Artist Interview With Lynne Taetzsch
Today’s Artist Interview Is With Lynne Taetzsh From Ithaca, NY
Whopple: How long have you been an artist?
Lynne: Since I can remember being conscious.
Whopple: Tell us about your first attempts to be creative.
Lynne: I always loved making things and drawing things, beginning with flour dough and crayons. When I was old enough to get an allowance, I spent it all on art and craft supplies. As a teenager, I drew portraits of everyone in the family.
Artist Interview With Steven P. Perkins
Today’s Artist Interview Is With Steven P. Perkins From New York.
Whopple: How long have you been an artist?
Steven: Zero interest in the arts when I was a teen–well okay I listened to music. Spent two years in Germany courtesy of Uncle Sam and while living in Europe I visited some of the great museums. Started to be curious. G.I. Bill paying for university, I tried everything incl. a film history course that led to another that focused on one artist, Charlie Chaplin. Studying one artist and how his life fed his work and vice versa–I was hooked. Suddenly I wanted to make art to sort out my own life and experiences. Thirty years later I am still hooked.
Whopple: Tell us about your first attempts to be creative.
Steven: I plunged in head first and made a short film. The sucess of that film shown on PBS and at festivals, encouraged me. While in graduate film school, I was writing a lot and started a visual diary using the fortunes I got from Chinese take-out. I called them THE BOOK OF GOOD FORTUNES. Those playful collages to escape writing were the real beginnings of my visual art and led to larger works, which led to the extreme good fortune of having my first exhibition at the Oakland Museum.
Artist Interview With Kathryn Stotler
Today’s Artist Interview Is With Kathryn Stotler From Eureka, California
Whopple: How long have you been an artist?
Kathryn: I have been an artist for as long as I can remember. As a child I won art contests. I studied drawing and painting in high school. I wove textiles for fifteen years. I tried to watercolor. Now I do mixed media.
Whopple: Tell us about your first attempts to be creative.
Kathryn: The first memorable attempt to be creative was when I was ten and made myself a cardboard loom. Then I wove wall hangings on it.
Do you make a living with your art?
