When Even Making Art for David Bowie Doesn’t Scratch the Itch …
Rand Kramer’s professional career got an unexpected early start. One day, during high school, a teacher asked him to draw a history-related mural on…
Sometimes a Painter Has to be Quiet to Make a Scene
Landscape painter Kate Thayer doesn’t just recognize earth tones. “All colors are in nature if we really see,” she says. But that kind of…
This is the Best Argument Yet for that End-of-the-Rainbow Myth
Many assume gold comes from within the earth. But the truth, supported by science, is way more cosmic. Jewelry artist David Vrooman says gold…
Fast-Thinking Woodturner Wasn’t Cut Out for the Stone Age
Sixteen years ago, Darrell Copeland witnessed a woodturning demonstration. Prior to that, he had studied drawing at New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, apprenticed…
If it Can’t Be Hand Built, it’s Not on this Potter’s Horizon
Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, wasn’t particularly known for its art department. But it happened to have a great ceramics professor when Matt Jones…
Their Romantic Summer Session Blended into a Lifetime of Artmaking
As a child, Jim Ostlund loved illustrations by 19th-century artists and would spend hours copying their work. “I remember feeling frustrated because … without…
Jewelry Designer’s Pioneer Story is a Limited-Edition Gem
Paula Dawkins does 99 percent of her jewelry-design work on a computer. But the first idea is always a drawing, to be found somewhere…
It’s Not Sew Easy to Make Porcelain Perform Like this
Her painted vessels are functional, but so expressively detailed they look like they’ve been cozied up in a protective layer of felt or wool….
Painter’s Dream Re-emerged After Brushes With Death
“I remember waking up in ICU in an Atlanta hospital and being truly amazed I was still alive.” It was 1998. For years, Wendy…
It Takes Two to Tango, But only a Single Epiphany to Dip out of Functional Ceramics
When he took an Argentine tango class, Eric Knoche says he felt as though he was seeing the true nature of the world for…