Create! Magazine • December 30, 2022

Finding Your Groove: An Interview with Greg Borman

For anyone who is familiar with the art of printmaking, it can often be a labor-intensive process. For San Francisco-based artist Greg Borman, it brings community, immediacy, and satisfaction. In this new interview, Borman describes his monoprinting process, tells us about balancing artmaking and a full-time job, and shares how his involvement in the punk music scene has influenced his practice. My first steps toward applying my creativity to the outer world began in high school in Cincinnati

Create! Magazine • December 13, 2022

Putting in the Work: Interview with Watercolorist Arline Mann

In this new interview, artist Arline Mann and I discuss the challenges that come along with growing as an artist, why she keeps on returning to watercolor, and the dedicated work it truly takes to learn to render her subjects realistically. Join us as we reflect on Mann's journey as an artist, starting from her early years.

Create! Magazine • December 7, 2022

A Call for a Greener Approach: Interview with Sandra Lapage

In this in-depth interview, we take a deep dive into the work of interdisciplinary artist Sandra Lapage, whose artwork is a call to arms for a greener approach to consumerism. Join us as we discuss the artist's use of found materials, the role of 'the mask' in her performative work, and how trance and shamanism has found a home in her work. Sandra Lapage lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. Sandra is a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantee 2022-23. She was a recipient of the Repaint History Artis

Create! Magazine • November 9, 2022

Seeing Nature as Endless Possibility: Interview with Neena Buxani

In this exclusive interview, artist Neena Buxani tells us how she finds inspiration all around her. For her, nature is full of endless beauty and possibilities. A self-taught artist, Neena discusses the value of spending hours working on your craft, the relationship between her work as a social worker and her art practice, and the influence she finds in her Indian culture.

Create! Magazine • November 3, 2022

Telling Your Story in the Archive: Interview with Richard Poulin

Learn about the life and work of artist, designer, educator, and author, Richard Poulin! The artist made the move from New York City to Southern California to retire from a successful career in design consulting and pursue his art-making practice.

Create! Magazine • October 20, 2022

Stepping Into Your Own Reflection: Interview with Katrina Thibodeau

Katrina Thibodeau's work is filled with emotion; it is raw, intense, leaving a permanent mark on each of her viewers. If not for their intensity, you will surely remember her work from their incredible detail, as the artist has an incredible talent for realism.

Create! Magazine • September 22, 2022

Universal Understanding Through Art: Interview with Marguerite Wibaux

In this interview, Marguerite Wibaux shares her journey as an artist and her deep interest in identity; how her work interrogates the self and how others see us, challenging us to look inside ourselves to our core.

Create! Magazine • September 21, 2022

Embracing Yourself Through Art: Interview with India-Lily / Dily

For Dily Terry, everyone is an artist as long as you have a passion for making art. Based in Bristol, UK, the artist's passion can be felt in her sensual and bold nude figures. Whether through painting, drawing, or digital art-making methods, a palpable energy can be found in each of her figures, a spark of something that is about ignite.

Create! Magazine • September 13, 2022

Digital Nostalgia: An Interview with E.C. Miller

Digital Nostalgia is a series of interviews with artists whose works playfully use imagery found from the early days of the Internet. Their aesthetic not only draws from the pixelated symbols and graphics of this era, but also from the relics of pop-culture from those short-lived days of the 90s and early aughts. These artists celebrate our strange youth. Growing up in the ‘90s and early aughts, I have extremely specific (and fond!) memories of what aesthetics were like during the early days of

Create! Magazine • August 26, 2022

Sharing Stories in a Personal Way: Interview with Nneka Peters

In this in-depth interview, Brooklyn-based artist Nneka Peters tells us how the vibrant and joyful culture of her neighborhood and Jamaica--where her family is from--influences her incredible work. Join us in conversation as we discuss what originally got Peters into photography, her process, and how to build strong connections with clients. Nneka Peters utilizes photography and the editing process to explore themes of memory, nostalgia and our connections to the past. Having worked in multiple

Create! Magazine • August 16, 2022

Realism That Captivates the Soul: Interview with Taylor Mouroufas

In this intimate interview, Christina Nafziger talks with self-taught artist Taylor Mouroufas about her unbelievably realistic and breathtaking paintings. Describing her work as compelling and fearless, Taylor discusses the joy she finds in the small details of her work and the importance of putting yourself out there.

