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Artsy Types
by Joy and Teresa
Creativity conversations for artists, or just artsy types. Joy and Teresa are two life-long friends who have been having a 40-year conversation about culture and creativity, and they've expanded the conversation to include you. They both have day jobs, but what they really love is creating and talking about art, writing, music, metalsmithing, painting--figuring out how to create something from nothing. artsytypes.substack.com
Episodes
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Art In Progress: Sketching on Location, Creating a New Collection
Joy and Teresa update one another on current projects. Joy reveals she is leaving on a trip and wants to try sketching on location. Teresa has been getting into a flow at her workbench and is allowing a new collection to emerge on its own. They’ve both been busy writing one-line stories to read…
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Why We Create
Hearing Barry Manilow explain why he writes songs has Teresa and Joy asking each other why they create? Joy has one word that captures her motivation as a creator, and Teresa pinpointed several words that drive her metalsmithing. Miniature paintings and one-sentence-stories have led Teresa into a...
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Where Do Ideas Come From?
Finished works of art are born from small ideas. Tiny seeds—sometimes just a few scattered thoughts—somehow nestle into our minds, find ways to grow and finally make their way to a pencil, a paintbrush, piano keys, a mound of clay or a piece of enamel. Joy and Teresa talk about using an annoying...
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Recipes for Living a Creative Life
Do you have habits and rituals, or things like special clothing or playlists that set the stage for your creativity? Joy and Teresa share the recipes they each use to spark their creativity. From alt-rock band Pavement playing loudly through headphones, to curated ambient music designed to create...
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When Is it Ok to Be a Creative Copycat?
Artists have tried to replicate the works of the masters for centuries. Copying to learn is nothing new. But what happens when the piece of jewelry you dreamed up while looking at the stars, sketched into existence in an old notebook and crafted after hours at your workbench—what happens when you...
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A-Ha Moments: Three Creativity Revelations
The creativity conversations are generating lots of ideas, and they’ve led Joy and Teresa to pose a question to one another: what have your a-ha moments been? Are there revelations that have found their way into your artistic process? Whether it’s a reminder to get out of the studio and live…
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Getting Your Art Noticed: How to Navigate the World of Exhibitions, Articles & Podcasts
Creating art is one thing, getting it noticed another. How do exhibitions work, and what is a juried competition? What are tips for getting into magazines and invited onto podcasts? Teresa and Joy have a practical conversation with specific takeaways including tips on photography and a key…
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Fresh Starts and Old Ruts: How to Navigate Creativity's Ups and Downs
Teresa is on the cusp of a fresh start as she moves into a new home and studio, while Joy is in a creativity slump. In this episode, Teresa and Joy talk about the up and down phases that exist for all artists and how to navigate seasons of creativity. In their “Last Thing I Wrote” segment, Joy...
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Digital Detox: Results of the 2-Week Experiment
The two-week digital detox has drawn to an end, and Joy reports to Teresa how her life changed while going off-grid. What were the hardest parts, did she ever cheat on the experiment, and did being away from the phone jump start her creativity? While Joy was staying away from social media, Teresa...
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Digital Detox: A Two-Week Experiment
Joy decides to go off-the-grid for two weeks in an attempt to re-set thought patterns, gain time, spur creativity and live life outside the distorted lens of social media. Teresa suggests parameters for the experiment and offers advice after her own attempts to work in silence. During the digital...
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Honesty in Art: Let's Get Personal
Honesty is the foundation of good art, but is there such a thing as being too honest? Spurred on by a beautifully forthright statement that Teresa recently made on Instagram, this episode’s conversation explores where the line is between artistic confessionalism and trauma dumping. As the episode...
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Trends We Love, Trends We Hate
The resurgence of plein air painting, over-the-top maximalism, visibility of the artist’s hand laid bare in finished work, the way museums treat sensitive subjects--Joy and Teresa look at cultural and artistic trends, extending the topic all the way into the Gen X segment and debating whether any...
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Three Good Habits Every Artist Can Develop (and a Bad Habit to Avoid)
Artists are creatures of habit, and those habits either help creativity flourish or get in its way. Teresa is sharing the habits that have helped build her metalsmith practice, and Joy is asking for ideas to combat the dreaded bad habit of social media distraction. The episode begins with an...
