In this episode, I have a sincere and heartfelt conversation with my friend and artist Nancey B. Price. She shares about her relationship with the land, the smell of peanut dust, mothering the mothers and honoring the fathers. She names collage art and writing as portals and large parts of her grieving process. It's a beautiful conversation with a lot of depth and soul as well as a lot of plenty of laughter and jokes. It's also an invitation to you, the listener, to come to this interview with intentional, sacred listening and divine witnessing.
Nancey B. Price is a Black, queer collage artist, writer and storyteller from rural Georgia with an appreciation for all things Black, Southern and imaginative. In her creative pursuits, she seeks to build worlds in which Black people can exist freely in all their beauty and complexity. As a visual artist, she's exhibited her artwork across the country and has been featured in various publications, including O, the Oprah Magazine, Garden&Gun Magazine, and Black Collagists: The Book. In her stories of fiction, Nancey invokes magical realism and southern gothic storytelling to build worlds and weave together lives inspired by the folklore and oral histories of her hometown, Girard, GA. Furthermore, she has shared stories on Hoodoo Plant Mamas and You Had Me At Black, and as the executive producer and host of the podcast, Dreaming In Color with Nancey B. Price, she highlights the importance of dream-telling in the Black community by creating a safe space for each of her guests to share a dream story and deconstruct its meaning in their waking lives.
- dreaming
- peanut dust smell
- her relationship with the land and the land keeping her safe
- seasons
- how her dog, Olivia, fell out of the sky
- when she became a full-time artist
- intergenerational transference of knowledge
- mothering the mothers
- honoring the men
- The Grounding
- art as a portal & and as a grieving process
- visitations (or there lack thereof)
- Girdles and wigs
- Whose hair she got
- Grandma Essie
- "making do"
- what's nourishing her body right now
- GMO foods
- her favorite fruit
- The Great British Baking Show
- boiled peanuts
- nicknames
- just "sit in it"