My mother gave me crayons as soon as she was pretty sure I wouldn’t eat them, and I’ve been making images ever since. I have included some sort of technology in my process since before I knew what I was doing; I would send my dad to work with my drawings to copy on the Xerox, cut up and reassemble the results to be copied again and again until there was nothing recognizable. Then I’d start over.

By the time I started my undergrad degree at Michigan State University, I’d had a few computer classes and spent entire summers building canvases and painting with my first mentor, Elaine Perret. When I graduated with a Bachelor’s of Fine Art with a year off in there as an Americorps*VISTA, I had learned HTML and started referencing my digital work I did in my paintings. I used the first iterations of Adobe Photoshop and whatever other tools I could find on the computers in the graphic design lab.

After graduating and 20 years of happily teaching computer classes, working at a software company, and then a tech-oriented position at an association, I was burned out and wondering about painting again. After two years of struggling, I left my full time position and started doing just that, plus contract web development, digital marketing and design.

For more information about Ann, please visit www.annmorgan.art

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As an artist, my feelings find an authentic outlet through my photography. These photographic prints reveal parts of my inner world conveying a range of emotions that change in every image.

When I'm feeling joyful and optimistic, I gravitate towards vibrant and exuberant colors, embellishing the subject’s lively beauty onto the prints and sharing my happiness with you.

On days when I'm in a gentle and sensitive state, I focus on delicate details of the surface textures and color, allowing their subtle beauty to speak for themselves and reflecting my own sense of wonder in the process.

Then there are moments when my emotions take a somber and melancholic turn, and during those times I am drawn to portray the subject in a way that conveys a profound sense of introspection and contemplation.

Nature's timeless beauty is the muse for my introspection. I invite you to observe my moods and personality in these creations of my soul and emotions. And I hope that my art resonates with you on an emotional level finding your unique and personal connection with these prints whether it's grief, celebration, or wonderment.

And sometimes it is just a pretty picture that you see, and that’s enough.

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Expressing emotions is at the heart of my abstract work. After traditional art studies at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, my work has grown from representational art to abstract expressionism.

Utilizing my own life and the lives of others as inspiration, I reach deep into memories of emotion and life experience. Exploring new materials and applications brings joy to my creativity. The feeling of paint, its various viscosities, and adding subtle and not-so-subtle effects, allows me to express the subject and engage the viewer to feel what I feel. Perhaps even generating their own emotional memories. I particularly enjoy it when the viewer sees something I didn't see. Then I know it has reached them on a different level.

I am a visual artist as well as a poet. In my mixed media drawings and paintings, I explore metaphors and symbols in still life. I set up each scene with both warm and cool colored lights, and I use a variety of media to create a haze of color. I work from life, but at a certain point, I let intuition or emotion take the lead. In my poetry, I seek to find the individual's place in both history and art. My poems weave the ancient with the contemporary, and the critical eye of the art historian with the passion of the artist and the emotion of the viewer.

I earned a BFA from Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. I have exhibited work at Globeville Riverfront Art Center, Edge Gallery, Lone Tree Art Center, and elsewhere. My poems have appeared in CALYX Journal, Rust + Moth, Dialogist, Kitchen Table Quarterly, and others.

For more information about Sarah, visit www.sarahnixstudio.com.

My work is a series exploration of forms inspired loosely by organic growth patterns of fungal matter and seed pods. By using these forms repeated in different scales and textures allows me to create different conversations between each piece. Creating clean abstract interpretations of natural processes helps me display the subtle beauties of reminiscent patterns and shapes seen around our environment. Each piece I make is a depiction of the beauty within decay as well as the cycle of new life that is created soon after.

For more information about Stephanie, search kranstoverceramics on Instagram.

Todd Pierson is an internationally published; award winning photographer whose career has spanned some 20 plus years. Awarded many times over for his photojournalism, he was awarded a Colorado Endowment for the Humanities grant for his ongoing project “Return of the Corn Mothers” in 2009. The project has received numerous accolades and has been featured in over ten gallery exhibitions, including three extended exhibitions, at the University of Colorado Boulder Museum of Natural History, Arizona State University’s Museum of Anthropology and most recently, a yearlong exhibition at History Colorado in downtown Denver.

His clients include local and national publications, municipalities, universities, corporations and the international new agency, EFE, the world’s largest bilingual news agency and the fourth largest overall in the world, based in Madrid, Spain.