Where art gets down to business.
Artist Ann Dunbar says that one of her earliest art memories was having her first painting of a horse framed and proudly hung in the kitchen by her parents. Despite the support from her family, as an adult Ann still lacked confidence as an artist and belief in herself. Though she attended art college, she’d […]
Wayne Brungard is a self-taught metal artist and experienced fabricator. He creates bold custom art that defines space. However Wayne’s journey to becoming a sculptor, from turning his craft into art, took over 40 years and it’s not been an easy path. Having focused, for the majority of those 40 years, on commissioned work, moving […]
Artists all over the world rely on art fairs and festivals to promote their brand and sell their products. Many artists depend on these events for their livelihood, and many do very well. According to the TETAF Art Marketing Report for 2017, over one million people attended the world’s top 20 art fairs last year. And […]
FACT: Did you know that more art is now being sold at art fairs than at brick and mortar galleries? Overall, artists are now reporting that nearly half their income is derived from art fairs! Have you had success showing at an art fair? The success of art fairs is an important trend for artists to […]
Do you know what I think the world really needs? It needs a sense of its connection. The connection is already there, it’s the totality of all we are. But we, the citizens of this world, need to sense it – to become attuned to our connections. We need to give energy to those places […]
I don’t know about you, but I live at the mercy of an evil task-master. I work and slave and whenever I dare step away, it follows me. I feel guilty, anxious, because no matter how much I do, it always piles on more. And its name is TO DO LIST. Don’t get me […]
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been curious about the religions of the world. I started visiting different churches when I was a kid. I wanted to explore the beliefs and rituals and stories that people believe. Oh sure, a lot of it had to do with the fellowship snacks, the donuts and […]
Tami Bensen is an intuitive artist. Working without a plan, her art is about letting go. She paints what comes to her organically, which often reflects those things found in nature. More recently, Tami has been focusing on water colors that derive from crystals. Her latest series was inspired by an eclipse of the moon and […]
My friend Mark shined the light of his creativity on all he did. We met years ago in art history class, where we fell in love. Not with each other, mind you, but with Vincent Van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night. Mark wasn’t the kind of guy one usually meets in art history class but […]
Every creative person I know has certain things in common. We crave feedback. We want our work to be seen and we desperately want to know what our work says to the viewer. At the same time, creative people hate criticism. To be fair, everybody hates criticism. Constructive or not, criticism isn’t nearly as much fun […]
