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Category: Artist Q&A

  • Q&A with Barry Masteller

    Q&A with Barry Masteller

    Barry G. Masteller is a self-taught abstract painter and photographer living in New York City and Albuquerque, New Mexico. He became deeply interested in photography after moving to the Monterey Peninsula from Los Angeles in 1970. His photographs are centered around landscape and the figure, often reworked, post production, into abstractions. His oil paintings meticulously…

  • Q&A with Shea Wilkinson

    Q&A with Shea Wilkinson

    A native of Nebraska, Shea Wilkinson has been sewing since childhood. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and German from the University of Nebraska, Omaha. After graduation, she taught English in Mexico; during this time she became passionate about creating art. She returned to the United States and immediately pursued a career…

  • Q&A with Jodi Colella

    Q&A with Jodi Colella

    A native of Massachusetts, Jodi Colella creates provocative, tactile artwork that often includes public participation and uses a broad range of materials. She has exhibited widely and has been featured in Huffpost Art & Culture, Artscope, The Boston Globe, Harvard Crimson, 500 Felt Objects, Boston University’s Arts & Science Magazine, and The Worcester Telegram. She has…

  • Q&A with Dillon Samuelson

    Q&A with Dillon Samuelson

    Dillon Samuelson is a painter and illustrator from Pennsylvania. He graduated from the fine art program at York College of Pennsylvania in 2014, and the following year was awarded the third annual Appell Arts Fellowship at Marketview Arts. His work has been shown in exhibitions across the United States. His award-winning illustrations have appeared in…

  • Q&A with Laura Noel

    Q&A with Laura Noel

    Laura Noel is a photographer, bookmaker, mixed media, and installation artist in Atlanta, Georgia. She began her work as a street photographer, though over the years, her art has evolved into finding fresh ways to depict the movement of time. Her artwork often explores American cultural issues, as well as aspects of her personal history.…

  • Q&A with Britta Fluevog

    Q&A with Britta Fluevog

    Britta Fluevog is a third-generation artist, whose grandmother was a printmaker; mother an art therapist/ mixed media artist; and father a designer. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Fine Art from NSCAD (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design) in Halifax, Canada. After graduation, she established a small ceramic co-op in Ghana, West Africa.…

  • Q&A with J. Ivcevich

    Q&A with J. Ivcevich

    As a sociological observer, J. Ivcevich documents the spirit of a place and highlights issues unique to the human condition in his artwork. He’s a self-taught artist who earned a sociology degree from Emory University. After college, he stayed in Atlanta working as a music producer and DJ while pursuing an art career. He was…

  • Q&A with Barbara Bryn Klare

    Q&A with Barbara Bryn Klare

    Barbara Bryn Klare is a San Francisco Bay Area artist who works primarily with rescued textiles, objects, works on paper, and installations. She was an artist-in-residence at the Icelandic Textile Center in Blönduós, Iceland, in November 2016. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, South Korea,…

  • Q&A with Alan Bray

    Q&A with Alan Bray

    Alan Bray studied at the Art Institute of Boston and the University of Southern Maine. He received his Master’s degree in painting from the Villa Schifanoia in Florence, Italy, in 1973. He has had over twenty solo exhibitions including at the Farnsworth Art Museum and Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland, Maine. His public collections have appeared…

  • Q&A with Catherine Spencer

    Q&A with Catherine Spencer

    Catherine Spencer is a Cleveland-based artist originally from the Finger Lakes region in upstate New York. She spent a year at Santa Reparata International School of Art (SRISA) in Florence, Italy, before completing her BFA at New York State College of Ceramics (NYSCC) at Alfred University in 2013. Her work has been exhibited at numerous…

  • Q&A with Ellen Koment

    Q&A with Ellen Koment

    A native New Yorker, Ellen Koment earned an MA in painting from UC Berkeley and a BFA from Cooper Union Art School. She taught and exhibited her work in museums and galleries in the Bay Area for twenty-five years before moving to Santa Fe in 1994. There she started working in encaustic, which is paint…

  • Q&A with Maggie Evans

    Q&A with Maggie Evans

    Maggie Evans is fascinated by how people aspire to be individuals, but also part of a group. The artist, who’s based in Savannah, Georgia, examines this concept of collective behavior through her drawings, installments, and paintings. Her work has been included in more than fifty national and international juried exhibitions, and featured in ten solo…