Jennifer Nelson

Teaching with Heart: Lessons Learned in a Classroom

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  • Q&A with Francene Levinson

    Francene J. Levinson, who was born in Brooklyn, is a digital artist based in Portland, OR. She has transformed modular, three-dimensional origami into fine art. She draws inspiration from nature, with series on birds, oceans, and plants. For fifteen years, she taught art in New York and Florida.  Cont. reading

  • Q&A with Amy Kanka Valadarsky

    Amy Kanka Valadarsky is a photographer based in Even Yehuda, Israel. She was born in 1964 in Romania, where she spent the first eight years of her life before moving to Israel with her family. After graduating as a software engineer, she worked twenty-five years designing and implementing software solutions throughout the world. In 2014,…

  • Q&A with Terri Witek

    Terri Witek’s most recent book is The Rape Kit (2018). She is also the author of Body Switch (2016); Exit Island (2012); The Shipwreck Dress (2008), a Florida Book Award winner; Carnal World (2006); Fools and Crows (2003); Courting Couples, a winner of the 2000 Center for Book Arts Contest; and Robert Lowell and Life Studies: Revising the Self (1993). A native of northern Ohio, she earned a PhD at Vanderbilt University, and…

  • Inside the Studio: Bette Ridgeway

    For the past thirty years, Bette Ridgeway has worked full-time as an artist, painting colorful canvases in large and small studios. Most recently, she converted a 14′ x 14′, light-filled bedroom in her Santa Fe home into a working studio. She removed doors from a long closet and put in three large metal bookcases to…

  • Inside the Studio: Nancy McTague-Stock

    Nancy McTague-Stock has worked in various studios, both here and abroad, including in an old castle in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France last October. She received the Denis Diderot grant, which funded part of her stay, in a tiny village surrounded by green fields and forests. There, working in a small studio, she was inspired…

  • Q&A with Ken Collins

    Ken Collins is a professional photographer and artist in New York City. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including American Theater, New York Magazine, The New York Times, ARTnews, Newsweek, Orion, and Lenswork. Umbrage Books published his award-winning portrait series, In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights. His work has been shown at solo and group exhibitions and included in…

  • Q&A with Gordon Leverton

    Gordon Leverton is a self-taught Canadian artist who was awarded honorable mention at the 2014 Juried Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. He received first place awards in the Junction Juried Art Exhibition and the Riverdale Art Walk in Toronto. His work is in corporate and private collections of Dr. Ivan Selin, founding chairman of the National Museum of American History; C.C.H.…

  • Margaret Swan: Inside the Studio

    Thirty years ago, sculptor Margaret Swan converted a garage at her home into an artist studio. The five-hundred-square-foot garage, which is behind her Victorian house in a Boston suburb, boasts a high-peaked roof loft space. “It is not a source of inspiration, but a place for inspiration to take place,” says Swan. To continue reading

  • PD Packard: Inside the Studio

    More than twenty-five years ago, PD Packard bought a boarded-up brownstone in Brooklyn that had been vacant for a decade. Friends nicknamed it the Adam’s family house, but to her, the entire home was inspirational, allowing her to express her true love, color—contrasting sharply with the Federal brick colonial she grew up in the suburbs…