"The Catalyst Sessions" w/ Bill DeYoung: Frank Strunk III

Gulfport metal artist Frank Strunk III sat down for a casual and candid Catalyst Sessions interview Friday, in advance of the virtual opening of his latest exhibit, Pandemia, tonight (Saturday, Sept. 5).The exhibit is a collection of 20 masks that echo the eerie, bird-like look of masks worn by physicians in times of plague. “My understanding of them is that many people though the disease was spread through odor,” the artist explained. “And so they would take these masks, and put various herbs and things that smelled good in the long snouts, to defeat this.”

A self-taught artist, Strunk talked about working with metal, and why as a medium he bonded with it (his earliest artistic attempts were as a photographer, followed by sculpting with wood and concrete, leftovers he discovered at construction sites).  #stpetecatalyst #tampabay #radio #gulfport