Springfield artists have always been adaptable when it comes to displaying their work in places other than galleries. In the past, I’ve written about art in accounting firms, at City Utilities, at the ...

It’s 5 o’clock on a Monday afternoon and the light is fading over the city. In the lobby of the fourth floor of the New Alliance Bank building at 195 Church Street, Sue Hardy crosses a corridor, ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — “The heart wants what it wants,” Emily Dickinson once wrote. But sometimes, it longs for ...

Thomas Berding, “Pie Chart Fanfare” (2015), oil and Flashe on canvas, 48 x 44 inches (courtesy The Painting Center) In terms of freewheeling, soul-bearing angst, Abstract Expressionism might once ...

The pale, porcelain skin of Ayako Rokkaku’s petite hands brightens the navy blue ceramic tea cup held in her palms. For nearly two decades, the artist has used her hands instead of brushes, dipping ...

In a cluttered studio on South Flores, weak sunlight from the January morning suffusing two big windows, Sandy Whitby squats over a large canvas stirring a plastic bucket of white house paint. Dressed ...