Peachy Keen

Mar 05 2025 35 ep. 230 mins 2

Peachy Keen Podcast artwork

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.

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35 - SEASON TWO Opener with Victoria Dugger—Here We Are! in Athens GA

Mar 05 2025 81 mins

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 our shared ties to Columbus, Georgia, flowers that eat bugs/horror/the “monstrous feminine,” the Atlanta art scene, self-imposed vs. societal expectations, and how she came to sh

34 - Chalet Comellas-Baker (with guest co-host Stephanie Raines)—making art among Nashville sounds

May 20 2021 62 mins

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) just as all of us pandemic mole people were beginning to peep our little heads out of our burrows. Fittingly, after a year of not being with other humans, we talked about wildlife— part

33 - Alice Stone-Collins—At Home Transforming the Mundane

Dec 31 2020 78 mins

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 Madison County upbringing has had on her work, which utilizes a combination of painting and collage techniques to depict a slightly askew, surreal version of the everyday mundane. We c

32 - Jessica R. Smith—Overshot

Apr 28 2020 94 mins

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 Falls of the recently released book Overshot: The Political Aesthetics of Woven Textiles from the Antebellum South and Beyond. We talked about her childhood spent between Alaska and Penn

31 - Sonya Yong James—Phantom Threads

Feb 05 2020 67 mins

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 Atlanta. (Thanks to our podcasting friends from Brainfuzz Podcast for lending us the use of their swank dedicated podcasting room on site!) We talked about our shared position as w

30 - Colleen Merrill—Mirroring and Self-Affirmation through Art

Dec 15 2019 60 mins

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 Parent, Artist, and Academic—discussing both Rozsika Parker and Donald Winnicott’s theories. We note the lack of men at parenting-related SECAC sessions and the importance of having m

29 - Naomi Falk—Thinking in motion and embracing the uncomfortable

Nov 11 2019 68 mins

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 made in her conference session on limits in the studio art classroom, we continued to talk about some of the challenges and joys of pushing students in our own classrooms, the long slog

28 - Virginia Griswold—Harnessing Materials with Memory to Convey the Ephemeral

Oct 01 2019 62 mins

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 to an all-girls Catholic school for disciplinary issues and a little family history focusing on women artists, we quickly get into tackling her broad-based postsecondary education. We d

27 - Brittainy Lauback—Photographer on Deck

Aug 27 2019 59 mins

Peachy Keen snuck into a defunct color darkroom turned soundproof editing booth at the Lamar Dodd School of Art photo department the weekend before classes started back at the University of Georgia to chat with Athens, Georgia artist, Brittainy Lauback. In addition to photo geek stuff like printing and camera equipment, we talked about the ebb and flow of her photography career a

26 - Rachel Reese—Making Connections through Curatorial Practice

Aug 07 2019 56 mins

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!), Reese amassed an impressive resume of arts-related positions before landing in her current gig as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Telfair Museums in Savannah. An Atlanta