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Creativity conversations for artists, or just artsy types. Joy and Teresa are two life-long friends who have been having a 40-year conversation about culture and creativity, and they've expanded the conversation to include you. They both have day jobs, but what they really love is creating and talking about art, writing, music, metalsmithing, painting--figuring out how to create something from nothing. artsytypes.substack.com

  1. 14 JAN

    Starting a New Year: Setting Creativity Goals

    Joy and Teresa walk through the process for setting annual creative goals and lay out what they each hope to achieve in the coming year. From creating a collection of paintings, to writing a poem a month, producing a newsletter and improving photography, this year’s goals are ambitious and not without revenue goals and software tools to help achieve them. Teresa has gone down the rabbit hole of creating miniature crime scenes through craft, and Joy is recommending a new literary podcast that she thinks is intended for men. The Gen X discussion centers on school cafeteria food growing up. Any wax beans and graham crackers with pink frosting fans out there? ~Show Links and References~ The Trello App Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death Old School with Shiloh Brooks (Book Podcast) Pizza Day Secret Recipe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

    46 min
  2. Creativity Goals: A Year-End Report Card

    30/12/2025

    Creativity Goals: A Year-End Report Card

    Joy and Teresa are goal-setters by nature, even when it comes to creativity. To close out the year, they take a look back at the 2025 goals they each set as creators and disclose whether they accomplished them. Before kicking off the main topic, though, Joy quizzes Teresa on her knowledge of terms-of-art. . .for art! In Rabbit Holes and Recommendations, Teresa discovers a hidden message in an old book left behind by someone in her past, and Joy talks about writing reviews for Nancy Drew books when she was a kid. A discussion of favorite 1980s movies has the two podcasters revealing very different tastes in the movies they loved growing up. ~Show Notes and Links~ Chiaroscuro From Here to the Great Unknown War Games Pretty in Pink This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

    44 min

  3. 10/12/2025

    Irony, Beauty, Nostalgia, Crafty Creativity: The Holiday Episode

    How do two Artsy Types celebrate the holidays? With home cooking, homemade crafts and one very peculiar tradition involving 80s vinyl records. Joy and Teresa also count down their favorite holiday songs, finding themselves knee-deep in a difference of opinion about the Gen X holiday anthem, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” The two also share memories of their favorite TV Christmas specials from the 1980s and reminisce about an early form of co-branding involving Norelco razors. ~Show Links and References~ The Story Behind If We Make It Through December The Dark Legacy of Do They Know It's Christmas Top Rankin Bass Christmas Special Ranked The Norelco Razor Commercials This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

    53 min

  4. 25/11/2025

    What I Want You to Make

    Sometimes creators need more than the voice in their own head--they need a nudge from a friend. Joy and Teresa assign each other surprise creative challenges in this episode, laying out a path for listeners to try their own projects. Joy kicks off the episode reporting on her visit to Milan to see DaVinci’s Last Supper. Teresa recommends an Instagram rabbit hole where followers can see famous songs coming to life, and Joy is recommending a thousand-page novel about building a cathedral. The discussion ends with contemplation of why time passes differently at various ages and phases and a memory swap of being in high school the day of the Challenger accident. ~Show Links and References~ Leonardo's Last Supper Museum Fresco Painting Method @SongsBeingMade (Account on Instagram) Ken Follett Talks About The Pillars of the Earth The Pandemic Altered Our Perception of Time Gen Xers wonder how the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy would be handled by adults today This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

    35 min

  5. 11/11/2025

    To Commission or Not to Commission, That is the Question

    Whether or not to take commissions is a question every creator is faced with at some point. Joy and Teresa are talking pros and cons, logistics, and reliving a commission gone awry involving an airbrush and a Harley Davidson. Rabbit holes and recommendations is on a hiatus, and taking its place is a new segment, “The Last Thing I Wrote Down.” Joy is taken to task in real-time for gatekeeping Gen X culture, and Teresa laments not having any Garanimals in her closet as a kid. ~Show Links and References~ 10 Questions to Ask Before Accepting an Art Commission Art Commission Agreement On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, by Stephen King A History of Garanimals This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

    49 min

  6. 28/10/2025

    Mystical, Magical, Where-Did-They-Come-From Ideas

    Divine inspiration, random occurrences, ideas born from dreams. . .what are we to make of creative ideas that come to us in unconventional ways? Joy and Teresa look at famous examples of great works of art born out of dreams, then attempt to gain an understanding of how the supernatural can impact creation. The exchange leads to a practical discussion of ways artists can quiet the logical part of their minds and allow creative flow to the forefront. In Rabbit Holes and Recommendations, Joy talks about Paul McCartney’s book, “The Lyrics,” and Teresa has been listening to Thom Yorke’s “Dawn Chorus.” In a rare podcast role reversal, Teresa is in charge of this week’s Gen X flashback segment, and dives into the lost art of album covers and memories of prog rock. ~Show Links & References~ Stream of Consciousness and Virginia Woolf How the Experience of Awe Can Improve your Well-Being Salvador Dalí’s Bizarre Napping Ritual May Tap Into a Hidden Power of the Brain Best Album Cover Art of the 70s According to Reddit Rick Wakeman's Myths and Legends of King Arthur Album Booklet This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

    51 min

  7. 21/10/2025

    Saying Secret Goals Out Loud

    Daydreams, hidden ambitions and a never-before-shared passion project—Joy and Teresa are telling each other their secret goals for the first time. A coffee table book, a herd of cows and St. Sulpice all get laid bare in this swap of secrets. In Rabbit Holes and Recommendations, Teresa has discovered a mysterious cure for insomnia, and Joy has discovered a band that everybody else discovered 30 years ago. The episode ends with both artists reliving the day in high school that they were put on a bus and taken to motivational speaker, David Toma, to get scared straight. If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime! ~Show Links and References~ Nick Bantock's Griffin & Sabine An Artist "Sketchbook Wandering" Wanders the St. Sulpice Neighborhood Plein Air artists encountering cows AI Generated ‘Boring History’ Videos are Flooding YouTube "Is This It" Debut Album by The Strokes 1983 News Article about Speaker David Toma This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

    37 min

  8. 07/10/2025

    Influencers (No, Not That Kind!)

    From Sylvia Plath to Wayne Thiebaud, Joy and Teresa are talking about the creators who’ve inspired and influenced their work. Whether it’s Plath’s ability to impart “an impression of a feeling that you don’t know what to do with,” or Thiebaud’s colorful shadows, these old-school influencers are at the heart of an interesting discussion about early inspirations. In Rabbit Holes and Recommendations, Teresa talks about the Symbolism Movement and her discovery of a haunting painting, while Joy recommends an under-the-radar Jack London book. The unlikely piece-de-resistance of the episode occurs when Joy closes the episode quizzing Teresa on 1980s alcoholic beverages, including the (thankfully) long-forgotten Hairy Buffalo. ~Show Links and References~ The Applicant by Sylvia Plath The New Oxford Book of American Verse Artist Wayne Thiebaud Island of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin Hairy Buffalo Drink Recipe The History of Wine Coolers This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

    46 min
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Creativity conversations for artists, or just artsy types. Joy and Teresa are two life-long friends who have been having a 40-year conversation about culture and creativity, and they've expanded the conversation to include you. They both have day jobs, but what they really love is creating and talking about art, writing, music, metalsmithing, painting--figuring out how to create something from nothing. artsytypes.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Joy and Teresa
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    21
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Joy
  • Show Website
    Artsy Types

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