Work of the Week

Close your eyes. Imagine the colors red, white, and blue. What comes to mind? If you live here in the United States, you might be

ABOUT THE ARTIST Peggy Bacon was born in Connecticut in 1895 and home-schooled by her artist parents until she was 14, when she was sent

About the Artist Kate Johnston was born in 1988 into a creative family in New Jersey and started making pots early in her life. By

“…one of the most honored American artists of her generation. Weems asks inconvenient questions and comes up with unwelcome answers. For that alone, no contemporary

About the Artist Barbara Morgan is best known for her depictions of modern dancers. She was also the co-founder of the well-known photography magazine, Aperture. Morgan

“Something may be a sort of fulfillment of yourself, and it may not be great to other people, but it is just as essential to

Evan Kafka creates portraits of live animals, ingeniously captured to appear as taxidermy heads in his Trophies series. Caught in a moment of suspended animation,

“I change the way people see everyday objects the same way advertisers change the way we see the world.” ~Willie Cole Willie Cole, a contemporary

Playing on the strangely human expressions of Weimaraner dogs, Wegman often employs his canine subjects to express a sense of coexisting deadpan humor and seriousness

Born in Charlotte, NC, Romare Bearden (1914-1988) spent his youth in Harlem, when jazz was coming into its own as an art form. The improvisation,