Minor Regional Artists (with Tessa Granowski)

Hey everyone🌠 In today's episode, we're joined by Tessa Granowski, the wonderfully curious curator behind Nature of Things.

Earlier this summer, Faith hit the road to catch Tessa's show "Minor Regional Novelist" in Dallas, which explored themes of Texas regionalism, identity, and place through the works of 16 artists, including members of "The Dallas Nine" and some of the state's legendary outsider artists

Together, we discuss the legacy of Jerry Bywaters, what can be learned from the Reverend Johnnie Swearingen, the state of regional aesthetics, and what it means to be curating art in Texas. 🔎

As always, thanks for listening.

Links:

Visit Nature of Things:

https://natureofthings.xyz/information

https://www.instagram.com/natureofthings/?hl=en

Stefan Simcovitz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Simchowitz

https://thenewsstandproject.net/

Matthew Chambers painter https://thenewsstandproject.net/MATTHEW-CHAMBERS-AND-BRIAN-LOTTI

https://texasarchive.org/2008_01062

Spirited Journey's Book on Texas Outsider Art: https://archive.org/details/spiritedjourneys00adel_0

Beer Can House

El Franco's DJ Screw Paintings

The Art of The Lone Star That's Not Lone https://glasstire.com/2026/03/23/the-art-of-the-lone-star-state-is-not-that-lone/

Antonio Lechuga https://www.instagram.com/lettucelook/?hl=en

Ali Dipp https://www.franklinparrasch.com/ali-dipp-unceasing-change-and-everlasting-duration

The Accommodation https://store.deepvellum.org/products/the-accommodation