Modern life makes it easy to lose our connection to nature, to others and to our childhood. Can art help? Patrick Dougherty builds fantastic nest and hut forms from saplings, fusing …
It is human to fear things that make us feel uncertain. How can art help us to befriend those fears? The surface of the Earth is the shore of the …
Our experience of home deepens and changes with time. Does moving away from our roots help us understand them better? Do-ho Suh grew up fascinated by the sea. His dream was …
Human beings have strong identifications, both positive and negative, with animals. What do our natural responses tell us about ourselves? What follows is a gallery of art selected from the output of three …
Sun-Hyuk Kim makes sculptures that mimic roots and explore the meaning of being human, imbuing humanity and nature with dignity. It is important to treat our roots and the roots of …
Art often grants insight, but can it provide solutions? Creativity meets agriculture in the work of artist Sam van Aken. Sam van Aken is head of the Sculpture Program at Syracuse University, and …
Jenny Pickford is a blacksmith who specializes in natural sculpture, including flowers. She forges her creations from galvanized steel and crowns them with blown or spun glass made by glass artists …
Rocky economies, wars, injustices and climate change threaten the world we call home. Can art do anything to help us? When most people think of street art they think of …
Emilio Garcia is a sculptor and toy designer who began his artistic career in the motion graphics and multi-media realms. While pursuing those interests with prestigious companies such as Berlitz …
Yayoi Kusama is a visionary who inspired and contributed to the emerging avant-garde movements of pop art and minimalism in the 1950s and 60s and continues to produce unusual and …
