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Joy and Teresa walk through the process for setting annual creative goals and lay out what they each hope to achieve in the coming year. From creating a collection of paintings, to writing a poem a month, producing a newsletter and improving photography, this year’s goals are ambitious and not without revenue goals and software tools to help achieve them. Teresa has gone down the rabbit hole of creating miniature crime scenes through craft, and Joy is recommending a new literary podcast that she thinks is intended for men. The Gen X discussion centers on school cafeteria food growing up. Any wax beans and graham crackers with pink frosting fans out there? ~Show Links and References~ The Trello App Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death Old School with Shiloh Brooks (Book Podcast) Pizza Day Secret Recipe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

Joy and Teresa are goal-setters by nature, even when it comes to creativity. To close out the year, they take a look back at the 2025 goals they each set as creators and disclose whether they accomplished them. Before kicking off the main topic, though, Joy quizzes Teresa on her knowledge of terms-of-art. . .for art! In Rabbit Holes and Recommendations, Teresa discovers a hidden message in an old book left behind by someone in her past, and Joy talks about writing reviews for Nancy Drew books when she was a kid. A discussion of favorite 1980s movies has the two podcasters revealing very different tastes in the movies they loved growing up. ~Show Notes and Links~ Chiaroscuro From Here to the Great Unknown War Games Pretty in Pink This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

How do two Artsy Types celebrate the holidays? With home cooking, homemade crafts and one very peculiar tradition involving 80s vinyl records. Joy and Teresa also count down their favorite holiday songs, finding themselves knee-deep in a difference of opinion about the Gen X holiday anthem, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” The two also share memories of their favorite TV Christmas specials from the 1980s and reminisce about an early form of co-branding involving Norelco razors. ~Show Links and References~ The Story Behind If We Make It Through December The Dark Legacy of Do They Know It's Christmas Top Rankin Bass Christmas Special Ranked The Norelco Razor Commercials This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

Sometimes creators need more than the voice in their own head--they need a nudge from a friend. Joy and Teresa assign each other surprise creative challenges in this episode, laying out a path for listeners to try their own projects. Joy kicks off the episode reporting on her visit to Milan to see DaVinci’s Last Supper. Teresa recommends an Instagram rabbit hole where followers can see famous songs coming to life, and Joy is recommending a thousand-page novel about building a cathedral. The discussion ends with contemplation of why time passes differently at various ages and phases and a memory swap of being in high school the day of the Challenger accident. ~Show Links and References~ Leonardo's Last Supper Museum Fresco Painting Method @SongsBeingMade (Account on Instagram) Ken Follett Talks About The Pillars of the Earth The Pandemic Altered Our Perception of Time Gen Xers wonder how the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy would be handled by adults today This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

Whether or not to take commissions is a question every creator is faced with at some point. Joy and Teresa are talking pros and cons, logistics, and reliving a commission gone awry involving an airbrush and a Harley Davidson. Rabbit holes and recommendations is on a hiatus, and taking its place is a new segment, “The Last Thing I Wrote Down.” Joy is taken to task in real-time for gatekeeping Gen X culture, and Teresa laments not having any Garanimals in her closet as a kid. ~Show Links and References~ 10 Questions to Ask Before Accepting an Art Commission Art Commission Agreement On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, by Stephen King A History of Garanimals This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

Divine inspiration, random occurrences, ideas born from dreams. . .what are we to make of creative ideas that come to us in unconventional ways? Joy and Teresa look at famous examples of great works of art born out of dreams, then attempt to gain an understanding of how the supernatural can impact creation. The exchange leads to a practical discussion of ways artists can quiet the logical part of their minds and allow creative flow to the forefront. In Rabbit Holes and Recommendations, Joy talks about Paul McCartney’s book, “The Lyrics,” and Teresa has been listening to Thom Yorke’s “Dawn Chorus.” In a rare podcast role reversal, Teresa is in charge of this week’s Gen X flashback segment, and dives into the lost art of album covers and memories of prog rock. ~Show Links & References~ Stream of Consciousness and Virginia Woolf How the Experience of Awe Can Improve your Well-Being Salvador Dalí’s Bizarre Napping Ritual May Tap Into a Hidden Power of the Brain Best Album Cover Art of the 70s According to Reddit Rick Wakeman's Myths and Legends of King Arthur Album Booklet This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

