In Which I Talk To Artists

Michael will be one of several artists participating in the 2021 show, One Night Stand at the Ole Miss Motel, taking place October 16, 2021. Contact iheartmotelart@gmail.com for more information. -------- Untrained and schooled only by museums and the Friday New York Times, Michael started painting and collaging and building with whatever he could find. He loved 90’s bands like Guided By Voices and Sebadoh that made music in the bedroom or garage without fancy equipment—low fidelity but...

Marshall will be one of several artists participating in the 2021 show, One Night Stand at the Ole Miss Motel, taking place October 16, 2021. Contact iheartmotelart@gmail.com for more information. ----- (from therealridercup.com) Marshall Blevins, or “Church Goin Mule,” is an outsider artist living in Louisiana. She had the opportunity to work in horse racing from age 14-23, and now works as a track photographer at Evangeline Downs. She owes horse racing her livelihood, and is honored to...

James will be one of several artists participating in the 2021 show, One Night Stand at the Ole Miss Motel, taking place October 16, 2021. Contact iheartmotelart@gmail.com for more information. ------- (from theresidencyproject.org) "No one medium or concept defines James “Capt.” Stovall’s artistic practice. He flows seamlessly from larger-than-life murals to intimate doodles and off-the-cuff musings, to text-based works with cadences that beg to be read aloud. Regardless of the form his...

Amy is an artist based in Mississippi. She will be one of several artists participating in the 2021 show, One Night Stand at the Ole Miss Motel, taking place October 16, 2021. Contact iheartmotelart@gmail.com for more information. ------- https://www.instagram.com/marce_oh/

Katherine will be one of several artists participating in the 2021 show, One Night Stand at the Ole Miss Motel, taking place October 16, 2021. Contact iheartmotelart@gmail.com for more information. ------- Based in Memphis, Katherine's current work is inspired by the variety of forms found on daily walks: the foliage, a glimpse into a neighbor’s back garden, and the leafy shadows cast on the pavement. She is drawn to the delicate appearance, implicit strength, and patient and confident...

Ashleigh will be one of several artists participating in the 2021 show, One Night Stand at the Ole Miss Motel, taking place October 16, 2021. Contact iheartmotelart@gmail.com for more information. ------- Ashleigh Coleman (1983, Virginia) is a self-taught photographer. As she susses out where she lives and what is required of her as a mother, Ashleigh looks through the lens of an inherited Hasselblad. In the meantime, her photographs have exhibited across the United States, including solo...

Heather will be one of several artists participating in the 2021 show, One Night Stand at the Ole Miss Motel, taking place October 16, 2021. Contact iheartmotelart@gmail.com for more information. ------- Heather Sundquist Hall is an artist based in Smithville, Texas. Her work is heavily influenced by narratives, nostalgia and details. Heather’s illustrations have become pieces of her own stories whose purpose is to preserve memories like souvenirs. Much of Heather’s focus is on the details....

O’Fallon, MO based artist, Christina Hummer, has been honing her skills as a mural painter since 2009 when she launched her company Sweet Dream Murals LLC. Christina’s clients run the gamut from school administrators, restaurateurs, professional small business owners, home owners and creative professionals such as interior designers and photographers. She prides herself in creating colorful, visual narratives that are as engaging and unique as each client she meets. Prior to becoming a small...

David Quarles is a Memphis-based, multi-hyphenate creative and wellness enthusiast whose philosophy on life stems from doing all things from a place of love. David comes from African-American, Afro-Caribbean, European and Indigenous-American descent; a vibrant cultural background that influences his work and movement in this world. With a professional background in Jewelry Design, Interior Styling and Design, Visual Merchandising, and Wellness Coaching, David views creativity as more than an...

Darcy Campbell is a Saint Louis, MO based artist with a focus in abstract and pop art. She has a BA in Studio Art from Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts in Saint Louis, MO. Her pieces are in many prestigious private collections across the United States including St. Louis, MO, Dallas, TX, Tampa, FL, Oxford, MS, Los Angeles, CA, New York City, NY, Chicago, IL, Nashville, TN, Boca Raton, FL, San Francisco, CA, Boston, MA, Tierra Verde, FL, Philadelphia, PA....

