WA&A publisher and art critic Tim Newton discusses a legendary artist Richard Schmid [1939 – 2021] stands as a legend among artists and collectors. As one of the great masters of our time, he was justifiably revered as both a teacher and artist, with more than...
Taylor Crisp can pinpoint the moment she decided to become a painter. Seven years ago, soon after graduating from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts with the goal of writing for television and film, she went to the now-departed Leanin’ Tree Museum...
Mike Stidham may portray a wide variety of fish coveted by anglers, along with the land and waterscapes where the finny prey are found. But don’t mistakenly call him a fish artist. “I play with colors and masses and shapes,” laughs the ever-jovial painter, who...
Larry Yaw has always found his art to be an avocational outlet and also a dynamic creative tool, working as he does in architecture, a field in which most ideas “begin with a series of thumbnail sketches.” As one of the founding partners of the...
The cylindrical glass coffee table fabricated by Bullseye Studio seems magically lit from within. Yet, the sculptural object contains no internal source of illumination. Instead, any trace of natural light sets the elegantly streamlined, amber-hued structure aglow. The one-of-a-kind object, made for a private client...
Last summer, turn-of-the-20th-century photographer Royal W. (Roland) Reed Jr. finally received recognition for his imagery of Indigenous Americans at a permanent exhibit in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The Roland Reed Gallery has been a long time coming and honors an artist whose untimely death in 1934...
I remember having a conversation as a college freshman with a friend who was studying painting. It was early in her career, and she was wondering about the usefulness of an artist’s statement, perhaps a bit bothered with the “busy work” of having to write...
Don Siegel has spent his life surrounded by the beauty and elegance of historic Native American art, first as a collector and now, after opening his own private space in downtown Santa Fe, as a dealer. His specialty has always been vintage Navajo and Pueblo...
An interesting study from the United Kingdom follows every child born the first week of March 1958. The National Child Development Study (NCDS) began as a way to track infant mortality but was extended to look at issues within the education system. This remarkable inquiry,...
Eighteenth-century Irish poet Oliver Goldsmith never knew Naoma Tate. But one of his most famous lines nonetheless perfectly describes her: “And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, / That one small head could carry all [she] knew.” Following college at the University of Utah,...