Field Notes
Essay 01 and Introducing Access Fund
Dec 18, 2025
We go through life with periods of intense focus on what we are doing, and other times that focus drifts. There are those select individuals who spend their entire life singularly focused on one thing, pushing through with a kind of relentless clarity. These are the Picassos of the world, the Steve Jobs types. Some were born with it. Others found it much later—artists such as Paul Cézanne and Henri Rousseau.
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Fiber artists making a big impression
Dec 3, 2025
Fiber art is experiencing a powerful resurgence, as contemporary artists push the boundaries of texture, tradition, and storytelling.
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Peace in, stress out
Nov 30, 2025
There are moments in life that end up becoming markers of time, little anchors people look back to.
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Ceramics We Can’t Stop Thinking About
Nov 25, 2025
Ceramics has never been more exciting—or more surprising. Today’s clay artists are redefining the medium with bold forms, painterly surfaces, and narratives that blur the lines between sculpture, craft, and contemporary art.
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Outsider Art
Nov 24, 2025
Outsider art has long challenged the boundaries of the art world, offering raw, unfiltered expressions that emerge outside traditional academic training and institutional spaces.
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Carrying Meaning
Nov 13, 2025
“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photograph...
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What Picasso’s Ceramics Taught Me
Oct 31, 2025
Ceramics are typically about use—things made to hold, to pour from or to serve with. But Picasso didn’t see clay as a...
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The Story of isca objects
Oct 26, 2025
We’re so glad you’re here. Our hope is that you discover something that speaks to you — something with a story you want to bring into your own world.
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