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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!

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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.”

July 26, 2016

Unbending Michael Price’s Single-Wire Sculptures

Artist Interviews

“After a while, all of the bends start to make sense as the final product grows nearer to being finished.”

July 20, 2016

What Do You Want to Know About ‘Tire Swing’?

Artist Interviews

“ My goal was to build a familiar object in an unfamiliar way, and see what came of it.”

June 30, 2016

Fierce Layers

Artist Interviews

Sonia's art career started with photography, and she has added layers — literally and figuratively — as time goes on.

May 25, 2016

Q&A with Alexandria Living Legend Betsy Anderson

Artist Interviews

"Quite often the colors are not what I saw but my feelings about the place."

May 19, 2016

An Artist’s Story Behind a Big-Time Commission

Artist Interviews, News

It's always a good thing when someone calls to commission a portrait. It's even better if they share the result on national TV.

April 25, 2016

Intention & Intuition: A Q&A with Deron DeCesare

Artist Interviews

“It's in the actual doing that growth occurs.”

April 20, 2016

Hanging Out and Unwinding with Sculptor Larry Fransen

Artist Interviews

Whether it's the clicking, the clacking, the reflections, or its unpredictable movement, there's something mesmerizing about this sculpture.

April 1, 2016

Art of the Air: Fritz DesRoches on the Airbrush

Artist Interviews

I love the airbrush better than the brush because of the smooth transition of the paint to the canvas.

March 30, 2016

Make It, Build It, Use It: Ceramic Artist Sandra Dalal

Artist Interviews

“If we wanted something, chances are we would make it.”

March 23, 2016

Margaret Cerutti: Saying it With Paint

Artist Interviews

"The subject's profile and heavily textured skin beckons you to address the sense of pride, self-confidence and wisdom that comes with age."

March 16, 2016

Painter Kay Fuller’s “Journey” into Abstraction

Artist Interviews

"I had no idea what I was doing when I started painting abstractly."

January 14, 2016

Photographer Pete McCutchen’s “Radical Openness”

Artist Interviews

“Have you ever seen a child in a new place, eyes wide, looking around curiously?”

December 29, 2015

Q&A with Watercolorist Pat King

Artist Interviews

“I think that a successful painting happens when you really enjoy the process.”

December 24, 2015

Sculptor Caprica Peniza’s “The Last Woman”

Artist Interviews

The Last Woman is not only the first piece Caprica ever entered at The Art League. At one time, it was the last piece of her artwork she had.

December 23, 2015

Wendy Donahoe on the Spectrum of Drawing

Artist Interviews

Works in colored pencil do not preclude they be exclusively rendered in a full spectrum of “color.”

December 21, 2015

Building 3-D Collages with David Alfuth

Artist Interviews

“I was a painter in my early days, and I find the process is about the same.”

November 25, 2015

Q&A with MINImax Award Winner Meg MacKenzie

Artist Interviews

“I started seeing horse images in the abstractions and was possessed.”

November 20, 2015

Painter Beverly Ryan on the Creative Process

Artist Interviews

“My job is to keep the faith and see where the process takes me.”

October 26, 2015

Energy Through Line: A Q&A with Guy Jones

Artist Interviews

“I draw energy through line. I have always loved pen & ink, don’t know why. I really prefer black & white.”