As she enters her home-based studio in West Lafayette, Indiana, fiber artist Andrea Rae is reminded of a dark side of human existence. Hanging on the door is a pocket from a pair of jeans worn by a former prostitute. On the pocket, the word “Tips” is written in red ink. “For me, this woven…

Painter Dorothea Osborn draws inspiration from her home-based studio. She loves its location on the Normanskill Creek in Delmar, New York, and its lightness due to a large window and glass door. She places her grandmother’s rocking chair and a table near the window to sketch, read, and work on the computer. When the weather…

For David Criner, a basement studio has become his sanctuary. There, in his Chicago home, his best emotional and spiritual selves manifest. In fact, thirteen years ago, he wanted to buy the house because of its basement. The basement is spacious—unlike earlier studios housed in small apartments and even a storage locker—and easily accessible. No…

At Northern Illinois University, ceramic artist Emily M. Rangel-Cascio turned a windowless, plain studio into a home. The graduate student decorated metal shelves and walls with her artwork—both completed projects, such as a mug collection, and failed ones that she intends to revisit. Through viewing these displays, visitors, professors and fellow classmates gain insight into…

In the past year, Hanna Vogel has been busy. She finished her MFA at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, attended several artist residencies, and reconfigured her studio to accommodate large installations and sculptures. Continue reading  

For sixteen months, Froso Papadimitriou has painted and drawn in a studio in a beautiful Georgian mansion outside London. At Beckenham Place Mansion, she escapes the big city, working afternoons and evenings in a first-floor studio next to the workspace of four other artists. Just outside her studio are acres of rolling parkland. Continue Reading

Chloe Hedden loves her Boulder, Colorado, studio. It doesn’t matter that it’s small and in a shared workspace. Key is that it has great, north light—the best type for painting—and it’s quiet. It’s also big enough to accommodate large easels and canvases. “I think of it as my playpen,” she says. Continue Reading

Chloe Hedden loves her Boulder, Colorado, studio. It doesn’t matter that it’s small and in a shared workspace. Key is that it has great, north light—the best type for painting—and it’s quiet. It’s also big enough to accommodate large easels and canvases. “I think of it as my playpen,” she says. Continue Reading

Renae Barnard is recognized by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) as a Leadership in Energy Accredited Professional (LEED AP) and by the International Institute for Bau-biologie® & Ecology as a Building Biologie Practitioner. She has recently completed projects in cooperation with the National Immigration Law Center and the City of Santa Monica Department…

Fifteen years ago, Josie Bell converted the basement in her Utah home to a studio. At the time, she was raising her two-year-old son in Orem and attending art school. She felt fortunate to have a space to devote to her passion, which is creating art—even if the basement studio is cold in winter. She…