Peachy Keen

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 split between object making and painting. She talks about the subtler role that feminist content plays...

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 her years teaching film photography to digital natives, and how her MFA program at the Art Institute of C...

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. The worse thing a teacher can do is put their hand on that person’s hand and say "Oh no no no no, put i...

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 student then professor at women's colleges, and her secret writing habits.  She explains how she lande...

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 millennials in a baby-boomer's world.  We geek out discussing her use of found objects in an art historic...

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 of her relationship with her mother due to Frontotemporal Degeneration. She explains to the 90% of us...

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 p...

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 hats and what you can do with them, professors that are jerks, gatekeepers vs. permission givers, and grow...

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."

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.

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.