For more than 40 years, Kim Seyesnem Obrzut has been giving bronze form to the women of her Hopi heritage. Now her daughter, Krystal Seyesnem, is picking up the tools beside her and, in the process, learning to see the line that turns clay into...
Dyana Hesson learned about the American Women Artists (AWA) in 2015 when a friend urged her to join. Since then, she’s served on the board and has been a featured speaker at symposiums. “Until my association with the organization,” she says, “I was not aware...
Kim Harrell’s aesthetic can be articulated in three words: less is more. It’s a philosophy she embraced during the 14 years she spent living in London. She first looked for work where she could use her sociology degree from Colorado College. Then, she stumbled upon...
When Cathy Bailey and Robin Petravic bought Heath Ceramics in 2003, the company Edith and Brian Heath founded in 1948 had shrunk to fewer than 30 employees. Those employees were still making dinnerware in the Sausalito factory the company has occupied since 1959. More than...
Ben Steele came to Helper, Utah, in 2002, lured by the opportunity to apprentice under retired professor and artist David Dornan. He arrived in the former mining and railroad town equipped with a BFA in painting and drawing from the University of Utah and accompanied...
For Emerson Woelffer, the Great Depression was a good thing in one important, unexpected way. As a teenager in Chicago in 1931, Woelffer quit high school to earn money for his family by driving trucks. He somehow ended up making liquor deliveries for the Capone...
Jeff Day wasn’t convinced he should open an architectural practice in Omaha, Nebraska. It was 2018, and he was teaching architecture full-time at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he’d founded the student design-build studio FACT (Fabrication and Construction Team). Besides, he and his former business...
Big Sky Floor Mirror with Jewelry Storage by Hooker Furnishings We love a beautiful piece of furniture — even more so when it’s hiding something useful. The Big Sky Floor Mirror does just that, pairing a full-length beveled mirror with hidden jewelry storage that keeps favorite...
In 2024, San Francisco needed a jump start. Public complaints about the city hit an all-time high, and its national reputation hit a record low. That’s when the founders of the Sijbrandij Foundation and Building 180 came up with the idea to create a trail...
So, this happened. I was in charge of booking lodging for a spur-of-the-moment road trip to New Mexico. Let’s just say, this isn’t my strong suit. My guy, Rob, and I decided on Taos, the quaint arty town an hour north of Santa Fe, and...