Drawing South

In our first ever "live from SECAC conference" episode @mikewindyart hosts an incredible conversation with @donnawoodleyart @lisawilliamsonart @iamsodunne @mandyrogershorton_studio and @dadanadaparty about when, how, and how quickly research yields inspiration, each of their relationship to an art market, what's next for their practice, what they're are tuning into in the studio and a whole lot more. There are cameos by jonathan jonathan & Paul Behnke and a wonderful summation of the episode by Chiara at the end! We hope you give it a listen #drawingsouthpodcast #drawingsouth #mikewindypodcast

Tile: photo by @paulbehnkepaintings on mikewindy's phone THANKS PAUL!!!

@mikewindyart and @susannahfelts had a great conversation sitting in his home in Inglewood just a day before the @nashvillescene announced her book "The Come Apart" as Nashville's Best debut novel!

That comes as no surprise as the book is fantastic.

We talked about @sunnimockingbird, Susannah's writing process, the cost of a creative life, The Porch, having kids, and so much more! We hope you buy and read her book and give this conversation a listen! There are NO spoilers here!

You can also catch Susannah in conversation with @margaret.renkl 4pm Saturday October 17th @sofestofbooks

mikewindy recommends buying a copy @thebookshopnashville or whatever local you call your Home Team!

Tile Art: Susannah's lovely @nupress book with cover design by @morgankrehbiel

@mikewindyart and @queenbeeink have been talking about sitting down for at least a few years and finally were able to make it happen today in Elisheba Israel Mrozik's amazing newish studio space. We talked about AI, what's in a name, taking time to reflect on her accomplishments, how she recharges, and more. If you don't know her work she is a tattoo artist, muralist, painter, sculptor, installation artist, a public intellectual, and Tennessee's 2026 Creative Capital State of the Art Prize winner. We hope you give this conversation a listen.

Tile Art: Elisheba's portrait from Creative Capital Website

@jimsherraden told me it's Sherraden like Alladin so I am offering Fishbein like Prine for Aaron Fishbein @furtheradventuresof who told @mikewindyart all about working with artists or on projects for artists from Enrique Iglesias to DMX to Beyonce to Missy Elliot & the Biggie Duets record. We also talk about him peeking artistically in his photography practice at 10 but still sticking with it from Cincinnati to Miami to LA and beyond. We hope you give it a listen! #AaronFishbein #mikewindypodcast #drawingsouth #drawingsouthpodcast

Tile Art: @cowtownchad portrait posted on Aaron's IG

@mikewindyart and @qw.ynn aka @parthenoncity had an early taco dinner made by @winwinmitch last week before she headed back to @otiscollege for Junior year. We talked about using the wood lathe, having strong opinions, and strategy for year 3. She also gave me an incredible gift that I open during the episode. We hope you give our third recorded conversation a listen! #qwynngarrett #drawingsouth #drawingsouthpodcast #mikewindypodcast

@mikewindyart recently read @debolinunferth 's Earth 7.

"Sometimes a book rattles your cage but you don't quite notice. Deb Olin Unferth's Earth 7 isn't that kind of book. It's the kind of book that made me feel like the word on the tip of my own tongue, that one day I know will come, but not today, but someday, maybe?"

Their conversation covered ambition, trying to be present in big moments, why being funny is important, her being at The Southern Festival of Books on October 17 & 18th in Nashville, loyalty, @graywolfpress , and a whole lot more. We hope you'll give it a listen and go buy Deb's Books at your local book store! #debolinunferth #drawingsouthpodcast #mikewindypodcast #drawingsouth #earth7

Tile Art: Earth 7 cover from @graywolfpress website

@graduatesrise and @mikewindyart sat down for a nice long chat in Inglewood this week. Cynthia George PHD, MSSW is a professor in the Social Work program at Tennessee State University, Founding Chair of Disabled to the Front Advisory Group and band leader of Dr. Cyn and the Graduates Rise. This conversation covered a lot of ground including an upcoming wheelchair repair party planned for September at Drifters in Five Points. Dr. Cyn's idea to connect bicycle, roller derby, skaters, and the disabled communities is brilliant but you have to hear it for yourself! We hope you give it a listen! #drcynandthegraduatesrise #drcyncorrigible #drawingsouthpodcast #mikewindypodcast

