WKNO Interview

Memphis's NPR station, unlike any that I know of around the country, has a daily arts interview show, twice a day as needed, that features the whole spectrum of the arts. Many places occasionally get a band in, but I don't know of anywhere else that includes visual artists in their regular promotion of the arts. It's a huge gift to those of us making a living as independent artists with minimal (or no) advertising budgets.

Plus, as you can see from the photo, Memphis also has the super coolest folks working there too. Darel Snodgrass not only does a great interview (he does his research ahead of time, asks great questions, and jumps in any time I start to flag or get lost in a thought), but he also loves dogs. So he

publicly invited Mr. Darcy in a facebook post to come in for the interview as well. He's got three rescues of his own and knows that Mr. Darcy is my constant art companion. So we both went in this morning to the studio.

What I realized today (aside from what a southern accent I have, which hits me annually as I do this interview for my big show of the year) is that my brain really closes one book artistically and moves straight into something else. I came home from Paris and spent a good bit of time painting and making prints from the landscape watercolors that I did there, but in the two weeks since the show got on the walls, I've completely shifted over to this new series I'm doing, and that's what was in my brain to talk about. Fortunately the first one of the self portraits was in the show, so it was a legit topic of conversation. And talking about the trip and my art process gave me things to say that weren't "Hey, I did this specific piece that you can't see because it's radio!"

So here's the interview, about 15 minutes, for anyone who's curious.