Part Two: Joy Drury Cox
We kick off the second installment of Keeping the Lights On with Joy Drury Cox, an artist whose day jobs and creative work are equally fascinating, focused, and often steeped in solitude.
Joy shares what it's like balancing art and jobs and details the role this reality plays in the creation of her own work.
Joy describes how aspects of the working world have shaped her art and offers a sneak peek at her latest epic project.
A captivating tour through some of Joy's uniquely intriguing artwork.

Part One: George Ferrandi
Brooklyn-based visual artist George Ferrandi shares how her first day in New York changed everything and put her on an unexpected day job path.

George shows how inspiration from unlikely places finds its way into her work and talks about the selling of her art. Skin tones, cool and crazy churches, and statuary racism. George describes the difficulties of juggling her day job and her art and offers another intriguing glimpse into her past work – this time it's Super Silver Monkey and his charming friends. In this fifth and final part of George Ferrandi's installment, we get a look at a finished work of art and find out that having a day job can offer some truly rewarding moments.