"Freedom of speech had become, like, memories."

By Elizabeth Johnson

“I was ready to give up art at that point. If nobody gave a shit, I was probably not going to give a shit myself…It gives me more pleasure than just about anything when artists who have been up on the tower say it’s been instrumental in moving forward to the next stage of their career.”

By Emily Wilson

By S Anne Steinberg

By David Slader

By Wei Huang

"The work is sort of a membrane between the inside of the artist and the social discourse of the imagination… We've watched lying becoming normal, the notion of alternative facts becoming an acceptable construct in terms of what we think of as news information."

By Sarah Poisner

By Tsitsi Michelle

By John Zarobell

Ingrid- "There's a dual story being told nationally: that the arts don't matter and at the same time, there's this huge effort to ban books.”

Chris- “When I finished that book, a Brazilian congressman named Jair Bolsonaro was just considering running for president and had a tiny cameo at the end. I finished thinking: 'Man, this has been way too dark. I was just too bleak in the picture I painted here.' That was 2018. Looking back now, eight years later — I probably wasn't bleak enough.”

By Kelly Jean Egan

By Liz Goldner

By William W. Sokoloff

By Scott Snibbe

“…had I not really immersed myself in what was going on in that center, I don't think I would have done what I'm doing — I'm certain of it. The other part is really personal. I walked into Creativity Explored for an opening and met my wife of eighteen years. She was a donor. We got married four months later. It was great. It's still great.”

By Shrey Purohit