Sometimes the most meaningful art doesn’t start in an art store; it starts right where we are. From forgotten buttons to ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — An American philosopher once said, “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” A local artist is a prime example, taking just as much pride in the pieces he collects to ...

A life preserver and fishing lures become artwork in the talented hands of artist Mel Wolk, whose work will be on exhibit at the Everhart Museum in Scranton as of April 23. Artist Mel Wolk transforms ...

The traditional approach to found-object art is to essentially let the object do the talking. But what about when the object is digital? While Charleston visual artist Jack Powell has combed through ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A piece in progress entitled Rouge River Guide by mixed media artist Dolan Geiman in his studio in Englewood, Colorado. This piece is entirely made up scrap ...

Dawn DeDeaux, “The Mantle (I’ve Seen the Future and It Was Yesterday)” (2016–17), aluminum mantle with objects, and “Broken Mirror” (2017), transparency on convex mirror (all photos by the author for ...

Artist David Olsen creates art the viewer may touch. His chosen materials have been handled plenty — bottle caps, lids, random computer parts and actual trash he picks up while mowing his yard. “The ...

In the early 20th century, Marcel Duchamp stirred up controversy in the art world by displaying what he termed “readymade” art — everyday objects, like the urinal in his famous Fountain, displayed ...

Rarely does an exhibition elicit all-out laughter, or even quiet chuckles. But that’s exactly what you might hear when you walk into “So it May Seem,” on exhibit at the Arts Center of the Capital ...

Extracted from: Art and design studies (Cambridge, UK) 12, 2013, pages 41-48. Abstract, page 41. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source ...