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This Artist Found a Way to Blend Painting and Weaving—And It's Stunning

October 10, 2024 Artist

This Artist Found a Way to Blend Painting and Weaving—And It's Stunning

Melissa English Campbell blends painting and weaving to create textured, abstract pieces that explore emotions and perception. She keeps her art career organized with tools like Artwork Archive.

How This Artist Lets the Unexpected (and Many Mediums) Shape His Artistic Vision

October 3, 2024 Artist

How This Artist Lets the Unexpected (and Many Mediums) Shape His Artistic Vision

Featured Artist Thomas Bucich’s art blends multiple mediums, embracing the beauty of unexpected outcomes. Inspired by nature and culture, his work balances 'rawness' with refinement, offering deeper meaning for those who look closer.

How Powerful Narratives of Nature Are Encoded in Mel Reese’s Abstract Art

September 4, 2024 Artist

How Powerful Narratives of Nature Are Encoded in Mel Reese’s Abstract Art

Featured Artist Mel Reese distills familiar landscapes into abstract forms, exploring the connection between humans and nature. Hear more about her work and how Artwork Archive helps her effortlessly manage her art career.

How This Artist Uses Art to Break Free from Life’s Responsibilities

August 27, 2024 Artist

How This Artist Uses Art to Break Free from Life’s Responsibilities

Featured Artist Paige Ring escapes life’s rigid responsibilities through her playful, intuitive painting. Here's how Artwork Archive helps manage the responsibilities of her art career, so she can focus on what she loves most.

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Why This Artist Believes Life Is a Surreal Experience Worth Exploring

August 22, 2024 Artist

Why This Artist Believes Life Is a Surreal Experience Worth Exploring

Featured Artist Maxwell Roath creates surreal artwork that blends humor and nostalgia, exploring the overlap between fantasy and reality.

This Artist’s Work Reveals the Tensions Beneath the Surface Beauty of Female Identity

August 15, 2024 Artist

This Artist’s Work Reveals the Tensions Beneath the Surface Beauty of Female Identity

Artwork Archive's Featured Artist Sharon Shapiro explores female identity, blending utopian and dystopian elements to reveal underlying tensions beneath a beautiful surface.

Why This Artist's "Hands-on" Depiction of Mixed Race Stories is So Powerful

August 1, 2024 Artist

Why This Artist's "Hands-on" Depiction of Mixed Race Stories is So Powerful

Featured Artist April Werle explores her mixed-race identity and multicultural family dynamics through narrative paintings, using black-and-white hands to convey intimate scenes.

Art Business Diaries: Can Passion Pay the Bills?

July 30, 2024 Artist

Art Business Diaries: Can Passion Pay the Bills?

Marisabel Gonzalez combines medicine, motherhood, and migration into abstract art success— all while turning these life experiences into a thriving creative business

What Makes These Modern Collages a Tribute to Classic Art?

July 25, 2024 Artist

What Makes These Modern Collages a Tribute to Classic Art?

Featured Artist Ray Beldner's collages merge fragments from art history books and magazines, celebrating the colors, textures, and shapes of classic paintings and sculptures.

Collection Spotlight: Fine Art is Good Medicine at Cleveland Clinic

July 24, 2024 Artist , Collector

Collection Spotlight: Fine Art is Good Medicine at Cleveland Clinic

This hospital’s contemporary collection boasts over 7,000 artworks, but there’s one gourd in particular we’d like to showcase.

Spotlight on the Berman Museum of Art: From Hidden Gem to Cultural Jewel

July 23, 2024 Artist , Collector

Spotlight on the Berman Museum of Art: From Hidden Gem to Cultural Jewel

The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College is the international center for the study of Françoise Gilot’s work, and they are actively working to make her legacy more accessible to audiences near and far.

Art Business Diaries: Turning Artistic Talent into a Financially Sustainable Career

July 23, 2024 Artist

Art Business Diaries: Turning Artistic Talent into a Financially Sustainable Career

What does it take to turn an artistic skill into a career? Multi-media artist and gallery owner JJ Galloway has spent 24 years crafting not just art, but a thriving business as well.

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Art Business Diaries: Kate Joiner on Balancing Creativity and Finance

July 23, 2024 Artist

Art Business Diaries: Kate Joiner on Balancing Creativity and Finance

How Kate Joiner, a California-based artist, leverages Artwork Archive to elevate her art business and fuel her creative process.

How This Fifth-Generation Artist Balances Tradition and Innovation in His Art

July 11, 2024 Artist

How This Fifth-Generation Artist Balances Tradition and Innovation in His Art

Peter Gynd, a fifth-generation artist, blends tradition and innovation, creating unique and colorful landscapes inspired by nature, personal history, and his meditation practice.

How This Artist's Floral Works Capture the Essence of Human Mortality

June 28, 2024 Artist

How This Artist's Floral Works Capture the Essence of Human Mortality

Artwork Archive's Featured Artist J. Myszka Lewis blends 17th-century Dutch floral elements with the Pattern and Decoration movement to explore ornament, time, and impermanence.

Why Embracing Spontaneity is Key to This Artist's Creative Process

June 20, 2024 Artist

Why Embracing Spontaneity is Key to This Artist's Creative Process

Featured Artist Hasef uses bold colors and imagery to explore identity and memory, aiming to inspire and challenge audiences while enriching Black American memories and cultural landscapes.

Inspirational Words are Great, But Here's Some Practical Advice From 8 Working Artists

June 18, 2024 Artist

Inspirational Words are Great, But Here's Some Practical Advice From 8 Working Artists

We've tapped into the experiences of real Artwork Archive artists to bring you practical insights on building a thriving art career.

How Private Rooms on Artwork Archive Helped this Artist Go From Overwhelmed to Organized

June 11, 2024 Artist

How Private Rooms on Artwork Archive Helped this Artist Go From Overwhelmed to Organized

Artist Troy Dugas shares how Artwork Archive's Private Rooms have transformed his art practice. Learn how the uses this tool—and how you can benefit from Private Rooms in your art career.

Art Business Diaries: How Contemporary Artist Melodie Provenzano Elevates Her Practice with Private Rooms

June 11, 2024 Artist

Art Business Diaries: How Contemporary Artist Melodie Provenzano Elevates Her Practice with Private Rooms

Discover how Melodie Provenzano uses Artwork Archive's Private Rooms Feature to streamline her creative process, efficiently showcase her work, and share her works in a professional manner.

Starting Fresh at 66: This Artist's Painting Journey Began Just Four Years Ago

June 6, 2024 Artist

Starting Fresh at 66: This Artist's Painting Journey Began Just Four Years Ago

Starting his painting career in 2020, Featured Artist Gary LaParl is a realist painter specializing in bringing vintage images of men to life with oils and mixed media, reflecting his values of respect, equity, and spirituality.