Tile Art: photo from @graduatesrise IG by @hairby.emaline

@mikewindyart has been a fan of @thecroftonshow for over twenty years via his music, comedy, and longtime advice column in the Nashville Scene now a book through @vanderbiltuniversitypress and even more recently as a political candidate. They sat down for a lovely two and a half hour chat and talked about Chris's career, the state of the world, being sober, creativity, capitalism, and his ability to communicate with any audience and how laughs aren't as important to him as they used to be. You might even hear him giving Mazzy some treats during the episode. We hope you give it a listen and dive into his podcast Cold Brew Got Me Like and find SO many projects on the link tree in his IG Bio like his album "I'm your man" available on CD or Vinyl through Bandcamp

#coldbrewgotmelike #chriscrofton #nashvillefamous #mikewindypodcast #drawingsouthpodcast

Tile Art: Chris's album "I'm Your Man" photo Dave Dawson

@mikewindyart and @diceydycee met on a panel for @bubblegumtheatrecompany thanks to @mrjackstell In this conversation Dycee and Mikey dive into her incredible filmmaking practice, her co-founding @defyfilmfest, and her new collaboration @afterlifenashville with @gardeningnotarchitecture that they describe as an Amusement Park about Death playing for the month of June 2026 @themadnest in Neely's Bend area of Madison We hope you give our conversation a listen

#afterlifenashville #dyceewildman #drawingsouthpodcast #drawingsouth #mikewindypodcast

Tile Art: Still from Hope Chest with actor Sophie Scheel, written and directed by Jennifer Bonior & Dycee Wildman

@mikewindyart and @jobiriccio met on the Cayamo cruise but it's her new, perfect, sophmore record that they spend most of this conversation talking about. They discuss songwriting, reading, social climbing bs, taking care of the artists in your own ecosystem and beyond and so much more. We hope you give the conversation a listen and please go buy Jobi's new record out now on @yeproc

#jobiriccio #mikewindypodcast #drawingsouth #drawingsouthpodcast #facethefeeling

Tile Art: Face the Feeling Record Cover @nathangolub

@mikewindyart can't remember how he started following @_traplanta_ but suffice it to say he's so glad he did. Thanks to a clumsy first attempt at an assignment(we've all had those, but most of us won't admit it) Willis leaned into photographing the communities he's known throughout his life as an Atlanta native and let's the rest of us in on what we won't see at the Trap Museum, which for him is authenticity and respect of and for the people in those communities. He reads in great length to get the right caption for each image and sometimes takes him many months until he feels like he gets it right. We talk about the strategies and skills he acquired in his 20 years serving in the US military and how they are serving him well in his own art career. PLEASE give this episode a listen and dive into Willis' work and read other interviews and articles @photobookmagazine @motherjonesmag @shoutoutatlantaofficial

#traplanta #streetphotography #justcallmewillisphotography #justcallmewillis #drawingsouth #drawingsouthpodcast #mikewindypodcast

Tile Art: from Just Call Me Willis @_traplanta_ February 20,2025 post

@mikewindyart met @austin_g_ohm at the 2024 @waeaeducators state conference at the University of Central Washington. That year Austin won elementary school Teacher of the Year AND the overall Art Teacher of the Year award. Austin is a painter, mural artist, entrepreneur as well as a long time educator. We talk about his new plans to travel the world with his partner, imposter syndrome, and always trying new artistic strategies. We hope you give it a listen!

Tile Art: Community Mural from Austin's Website

#drawingsouth #drawingsouthpodcast #mikewindypodcast #austinohmart

@lizzie.no and @mikewindyart sat down at the Nina Lovelace Center for Art and Social Practice at TSU and had a nice long chat about all the things that keep Lizzie busy: label head @missfreedomland , writing music and being Lizzie No, and producing a new compilation record Outlaw's Almanac for America's 250th Birthday AND being a person in the world. It all starts with a live version of "The one I Love and the Freedom Road". You can see Lizzie's farewell to Nashville show Wednesday, May 20th at the famed @Deeslounge615 We hope you give our conversation a listen!

#lizzieno #missfreedomland #outlawsalmanac #mikewindypodcast #drawingsouth #drawingsouthpodcast

Tile Art: Outlaw's Almanac cover art by @lightningbugroxanne

This conversation with @mikewindyart and @swimmintilimpicked Darrel Green centers around a collection of their Thoughts Lately series of short films that they recently screened at SOHO House Nashville's Film Club. Duck's film practice ranges from being very mindful about strategies to letting things organically arrive and trusting their intuition. we talk about talking as writing and writing as talking and how Zora Neal Hurston is still ground central. I love the way Duck model's a way into spirituality, their comfort in their own creative skin, and community as sacred. We hope you give it a listen #drawingsouthpodcast #drawingsouth #mikewindypodcast #sittingduckmotions

Tile: still from Thoughts Lately series 2025 Darrel Green/Duck

@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