DAYTONA BEACH — Pointillist artist John Darovitz was presenting his pin art pieces at a recent gallery event when he noticed a young girl hovering nearby, waiting to speak to him. She told him she had ...

Earlier this week I received a beautiful, handmade holiday card from “The Candy Man,” the inmate who paints with M & M’s. [see the blog post “The Candy Man: A Prisoner Paints with Delectable Materials ...

“My hope is that I’ll get to that place where I am very successful, and I am a household name, and I am influencing other people like I’ve been influenced,” artist Angela Roe told me while we sat ...

Earlier this year, Lake View resident Pamela Monaco read about a debate dividing the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. Three schools there were in the process of removing government-funded Depression-era ...

In a number of exhibitions on view this year, people are pushing back on the cliché of suffering being essential to art, embracing recovery and wellness instead. Thomas Houseago’s “L’Homme Pressé” ...

Since ancient Greece, healers have prescribed art to aid those facing mental challenges. Today, the practice is a precisely honed craft used by credentialed professionals to help people suffering from ...

In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency in a landslide election. With unemployment rising, investment banks collapsing and the stock market plummeting (sound familiar?), he promised a ...

There is a trope of the melancholic artist giving the impression that to access beauty in our minds, we must pass through darkness. Some creatives fear that treatment for depression will banish this ...

A former park ranger has been searching for decades for an original copy of a historic WPA poster for Great Smoky Mountains National Park.