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@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 Donovan says "is a sneaky little bitch". We hope you give this conversation a listen and please dive into what Ashley is up to in the world and stop by and say hello to her @redarrowgallery

@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 regardless of the situation. Her teaching practice and studio practice are both at incredible levels but that's no surprise to me. We hope you give this episode a listen and dive into Leticia's work if you haven't already. #drawingsouthpodcast #drawingsouth #leticiabajuyo #sculpture #artpodcast #mikewindypodcast Tile image: "Loop:Gravity Repeated" photo by Luke Studdard

@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 matriarchal line and a whole lot more. Please dive into Allie's practice on her Instagram or www.alliehorick.com #alliehorick #drawingsouthpodcast #drawingsouth #mikewindypodcast #soilquilt #quilting Tile Art: Kith and Kin installed at Coop September 2025 photo by mikewindy

@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's work or haven't listened in a while, dive into any of his FIFTEEN studio albums or go see him live and think to yourself, "If there's a better rock band than this, I would like to see them!" #willhoge #drawingsouthpodcast #drawingsouth #mikewindypodcast #rockandroll Tile Art: Sweet Misery Record Cover from Will's Instagram

@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. It is vast! #swoon #sibylantsisters #drawingsouth #drawingsouthpodcast #caledoniacurry #mikewindypodcast Tile Art: pincushion heart from Sibylant Sisters Oracle deck and Swoonhq Instagram page

@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 #lisabubert #drawingsouth #mikewindypodcast

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 mikewindy(we talk about that too!) #windymitchellart #drawingsouthpodcast #drawingsouth #mikewindypodcast

@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 give a listen to! Tile Art: from Jolie's IG and in her new book "The Conflict"

@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 a show. #lisabachmanjonesart #mikewindypodcast #drawingsouth #electricshedtn #drawingsouthpodcast Tile Art: Chore from her solo show "Around" at Electric Shed from her IG page

@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 campaigns for The Black Keys, Valerie June, Joni Mitchell, Billy Strings, Lilly Hiatt, Brandi Carlile, Allison Russell… and iconic local landmarks like Mitchell Deli and the famous Dolly mural @the5spotnashville We talk about:💥 Always hustling & betting on yourself🎯 Why passion projects matter (especially early on)🧩 Being a one-woman show🤖 And wrestling with how & why to use AI as an artist in 2025 Proud to call her a friend, colleague, and inspiration all these years later. #KimRadford #MuralArtist #NashvilleArt #WomenInArt #PublicArt #ArtCommunity #PassionProjects #OneWomanShow #ArtistHustle #AIandArt #AustinPeay #TrahernStories #DollyMural #MusicAndArt #VisualStorytelling #ArtistSpotlight #mikewindyart #drawingsouthpodcast #mikewindypodcast #drawingsouth Tile Art: From Kim's IG of Dolly at 5spot

Whew! This was a great conversation with @Ithekennedy owner and director of @sheetcakegallery and @mikewindyart about the ethos of Sheet Cake the gallery and the cakes, how awesome Memphis is, David Onri Andersons fantastic exhibit, one of the great gallery couches ever, the "tackiness" of transparent pricing, and SO much more. We hope you give it a listen #sheetcakegallery #laurenkennedy #drawingsouthpodcast #mikewindypodcast #artpodcast Tile art: from www.sheetcakegallery.com

@mikewindyart and @m.wilky only knew each other from Instagram but in this conversation it's hard to tell. They jump right into the crux of why Melissa is making, ambition, community, and so much more. We hope you'll give it a listen! #melissawilkinsonart #drawingsouthpodcast #drawingsouth #mikewindypodcast #artpodcast Tile Art: Pink Satin 2025 from Melissa's IG

Y'all! This was such a great conversation with Wesley Hall @pizzadadcomic on instagram and @mikewindyart Turns out they have a lot of folks in common from @apsuartdesign His practical and artistic advice is downright professorial and we hope you give it a listen!!! tile art-Pizzadadcomic still from IG video #pizzadadcomic #wesleyhallart #drawingsouthpodcast #drawingsouth #mikewindypodcast #artpodcast

@mikewindyart and @paulbehnkepaintings recently had a great conversation about his long winding road to his current studio practice. We stop along the way to talk about relevance, "The conversation", grief, and the importance of community. We hope you will give it a listen #paulbehnkeart #drawingsouth #drawingsouthpodcast #mikewindypodcast Tile Art- "The Mummy" 2025 from Paul's IG

@mikewindyart and @thejasonmoran had a great conversation about Jazz, Art, Teaching, and Skateboarding. If as Jason says The Gonz is Charlie Parker then who is @rodneymullen ? He talks about the joy and calling of teaching and playing with former students(is there such as thing as former) like @sullivanfortnerjr the night before! We talk about his collaborations with Joan Jonas @broadcove and #adrianpiper and more. Whether you're an art nerd or a jazz nerd or a combination of both we hope you give it a listen and join us as warriors as creatives in this world that needs us all more than ever. #jasonmoran #drawingsouth #drawingsouthpodcast #mikewindypodcast Tile art: Install photo of Drawings in Jason Moran "Black Stars: Writing in the Dark" https://massmoca.org/event/jason-moran-black-stars-writing-in-the-dark/