Drawing South

In our first ever "live from SECAC conference" episode @mikewindyart hosts an incredible conversation with @donnawoodleyart @lisawilliamsonart @iamsodunne @mandyrogershorton_studio and @dadanadaparty about when, how, and how quickly research yields inspiration, each of their relationship to an art market, what's next for their practice, what they're are tuning into in the studio...

@mikewindyart and @susannahfelts had a great conversation sitting in his home in Inglewood just a day before the @nashvillescene announced her book "The Come Apart" as Nashville's Best debut novel! That comes as no surprise as the book is fantastic. We talked about @sunnimockingbird, Susannah's writing process, the cost of a creative life, The Porch, having kids, and so much more...

@mikewindyart and @queenbeeink have been talking about sitting down for at least a few years and finally were able to make it happen today in Elisheba Israel Mrozik's amazing newish studio space. We talked about AI, what's in a name, taking time to reflect on her accomplishments, how she recharges, and more. If you don't know her work she is a tattoo artist, muralist, painter, sculptor...

@jimsherraden told me it's Sherraden like Alladin so I am offering Fishbein like Prine for Aaron Fishbein @furtheradventuresof who told @mikewindyart all about working with artists or on projects for artists from Enrique Iglesias to DMX to Beyonce to Missy Elliot & the Biggie Duets record. We also talk about him peeking artistically in his photography practice at 10 but still sticking with...

@mikewindyart and @qw.ynn aka @parthenoncity had an early taco dinner made by @winwinmitch last week before she headed back to @otiscollege for Junior year. We talked about using the wood lathe, having strong opinions, and strategy for year 3. She also gave me an incredible gift that I open during the episode. We hope you give our third recorded conversation a listen! #qwynngarrett #drawingsouth #...

@mikewindyart recently read @debolinunferth 's Earth 7. "Sometimes a book rattles your cage but you don't quite notice. Deb Olin Unferth's Earth 7 isn't that kind of book. It's the kind of book that made me feel like the word on the tip of my own tongue, that one day I know will come, but not today, but someday, maybe?" Their conversation covered ambition, trying to b...

@graduatesrise and @mikewindyart sat down for a nice long chat in Inglewood this week. Cynthia George PHD, MSSW is a professor in the Social Work program at Tennessee State University, Founding Chair of Disabled to the Front Advisory Group and band leader of Dr. Cyn and the Graduates Rise. This conversation covered a lot of ground including an upcoming wheelchair repair party planned for September...

@mikewindyart has been a fan of @thecroftonshow for over twenty years via his music, comedy, and longtime advice column in the Nashville Scene now a book through @vanderbiltuniversitypress and even more recently as a political candidate. They sat down for a lovely two and a half hour chat and talked about Chris's career, the state of the world, being sober, creativity, capitalism, and his abil...

@mikewindyart and @diceydycee met on a panel for @bubblegumtheatrecompany thanks to @mrjackstell In this conversation Dycee and Mikey dive into her incredible filmmaking practice, her co-founding @defyfilmfest, and her new collaboration @afterlifenashville with @gardeningnotarchitecture that they describe as an Amusement Park about Death playing for the month of June 2026 @themadnest in Neely'...

@mikewindyart has know @truettramp aka @djrx2000house since he was in 7th grade through @traphousedominatrix and The #pocketknifeskatecrew It has been amazing to see his continual dive into the music and art scenes that are integrated and adjacent to the skate scenes in and around Nashville and beyond. This was such a fun conversation and generous of Truett to let us into his process AND he create...

@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 #jobir...

@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 Tra...

@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...

@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 &q...

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 writi...

@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 Do...

@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...

@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 m...

@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&#39...

@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....

@mikewindyart made some tacos for @lisabubert Monday night and after a lovely dinner that had a nice long chat about writing, lore, mythology, integrated practices and a whole host of other things! We hope you give it a listen and please dive into Lisa's writing on Longreads or her website lisabubert.com Tile Art: selfie from Lisa's Instagram #drawingsouthpodcast #lisabubertwriter #lisabub...

It's our Birthday! The Drawing South Podcast turns 100 episodes today and there is was only one conversation that was worthy of this special milestone! @mikewindyart sat down with @winwinmitch at their kitchen table and talked about being creative around each other for over 30 years! We hope you will give it a listen Tile Art: Felted Creatures made by Windy and photographed on our piano by mik...

@jolieepix exhibit "The Conflict" opens this Saturday December 6th @watkinscollege WAG gallery at the Packing Plant from 3-9pm. She and @mikewindyart had a chance meeting @arcadearts in February during his residency and they've both leaned into that luck of broadening their art ecosystem. This was a great conversation about photography, grief, addiction, and religion that we hope you...

@mikewindyart and @lisabachmanjones sat down in her solo show @electricshedtn and talked teaching, being an artist who educates, how her job as a baker helped her become a teacher, curating cafe shows, being the only artist in a family, and learning the new language of sculpture. We hope you will give it a listen and dive into her practice on her Instagram page or in person the next time she is in...

@mikewindyart has known @kimradfordart for over twenty years—we met taking Painting 2 with the legendary Lisa Houha in the old Trahern Building at Austin Peay State University back in the late ’90s. Since those days in Clarksville, Kim has literally painted her way into Nashville’s visual identity—becoming one of the city’s premiere mural artists. Her work has graced @grimeys walls for album campa...