“My hope is to entertain and amuse while still expressing something of the human condition.”
Interview with artist Theresa Cates
“Art is therapy wrapped in love.”
Interview with artist Dan Thornhill
“I believe that abstraction touches one's subconscious - it is an unplanned event.”
Interview with artist Mark Blaney
“Color play can be very much like music if the passages carry the eye around the painting in a good way.”
Interview with artist Aaron Calvert
“I’ve always viewed the surfaces of my pieces as a documentation of myself. The images represent both the mundane and important things in my life.”
Interview with educator and artist Matt TerAvest
“I just try to be the teacher I would want as a student.”
Interview with artist Gary Simmons
“I think my art reflects my interest in and my need to communicate about both the wonders and the mysteries of this experience we call Life.”
Interview with artist Tammy Harrington
“When I make art, it is hard for me to not reference my own experience as the subject matter.”
Interview with artist Cindy Holmes
“When I paint, I know I’m saying something to myself. But, if it also says something to the viewer, I’ve achieved my goal.”
Interview with artist Kevin Kresse
“The biggest success I’ve had, has been the blending of my artistic life with my family life.”
Interview with artist Richard Stephens
“Watercolor will body slam you to the ground more often than not!! But occasionally, one will work…you hit a home run!”
Interview with artist Linda Williams Palmer
“I can’t remember when I didn’t appreciate the beauty of nature surrounding me.”
Interview with Historic Arkansas Museum Curator Carey Voss
“Each major exhibition is a new lesson in creative problem-solving; curating a show stretches my abilities as a designer, scholar, educator, project-planner, collaborative thinker, manager, communicator, and handler of heavy yet delicate objects.”
Interview with Arkansas Arts Council Director Patrick Ralston
“I came to this job as an artist with many artist friends, so serving the individual artist is a priority for me.”
Interview with artist Melissa Wilkinson
“Enrich things, investigate them, pursue making as if you were charged to do it by a greater power.”
Interview with artist Winston Taylor
“I am one that can be inspired by structures I see or even scraps laying on a machine or wood shop floor.”
Interview with artist Dennis McCann
“My compositions are dependent on a portrayal of the simple things in American life.”
Interview with artist Connie McCann
“I am an encourager and constantly reminded my students that ‘you can do this, just relax and have fun’.”
Interview with artist and curator Brad Cushman
“To be seen, to be included, to see a reflection of one’s self is powerful and empowering.”
Interview with artist Bryan Massey, Sr.
“To be able as an artist to tell the 'whole story' from conception to completion and do all the work, all of that excites me.”