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Peachy Keen
by Vivian Liddell
Contemporary artist and native Southerner Vivian Liddell interviews women on art & the South. Bringing together women of all sorts to talk about their inspirations and definitions of art, and how these individual opinions reflect our changing region.
Episodes
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36 - Leia Genis—Water as Process and Metaphor + Criticism, Poetry & Cycling
Leia Genis on her process: The first half of the process— the cyanotypes—is really about building up that information. I think of it like a riverbed depositing silt where it’s like this constant kind of flow of information, and that leaves these small deposits that build up on the bed. And then…
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35 - SEASON TWO Opener with Victoria Dugger—Here We Are! in Athens GA
Peachy Keen is back! Brushing the dust off our mics after a few years’ hiatus, we visited fellow Athens, Georgia artist Victoria Dugger in her studio at the Lyndon House Arts Center. We talked about our shared ties to Columbus, Georgia, flowers that eat bugs/horror/the “monstrous feminine,” the...
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34 - Chalet Comellas-Baker (with guest co-host Stephanie Raines)—making art among Nashville sounds
Peachy Keen and guest co-host Stephanie Raines, artist advocate and arts administrator, visited Nashville-based artist Chalet Comellas-Baker in her artist-run exhibition space (Unrequited Leisure) just as all of us pandemic mole people were beginning to peep our little heads out of our burrows....
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33 - Alice Stone-Collins—At Home Transforming the Mundane
Peachy Keen masked-up and joined artist Alice Stone-Collins in her home studio in Atlanta, GA, for our first (and so far, only) pandemic interview. She contemplates the lasting impact that her rural Madison County upbringing has had on her work, which utilizes a combination of painting and…
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32 - Jessica R. Smith—Overshot
Peachy Keen met up with artist Jessica R. Smith at her home studio in Savannah, where she is a professor of fibers at the Savannah College of Art & Design. Smith is the is the co-author with Susan Falls of the recently released book Overshot: The Political Aesthetics of Woven Textiles from the...
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31 - Sonya Yong James—Phantom Threads
Peachy Keen met up with artist Sonya Yong James on the occasion of her massive installation “Phantom Threads” as part of the PROJECT exhibition curated by Scott Ingram at the Temporary Art Center in Atlanta. (Thanks to our podcasting friends from Brainfuzz Podcast for lending us the use of their...
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30 - Colleen Merrill—Mirroring and Self-Affirmation through Art
Peachy Keen met up with artist Colleen Merrill on day three of SECAC 2019 and got into the nitty gritty of the psychology behind her conference presentation titled Mirroring: Affirming the Self as Parent, Artist, and Academic—discussing both Rozsika Parker and Donald Winnicott’s theories. We note...
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29 - Naomi Falk—Thinking in motion and embracing the uncomfortable
Peachy Keen met up with artist Naomi Falk in a boardroom at the Chattanoogan Hotel during the recent SECAC conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee. After briefly discussing some of the points that Falk made in her conference session on limits in the studio art classroom, we continued to talk about...
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28 - Virginia Griswold—Harnessing Materials with Memory to Convey the Ephemeral
Peachy Keen visited the home studio of Nashville artist Virginia Griswold on a Sunday morning to chat about her life and work. Starting with the shocking revelation that Griswold was once sent away to an all-girls Catholic school for disciplinary issues and a little family history focusing on…
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27 - Brittainy Lauback—Photographer on Deck
Brittainy Lauback on vacation cruises: We're always trying to vacation from ourselves and we never can. You know? What I think is so kind of disturbing about the cruise in general is that you have this—you know, you're really stuck with all these people. You really do kind of start to have like a...
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26 - Rachel Reese—Making Connections through Curatorial Practice
Peachy Keen spent the morning at home talking art over coffee and pound cake with visiting curator, Rachel Reese. The kind of person that graduates from college ahead of schedule (3 ½ years, y’all!), Reese amassed an impressive resume of arts-related positions before landing in her current gig as...
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25 - Donna Mintz—Reflections on the Sublime through Storytelling and the Visual Arts
Peachy Keen met with artist and writer Donna Mintz in the back room of her exhibition at Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta during the recent blackberry winter to talk about her current body of work. We discussed her use of materials to express ideas on memory and place: kaolin gathered from...