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Creative Alchemy: The Elements That Transform Us Into Artists
An accident, a coincidence, a life event. Conversations between mothers and daughters. Sheer boredom. Teresa and Joy are putting words to the alchemy that took place in their lives to transform daily routine into lifelong pursuits of creativity. Before taking on the task of unraveling creative...
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Is This Something: Step-by-Step Workshop for a New Collection
In this second “Is This Something” episode, the tables are turned, and Joy and Teresa are thinking through Teresa’s idea fragments for a new collection based on Polaroids and poems she crafted last year while saying goodbye to her childhood home. The back and forth conversation is a template for...
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The Three Tips Every Artist Should Know
Joy and Teresa count down the three tips they each think every artist should know, and at least one of the tips is something that will surprise listeners! Whether you are a painter, a jeweler or an every day creative, there will be a takeaway to use from this episode. Teresa goes down a…
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Starting a New Year: Setting Creativity Goals
Joy and Teresa walk through the process for setting annual creative goals and lay out what they each hope to achieve in the coming year. From creating a collection of paintings, to writing a poem a month, producing a newsletter and improving photography, this year’s goals are ambitious and not...
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Creativity Goals: A Year-End Report Card
Joy and Teresa are goal-setters by nature, even when it comes to creativity. To close out the year, they take a look back at the 2025 goals they each set as creators and disclose whether they accomplished them. Before kicking off the main topic, though, Joy quizzes Teresa on her knowledge of...
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Irony, Beauty, Nostalgia, Crafty Creativity: The Holiday Episode
How do two Artsy Types celebrate the holidays? With home cooking, homemade crafts and one very peculiar tradition involving 80s vinyl records. Joy and Teresa also count down their favorite holiday songs, finding themselves knee-deep in a difference of opinion about the Gen X holiday anthem, “Do...
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What I Want You to Make
Sometimes creators need more than the voice in their own head--they need a nudge from a friend. Joy and Teresa assign each other surprise creative challenges in this episode, laying out a path for listeners to try their own projects. Joy kicks off the episode reporting on her visit to Milan to…
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To Commission or Not to Commission, That is the Question
Whether or not to take commissions is a question every creator is faced with at some point. Joy and Teresa are talking pros and cons, logistics, and reliving a commission gone awry involving an airbrush and a Harley Davidson. Rabbit holes and recommendations is on a hiatus, and taking its place…
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Mystical, Magical, Where-Did-They-Come-From Ideas
Divine inspiration, random occurrences, ideas born from dreams. . .what are we to make of creative ideas that come to us in unconventional ways? Joy and Teresa look at famous examples of great works of art born out of dreams, then attempt to gain an understanding of how the supernatural can…
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Saying Secret Goals Out Loud
Daydreams, hidden ambitions and a never-before-shared passion project—Joy and Teresa are telling each other their secret goals for the first time. A coffee table book, a herd of cows and St. Sulpice all get laid bare in this swap of secrets. In Rabbit Holes and Recommendations, Teresa has...
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Influencers (No, Not That Kind!)
From Sylvia Plath to Wayne Thiebaud, Joy and Teresa are talking about the creators who’ve inspired and influenced their work. Whether it’s Plath’s ability to impart “an impression of a feeling that you don’t know what to do with,” or Thiebaud’s colorful shadows, these old-school influencers are…
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Is This Something?
Joy and Teresa are back at it, starting season two by workshopping four seemingly-eccentric journal entries (rodents seeking revenge, a strange golf tournament, big strawberries, pickups at the gym), determining which “is something” that could be transformed into a developed story. The twosome...
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Highlights: Hacks for Making Time for Art, Elizabeth Siddal Rabbit Hole, Cribbage and Candies Clogs
In this highlights episode, Joy and Teresa bring back several of their most popular segments. Their discussion about what to do when you’re too busy for art struck a creative chord with listeners who shared their own hacks for making time for art after hearing this discussion. Teresa goes down…
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Highlights: Artistic Fears, the Language of Flowers, the Twilight Zone, President's Physical Fitness Test
Joy and Teresa are on hiatus enjoying the final days of summer by taking a holiday in the South of France. Just kidding! Joy is getting kids back to college and Teresa is helping her mom move to a new house. In the meantime, they have carefully assembled a “bespoke” offering of their favorite...
