What Your Art Samples Can Teach You Not every experiment in the studio needs to become finished artwork. Sometimes a sample has already done its job. It answered a question, showed you how a material behaves, or gave you a result you may want to return to later. That doesn’t mean the sample has stopped
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Do you spend more time organizing your studio than making art? I have. Over the years, I’ve tried organization systems because I’d seen them work beautifully in other artists’ studios. Pegboard was one of them. It looked like such a practical solution, but for me, it created so much visual clutter that it simply didn’t
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For years, I thought the solution to my studio problems was a bigger or better studio. What I eventually discovered was that size wasn’t really the problem. The problem was that I was asking one room to support two very different kinds of creative work. Some of my textile work is relatively clean. Sewing, cutting
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