Interviews
Siana Smith
In 2014, after climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, I suffered a pulmonary embolism and spent a week in the hospital. That sudden confrontation with mortality forced me to pause and question what I truly wanted in life.
Ahna Girshick
As tech increases around us, I take greater joy in the non-tech moments: human intimacy, time in nature, the creative process, quiet, doing things by hand.
Enrique Chagoya
There are even illustrations by Indigenous people showing priests and soldiers burning their leaders for refusing to convert. It was an exercise of power, not an exercise of love, as taught by Christ…
Dean Larson
It's not meant to have any deep philosophical meaning, but as one carefully observes figures in an environment, things just happen naturally! We begin to ask What are they doing there? What are they saying or thinking? What is life like in their shoes?
Rigoberto Gonzalez
In this exclusive long-form interview, artist Rigoberto González discusses the White House’s targeting of his painting Refugees Crossing the Border Wall into South Texas, exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. González reflects on art, censorship, and immigration.
Steve Lomprey
…what really shaped me was the environment: going into other apartments, seeing friends' parents painting, composing, sculpting—it felt like the whole building was alive with creativity.
William Rhodes
The people I work with often help make the art. They're also the critics. Instead of major publications weighing in, though, I appreciate that it's Miss Mary saying, "My grandkids need to see that portrait," or asking, "Where are you going with that piece?"
Swosti Rajbhandari Kayastha
Nepal is the first Asian country listed in UNESCO’s World Heritage list in 1979, which wouldn’t have happened without our long, rich cultural legacy.