Zen and the art of felting a sunflower When Jenny Torino and her husband moved from Rhode Island to Warwick, NY in 2017, they left behind a thriving art community.... eARTh 03 Mar 2025 | 10:15
Reasons to Breathe (2024) Amoebas and seedpods are her muse Raised in the bucolic Berkshires of rural Massachusetts, mixed-media artist Ali Herrmann developed an early interest in the... eARTh 25 Nov 2024 | 04:24
Daniel Giordano in his studio in Newburgh, NY in 2023 ( Taliesin Thomas) ‘Big fun’ in reimagining roadkill The first time I encountered Daniel Giordano’s art, I was immediately captivated by the wild alchemy of his artistic practice... eARTh 19 Aug 2024 | 02:03
The raw power of overkill There is a poignant scene in The Graduate (1967) when Dustin Hoffman’s character is standing by the pool talking with Mr.... eARTh 21 May 2024 | 11:23
Muller-McCoola sewing currents onto her first Water piece in 2019. The artistic powers of water Our relationship with water is paramount to our survival. Although water is fundamentally transparent, tasteless, odorless... eARTh 02 Apr 2024 | 12:49
Artist Michelle Glass leading a collaborative project that’s one part art project and one part science experiment ( Fabian Euresti) Testing water, building power “Everyone has a color story,” says Michelle Glass, a public art and social practice artist who works alongside BIPOC and... eARTh 14 Nov 2023 | 11:56
Grey Study with Alison (2022) features a woman at the shore in a skirt made of fennel. The artist-goddess in all her glory The infinite imagination of Mother Nature is a sphere to which all of humanity is granted privileged access, but some are... eARTh 23 Aug 2023 | 12:13
Verdant meditations During her early years as a textile designer living and working in New York City, Wendy Hollender liked to frequent the New... eARTh 02 Jun 2023 | 11:54
Eliasson turned a Swiss museum’s interior into an actual natual landscape for his installation, Life (2021), by flooding the interior and filling it with water plants. ( Mark Niedermann) ‘Being with’ art that raises our collective consciousness I have been crushing on Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark) since my undergraduate days at art school. Eliasson... Home 09 Mar 2023 | 01:29
Leu picks up trash alongside her troop of nomadic gnomes. ( Photo provided) Merrymaking in the face of catastrophe Maxine Leu had a front-row seat to the effects of climate change growing up in Taiwan. She describes her native country,... eARTh 29 Nov 2022 | 04:15
On baking bread There are three things I could never understand: string theory, the rules of baseball, and why it is so hard to bake a decent... eARTh 12 Apr 2021 | 02:52
Retired nurse Linda Mitchell, left, with partner Debra Hollinrake at The Tree of Health Center ( Tara Whitsitt) Healing addiction naturally “The term ‘functional family’ is elusive,” said Debra Hollinrake, a partner at The Tree of Health Center in Newton, NJ. How... eARTh 13 Apr 2020 | 11:14
Chandler Alysia Mazzella holds 20 pounds of local beeswax in her studio in Newburgh, NY. ( Tara Whitsitt) Rite of light “I don’t believe you have to depend on things outside of yourself in order to create,” said Alysia Mazzella, as we sat in... eARTh 23 Jan 2020 | 12:07
Can sculpture after self-portrait by Hieronymus Bosch ( Melissa Shaw-Smith) Tinkering with the canon Allan Rubin is never alone in his studio barn, perched on a hill with ”eight-mile-views” in Sullivan County. He is surrounded... eARTh 08 Aug 2019 | 02:06
Holding the first scrap metal sculpture he made from discarded race car scraps Junkyard arts and crafts Tim Fields’ garage is crammed with buckets, filled to the brim with old machine parts. His scrap collection overflows into... eARTh 07 Aug 2019 | 06:11
