A Conversation with Artist SAM SIMPSON-CREW

I’ve always got a stack of unfinished blocks waiting to be carved, and new ideas popping up left, right, and centre. My current obsessions are trees and bird nests, as I feel both are allowing me to explore ideas revolving around materiality, playing with new carving techniques, textures, and detail, more so than my more stylised pieces allow. 

A Conversation with Artist MIKA AONO

Every viewer comes and faces my work with a unique cultural background and different thought processes, and personal ideology. My hope is that they feel something, anything, with intensity and depth. I pour my heart into each piece, and I deeply care and pay close attention to every detail. Every so often, my work finds someone who profoundly resonates with it. When that happens, it’s like a quiet connection sparks across time and space. It brings me immense joy.

A Conversation with Artist GELAH PENN

For the past few years, I’ve been focusing on the monumental, totemic wall pieces of my Phantom series. A dialogue between gravity and instability animates these works. I construct them with materials chosen for their malleability as well as their capacity to activate light.

A Conversation with Artist LUCIE JENIŠOVÁ

I usually have several ideas at once, or projects in progress. I finish some, abandon others. Ideas driving my work are always things around me that I love and that make me feel peaceful, nature, animals.

A Conversation with Artist JOHN O’CONNOR

The arts explore ideas before other disciplines do. Art can suggest new realities or alternative directions that other fields later follow. It also synthesizes diverse systems and ideas in ways that have no purely practical function, which makes it both novel and groundbreaking - pure novelty. That freedom to create and explore without purpose is so vital.

A Conversation with Artist YINUO LI

I’m drawn to the spaces where stability meets change, where the body’s internal pace negotiates with the speed of the world around it. For me, art isn’t about resisting motion or embracing stillness; it’s about discovering rhythm on one’s own terms.

A Conversation with Artist ADE HANFT

Beyond just creative thinking, I think it’s really important for people to learn how to work with their hands. Not just art, anything where you are physically making something increases your knowledge more than anything else we can do.

A Conversation with Artist JENNIFER MANNEBACH

The arts are critically important. I make things to investigate my own thoughts and questions. Some explorations can develop through conversation or writing, but the catalysts for my visual art are often questions I can’t even articulate. The material studies in the studio are my way of accessing deeper inquiry

A Conversation with Artist ADAM HOWARD

Sometimes a picture comes together very quickly, and the path to complete it is very clear. Often, though, the route is not clear at all. I think that is a very good situation. I print versions and look for mistakes. The picture has something to say for itself, and I need to listen to that quiet voice.

A Conversation with Artist CHRIS REGNER

The importance of the arts is being able to express the inexpressible. True art can transcend the explainable and evoke emotions that are otherwise beneath the surface. It leaves you questioning your values and allows you to see life through someone else’s eyes.