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Category: Artist Interviews

Q&A interviews with the artists whose work is chosen by jurors as best in show in our monthly exhibits. Learn about the stories and the creative process behind these award-winning works of art from the artists who created them!

December 21, 2016

Photographer Wil Scott on “Red Nude”

Artist Interviews

Red Nude represents the start of a new focus on people for Wil Scott, a photographer and art historian.

November 30, 2016

Artist Beverly Ryan’s “Big Moves”

Artist Interviews

“Painting large excites me. It provides space for big moves, and requires a confident approach.”

November 29, 2016

Examining “The Artistic Frame”

Artist Interviews

Artwork was created especially for these frames, perhaps the opposite of what one might expect.

November 28, 2016

Photographer Gloria Spellman: What the House Was Saying

Artist Interviews

“I was not sure of what the house was saying. Since I was unable to pinpoint what I wanted to convey, finding the right composition was challenging.”

October 27, 2016

Lizzy Lunday Paints the Complicated Relationship Between “Women and Food”

Artist Interviews

“These paintings … contradict everything that we’ve been taught as women to show of ourselves.”

October 20, 2016

Catherine Hillis: “Fresh, Moving Color”

Artist Interviews

Painter Catherine Hillis loves to capture a good story, so it’s not surprising that an exhibit like “Op-Ed” garnered her an award.

September 30, 2016

Moira McQuillen: ‘Every Line Has to Count’

Artist Interviews

Moira McQuillen has been featured on this blog before, for another piece of Americana — a piece of dessert, to be exact.

September 28, 2016

Linda Lowery’s Screaming Newborns

Artist Interviews

We like to say the best artwork "speaks to us" — and sometimes, it screams.

September 2, 2016

Sheila Harrington’s Celebratory Paintings

Artist Interviews

“Sometimes viewers have revealed to me what I hadn’t fully understood was there, or they have found something personal to themselves—that is very exciting.”

August 29, 2016

Florence Setzer and the Beauty of the Commute

Artist Interviews

Rush hour finds peace in a cool palette — and a quiet moment plucked from a stressful routine.

August 24, 2016

Meet Kathlyn Avila’s Zelda

Artist Interviews

With goat horns and a friendly smile, Legends of Zelda won the Monkith Saaid Memorial Sculpture Award in this month’s sculpture-only exhibit, “Taking Shape.”