"It's the very best life anybody could ask for if you get to create visual art for a living. But you still have to remain free. You still have to be able to create whatever you want, whenever you want. Why do this for a living unless you're a thousand percent free?"

By Kelly Jean Egan

By Noah Stern

“As Native peoples, we've endured a lot — systemic racism, colonization. Being in museum spaces is an opportunity to reverse some of those injustices, and to Indigenize spaces.”

By Doug Welch

By Grey Dey

By Robert Brokl

"Independence is both history-making and, in a sense, show business. The way you stage it matters enormously."

By Matt Gonzalez

By Hantian Zhang

By Jonathan Curiel

By Sarah Poisner

"Real success is being able to support my community and the people I love, and lift the stories that matter. I want people to leave my gallery feeling like positive value has been added to their life."

By Hantian Zhang

By Jonathan Curiel

"I'm not seeking out rejection. But I know it exists, and I'm completely calloused to it. It's not an open wound anymore. It's calloused fingers, I’m used to it. So I'm able to surf the rejection."

By Jan Wurm

“…my understanding of the book made me feel like I have the right to look at it, to potentially dismantle it, and to see how it's created. In doing so, I'm reshaping the Bible. I don't seek to destroy or desecrate it… I hold all the contradiction of the text, every bit of the story.”