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24 - Christina Renfer Vogel—Perceptual Painting as a contemporary culture bomb
Peachy Keen met up with Christina Renfer Vogel in her Chattanooga studio to talk shop about her painting, teaching and curatorial projects. Originally from Pennsylvania, Vogel has been in Chattanooga for the past 6 years. We discussed her interim time in Nebraska working at the Bemis Center for...
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23 - Katie Hargrave & Meredith Lynn—Driving Ideas on Public Space and the American Landscape
Katie Hargrave is an artist and educator in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Meredith Lynn is an artist and curator based in Tallahassee, Florida. Peachy Keen caught up with them in Chattanooga, where they were meeting up for the weekend to collaborate on a body of work for an upcoming exhibition at the...
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22 - Corrina Sephora—Turning Midnight dreams into Reality
Artist Corrina Sephora moved to Atlanta in the mid 90s after receiving her BFA in Sculpture and Metalsmithing from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and has stayed on to become an integral player in the Atlanta arts community, establishing a prosperous artistic practice in metal and…
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21 - Living Melody Collective—Haylee Anne & Angela Bortone on the Collective: Working Together
Haylee Anne and Angela Bortone took a Twitter friendship to the next level, eventually joining forces with Jessica Caldas, Angela Davis Johnson, and Danielle Deadwyler to become the Living Melody Collective. This group of Atlanta-based, female-identifying artists is all about participating in and...
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20 - Tommye McClure Scanlin—On Teaching, Learning & Tapestry
Artist Tommye Scanlin sat down with Peachy Keen at her loom in her Dahlonega, Georgia, studio to discuss teaching, learning, and tapestry on the eve of her second retirement from teaching. We got deep into the history of the University of North Georgia art department, where she taught for 28…
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19 - Jenny Fine—Exploring White Identity in the Rural South through Photography and Performance
Peachy Keen met up with artist Jenny Fine in the upstairs classroom of the Wiregrass Museum in Dothan, Alabama on a hot Friday afternoon in early October. We discussed the influence that many strong creative women have had on her career—most notably that of her grandmothers (who both play an...
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18 - Courtney Sanborn—Embroidering Contemporary Narratives with a nod to the Medieval
Courtney Sanborn on medieval art and the iconography in her work: Sanborn: Like I said, I love Medieval art. And I love the iconography. I love that in that period of art …there’s no words to describe evil. How do you describe something that’s evil or negative? There’s no words, but there are...
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17 - Shanequa Gay—Breaking through the American Façade
Peachy Keen began the school year with a visit to downtown Atlanta and the campus of Georgia State University to talk with artist Shanequa Gay in her studio. We discussed vulnerability and the importance of sharing the highs and the lows of life to pave the way for fledgling creatives. She…
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16 - Hannah Tarr—Focusing on Process over Product in the age of Instagram
Peachy Keen met up with Atlanta artist Hannah Tarr on a sunny Saturday morning in July to talk shop. After RISD and stints in Oakland, Chicago and Ox-Bow, she explains how the film industry lured her back to her hometown with its tempting day jobs—where else can you be a “stand by” painter on set...
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15 - Yvonne Studevan—Uncovering History and Increasing Representation through Painting
For this episode, Peachy Keen stayed close to home to talk to Athens, Georgia artist, Yvonne Studevan. Having gained some local fame for painting the proprietor of Vic’s Vintage shop downtown as “Black Jesus”, Yvonne explains how deeply that portrait— commissioned by St. Philip Monumental AME...
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14 - Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz—Tapping into a Legacy of Body and Effort to Level the Playing Field
Peachy Keen headed down to Orlando, Florida for Spring Break and met up with local artist and educator Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz. Bronx-born to Puerto Rican parents, Raimundi-Ortiz talks us through her teenage years attending the fabled “Fame” school (LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and…
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13 - Karen Tauches—Transforming the Commercial into the Sacred
Peachy Keen spent a rainy, coffee-fueled morning talking with Atlanta artist Karen Tauches about her fine art practice in her East Point studio. This is the perfect episode to listen to on your Spring Break road trip. Look out your window at what Tauches refers to as "the greatest hits" of our...
