Vučković T. Darko is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the relationship between organic forms, material transformation, and contemporary artistic language. Working across sculpture, painting, and mixed media, his work investigates the possibilities of clay, natural processes, and three-dimensional form.

Malia Gomez creates atmospheric paintings influenced by metaphysics and contemporary light artists, using color, mark-making, and visual perception to cultivate mindfulness and conscious presence. Her work invites viewers into moments of stillness and reflection through immersive contemporary painting.

Susan Schmidt’s contemporary figurative paintings explore memory, nature, and personal transformation through layered surfaces, abstraction, and expressive mark-making. Drawing from experiences of loss and connection to the natural world, Schmidt’s work reflects the enduring relationship between place, emotion, and remembrance.

Cat Rigdon’s multidisciplinary practice connects ancient Cypriot artifacts with contemporary narratives of memory, migration, and identity. Through ceramics, painting, and research-based processes, Rigdon reimagines historical objects while exploring the personal stories they carry across time and place.

Caitlin McCormack transforms crochet and fiber techniques into uncanny sculptural works that examine grief, anxiety, bodily autonomy, and the complexities of contemporary life. Through humor, craft, and unsettling imagery, McCormack considers how making can become a response to uncertainty and a way to connect with shared human experiences.

Austin-based painter Gabe Langholtz creates narrative paintings that blend representational imagery with folk art, Color Field influences, and social commentary. In this interview, he reflects on creativity, honesty in the studio, and the career milestones that followed his feature in Create! Magazine.

Painter and writer Mya Kerner explores the rhythms of nature through expressive landscapes shaped by motherhood, stewardship, and lived experience. In this 10th Anniversary Book feature, she reflects on her artistic journey, career milestones, and the enduring connection between land and self.

Metra Mitchell is a multidisciplinary artist whose paintings, drawings, and printmaking explore identity, transformation, and the complexities of personal history. Drawing from her multicultural background, Mitchell creates theatrical worlds filled with symbolic characters, emotional narratives, and magical environments that reflect strength, vulnerability, and resilience.

Sarah Detweiler is an American visual artist whose figurative and narrative mixed media paintings explore themes of unmasking, authenticity, motherhood, and the collective unconscious. Through painting, embroidery, and fiber techniques, she transforms personal experiences and transitions into deeply layered works that reflect evolution, connection, and emotional storytelling.

Justin Richel’s sculptural paintings challenge traditional ideas of the painted surface by combining illusion, materiality, and three-dimensional form. Through his unique process of building objects from wood, canvas, and paint, Richel explores perception, trickster mythologies, and the relationship between artifice and reality.

Lyz Wendland is a visual artist based in the Twin Cities whose mixed-media paintings and paper installations explore fragmentation, healing, and transformation. Through her practice, Wendland reshapes lived experiences of trauma into a visual language that reflects resilience, strength, and the possibility of beauty emerging from what was once broken.

Alyson Khan is a painter whose geometric abstractions explore transformation, perception, and symbolic space through the quiet narrative of the psyche. Drawing from ritual practice, architecture, design, and esoteric symbolism, Khan creates layered compositions that examine protection, transcendence, and the relationship between inner and outer worlds.

Laurén Gerig is a visual artist based in Lansing, Michigan, whose abstract paintings translate moments of observation, memory, and stillness into intimate visual records. Through layered abstraction and calligraphic mark-making, Gerig explores the emotional relationships formed through daily encounters with the landscape.

Rachel Le Roux is a British Filipina artist and interior architect based in Manila whose paintings explore the female form, movement, memory, and transformation. Blending her architectural background with a sensitivity to space, texture, and atmosphere, Le Roux creates figurative and abstract works that examine renewal, concealment, and the emotional spaces between what is seen and unseen.

Toronto-based artist Jody Hewgill creates highly detailed acrylic paintings that explore the intersection of representation and fabrication. Drawing inspiration from 18th-century naturalist art and the landscapes of Northern Ontario, her work reflects on ecological relationships, storytelling, and our connection with the natural world.

Pittsburgh-based artist Jake McCauley creates paintings rooted in mundane realism, exploring themes of observation, memory, place, and perception. Through cinematic compositions and recurring imagery of windows, his work examines how we experience the spaces between ourselves and the world around us.

German conceptual artist VON ALLIN transforms complex emotions into striking minimalist works that invite viewers to reflect on grief, love, identity, and the universal experiences that connect us. Through projects such as The Tears Project, her art becomes a catalyst for conversation and empathy.

Brooklyn-based artist Chris Weller creates striking hyperrealistic charcoal drawings that capture New York City's iconic architecture while exploring themes of climate change, belonging, and the delicate balance between nature and urban life.

Portuguese painter Filipe Assuncao creates expressive figurative paintings that transform people, emotions, and imagined creatures into richly colored visual narratives. Through a balance of careful planning and spontaneous gesture, each work becomes its own immersive universe.

Anthony Vega creates layered contemporary paintings that investigate language, culture, and perception. Rooted in philosophy and personal history, his work invites viewers to slow down, question familiar narratives, and consider how meaning is formed through images and shared experience.