When Joan Michlin and Skip Ennis met 46 years ago, they clicked as two Yankees in the deep South. They were students at Memphis Academy of Art, both serious about […]

Spike Lee hasn’t just admired Nina Nemeth’s paintings. The Academy Award-winning film director is a buyer of the artist’s limited series, Do You Remember When, a poignant reflection of life […]

No two of the vessels Rich Nolan crafts from cherry and black walnut wood are alike. Some take weeks to make; others require more than a month of Nolan sculpting […]

As a classical ballerina in Japan, Nanako Miller was all about dance. It wasn’t until the director of the junior company she danced for told everyone 17 and older they’d […]

Donna Gratkowski took every art class she could growing up in Sussex County, New Jersey. But she stuffed the paint set from her high school days inside a drawer as […]

While the images Zsuzsanna Luciano captures with her camera are indeed breathtaking, the message behind them is equally inspiring. The Hungarian-American artist, whose booth is a regular at the Rose […]

Color captivates Bob Oller. So do line and movement. His eye is always poised for his next subject. His mind is usually racing, too, and sometimes, so is he. Oller […]

Janey Harrington remembers the moment she fell in love. It started with her brush touching silk, the creative juices percolating in her head. Harrington still gets chills taking about what […]

Surrounded by forested areas in Wayne, New Jersey, Matt Gabel would lose himself often as a youngster. Outdoors, he routinely grew captivated by the smallest of details — muddy pawprints, […]

  Moments and movement and a little magic, too. That’s Su Chi Pottery created by Susan Shannon, whose affinity for mud began by her playing in it as a kid […]

Lather, rinse, repeat. Life was about structure for Michael Alexander. Until it wasn’t. The native Long Islander went straight from high school to Fairleigh Dickinson University, earning a degree in […]

A casual search for new wallpaper on Flickr gave Bruce Franklin an idea. Why don’t I do this myself? What started with Franklin taking a point-and-shoot camera to Disney World […]

The awakening for Shekina Rudoy came the moment the dye touched the silk. “I was hooked,” says the textile artist, whose timeless hand-painted silk wearables complete the statement of whatever […]

Ben Bonart didn’t grow up planning to be an artist, though the Washington, D.C. native recollects being that child who could lose himself in Winslow Homer’s Breezing Up A Fair […]

Architecture inspires Marie-Pierre Pulcini, whose gift is building. Her one-of-a-kind creations are intricate necklaces, earrings and her favorite — innovative rings that are a bit on the wild side. “Stones […]

Léni Paquet-Morante is a painter and sculptor with an eye for shallow water in the landscape. The Quebec-born artist has a passion for examining both natural and man-made environments where […]

Jim Fazio watched in fascination at the wood spinning in front of him. In a heartbeat, he was hooked. The longtime industrial arts teacher who worked 16 years in the […]

Rona Fisher went from driving a cab in San Francisco to making jewelry in Germany to owning her own studio in Philadelphia. Designing and creating one-of-a-kind pieces inspired by nature […]

  It’s never been enough for Jen Becker to just create beautiful art. She’s done that most of her life, starting in childhood, an Army brat with a mother who […]

As an art teacher for two decades, Limor Dekel fell in love with being a student. “I experimented with so many different media because I had to teach it,” says […]

Pysanky usually isn’t a word in a toddler’s vocabulary. Jennifer Domal is the exception or perhaps exceptional is the better term to describe her passion for the art of pysanky, […]

Except for the Harry Potter-themed guest bedroom, Paul Grecian and Linda Doucette’s farmhouse is more art studio than living space. That works out fine for the husband and wife, who […]

The kaleidoscope of colors when light passes through beveled glass fascinated Karen Caldwell as a child. She was mesmerized by the effect for the first time after watching the 1960 […]

Jill Tarabar is a Master Artisan known for pushing boundaries and casting the “rules” aside, combining artistic mediums others may not think possible. The Bucks County, Pennsylvania native’s fascination with […]

For Jeannette Mullarkey, the path to becoming an artisan and successful fine jewelry designer started at an early age – with lots of encouragement and positive reinforcement from her mother, […]

Brian Recchia is a skilled craftsman who has been working with clay for more than two decades. Over that time, he’s observed that pottery is a lot like people.  “When […]

All the hours sitting in rush hour traffic in the D.C. area gave Tim Fox plenty of time to think. About a better way to work, a better way to […]

Lynnette Shelley is a rocker, co-founder of a dark avant band with an edge and vocalist for a second progressive band known for its original music. She’s also an artist […]

While much of artist Jon Carraher’s work is the creation of his vivid imagination, his meticulous attention to detail sometimes leaves people to wonder, “is this a photograph?” The self-taught […]

A sense of tradition and culture runs deep in Saya Okayama, the talented artist who showcases themes of Japanese philosophy and folklore in her modern origami and mixed media creations. […]