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12 - Zipporah Camille Thompson—To the Moon and Back, Searching through High and Low
Peachy Keen met up with Atlanta visual artist and sculptor Zipporah Camille Thompson on the week of the rare super blue blood moon eclipse—notable in the context of Zipporah's work, which often deals with lunar activity as a subject. What would happen if the moon decided to up and leave us? We…
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11 - Amelia Briggs—Avoiding Symmetry, Thrifting Materials & Finding her own Voice as an Artist
Peachy Keen spent the evening talking art (and drinking a little wine) in the Nashville studio of artist Amelia Briggs. We discuss the gendered psychology of the found imagery she uses from vintage comics and children's coloring books and how she subverts narrative in her formal process, which is...
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10 - Kelly Kristin Jones—A New(ish) Southerner Expands Ideas of Place Surrounding Civil War Markers
Peachy Keen visited Kelly Kristin Jones in her studio at the Atlanta Contemporary just before the opening of her solo exhibit Cotton is Still King at the Sandler Hudson Gallery (November 2 - December 8, 2017). Jones explains how her Midwestern background informs her current practice, including…
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9 - Flora Rosefsky—From "A Mother who Likes to Draw" to Artist
Flora Rosefsky on teaching: I think education is key. And I love teaching. It’s coming up with the right lesson. Once you come up with the right art lesson, the teacher should not be interfering with that student. In fact, I usually work on my own piece. I don’t look at their work until the end....
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8 - Veronica Kessenich—Director of the Atlanta Contemporary on her path so far
Veronica Kessenich, Executive Director of the Atlanta Contemporary, took a break from preparing for Art Party 2017 to take Peachy Keen on a behind the scenes tour of the capital improvements currently underway. We talked about her thwarted childhood dreams to become a dancer, her experiences as a...
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7 - Chakura Kineard—talks rebellious art, Public education & the economy as she plans her next move
Chakura Kineard invites Peachy Keen into her spacious, glitter-filled studio at the Atlanta Contemporary to talk shop. She reflects on her experiences as a woman of color navigating public education in the South, her rebellious tendencies as they relate to art-making, and the job prospects for...
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6 - Tori Tinsley—From Art Therapist to Artist—Making Art for a Cause
Atlanta artist Tori Tinsley takes a break from her busy studio practice to talk with Peachy Keen about returning to her own art after working for years as an art therapist, how her mother's intrepid personality inspired her to push her own career, and how her work has developed alongside the loss...
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5 - Candice Greathouse: Using Lensless Photography as an Objective Mirror
Candice Greathouse talks about her mostly photography-based studio practice as it relates to her roles as a curator and educator. With a background that includes performance and feminist art, we get into the bodily and how Greathouse's work has evolved to focus on a more subtle documentation of…
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4 - Betsy Greer on Craftivism, The Power of Affirmations & Those Pussy Hats
Saturday, April 1, Durham NC Betsy Greer (author of Craftivism: The Art of Craft and Activism and Knitting for Good!) talks to Peachy Keen about the power of positive affirmations, the lingering division between art and craft, and her life as a maker & permission giver. We discuss those pussy…
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3 - Nedra Deadwyler, Katie Troisi & Felicia Garcia Talk Bikes, ATlanta, and The Black Women's Happiness Project
Peachy Keen joins up with Nedra Deadwyler of Civil Bikes for her Women's History Month bike tour of Atlanta. We stop by Parlor, Katie Troisi's DIY gallery run out of her midtown home, to talk with artist, Felicia Garcia about her one-night exhibition: "The Black Women's Happiness Project."
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2 - Melissa Lee talks about Growing up in South Georgia, the Existential in Art & Nasty Women
Artist and arts advocate, Melissa Lee, talks with Peachy Keen in her Athens, Georgia studio about her childhood in South Georgia, why mamas shouldn't let their babies grow up to be existentialists and libertarians, and the struggle to find work in an arts-related field.
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1 - Tatiana Veneruso Shares her Path to Opening a New Art Gallery in Athens GA
Tatiana Veneruso talks about her life as an artist, curator, and the experiences leading up to the opening of her new gallery, Trio, in Athens, Georgia.
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Contemporary artist and native Southerner Vivian Liddell interviews women on art & the South. Bringing together women of all sorts to talk about their inspirations and definitions of art, and how these individual opinions reflect our changing region.
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Contemporary artist and native Southerner Vivian Liddell interviews women on art & the South. Bringing together women of all sorts to talk about their inspirations and definitions of art, and how these individual opinions reflect our changing region.
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