This interview was recorded on May 2, 2025. Mary Jo Karimnia is an artist, curator, artspace owner and former arts administrator based in Memphis, Tennessee. She builds rich, highly crafted surface patinas with glass beads, foil and velvety flocking on vintage and contemporary imagery, using these non-traditional art materials to produce an altered view. Her […]
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Tim Andrews was born and raised in Northwest Arkansas attended Junior college in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He movee to Memphis in the mid 80s to attend Memphis College of Art. He received his bachelor of Fine-Arts degree with emphasis in printmaking and painting. After graduation Andrews started teaching in the summer school and Saturday school […]
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Lauren Kennedy grew up in Little Rock, then suburban Dallas, then came to study at Rhodes College where she graduated with a degree in Art History in 2008. She returned to Dallas to work at the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Dallas Art Fair. Kennedy returned to Memphis to work for Ballet Memphis and she […]
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Coe Lapossy is an interdisciplinary visual artist educator committed to collaboration. Lapossy centers erased histories and marginalized labor. Revisiting artifacts —things forgotten, messages that ‘flew under the radar’. The resulting work is a meditation on what bodies we value, how we memorialize, and what/who survives under the conditions we create. Lapossy (b. 1980, Medina, OH) […]
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This interview with Carol DeForest was recorded on January 10, 2023. From her ceramic studio to her large scale public art projects, private commissions, teaching, interior design business and exhibitions of her sculpture, Carol DeForest has been a force in the Memphis art community for the last 30 years. She has also been a nurturing […]
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Pinkney Herbert is an abstract painter who maintains studios in Memphis and New York. This is the first of two interviews.
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March 3, 2025
The impetus for this series. Memphis artist, Chuck Johnson is an accomplished and vital member of the arts community.
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