Guest Authors

Writer and illustrator Jessica Esch explores her love of oral history interviews and how they inspired a new art project.

Guest author Angela Smith shares the story of a friendship that was sparked by an oral history interview.

Guest author Marina Pacini examines what can be gleaned from an interview with an artist who does not like to talk about herself in Conversations Across Collections. 

Guest author Laurie Stepp shares highlights from the Artists Talk on Art Records. 

Guest author Patrica Ortega-Miranda explores how snapshots taken by painter Emilio Sanchez during on his many trips to the Caribbean influenced his artwork.

Art historian Laurette McCarthy explores connections between Walter Pach and modernists movements in Mexico, Paris, and New York. 

Writer Jordan McDonald on Howardena Pindell as a storyteller, and what her art asks of the viewer.

Art historian Adrienne Baxter Bell explores a collection of recently discovered Charles Caryl Coleman photographs.

Musicologist Jayme Kurland shares her research on industrial designer John Vassos' contributions to instrument design. 

Guest author Tara Allen-Flanagan finds the story of a sculpture in some unexpected places.