Artist Interview With Anthony Maulucci
Today’s Artist Interview Is With Anthony Maulucci From San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Whopple: How long have you been an artist?
Anthony: For as long as I can remember, I have thought of myself as an artist. My grandmother was a painter and in my earliest years she encouraged me in my first attempts to draw pictures. In grade school, my drawings were praised by many of my more sympathetic teachers even though the work was done out of boredom in their classes. My 5th grade teacher called me the “class artist” and that label stuck and fed my frail ego.
Whopple: Tell us about your first attempts to be creative.
Anthony: They were doodles and daydreaming drawings mostly when I was very young, but I progressed to illustrating my stories and then copying works by great artists out of books. My grandmother guided me and signed me up for a Saturday art class at the world-class Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, where I grew up. To this day, I remember taking the bus from my suburban home with my art supplies in hand and then walking through the huge hallways of the museum with their gigantic paintings and tapestries, the medieval suits of armor which seemed to stand guard, and then past the Egyptian room with its mummy. At the time I used to have scary dreams about being locked up overnight in the museum when the armor and the mummy came to life.
Artist Interview With Jill Nonnemacher
Today’s Artist Interview Is With Jill Nonnemacher From Mansfield, Texas.
Whopple: How long have you been an artist?
Jill: I have always been an artist.
Whopple: Tell us about your first attempts to be creative.
Jill: As long as I can recall I was always a creative kid doing something artsy. I would sit for hours & just doodle,color & paint on anything I could use as a surface. I also liked playing with clay & enjoyed sculpting figures.
Artist Interview With Helena Domenic
Today’s Artist Interview Is With Helena Domenic From Exton, Pennsylvania.
Whopple: How long have you been an artist?
Helena: 30 years
Whopple: Tell us about your first attempts to be creative.
Helena: One of my earliest memories is from kindergarten! I went out to recess with my classmates and saw graphiti for the very first time on some rocks on the playground. Not knowing what it was, I figured that must mean it was okay to draw on the rocks! I proceeded to joyfully make very large marks all over the rocks with my crayons… until my teacher came over and stopped me. I was very confused about why I was in trouble!
