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Craig Drennan

Craig Drennan

Painter and 2018 Guggenheim Fellow based in Atlanta, known for his long-running Timon of Athens project and Distinguished University Professor at Georgia State University's Welch School of Art & Design.

Sep 23, 2026

7:12
And can you give us an example of one of the projects in which the satire is deliberate and that was what you were driving for?
7:19
Well, I mean, the first characters I did in the whole project was the infamous mistress pieces, which are the very first ones.
7:26
I wanted to start the minor characters in case I messed up.
7:29
Nobody would care if I mess up on a minor character.
7:32
But for the mistresses, which I'm not going to describe them because I'm going to keep your podcast PG.
7:38
No, I'm looking at them.
7:39
I see why you're not going to describe them.
10:31
Are you trying to work with the same logic that Ibsen was using when he said his plays were very funny? Were you hoping the same phenomenon would work for you? Oh, you're on to me.

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