

Making Space
I'm sure many of us are familiar with Virginia Woolf's passionate argument that, “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is...


Make What You Love
I'm addicted to inspiration - as most artists are. For a long while I was subjected to a pretty long commute to work and I felt that the...


Learning to Love the Unexpected
I was recently cleaning out my studio / office when I came across an old folder of negatives. It was interesting because there were some...


"Bite-Sized" Pieces
Oh the Art Market! Living in the Midwest as an emerging or mid-career artist can be challenging at best. However, no matter how much...


Power of the Print
It was brought to my attention recently that some people are of the mindset that the digital print is dead in the fine art world. Seeings...


Threading it Back to the Individual
Signatures have long been used as a symbol for authenticity but why does signing a print really increase the overall value of the work...


The Artist's Hand in Photoshop
We all know it when we see it..."Photoshop Art". The art that gives all serious artists using Photoshop a bad name. Photoshop is a...


Great Photos or Great Photographers?
Nothing is definitive. Things change as we shift our perception of them. Capturing a moment in time with a camera does not equate fact....


Craving Handmade: Digital Art Meets the Maker Movement
Why is it that the mention of something being handmade today tugs so hard on our heart strings? It could be because the machine-made has...


Can Institutionalized Art Retain a Romantic Spark?
The notion of what it means to be an artist has always carried with it some type of reverence or sense of awe. We admire and respect the...