Interview with Anna Pugh

Interview, Painting, Digital ResidencyMineral HouseMay 12, 2021PAINTING, Anna Pugh, art, ARTIST INTERVIEW, contemporary art, tennessee, FEMALE, body, figure, FIGUREPAINTING

Interview with Dawn Roe

Digital Residency, Interview, Photography, Sculpture, Digital ArtMineral HouseMay 7, 2021photography, art, contemporary art

Interview with Paul Collins

Interview with Kirby Miles

Interview with Beth Reitmeyer

Digital Residency, Installation, Interview, Painting, Open Studio, Photoblog, Studio Visit, Sculpture, TextilesMineral HouseNovember 22, 2020interview, art, artst, ARTIST INTERVIEW, ART, Art Show, ART TALK, ARTIST RESIDENCY, Artists, contemporary art, installation, painting, light, joy

Interview with Paige Greeley

“My current research examines my experience as a Western woman and analyzes my previous adherence to the concept of beauty-as-currency. Feminine beauty is culturally defined and has always been a form of wealth in the West. In my current body of work, I am examining the biological argument for the evolution of this behavior, the overwhelming social pressure to conform to this behavior, subjection by the patriarchy, women’s complicity, and the many forms of exchange involved in utilizing beauty currency. Combining my advocacy work on a rape crisis hotline and my own exploitation, I create visceral, figurative, large-scale oil paintings that examine the perennial dangers of beauty-as-currency and the abuse it inflicts on women.” - Paige Greeley

Interview with Scott McKinney

“My work deals with the intersections between technology and social issues in our daily lives. Combining mixed media and digital media I create sculptures, videos, and 2d works that integrate emerging technologies into critical objects. I like to twist bits of technology against themselves and create stories based around the results. The work is honest and critical of the integration of technologies into our daily life because critical thought towards our mediated interactions is the only way to come up with better solutions for living in the future.” - Scott McKinney

Interview with Ayo Janeen Jackson

My work lies at the site of paradox: pain and pleasure, life and death, capture and escape... Can an inoculation of “fantasy” repair Black slave mythology by inserting “happiness” with a predetermined gratifying outcome? And by changing the past will that effect contemporary societies mindset regarding equality of life for people of color?

Interview with Todd Jones

Interview, Sculpture, Digital ResidencyMineral HouseJune 8, 2020Mineral House Media glass, glasswork, contemporary glass, contemporary glass artist, contemporary art, art, digital residency, artist residency, Nashville artist, residency, art residency, Art Review, art interview

Interview with Jennifer Crescuillo

I first found glass while I was an undergrad at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. I was originally in the sculpture department and glass was right next door across the courtyard and it was warm, and had fun music blaring, and loud funny people and I got totally sucked in. All us Glassies are the same, like moths to the flame, literally.

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).