Create! Magazine • August 10, 2022

Putting What Makes You Different in the Spotlight: Interview with Andy Vible

In this interview, Andy Vible tells us about messages from his childhood, the deep connection he has with the work of Salvador Dali, and the importance of putting what makes you different in the spotlight.

Sixty Inches From Center • June 30, 2022

Approaches and Strategies within Hospitality: An Interview with Curator Sylvie Fortin

Earlier this year I spoke with the 2019-2021 curator-in-residence, Sylvie Fortin. Originally from Montréal, Canada, Fortin is an independent curator, researcher, critic, and editor whose work focuses on the notion of hospitality as well as its relationship to art. What is notable, radical, and affecting, Fortin applies hospitality to how she approaches curation, her research methodologies, and more specifically, her exhibition "I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality."

Create! Magazine • June 13, 2022

Deepening Intimacy Through Portraiture: Interview with Nina Baxter

When painting the figure, an artist may see the person as purely subject. The body can be symbolic, a stand in for a concept, idea, or experience. For London-based artist Nina Baxter, her figurative portraits are a gateway to intimacy, a way to deepen her relationship with friends and acquaintances. For her, the portraiture process allows her to celebrate those brief moments of intimacy.

Create! Magazine • May 12, 2022

Honoring Our Caregivers: Interview with Leni Whitford

In this interview, Leni Whitford tells me about the long line of creatives in her family, her experience as a nurse, and the joy she finds in the details of realistic paintings. Inspired by her own experience working as a nurse, she began creating portraits of these caregivers to lift up and shine a light on the life-saving work that they do as well as the mental toll it takes during our current pandemic.

Create! Magazine • April 25, 2022

Admitting Your Passion: Interview with Heidi Brueckner

Heidi Brueckner blends together layers of texture and color in order to create her vibrant portraits, which range from friends to strangers met during travel. Each one pulsates with the energy of her subjects, capturing details that may have gone overlooked in a day-to-day interaction.

Create! Magazine • February 15, 2022

Say It Loud with Fashion! An Interview with Celine Gabrielle

The clothes say it all! Canadian artist Celine Gabrielle captures the endless variety of personality and personal expression embedded within our clothing. For her, fashion holds memories, traditions, beliefs, opinions, and presence. They can be a way to fit in or stand out--and for her subjects, they surely stand out in the crowd! Gabrielle's paintings show her subjects owning the space, each one standing proud and saying it loud through vivid, bright colors and gorgeous fashion.

Create! Magazine • January 25, 2022

The Importance of Putting Yourself Out There: An interview with Katty Huertas

In this interview, Katty Huertas tells us about how she fuses together analog and digital processes, the work that makes her most proud, and the importance of putting your art out there—even if it isn’t perfect!

Create! Magazine • January 24, 2022

Chains, Links, & Connection: Interview with Adi Avidani

Adi Avidani is an Israeli artist and designer based in the UK. Fascinated by the clear connection she finds between clay and people, Adi uses clay to portray human relations. You can usually find her working on her pieces in the studio, around the clock. She has been exhibiting her work in galleries in the UK and Europe.

Create! Magazine • January 19, 2022

The Answers Found in Nature: An Interview with Jodi Kitto-Ward

Jodi Kitto-Ward paints mainly in acrylic and derives inspiration from nature, the city ,and everyday life. Strongly influenced by line, color, and expression, Jodi has a style that is representational, vibrant, and simplified in form, evoking influences of Pop Art and Art Deco. Along with offering original art, Jodi also offers commissions and children's book illustrations.