Peachy Keen

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 the development of her work alongside the loss of her relationship with her mother due to Frontotemporal Degeneration.

Tinsley explains to the 90% of us who don't know what the other meaning of the phrase "bread and butter" is (hint: it's not what makes you the money), shares some of the best feedback she got in grad school, and breaks down the logistics of making her first large scale mural for the Zuckerman Museum of Art.

Vivian Liddell and Tori Tinsley in Tinsley's studio

Mountainside Hug, by Tori Tinsley. Acrylic on canvas. 36 x 48." 2017. Tinsley based her mural at the Zuckerman Museum on this work.

Tori Tinsley's mural at the Zuckerman Museum of Art. 2017

Work in progress in Tori Tinsley's studio.

Detail of Tori Tinsley's work in progress (the donkeys!) on her studio floor.

Related Links:

Tori Tinsley's website, WonderRoot Walthall Fellowship, Day & Night Projects, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Hathaway Gallery, Doppler Projects, Liz Magor on Art21, Amelia Briggs, Tempus Projects

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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 her personal experiences. She shares her insights (and some history) on working collaboratively with a partner in a family context, and tells us why Atlanta people should spend more time in Athens. Oh, and also: unicorns.

Candice Greathouse and Vivian Liddell

From the Deflated Unicorns series, 2014 by Candice Greathouse

Candice Greathouse's Studio

Related Links:

Candice Greathouse Website, DOMESTICSTRUCTURES Exhibition at ATHICA, Rainbow Cube installation at Hotel Indigo, Athens, MINT Atlanta

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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 hats and what you can do with them, professors that are jerks, gatekeepers vs. permission givers, and growing up southern with the bad craft of the 70s.

Other links referenced during this episode:

Catherine Hicks: Hide a Hat and Fight Back
Raise Your Hand and Say Yes Podcast & The Jealous Curator: Art for your Ear Podcast

Betsy Greer's These Are Dangerous Times, Cross-stitch

Betsy Greer's You Are So Very Beautiful Project

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Left to right: Katie Troisi, Felicia Garcia, Vivian Liddell & Nedra Deadwyler

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."

Katie Troisi's studio

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Melissa Lee

Artist and arts advocate, Melissa Lee, talks with Peachy Keen in her Athens, Georgia studio about Monster Jam, her childhood in South Georgia, why mamas shouldn't let their babies grow up to be existentialists or libertarians, and the struggle to find work in an arts-related field. Lee also gives us the haps on the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission and how to submit artwork to the Nasty Women Athens: Art Exhibition.

You can find Melissa Lee's artwork for sale on her website: Tenth Muse Studio. A portion of all sales benefit charity.

Other links to organizations/events mentioned in this episode:

• Feminist Women's Health Center

• The People's Power Happy Hour

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Tatiana Veneruso (L) and Vivian Liddell (R) recording at Trio Gallery.

Artist, curator, and general badass, Tatiana Veneruso sits down with Peachy Keen in her new Athens, Georgia art space, The Trio Gallery.  We walk through the soon-to-be-opened space, and chat about the experiences that led her to this exciting venture. Along the way we discuss student loans, One Shot paints, the not-so-feminist practice of moving to Athens for a boy, and the cultural significance and deep philosophical meaning behind the Golden Girls.

You can find Trio Contemporary Art Gallery on Instagram and Facebook.

Want to support Peachy Keen? Leaving a review on iTunes is a great way to help our podcast get heard by more folks—it’s free and anonymous! Want to take your support to the next level? As a Patreon subscriber to the podcast you can help Peachy Keen to continue to document and uplift the voices of Southern women in the arts for as little as $1/month. Recurring donations from subscribers like you are essential in ensuring that the podcast continues. Want a good cobbler recipe? Some Peachy Keen swag? An on air shout out to YOU on our next episode? Check out our Patreon page now for subscriber tiers and their rewards:

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