Life After Thirty | Collaboration and Community: Theodore Prescott
By Interview Issue 100
Artistic desire led me back to the world I thought I’d escaped—computation.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | The Path of Vocation: Erica Grimm
By Interview Issue 100
I have learned that time is a gift, and never to waste it. Sit in silence every day. Trust you inner voice. Lean into what you do not know. Cultivate curiosity, love learning. Never trust fear. Ask questions, and through making, try and make sense of things. Art-making is an unknowable, untamable, wild form of inquiry. You never know where it will take you.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | The Path of Vocation: Marianne Lettieri
By Interview Issue 100
The accumulation of my diverse life experiences coalesced at middle age into conceptual themes of memory, community, and place-making—groups of stars forming imaginary patterns in my mind.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | The Path of Vocation: Wayne Forte
By Interview Issue 100
It has been rewarding but also difficult to reclaim the childhood that I left in the Philippines. I left when I was three years old, taking only sensory memories and the memories I carried in my blood.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | The Path of Vocation: Olga Lah
By Interview Issue 100
As my artistic life grows, my spiritual life also matures; as I practice listening to the Spirit, I become a better artist. In who I am and in my work, I am striving towards creating a space where divinity meet the ordinary world.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | The Path of Vocation: Melissa Weinman
By Interview Issue 100
I began to paint still lifes of what was readily available, such as fruits and flowers from the garden. It gave me a new appreciation for the vast amount of information and beauty that you can only observe in person—all that the camera doesn’t capture. I became enamored with painting from life once again, seduced by its truth.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | The Path of Vocation: Catherine Prescott
By Interview Issue 100
What has changed me since turning thirty is a result of my Christian conversion. What I wanted as a painter was always there, but when I met God, he told me, “You can paint anything you want.”
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