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Joelle McKenna brings the creative struggle to life in comic store installation

Creative Boom

A 2012 graduate from Boston University's College of Fine Art, she's also the creative director of Brooklyn Magazine print publication. And every season, the owner invites an artist to create a sculptural window display for his shop." This was a bucket-list project for me," she explains.

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The Hauntings Sculptures of Sabrina Gruss

Hi-Fructose

Inside her workshop, Sabrina Gruss re-animates found natural materials and animal remains into eerie sculptures. In terms of inspiration within fine art, she cites outsider and fringe art, as well as Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon.

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'I like communicating complex ideas in simple ways': Illustrator Liam Eisenberg on honing his style, staying original and finding inspiration

Creative Boom

© Liam Eisenberg The work of New Jersey-based illustrator and teacher Liam Eisenberg has graced the pages of some of the biggest magazines and websites in the business. Despite not being an art major, this motivated me to put hours into each assignment until I worked my way up to being the best student in the class."

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Bauhaus Graphic Design: Past, Present, and Future

Inkbot Design

From 1919 to 1933, the Bauhaus united fine arts and crafts to create practical yet beautiful designs for the machine age. Bauhaus graphic designers embraced mixed-media collages, vibrant colours, and inventive typography to create posters, advertisements, magazines, and more that broke past conventions.

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Neri&Hu’s Bold New Addition to a Chinese Art Museum

Azure Magazine

In Xi’an, China, the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts is focused on the restoration and exhibition of ancient Chinese murals. Indoor escalators concealed within a sculptural form also lead to the partially sunken cast-in-place concrete base that hosts the galleries, playing with spatial compression and expansion throughout the journey.

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'I like to make pieces that make you look twice': Carly Owens on her symbolic embroidery artworks and paintings

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Both of which have fine art and craft cultures that absolutely influenced me growing up," she explains. Black Mountain, for instance, is the home of Black Mountain College, an experimental art school attended by Anni and Josef Albers, Willem de Kooning, Ruth Asawa, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others.

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Neal Grundy Floating Fabrics in ‘Transient Sculptures’

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British photographer Neal Grundy is specializing in Freeze Motion photography, for his “Transient Sculptures” series, the viewer may believe he is seeing a solid sculpture in the landscape, when in reality, the image captures a fabric form in ‘mid-flight’.