Featured Artist: David Hooker

David Hooker is a ceramicist and sculptor living in the Chicago area where he is associate professor of art at Wheaton College. He grew up on South Carolina, and he received an MFA in Ceramics from Kent State. He blogs…

David Hooker is a ceramicist and sculptor living in the Chicago area where he is associate professor of art at Wheaton College. He grew up on South Carolina, and he received an MFA in Ceramics from Kent State. He blogs…

Amanda Hamilton is a contemporary American artist working in various media. She produces large installations, intimate paper works, videos and more. Hamilton received a BS in Drawing and Painting from Biola in 2000, and then she went to complete an…

Michelle Mackey is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Dallas, TX. She has exhibited extensively in both of those locations, as well as other places inside of and outside of the United States. In 1999, she…

Makoto Fujimura, Bruce Herman, and Christopher Theofanidis. QU4RTETS. New York: Fujimura Institute, 2012, 90 pp., $30.00 paper. This catalogue was published to coincide with the touring exhibition “QU4RTETS–art and music reflecting on T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets.” The catalogue includes a “Foreword” from…

J.A.C. Redford is a composer and orchestrator with dozens of Hollywood film and television scores to his credit. His recent collaborations with Thomas Newman include The Iron Lady, The Help, and Wall-E; his work with James Horner features such titles…

Dr. E. John Walford began teaching art history at Wheaton College in 1981. He is author of Jacob van Ruisdael and the Perception of Landscape (Yale University Press, 1991), and Great Themes in Art (Prentice-Hall, 2002). As a student at…

Jay Johnstone has recently burst onto the scene as a Tolkien artist. His images of Tolkien characters are distinctive – he paints figures from The Lord of the Rings in the style of Christian icons. Johnstone’s work was spurred by…

Paul Roorda is a contemporary Canadian artist working in a variety of media. He holds a number of degrees including a B. A. in Psychology from the University of Waterloo (1988), an M. A. in Sociology from Northeastern University (1992),…

Paul Martin is a painter and printmaker based in Edinburgh. He studied art at the Birmingham School of Art (1969-71) and the Royal Academy (1971-73). His work has been exhibited internationally and has won several awards, including the Royal Academy…