Jewelry maker and designer of Linn Designs came to NYC from Japan to learn English and stayed to begin her own business.

Friends and creative collaborators Jay Borman and Sara Zimmermann started a creative agency, Merciful Thieves, during COVID. Now more than ever, they believe in staying creatively active and adapting to their environment.

Lisa and Cat discuss their mental health during these COVID times. And how they’re hopeful for widespread social change for the future.

Blues-folk guitarist and singer/songwriter Achilles Tenderloin discusses plans for a new album and what has been keeping him occupied during the epidemic.

The Jacksons discuss their reactions to the Black Lives Matter movement and how they are unpacking their pasts to implement change moving forward.

A yoga instructor follows the arc of people’s energy over the past few months. He hopes for more positive, systematic change beyond the protests.

Clothing designer and all-around creative person copes with being furloughed during the COVID pandemic. It gave her space to think about and explore aspects of her creativity.

A former psychology major goes deep into painting, furniture design, and how working within constraints helps her create.

A ceramics side-hustle of a full-time graphic designer provides a creative release. And more than a few creative challenges.

An abstract painter discusses her relationship with migraines. How she stopped fighting them and found a symbiotic relationship with them.

A printmaker talks about figuring it out. Her artistic style, her career-path and her printmaking practice.

Pastel artist and oil painter on color, who inspires her, and why she hides all the small brushes from herself.

Muralist and fine artist also known as Miss Birdie on quitting art school.

Dan Riesenberger talks about how his business grew and how he's keeping it manageable.

A retired ceramics professor from Yellow Springs, Ohio who can't stop teaching.

Custom surfboard shaper makes boards for performance that can live in a gallery too.

A photographer shares his addiction to the unpredictable nature of tintype photography.

Allison Chapman created a community for herself around her letterpress business, Igloo Letterpress, after moving to a new city.