Daydreams, hidden ambitions and a never-before-shared passion project—Joy and Teresa are telling each other their secret goals for the first time. A coffee table book, a herd of cows and St. Sulpice all get laid bare in this swap of secrets. In Rabbit Holes and Recommendations, Teresa has discovered a mysterious cure for insomnia, and Joy has discovered a band that everybody else discovered 30 years ago. The episode ends with both artists reliving the day in high school that they were put on a bus and taken to motivational speaker, David Toma, to get scared straight. If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime! ~Show Links and References~ Nick Bantock's Griffin & Sabine An Artist "Sketchbook Wandering" Wanders the St. Sulpice Neighborhood Plein Air artists encountering cows AI Generated ‘Boring History’ Videos are Flooding YouTube "Is This It" Debut Album by The Strokes 1983 News Article about Speaker David Toma This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

From Sylvia Plath to Wayne Thiebaud, Joy and Teresa are talking about the creators who’ve inspired and influenced their work. Whether it’s Plath’s ability to impart “an impression of a feeling that you don’t know what to do with,” or Thiebaud’s colorful shadows, these old-school influencers are at the heart of an interesting discussion about early inspirations. In Rabbit Holes and Recommendations, Teresa talks about the Symbolism Movement and her discovery of a haunting painting, while Joy recommends an under-the-radar Jack London book. The unlikely piece-de-resistance of the episode occurs when Joy closes the episode quizzing Teresa on 1980s alcoholic beverages, including the (thankfully) long-forgotten Hairy Buffalo. ~Show Links and References~ The Applicant by Sylvia Plath The New Oxford Book of American Verse Artist Wayne Thiebaud Island of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin Hairy Buffalo Drink Recipe The History of Wine Coolers This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

Joy and Teresa are back at it, starting season two by workshopping four seemingly-eccentric journal entries (rodents seeking revenge, a strange golf tournament, big strawberries, pickups at the gym), determining which “is something” that could be transformed into a developed story. The twosome workshop the ideas, settling on a concept, sharing their creative process as the discussion moves along. Teresa goes down a rabbit hole to explore Cabinets of Curiosities, and Joy raves about the André 3000 interview on Rick Rubin’s Tetragrammaton podcast. The episode ends with Joy and Teresa sharing memories about the first time they each went on the internet and what web browsing was like for young GenX’ers, the last generation to know life without the internet. ~Show Links and References~ Meetup Website Steven Pressfield: The Foolscap Method of Story Outlines The Erewhon Viral Strawberry Massimo Listri Cabinet of Curiosities André 3000 Interview on Tetragrammaton Gabocorp Website The History of Netscape This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

In this highlights episode, Joy and Teresa bring back several of their most popular segments. Their discussion about what to do when you’re too busy for art struck a creative chord with listeners who shared their own hacks for making time for art after hearing this discussion. Teresa goes down the rabbit hole that is Elizabeth Siddal and Joy is dissecting the old-fashioned card game, cribbage. The two end by pondering one of life’s more perplexing questions: why are banana clips and Candie’s clogs back in style? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

Joy and Teresa are on hiatus enjoying the final days of summer by taking a holiday in the South of France. Just kidding! Joy is getting kids back to college and Teresa is helping her mom move to a new house. In the meantime, they have carefully assembled a “bespoke” offering of their favorite segments from season one. From losing a limb to having a bunny mistaken for a gopher, they are opening up about the fears they each have as artists. They try to figure out how to write in the style of the Twilight Zone, discuss the hidden messages in flowers and recount the horrors of the President’s Physical Fitness Tests of their youth. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

