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Teaching with Three Dimensions
Art21 Educators alumnus Dennis Greenwell encourages his students to embrace the challenge of working in real space through a playlist of Art21 films.
Artists 198
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Where does the creative process begin?
Fernando Palma Rodríguez
Bárbara Sánchez-Kane
How many words are there for ice?
Tamar Ettun
How can art be a collective process?
En el Estudio: Berenice Olmedo
Tom Burr
Sam Durant
Michael Rakowitz
Michael Rakowitzuses everyday objects to render lost artifacts into ghostly new forms.
Rose Salane
Original interview conducted by Samantha Ozer in January 2022, edited by Jurrell Lewis. Original photography by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. for Art21. Additional photography courtesy of the artist and Carlos/Ishikawa Gallery. Published in June 2022.
Pope.L
The Friendliest Black Artist in America, Pope.L discusses humor, management, and performance.
How Can Context Transfigure Culture?
Iman Raad defines becoming an ambivalent non-ambassador to his culture.
Jes Fan
Through examinations of ceramics and nineteenth-century medical portraiture, Jes Fan considers the symbolism and economics of biological substances.
Who Decides What Stands for Nature?
Mark Dion confronts bias in representations of the natural world.
Idea Generator
Liz Magor discusses how she approaches her sculptural practice, how we value objects, and her desire for a quiet studio.
Imagining Alternatives
Pedro Reyes shares a wide range of influences and discusses his use of play, humor, and optimism to create diverse works that sometimes function as public services.
What Does the Art World Fear?
Tiona Nekkia McClodden expresses creative liberation in the club.
Studio as Laboratory
Addressing questions of how objects acquire value, Sarah Sze posits that being an artist is about giving yourself permission to make choices.
Childhood
Nick Cave recalls the impact of the community in which he was raised and how that encouraged him to pursue his creative interests. Interview by Stanley Nelson at the artist’s studio in Chicago on December 15, 2015.
Teaching History by Sculpting Experience
Doreen Garner shares the motivation driving her sculptural practice: to educate viewers about suppressed racist histories.
Resisting Reductivism & Breaking the Bubble
Barbara Kruger shares her media diet, what she sees as art’s role in contemporary society, and the inspiration behind two of her earliest works.
Chicago & City Planning
“Blueprint for a Landscape”
Artist Sarah Sze shares the process behind her immersive installation Blueprint for a Landscape (2016) at the Second Avenue Subway’s 96th Street station.
Expanding the Role of the Artist
Theaster Gates shares what he sees are the possibilities for artists to go beyond the making of objects, to actively contribute to and better their communities.