Jennifer Nelson

Teaching with Heart: Lessons Learned in a Classroom

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  • Inside the Studio: Emily Rangel-Cascio

    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…

  • Q&A with David Quinn

    David Quinn is a self-taught photographer in Setauket, New York, who became interested in photography in his early fifties. He focuses mainly on creating landscape, flower, and nature images with an occasional venture into street and architectural pictures. In his artwork, he strives to evoke an emotion, raise an uncertainty, or create a sense of…

  • Literary Review: Lynn Casteel Harper

    Lynn Casteel Harper is a writer, minister, and chaplain. Her nonfiction book, On Vanishing, is forthcoming with Catapult Books. Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review online, Catapult, The Huffington Post, North American Review, Tiferet, New Delta Review, CALYX, and the Journal of Religion and Abuse. She was a recipient of the New Delta Review Nonfiction Prize…

  • Inside the Studio: Michael Kesselman

    Michael Kesselman loves going to his studio at the Peninsula Museum of Art (PMA) in Burlingame, California. There, he has a clear and simple purpose: create art. It also helps that the studio is only a seven-minute drive from his home. “I leave my window open so I can spit sunflower seeds, but my car…

  • Inside the Studio: Hanna Vogel

    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  

  • Inside the Studio: Froso Papadimitriou

    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

  • Q&A with Nguyen Thi Mai

    Nguyen Thi Mai is a self-taught, Vietnamese artist focusing on acrylic and lacquer painting. In 2004, she committed to creating art, moving from Singapore to Hanoi, where she took lessons in oil painting at the Art & Lacquer Club. She has participated in the Beijing International Art Biennale, and her artwork has been featured at…

  • Inside the Studio: Elizabeth Albert

    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

  • Q&A with Greg Skol

    For the past thirty years, Greg Skol has been an artist, working in Los Angeles and San Francisco before eventually settling in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1990. His artwork has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin, and other cities. The Albuquerque Museum; Museum of the Southwest in Midland, Texas; Springfield Museums…