Art Values & Philosophies - By Daniel Foster - Art is fundamentally about the pursuit of beauty and/or truth.   Beauty is not always truthful, and truth is not always beautiful.  Very few professions work with such important content and tools for cha...

Jared Ledesma is Associate Curator at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa. The Des Moines Art Center is a nationally renowned modern and contemporary art museum with an esteemed permanent collection, and an art school that offers studio classes for artis...

Alison Ward is a multimedia artist based in Kingsbury, Texas.  Her work spans the gamut from vaudeville to multimedia installation sculptures, but in everything she does she creates pieces that involve a larger audience,

Image of artist at home during Zoom video conference José Guadalupe Garza was born along the US/Mexico border. He is an artist, educator, and veteran working in new and traditional media. His studio practice utilizes cinema and popular culture...

Carlos works with a variety of processes and materials, both living and nonliving, that result in sculptural and participatory artworks.These span across different levels of bodily sensation and awareness; from the microbiological to the performative a...

Catherine Pierce (photo by Megan Bean / © Mississippi State University) - Catherine Pierce is the author of four books of poems, most recently Danger Days, published by Saturnalia Books in October 2020. -

Lenard Smith is a first generation Ghanaian-American interdisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. Smith’s Advanced Photographic Studies MFA from Bard College grounds his work in traditional practices and methodologies — his i...

Whether with chisel, cast shadow, plumb bob, or the tow-line of a kite, Erdim’s practice investigates the intersection of projection, place, and materiality to question axioms of architectural imagination. His work has been exhibited recently at the Co...

Sophie Grant is an artist using painting, drawing, collage, and processes of transference and erasure to create energetic abstractions. In her work, foregrounds and backgrounds fluctuate with compositions that challenge depth perception.

An award-winning poet and playwright, Josepha Gutelius made a radical switch to visual art in 2015 — inspired by an impulse to continue writing on the canvas, to convert narratives into visions. She usually works in series,