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The Studios We Have, The Studios We Dream Of
Sunlight, sound systems and storage: in the finale to season one of Artsy Types, Joy and Teresa talk about the studio spaces they have, and the studio spaces they dream of. The episode kicks off with shared updates on Teresa’s poetry workshop and Joy’s attempt at playing Camille Saint-Saens on…
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Sales, Likes and Atta Boys: How Will You Know When You've Made It As an Artist?
Making money, going viral, and having peers compliment your work are all ways of measuring results as an artist. Joy and Teresa are trying to figure out the best barometer for success in art. In the penultimate episode of season one of Artsy Types, they’re asking if there’s shame in chasing…
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I Can't Quit You: The Themes We Keep Coming Back to in our Art
From catastrophes to rolling vineyards to beautiful, but sorrowful, felled birds, Joy and Teresa are talking about the themes that make repeat appearances in their artistic expressions and try to understand why. They share a story they received in response to the last episode that talked about...
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When Life Gets in the Way - Hacks for Making Time for Art
Teresa and Joy commiserate that their creative pursuits have been put on the the backburner as Teresa helps her mom move and Joy has kids home from college. All hope is not lost, however, as the two share ideas for keeping creative sparks alive when life gets hectic—including a technological idea...
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Quotes on Creativity and the Comeback of Candies Clogs
From Andy Warhol to Picasso to a few sayings that just get tossed around, we’re counting down the quotes that rattle around our heads while we’re creating. Teresa’s rabbit holes have again led to photography techniques, this time exploring the history of spirit photography and methods for...
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Art 911: The Lemon Tree; Poetic Voltas; Writing Like the Twilight Zone; Favorite Fair Rides
In the first of what will be a recurring segment featuring case studies of artistic failures and attempting to turn them into opportunities, Joy unravels after not being able to paint a basic lemon tree, while Teresa provides input on what might be happening and methods for turning lemons into...
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How Do I Find an Art Mentor, Why is There a Braid in Mom's Attic and What is a John Dory?
Teresa is helping to pack up her childhood home, documenting the process with Polaroids, while Joy sketches poolside in Las Vegas. The two get into a discussion about the role mentorship plays in the development of an artist, and end with their rabbit holes and recommendations segment, where…
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Oh No! Counting Down Artistic Fears and Remembering the President's Physical Fitness Test
After a quick update on Teresa’s recent collection release, Joy and Teresa get into the topic of artistic fears, with each counting down fears that accompany creating and sharing their art. While some of the fears are universal. . .several are surprises. In rabbit holes and recommendations…
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I Found Art During Covid, Am I a Fraud? Signet Rings, Peter Wolf, and the Playground Witches Wheel
With time on their hands, new artists emerged during the Covid years. Joy and Teresa discuss how the art world views newcomers to art, seeking input from accomplished artists including a goldsmith, painter, ceramicist and writer. Teresa gives an update on her signet ring collection and goes down…
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The Big Question: Do I Need Talent to Be an Artist, or Can I Learn It? And Who Was Dr. Henery?
In the debut episode of Artsy Types, Teresa and Joy talk about the magical concept of talent and the role practice plays in artistry, but not before a shot of tequila. The two artists have a quick discussion of signet rings, their high school English teacher Dr. Henery, and the composer Sibelius.…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Creativity conversations for artists, or just artsy types. Joy and Teresa are two life-long friends who have been having a 40-year conversation about culture and creativity, and they've expanded the conversation to include you. They both have day jobs, but what they really love is creating and talking about art, writing, music, metalsmithing, painting--figuring out how to create something from nothing.
artsytypes.substack.com
HOSTED BY
Joy and Teresa
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Creativity conversations for artists, or just artsy types. Joy and Teresa are two life-long friends who have been having a 40-year conversation about culture and creativity, and they've expanded the conversation to include you. They both have day jobs, but what they really love is creating and...
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