Drawing South

@mikewindyart and @jobiriccio met on the Cayamo cruise but it's her new, perfect, sophmore record that they spend most of this conversation talking about. They discuss songwriting, reading, social climbing bs, taking care of the artists in your own ecosystem and beyond and so much more. We hope you give the conversation a listen and please go buy Jobi's new record out now on @yeproc

#jobiriccio #mikewindypodcast #drawingsouth #drawingsouthpodcast #facethefeeling

Tile Art: Face the Feeling Record Cover @nathangolub

@mikewindyart can't remember how he started following @_traplanta_ but suffice it to say he's so glad he did. Thanks to a clumsy first attempt at an assignment(we've all had those, but most of us won't admit it) Willis leaned into photographing the communities he's known throughout his life as an Atlanta native and let's the rest of us in on what we won't see at the Trap Museum, which for him is authenticity and respect of and for the people in those communities. He reads in great length to get the right caption for each image and sometimes takes him many months until he feels like he gets it right. We talk about the strategies and skills he acquired in his 20 years serving in the US military and how they are serving him well in his own art career. PLEASE give this episode a listen and dive into Willis' work and read other interviews and articles @photobookmagazine @motherjonesmag @shoutoutatlantaofficial

#traplanta #streetphotography #justcallmewillisphotography #justcallmewillis #drawingsouth #drawingsouthpodcast #mikewindypodcast

Tile Art: from Just Call Me Willis @_traplanta_ February 20,2025 post

@mikewindyart met @austin_g_ohm at the 2024 @waeaeducators state conference at the University of Central Washington. That year Austin won elementary school Teacher of the Year AND the overall Art Teacher of the Year award. Austin is a painter, mural artist, entrepreneur as well as a long time educator. We talk about his new plans to travel the world with his partner, imposter syndrome, and always trying new artistic strategies. We hope you give it a listen!

Tile Art: Community Mural from Austin's Website

#drawingsouth #drawingsouthpodcast #mikewindypodcast #austinohmart

@lizzie.no and @mikewindyart sat down at the Nina Lovelace Center for Art and Social Practice at TSU and had a nice long chat about all the things that keep Lizzie busy: label head @missfreedomland , writing music and being Lizzie No, and producing a new compilation record Outlaw's Almanac for America's 250th Birthday AND being a person in the world. It all starts with a live version of "The one I Love and the Freedom Road". You can see Lizzie's farewell to Nashville show Wednesday, May 20th at the famed @Deeslounge615 We hope you give our conversation a listen!

#lizzieno #missfreedomland #outlawsalmanac #mikewindypodcast #drawingsouth #drawingsouthpodcast

Tile Art: Outlaw's Almanac cover art by @lightningbugroxanne

This conversation with @mikewindyart and @swimmintilimpicked Darrel Green centers around a collection of their Thoughts Lately series of short films that they recently screened at SOHO House Nashville's Film Club. Duck's film practice ranges from being very mindful about strategies to letting things organically arrive and trusting their intuition. we talk about talking as writing and writing as talking and how Zora Neal Hurston is still ground central. I love the way Duck model's a way into spirituality, their comfort in their own creative skin, and community as sacred. We hope you give it a listen #drawingsouthpodcast #drawingsouth #mikewindypodcast #sittingduckmotions

Tile: still from Thoughts Lately series 2025 Darrel Green/Duck

@mikewindyart and @ah.lay met up on the Sunday of Big Ears Festival at the Emporium where her time.place. exhibit that she curated was on exhibit. It's an incredible group show made up of 15 artists that she was in some way connected to 10 years ago when she was finishing up her art degree at UT Knoxville. we talk about mentorship, her history in teaching art, curation, and how time as Lisa Donovan says "is a sneaky little bitch". We hope you give this conversation a listen and please dive into what Ashley is up to in the world and stop by and say hello to her @redarrowgallery

@mikewindyart and @ lbajuyo met in December 2000 and then co-taught @gregg_gah 's 3-D design class for 6 weeks while he was on paternity leave in the Spring of 2001 at @apsuartdesign

It was so great to reconnect after all these years later. This was an accidental 25-year reunion! We talked about the flukes in our life, leaning into those lucky moments, and how they taught Leticia to always ask regardless of the situation. Her teaching practice and studio practice are both at incredible levels but that's no surprise to me. We hope you give this episode a listen and dive into Leticia's work if you haven't already.

#drawingsouthpodcast #drawingsouth #leticiabajuyo #sculpture #artpodcast #mikewindypodcast

Tile image: "Loop:Gravity Repeated" photo by Luke Studdard

@mikewindy art and @alliehorick sat down at the Center for Arts and Social Practice at TSU for a marathon three-hour chat that felt like we were just starting to scratch the surface of Allie's practice. We talked about who has permission to tell collective stories, how she arrived at making sculpture, her background of environmental art, our possible shared genealogy, quilting, following the matriarchal line and a whole lot more. Please dive into Allie's practice on her Instagram or www.alliehorick.com

#alliehorick #drawingsouthpodcast #drawingsouth #mikewindypodcast #soilquilt #quilting

Tile Art: Kith and Kin installed at Coop September 2025 photo by mikewindy

@mikewindyart and @willhoge sat down in his studio and had a great conversation about fear of success, being proud of other artists, alchemy vs. science in the studio, not selling your soul on purpose(or accident), rock n' roll mattering to kids again, the time and place for reverence, and generally how what we do as artists is important and a whole lot more. If you don't yet know Will's work or haven't listened in a while, dive into any of his FIFTEEN studio albums or go see him live and think to yourself, "If there's a better rock band than this, I would like to see them!"

#willhoge #drawingsouthpodcast #drawingsouth #mikewindypodcast #rockandroll

Tile Art: Sweet Misery Record Cover from Will's Instagram

@mikewindyart and @swoonhq had a great conversation about Daytona Beach, how awesome Florida is in general, failure, trauma, writing, imposter syndrome and it's cousin rookie syndrome, and her incredible Sibylant Sisters story with a corresponding oracle deck that she used to give me a reading! We hope you'll give this episode a listen and dive deep into Caledonia's creative practice. It is vast!

#swoon #sibylantsisters #drawingsouth #drawingsouthpodcast #caledoniacurry #mikewindypodcast

Tile Art: pincushion heart from Sibylant Sisters Oracle deck and Swoonhq Instagram page