![]() ![]() I met them all through the rock camp circuit. That was where I met the girls that started She’s a Rebel: Tiffany Minton, Jessi Zazu, Nikki Kvarnes, Laura Taylor. ![]() That community was really important for me-meeting people who were likeminded and also figuring out what I love to do. ![]() Whether you’re a camper or you’re volunteering, you’re meeting such great people who are very passionate about the same things that you are. I think another great thing about rock camp is that some of the best musicians and talents are volunteering to teach there. I continued to volunteer with them, and I taught silkscreen for several years. This was just as I was becoming an adult. I couldn’t believe that I could make posters when I grew up, and rock camp was also the first time I played songs that I wrote for people. The people teaching it were the folks from Grand Palace, which was located in Murfreesboro at the time. It was the first time that I saw that you could be a gig poster artist for a living. As well as learning about your instrument and writing songs, you also get to take a workshop on the very practical side of rock n’ roll-you could do song writing, band photography, music history, or screenprinting. I went the last year I was eligible to go as a camper. In Murfreesboro, right outside my hometown, my friend Allen Haynes runs The Music Stop, and I was painting a mural for him he paid my tuition to rock camp for painting this mural for him. HM: Yes! The Southern Girls Rock & Roll camp was a very formative part of my life, as a printer and as a musician. You also went to a teen rock camp when you were younger… PV: I’ve been to the She’s a Rebel a few times, and you’re a key part of the band for that project. I feel the same way about a lot of folk songs, they mark a certain place and time.Įven if you aren’t looking at letterpress as an art-if you’re looking at it as a craft or a way to make your flyers-you’re creating ephemera and this ephemera is representing something interesting that’s going on. Inherently in letterpress, even if you’re objectively making a poster that’s marking a moment or event, that becomes a part of a greater story. It’s like country music– a lot of times, at the root of it is a storytelling element. I feel that at the heart of everything I do there’s an element of storytelling. PV: In a previous interview, I read that your interest in letterpress has to do with folk stories and folk music-do you see your letterpress and music interests overlap? is kind of a Southernism that says a little bit of what I’m about, and my aesthetic. I created Lordymercy as an entity so people could remember what my projects were. HM: I bought in college because I was going to a million conferences and was trying to show every big wig my portfolio, and I just thought nobody remembers anybody’s name in this scenario, so no one is going to remember an undergrad college student’s name. PV: Your website and Instagram are Lordymercy, where does that come from? Those are my three great passions in life I split my time between all of those things. PV: How do you describe yourself as a person, as an artist, as a maker? The conversation explores Heather’s current practice and evolution as a designer, letterpress printer-discussing how art and music weave throughout. Patrick Vincent interviewed Nashville-Middle Tennessee designer, printer, musician Heather Moulder on 9/17/22 4 pm CST. ![]()
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