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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!

Wendy Donahoe talks Daydreams

“I decided against ‘Daydreamer,’ because I didn’t want to assign the figure an identity.”…
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Artist Pamela Patrick on Miniatures

“I tend to see ALL the details! Working in miniature releases me from sweating the details, since the size forces me to take in…
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Q&A: Portrait Painting, Then & Now

“Family portraits were meant to be private and were hung in spaces that only family, and maybe some close friends would see.”…
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Suzanne Vigil on Combining Colored Pencil & Acrylic

“Ever worked twenty hours on a single button?”…
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Q&A with Painter Cindi Lewis

“Hearing music performed live is a very different experience from listening to a recording. My objective is to capture the visual aspect of that…
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Q&A with Pastel Artist Moira McQuillen

“There’s real magic in painting. Up close, it looks like absolutely nothing – just color, just lines.”…
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Watercolorist Carolyn Gawarecki on Albuquerque Night

“I wanted to do a bold, strong, dramatic painting that would stand out with some twinkling colorful lighting effects.”…
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Artist Larry Fransen’s Kinetic Sculptures

“My journey to create wonderful objects that move began over three decades ago when I put together a wood shop. Building clocks seemed like…
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Q&A with Painter Leigh Culver

“In art, red autumnal leaves have always, perhaps rather tritely, symbolized the passing of time, death, beauty, fragility, etc. But when you are in…
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Q&A with Artist Diane Blackwell

“I start with an assumption, an activity that’s been on auto-pilot, or current cultural events that need further review and question why they catch…
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Q&A with Painter Peggy Weed

Some of the artwork in the annual ’Scapes exhibit reaches to distant locations around the globe, but other landscapes are close to home….
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Web Bryant on Sentry to the 54th

“Washington is my favorite museum. The buildings themselves are magnificent, and I have created several paintings that show museum exteriors. So it was only…
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Sally Davies on British Museum

“I love long shadows in the morning and evening … and that warm glowing light that is so transient.”…
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Q&A with Mixed-Media Artist Donald Cicconi

Donald Cicconi makes art with photographs, handmade paper, wood block prints, acrylic paint, and a strong influence from Japanese art….
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Intimate & Accessible: A Tabletop Ceramics Q&A

We asked the potters of “Tabletop” to tell us why they make these functional forms — here’s what they had to say….
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Q&A with Claire Carroll: “Woman Shoots Man”

“There are so many stories in the news at the moment about men overpowering and suppressing women that I wanted to show an instance…
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Q&A with Suzanne Vigil: “Evening in Paris”

“I was organizing my many boxes of pencils. … I noticed there was a enormous variety of grays.”…
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Q&A with Artist Arlie Hammons

“I never wanted to be an artist. I was dragged into it.”…
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Q&A with Artist Nancy Pane Fortwengler

The Fabrications series explores the dramatic lighting, movement, and costumes of ballet — without the dancers….
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Q&A with Photographer Claire Carroll

With larger-than-life colors and bold presentation, the photograph above isn’t shy about putting the “pop” in “Pop Art.”…
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Q&A with Award Winner Victoria Cowles

“For me the stream of consciousness is an expression of what is most important to me emotionally. I try to allow as much chaos…
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Q&A with Award Winner Linda Lowery

“I worked with lots of colors, but found something special in the contrast of pink and blue.”…
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Q&A with Award Winner Octavia Frazier

“Color and design are the two areas that I love to experiment with in my paintings.”…
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Q&A with Award Winner Michelle Simoneau

“My focus shifted from the end product to the experimental act, which made me more audacious and less critical.”…
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