You can have your art and wear it too. Young artist, Andrea Tobin, is merging fashion with painted art in a unique way — turning paintings on canvases into stylish designer bags one can take with them everywhere.  The desire to never be separated from her art is in part what inspired Tobin to take [...]

File this one under do-it-yourself community action, bridge-making, street-scum-avoidance, or whatever you like. Astorian Jason Eppink saw a river of scum that covered the sidewalk and froze over in the winter coming from the wall of an Amtrak viaduct. Using recycled materials, he constructed a bridge so that walkers could avoid the mess. Astoria Scum [...]

When Sassafras Lowrey was kicked out of her home at the age of 17 for being gay, one of the first things she did was go to the library. “I was a really nerdy kid, “ she said. “Books had always had the answers for what I was going through.” Even though the Gladstone, Oregon [...]

The three neckpieces that were on display at the Loom in Bushwick, could best be described as part jewelry, part sculpture and all unconventional. Designed by Haitian-American artist, Joanne Petit-Frere, these neckpieces, part of the Comotroovaysa series, were made to stand out. In that sense both artwork and artist are alike, as Petit-Frere opts to [...]