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 beg

33 - Alice Stone-Collins

Dec 31st, 2020 1h 18m

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

32 - Jessica R. Smith

Apr 28th, 2020 1h 34m

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: T

31 - Sonya Yong James

Feb 5th, 2020 1h 7m

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 fr

30 - Colleen Merrill

Dec 15th, 2019 1h

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 Ro

Naomi Falk

Nov 11th, 2019 1h 8m

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 t

28 - Virginia Griswold

Oct 1st, 2019 1h 2m

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 disciplina

Brittainy Lauback

Aug 27th, 2019 59m 14s

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 thes

26 - Rachel Reese

Aug 8th, 2019 56m 21s

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-r

25 - Donna Mintz

May 12th, 2019 1h

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

24 - Christina Renfer Vogel

Apr 23rd, 2019 53m 36s

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 inter

23 - Katie Hargrave & Meredith Lynn

Mar 25th, 2019 1h

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

22 - Corrina Sephora

Feb 4th, 2019 1h 17m

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, establis

Living Melody Collective

Dec 17th, 2018 51m 15s

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-

20 - Tommye McClure Scanlin

Nov 19th, 2018 52m 22s

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

Jenny Fine

Oct 15th, 2018 1h 8m

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 n

Courtney Sanborn

Sep 19th, 2018 1h 5m

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

Episode 17 - SHANEQUA GAY

Aug 31st, 2018 59m 45s

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

Episode 17 - SHANEQUA GAY

Aug 31st, 2018 59m 45s

16 - Hannah Tarr—Focusing on Process over Product in the age of Instagram

Jul 27th, 2018 57m 32s

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 j

15 - Yvonne Studevan—Uncovering History and Increasing Representation through Painting

May 11th, 2018 54m 55s

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 po

14 - Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz—Tapping into a Legacy of Body and Effort to Level the Playing Field

Apr 2nd, 2018 1h 4m

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” schoo

13 - Karen Tauches—Transforming the Commercial into the Sacred

Mar 8th, 2018 59m 5s

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 wh

12 - Zipporah Camille Thompson—To the Moon & Back: Searching through High and Low

Feb 11th, 2018 50m 40s

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

11 - Amelia Briggs—Avoiding Symmetry, Thrifting Materials & Finding Her Voice as an Artist

Dec 27th, 2017 58m 50s

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 s