Interview with Beth Reitmeyer

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Interview with Anna Buckner

I grew up in Greensboro, NC. My parents met in grad school at UNCG - my dad was studying painting and my mom studied dance. Back then, pre-Anna days, my mom would sometimes model for my dad’s life drawing classes so we had all of these nude paintings of my mom around the house growing up. In reality, it was probably 2 or 3 paintings, but it felt like our house was covered in them. I have this distinct memory of my sister and I frantically running around the house taking them down and hiding them in a closet before one of her birthday parties.

Interview with Wayne Marcelli

I went to an arts magnet school for 11th and 12th grade which was the first time I’d ever really painted. Before that it was all violent comics and drawing in textbooks. Painting felt right so I took a bunch of portrait and figure painting classes in undergrad at Coastal Carolina University (2010). It took a few years to realize I actually hated painting representationally (just use a camera) so everything from grad school onward (University of North Carolina 2017) has been real pared down and muted (and angsty).