Dan Lam
Sculptor Dan Lam works with non-traditional materials to create vibrantly colored and highly textured sculptures in her home studio in Dallas, TX. Born in 1988 in a refugee camp in …
Marisol (Marisol Escobar)
Maria Sol Escobar was born in 1930 to Venezuelan parents living in Paris. As a child, she displayed a talent for both drawing and embroidery, and her parents encouraged her …
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1948, artist Hiroshi Sugimoto’s varied interests and disciplines have garnered him international attention and brought about collaborations across diverse fields of study. A photographer, he …
Christo & Jeanne-Claude
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009)—often known simply as Christo and Jeanne-Claude—were artists whose immense site-specific environmental installations captured the public’s attention. From installing 3,100 self-standing …
Augusta Savage
Augusta Savage (1892–1962) was a sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance who blended activism and art and served others as an educator and community organizer. She was born in Green Cove …
Lloyd “Kiva” New
Lloyd Henri “Kiva” New (1916–2002) is best known as an innovator of Native Modernism through his fashion and textile design, and as an arts educator who developed culturally-based arts education …
María Martínez-Cañas
María Martínez-Cañas’s Cuban-American identity influences much of her experimental photography and assemblage artwork. Born in Havana, Cuba, Martínez-Cañas moved with her family to Miami when she was just a few months old, then …
Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky (1866—1944) was a Russian painter, teacher, and art theorist, and is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art. He grew up in what is now the Ukraine …
Andrew Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy is a land artist, sculptor, and photographer, who gained an interest in nature and working outdoors as a youth while working on farms in northern England. Goldsworthy is …
Anni Albers
Anni (Fleischmann) Albers (1899–1994) was an influential textile designer, weaver, writer, and printmaker who blurred the lines between art and craft. Born to an affluent family in Berlin, Germany, she …