Art

On this episode of the podcast Gloria Kirk-Hanna takes us behind the scenes of her 2017 ArtPrize entry “Fragments of Old Bones; New…

By Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood Educated women with opinions have always made some folks a little uncomfortable. And when you throw older, educated women with…

Mary-Catheryn Baker took her time picking up a paintbrush, but now that bold brush strokes are part of her daily practice there’s little…

Today is Donald Trump’s 100th day in office and this is not a dream. One of my secret weapons to cope with this…

By Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood About a half hour after Artprize 2016 kicked off Wednesday in Grand Rapids, Michigan, there were sightings downtown of a…

Kathy Nida is no stranger to quilt controversy. She unapologetically includes nudity in her quilts and once attracted a local news crew in Hampton,…

On this episode we meet Yulia Brodskaya, the artist who designed the 2016 Love stamp for the U.S. Postal Service. This Russian born illustrator…

I can think of no better way to wrap up another  year of podcasting than to bring you an interview with Lisa Congdon,…

On this episode of the podcast, artist and author Valerie McKeehan tells the story behind the 2012 launch of her Lily & Val hand-lettered…

This episode of the podcast was rather spontaneously recorded after I recovered from my second foot surgery and returned from the first-ever 10-day vacation that…

With any art form there is a level of mastery that develops slowly over time after many hours, days, months and years of…

By Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood I’ve been absent from this space for a couple weeks and I need to explain why. At the end of…

Lisa Occhipinti loves books of the printed variety. She reads them, collects them and creates art inspired by them. In her new book,…

By Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood A little girl jumps high delighted by her wild-haired shadow. Nearby a young couple engages in a public display of…