Kirsti Smith transforms personal emotion into tactile ceramic works that invite both touch and reflection. Inspired by family, spirituality, and the cycles of life, her pieces blur the line between fine art and functional objects, creating an intimate experience for the viewer.

Leisa Rich is a Canadian experimental artist whose work pushes the boundaries of fiber art, sculpture, and interactive design. Using techniques like embroidery, weaving, tufting, 3D printing, and laser engraving, she transforms everyday and recycled materials into wall-hung artworks, wearable sculptures, and sensory environments. Rich’s practice invites audiences to engage through touch while exploring memory, childhood, and the tension between stability and change. Her work has been collected by major institutions including Delta Airlines, Hilton Hotels, and the Dallas Museum of Art.

Working under the name HandmadeHome, contemporary artist Svetlana creates surreal fantasy sculptures that feel as though they’ve emerged from hidden magical realms. Combining polymer clay with naturally grown crystals, her mixed media works explore the threshold between energy and matter, nature and imagination, resulting in otherworldly beings rich with texture, symbolism, and quiet wonder.

Sam Wilde, a British multidisciplinary artist, creates award-winning works that blur the line between fine art and surface design. Using illustration, oil painting, animation, sculpture, and large-scale installations, he builds immersive worlds influenced by his synesthesia and love for evolutionary biology. His work has been exhibited globally, from London to China and Japan, redefining how we experience color, pattern, and creativity.

Tori McLean’s interdisciplinary practice transforms childhood curiosity into playful, thought-provoking explorations of female identity. Through interactive prints, sculptures, and installations, she invites viewers to engage with kinetic figures and participatory works that question societal expectations and celebrate imaginative inquiry.

Margot Dermody’s abstract paintings and sculptures investigate the connections between human emotion and the natural world. Through layered opacity, translucency, and material transformation, her work explores memory, light, and the tension between minimal and overworked forms.

Sandra Keja Planken’s practice bridges art, ecology, and emotion. Working with textiles, glass, and spatial design, her sculptural installations explore impermanence, sensory experience, and our relationship with nature. Featured in AQ Volume VII, her work extends beyond the gallery, transforming discarded materials into living artworks that invite coral growth, reflection, and renewal.

In AQ Volume 7, Airco Caravan presents a striking body of work that blends humor, activism, and historical reckoning. Using spray cans and cast resin objects as symbols of resistance, her work challenges systems of power while imagining what it might mean to literally erase injustice. From guerrilla interventions to deeply researched historical narratives, Caravan’s practice invites viewers to reconsider the past and envision a more conscious future.

Michael Hambouz, a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, musician, and curator, creates work deeply informed by chromaesthesia and personal history. Drawing from music, memory, and his Palestinian-American heritage, Hambouz experiments across mediums—painting, printmaking, sculpture, and animation—to explore themes of loss, transformation, and resilience. His vibrant abstractions, often influenced by sound and architectural forms, invite viewers into layered reflections on identity and generational experience.

Portland-based interdisciplinary artist Kim Smith Claudel transforms natural, discarded, and technological materials into contemplative works that intersect painting, sculpture, and performance. Featured in the “Lightness of Being” exhibition, her pieces invite viewers to slow down, connect with the present, and experience the subtle beauty of ephemeral moments.

Mexican-born, New York-based artist Arturo Brena is celebrated for his dual sculptures, intricate works that transform under light to reveal hidden shadows and unexpected forms. Featured in the “Lightness of Being” virtual exhibition, Brena invites viewers to explore the delicate balance between presence and absence, light and dark, in a captivating visual experience.

Francis Beaty, a Philadelphia-based interdisciplinary artist, presents her evocative installations and sculptural work in Create! Magazine’s Lightness of Being virtual exhibition. Using aluminum screening, felt roofing paper, and natural elements, Beaty creates pieces that explore movement, lightness, and the beauty of imperfection. Her work invites viewers to reflect on individual vulnerability, collective strength, and the quiet moments of contemplation that can transform everyday experiences into profound insight.

Heidi Mortensen’s work, featured in Create! Magazine’s Lightness of Being exhibition, explores the fragile boundary between constraint and liberation through intricate mixed media sculptures. Using cast resin, glass, and organic elements, her pieces evoke the transformative process of letting go, inviting viewers to reflect on their own moments of transcendence and freedom.

Debbie Lawson’s art reveals quiet magic through surreal sculptures that intertwine animals with historic textiles. Drawing from her Scottish heritage and fascination with domestic objects, her work invites viewers into theatrical narratives that challenge perception and celebrate material history. Explore her journey and recent projects featured in AQ Volume VI.

Isabel Paget’s multidisciplinary work examines the fragile boundaries between permanence and impermanence, inviting viewers to engage with the elasticity of reality. Her interactive sculptures, including the acclaimed Sands of Time, merge philosophy and science to explore how time and identity warp under pressure. Discover how Paget’s art opens new pathways for reflection on contemporary life’s unseen forces.

West Virginia–based artist Heather Rios creates richly layered mixed media works that celebrate handmade traditions and emotional memory. Using embroidery passed down from her grandmother, paint piped like frosting, and antique plates, Rios explores the value of joy, nostalgia, and what it means to be human in an age of automation.

Featured in Create! Magazine Issue 51, German artist Julia Obermaier blends memory and materiality in her sculptural series “Ratzefummel.” By meticulously carving familiar erasers and pencils from gemstones, she invites viewers to reflect on the sensory nostalgia of childhood while reconsidering the value and function of everyday objects.

In Create! Magazine Issue 51, multidisciplinary artist Suzanna Scott presents sculptural works that seduce and challenge. Using discarded objects and skin-like textures, Scott’s rage-stitched multiples question how we assign value to bodies and rights in a politically polarized world.

In Create! Magazine’s Land and Longing virtual exhibition, artist Jaclyn Gordyan presents a body of sculptural work rooted in nature and emotional resonance. Working from the forests of Michigan, Gordyan combines natural-found materials with abstract techniques to reflect on our ancestral ties to the Earth. Her contemplative process and evolving practice transform foraged elements into meditative, organic forms that explore human experience through the lens of the natural world.

Natalie Dunham’s studio practice is grounded in process, precision, and a reverence for craftsmanship. Working primarily in three-dimensional material studies composed of accumulated geometric forms, Dunham draws inspiration from the gridded rural landscapes of her childhood in Lancaster, PA. Her work invites viewers to pause, reflect, and rediscover the extraordinary within the everyday.