Work of the Week

Isla, the title of this work, means island in Spanish. Though Cristina Córdova was born in Boston, she was raised on the Caribbean island of

Associated with the Color Field movement, which abandoned figurative and gestural paintings for flat expanses of color, Jules Olitski (Snovsk, Ukraine 1922–2007 New York, NY)

Textile and multi-disciplinary artist Kenny Glass of Cherokee Nation (born Tahlequah, OK 1988) captures stories from our contemporary moment. His work frequently joins traditional Cherokee

I love the subtle cleverness of this collage by Black Mountain College student, Faith Murray Britton (Charleston, SC 1897–1984 Taylors, SC). Working with only two

Amelia Bennett (Hazel, AL 1914–2002) started working in the fields in southwestern Alabama with her parents when she was eight years old. It was also

As one of Félix González-Torres’s powerful candy-spill works, “Untitled” (L.A.) finds beauty in the everyday by transforming a bounty of cellophane-wrapped candies into a dazzling

In 1946 when designer Florence Schust married furniture manufacturer Hans Knoll, they formed Knoll Associates Inc. in new York City. By 1974 the company established

Does the surface of this pottery remind you of anything? Perhaps a snowflake? Or a cluster of leaves? Crystalline glazes, used on this vase from

In 1974 artist Harvey K. Littleton (Corning, NY 1922–2013 Spruce Pine, NC) developed a process for using glass to create prints on paper. Littleton, who

The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany as a state-funded art school that embraced the Industrial Revolution and taught craftspeople how to design