Kintsugi is a technique in Japanese pottery-making that asks us to glue fragments back together as a way to honor, repair, and render something whole and beautiful again. Donna Conklin King extends this practice to her sculpture at a moment when it feels more necessary than ever.

Can color help us rage against a violent world? Can oil and pigment on canvas reflect a national mood, a country in crisis, a personal struggle? Mona Brody might say so. Meanwhile, her canvases get darker and darker.

Liz Murphy is an interior designer, but in her studio, she carves out a personal space for play.

"Technology is actually living inside our bodies. It enters us, so there is a personal connection in that," says artist and self-proclaimed layperson Sarah Canfield. "Whenever there is...something that I am ambivalent about, and tjat I don't understand, that's something I want to pursue in my art, because I'm looking for those answers, and there's no clear answer to those questions.." This short profile follows that pursuit.

Artist Donna Moran is starting something new.

As COVID-19 continues to claim lives, Alex Schoenberg returns to drawing the human body, and this time, she sees little monsters everywhere.

Gail Winbury makes the case for abstract art.

One artist's intuition keeps her going and defines her art practice.

After thirty-six years as the Wall Street Journal's senior "hedcut" illustrator, Laura Lou Levy is ready to focus on her own work.

Can color help us rage against a violent world? Can oil and pigment on canvas reflect a national mood, a country in crisis, a personal struggle? Mona Brody might say so. Meanwhile, her canvases get darker and darker.

Christine Soccio Romanell's practice revolves around the use of non-repeating patterns and rotational symmetry as a way to explore one possible shape of the universe. Her abstraction of form and manipulation of light and color dominate the boundaries of the physical objects she creates, and tap into something deeper. This documentary short uses audio from Carl Sagan's PBS show "Cosmos." I do not own the rights to this audio.

Introduction to the installation, Keeping Quiet, September 2020

Alex Schoenberg produces constructions that transition between pictorial and physical space. Trained as an architect, the artist dismantles notions of traditional perspective and breaks down through complex works that invite the viewer to navigate reality for themselves. Claiming she works somewhere between the third and fourth dimensions, Schoenberg's drawings, constructions, and models explore paradox, illusion, and distortion which dispel our systems of seeing and observing.

After a park guest files a complaint, artist Kate Dodd is forced to remove her installation from the South Mountain Reservation.

American sculptor, illustrator and self-described maker Tom Nussbaum has a remarkable way of using positive/negative space and color. His breadth of abstract paintings and sculptures are intriguing for both their spontaneity AND their subtle orderliness. Check more of Tom's works out: www.tomnussbaum.com Check out more of Not What It Is: www.notwhatitis.com Please LIKE, COMMENT, and SUBSCRIBE for more episodes. If you want to enter a partnership or commission a video, please e-mail: samuelvladimirsky@gmail.com SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: samvlad27 Facebook: Sam Vladimirsky YouTube: youtube.com/samandmortshow DISLCAIMER: I do not own the copyright to any of the music featured in this video. All music belongs to its original content creator.

This short film offers a retrospective of Tom Nussbaum's lifelong dedication to the sculptural arts. This Minnesota native describes the various phases of both his life and work in both gallery sculpture, private art, and cottage industries. For more artist videos, visit: samvladimirsky.com notwhatitis.com CONTACT samuelvladimirsky@gmail.com

Christine Soccio Romanell's practice revolves around the use of non-repeating patterns and rotational symmetry. Her abstraction of form and manipulation of light and color dominate the boundaries of the physical objects she creates. Instead, she is more interested in what her sculptures generate. She often works with quasi crystals to produce light diffraction patterns and works with mixed media as she explores the structures of the penrose pattern.

'Habitus in Thirteen Seconds' offers no fixed meaning in an attempt to challenge the constraints of our socially constructed bodily practices. It serves as a siege device to undermine the integrity of the structure we call communication through techniques of Inclusive Disjunction that confuse and disrupt the power of representation.

informal studio visit with artist Kate Dodd