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...
In Conversation: Caroline Douglas, Where the Magic Happens I would have to say, clay chose me. I took a pottery class in high school, and from day one I loved it; it is the medium that made me feel most alive. I started out on the...
Donna Howell-Sickles is known throughout the Western world for her vibrant, joyful paintings of cowgirls. Bursting with color and life, they are also layered with meaning, embellished with spiritual references and representations of ranch and farm life that symbolize the multiple facets and complexity of...
Jennifer Ghormley found printmaking by chance. She wanted to take a class in fine art photography at a local college, to expand her commercial photography skills, but those classes filled quickly and she never could get in. Printmaking, however, had some openings, so, why not?...
When Cynthia Downs was 45, she had an epiphany that changed the course of her life. Just days before she was scheduled to take the GMAT and apply to MBA programs, a sensation electrified her body like she was a passenger in a speeding, out-of-control...
In art, the term “negative space” refers to the area around the subject. In a still life featuring a bouquet of flowers, for example, the flowers and vase are the positive space and what surrounds it, the negative space. Woodworker Jerome Fleischman was intrigued by...
If Marilyn Evans is being honest, she was none too happy when her husband, Bill, asked if he could help her with her weaving projects, just, you know, to give it a try. “That rubbed me wrong,” she says. “This was my territory, and I...