_2025-10-31_interview on KZSC's Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club

Don relocated to Santa Cruz in January; as an artist, made some hand-sized art in grad school with pipe cleaners, and his professor urged him to try something larger; that was 2006, & now this is his signature medium; Don's art is in a gallery in downtown Santa Cruz, as well as other galleries around the country (e.g.: Tuscon); moved to New York City after grad school because, "if you want to be in the movies, you move to LA, but if you want to be an artist, you have to go to a city that's big & that supports artists!"; the Money Question? Are you able to make a living as an artist, and if so, how? The answer is Yes! and it's by having his art in enough galleries, but also having his art picked up by people like Lou Reed's guitar player, who asked him to create his album cover; music is another outlet for art, and the Face Urchins have been playing for 25 years; Don got into music by growing up going to the Strawberry Music Festival where he was exposed to lots of great acoustic music and jamming musicians; the Face Urchins are Don and Dave Wave, who is also a teacher, and they will be performing at our local MAH patio a week from tomorrow with bassist Pat Dintino. An interview on "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" with "Dangerous Dan", "DJ Wrangle" & "DJ Spark Plug", airing Friday mornings on KZSC Santa Cruz, California.