Staff

Editors-in-Chief:

Charlie Peacock and Andi Ashworth are the Co-Founders/Executive Directors of Art House America. Andi Ashworth is a writer (author of Real Love for Real Life: the Art and Work of Caring), gardener, cook, a lover of good books, and the key architect of the nurturing environment so characteristic of Art House hospitality. Charlie Peacock enjoys an international reputation as an innovative and award-winning musician, record producer, and author. Both Charlie and Andi have seminary training, Andi having received her MA in Theological Studies from Covenant Seminary in St. Louis, MO. The couple have two grown children, and two grandchildren, who have named them Honey and Papa.

Editor:

Jenni Simmons is the Editor and Art Director for this blog, and Assistant Editor and Staff Writer for The Curator. Her other writing includes Comment, Wunderkammer, The Sustainable Scoop, and her personal blog, Dreams of Genevieve. She started writing a memoir, too.

She is also a drummer’s wife and caretaker of two cats (Harley and Milo) — all of whom bring her great joy along with family and friends, her church, hospitality, coffee shops, a cup of tea, used bookstores, whisky, cigars, Indian food, snail mail, traveling, mountains, live music, good films and TV, art museums, long walks on her favorite wooded trails, birds, so on and so forth.

Assistant Editor:

Jennifer Strange received an MFA at the University of Florida, and her poems have appeared in The Oxford American, Christianity and Literature, and Rock and Sling. For ten years, she taught writing at Centenary College of Louisiana, whose lawns she grew up on between Suzuki violin lessons. More importantly, she once survived Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk with three other women, she can make a mean fruitcake (Grandma's recipe) and good peanut brittle (other Grandma's recipe), and her cat wouldn't protect her from an invading gecko if she begged. Most importantly, she is married to a weekend pilot with whom she raises two young sons.

Interns:

Barbara Lane is a voracious reader, consumer of hot beverages, and lover of all things U2. She enjoys traveling by train, and loves the smell of old books. When she catches the blog-bug (which happens quite frequently), she posts on her personal blog, This | Liminality. A recent transplant from New Mexico to Michigan, she is exploring what it means to live artfully in transition; to sink roots into new soil. She has been known to Skype with her Quaker parrot, Sir Gibbie, who stayed behind in NM.

Sarah Duet lives in Shreveport, LA, and is finishing up a degree in Communication: New Media at Centenary College. Mostly posing as the collegiate type, she prefers time spent outside of classrooms with a book, pen, guitar, paintbrush, or graphic design job in hand — with the all too necessary coffee beverage in the other. A singer-songwriter, Sarah has played with the band Chasing Canaan since 2007 and is launching a new project, the ambient-folk duo PedalTones, this winter.

Since her first trip to Haiti in July 2009, she finds the following to be constants: missing little faces and voices from Big House Orphanage between visits; studying Haitian history and language; and looking for creative ways to share stories to connect folks both here and there. Sarah has a 17-year-old teddy bear named Raspberry; a bent towards a corny sense of humor; a general naivety of all things pop culture; and friends that keep her alive, sane, laughing, grateful, and seeing beauty.