Arabella Proffer is an artist, author, and co-founder of the indie label Elephant Stone Records. Her work combines interests in portraiture, visionary art, the history of medicine, and biomorphic abstraction. She delves into the her practice of oil painting tying together its relationships to biology, nature, and emerging sciences. She attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA before receiving her BFA from California Institute of the Arts where she studied under artists such as...

Timothy Michael Joe is an American self taught, representational artist from the rural southern town of Greensboro Alabama. He participated in his first art festival in his mid teens and since completed many commission pieces. Timothy creates art based on themes associated the southern rural culture loving God, family, and heritage. He has experience with many mediums over the years including; graphite, calligraphy, charcoal, gouache, acrylic, and oil paints and soft pastels. He enjoys using...

Mari Andrew is a writer, artist, speaker, and flamenco enthusiast, living in New York. She grew up in Seattle, went to college in Chicago, taught English in Chile, and spent a few years working a series of retail/food/nonprofit jobs in Baltimore and DC. Her life experience has been my best writing teacher. Her first book, Am I There Yet? is a collection of observations from being in my 20s and navigating the murky waters of dating, heartbreak, grief, moving, finding community, and creating...

"Nicole Crowder makes gorgeous, upholstered pieces. An artist of exceptional and varied talents, Crowder comes to upholstery from the photography world; until 2016, she worked as a senior features photo editor at the Washington Post. Now she applies her finely tuned aesthetics to furniture design and upholstery, whether on projects for major hotels and retailers, custom pieces for clients, or soft pieces like meditation pillows, sold directly through her website. (The latter sold out,...

Meredith Olinger is an artist living and working in Chattaooga, TN. Olinger works primarily with wallpaper of her own design. Her work deals with the dependence of art and design on each other, handmade versus digital production, and blurs the line between painting and installation. Olinger has been included in many group shows, most recently the Color of the Year Exhibition sponsored by Pantone at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts and Studio Exchange: Memphis at Zeitgeist Gallery....

Janie is a recovering journalist turned greeting card entrepreneur. A Michigander, (though she was born in Albania and immigrated to the U.S. at 5 years old) she moved to Washington to work in politics after graduating from the University of Michigan in 2013. She started The Card Bureau in 2016 as a side hustle that served as a creative outlet from election coverage. As a journalist Janie has worked for FiveThirtyEight, Huffington Post, and CQ Roll Call/Economist. Now she just writes copy...

Based in St. Louis, Natalie Slyman is a home and vintage design enthusiast who has chronicled the decor and renovation of her century-old home on her ever-growing Instagram account. She and her husband Nate have thrifted their way through the midwest and turned their Tower Grove home into a haven of paradise, one coat of paint at a time. https://www.instagram.com/natalieslyman

Asia Babbington is a creative human who decorates, welds, renovates, and manifests design work who is currently residing in Pilsen, Chicago with her dog River and 50 house plants. She was and raised in Oak Park, Il, surrounded by the works of Frank Lloyd Wright and raised in a home by a Foreman in construction as a father and a flight attendant/ inspired decorator as a mother. This led her to to a Bachelor’s of Science in Architectural Studies, with an emphasis in Interior Design and later...

Emily Regina, Founder of Regina Creative, curates interior transformations. With a degree in Interior Architecture and Design from the Academy of Art University, she’s provided expert design direction in San Francisco and New York City. Emily has transformed a wide range of environments including luxury houses, sailboats, and vacation rentals. Her tenacity towards making dream spaces a reality has awarded her “Best of Houzz 2020”. Emily believes great design should be attainable and everyone...

An Illinois native who is now based in Washington, D.C., Matthew's passion for calligraphy came from a constant desire for good penmanship throughout my life. He is self-taught, beginning with brush markers and then dabbling in pointed pen, and now focuses solely on the art of pointed pen. He loves coming up with the perfect color palette of card and ink. www.instagram.com/matthewagrall_calligraphy/ https://magrallcalligraphy.com/