When Even Making Art for David Bowie Doesn’t Scratch the Itch …
byRand 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…
MEDIUM
She Destroys Perfectly Good Paintings — to Create Imperfectly Better Ones
byOil painter Alicia Anne Armstrong often labors over a painting for hours or days. Then, as soon as the paint is dry, she does…
Do You Want to Tag the Muralist Who Painted Over the Graffiti Scene?
byIt’s a busy lunchtime on Foundy Street, and with bellies full of BBQ, tourists are distracted by the paintings that cover the outside walls…
You Get Better Visions Once You Move to Art Heaven
by“You know how photographers put paper in a chemical bath, and gradually the image starts to come up?” asks painter Elizabeth Henderson. “I feel…
Sometimes a Painter Has to be Quiet to Make a Scene
byLandscape painter Kate Thayer doesn’t just recognize earth tones. “All colors are in nature if we really see,” she says. But that kind of…
Live-Model Sculpting is the Very Shape of Intimacy
byRealist figurative painter/sculptor Angela Cunningham studied illustration at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, before earning her BFA at Laguna…
This is the Best Argument Yet for that End-of-the-Rainbow Myth
byMany 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
bySixteen years ago, Darrell Copeland witnessed a woodturning demonstration. Prior to that, he had studied drawing at New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, apprenticed…
Sometimes it Takes a Village to Raise a Street Artist
by“There is as much art on the outside of the [Foundation Studios] buildings as on the inside,” says Kean Werner, head of Foundation Woodworks,…
If it Can’t Be Hand Built, it’s Not on this Potter’s Horizon
byEarlham College in Richmond, Indiana, wasn’t particularly known for its art department. But it happened to have a great ceramics professor when Matt Jones…