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Portrait of the Artist

Portrait of the Artist

Each Monday, we interview an artist about his or her work.

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Adele Yonchak

Adele Yonchak

Nature Panes

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 15, 2019
Kim Sandara

Kim Sandara

The Color of Sound

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 01, 2019
Alexis Granwell

Alexis Granwell

Sculpting Paintings

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 17, 2019
Dawn Holder

Dawn Holder

End of the Anthropocene

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 10, 2019
Phaan Howng

Phaan Howng

Fluorescent Waterfalls

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 03, 2019
Anne Austin Pearce

Anne Austin Pearce

A Return to Nature

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 20, 2019
Yvonne Claveloux

Yvonne Claveloux

Bursts of Color

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 13, 2019
Amelia Hankin

Amelia Hankin

Dreamcatching

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 06, 2019
Claire Campbell Park

Claire Campbell Park

Woven Wanderings

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 29, 2019
Lisa Hunt

Lisa Hunt

The Graphics of Gold

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 22, 2019
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2nd Look

The NASA You Never Hear About

by Isabelle Taft

Fifty years ago this week, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, the moment represented years of work and technical accomplishment. But it also left NASA struggling with a daunting new challenge: figuring out what to do next. Over the years, it has answered this question in part by highlighting the dizzying array of inventions it has inspired—some 1,500 a year. “Besides rocket science itself, perhaps the biggest thing people fail to understand about the agency is how its work has reverberated throughout the world in ways we experience directly every day,” writes Isabelle Taft. “It’s a mark of the agency’s enduring influence that even if we never make it there, we’re already living in a society forged by outer space.”