Peachy Keen
Contemporary artist and native Southerner Vivian Liddell interviews women on art & the South. Bringing together women of all sorts to talk about their inspirations and definitions of art, and how these individual opinions reflect our changing region.
- Update frequency
- every 38 days
- Average duration
- 230 minutes
- Episodes
- 36
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
35 - SEASON TWO Opener with Victoria Dugger—Here We Are! in Athens GA
Peachy Keen is back! Brushing the dust off our mics after a few years’ hiatus, we visited fellow Athens, Georgia artist Victoria Dugger in her studio at the Lyndon House Arts Center.
We talked about o…
34 - Chalet Comellas-Baker (with guest co-host Stephanie Raines)—making art among Nashville sounds
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) ju…
33 - Alice Stone-Collins—At Home Transforming the Mundane
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 …
32 - Jessica R. Smith—Overshot
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 Fa…
31 - Sonya Yong James—Phantom Threads
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 …
30 - Colleen Merrill—Mirroring and Self-Affirmation through Art
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 Pa…
29 - Naomi Falk—Thinking in motion and embracing the uncomfortable
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 …
28 - Virginia Griswold—Harnessing Materials with Memory to Convey the Ephemeral
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 t…
27 - Brittainy Lauback—Photographer on Deck
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 thi…
26 - Rachel Reese—Making Connections through Curatorial Practice
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!),…
25 - Donna Mintz—Reflections on the Sublime through Storytelling and the Visual Arts
24 - Christina Renfer Vogel—Perceptual Painting as a contemporary culture bomb
23 - Katie Hargrave & Meredith Lynn—Driving Ideas on Public Space and the American Landscape
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 we…
21 - Living Melody Collective—Haylee Anne & Angela Bortone on the Collective: Working Together
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 Col…
19 - Jenny Fine—Exploring White Identity in the Rural South through Photography and Performance
18 - Courtney Sanborn—Embroidering Contemporary Narratives with a nod to the Medieval
17 - Shanequa Gay—Breaking through the American Façade
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 importa…