Sunlight, sound systems and storage: in the finale to season one of Artsy Types, Joy and Teresa talk about the studio spaces they have, and the studio spaces they dream of. The episode kicks off with shared updates on Teresa’s poetry workshop and Joy’s attempt at playing Camille Saint-Saens on the piano. In Rabbit Holes and Recommendations, Joy is diving into the Andy Warhol Diaries on Netflix, and Teresa is reading The Book of Symbols. The two also reminisce about 1980’s board games including Mouse Trap, Monopoly and Uncle Wiggily. The podcast will be on hiatus until after Labor Day but will return with listeners choosing the first topic of the new season via an upcoming follower poll on @ArtsyTypesPod on Instagram. ~Show Links and References~ The Swan Is Dark Academia the Only Microtrend Built to Last? Architectural Digest In Her Studio The Andy Warhol Diaries: the inner life of an artist no one really knew The Book of Symbols Mouse Trap Board Game Uncle Wiggily Board Game This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

Making money, going viral, and having peers compliment your work are all ways of measuring results as an artist. Joy and Teresa are trying to figure out the best barometer for success in art. In the penultimate episode of season one of Artsy Types, they’re asking if there’s shame in chasing social media, if wanting to have sales is a bad thing, and they’re confronting the daunting possibility that creators may never know if they’ve arrived as an artist. While not the bibliophile Joy is, Teresa confidently claims her territory as an audio-bibliophile and surprises with a recommendation instead of a rabbit hole. Joy has just discovered an R&B EP that re-imagines Radiohead classics. She deftly asks permission to interject princess snark into the segment and wraps the episode up with brief musings about walkie-talkies, but not before the two commiserate that “bespoke” has made its way into the mainstream. ~Show Links and References~ Follow Artsy Types on Instagram for more conversation and references that relate back to the show. Humanity, Can We Please Stop Abusing the Word 'Bespoke'? Joy's Short Story: The Bats Learn about the Libby App for AudioBooks, e-Books and More This Album of Mashed-Up D'Angelo and Radiohead Covers Is All You Need This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

From catastrophes to rolling vineyards to beautiful, but sorrowful, felled birds, Joy and Teresa are talking about the themes that make repeat appearances in their artistic expressions and try to understand why. They share a story they received in response to the last episode that talked about creative ways to find time for art. In Rabbit Holes and Recommendations, the discussion starts with the early works of Thomas Kinkade and moves to Elizabeth Siddal, one of art’s most famous muses and the surprising twist to the story of her life (and death!) This episode’s nostalgia segment puts to rest the story of how Teresa was allowed (and whether she even had permission) to paint a Peter Gabriel mural in her college dorm. ~Show Links & References~ The Unseen Art of Thomas Kinkade by James Gurney The Art of James Gurney Ophelia by Sir John Everett Millais, 1851 The Pre-Raphaelites Elizabeth Siddal as Herself: Artist, and Muse. Highgate Cemetery So, by Peter Gabriel The Art of the Band T-Shirt This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

Teresa and Joy commiserate that their creative pursuits have been put on the the backburner as Teresa helps her mom move and Joy has kids home from college. All hope is not lost, however, as the two share ideas for keeping creative sparks alive when life gets hectic—including a technological idea that may surprise! In Rabbit Holes and Recommendations, Teresa raises the bar with her acquisition of a Chautauqua Desk and Joy immediately lowers it with a glowing recommendation of. . . truck stops. The episode ends with memories of two books from their childhood, a Tolkien classic and Misty of Chincoteague, a beloved story of a horse that results in a meandering discussion of plastic cemetery flowers. ~Show Links & References~ The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams Billy Collins's Tips for Writing Prompts Chautauqua Desk Love's "Travel Stops" Time Magazine's Retrospective on The Hobbit Smithsonian Magazine's "True Story of Misty" Misty of Chincoteague Foundation Etsy's Selection of 1970s Plastic Flowers This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com